The only purpose of an IQ test is to have a quantitative data of a kid's logical, cognitive, and motor ability that can be written on a piece of paper in the form of a number instead of just words--their "Intelligence Quotient"--so that a psychiatrist feels validated in his analysis and profession and feels a bit like he is a scientist. The IQ is not and was not meant to be something to mean anything other than a test for these kids who are clearly functioning below normal standards. The Mensa is a joke and an entertaining proposition that should not be taken seriously by the outside world, nor by the members themselves. It should just be seen as a chat room in a bar.
Isn't it possible that 90% of Mensa might hate bush, but not bother voting because if 90% of them are against Bush, the vote would be against Bush anyway, and so they didn't feel a need to vote? And, the 10% who love Bush, all specifically DID cast their vote, because they knew that every loving-Bush vote would need to be cast for him to win? Isn't this a possibility why Bush won?
And I am not just speaking about the Mensa poll, but the 2004 election as well.:)
This is not true. The studies I have read say that people watching Democratic shows like The Daily Show are more informed and more intelligent and have a higher income and degree and knowledge about local and world events than those who watch O'Reilley Factor.
As well, the Republican party has more minorities and foreign-born nationals than they ever have before. The Republican party also has the majority of people who have the lowest income and are farmers and other such work, and more religious and less scientific.
Saying the Democrats are poorer or less educated is a joke. All the top states for education are also Democratic. Grow up.
The funniest thing I've learned from reading slashdot is that innovation never stops. Some bastard that never sleeps will make bittorrent look like a joke within a year from now.
We'll all refer to this article a year from now and laugh, lol. I love technology.
Agreed. During the campaign, they showed Kerry on TV at somebody's house in Vermont or New Hampshire, holding a rally. There was a really big 'geek' waiting to talk to him. When he finally did, he told Kerry about IT jobs that were being offshored. Kerry said wow (clearly unaware of this), and asked an aide to give his contact information to that geek.
Nobody else has brought this up other than Kerry. And how are we supposed to know that when a company lays off 3,000 people, (which makes the news), if it's not simply re-hiring those people in a different country? And then their CEO gets a 12 million dollar bonus? Suddenly, you don't feel sorry for the company anymore.
Knowledge should be gained without having to remember things, and getting a dimploma should only entail remebering things that you are confident enough to remember. Right?
It's true, Microsoft REALLY has to make sure the company strategies of the ones they buy are inline with theirs. Otherwise, they would be setting themselves up to lose MILLIONS of dollars.
Is to imagine a company that plays follow the leader (oh, I don't know.. Microsoft?) jump on the porn web site bandwagon.
That is scarier than it looks, because think about the aftermath: geeks playing follow the leader with Microsoft (oh, I don't know) and making their own open-source, free porn web site to compete with Microsoft.
If the notebook is so boring after the trip that you don't even want to subject your own mind to reading it, why the hell do you think anybody else would care?
Depending on your travel, if your laptop gets full of sand or falls into the water, or you fall off a bike and break your $600 PDA, you definitely want to have a notebook and pen handy.
Or, wait. Just skip the electronic gadgets all together and bring a 2 oz notebook and pen.
Rant 1. That's like you could give a female passenger next to you that much money to get the real thing. Why bother your own left-hand for $10? Just make sure she lets go when flying over states against gay marriage, just to be safe from state law in case the 'she' next to you is actually a he.
Also, imagine 80% of these business people ringing the bell because their laptops aren't connecting to the service. Imagine that instead a gentle stewardness, a guy named 'Bob' (a hairy computer nerd with a beer gut and beer goggles) comes out to help you!
Rant #2. As business clientele tries to become more tech savvy, regular stewardesses will be slowly supplanted with geeks. I am sure that a business person who just paid $30 to use the Internet would rather have a techie help him figure out how to connect than a stewardess, right?
So, these regular employees are now being threatened by US, technology people, because OUR jobs have been taken. How funny is that? That's right, you think you can move our jobs? Well, the geeks won't die off, they will just take YOUR JOBS. Then of course, as all stewardesses have become techies, at that point, people will realize that we can replace these american techies with FOREIGN techies picked up in foreign airports in the morning and dropped off in that foreign airport in the evening (for intercontinental flights.) Just like american stewardesses live in america and fly back and forth then go home in America, the foreigners will do the same, but on our planes. We'll just pick them up in their home cities when our planes fly there, and they will end their shift when we land back in their country and they get off.:/
AP tests aren't supposed to predict your future performance directly. They show your motivation and how you did on the same test compared to other high school students in the country, though, and that is useful information. But anyway, the AP score is a way to test out of a class in college.
1) screens become easier and easier to break as they are already expensive enough that making sure the thing actualy lasts (i.e., quality control) would make it cost prohibitive to actually sell a ton of them--at the same time, people compare them to laptops or agendas or plain pieces of paper, so they res has to be good, everything else coming after it.
2) to get stockholders, the pda's have to sound awesome technologically. It doesn't matter to Palm if the screens break easily.
The problem with PDA's is that we assume that they are PDA's! Like actual things you can carry and not worry about. Like actual computers that are just smaller, that's all. Uh, no. You get the hassle not being able to leave it around by itself because it can be easily pocketed in.03 seconds while you could trust a friend to actually watch a notebook computer for you while you are away, on the other hand. if you barely use one, there will still be a way to screw it up (probably the screen.) If you use one all-the-time, then think about that as well.
It is NOT a "$500 investment for the next five years" just because it has software that can open common file formats, and the screen is getting sharper. The freaking thing can drop and break instantly, like no other electronic object ever. Drop your watch, mp3 player, who cares? Even if you bust the LCD on the mp3 player, who cares, the player is still useful. However, on a pda, replacing such a part is very expensive, especially as these devices keep getting newer and never, the latest and most expensive of screens.
I would say to just save the money and buy an OLDER pda if you really need one, since technology is moving very fast and reviewers never care about it actually lasting the five years that would make a $500 purchase worth it. The thing is FRAGILE. Sony, HP, Dell, Palm are competing on tech specs to win the pda war, never mentioning that the new pdas are getting less about being a solid product and more on making it as loosely constructed as possible to accomodate all that crap while reducing the size.
The gym is not a place of death. Sports are not a place of death. You go to the gym to be refreshed and get your blood pumping, and after a year, you will also notice that you are way bigger. But that's not important, the 3 times a week work out sessions will make you sharper, raise your metabolism, get you girls, etc. It will also teach you discipline so you actually finish those programming assignments. Where do people get off acting like exercise is only for professional athletes geezus
challahc writes "For the low, low price of $199, you too can be one of the lucky testers of Googles new Gmail service. Just Ebay It! This CNN story has the details." Bill Walsh adds "The account for hackers@gmail.com is asking 200 dollars! Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta? Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
Hackers? Bill? eBay? CNN? Cnet? Google? GMail? Beta?? $199 (cost of Linux Walmart PC?) After seeing every one of those keywords appear in their own slashdot story each day, seeing them in ONE story at once just boggles the mind.
1) Create an industry for rewriting windows dlls 2) Offer them online 3) Create a web site (with a mandatory requirement of 6 grey Google Ads on the right hand side, minimum) where anybody can submit their own dll versions (like those customized scrensaver, icon, cursor web sites are) 4) Chaos ensues 5) ??? 6) Profit
#5 is where Lindows or Apple come in.
Well, apparently, that one guy in the world agrees.
I wonder if we can ever simulate this on a computer. That would save a lot of time, money and effort.
1) In theory, it sounds feasible, but I don't see how it can be done practically. For one, I've dabbled in computer programming, and the most popular game libraries, Direct3D and OpenGL, are 3D libraries, I think.
2) Two, maybe I don't know about games too much, but in my experience, all controllable object models must be able to launch particles, and have multiple weapons. Again, I am not an expert, but that is from my experience ( I am 14 years old.) But I think there is some limitation like that Microsoft's Denomination Library Network explains. All games controlled by keyboard and rendered and sample game source code projects have a shooting mode, ALWAYS. So you can see that I am not stupid.
3) Without 3D models and 3D collisions, how could you know when you hit a wall?
This game is not feasible with current technology.
I am an expert in this field,
Sincerely,
Integer President, "Slashdot Users Giving Short-Sighted Opinions", founded in 1969.
~ Integer: Killing good jokes since 1969. (There I just killed some 69 joke going on right now somewhere on the Internet.)
I've never seen so many screen shots (about 20) that all show absolutely nothing interesting before in my life. It is really worth the experience of going to the photos page and viewing them all just to confirm this, as you will never see this type of mundane marketing again!
That's the most intelligent piece of writing I have ever read off of a link from slashdot.
Then again, taking any referral to another site from a slashdotter's post and not reaching an image with a guy stretching his anus is a moment of bliss worth writing about in itself. Such comes this post.
I know what you mean. Marketers are the true geniuses of society!
Listen to this one--there are products that you smoke that KILL YOU and you have to PAY FOR THEM--and people ACTUALLY GO AND BUY THEM AND USE THEM! You try convincing someone to drink Chlorox Bleach! But there are companies making BILLIONS off of doing just that!
Or--people buy alcoholic beverages without any sense that it makes them susseptible to rapes, accidents, anger flares, smaller brain size, and irreversible changes in the brain. Might as well hit your head with a frying pan, it'd be cheaper--but don't tell people that! Show them young couples being successful and loved and cool because they drink--THAT's the kind of logic people want!
I LOVE THIS PLANET! But saying people buy bottled water is stupid is stupid. Why? PEOPLE ARE TRICKED INTO DRINKING sugary shit that ferments in the mouth and grinds away teeth, spikes your insulin level and drops it to the point that you can't function for the rest of the day, makes you fat and gives you diabeties ( a medical condition, not a cold or something temporary, but an OLD PEOPLE DISEASE). The people buying water are the ones who used to buy soda. When they see soda in the store, they buy water instead. At home, they consume that water instead of the soda they would otherwise be consuming. Of course, the next step in being a free-from-marketing person would be to bottle your own water, obviously, but the intermediate step of buying water is the step in the right direction--obviously coming from people who used to buy soda. You know that people don't just buy bottled water who have been fine drinking water from the fountain for 30 years (unless their water has become polluted)--no, the people buying water are the ones making the switch from soda and who are on the way to realizing THEY DONT HAVE TO BUY non-organic SHIT AT THE STORE PERIOD and that they can use their own water at home.
I only know the company only by their English web site - Lycos.com, having never spoken Spanish ever as far as I can remember.
Lycos was very important to the world.
They had:
1) A web search engine. Who else had a web search engine besides Yahoo and AltaVista?
2) A web hosting service. Who else had a web hosting service besides GeoCities and AngelFire?
3) An e-mail service. Who else had an e-mail service besides Yahoo and Hotmail?
4) Web games. Who else had web games besides Yahoo and MPlayer?
5) News stories. Wait, no they didn't. I know Yahoo had those.
All of the above was sarcastic.
As you can see, in all five important areas, Lycos was not in the top of each one. Sure, you knew they had each of those, but they weren't leaders at all in ANYTHING. Their idea seemed to be to JUST EXIST and the millions of people on the Internet couldn't just all flock to Yahoo or AltaVista, right? There would always be room for Lycos, right? Even without R&D? A portion of the Internet would use Lycos regardless of competition, and as Internet use grows, Lycos would grow in popularity, right?
Uh, no. They thought, if there are 5 stores in a mall and they are one of them, passerbys, who were in the mall for one of the other stores, many of htem would still visit Lycos, right? Or at least look in. Makes a lot of sense.
However, the Internet is not like that. You could place a store next door to a competitor and steal his visitors. You can place a phonebook ad and steal your competitors visitors as their clients check the phonebook for your competitor's phone number but see your ad next to it. With the internet, an analogy is links connecting the dots. HOWEVER, the problem is, THERE ARE NO LINKS TO COMPETITORS. In other words, if you visit one guy's site, HE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LINKS POINTING TO HIS COMPETITOR'S SITE. Furthermore, all links will be designed to keep you INSIDE HIS OWN SITE. Therefore, actually LIMITING your awareness of other sites.
So, Lycos thought (apparently by their lack of R & D) that they would just advertise and exist and as people flock to Yahoo and Google, they would get a share. Uh.. NO?
The one major remaining portal is Yahoo. They are still leaders in e-mail, games, bought GeoCities, searching, and they had news on their site as long as I can remember. All of Yahoo!'s competitors just 'existed'. Just like hundreds of businesses 'exist' but nobody cares about them. Yahoo made you involved in their life. Yahoo is still kicking, having bought Overture, GeoCities, WebRing, Inktomi, HotJobs: God knows what else.
Even now, with Google doing what they do, Yahoo! is still the overall winner and success story.
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Great plug, Gabriel!
The only purpose of an IQ test is to have a quantitative data of a kid's logical, cognitive, and motor ability that can be written on a piece of paper in the form of a number instead of just words--their "Intelligence Quotient"--so that a psychiatrist feels validated in his analysis and profession and feels a bit like he is a scientist. The IQ is not and was not meant to be something to mean anything other than a test for these kids who are clearly functioning below normal standards. The Mensa is a joke and an entertaining proposition that should not be taken seriously by the outside world, nor by the members themselves. It should just be seen as a chat room in a bar.
Isn't it possible that 90% of Mensa might hate bush, but not bother voting because if 90% of them are against Bush, the vote would be against Bush anyway, and so they didn't feel a need to vote? And, the 10% who love Bush, all specifically DID cast their vote, because they knew that every loving-Bush vote would need to be cast for him to win? Isn't this a possibility why Bush won? And I am not just speaking about the Mensa poll, but the 2004 election as well. :)
This is not true. The studies I have read say that people watching Democratic shows like The Daily Show are more informed and more intelligent and have a higher income and degree and knowledge about local and world events than those who watch O'Reilley Factor. As well, the Republican party has more minorities and foreign-born nationals than they ever have before. The Republican party also has the majority of people who have the lowest income and are farmers and other such work, and more religious and less scientific. Saying the Democrats are poorer or less educated is a joke. All the top states for education are also Democratic. Grow up.
The funniest thing I've learned from reading slashdot is that innovation never stops. Some bastard that never sleeps will make bittorrent look like a joke within a year from now. We'll all refer to this article a year from now and laugh, lol. I love technology.
Agreed. During the campaign, they showed Kerry on TV at somebody's house in Vermont or New Hampshire, holding a rally. There was a really big 'geek' waiting to talk to him. When he finally did, he told Kerry about IT jobs that were being offshored. Kerry said wow (clearly unaware of this), and asked an aide to give his contact information to that geek. Nobody else has brought this up other than Kerry. And how are we supposed to know that when a company lays off 3,000 people, (which makes the news), if it's not simply re-hiring those people in a different country? And then their CEO gets a 12 million dollar bonus? Suddenly, you don't feel sorry for the company anymore.
Knowledge should be gained without having to remember things, and getting a dimploma should only entail remebering things that you are confident enough to remember. Right?
It's true, Microsoft REALLY has to make sure the company strategies of the ones they buy are inline with theirs. Otherwise, they would be setting themselves up to lose MILLIONS of dollars.
Is to imagine a company that plays follow the leader (oh, I don't know.. Microsoft?) jump on the porn web site bandwagon.
That is scarier than it looks, because think about the aftermath: geeks playing follow the leader with Microsoft (oh, I don't know) and making their own open-source, free porn web site to compete with Microsoft.
Finally, open source wins.
If the notebook is so boring after the trip that you don't even want to subject your own mind to reading it, why the hell do you think anybody else would care?
Sorry, I am just being very straightforward.
Depending on your travel, if your laptop gets full of sand or falls into the water, or you fall off a bike and break your $600 PDA, you definitely want to have a notebook and pen handy.
Or, wait. Just skip the electronic gadgets all together and bring a 2 oz notebook and pen.
As far as I know, your lack of knowledge does not constitute proof that he is wrong.
Rant 1.
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:)
That's like you could give a female passenger next to you that much money to get the real thing. Why bother your own left-hand for $10? Just make sure she lets go when flying over states against gay marriage, just to be safe from state law in case the 'she' next to you is actually a he.
Also, imagine 80% of these business people ringing the bell because their laptops aren't connecting to the service. Imagine that instead a gentle stewardness, a guy named 'Bob' (a hairy computer nerd with a beer gut and beer goggles) comes out to help you!
Rant #2.
As business clientele tries to become more tech savvy, regular stewardesses will be slowly supplanted with geeks. I am sure that a business person who just paid $30 to use the Internet would rather have a techie help him figure out how to connect than a stewardess, right?
So, these regular employees are now being threatened by US, technology people, because OUR jobs have been taken. How funny is that? That's right, you think you can move our jobs? Well, the geeks won't die off, they will just take YOUR JOBS. Then of course, as all stewardesses have become techies, at that point, people will realize that we can replace these american techies with FOREIGN techies picked up in foreign airports in the morning and dropped off in that foreign airport in the evening (for intercontinental flights.) Just like american stewardesses live in america and fly back and forth then go home in America, the foreigners will do the same, but on our planes. We'll just pick them up in their home cities when our planes fly there, and they will end their shift when we land back in their country and they get off.
How much fun is that?
The whole music industry may be less immoral than we've ever thought.
AP tests aren't supposed to predict your future performance directly. They show your motivation and how you did on the same test compared to other high school students in the country, though, and that is useful information. But anyway, the AP score is a way to test out of a class in college.
they seem cool, but they are unpractical:
.03 seconds while you could trust a friend to actually watch a notebook computer for you while you are away, on the other hand.
1) screens become easier and easier to break as they are already expensive enough that making sure the thing actualy lasts (i.e., quality control) would make it cost prohibitive to actually sell a ton of them--at the same time, people compare them to laptops or agendas or plain pieces of paper, so they res has to be good, everything else coming after it.
2) to get stockholders, the pda's have to sound awesome technologically. It doesn't matter to Palm if the screens break easily.
The problem with PDA's is that we assume that they are PDA's! Like actual things you can carry and not worry about. Like actual computers that are just smaller, that's all. Uh, no. You get the hassle not being able to leave it around by itself because it can be easily pocketed in
if you barely use one, there will still be a way to screw it up (probably the screen.) If you use one all-the-time, then think about that as well.
It is NOT a "$500 investment for the next five years" just because it has software that can open common file formats, and the screen is getting sharper. The freaking thing can drop and break instantly, like no other electronic object ever. Drop your watch, mp3 player, who cares? Even if you bust the LCD on the mp3 player, who cares, the player is still useful. However, on a pda, replacing such a part is very expensive, especially as these devices keep getting newer and never, the latest and most expensive of screens.
I would say to just save the money and buy an OLDER pda if you really need one, since technology is moving very fast and reviewers never care about it actually lasting the five years that would make a $500 purchase worth it. The thing is FRAGILE. Sony, HP, Dell, Palm are competing on tech specs to win the pda war, never mentioning that the new pdas are getting less about being a solid product and more on making it as loosely constructed as possible to accomodate all that crap while reducing the size.
The gym is not a place of death. Sports are not a place of death. You go to the gym to be refreshed and get your blood pumping, and after a year, you will also notice that you are way bigger. But that's not important, the 3 times a week work out sessions will make you sharper, raise your metabolism, get you girls, etc. It will also teach you discipline so you actually finish those programming assignments. Where do people get off acting like exercise is only for professional athletes geezus
challahc writes "For the low, low price of $199, you too can be one of the lucky testers of Googles new Gmail service. Just Ebay It! This CNN story has the details." Bill Walsh adds "The account for hackers@gmail.com is asking 200 dollars! Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta? Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
Hackers? Bill? eBay? CNN? Cnet? Google? GMail? Beta?? $199 (cost of Linux Walmart PC?) After seeing every one of those keywords appear in their own slashdot story each day, seeing them in ONE story at once just boggles the mind.
What do you mean dub in sync? In every animated cartoon, voices are recorded before the drawing are made.
1) Create an industry for rewriting windows dlls
2) Offer them online
3) Create a web site (with a mandatory requirement of 6 grey Google Ads on the right hand side, minimum) where anybody can submit their own dll versions (like those customized scrensaver, icon, cursor web sites are)
4) Chaos ensues
5) ???
6) Profit
#5 is where Lindows or Apple come in.
Well, apparently, that one guy in the world agrees.
I wonder if we can ever simulate this on a computer. That would save a lot of time, money and effort.
1) In theory, it sounds feasible, but I don't see how it can be done practically. For one, I've dabbled in computer programming, and the most popular game libraries, Direct3D and OpenGL, are 3D libraries, I think.
2) Two, maybe I don't know about games too much, but in my experience, all controllable object models must be able to launch particles, and have multiple weapons. Again, I am not an expert, but that is from my experience ( I am 14 years old.) But I think there is some limitation like that Microsoft's Denomination Library Network explains. All games controlled by keyboard and rendered and sample game source code projects have a shooting mode, ALWAYS. So you can see that I am not stupid.
3) Without 3D models and 3D collisions, how could you know when you hit a wall?
This game is not feasible with current technology.
I am an expert in this field,
Sincerely,
Integer
President, "Slashdot Users Giving Short-Sighted Opinions", founded in 1969.
~ Integer: Killing good jokes since 1969. (There I just killed some 69 joke going on right now somewhere on the Internet.)
I've never seen so many screen shots (about 20) that all show absolutely nothing interesting before in my life. It is really worth the experience of going to the photos page and viewing them all just to confirm this, as you will never see this type of mundane marketing again!
That's the most intelligent piece of writing I have ever read off of a link from slashdot.
Then again, taking any referral to another site from a slashdotter's post and not reaching an image with a guy stretching his anus is a moment of bliss worth writing about in itself. Such comes this post.
I know what you mean. Marketers are the true geniuses of society!
Listen to this one--there are products that you smoke that KILL YOU and you have to PAY FOR THEM--and people ACTUALLY GO AND BUY THEM AND USE THEM! You try convincing someone to drink Chlorox Bleach! But there are companies making BILLIONS off of doing just that!
Or--people buy alcoholic beverages without any sense that it makes them susseptible to rapes, accidents, anger flares, smaller brain size, and irreversible changes in the brain. Might as well hit your head with a frying pan, it'd be cheaper--but don't tell people that! Show them young couples being successful and loved and cool because they drink--THAT's the kind of logic people want!
I LOVE THIS PLANET! But saying people buy bottled water is stupid is stupid. Why? PEOPLE ARE TRICKED INTO DRINKING sugary shit that ferments in the mouth and grinds away teeth, spikes your insulin level and drops it to the point that you can't function for the rest of the day, makes you fat and gives you diabeties ( a medical condition, not a cold or something temporary, but an OLD PEOPLE DISEASE). The people buying water are the ones who used to buy soda. When they see soda in the store, they buy water instead. At home, they consume that water instead of the soda they would otherwise be consuming. Of course, the next step in being a free-from-marketing person would be to bottle your own water, obviously, but the intermediate step of buying water is the step in the right direction--obviously coming from people who used to buy soda. You know that people don't just buy bottled water who have been fine drinking water from the fountain for 30 years (unless their water has become polluted)--no, the people buying water are the ones making the switch from soda and who are on the way to realizing THEY DONT HAVE TO BUY non-organic SHIT AT THE STORE PERIOD and that they can use their own water at home.
I only know the company only by their English web site - Lycos.com, having never spoken Spanish ever as far as I can remember.
Lycos was very important to the world.
They had:
1) A web search engine. Who else had a web search engine besides Yahoo and AltaVista?
2) A web hosting service. Who else had a web hosting service besides GeoCities and AngelFire?
3) An e-mail service. Who else had an e-mail service besides Yahoo and Hotmail?
4) Web games. Who else had web games besides Yahoo and MPlayer?
5) News stories. Wait, no they didn't. I know Yahoo had those.
All of the above was sarcastic.
As you can see, in all five important areas, Lycos was not in the top of each one. Sure, you knew they had each of those, but they weren't leaders at all in ANYTHING. Their idea seemed to be to JUST EXIST and the millions of people on the Internet couldn't just all flock to Yahoo or AltaVista, right? There would always be room for Lycos, right? Even without R&D? A portion of the Internet would use Lycos regardless of competition, and as Internet use grows, Lycos would grow in popularity, right?
Uh, no. They thought, if there are 5 stores in a mall and they are one of them, passerbys, who were in the mall for one of the other stores, many of htem would still visit Lycos, right? Or at least look in. Makes a lot of sense.
However, the Internet is not like that. You could place a store next door to a competitor and steal his visitors. You can place a phonebook ad and steal your competitors visitors as their clients check the phonebook for your competitor's phone number but see your ad next to it. With the internet, an analogy is links connecting the dots. HOWEVER, the problem is, THERE ARE NO LINKS TO COMPETITORS. In other words, if you visit one guy's site, HE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LINKS POINTING TO HIS COMPETITOR'S SITE. Furthermore, all links will be designed to keep you INSIDE HIS OWN SITE. Therefore, actually LIMITING your awareness of other sites.
So, Lycos thought (apparently by their lack of R & D) that they would just advertise and exist and as people flock to Yahoo and Google, they would get a share. Uh.. NO?
The one major remaining portal is Yahoo. They are still leaders in e-mail, games, bought GeoCities, searching, and they had news on their site as long as I can remember. All of Yahoo!'s competitors just 'existed'. Just like hundreds of businesses 'exist' but nobody cares about them. Yahoo made you involved in their life. Yahoo is still kicking, having bought Overture, GeoCities, WebRing, Inktomi, HotJobs: God knows what else.
Even now, with Google doing what they do, Yahoo! is still the overall winner and success story.