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When Integrated Authentication is enabled, users frequently wonder why they are still prompted for username/password. After all, isn't Integrated Authentication supposed to get rid of that?
Thus, the following question has come up several times when users install and use Virtual Server. While the problem looks like one with IIS or even Virtual Server somehow, it can be caused by the web browser's configuration, as described below.
I have just installed virtual server and am having problems with the administrative website. The host machine is Windows Server 2003 with SP1. The virtual server administrative website is set to allow integrated windows authentication yet when I try to access the page I am prompted for a username/password. If I enter username/password I can access the site. I have granted the appropriate permissions on the site home dir.
The administrative site address is:
If I enter the following address integrated windows authentication works and I am granted access to the site without being prompted for a username/password:
The site is not using host headers.
Any ideas would be appreciated
Actually, this problem is probably caused by your web browser not auto-authenticating to the VS 2005 admin website because it treats your two URLs as belonging in different Zones. One of the Zones is configured to auto-authenticate with current logged on user credentials and the other is not.
IE's default behavior is to auto-authenticate in Intranet Zone. "http://vsserver:1024" fits the pattern of an Intranet website. Meanwhile, "http://vsserver.north.root.domain.com:1024" fits the pattern of a dotted URL address, which is treated as the Internet Zone, which does not have auto-authenticate enabled.
Thus, IE does not auto-authenticate when you use the dotted URL address, meaning that when IIS requests your administrator credentials to access the VS2005 admin website, you get the user login popup.
To "fix" this, you either:
- Change the Zone which contains the second URL (dotted URL address)
- Change the auto-authenticate option of the existing Zone of the second URL
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Help needed to add slackware to a dual boot laptop
Hi all
I'm new to this forum but i'm using linux (ubuntu) for a year now. My Dell N5050 laptop is currently a dual-boot with win 7 and ubuntu 12.4. I want to migrate to slackware (initially i could not make mind to install slackware for the dual boot.) I want to retain ubuntu a while before completely switching to slackware. I want to use 50GB of current linux space for the slackware. Only thing I want is not to mess with my current two OSes and a miscellaneous data partition in the process.
1. I plan to reduce the linux partition and use the available space for slackware. Do I need to divide the available space into three partitions for /, /home, and /usr?
2. I have not installed slackware before although i have installed ubuntu and vector linux using ISO. Is any special care to be taken while installing slackware? What should I do while installing slackware so that my current bootloader (GRUB) will be retained and would identify slackware on its own?
3. Can I switch DEs in slackware, as I do on ubuntu (occasionally using xfce)?
4. When I tried vector linux on a live usb, I was unable to get internet working because I dont know how to configure it (I'm using tata photon) on WICD. Can I install the same network manager I use on ubuntu (it is GNOME network manager, I think) on slackware?
5. As I'm installing slackware as a noob, what type of install should it be(full or newbie)? Is the difference in installs or the process of installation?
Thanks in anticipation for help you would surely provide.:)
FWIW. I'm not an expert, just a user.
1. Your partitions are really up to you. If you just want to experiment with slackware to see how you like it you could just put /, /home and /usr in the same partition, with the idea that if you will change things later when you know whether or not you like slackware. If you are thinking that this will be a permanent migration to slackware (or even a permanent migration away from ubuntu) you may wish to have at least /home on a separate partition so that you don't have to remake it all of the time. I currently have two different GNU/linux systems both using the same /home partition, so that my files are always there no matter which linux system I am using.
2. While I have not installed slackware on a desktop or laptop (I am using it on my pandora, but the installation was a little different), I have installed many a linux on my computers. There has always been a step in the installation process where you are asked if you want to wipe the boot loader clean and install a new one. I have always agreed to the new boot loader and then it identifies all of the systems on my computer. You may not wish to take this chance. In this case you can say no when prompted. GRUB has ways to re-examine your setup and identify new OS's. (I forget the specific command. Duckduckgo is your friend.)
3. Yes. LInux is nice in this way.
4. I don't konw. Usually when the internet hasn't worked for me with a new OS it is because the drivers for my ethernet/wifi are not included in the os.
5. Again. I don't konw, but you will probably be just fine either way. If you are nervous, try the newbie install. If you find that you need a more powerful setup you can reinstall with full. No harm in trying something new.
Thanks again for the help.
Did a full install of slackware yesterday. Skipped LILO and added menuentry to existing GRUB. Everything seems to be working fine as of now including both DEs and internet. In the process added the windows partition to slackware to access successfully.
If one has elementary knowledge of linux and is patient enough to read the on-screen instruction, slackware install is easy enough for a newbie also. But as said at in the installation guide, extra-keystrokes are not forgiven (so be patient, don't panic if screen seems to be stalled) and remember that there is *no back button*.
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This weekend I had the urge to organize my closet, mind you, this urge comes only once in a blue moon, so I embrace the feeling wholeheartedly. I live in a small space, so keeping all my girly stuff organized is not an easy feat. I wish wish and wish for a whole room as my closet..one day !! but for now, a 7 foot reach in is all I have…and under the bed ofcourse.
Finally, closet design is being considered higher on the list of priorities. It is an important investment which always brings a good return. Hire a Specialist and spend as much as you can possibly afford. You will not regret it.
We all have our issues with our Closet situation. Some have fantastic walk-in rooms to die for…and some of us don't. There are some basic rules for closet design which I want to share with you…and some dream closets which I want to show you to drool over.
A Men's closet will require space for storage of shirts, pants, suits, ties, shoes, night clothes, underwear, socks and drawers for lots of small items. These items can be stored in closets 2′ deep and 7′ high. The width of the closet depends on the space available within the bedroom. Here are some basic, minimum sizes for closets.
- A minimum size is a 2'6″ wide closet. It can accommodate around 10 suits, ties, 6 pairs of shoes and 2 drawers for underwear and other things.
- A comfortable sized closet is 4′ wide. It can accommodate around 10 suits, 7 pairs of shoes, 7 drawers and ties, night clothes on hooks on the inside of the doors.
A woman's closet will require space for storing women's garments, like skirts, trousers, blouses, dresses, evening dresses, suits, coats, underwear, night clothes, shoes, mirror, make-up things etc. The minimum depth for a woman's closet is 2′ and 7′ height. The width of the closet depends on the space available in the bedroom.
- A comfortable sized closet is 4′ wide. This can store 12 hanging garments, 10 folded garments, 10 pairs of shoes, night clothes on hooks on the inside of the door, 7 drawers and a hinged mirror in front of the shelves for dressing up. Or this space can be arranged so that it can store around 20 hanging garments, 10 folded garments, 10 pairs of shoes, 5 drawers.
Some basic rules, you need 24 to 28 inches of depth, 48″ minimum of hanging per person. You need about 24 inches of long hanging for dresses and long garments, and you need shelves for sweaters and drawers for intimate items.
Seems like the closet can definitely convey the owner's personality…as shown with the Celebrity closets. Most of us have to be more conservative in our closet design, but honestly..think about it. If you invest in some good storage solutions, it will for sure raise the value of your home, so go for it. And if you have a spare room, what's wrong with making it into a dressing room with a sofa, tv roller racks and crystal chandelier…this is the place you begin your day and end your day. Your clothing and accessories are an investment, treat that investment properly and you will leave home a happy person.


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2013 IEEE 54th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (1984)
Singer Island, FL
Oct. 24, 1984 to Oct. 26, 1984
pp: 193-200
P.W. Shor , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In this paper we give tighter bounds than were previously known for the performance of the bin packing algorithms Bets Fit and First Fit when the inputs are uniformly distributed on [0,1]. We also give a general lower bound for the performance of any on-line bin packing algorithm. These results are proven by analyzing problems concerning matching random points in a unit square. We give a new lower bound for upward right matching and grid matching.
P.W. Shor, "The Average-Case Analysis of Some On-Line Algorithms for Bin Packing", 2013 IEEE 54th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, vol. 00, no. , pp. 193-200, 1984, doi:10.1109/SFCS.1984.715915


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LIMA, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Credicorp Ltd , Peru's biggest financial holding company, said on Monday its fourth-quarter net income rose 17 percent year over year to 495.6 million soles ($165.2 million), below market expectations.
Credicorp's net income for full-year 2014 was 2.388 billion soles - 55 percent more than in 2013, it said in a statement.
The average estimate of analysts was $206 million for the fourth quarter and $860 million for 2014, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company said its results were affected by extraordinary costs related to its acquisition of local microfinancial lender Mibanco.
Credicorp also controls Peru's biggest bank, Banco de Credito, and a pension fund. ($1 = 3 soles)
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Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) today announced the appointment of David Law as Chairman of Investment Banking for its Middle East and North Africa business, as part of its strategic commitment to build a market-leading presence in Institutional Securities in the MENA region.
David, who was previously Head of the Financial Sponsors Group, International, is one of Morgan Stanley's most senior bankers, with a broad background, including M&A, Leveraged Finance and Equity Capital Markets, combined with experience working in both Europe and Asia Pacific. David has been responsible for building out the bank's Financial Sponsors franchise across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific and has close relationships with many of the leading private equity firms around the world.
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Wednesday, 15 March, 2000, 13:06 GMT
Are we dot.com dotty?
We took your phone-calls and emails on the future of e-commerce LIVE in our weekly debate.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku also answered your questions on the workings of the Commonwealth.
Select the link below to watch Talking Point On Air
Your comments since the programme
It seems to me that it is the owners of dot.coms that get rich
on the back of the private investors in IPOs. Take the recent
lastminute.com IPO. While private shareholders are expected
to "lend" up to Ł3000 interest free while subscriptions are filled,
they receive a mere 35 shares. At current price levels, investors
will lose money in brokers fees etc. To add insult to injury, investors
must wait a further 3 weeks to have the remainder of their money
returned. What is the incentive to apply for the full allocation (Ł3000)
rather than the minimum when you get a minute allotment anyway. It
seems to me that the private investor is powerless to complain or be heard
by the greedy banks and dot.coms. Perhaps if all investors were to stop their cheques
in protest before the money had been withdrawn it would make the banks stand up and
listen and make them think a little more of the private investor next time.
The stockbrokers have seized the moment and are playing to the naivete of the market player. Valuations are not backed by gold. They crash just as fast given changes in "market thinking".
The unprecedented growth of the Internet is not just a fad. E-commerce is an inevitable consequence of the advance in global communications. As for the over-rating of .com companies, that is just a sign of cultural impact that the Internet is beginning to have.
Once business people realise the potential of new technology they spend a lot of money on it.
The present situation is probably a distortion of the longer term outcome, but make no mistake, this mode of business will become very much the norm.
It is one thing to float a company that has an intrinsic value, but when a company floats on 'good will' alone surely this can only do damage to future dot com floatations even though they may be based on economic principles and not hype...
Your comments since the programme
It seems to me that it is the owners of dot.coms that get rich
on the back of the private investors in IPOs. Take the recent
lastminute.com IPO. While private shareholders are expected
to "lend" up to Ł3000 interest free while subscriptions are filled,
they receive a mere 35 shares. At current price levels, investors
will lose money in brokers fees etc. To add insult to injury, investors
must wait a further 3 weeks to have the remainder of their money
returned. What is the incentive to apply for the full allocation (Ł3000)
rather than the minimum when you get a minute allotment anyway. It
seems to me that the private investor is powerless to complain or be heard
by the greedy banks and dot.coms. Perhaps if all investors were to stop their cheques
in protest before the money had been withdrawn it would make the banks stand up and
listen and make them think a little more of the private investor next time.
The stockbrokers have seized the moment and are playing to the naivete of the market player. Valuations are not backed by gold. They crash just as fast given changes in "market thinking".
The unprecedented growth of the Internet is not just a fad. E-commerce is an inevitable consequence of the advance in global communications. As for the over-rating of .com companies, that is just a sign of cultural impact that the Internet is beginning to have.
Once business people realise the potential of new technology they spend a lot of money on it.
The present situation is probably a distortion of the longer term outcome, but make no mistake, this mode of business will become very much the norm.
It is one thing to float a company that has an intrinsic value, but when a company floats on 'good will' alone surely this can only do damage to future dot com floatations even though they may be based on economic principles and not hype...
The people who are getting the credit for the .com boom seem to be the marketing and sales people - but without the techies to back them up, they'd be nowhere. My point is not that the sales/marketing/ideas people don't deserve the accolades - I'm sure they do - but how about some accolades for the technical people who make it all happen? It seems to me that people are dismissive of, or perhaps too mystified by it all to praise, the people who actually sit and write the code.
Let's put it this way: say Mr X is hailed as a great marketing director, the saviour of XYZ Magazine, and who's made millions for his shareholders. Great. But Mr X can't read or write. Does it matter? After all, Mr X isn't reading or writing XYZ magazine, he's just marketing it, he doesn't need to read it or understand it, does he?
L. Porter, UK
I cannot see how Lastminute.com can possibly be worth the money being offered. My company runs a travel web site - we have more content, a higher turnover in our first year on-line, are actually making money, have half the visitor levels of Lastminute.com, and yet have not spent a bean on promoting our site off-line! Does this mean our site is worth the same or more than Ł0.5bn? What makes such a company that valuable?
The boom in the internet as a medium for advertising products and services is one that may be exploited by any company that has the financial backing. We are at a point in time where web site design, construction and maintenance is performed by a professional internet company on behalf of a client company. One would not expect a retail company to design, shoot and edit a television advert for themselves and web pages are no different in that respect. People see isolated cases widely publicised where people like lastminute.com have made a lot of money, but in most cases capital had to be available to launch the company and pay a body to create and maintain a web site.
Selling products online does not
remove the need to get
physical products into the hands
of customers, and this seems to
me to be the big failing of Internet
businesses. I'm surprised that
the bubble hasn't burst yet, but
when you have a situation as
currently exists where stock
prices cannot be analysed
rationally, a fall is inevitable.
I'm surprised it hasn't already
Very little analysis is done (especially in America) to actually determine an Internet company's value in technical terms. Informational technologies require knowledge and experience, which is the main difference between an online retailer and a real-life one. An online retailer requires both knowledge of the product that he's selling and the technology that's used to sell. Add the organisation and co-operation between the technological and the commercial divisions of the firm, and you have the base concept. From an IT professional's point of view, very few online retailers comply with the essential requirements - a technical base and co-operation between the commercial division and the technical division. So most internet companies' stock is overvalued. Only those firms that dedicate attention to the technical aspect and get the most efficient customer service thanks to technology will have revenues in the future, and will be the only ones to survive.
The dot.com frenzy has created a dot.com culture and a elite that looks down on the non-dot.com world. While dot.com helps in making it easy for the information savvy people, the majority of the world doesn't even own phones and never get to use them. Does the dot.com army care for them even a bit?
Whilst I would love to jump on the Internet bandwagon and make my fortune, I have difficulty in believing that a company doing Ł10m of business annually is worth up to Ł1/2 BILLION... still if they can do it why can't I? I'm off to start up buy-your-widgets-here.com and make my billion! I wish!
This is all crazy, the marketing people have taken over the internet. How do you think the average citizen feels when they see bizarre adverts on TV saying visit a dot.com site to see more. Most people haven't got a PC let alone can connect to the internet. Also these web pages that use ASP scripts and shockwave effects, it usually takes 5mins to download and run splashscreen pages. This is totally unacceptable, and for a non techie user they must think the site has crashed because nothing is happening. We just want to get in and see the product we're looking for and not waste money on my phone bill waiting for bloody graphics to download!
Surely not all of the dotcoms will survive - and there will be great shakeouts like those that took place in the electric lamp, motor car & computer industries. Surely, new countries will emerge as superpowers - much like after the sunset of the British Empire.
What we should ask is, are we prepared for the social costs of the third wave technology revolution? The de-industrialisation of the Eighties will return, only this time affecting white-collar workers almost exclusively. This is extremely dangerous, because history teaches us that social dislocation occurs when the middle-classes feel threatened. Trust me, Austria's Haider will appear cuddly in a couple of years.
The Internet Revolution should be known as "The New Renaissance".
It is that important! This technology is still at the dawn of its development as far as e-commerce and networking is concerned. In the not too distant future operating systems and business suites will be given away free. These will be Linux based. This will most certainly pose a large problem for Microsoft who have a stranglehold on today's market share of desktop systems.
The internet is a great invention. It can be used for fun as well as more serious purposes. But just two things that we should remember.
Like every other form of communication before it, the Internet will be A way of doing business, not THE way. It is certainly not the be all and end all!
The only people that will make serious money from the boom in e-commerce are the people with technical expertise. Afterall, these systems are extreamly difficult to set up.
Josh Harney, UK
While many of these stories should be taken with a pinch of salt, there are companies of all sizes around the world that are recognising the need to get online to develop profitable new businesses.
But to make use of the full potential of the internet, we all have to move away from the idea of blind commercialisation and focus more on non-commercial areas, such as education, training, information dissemination, etc. The internet may be used as a get rich scheme but not certainly as a get rich quick scheme.
I am an African currently in Australia and while I cannot speculate on
the potential of dot coms as viable stocks I can certainly appreciate the
convenience they bring to our daily lives. Our residence for example receives
a weekly delivery of shopping from an online green grocer that includes the
freshest fruit and vegetables at very competitive prices.
But I cannot see how developing nations in particular African nations can effectively
participate in these new economies created by the dot coms given the
difficulties with existing or non existent infrastructure.
Internet companies are being made to feel guilty of their successes and value. Why?
After all, companies like digital pages corp are floating and buying traditional businesses like Dixons and using their financial clout to bring us better value products and services.
The owners deserve the rewards for their foresight.
It is not easy to get the funding for these projects and most are self-started.
Valuing dotcoms is a pointless exercise using traditional "industrial" valuation techniques. This is not because there are new financial rules, but because the market has agreed to jointly speculate on the Internet sector. Perhaps only one out of ten dotcoms will ever succeed. If you back the right one you would have effectively bought a bargain. Meanwhile, nine will fail miserably, taking millions with them when they crash. The Net sector is ten times overvalued, and this will only unravel in the medium term. In the short term valuations will continue to explode. Get on for a short ride, but don't linger beyond the middle of 2001.
Your comments during the programme
I recently tried to buy a cheap flight from WWW site. It took a long time to
fill in all the forms and at the end of it, the 'server was down' and I had
to try again. I tried several more times with no success.
I then phoned a free number of another airline, spoke to someone who was
very helpful and the booked my ticket.
The whole experience was much more satisfying and completely successful.
There is no reason to believe that the advent of the internet has eliminated the inevitable ups and downs of capitalism. Furthermore, the so called information economy has not eliminated anybody's need for actual goods; it has merely facilitated the transfers of wealth which were already under way.
Alexander Nowik, San Francisco
There is a great deal of ignorance surrounding e-commerce. Dot-com companies exist everywhere and they exist nowhere and that is their strength. In the future we will steer away from physical products to software type products.
If information is power then the internet will give millions of people power they would otherwise not have had. In other words the internet is a revolution in democracy.
Barry Brennan, Brussels, Belgium
There is a lot of hype surrounding these new companies - I'm an internet user and I use it as a source of information but not so much as a place to buy. It will make business more efficient but there are a lot of companies coming up which have no real way of making any money.
I have a small business on the net, Mallorca Golf Connection
www.magoco.com. As the name suggests we are
involved in booking tee times and any other requirements for people
intending to come to Mallorca to play golf. This service did not exist
before and could not exist without the net, as using letter phone or fax is either too slow or too expensive so we are a true
product of the internet age.
I see the growth of e-commerce and therefore of . com companies as an unstoppable wave and in almost all aspects a good thing.
E-commerce is very convenient but it also possesses some potential "crisis". Nowadays there are so many dot coms. Some of them just follow the situation and not just to develop themselves. And it is dangerous. If they don't develop their sale concept to attract the consumers, they will definitely be beaten in this competitive society. Only by innovation can they be successful.
Our world is now stepping into a wired century. The Internet must be the tool we use in the new millennium. Whatever the future maybe, I always hold an active opinion about Internet and e-commerce or something related to it.
Look around this wired world, I just want to say: let it be!
I am trying to build up a Carabean Online company and am finding it very difficult because we don't own telecoms companies so we have to go through countries like the US. Not many companies survive the hype and only big companies will be left standing at the end.
Mark Lee, Barbados
Commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku answers your questions
Why was the Commonwealth so silent about the floods in Mozambique, we only heard of British and South African aid to the disaster?
The Commonwealth wasn't silent, as soon as the tragedy occurred I made a public statement and appealed to all commonwealth governments to come and help and a good deal of them have been responding - including Australia, Malawi and a number of commonwealth countries so they have been responding.
As a Nigerian, which was your worst moment, during your stewardship, as the Secretary-General. Is it true that , if Nigeria was expelled, you would have had to relinquish the post, since only members of the Commonwealth can be Secretary-General?
The greatest achievement of the Commonwealth in the 10 year period in which I was Secretary-General was the transformation of the commonwealth into a community of democracies. The Commonwealth used ot have countries within its fold that were in no sense democractic but now all commonwealth are plural democracies and it has become well established that any country that departs from that is automatically suspended as with the recent case of Pakistan. My lowest point was when my own country Nigeria violated the basic principal of the commonwealth and had to be suspended from membership.
Having gathered all this experience, do you have any ambition to get involved in Nigerian politics?
I plan to go home at the end of my term of office and I do not plan to enter Nigerian politics but I do intend to make my experience available to whoever wins the vote of the people of Nigeria.
Your comments before we went ON AIR
If I stood out on the street selling Ł5 notes for Ł50 each I doubt anyone would buy any from me. I suspect the police would take an interest.
So why do apparently rational people appear happy with a price tag of Ł800,000,000 for a company that doesn't even make any money at all?
It all smacks of the assorted market bubbles that burst, eg Wall Street 1929. It can't possibly last
E-business is not all a bubble but some of the market valuations are questionable . Internet revenue models have yet to be clearly defined and little information has been filtering out to the general public. Sooner or later there is bound to be consolidation in this market place. Only those e-businesses successful enough to lure and keep people glued to their sites will survive. I know from experience that few companies have an e-business infrastructure in place to retain customers.
Naveed Ahmed, UK
Yes, "information" products are being revolutionised by the dot coms - in other words, anything that can be digitised (news, music and video, great literature, good advice, market data) - but at the end of the day most products are objects which still need to be manufactured and delivered. Seems to me the next wave of winners will be the people who can work out new ways to deliver things speedily and efficiently across the globe.
E-Commerce is the way of the future. The sudden interest in it, like any other brand new venture, has brought along its own set of problems (e.g. of security, confidentiality, etc.) which will be resolved over time. Companies that sprang up out of nowhere would undergo the good old 'survival of the fittest' and the hype of today will turn into a drab routine of tomorrow. Just like the telephone we use today to do business, the Internet is the next logical step up in efficiency.
Dr Riz Rahim, USA
I would like to put the record straight to those people who think that they can not trust the internet for shopping. Believe it or not shopping on the internet is actually safer than shopping at the supermarket. Discarded till receipts provide theives with all the information they need to order goods over the phone or on the internet. Whereas the details you use to shop on-line are kept extremely safe and confidential.
The internet, although not without security concerns, is not as dangerous as you have been made to think. In statistical terms you may be suprised to know that it is easier for theives to get you card details outside of the internet than in it.
The dot come bubble will not burst completely. However, there will be a limit to shopping sites online that can be profitable. The companies that can create new industries will never have their bubble burst, but most of the companies which are just online stores will find that they created an oversaturated marketplace.
The Internet industry won't replace the traditional because we still can't trust the web.
What will happen to Shopping Malls in the future - close down or become smaller because we are all shopping through the 'net?' And will folk spend weekends clogging up dot.com as being the alternative to shopping? I look forward to seeing shorter queues at Supermarket tills or alternatively to enjoying cheaper home delivery through dot.com!
I don't believe the 'dot com bubble' can't burst, simply because it isn't a bubble. When traditional industry has seen vast rises in stock price it has always been due to artificial economic factors, not increases in revenue or size of a particular company.
The internet will undoubtedly change our lives in many ways that we cannot begin to imagine. However, at the end of the day, so long as we live in a fundamentally capitalist based society dot coms will eventually have to obey the basic rules of economics.
The plain fact is that very few of them will make the sorts of profits that their share prices imply. It is understandable for the man or woman in the street with little understanding of economics to be sold over easily, but it is sad to see the 'City' repeat history yet again and fail to rationally examine the facts and true potential, and so allow yet another bubble to grow with its inevitable conclusion.
Steven Landers, England
I am completely at a loss as to how a .com company like, for example, Lastminute.com can achieve a pre-launch valuation of some Ł800 million when a) it's not expected to make a profit until 2002 and b) only TURNED OVER Ł409,000 in its last financial year.
I go to the shops to find the product I want - then buy it on the internet much cheaper. Rip-off merchants beware!
Dotcom businesses are the way forward. Not because they ought to be but simply because of the sheer momentum of innovation and the desire for more and more convenience.
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I think .com industry is the future of our economy and that of any other nation. At the moment we are seeing the birth, but from here on it's only going to get bigger. In the future we won't even think about .com industry it will seamlessly flow through our lives. It is not just "hype and no substance" it is the way things will go. More are more trade will be done on the Internet. Virgin is already launching a Ł160 million project for it's e-business. Companies who don't get involved WILL fall behind.
Mark these words - we have just scratched the surface of dot.com's. there are still so many possibilities out there and are happening. The World will never be the same again.
We can't even begin to comprehend the change that is going to occur with the internet. We are only at the horse and stagecoach phase, on our way to Concorde and travelling to the moon. Yes, many dot.com businesses are extremely overvalued in this gold rush, and yes, the bubble will burst one day but this is to be expected as there are only so many good names available. I think these are very exciting times at the moment, however I think there is a darker side to all of this. I can see a scenario within a few years where massive unemployment occurs because we will not need distributors, resellers, middle men, or any data entry clerks or any kind.
Joseph Hart, Australia
When 80% of the world population don't even have access to a basic telephone line, how can we talk about an internet revolution? The medium has already been turned into a rush for the gold-pot.
We can draw a parallel between the internet and the human brain.
We are going to be neurons in the internet nervous system.
How the internet mind will evolve is anybody's guess. Hopefully,
we can support a healthy mind (internet) in a healthy body (earth).
The main opposition to the valuation assumptions of the internet is coming from the Old School. Who can blame them, in the new economy, bricks and mortar assets become unnecessary overheads. Of course, not all .Coms will succeed, but if you have ever tried building a traditional business you will find success rates comparable. The internet is here to stay, and will soon take over your TV, Mobile Phone and Computer. The market will increase to non-computer literate users. Please stop worrying about .Coms and start worrying about the large dinosaurs of the old economy. I'm quite enjoying watching them fall!!
Phil Cooper, UK
dot.coms - definitely overrated! When you sit back and think about the possibility that Yahoo might buy Disney, or troubled online auctioneers eBay might buy Sothebys, it can be quite a shock. These companies are extremely young, fragile pioneers in a new business arena, and an arena that has risks. For instance, the AOL - Time Warner merger had an unexpected side effect - the instant slowdown of AOL's stock value. Why? Because as soon as the dot.coms buy into real-world valued companies, they instantly become tied to a real-world value. Essentially, by trying to be real players in the business world, many may end up killing themselves off.
It's like television, which you have control over. People are hungry for fast food; they want to 'swallow' breaking news, colourful headlines, pictures. They need to fill their emptiness. The internet will become, yet, another tool for business to capitalise, for people to temporarily ease the pain of existence.
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Carolyn Sampson, now the best British early music soprano by quite some distance' [Gramophone] Carolyn Sampson made her opera debut with English National Opera in Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea and returned to sing Tanterabogus in The Fairy Queen with the company in London and Barcelona. She is a renowned concert soloist, and has concertized extensively in the US and Europe. She now turns her formidable talent towards the interpretation of the works of Thomas-Louis Bourgeois. Featured on this disc is Les Sirenes, a work which depicts the famous episode in Ulysses' prolonged voyage in The Odyssey


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If you were like me and slept through last night's lunar eclipse, we have a link to some amazing Associated Press photos through App.com.
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I kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but it never did. The author spent WAY too much time describing the character's self doubt and not enough time describing the people she met and places she visited.
I enjoyed the recipes at the end of each chapter.
However, you could cut out 1/2 of this book (while living in Provence) and not miss a thing....
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You've participated in class, done all of your homework, studied hard, and you think you have a grip on the material. But then the day of the test comes. Suddenly, you blank out, freeze up, zone out, or feel so nervous that you can't get it together to respond to those questions you knew the answers to just last night.
If this sounds like you, you may have a case of test anxiety — that nervous feeling that people sometimes get when they're about to take a test.
It's pretty normal to feel a little nervous and stressed before a test. Just about everyone does. And a touch of nervous anticipation can actually help you get revved and keep you at peak performance while you're taking the test. But for some people, this normal anxiety is more intense. The nervousness they feel before a test can be so strong that it interferes with their concentration or performance.
Test anxiety is actually a type of performance anxiety — a feeling someone might have in a situation where performance really counts or when the pressure's on to do well. For example, a person might experience performance anxiety when he or she is about to try out for the school play, sing a solo on stage, get into position at the pitcher's mound, step onto the platform in a diving meet, or go into an important interview.
Like other situations in which a person might feel performance anxiety, test anxiety can bring on "butterflies," a stomachache, or a tension headache. Some people might feel shaky, sweaty, or feel their heart beating quickly as they wait for the test to be given out. A student with really strong test anxiety may even feel like he or she might pass out or throw up.
Test anxiety is not the same as doing poorly on a certain test because your mind is on something else. Most people know that having other things on their minds — such as a breakup or the death of someone close — can also interfere with their concentration and prevent them from doing their best on a test.
All anxiety is a reaction to anticipating something stressful. Like other anxiety reactions, test anxiety affects the body and the mind. When you're under stress, your body releases the hormone adrenaline, which prepares it for danger (you may hear this referred to as the "fight or flight" reaction). That's what causes the physical symptoms, such as sweating, a pounding heart, and rapid breathing. These sensations might be mild or intense.
Focusing on the bad things that could happen also fuels test anxiety. For example, someone worrying about doing poorly might think thoughts like, "What if I forget everything I know?" or "What if the test is too hard?" Too many thoughts like these leave no mental space for thinking about the test questions. People with test anxiety can also feel stressed out by their physical reaction and think things like "What if I throw up?" or "Oh no, my hands are shaking."
Just like other types of anxiety, test anxiety can create a vicious circle: The more a person focuses on the bad things that could happen, the stronger the feeling of anxiety becomes. This makes the person feel worse and, because his or her head is full of distracting thoughts and fears, it can increase the possibility that the person will do worse on the test.
People who worry a lot or who are perfectionists are more likely to have trouble with test anxiety. People with these traits sometimes find it hard to accept mistakes they might make or to get anything less than a perfect score. In this way, even without meaning to, they might really pressure themselves. Test anxiety is bound to thrive in a situation like this.
Students who aren't prepared for tests but who care about doing well are also likely to experience test anxiety. If you know you're not prepared, it's a no-brainer to realize that you'll be worried about doing poorly. People can feel unprepared for tests for several reasons: They may not have studied enough, they may find the material difficult, or perhaps they feel tired because didn't get enough sleep the night before.
Test anxiety can be a real problem if you're so stressed out over a test that you can't get past the nervousness to focus on the test questions and do your best work. Feeling ready to meet the challenge, though, can keep test anxiety at a manageable level.
Use a little stress to your advantage. Stress is your body's warning mechanism — it's a signal that helps you prepare for something important that's about to happen. So use it to your advantage. Instead of reacting to the stress by dreading, complaining, or fretting about the test with friends, take an active approach. Let stress remind you to study well in advance of a test. Chances are, you'll keep your stress from spinning out of control. After all, nobody ever feels stressed out by thoughts that they might do well on a test.
Ask for help. Although a little test anxiety can be a good thing, an overdose of it is another story entirely. If sitting for a test gets you so stressed out that your mind goes blank and causes you to miss answers that you know, then your level of test anxiety probably needs some attention. Your teacher, your school guidance counselor, or a tutor can be useful resources to talk to if you always get extreme test anxiety.
Be prepared. Some students think that going to class is all it should take to learn and do well on tests. But there's much more to learning than just hoping to soak everything up in class. That's why good study habits and skills are so important — and why no amount of cramming or studying the night before a test can take the place of the deeper level of learning that happens over time with regular study.
Many students find that their test anxiety is reduced when they start to study better or more regularly. It makes sense — the more you know the material, the more confident you'll feel. Having confidence going into a test means you expect to do well. When you expect to do well, you'll be able to relax into a test after the normal first-moment jitters pass.
Watch what you're thinking. If expecting to do well on a test can help you relax, what about when people expect they won't do well? Watch out for any negative messages you might be sending yourself about the test. They can contribute to your anxiety.
If you find yourself thinking negative thoughts ("I'm never any good at taking tests" or "It's going to be terrible if I do badly on this test"), replace them with positive messages. Not unrealistic positive messages, of course, but ones that are practical and true, such as "I've studied hard and I know the material, so I'm ready to do the best I can." (Of course, if you haven't studied, this message won't help!)
Accept mistakes. Another thing you can do is to learn to keep mistakes in perspective — especially if you're a perfectionist or you tend to be hard on yourself. Everyone makes mistakes, and you may have even heard teachers or coaches refer to mistakes as "learning opportunities." Learning to tolerate small failures and mistakes — like that one problem you got wrong in the math pop quiz — is a valuable skill.
Take care of yourself. It can help to learn ways to calm yourself down and get centered when you're tense or anxious. For some people, this might mean learning a simple breathing exercise. Practicing breathing exercises regularly (when you're not stressed out) helps your body see these exercises as a signal to relax.
And, of course, taking care of your health — such as getting enough sleep, exercise, and healthy eats before a test — can help keep your mind working at its best.
Everything takes time and practice, and learning to beat test anxiety is no different. Although it won't go away overnight, facing and dealing with test anxiety will help you learn stress management, which can prove to be a valuable skill in many situations besides taking tests.
Reviewed by: D'Arcy Lyness, PhD
Date reviewed: July 2013
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New firm bringing 200 jobs to Hamburg
A company that could employ more than 200 people is poised to buy a 43-acre site at Lake Erie Commerce Center, Hamburg Supervisor Steven J. Walters announced at his annual State of the Town address Friday.
It would be the first business to set up shop in the industrial park that the town is developing.
The sale price for the land at Bayview Road and Route 5 was $25,000 an acre, or $1.07 million, Walters said.
The Hamburg Land Development Corp. has approved the sale, but the deal has not closed yet, he said.
The buyer has asked to remain anonymous until the sale goes through, but Walters said it is a company that focuses on international trade and logistics.
"This is proof that our hard work and foresight has paid off," he said.
The prospect of attracting a company employing more than 200 may be the big development of 2014 for Hamburg.
Walters also spoke of the town's accomplishments in 2013, including an enlarged Hamburg Library, new recreation, youth and senior services building and record attendance at Woodlawn Beach.
He called 2013 an accomplished year, and a year of preparation, as he discussed the addition to the library, where construction will start soon.
"This expansion will give our community a library for the 21st century," Walters told members of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce at the annual luncheon at Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant in Blasdell.
He discussed the town's acquisition of the Frontier Learning Center on Southwestern Boulevard, which now houses the Recreation and Youth departments.
Renovations will take place this year at the site so the senior center and adult day care can move there.
The popularity of Woodlawn Beach State Park continues, with a record year in attendance last year. He said the Erie County Health Department told the town that more people went to Woodlawn than all the other public beaches in the county combined.
"These people, many of whom are not from Hamburg, are spending their money at our shops, restaurants and gas stations," he said. "There is no better local tourist attraction in Erie County than Woodlawn Beach."
He praised State Sen. Mark Grisanti and Assemblyman Sean Ryan for helping to secure a small increase in the revenue sharing funds from New York State for video lottery terminals at Hamburg Gaming, and asked them to renew efforts to have it fully restored.
Walters also noted that the tax rate has gone down five of the last seven years.
"Our fiscal conservative policies have truly righted the ship," Walters said.
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Discusses the joint venture between two companies with different capabilities: 1) technology provider and 2) transportation agent. Discusses how to capture value from joint venture and biotechnology: 1) who are winners and who are losers; 2) how much value can/should be captured; 3) sustainability issues; 4) implications for agriculture/agchem industry/relationships between supply chain members. Delta & Pine and Monsanto are licensing a new technology cotton seed. They must decide how to do it and how to evaluate its success.
Biotechnology products are finally reaching the farmer. Asks students to consider how to market them, how to value them, and how they affect the strategies of all the participants in the value-added food and fiber chain.


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A growing debate over the Government's obligation to help
"The idea that has been established over the past ten years, that almost every service that someone might need in life ought to be provided, financed by the Government as a matter of basic rights, is wrong. We challenge that. We reject that notion."
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That characteristically blunt comment sums up the Reagan Administration's side of an intensifying national debate about the President's plans to slash federal spending and taxes. As the draconian nature of the program has...