Other people have written about Google advertising for their own products and giving employees free money can have a similar, although smaller, effect.

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In order to go into space we would need to have an advanced level of technology which could only be created through innovation. I am just worried that technological advances tend to be used as weapons first, and as humanity benefiting objects second. This may have been fine with the technology of old but we are approaching the level where a weapon can wipe us out. The non warlike use may not come to fruition if there will be no one left to develop it.

I just hope we realize that the next global war may be the last war we fight and that we need to control our competitive spirit. A quote that comes to mind is Albert Einstein: “I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought, but World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.” I’d just like to add that I’m not so sure there will even be a World War Four.

Does anyone else find this ridiculous?

Edit: My father tells me that they never came with cables and that I am misinformed. He’s probably right since I wouldn’t trust my childish memory with regard to such things. In any case, printers should come with cables.

1. Jerry Yang was doing everything in his power to prevent MS from acquiring Yahoo – what type of message does that send and how must the employees of Yahoo feel if their CEO is acting this way.

2. In order to compete with Google, the merger must have gotten done quickly and smoothly, this would not have been the case in the case of a hostile takeover.

3. There have been rumors that many of Yahoo’s employees were just waiting for the merger to happen in order to cash in on their new accelerated vesting and compensation packages, immediately leaving Yahoo there after.

4. A lot of the Yahoo employees and MSFT employees and investors did not want the merger to go through. From what I know the largest group that wanted the merger to go through were the Yahoo investors, albeit at a higher price.

5. Yahoo will now have to deal with a variety of problems: shareholder lawsuits, talk of Jerry’s management ability, sudden price drop. All these may in fact lead to another Microsoft offer in maybe a few months at a much lower price – in which case it will probably be accepted.

The only downside that just immediately to my mind is that MS and Yahoo are in deep water and do need to do something in order to compete with Google – but I do not think the merger would have neccesarily helped them, given the merging difficults and the corporate culture clash.

What EA does want is probably the T2 sports games, then they’ll have a pretty strong hold on the sports games’ market.

So as long as EA does not want the T2 human capital it seems like it makes sense – but given the negative response of T2 to the offer, I doubt EA will be able to retain the developers and artists.

The author is giving 2 reasons for the acquisition:1. The short term reason is to force Intel to give Apple price cuts for fear that Apple will make their own chips.

- I do not think that Intel needs to worry about Apple manufacturing their own PC chips as Apple already went through that phase and AMD already provides the necessary pressure on Intel to lower their prices.

2. In the future, software and OSes will not be tied down to a specific chip so Apple will start manufacturing their own processors to increase their margins.

- I think the author is on to something regarding the future of processors but I do not think the PC market will change that drastically. Apple will probably start making their own chips for the iPhone and their new gadgets but I doubt they will do the same for the PC market.

Edit: Just found out that Apple already makes a server (Thanks Brian). I have to start doing some research from now on.