"When it caught up with them, McAfee's stock price crashed, wiping out a billion dollars of shareholder capitalization. The story quotes an analyst saying this maybe the swan song for the once dominant vendor."
The scheme was discovered in 2000, and the billion dollar loss of capitalization occurred at that time. Since then, the stock has recovered virtually all of the lost capitalization, and had you purchased the stock in 2001 you would be ecstatic with the performance since then. Check out the following stock price summary from Yahoo:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MFE&t=my
Between frames, animations, ad servers, and more, many web sites are horrible bandwidth hogs. You take higher speed access, like a cable modem, for granted until you go visit your parents at Christmas and have to endure their 26.3K connection speed because they live in the boonies and their area only has dial up access.
Used to be that web monkeys were required to test page load times and coordinate with the marketing team to ensure that web page designs would perform reasonably with low speed internet connections and with multiple browsers. Not any more -- the job is done if you can render everything the marketing team wants in Dreamweaver and it loads okay using IE 5.0 in 1024x768 resolution.
You can limit some of this abuse through the browser settings themselves, but more web sites should do like/. and provide site settings that allow the user to control the amount of chrome served.
True. But so much of advertising is already directed to children. Grocery shopping with the kids can be excruciating. At least they get a workout constantly returning items I reject back to the shelves
Even better, with an infinite number of monkeys you will get one of them to produce the entire works of Shakespeare and sign Christopher Marlowe's name to it
First amendment irony? What are you talking about? Here is the entire text of the First Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
This is not a case of the government restricting his speech, this is character assassination by an unknown individual.
Good points. But just because cable companies might start offering subscribers a la carte options does not mean that the companies will stop offering customers the current packaged deals. A lot of people will probably stick with the current options.
I also believe that an a la carte option will still use the current on-screen programming guides, meaning that you still see all of the channels you don't buy. If you only want seven channels, fine, but those channels will be spread across hell's half acre.
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Is the Chinese government taking an equally aggressive stand within their own country to eliminate piracy of software, music, and video?
"When it caught up with them, McAfee's stock price crashed, wiping out a billion dollars of shareholder capitalization. The story quotes an analyst saying this maybe the swan song for the once dominant vendor." The scheme was discovered in 2000, and the billion dollar loss of capitalization occurred at that time. Since then, the stock has recovered virtually all of the lost capitalization, and had you purchased the stock in 2001 you would be ecstatic with the performance since then. Check out the following stock price summary from Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MFE&t=my
Between frames, animations, ad servers, and more, many web sites are horrible bandwidth hogs. You take higher speed access, like a cable modem, for granted until you go visit your parents at Christmas and have to endure their 26.3K connection speed because they live in the boonies and their area only has dial up access.
/. and provide site settings that allow the user to control the amount of chrome served.
Used to be that web monkeys were required to test page load times and coordinate with the marketing team to ensure that web page designs would perform reasonably with low speed internet connections and with multiple browsers. Not any more -- the job is done if you can render everything the marketing team wants in Dreamweaver and it loads okay using IE 5.0 in 1024x768 resolution.
You can limit some of this abuse through the browser settings themselves, but more web sites should do like
Inanimate?? Dude, we're already to the point where advertising is tattooed to humans! See the following: http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20050121.gtrforehead21/BNStory/Technology/
True. But so much of advertising is already directed to children. Grocery shopping with the kids can be excruciating. At least they get a workout constantly returning items I reject back to the shelves
Robert Cringely did just that; see the following link:
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020207
Even better, with an infinite number of monkeys you will get one of them to produce the entire works of Shakespeare and sign Christopher Marlowe's name to it
Now if they could only come up with an alternative to the Registry...
First amendment irony? What are you talking about? Here is the entire text of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." This is not a case of the government restricting his speech, this is character assassination by an unknown individual.
Good points. But just because cable companies might start offering subscribers a la carte options does not mean that the companies will stop offering customers the current packaged deals. A lot of people will probably stick with the current options.
I also believe that an a la carte option will still use the current on-screen programming guides, meaning that you still see all of the channels you don't buy. If you only want seven channels, fine, but those channels will be spread across hell's half acre.