the human race survived for thousands of years prior to the advent of the combustion engine and discovery of the uses of crude oil
I don't think there were 6 billion people on the planet thousands of years ago. Providing even the most basic of needs (food, water, shelter) is not possible on such a large scale with a pre-industrial level of technology. Not unless 6 billion people want to become farmers.
High stocks != company success however. Short term success, yes, but with sell offs of this size, it's a sure bet that they don't expect any long term success.
Or maybe they think (and many agree)that the price of Google's stock is a little over inflated, and they're expecting a correction. Sell stock at inflated price. Buy at corrected price. Lather, rinse, repeat. I wonder how hard it would be to manipulate the market with carefully crafted press releases....?
Its been a long time since i've used a virus scanner at home, and I'll tell you why:
1. They can only find known virii. Maybe being 'protected' from tens of thousands of viruses comforts you, but I'm worried about the few no one knows about yet, and AV software provides no protection against those.
2. They are only partially sucsessfull in removing virii. How many times have you seen "Delete Failed! click here for more info"? I've seen it a few times too many. I SHOULD NEVER EVER SEE THIS MESSAGE! This is a design failure.
3. AV software is not effective as a means of prevention. Virii come in two flavors-- trojans and worms. Trojan==idiot user clicked on BrittneySpearsNaked.jpg.exe; AV cannot prevent this. Worm==windows security issue; AV cannot prevent this. This is an over-simplification, and may not be 100% technically accurate, but you get the picture.
4. (sum of points 2 and 3) If AV software can't prevent infection, and if it sometimes can't even remove the infection, what good is it again? Its good for Symantec, its good for Macafee, and its good for IT professionals who get to say "its not my fault, I did everything i could to prevent it" next time a code red happens.
Spy/adware costs buisnesses money. This is a fact.
However, spyware also generates revenue for companies invested in providing spyware solutions. Make a list of companies that either directly benefit from spyware by selling anti-spyware software (be sure to include companies that distribute various forms of partial or pure malware disguised as anti-spyware), then add to that list all the companies that benefit indirectly by adding "value" to their software in the form of anti-spyware/security features.
...because scientists would rather mentally masturbate about phenomenon that we have yet to observe or measure directly than admit that their understanding of space time may be fundimentally flawed. Everyone laughed at Einstein's cosmological constant, but now its supposed to be credible after a name change and a bad 90's sci-fi makeover?
Only if the rest of the eccosystem is sufficiently similar to a tank with fossil fuel exaust bubbled through it such that the super efficient algae will have the same advantage everywhere. Biological diversity is the result of environmental diversity.
Dell, Dell, Dell...... while i appreciate the fact that they stopped using PSU's with that funky extra connector, I'd appreciate it a lot more if they'd stop designing (some of) their cases to use only dell PSU's that have the power cord connector somewhere other than where every other PSU manufacturer puts it.
I'm also pissed every time i see a motherboard with solder points for 4 DIMM slots, and only 2 present (filled with 2x128 of course), or solder points for a non-existant AGP slot.... but i'm more pissed as Intel for manufacturing the unholy things.
Compaq makes better-than-average laptops, and IBMs are ugly as hell, but keep working long after they're obsolete. Dell makes laptops with fans that fail, adapter wires that fray, and keyboard keys that fall off.
I was under the impression that all international telecommunications were being intercepted and filtered by Eschelon anyway...... if what happened was as straight-forward as incomming (or even outgoing) international phone calls being monitored, is this even news?
AOL's search page gets hits because it's (last time i checked, which admittadly wasn't recently) the default serch page for AOL.
Yahoo gets hits because they were giving away free email when AOL execs were still wondering why someone who has an ISP would need a free email account. Their search engine, while not as powerfull as Google's, does have its merits.... better geographical searches (nice for when i can't find any pizza menus to order from), and a higher likelyhood of search results I was looking for rather than 50,000 pages of exactly what i asked for.
MSN getting 110 (10 million less than AOL) is nothing short of abject failure. Its the default homepage on 90% of the computers IN THE WORLD.
In short, AOL's niche market (internet training wheels) is soon to be obsolete, and MSN.com can't get more hits than AOL.com even when its the default search page on most of the computers in the world.
My prediction-- Google will outlive the PC platform (im assuming that the world wide web will outlive the PC). MSN and AOL will not. Yahoo..... who knows.
right, cause that's the new measure of performance.... how small they can make those little thingies you don't even know the name of. Megahertz is dead. Long live Even Less Meaningfull Jargon.
Is the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation suddenly going to replace his reliable expensive Solaris clusters running Oracle with a bunch of cheap Linux blades running MySQL just because he read it in an online "magazine"?
The fact that you find this implausable leads me to believe you've never been employeed.
Samsung makes the worst HDDs i've ever seen. There's a reason they're the lowest priced drives on every wholesale list.... Unacceptable DOA% and none of the ones we sold/used at work outlived their(or our) warranty. We stopped ordering them.
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some refference to anal sex? maybe even implying that apple users happily take it up the poop chute?
Just searched google.cn for "Tianmen Square".
first result: Was There A Massacre In Tiananmen Square 1989?
censorship indeed.
Its been a long time since i've used a virus scanner at home, and I'll tell you why:
1. They can only find known virii. Maybe being 'protected' from tens of thousands of viruses comforts you, but I'm worried about the few no one knows about yet, and AV software provides no protection against those.
2. They are only partially sucsessfull in removing virii. How many times have you seen "Delete Failed! click here for more info"? I've seen it a few times too many. I SHOULD NEVER EVER SEE THIS MESSAGE! This is a design failure.
3. AV software is not effective as a means of prevention. Virii come in two flavors-- trojans and worms. Trojan==idiot user clicked on BrittneySpearsNaked.jpg.exe; AV cannot prevent this. Worm==windows security issue; AV cannot prevent this. This is an over-simplification, and may not be 100% technically accurate, but you get the picture.
4. (sum of points 2 and 3) If AV software can't prevent infection, and if it sometimes can't even remove the infection, what good is it again? Its good for Symantec, its good for Macafee, and its good for IT professionals who get to say "its not my fault, I did everything i could to prevent it" next time a code red happens.
However, spyware also generates revenue for companies invested in providing spyware solutions. Make a list of companies that either directly benefit from spyware by selling anti-spyware software (be sure to include companies that distribute various forms of partial or pure malware disguised as anti-spyware), then add to that list all the companies that benefit indirectly by adding "value" to their software in the form of anti-spyware/security features.
Get the picture?
i don't think those would work too well if the power went out. best to have emergency measures that don't rely on a source of power.
...because scientists would rather mentally masturbate about phenomenon that we have yet to observe or measure directly than admit that their understanding of space time may be fundimentally flawed. Everyone laughed at Einstein's cosmological constant, but now its supposed to be credible after a name change and a bad 90's sci-fi makeover?
Only if the rest of the eccosystem is sufficiently similar to a tank with fossil fuel exaust bubbled through it such that the super efficient algae will have the same advantage everywhere. Biological diversity is the result of environmental diversity.
I'm also pissed every time i see a motherboard with solder points for 4 DIMM slots, and only 2 present (filled with 2x128 of course), or solder points for a non-existant AGP slot.... but i'm more pissed as Intel for manufacturing the unholy things.
Compaq makes better-than-average laptops, and IBMs are ugly as hell, but keep working long after they're obsolete. Dell makes laptops with fans that fail, adapter wires that fray, and keyboard keys that fall off.
one point fourty-fourst? If you're going to be a grammar nazi, at least be right.
Anyway, in response to:
I'd have to say "yes, but for unrelated reasons."Parent is not flamebait. It's reality.
If I didn't click on any ads on pages 1 through 14, will I click on one on that 15th page?
I was under the impression that all international telecommunications were being intercepted and filtered by Eschelon anyway...... if what happened was as straight-forward as incomming (or even outgoing) international phone calls being monitored, is this even news?
Yahoo gets hits because they were giving away free email when AOL execs were still wondering why someone who has an ISP would need a free email account. Their search engine, while not as powerfull as Google's, does have its merits.... better geographical searches (nice for when i can't find any pizza menus to order from), and a higher likelyhood of search results I was looking for rather than 50,000 pages of exactly what i asked for.
MSN getting 110 (10 million less than AOL) is nothing short of abject failure. Its the default homepage on 90% of the computers IN THE WORLD.
In short, AOL's niche market (internet training wheels) is soon to be obsolete, and MSN.com can't get more hits than AOL.com even when its the default search page on most of the computers in the world.
My prediction-- Google will outlive the PC platform (im assuming that the world wide web will outlive the PC). MSN and AOL will not. Yahoo..... who knows.
Sinse when are grammar nazis insightfull? thank god for meta-moderation.
1. if running norton antivirus protects against worms, why would customers have any?
2. if running norton antivirus could remove the worms, why are there lengthy explinations telling customers what they need to do to remove worms?
right, cause that's the new measure of performance.... how small they can make those little thingies you don't even know the name of. Megahertz is dead. Long live Even Less Meaningfull Jargon.
hey, i remember seeing something about this on public television...... about 10 years ago.
now there's a good idea. why advertize the software of the future using yesterday's technology?
The fact that you find this implausable leads me to believe you've never been employeed.
an insightfull comment, and me without any mod points =(
Seen it run good on a 233 Powerbook with 32MB ram. little slow starting up though.
Samsung makes the worst HDDs i've ever seen. There's a reason they're the lowest priced drives on every wholesale list.... Unacceptable DOA% and none of the ones we sold/used at work outlived their(or our) warranty. We stopped ordering them.