How should market speculants be dealt with?

[SueEllen]

A friend from school moved there ages, come to think of it he became millionaire in software business ages ago too

There you go then, you need to emigrate.

[Xenophon]

Was that doing SKA?

Yes, but it was a SKA with a future.

[bogeyman]

A friend from school moved there ages, come to think of it he became millionaire in software business ages ago too

No need to worry about that then.

[Moscow Mule]

Was that doing SKA?

No, post-punk - made millions as a member of New Order.

[miffy]

A friend from school moved there ages, come to think of it he became millionaire in software business ages ago too

There's still time to play catch up with SKA...

[miffy]

No, post-punk - made millions as a member of New Order.

[AtW]

To be fair he was generally better than me in school - I was usually #2, apart from physics where I definately was better. Initially he was better at programming though

[bogeyman]

There's still time to play catch up with SKA...

There isn't.

I really wish AtW had got off his arse and did something with it, but he's all talk and no action.

Search Engines are going to be hugely important in the future, but they will rely heavily on human evaluation of sites rather than robots.

Sites that actual people think are good will be 'well up there' in the rankings.

This requires a bit of investment and some business nouse. There are already big players here who are making trading losses year on year, but who will be worth billions in years ahead. Google will remain the biggest player, but the field is still open.

[SueEllen]

To be fair he was generally better than me in school - I was usually #2, apart from physics where I definately was better. Initially he was better at programming though

That normally doesn't mean a thing as there are different types of intelligences.

[sasguru]

To be fair he was generally better than me in school - I was usually #2, apart from physics where I definately was better. Initially he was better at programming though

Was it a special needs school?