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To: d:oug who wrote (85182)	5/7/2002 2:09:48 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116837

What makes people click is their tendency to click. This is what the Well found. They also click if they clack. Click or clack I could collect clicks and clacks at will. Even clucks. But clicking, clacking and clucking only goes so far. The trouble with the internet store is that there is nothing for sale and nobody wants to buy anything anyway. I predict that eventually the internet will die. It was dreamed up by theoretical people in the government who just wanted to track everybody's thoughts and actions anyway. IT is just a massive trap to read people's mail.(Mail is 75% of internet traffic, 75% of that is spam and it is dying.) That is why they discourage PGP with the small hat size crowd. You get whispers about.. "don't draw attention to yourself." Duh. So send postcards for the thought police to read. You would suspect that from a bunch of paranoiacs. There is no commercial value in the internet at all. I am one of the few people I know that made a living on it for a good length of time and I can tell you its commercially exploitive potential is not serious. Implementation at today's clutter depends on theoretical indexing efficiencies that are hard to meet, and bandwidth that exceeds today's by a factor of 10 even on the high speed end. Besides most websites suck. Companies with serious money have implemented websites that leave one gasping with their sheer smarmy ineptitude and middle management approach to catering to the customer. There is not one major company website that I would want to click on twice unless I was desperate. Products, partners, About Us in Java with Flash.. who cares? I do not have a single major computer manufacturer bookmarked. And my home looks like a used computer shop. As a matter of fact, laptops, gameboys and PC's are way over commoditized and have seen their day. They are toys for most people. They are not that usable and their operating systems are about as complex as they can get. Usability in terms of increase in productivity seems to have peaked. For the most part, really good software is so expensive to develop that most people cannot afford it. To develop a good piece of software for business on a PC would cost about 250,000. (2.5 man years) Who wants to pay that kind of money? Retail markets are saturated. There is one niche in computer hardware and software left that could be filled by a reasonable company (not retail for the most part) and with an economic downturn, it is doubtful anyone could get development money for that idea. It would be said that it has been done before. Don't expect that I will fill you in on that one. Interface, blood and money. The mediam is the massage. (Martial Mclewan). I sometimes read long gone's posts. While they are not that exciting, they do capture my attention. At least he doesn't call me names and make fun of me like some people I know.