Why is Kurt (I assume he is the guilty party in the photos) scrubbing out Tux? Why not try to erase the CND symbol or heart, and leave Tux?
Obviously, anyone who runs AOLServer on NT has
some issues they need to work out.
Hopefully, with help of therapy, he can stop scrubbing out penguins and start scrubbing out the real enemy... all those blasted AOL CDs in DVD cases that they keep mailing out.
And maybe he'll install a real web server while he's at it.:)
The Google site features minimal advertising. So they are most likely funded with VC money. This means that they must have a plan for making money at some point. What is it and when will it kick in?
No, they're making SOME money. Several companies use Google's massive web index for their own sites, paying Google a license fee. That alone gives them a good chunk of revenue. And of course, those "little ads" help out some, too.:-)
... we'll soon have rockets going up that look like NASCARs, with stickers of 50+ advertisers slapped on the side of every one. Albeit, with the government always cutting funding to space missions, this may be the only alternative to goals such as inhabiting the moon, a really-functional space station, mission to Mars, etc.
Of course, the problem with this type of advertising is, someone has to see it in the first place. As someone pointed out earlier, the main reason this is getting so much attention is because it has never been done before, and the media loves to jump on stuff like this. But, after the excitement of being the "First Post" in space goes down, so too will the interest in advertising this way, because people just aren't interested in space anymore.
Despite launches costing millions of dollars and countless man-hours, people just see launces as too mundane to bother watching. There's a countdown. Smoke goes out of the rocket. Rocket goes up. Yay. -- Personally, I love space launches, and I think commercialization of missions may be the only way to go for future funding (although I will lose faith in humanity if marketeers actually implement images on the moon and such), but this idea won't work in the long run simply because there is not a sustained audience for regular every day launches.
Special launches, like a new hubble, Mars mission, moon landing, etc., it might work. But not with routine maintenance, satellite orbital launches, and such.
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Obviously, anyone who runs AOLServer on NT has some issues they need to work out.
Hopefully, with help of therapy, he can stop scrubbing out penguins and start scrubbing out the real enemy... all those blasted AOL CDs in DVD cases that they keep mailing out. And maybe he'll install a real web server while he's at it. :)
No, they're making SOME money. Several companies use Google's massive web index for their own sites, paying Google a license fee. That alone gives them a good chunk of revenue. And of course, those "little ads" help out some, too. :-)
... we'll soon have rockets going up that look like NASCARs, with stickers of 50+ advertisers slapped on the side of every one. Albeit, with the government always cutting funding to space missions, this may be the only alternative to goals such as inhabiting the moon, a really-functional space station, mission to Mars, etc.
Of course, the problem with this type of advertising is, someone has to see it in the first place. As someone pointed out earlier, the main reason this is getting so much attention is because it has never been done before, and the media loves to jump on stuff like this. But, after the excitement of being the "First Post" in space goes down, so too will the interest in advertising this way, because people just aren't interested in space anymore.
Despite launches costing millions of dollars and countless man-hours, people just see launces as too mundane to bother watching. There's a countdown. Smoke goes out of the rocket. Rocket goes up. Yay. -- Personally, I love space launches, and I think commercialization of missions may be the only way to go for future funding (although I will lose faith in humanity if marketeers actually implement images on the moon and such), but this idea won't work in the long run simply because there is not a sustained audience for regular every day launches.
Special launches, like a new hubble, Mars mission,
moon landing, etc., it might work. But not with routine maintenance, satellite orbital launches, and such.