It only makes sense that the amount of sites right now is growing exponetially. Every year more people are connected to the web, more people spend more time on the web, and more money is derived from and therefore pumped into the web.
Most human driven growth, in almost any field (print, television, power generation, population sizes) tneds to be exponential, driven by the population increase and the parallel growth of technology and information management.
I'm glad to see the porn industry thriving. Although, even with a fair amount of time allotted to "browsing" per day, I simply don't see how I can be expected to visit all sixteen million sites.
MS Office + IE are the desktop to many people in Corporate America. If you could run those on Linux, there would be almost no reason to run windows. Windows just acts as a carrier horse for that suite and "the internet"
Of course, maybe Microsoft will suddenly stop wanting to sell Windows, because, y'know, its too much work.
Seriously -
The linux market share on business desktops is still miniscule, and companies who would go out of their way (Yes, it's easier to stick with Windows) to use it would be likely candidates for alternatives such as OpenOffice.org. This means that they would be spending time releasing a product for a competing operating system that would likely gain them little to no profits for what gain? Slightly legitimizing their only real threat (however small it is).
Does anyone really think they *should* release their suites to Linux? Does anyone on Linux really want it anyhow? I think any amount of market research shows that its simply not an idea worth implementing, let alone even think about.
Let me get this straight: your political stance is "I don't care about the outcome, I just want to be right."
You would RATHER (in YOUR words) have innocent Americans die so you can be *right* than have the peace of mind that we don't have to worry, personally, much about national security?
I am conservative in my views, but I would much, MUCH rather have the US military do a good job protecting us, and have the threat remain non-existant, than have innocent people suffer so I can tell someone "See, your ideas are wrong, and I am right; HAH!"
If your you only beleive something so you can be "right", you obviously don't beleive them for the right reason.
I completely dissagree with your sentiments. This game is actually addicting, and has ruined many peoples lives. If not directly, then definately indirectly, or they play this game BEACUSE their life was ruined by something that caused major depression.
As someone who played this game for about two years, I found it fun for maybe the first 6 months, at most, and then the fun started to wane. The problem was.. everquest had become my life in that 6 months, and I didn't know how to quit, or why I would quit. I would always tell myself "There is nothing better to do, that's why I'm playing" or some other such denial. The truth is, I was addicted, and the denial was a sign of that. Anyone addicted to this game will deny how addicted they are to it.
I finally got completely fed up with the game and realized how boring and pointless it had been. It had been such a major waste of time. Then, I played another 4 months. That's how the game is, even when you do realize the game is pointless, you can't quit.
Real life is always better than this game, the only people who don't agree is either addicted as fuck, or they are so extremely depressed that they don't like real human contact. Those type of people also try to justify that sentiment by doing things like putting "quotes" around "real", arguing that contact online is as good as "real" contact. The truth is, real contact is psychologically different than online contact.
This game takes entirely too much time for me to consider it healthy in any aspect. You cannot hold a real job, or school, and play this game, AND have social contact. And yes, social contact is important.
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-Pudusplat
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It only makes sense that the amount of sites right now is growing exponetially. Every year more people are connected to the web, more people spend more time on the web, and more money is derived from and therefore pumped into the web.
Most human driven growth, in almost any field (print, television, power generation, population sizes) tneds to be exponential, driven by the population increase and the parallel growth of technology and information management.
I'm glad to see the porn industry thriving. Although, even with a fair amount of time allotted to "browsing" per day, I simply don't see how I can be expected to visit all sixteen million sites.
Ding Ding Ding!
MS Office + IE are the desktop to many people in Corporate America. If you could run those on Linux, there would be almost no reason to run windows. Windows just acts as a carrier horse for that suite and "the internet"
Of course, maybe Microsoft will suddenly stop wanting to sell Windows, because, y'know, its too much work.
Seriously - The linux market share on business desktops is still miniscule, and companies who would go out of their way (Yes, it's easier to stick with Windows) to use it would be likely candidates for alternatives such as OpenOffice.org. This means that they would be spending time releasing a product for a competing operating system that would likely gain them little to no profits for what gain? Slightly legitimizing their only real threat (however small it is). Does anyone really think they *should* release their suites to Linux? Does anyone on Linux really want it anyhow? I think any amount of market research shows that its simply not an idea worth implementing, let alone even think about.
Ut oh. Watch what you say or you might get sued! Just kidding, of course ;)
Let me get this straight: your political stance is "I don't care about the outcome, I just want to be right."
You would RATHER (in YOUR words) have innocent Americans die so you can be *right* than have the peace of mind that we don't have to worry, personally, much about national security?
I am conservative in my views, but I would much, MUCH rather have the US military do a good job protecting us, and have the threat remain non-existant, than have innocent people suffer so I can tell someone "See, your ideas are wrong, and I am right; HAH!"
If your you only beleive something so you can be "right", you obviously don't beleive them for the right reason.
I completely dissagree with your sentiments. This game is actually addicting, and has ruined many peoples lives. If not directly, then definately indirectly, or they play this game BEACUSE their life was ruined by something that caused major depression. As someone who played this game for about two years, I found it fun for maybe the first 6 months, at most, and then the fun started to wane. The problem was.. everquest had become my life in that 6 months, and I didn't know how to quit, or why I would quit. I would always tell myself "There is nothing better to do, that's why I'm playing" or some other such denial. The truth is, I was addicted, and the denial was a sign of that. Anyone addicted to this game will deny how addicted they are to it. I finally got completely fed up with the game and realized how boring and pointless it had been. It had been such a major waste of time. Then, I played another 4 months. That's how the game is, even when you do realize the game is pointless, you can't quit. Real life is always better than this game, the only people who don't agree is either addicted as fuck, or they are so extremely depressed that they don't like real human contact. Those type of people also try to justify that sentiment by doing things like putting "quotes" around "real", arguing that contact online is as good as "real" contact. The truth is, real contact is psychologically different than online contact. This game takes entirely too much time for me to consider it healthy in any aspect. You cannot hold a real job, or school, and play this game, AND have social contact. And yes, social contact is important. ---- -Pudusplat