Basically this is not true. AOL accounts for something like 2%-3% of Google's operating profit. See article at Forbes. Google will be fine with or without AOL. In fact, it may be better off in a world where Microsoft has to deal with all the problems that AOL has faced over the past few years.
''This is a sociological problem and we have got to work it out,'' adds Galuten. ''I find it incredibly ironic that some people will spend an extra $1,000 on their hard drives just so they can store more music, but they won't pay for the music.''
haha, how much music does he think anyone has? $1000? How many people have a tera of music...
8.75 is plenty of money (per hour)!
I'm currently a UROP at another MIT Lab, and I think the main thing to rememeber is that a lot of people would be willing to do cutting edge research and work with the latest equipment for almost nothing. The only reason these jobs aren't filled up immediately is that most students are too busy with their classes!
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Basically this is not true. AOL accounts for something like 2%-3% of Google's operating profit. See article at Forbes. Google will be fine with or without AOL. In fact, it may be better off in a world where Microsoft has to deal with all the problems that AOL has faced over the past few years.
haha, how much music does he think anyone has? $1000? How many people have a tera of music...
8.75 is plenty of money (per hour)!
I'm currently a UROP at another MIT Lab, and I think the main thing to rememeber is that a lot of people would be willing to do cutting edge research and work with the latest equipment for almost nothing. The only reason these jobs aren't filled up immediately is that most students are too busy with their classes!
I thought we had known this for a long time already... oh well...