Good lord. I remember the days when lots of drug stores had tube testers and sold vacuum tubes. Talk about the end of a era. That may show how old I am, but I remember my dad "fixing" the TV (or his amplifier for his "music box" and the music world was still in mono) when a tube went out. If it was an uncommon tube he knew a fellow who owned an electronics parts store. They had a real good tube tester and all the "unique" parts you could need. Back then repairs were board level. My, how times have changed.
It is so rare that I buy any device (or even furniture, for that matter) which is perfect that I'm surprised when I buy something, anything, which I have absolutely no "Had they...", or "They should have..." comments. I read the article before it was posted here. It's just another bit of "journalism" to fill some space. As I look around my home, there are few things I can not come up with some complaint about, no matter how small. I bought an iPad 2 but read about the "next" iPad a day later and the prediction of a better display. So - I called Apple and cancelled the order. It was too late. BUT - They paid for return shipping and refunded my money. When this iPad came out I pre-ordered. So many of my friends with an iPad liked them so much I was pretty convinced I'd like it and I do. The stuff in the article is what it is. You can't please everyone all of the time. Me? No problems. WiFi - Works fine. Charges up fine. It does everything I *expect* it to do, and does it well. It may not be *perfect*, but there are few things in my life which I have bought that were *perfect*, and being in my 60's that's saying something.
Walmart was the big step into China. Go read some of the business mags from the 1980's. Walmart was continually praised for it's business methods and plans. Walmart was the model that Apple eventually adapted as so many other companies have. Walmart started the "race to the bottom" in the US. And the "race" will continue. Even places like LL Bean have their products (at least most of them) made in China or other low wage country these days.
Many of the people who committed suicides were working on Apple assembly lines. They are supposed to get breaks every 2 hours, and a workweek no longer than 60 hours.
But the managers have the power to deny those breaks plus require overtime, and despite Apple's best efforts the rules continue to be broken (and exhausted, sick people jump off roofs to escape).
Sounds like you don't have the facts. The FoxConn suicides are *less* then the national average for China. Your attempt at sensationalism conforms with liars like Mike Daisey - Make up "facts" to suit your world view. Good luck with that.
Which Android tablet, and running which Android version? Android fragmentation is a big problem which to me isn't worth ending up trapped in. As to Flash.... The less the better.
That's not my experience with iPad users. It got to be pretty weird how many of my friends (going back to the original iPad) have raved, and continue to rave, about how much they use theirs. Many now have 2 or 3 in their house. I can't tell you how many of my friends, business associates and other acquaintances have said to me: "Buy one! You'll love it!" I finally broke down and bought one of the new ones (which is supposed to arrive today). I took what my friends say and have said, I wrote out where and why I would use it and decided that, even if described as a "toy", I would like one and will use it. Then again I'm fairly well to do so I can afford toys, just like I can afford to have 6 computers scattered around the house (Macs, Windows & Linux), three 12TB RAID 5 w/parity enclosures for network access, 18 2TB drives (in storage stuffed with backup data) and various assorted computer and network equipment (some of it dating back to the 1980's). The reality is that other than programmers, CAD people and people like me who work on the internet, desktop machines are slowly but surely on their way out. Taking the population as a whole, the future is "appliances". "Appliances" like the iPad may not be what most nerds call a full blown computer, but they're all *most* people need.
Many good ideas from many people and companies have flopped over the years due to marketing and other reasons. Many bad ideas have done very well such as VHS over Beta. I was just checking. You obviously never owned one so you don't know how nice Newtons were for their day. It lived up to my expectations and more. As to "...what Apple told them..." - All advertisements are that way. That is the nature of advertising. Apple does it. Microsoft does it. The people who make Charmin bathroom tissue do it. Politicians do it (and then some). I don't have a TV any more but I see ads all over the internet that over state, at least to some degree, the product being sold. As a 'geek', "...speeds up to..." will probably ring one of your bells. Speaking as someone who actually bought and used a Newton, it was (and considering how old it is, still is) an awesome electronic device.
So you're saying you had a Newton and were displeased with it? Or are you saying you read what some people wrote and are going with repeating their opinion(s)? I had (and still have and it still works) a Newton. It worked (and still works) fine. I really like my old Newton. Lots of people complained about the Newton but their expectations considering the technology of the day were a bit much. I wasn't as pleased with a "small toy" until I got an iPhone 4 (which is, in essence, derived from the Newton).
It's the same with me. Years ago I thought I was "weird" in a way. I was in my early 40's when I finally learned to "take it in stride". My "limit" is 30 minutes, though. If I'm still awake after 30 minutes, I'm up and at it doing something. Sometimes it takes a few hours, but I get to a point where I go back and usually fall asleep pretty fast. Luckily I retired in 2003 and these days I just keep some websites online so I'm "home" almost all the time and, with no "boss", I can sleep/nap when ever I feel like it.
I've always been a "two part" sleeper going back to childhood. It drove my mother nuts (long story there...). Many days I did (and still do) take 3 sleep periods a day, usually each is 2 to 3 hours. Five hours is a long sleep period to me and has been as far back as I can remember. On the other hand, if I'm busy I can, or used to be able to (I'm over 60 years old), easily go for 24+ hours before I really started getting tired. And I never have been able to sleep on an airplane or in a car, even on long flights from the US to places in Asia or Africa (to cite a couple of the longest flights I've taken over the years). I have taken Valium in the past (my doctor suggested them) on a few long flights which "sorta" worked.
I am so happy that my days of travel (I was a business standards and systems consultant) are over and that I can live like this - Well, I'm a happy camper. This article really caught my eye... I have no schedule and I *love* it!
I have an iPad 2. I'd swap it for an Android tablet tomorrow if I could. I'm sick of Apple telling me how I can (and can't) use the product that I bought.
Then do it. Why did you buy an iPad? It's no secret that iPads are "closed". This speaks more to your poor judgement in determining your needs before you buy something. How is your poor judgement Apple's fault?
Other than adsense, all ads on my sites are on the server and I don't even use rotation (so - no scripts). Just a plain old call for a.gif or.jpg file. I've always done it that way. Never say never. Hopefully this will keep you awake at night worrying about happening upon one of my sites.;)
You're able to use Google, aren't you? Like all of this stuff it wasn't a secret. One example: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 - Heck - I guess I don't care if the US wants to be a war machine. It doesn't cost me much - My businesses are based in the Cayman Islands. If you're a US citizen, which I assume you are, you're the one paying for it. And the fact that the Taliban asked for evidence of guilt? Boy - Will you be surprised if you are summoned to a US court for an infraction of the law and the judge just says "Guilty" without trial. You'd be very happy if the judge says "Guilty, and we don't need evidence of your guilt." That's what is coming to the US (check recent legislation). I assume you know that no US law enforcement agency (FBI, etc.) ever issued an interpol warrant for Bin Laden (no evidence of guilt). Then the US murders Bin Laden to ensure no court proceedings would take place. Even funnier is the US armed and enabled Bin Laden in the 1980's so the Mushahadeen could fight the Russians. It's all political games.
There is no "mission" in Afghanistan and hasn't been for years. Yes - The US military could just go in and kill every man, woman, and child in Afghanistan. What would be the point of that? Would that be "winning"? Would the US get some sort of prize? Afghanistan is no threat to the US (and never was) other than the US wanting to build an oil pipeline through it. Back in 2001 - 2002 the Taliban offered up Bin Laden and the US turned the offer down. Bush et al wanted Iraq. Now that the US is essentially out of Iraq, what legacy did the US leave there? What did the US "win"? The US may not have been "defeated" by your definition, but it looks like all that was achieved was to throw that nation into a religious civil war for all intents and purposes. Nothing will ever be "won" in Afghanistan by the US unless one calls throwing money and lives into a bottomless pit "winning".
The United States spends more on military toys and the US military in general than *all* of the other nations in the world *combined* (which includes Russia and China). Yet, as was shown in Viet Nam, as was shown in Iraq, and is being shown in Afghanistan, the US military, with all its high tech toys, can be defeated by simple, low-tech (and cheap) devices made up of 25 bucks of Radio Shack parts. The US military has it's "eye on the ball", yet it continues to over estimate its power and the effectiveness of its toys. Trillions of US dollars down the drain every year for military toys and invasions of other countries which pose absolutely no threat to the US, and for what? A false sense of security at best.
You've given me food for thought. But for now, I'm pretty well set. I have data going back to 1986. Over the years I've done conversions as new stuff (like DVD drives) came on the market. Floppies to CD and then CDs to DVDs. Then it was cheap 300 to 350GB hard drives which I copied the DVDs to. Then to 1TB drives. Then to 2TB drives. Now everything up to 6 months ago is on 2TB drives (I threw floppies, CDs and DVDs into the fireplace after I had them on HDs. I gave the 300 and 350TB drives to my cousin after I cleaned the data off of them. I have a bunch of 1 TB and 2TB drives in a "climate" closet I built here. Since this is technically part of my business, and I'm in my 60's, it's easier for me to just buy external enclosures. The web sites I have online run on FeeBSD or CentOS, so I have some command line knowledge seeing as how I have dedicated servers and I manage them myself. But for here at my home office I'm lazy. The less I have to use a CLI the happier I am. So - I have two identical, bought at the same time, 12TB OWC "Mercury" drives. It will be another year, at least, hopefully 2, before they're filled and I have to buy another enclosure. At that time I'll see where technology is and go from there. (Yes, I'm a data hoarder). As a last "observation" - I've only had 2 hard drives fail in the last 10 years, and I was able to recover all the data from them, so I have a probably optimistic view with regard to the probably of a drive failing being low. I do have hardware RAID 1 mirror with fail-over on my internet servers, but even there - Only once, about a year ago, has a drive failed. The data center swapped out the bad drive and if I remember correctly they didn't even shut down the server (CAUTION: OLD MAN with poor memory - I think it was just a hot swap, but I could be wrong...)
It depends upon the enclosure if it's external. I have two 12TB enclosures with Firewire 800 running RAID 5 with parity so each "drive" (enclosure) holds about 9TB. Prior to buying I called the company's tech support folks and confirmed that should a drive go down I would need another drive of the same manufacturer and model *and* the same firmware version (and the same capacity, obviously) if I wanted to reconstruct the array myself should a drive fail. In short, buy an extra drive at the time I purchased the enclosure and specify that the extra drive *has* to be matched to those in the enclosure. The support person said that should the drive fail within the warranty period I would have to copy the data off the enclosure and send it to them. He told me they would have to replace all 4 of the 3TB drives and that they would charge extra if I wanted *them* to copy data from the drives onto the new drives. I can not speak to all RAID enclosures, but in my case the drives have to be the same right down to the same firmware version.
I was in the BBS world in the early 1980's. There were *many* "warez" sites back then (not to mention p0rn BBSes). Only difference was the files were going across phone lines (albeit slowly). Nothing has *really* changed since the 1980's. It's like the "War Against Drugs": They can have all the armies they want and fight forever, but it won't go away (at least in my lifetime which, considering I'm in my 60's, will admittedly be relatively short). Heck - I know people who have been running "private" FTP sites since the mid-1990's who still make a pretty good living off of their "business" (not to mention US federal and state income tax free). There are lots of them out there if you look, and you really don't have to look very hard. Even IRC has hundreds of channels you can "trade" files on. Personally I'm a bit past "pirating" files, but I know a heck of a lot of people that are into "trading" (aka "sharing") files of all sorts. I haven't used IRC, newsgroups, torrents or any of that stuff in years, but that's just me. I burned out on that stuff a long time ago. The only 2 effective efforts to eliminate something (that I am aware of) were: 1. Eliminated the production of methaqualone (aka "Quaaludes" or " 'Ludes") world wide, and 2. Stopping satellite program "theft" from Dish Network and DirectTV.
Google's results aren't as good as they used to be because these days there are millions of web sites on the internet. Not so many years ago that wasn't the case so it was easier to get "good" results from Google (or any other search engine for that matter). If you remember back in the early days there were *big* search engines which *charged* you if you wanted them to list your site even though there weren't (comparative to today) many sites out there. I put my first public web site online in January 1996. I remember watching/reading Danny Sullivan's early Search Engine Watch site in the late 1990's so I could improve my search rankings. The bottom line is that as the number of sites on the internet increases exponentially, relevant results become harder and harder to come by. There are so many web sites these days it amazes me that any search algorithm can be good enough to *really* know which result to return is "better" than another. Not to mention - There's a lot of subjectivity in search.
Yup - I'm a "child of the 60's" and got turned on to Bode's works in the National Lampoon magazine in the early 1970's. I had a subscription to the mag for quite a few years. "Da Hat" - RIP - 1975 at age 33.
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Good lord. I remember the days when lots of drug stores had tube testers and sold vacuum tubes. Talk about the end of a era. That may show how old I am, but I remember my dad "fixing" the TV (or his amplifier for his "music box" and the music world was still in mono) when a tube went out. If it was an uncommon tube he knew a fellow who owned an electronics parts store. They had a real good tube tester and all the "unique" parts you could need. Back then repairs were board level. My, how times have changed.
There are so many different Android devices and such fragmentation of the Android "OS" that saying Android has surpassed iOS means nothing.
It is so rare that I buy any device (or even furniture, for that matter) which is perfect that I'm surprised when I buy something, anything, which I have absolutely no "Had they...", or "They should have..." comments. I read the article before it was posted here. It's just another bit of "journalism" to fill some space. As I look around my home, there are few things I can not come up with some complaint about, no matter how small. I bought an iPad 2 but read about the "next" iPad a day later and the prediction of a better display. So - I called Apple and cancelled the order. It was too late. BUT - They paid for return shipping and refunded my money. When this iPad came out I pre-ordered. So many of my friends with an iPad liked them so much I was pretty convinced I'd like it and I do. The stuff in the article is what it is. You can't please everyone all of the time. Me? No problems. WiFi - Works fine. Charges up fine. It does everything I *expect* it to do, and does it well. It may not be *perfect*, but there are few things in my life which I have bought that were *perfect*, and being in my 60's that's saying something.
With parts from where?
If you care that much, you should go there and try to improve things.
Walmart was the big step into China. Go read some of the business mags from the 1980's. Walmart was continually praised for it's business methods and plans. Walmart was the model that Apple eventually adapted as so many other companies have. Walmart started the "race to the bottom" in the US. And the "race" will continue. Even places like LL Bean have their products (at least most of them) made in China or other low wage country these days.
Please define "fair manufacturing practices".
Many of the people who committed suicides were working on Apple assembly lines. They are supposed to get breaks every 2 hours, and a workweek no longer than 60 hours.
But the managers have the power to deny those breaks plus require overtime, and despite Apple's best efforts the rules continue to be broken (and exhausted, sick people jump off roofs to escape).
Sounds like you don't have the facts. The FoxConn suicides are *less* then the national average for China. Your attempt at sensationalism conforms with liars like Mike Daisey - Make up "facts" to suit your world view. Good luck with that.
Which Android tablet, and running which Android version? Android fragmentation is a big problem which to me isn't worth ending up trapped in. As to Flash.... The less the better.
That's not my experience with iPad users. It got to be pretty weird how many of my friends (going back to the original iPad) have raved, and continue to rave, about how much they use theirs. Many now have 2 or 3 in their house. I can't tell you how many of my friends, business associates and other acquaintances have said to me: "Buy one! You'll love it!" I finally broke down and bought one of the new ones (which is supposed to arrive today). I took what my friends say and have said, I wrote out where and why I would use it and decided that, even if described as a "toy", I would like one and will use it. Then again I'm fairly well to do so I can afford toys, just like I can afford to have 6 computers scattered around the house (Macs, Windows & Linux), three 12TB RAID 5 w/parity enclosures for network access, 18 2TB drives (in storage stuffed with backup data) and various assorted computer and network equipment (some of it dating back to the 1980's). The reality is that other than programmers, CAD people and people like me who work on the internet, desktop machines are slowly but surely on their way out. Taking the population as a whole, the future is "appliances". "Appliances" like the iPad may not be what most nerds call a full blown computer, but they're all *most* people need.
Many good ideas from many people and companies have flopped over the years due to marketing and other reasons. Many bad ideas have done very well such as VHS over Beta. I was just checking. You obviously never owned one so you don't know how nice Newtons were for their day. It lived up to my expectations and more. As to "...what Apple told them..." - All advertisements are that way. That is the nature of advertising. Apple does it. Microsoft does it. The people who make Charmin bathroom tissue do it. Politicians do it (and then some). I don't have a TV any more but I see ads all over the internet that over state, at least to some degree, the product being sold. As a 'geek', "...speeds up to..." will probably ring one of your bells. Speaking as someone who actually bought and used a Newton, it was (and considering how old it is, still is) an awesome electronic device.
So you're saying you had a Newton and were displeased with it? Or are you saying you read what some people wrote and are going with repeating their opinion(s)? I had (and still have and it still works) a Newton. It worked (and still works) fine. I really like my old Newton. Lots of people complained about the Newton but their expectations considering the technology of the day were a bit much. I wasn't as pleased with a "small toy" until I got an iPhone 4 (which is, in essence, derived from the Newton).
It's the same with me. Years ago I thought I was "weird" in a way. I was in my early 40's when I finally learned to "take it in stride". My "limit" is 30 minutes, though. If I'm still awake after 30 minutes, I'm up and at it doing something. Sometimes it takes a few hours, but I get to a point where I go back and usually fall asleep pretty fast. Luckily I retired in 2003 and these days I just keep some websites online so I'm "home" almost all the time and, with no "boss", I can sleep/nap when ever I feel like it.
I've always been a "two part" sleeper going back to childhood. It drove my mother nuts (long story there...). Many days I did (and still do) take 3 sleep periods a day, usually each is 2 to 3 hours. Five hours is a long sleep period to me and has been as far back as I can remember. On the other hand, if I'm busy I can, or used to be able to (I'm over 60 years old), easily go for 24+ hours before I really started getting tired. And I never have been able to sleep on an airplane or in a car, even on long flights from the US to places in Asia or Africa (to cite a couple of the longest flights I've taken over the years). I have taken Valium in the past (my doctor suggested them) on a few long flights which "sorta" worked.
I am so happy that my days of travel (I was a business standards and systems consultant) are over and that I can live like this - Well, I'm a happy camper. This article really caught my eye... I have no schedule and I *love* it!
I have an iPad 2. I'd swap it for an Android tablet tomorrow if I could. I'm sick of Apple telling me how I can (and can't) use the product that I bought.
Then do it. Why did you buy an iPad? It's no secret that iPads are "closed". This speaks more to your poor judgement in determining your needs before you buy something. How is your poor judgement Apple's fault?
Other than adsense, all ads on my sites are on the server and I don't even use rotation (so - no scripts). Just a plain old call for a .gif or .jpg file. I've always done it that way. Never say never. Hopefully this will keep you awake at night worrying about happening upon one of my sites. ;)
You're able to use Google, aren't you? Like all of this stuff it wasn't a secret. One example: "Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over" http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5 - Heck - I guess I don't care if the US wants to be a war machine. It doesn't cost me much - My businesses are based in the Cayman Islands. If you're a US citizen, which I assume you are, you're the one paying for it. And the fact that the Taliban asked for evidence of guilt? Boy - Will you be surprised if you are summoned to a US court for an infraction of the law and the judge just says "Guilty" without trial. You'd be very happy if the judge says "Guilty, and we don't need evidence of your guilt." That's what is coming to the US (check recent legislation). I assume you know that no US law enforcement agency (FBI, etc.) ever issued an interpol warrant for Bin Laden (no evidence of guilt). Then the US murders Bin Laden to ensure no court proceedings would take place. Even funnier is the US armed and enabled Bin Laden in the 1980's so the Mushahadeen could fight the Russians. It's all political games.
There is no "mission" in Afghanistan and hasn't been for years. Yes - The US military could just go in and kill every man, woman, and child in Afghanistan. What would be the point of that? Would that be "winning"? Would the US get some sort of prize? Afghanistan is no threat to the US (and never was) other than the US wanting to build an oil pipeline through it. Back in 2001 - 2002 the Taliban offered up Bin Laden and the US turned the offer down. Bush et al wanted Iraq. Now that the US is essentially out of Iraq, what legacy did the US leave there? What did the US "win"? The US may not have been "defeated" by your definition, but it looks like all that was achieved was to throw that nation into a religious civil war for all intents and purposes. Nothing will ever be "won" in Afghanistan by the US unless one calls throwing money and lives into a bottomless pit "winning".
I fully agree. Just as it was in latter day Rome, the US's biggest "employer" is the military and its support functions.
The United States spends more on military toys and the US military in general than *all* of the other nations in the world *combined* (which includes Russia and China). Yet, as was shown in Viet Nam, as was shown in Iraq, and is being shown in Afghanistan, the US military, with all its high tech toys, can be defeated by simple, low-tech (and cheap) devices made up of 25 bucks of Radio Shack parts. The US military has it's "eye on the ball", yet it continues to over estimate its power and the effectiveness of its toys. Trillions of US dollars down the drain every year for military toys and invasions of other countries which pose absolutely no threat to the US, and for what? A false sense of security at best.
You've given me food for thought. But for now, I'm pretty well set. I have data going back to 1986. Over the years I've done conversions as new stuff (like DVD drives) came on the market. Floppies to CD and then CDs to DVDs. Then it was cheap 300 to 350GB hard drives which I copied the DVDs to. Then to 1TB drives. Then to 2TB drives. Now everything up to 6 months ago is on 2TB drives (I threw floppies, CDs and DVDs into the fireplace after I had them on HDs. I gave the 300 and 350TB drives to my cousin after I cleaned the data off of them. I have a bunch of 1 TB and 2TB drives in a "climate" closet I built here. Since this is technically part of my business, and I'm in my 60's, it's easier for me to just buy external enclosures. The web sites I have online run on FeeBSD or CentOS, so I have some command line knowledge seeing as how I have dedicated servers and I manage them myself. But for here at my home office I'm lazy. The less I have to use a CLI the happier I am. So - I have two identical, bought at the same time, 12TB OWC "Mercury" drives. It will be another year, at least, hopefully 2, before they're filled and I have to buy another enclosure. At that time I'll see where technology is and go from there. (Yes, I'm a data hoarder). As a last "observation" - I've only had 2 hard drives fail in the last 10 years, and I was able to recover all the data from them, so I have a probably optimistic view with regard to the probably of a drive failing being low. I do have hardware RAID 1 mirror with fail-over on my internet servers, but even there - Only once, about a year ago, has a drive failed. The data center swapped out the bad drive and if I remember correctly they didn't even shut down the server (CAUTION: OLD MAN with poor memory - I think it was just a hot swap, but I could be wrong...)
It depends upon the enclosure if it's external. I have two 12TB enclosures with Firewire 800 running RAID 5 with parity so each "drive" (enclosure) holds about 9TB. Prior to buying I called the company's tech support folks and confirmed that should a drive go down I would need another drive of the same manufacturer and model *and* the same firmware version (and the same capacity, obviously) if I wanted to reconstruct the array myself should a drive fail. In short, buy an extra drive at the time I purchased the enclosure and specify that the extra drive *has* to be matched to those in the enclosure. The support person said that should the drive fail within the warranty period I would have to copy the data off the enclosure and send it to them. He told me they would have to replace all 4 of the 3TB drives and that they would charge extra if I wanted *them* to copy data from the drives onto the new drives. I can not speak to all RAID enclosures, but in my case the drives have to be the same right down to the same firmware version.
I was in the BBS world in the early 1980's. There were *many* "warez" sites back then (not to mention p0rn BBSes). Only difference was the files were going across phone lines (albeit slowly). Nothing has *really* changed since the 1980's. It's like the "War Against Drugs": They can have all the armies they want and fight forever, but it won't go away (at least in my lifetime which, considering I'm in my 60's, will admittedly be relatively short). Heck - I know people who have been running "private" FTP sites since the mid-1990's who still make a pretty good living off of their "business" (not to mention US federal and state income tax free). There are lots of them out there if you look, and you really don't have to look very hard. Even IRC has hundreds of channels you can "trade" files on. Personally I'm a bit past "pirating" files, but I know a heck of a lot of people that are into "trading" (aka "sharing") files of all sorts. I haven't used IRC, newsgroups, torrents or any of that stuff in years, but that's just me. I burned out on that stuff a long time ago. The only 2 effective efforts to eliminate something (that I am aware of) were: 1. Eliminated the production of methaqualone (aka "Quaaludes" or " 'Ludes") world wide, and 2. Stopping satellite program "theft" from Dish Network and DirectTV.
If I had mod points right now I'd give you all I could. Nail precisely hit on head.
Google's results aren't as good as they used to be because these days there are millions of web sites on the internet. Not so many years ago that wasn't the case so it was easier to get "good" results from Google (or any other search engine for that matter). If you remember back in the early days there were *big* search engines which *charged* you if you wanted them to list your site even though there weren't (comparative to today) many sites out there. I put my first public web site online in January 1996. I remember watching/reading Danny Sullivan's early Search Engine Watch site in the late 1990's so I could improve my search rankings. The bottom line is that as the number of sites on the internet increases exponentially, relevant results become harder and harder to come by. There are so many web sites these days it amazes me that any search algorithm can be good enough to *really* know which result to return is "better" than another. Not to mention - There's a lot of subjectivity in search.
Yup - I'm a "child of the 60's" and got turned on to Bode's works in the National Lampoon magazine in the early 1970's. I had a subscription to the mag for quite a few years. "Da Hat" - RIP - 1975 at age 33.