What is wrong with using zip, or rar compression? Is it really that much of a problem for you? I'm not trying to be an ass but I've never had enough problems with compressed backup files that I stopped trusting them.
You can ignore the rest of my post, I describe what I have been using...
I use the free version of SyncBack on some of my computers. I schedule a "full" of certain directories on each PC to run once a week. It gets a little more involved and "not as simple" from here on out but it does not have to. I place the files on a Samba share specific to the PC (each PC has its own hidden share as defined in the Samba config as path =/mnt/hdh1/backup/%m. I have a dedicated user account on the XP Pro machines called PCBACKUP with access to the files I need to backup (power user is typically fine). I run the job via the system scheduler and have it run as the pcbackup user. That pcbackup user is the only one that has write access to that samba share as well. My thinking was if the user of those computers ever had a virus or found the hidden share somehow, they still would not be able to delete it. I also found a simple script that copies the previous backup to backup1 so I always two recent copies I could do the same thing with a cron job on the Samba server as well. Again, I took advantage of extra functionality but using SyncBack or even the Windows supplied backup software does not need to be taken to this level.
You mentioned dvd writing, well, Syncback does not do that and the compression does not allow splitting files to a certain size so obviously, this is not what you need;)
I know RAID seems to be the in thing because of the functionality built in to SATA controllers but RAID is NOT a backup solution by any means. It is for speed, availability, and hard drive redundancy. Depending on the mode your choose, typically not all three at the same time.
I guess you could play with words and suggest that redundancy means backup but slipping with the mouse and deleting the directory "d:\my important stuff" in that RAID setup makes those similar words suddenly mean two completely different things. A live and normally accessed file system is not a good choice for a backup by any means. I used a bad mouse click for an example but I'm sure you can think of many more hazards.
The problem is people use these little efficient doodads to feel good about doing something green. Then they go out and buy a power-sucking plasma TV.
I don't think I see your point or what you consider a problem. Every little bit helps. The person with the power sucking plasma would still be using less energy by switching out some lights to the CF type.
I don't have a pots line any more but I do remember being charged by Verizon for touch tone at one point in the past. Another charge that was very frustrating was $2/month they charged to keep my number unlisted and unpublished. Yes, I had to pay a monthly fee for them to not provide me the service of publishing my number.
It is amazing the what voip has done to increase competition and prices with home phones. Years of being ripped off with the lack reasonably priced options and being nicked to death for basic services by Verizon finally comes back to haunt them. The concept of using pots line for voice service is dying rapidly.
Times are changing, so is the type of music and the listening habits of kids. I have Rhapsody and Yahoo Music subscriptions. I use then on occasion but my kids use those and the my Sirius radio all day, every day. Both of these services combined are cheaper then buying a single CD a month. One of my kids listens to the popular song of the week and/or month and has absolutely no interest in maintaining long term ownership of those songs (and I don't blame her) because in two months, she will be on to something else. $5 or $10 is worth the cost of these services.
I will always have "my" copy of my classics and I will always want it that way and only in a source format that is not compressed.
Think of it this way, like a FIFO storage device with different capacities. My personal buffer for music has a much larger and discriminating FIFO scheme then my kids do. They hold about 40 songs and always add new ones. I have about 20 times the capacity but rarely add new ones. For some people, subscription is good, for others it is not.
Strict relative to what? I've seen select areas that have restrictions based on an official historic district and an "area of significant importance" but if you do not live in one of those themed areas, those rules do not apply. The rest of the people only have general purpose guidelines based on safety, nuisance or crowding, and blight, not style, taste and good looks. Home owners associations are a different story but that is not part of the government.
It seems that those who complain the loudest about restrictive licensing are those who don't produce any creative content worth protecting.
I don't know too many politicians that are honestly pushing for campaign finance reform either. The only people complaining are the ones that are not getting the campaign money.
I agree. That being cleared up, would that not be an Intel problem and not Windows which is the other half of your Wintel term? I can run Winamd or Wintel with a more efficient Intel.
windows systems typically run more power hungry applications like games, media players, etc than linux systems. I'm not sure about macs.
That statement is debatable. Either way though.. What the end users decide to do with their systems and what "power hungry" cpu intensive applications they want to run is not a fault or function of the OS or any of application software companies that make that specific software that runs on that OS. It is not the fault of Microsoft that I choose to use a lot of electricity to play WOW on dual monitors with a pair of 7900GTXs. You could argue that I could use one slower and less power consuming video card and only one monitor but that was my decision which is not a direct function or fault of the OS I have.
I only questioned your original post because I have seen a few posts on/. about some Wintel power issues. The way the posts were worded, It seemed to imply it was common knowledge that wintel had a specific power efficiency disadvantage but compared to what and how was never clarified.
Well, you could RTFA or at least have skimmed it. The very first paragraph states in bold lettering:
This Green Electronics Guide ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers.
I'll bite anyway though. Are you simply throwing this question out there or do you have something in mind? You specifically stated Wintel so I assume you have some kind of point you are trying to get across or you are attempting to imply that there is some assumed known and defined power disadvantage to that combination. What kind of factors and/or numbers are you looking for and expect and what what would you be comparing those numbers to?
That AIW is also hampered in other Windows applications as well, like Orb. Lesson learned. Next time I will buy a plain old supported almost with everything Hauppauge for a tuner and a seperate video card. The AIW I have (AIW 9600XT) was the same exact price as a regular 9600XT card at the time so I guess I did not really loose out on anything though.
I agree as well but taking your car away from your 16 year old son because he was driving 110mph is not coddling. A mistake by an inexperienced driver (or any driver for that matter) at that speed is unfortunately not something many people have a chance to learn from. Of course if you ask almost any 16 year old boy, they will tell you they are experienced and can drive good. We are not talking about sneaking in some porn online or drinking an inch from your vodka bottle. To each his own I guess. I give my kids a lot of freedom and they have got burned by not listening to advice and I've got burned as well assuming they were doing something wrong when they were not. Adjustments to our rules are made as required and individualized on a per kid basis as they grow and learn. There is no blanket method to determine what is acceptable and what you will punish for.
I think he is an asshat as well but my opinion started at the Black album and had nothing to do with Napster. I actually saw them in concert two years ago and it wasn't bad because they played a lot of older stuff, plus my box seats were free from my employer. In recent years, they attempted to swing back to the old school style they had but it has not worked for me. In fact, I lost complete interest in them and only hear the newer stuff on various satellite stations on occasion.
Hey Lars, I have nothing you've made in last 15 years and I would never waste my bandwidth and time downloading it when I see it so don't blame me for your money problems. Blame yourself.
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The GOVERNMENT can't search. When you search the internet with a search site, you are using a private or publicly owned companies services. You don't see the difference there? You have a right to bear arms as well, you come to my house with a gun and I do not have to let you in with it! That is MY right because that is my property. If you do not like the terms, use someone else's search engine. You do not have the inherent right to private searching capabilities from one of those companies. Even thinking you do or should is strange. If you want to search the internet from a site that does not save the results, find one and use it. That is your right. If you can't find one, don't search the internet or make your own search tool. That is your right as well.
Did you respond to the wrong parent or something? The parent was pointing out that there are alternative places that people can sign with and get a higher percentage. There are obvious reasons why people might not be able to do that like existing contracts but that does not make the statement false. I saw nothing of some hoarding fantasy in the post. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
I don't know about price but I've had bad experiences with convergence or all-in-one type devices. They are usually 70% adequate but the other 30% usually turns out to be a real PITA. If the option to build my own is there, I will attempt that first. Using just plain old wireless home routers for an example. One model may look good but the filtering sucks or it does not support WPA/TKIP. A specific deal breaker for me for one model was the port blocking on a schedule. I could set the time to block the port but it would not terminate already established connections, only stop new ones. If I blocked 5190 for AIM at 10PM, if the kids were already logged in (which they always are), they could maintain that existing connection forever. Seems like a small complaint but add to the fact that loads from torrents would somehow cause it to crash as well and the devices is losing its small and cheap edge it may have had. After trying several models all having various issues, I went back to building my own using Smoothwall. Imagine the articles referenced device having a problem similar or lacking a few things you would like to use?
Another example is the wireless/wired network capable media players for your entertainment center. OMG!!! It does not support OGG. I know, who uses OGG, well for some people, support of certain things is a deal breaker, what about Flac? What if it supports MP3 but only up to 224Kbit/sec? What if the device does not support encrypted passwords back to your share or only connects to a XP machine? Will it connect to Vista or what ever is out next year? What if the wireless does not support your already existing wireless network authentication? Do you bump down or dumb down your entire network so that thing can work? What if it can only browse down 2 directories deep and you have 5? Maybe I am too picky and maybe I am the exception but I have found very few multiuse products that I have liked enough to buy them.
What restrictions are you talking about with the automotive tools and repairs? I was under the impression that there was case history and laws that prevented them from doing that. I know the standard OBD2 computer controls that are on every car sold in the US since 1996 are not "protected", even the additional extensions that automakers add above and beyond the federally mandated emissions controls can be read and diagnosed with any decent OBD2 code reader. Fixing computerized problems and fault codes takes more then a wrench but the data to fix it is available.
I will say that when computer, internet, data, entertainment, and copyright are mentioned in the same sentence, there does seem to be a different set of standards and laws are applied. You can make an aftermarket alternator that is fully compatible for a BWM 5 series and you are fine. Make an aftermarket accessory or internal replacement part for an Xbox and be sued into oblivion. It is sad that we have been become numb to that.
Who are you refering to as they? The populace and the society as whole is not technically relevent (other then the original vote). Your winning and losing way of thinking is practiced much more by and applies more to the people actively serving as elected officials more then it does to the general populace.
A good way to check your computer or your Windows machines on your local network for basic security problems and patches is with the MS Baseline Security Analyzer. The download is free.
Not defending any company but I read an article in my local paper years ago that described WHY companies are a little apprehensive to correct potential problems themselves. They do not want sued by ambulance chasers and they make a business decision to roll the dice and take their chances. An example used in the article was the automatic shutoff safety handle that lawn mowers have. You know, the extra handles you have to hold down to keep the engine running. It was my understanding that this safety feature was not put into place until the consumer product safety commission made it mandatory. If a lawn mower company would have done it themselves, they would increase their chances of being sued by people that lost toes and feet because they did not put it on earlier year models. Basically, by them putting on later models, they are admitting that the previous design without the extra handle was unsafe. Check out that this story relating to airbags, it made it all the way to the US Supreme Court. Almost the same thing, people suing because their cars did not have air bags and they want money from the car makers.
Apple still cares more about margin than market share. Apple is like Nike. If Nike busted out Air Force Ones for $20 a pair (probably still 100% above cost), do you really think everyone would own a pair? Maybe at first they would sell but the shoes would loose their status. There is a reason many pairs of shoes are over $100 and hard to find but yet sought after. That reason has nothing to do with quality, value, comfort, construction, R&D, labor costs, shortage of materials, or advertising. It is the perceived status of owning them. Oddly enough, most kids will admit to having specific shoes for status, most Apple users will flat out refuse to even think that played a role and attempt to justify it with the same reasons I said above that are not probably not factors. That is why those justifications are typically personal in nature and VERY vague and not measurable or repeatable, like snappy, just works, cute, fast enough, feels good, slick, elegant, does what I need, I don't need that option, etc.. Not quite the information someone might be able to use to compare products is it?
To be fair, Apple does not make a 300-1000% or more like Nike does but the same concepts apply, only on a smaller scale.
Interesting point but the punishment is relative to the crime. You do not get life in prison for only mentioning to someone that you want to kill someone. There are various degrees of murder and each has a maximum penalty. Typically, the further along your plans are, the harsher the penalty. I believe it starts with conspiring to commit and goes up from there. So.. These people may have been arrested or detained but that is where the similarity stops. The "badness" and punishment for committing various crimes are all relative and punished accordingly. Assaulting another 38 year old man in a bar parking lot after a night of drinking is not treated the same as assaulting a random 4 year old boy walking home from school.
I do not completely agree with the grand parent but your claim is not fair either. I'd be willing to bet there is a at least several orders more companies that if you had invested your $100 into in 1969, that you would have little to nothing now. Hell, 10-12 years ago I could have bought a couple specific domain names for 2 years at $100 each and been a millionaire now as well. Its easy to look back now and see what could have happened because you know the results now. No one had that supporting evidence back in 1969 or 1995.
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What is wrong with using zip, or rar compression? Is it really that much of a problem for you? I'm not trying to be an ass but I've never had enough problems with compressed backup files that I stopped trusting them.
/mnt/hdh1/backup/%m. I have a dedicated user account on the XP Pro machines called PCBACKUP with access to the files I need to backup (power user is typically fine). I run the job via the system scheduler and have it run as the pcbackup user. That pcbackup user is the only one that has write access to that samba share as well. My thinking was if the user of those computers ever had a virus or found the hidden share somehow, they still would not be able to delete it. I also found a simple script that copies the previous backup to backup1 so I always two recent copies I could do the same thing with a cron job on the Samba server as well. Again, I took advantage of extra functionality but using SyncBack or even the Windows supplied backup software does not need to be taken to this level.
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You can ignore the rest of my post, I describe what I have been using...
I use the free version of SyncBack on some of my computers. I schedule a "full" of certain directories on each PC to run once a week.
It gets a little more involved and "not as simple" from here on out but it does not have to.
I place the files on a Samba share specific to the PC (each PC has its own hidden share as defined in the Samba config as path =
You mentioned dvd writing, well, Syncback does not do that and the compression does not allow splitting files to a certain size so obviously, this is not what you need
I know RAID seems to be the in thing because of the functionality built in to SATA controllers but RAID is NOT a backup solution by any means. It is for speed, availability, and hard drive redundancy. Depending on the mode your choose, typically not all three at the same time.
I guess you could play with words and suggest that redundancy means backup but slipping with the mouse and deleting the directory "d:\my important stuff" in that RAID setup makes those similar words suddenly mean two completely different things. A live and normally accessed file system is not a good choice for a backup by any means. I used a bad mouse click for an example but I'm sure you can think of many more hazards.
The problem is people use these little efficient doodads to feel good about doing something green. Then they go out and buy a power-sucking plasma TV.
I don't think I see your point or what you consider a problem. Every little bit helps. The person with the power sucking plasma would still be using less energy by switching out some lights to the CF type.
I don't have a pots line any more but I do remember being charged by Verizon for touch tone at one point in the past. Another charge that was very frustrating was $2/month they charged to keep my number unlisted and unpublished. Yes, I had to pay a monthly fee for them to not provide me the service of publishing my number.
It is amazing the what voip has done to increase competition and prices with home phones. Years of being ripped off with the lack reasonably priced options and being nicked to death for basic services by Verizon finally comes back to haunt them. The concept of using pots line for voice service is dying rapidly.
Times are changing, so is the type of music and the listening habits of kids.
I have Rhapsody and Yahoo Music subscriptions. I use then on occasion but my kids use those and the my Sirius radio all day, every day. Both of these services combined are cheaper then buying a single CD a month. One of my kids listens to the popular song of the week and/or month and has absolutely no interest in maintaining long term ownership of those songs (and I don't blame her) because in two months, she will be on to something else. $5 or $10 is worth the cost of these services.
I will always have "my" copy of my classics and I will always want it that way and only in a source format that is not compressed.
Think of it this way, like a FIFO storage device with different capacities.
My personal buffer for music has a much larger and discriminating FIFO scheme then my kids do. They hold about 40 songs and always add new ones. I have about 20 times the capacity but rarely add new ones.
For some people, subscription is good, for others it is not.
Strict relative to what? I've seen select areas that have restrictions based on an official historic district and an "area of significant importance" but if you do not live in one of those themed areas, those rules do not apply. The rest of the people only have general purpose guidelines based on safety, nuisance or crowding, and blight, not style, taste and good looks. Home owners associations are a different story but that is not part of the government.
It seems that those who complain the loudest about restrictive licensing are those who don't produce any creative content worth protecting.
I don't know too many politicians that are honestly pushing for campaign finance reform either. The only people complaining are the ones that are not getting the campaign money.
Intel chips use more power on average
/. about some Wintel power issues. The way the posts were worded, It seemed to imply it was common knowledge that wintel had a specific power efficiency disadvantage but compared to what and how was never clarified.
I agree. That being cleared up, would that not be an Intel problem and not Windows which is the other half of your Wintel term? I can run Winamd or Wintel with a more efficient Intel.
windows systems typically run more power hungry applications like games, media players, etc than linux systems. I'm not sure about macs.
That statement is debatable. Either way though.. What the end users decide to do with their systems and what "power hungry" cpu intensive applications they want to run is not a fault or function of the OS or any of application software companies that make that specific software that runs on that OS. It is not the fault of Microsoft that I choose to use a lot of electricity to play WOW on dual monitors with a pair of 7900GTXs. You could argue that I could use one slower and less power consuming video card and only one monitor but that was my decision which is not a direct function or fault of the OS I have.
I only questioned your original post because I have seen a few posts on
Well, you could RTFA or at least have skimmed it.
The very first paragraph states in bold lettering:
This Green Electronics Guide ranks leading mobile and PC manufacturers on their global policies and practice on eliminating harmful chemicals and on taking responsibility for their products once they are discarded by consumers.
I'll bite anyway though.
Are you simply throwing this question out there or do you have something in mind?
You specifically stated Wintel so I assume you have some kind of point you are trying to get across or you are attempting to imply that there is some assumed known and defined power disadvantage to that combination. What kind of factors and/or numbers are you looking for and expect and what what would you be comparing those numbers to?
That AIW is also hampered in other Windows applications as well, like Orb. Lesson learned. Next time I will buy a plain old supported almost with everything Hauppauge for a tuner and a seperate video card. The AIW I have (AIW 9600XT) was the same exact price as a regular 9600XT card at the time so I guess I did not really loose out on anything though.
I agree as well but taking your car away from your 16 year old son because he was driving 110mph is not coddling. A mistake by an inexperienced driver (or any driver for that matter) at that speed is unfortunately not something many people have a chance to learn from. Of course if you ask almost any 16 year old boy, they will tell you they are experienced and can drive good.
We are not talking about sneaking in some porn online or drinking an inch from your vodka bottle. To each his own I guess.
I give my kids a lot of freedom and they have got burned by not listening to advice and I've got burned as well assuming they were doing something wrong when they were not. Adjustments to our rules are made as required and individualized on a per kid basis as they grow and learn. There is no blanket method to determine what is acceptable and what you will punish for.
I think he is an asshat as well but my opinion started at the Black album and had nothing to do with Napster. I actually saw them in concert two years ago and it wasn't bad because they played a lot of older stuff, plus my box seats were free from my employer.
In recent years, they attempted to swing back to the old school style they had but it has not worked for me. In fact, I lost complete interest in them and only hear the newer stuff on various satellite stations on occasion.
Hey Lars, I have nothing you've made in last 15 years and I would never waste my bandwidth and time downloading it when I see it so don't blame me for your money problems. Blame yourself.
The GOVERNMENT can't search. When you search the internet with a search site, you are using a private or publicly owned companies services. You don't see the difference there? You have a right to bear arms as well, you come to my house with a gun and I do not have to let you in with it! That is MY right because that is my property. If you do not like the terms, use someone else's search engine. You do not have the inherent right to private searching capabilities from one of those companies. Even thinking you do or should is strange. If you want to search the internet from a site that does not save the results, find one and use it. That is your right. If you can't find one, don't search the internet or make your own search tool. That is your right as well.
Did you respond to the wrong parent or something?
The parent was pointing out that there are alternative places that people can sign with and get a higher percentage. There are obvious reasons why people might not be able to do that like existing contracts but that does not make the statement false. I saw nothing of some hoarding fantasy in the post. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
I don't know about price but I've had bad experiences with convergence or all-in-one type devices. They are usually 70% adequate but the other 30% usually turns out to be a real PITA. If the option to build my own is there, I will attempt that first.
Using just plain old wireless home routers for an example. One model may look good but the filtering sucks or it does not support WPA/TKIP. A specific deal breaker for me for one model was the port blocking on a schedule. I could set the time to block the port but it would not terminate already established connections, only stop new ones. If I blocked 5190 for AIM at 10PM, if the kids were already logged in (which they always are), they could maintain that existing connection forever. Seems like a small complaint but add to the fact that loads from torrents would somehow cause it to crash as well and the devices is losing its small and cheap edge it may have had. After trying several models all having various issues, I went back to building my own using Smoothwall. Imagine the articles referenced device having a problem similar or lacking a few things you would like to use?
Another example is the wireless/wired network capable media players for your entertainment center. OMG!!! It does not support OGG. I know, who uses OGG, well for some people, support of certain things is a deal breaker, what about Flac? What if it supports MP3 but only up to 224Kbit/sec? What if the device does not support encrypted passwords back to your share or only connects to a XP machine? Will it connect to Vista or what ever is out next year? What if the wireless does not support your already existing wireless network authentication? Do you bump down or dumb down your entire network so that thing can work? What if it can only browse down 2 directories deep and you have 5? Maybe I am too picky and maybe I am the exception but I have found very few multiuse products that I have liked enough to buy them.
What restrictions are you talking about with the automotive tools and repairs? I was under the impression that there was case history and laws that prevented them from doing that.
I know the standard OBD2 computer controls that are on every car sold in the US since 1996 are not "protected", even the additional extensions that automakers add above and beyond the federally mandated emissions controls can be read and diagnosed with any decent OBD2 code reader. Fixing computerized problems and fault codes takes more then a wrench but the data to fix it is available.
I will say that when computer, internet, data, entertainment, and copyright are mentioned in the same sentence, there does seem to be a different set of standards and laws are applied. You can make an aftermarket alternator that is fully compatible for a BWM 5 series and you are fine. Make an aftermarket accessory or internal replacement part for an Xbox and be sued into oblivion. It is sad that we have been become numb to that.
They think it's about two teams
Who are you refering to as they? The populace and the society as whole is not technically relevent (other then the original vote). Your winning and losing way of thinking is practiced much more by and applies more to the people actively serving as elected officials more then it does to the general populace.
So what do you use that you are comparing to Citrix?
A good way to check your computer or your Windows machines on your local network for basic security problems and patches is with the MS Baseline Security Analyzer. The download is free.
Not defending any company but I read an article in my local paper years ago that described WHY companies are a little apprehensive to correct potential problems themselves. They do not want sued by ambulance chasers and they make a business decision to roll the dice and take their chances. An example used in the article was the automatic shutoff safety handle that lawn mowers have. You know, the extra handles you have to hold down to keep the engine running. It was my understanding that this safety feature was not put into place until the consumer product safety commission made it mandatory. If a lawn mower company would have done it themselves, they would increase their chances of being sued by people that lost toes and feet because they did not put it on earlier year models. Basically, by them putting on later models, they are admitting that the previous design without the extra handle was unsafe. Check out that this story relating to airbags, it made it all the way to the US Supreme Court. Almost the same thing, people suing because their cars did not have air bags and they want money from the car makers.
I would have used 5.07210338 × 10^14 US teaspoons
Apple still cares more about margin than market share.
Apple is like Nike. If Nike busted out Air Force Ones for $20 a pair (probably still 100% above cost), do you really think everyone would own a pair? Maybe at first they would sell but the shoes would loose their status. There is a reason many pairs of shoes are over $100 and hard to find but yet sought after. That reason has nothing to do with quality, value, comfort, construction, R&D, labor costs, shortage of materials, or advertising. It is the perceived status of owning them. Oddly enough, most kids will admit to having specific shoes for status, most Apple users will flat out refuse to even think that played a role and attempt to justify it with the same reasons I said above that are not probably not factors. That is why those justifications are typically personal in nature and VERY vague and not measurable or repeatable, like snappy, just works, cute, fast enough, feels good, slick, elegant, does what I need, I don't need that option, etc.. Not quite the information someone might be able to use to compare products is it?
To be fair, Apple does not make a 300-1000% or more like Nike does but the same concepts apply, only on a smaller scale.
Interesting point but the punishment is relative to the crime. You do not get life in prison for only mentioning to someone that you want to kill someone. There are various degrees of murder and each has a maximum penalty. Typically, the further along your plans are, the harsher the penalty. I believe it starts with conspiring to commit and goes up from there. So.. These people may have been arrested or detained but that is where the similarity stops. The "badness" and punishment for committing various crimes are all relative and punished accordingly. Assaulting another 38 year old man in a bar parking lot after a night of drinking is not treated the same as assaulting a random 4 year old boy walking home from school.
This sounds interesting.
Can you expand on your theory or provide a scenario for comparision with some examples, figures or some links?
I do not completely agree with the grand parent but your claim is not fair either. I'd be willing to bet there is a at least several orders more companies that if you had invested your $100 into in 1969, that you would have little to nothing now. Hell, 10-12 years ago I could have bought a couple specific domain names for 2 years at $100 each and been a millionaire now as well. Its easy to look back now and see what could have happened because you know the results now. No one had that supporting evidence back in 1969 or 1995.