1832-1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first electric carriage
1839, first car wash is invented in his garage
1914, two Detroit men opened the first public one, the Automated Laundry( hydrofluoric acid used as cleaning agent)
1951, Elephant car washes opens up in Seattle (first franchise car wash)
1951, first car wash using Automated robot arms ,etc are used
1976, Car Wash" is a 1976 number-one single by Rose Royce for MCA Records
2006, Oasis a “touch free’ car wash opens
When the car was first invented and sold to the public car washes were a pretty predictable “corrosion” of the automobile invention, when these establishments opened they were all “man operated” establishments, meaning lots of labor (workers) are needed and used to keep these business opens and as car washes spread across America in the 1950’s hundreds of people had simple manual labor jobs open up for them. But with the introduction of the automated systems in the car wash business less “hands” were needed to operate the stores meaning a shift in labor demands is inevitable. So over the years less and less workers are needed and as employers realize seasonal obstacles limit actual human involvement in their business companies like Oasis become another inevitable evolution for the car wash industries and there technologies, Oasis being the first “touch free” or completely automated carwash eliminating the need for actual hands on involvement of humans besides the engineers who check and fix these all automated systems. Not only affecting the number of workers needed but also the type of workers needed. Shifting the demand from simply “young” and fit workers to clean and wipe cars to intellectual and logic workers who are thinkers who can fix and interpret the ailments of computers and their involved systems
Friday, October 31, 2008
Yahoo history timeline
This is baiscally just a revised timeline of yahoo's history that i found ironically through using google
January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University.
April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is re-named "Yahoo!"
March 1995: Yahoo! is incorporated.
1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the web site.
April 12, 1996: Yahoo! has Initial public offering, closing at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after peaking at $43.00 for the day.
October 8, 1997: Yahoo! acquires Four11, and Four11's Rocketmail service becomes Yahoo! Mail.
June 8, 1998: Yahoo! acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo! Stores.
October 12, 1998: Yahoo! acquires direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. [1]
January 28, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Geocities.
April 1, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Broadcast.com.
January 3, 2000: Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an intra-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).
January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in Yahoo! Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time). [2]
February 7, 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [3] [4]. On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
June 28, 2000: Yahoo! acquires eGroups.
September 26, 2001 Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an intra-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).
December 27, 2001: Yahoo! acquires HotJobs.
June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo! Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- Press Release
December 2002: Yahoo! Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine
July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo! -- Press Release
July 2003, Yahoo! acquires Overture Services, Inc.
January 19, 2004: Yahoo! Inc. announces the formation of Yahoo! Research Labs, a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has since left the company and now works at Microsoft.
February 19, 2004: Yahoo! drops Google-powered results, returning to its own algorithm and index after it had used Google's results for a long time.
March 2004: Yahoo! launches its own search engine technology.
March 1, 2004: Yahoo! announces (as cited in the New York Times article listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.
March 25, 2004: Yahoo! acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.
July 9, 2004 Yahoo! acquires email provider Oddpost.com [5].
December 15, 2004: Yahoo! launches beta version of its video search engine.
February 9, 2005 Yahoo! Launch is changed to Yahoo! Music, which still provides free music.
February 15, 2005 Yahoo! establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs. [6]
February 28, 2005 Yahoo! launches a developer network [7] giving an API to most of its search verticals.
March 2, 2005 Yahoo! completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users.
March 20, 2005 Yahoo! acquires photo sharing service Flickr [8]
March 29, 2005 Yahoo! launches blogging and social networking service Yahoo! 360° [9]
April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo! support [10]
May 26, 2005 Yahoo! announces its new PhotoMail service
June 14, 2005 Yahoo! acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.
July 15, 2005 Yahoo! announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley
July 25, 2005 Yahoo! acquires widget engine Konfabulator
August 11, 2005 Yahoo! acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take
over operation of Yahoo! China. [11]
August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo! Launch Integrated DSL Service -- Press Release
September 7, 2005. Yahoo! supplies information to People's Republic of China which then jails
reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo! states that they were following Chinese law. [12]
October 4, 2005 Yahoo! purchases online social event calendar Upcoming.org. [13]
October 17, 2005 Yahoo! buys British company Whereonearth Ltd which provides location technology.
November 15, 2005 The sports section of My Yahoo! is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" link to various pages at doublereflection.org.
December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [14], [15]
December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo! 7 announced for January 2006. Official Site
December 9, 2005 Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us.
January 9, 2006 Yahoo! acquires webjay
February 12, 2006 Yahoo! Developer Network PHP Center launched.
June, 2007 [Yahoo Mail gives "unlimited" storage for all users.]
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Yahoo!"
January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" while studying at Stanford University.
April 1994: "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" is re-named "Yahoo!"
March 1995: Yahoo! is incorporated.
1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the web site.
April 12, 1996: Yahoo! has Initial public offering, closing at $33.00, up 270% from the IPO price, after peaking at $43.00 for the day.
October 8, 1997: Yahoo! acquires Four11, and Four11's Rocketmail service becomes Yahoo! Mail.
June 8, 1998: Yahoo! acquires Viaweb, co-founded by Paul Graham, which becomes Yahoo! Stores.
October 12, 1998: Yahoo! acquires direct marketing company Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. [1]
January 28, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Geocities.
April 1, 1999: Yahoo! acquires Broadcast.com.
January 3, 2000: Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time high of $475.00 (pre-split price) a share. The day before, it hit an intra-day high of $500.13 (pre-split price).
January 19, 2000: At the height of the Dot-com tech bubble, shares in Yahoo! Japan became the first stocks in Japanese history to trade at over ¥100,000,000, reaching a price of 101.4 million yen ($962,140 at that time). [2]
February 7, 2000: Yahoo.com was brought to a halt for a few hours as it was the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [3] [4]. On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike a fault with eBay earlier that year.
June 28, 2000: Yahoo! acquires eGroups.
September 26, 2001 Yahoo! stocks close at an all-time low of $8.11. The day before, it hit an intra-day low of $8.02 (both figures are pre-split prices).
December 27, 2001: Yahoo! acquires HotJobs.
June 3, 2002: SBC and Yahoo! Launch National Co-Branded Dial Service -- Press Release
December 2002: Yahoo! Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine
July, 2003: BT Openworld announces an alliance with Yahoo! -- Press Release
July 2003, Yahoo! acquires Overture Services, Inc.
January 19, 2004: Yahoo! Inc. announces the formation of Yahoo! Research Labs, a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo!. Yahoo!'s Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization. Dr. Flake has since left the company and now works at Microsoft.
February 19, 2004: Yahoo! drops Google-powered results, returning to its own algorithm and index after it had used Google's results for a long time.
March 2004: Yahoo! launches its own search engine technology.
March 1, 2004: Yahoo! announces (as cited in the New York Times article listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service. However, it also announced it would continue to rely mainly on a free web crawl for most of its search engine content.
March 25, 2004: Yahoo! acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.
July 9, 2004 Yahoo! acquires email provider Oddpost.com [5].
December 15, 2004: Yahoo! launches beta version of its video search engine.
February 9, 2005 Yahoo! Launch is changed to Yahoo! Music, which still provides free music.
February 15, 2005 Yahoo! establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs. [6]
February 28, 2005 Yahoo! launches a developer network [7] giving an API to most of its search verticals.
March 2, 2005 Yahoo! completes 10 years of corporate existence. To celebrate this, it gives free ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users.
March 20, 2005 Yahoo! acquires photo sharing service Flickr [8]
March 29, 2005 Yahoo! launches blogging and social networking service Yahoo! 360° [9]
April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo! support [10]
May 26, 2005 Yahoo! announces its new PhotoMail service
June 14, 2005 Yahoo! acquires VoIP provider DialPad Communications.
July 15, 2005 Yahoo! announces Yahoo! Research Berkeley
July 25, 2005 Yahoo! acquires widget engine Konfabulator
August 11, 2005 Yahoo! acquires 40% of Alibaba.com for $1 billion US, and Alibaba will take
over operation of Yahoo! China. [11]
August 23, 2005: Verizon and Yahoo! Launch Integrated DSL Service -- Press Release
September 7, 2005. Yahoo! supplies information to People's Republic of China which then jails
reporter Shi Tao, age 37, for 10 years. Yahoo! states that they were following Chinese law. [12]
October 4, 2005 Yahoo! purchases online social event calendar Upcoming.org. [13]
October 17, 2005 Yahoo! buys British company Whereonearth Ltd which provides location technology.
November 15, 2005 The sports section of My Yahoo! is hacked; titles such as "selfhood + conscience" and "aesthetic freedom" link to various pages at doublereflection.org.
December 1, 2005 - Tivo and Yahoo! form a partnership where several Yahoo! features can be viewed on television via the Series2 TiVO set top box. [14], [15]
December 8/ (US time) 9, (Australian time) 2005 Yahoo! 7 announced for January 2006. Official Site
December 9, 2005 Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us.
January 9, 2006 Yahoo! acquires webjay
February 12, 2006 Yahoo! Developer Network PHP Center launched.
June, 2007 [Yahoo Mail gives "unlimited" storage for all users.]
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Yahoo!"
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Catalyts and Corrosions
A
1. What are the catalysts of the technology or science in support of the state? Economics or the needs of a new hard to allocate resource
2. The desires of the people or society basically what is found to be most critical at that time like Anthrax infections or Abortions/pregnancy prevention
3. The military, whatever the State feels will help it to become a much stronger power or will extend its power e.g. (nuclear power or satellites)
B
1.What are the corrosions of the technology or science that undermine the support of the state? Draining other un-thought of resources like ethanol undermining the other uses of corn if that happens to be the main source of food for that State/nation
2. Negatively effective a smaller set of people who will in turn undermine the government by disliking the government, like the geometrically organized forest in Russia that handicap peasant life out in those rural areas
3. Forcing the state to conform to the requirements of this technolgy and hence possibly making the state dependent on another state for the reasources need to use this technology
E.g Cars that run on fossil fuels now have us dependent on winning the Uraq war because we need there fuel
1. What are the catalysts of the technology or science in support of the state? Economics or the needs of a new hard to allocate resource
2. The desires of the people or society basically what is found to be most critical at that time like Anthrax infections or Abortions/pregnancy prevention
3. The military, whatever the State feels will help it to become a much stronger power or will extend its power e.g. (nuclear power or satellites)
B
1.What are the corrosions of the technology or science that undermine the support of the state? Draining other un-thought of resources like ethanol undermining the other uses of corn if that happens to be the main source of food for that State/nation
2. Negatively effective a smaller set of people who will in turn undermine the government by disliking the government, like the geometrically organized forest in Russia that handicap peasant life out in those rural areas
3. Forcing the state to conform to the requirements of this technolgy and hence possibly making the state dependent on another state for the reasources need to use this technology
E.g Cars that run on fossil fuels now have us dependent on winning the Uraq war because we need there fuel
The catalysts and corrosions of The radio Military techno science
An example of a extremely critical techno-science in not only today’s military daily functions but almost all of the military functions past is the radio or radio waves/frequency. In its beginnings the radio was used for communications over long distances and then incorporated into everyday life when radios were first used by the media to broadcast information and entertainment. But the radio served a much bigger purpose other then letting people know who landed the last punch in the latest Mohammed Ali fight, it eventually became as important to the military as the nation wide road network was if not more. Because as the roads were built to serve as a way to decrease the transport time of military goods and vehicles the radio wave served as a way to decrease the amount of time it took to relay important military information over these same distances. Making things such as messenger birds and boys obsolete and exponential increasing tactical efficiency.
In essence the radio allowed for quicker communication and hence the exchange of critical information in shorter times, increasing military power and efficiency. It allowed for far more advanced on ground battle tactics by allowing soldiers to remain in contact even when they could no longer see each other (e.g. CRUCIAL in Vietnam jungle). It made recruiting in some of the mid 1900's war a lot easier through political propaganda and in essence fueled nationalism, Hitler him self said that the Nazi party would not of come together without the loud speaker because of how many people it allowed him to reach, but just imagine that same effect in terms of the radio that allowed him to reach so many people who might not of ever seen his face or heard of him or his ideas before.And finally it made other technologies possible such as the wireless UN-MANED fighter and scouter planes we use today, and the evolution of the radio lead to some of the technologies we consider essential to everyday life like cell phones and satellites, that Militaries everywhere take full advantage of everyday.
In contrast the construction of the Radio also aided in the down fall of the nations railroad system, because physical articles of mail or information became more an more useless. The radio also facilitated in, again political propaganda which might of benefited the government in terms of rallying or recruitment but it negatively effected the people as a whole because it made lying tothem a lot easier. The radio also as it evolved more into a everyday thing forced every family to purchase one, or risk the chance of not only missing this weeks latest Super detective story but also missing out on any possible bomb threats or weather inclinations such as tornadoes or floods. Finally Radios lead to Radio stations and radio stations need land lots of land not only to keep all their radio jockeys but to place there 3 story radio towers up to make broadcasting possible, that means something has to go in there place whether it be land on a nearby marsh or possible farmland or heavily habited forest. Leading to a whole monkey barrels worth of side effects and "back blow"
In essence the radio allowed for quicker communication and hence the exchange of critical information in shorter times, increasing military power and efficiency. It allowed for far more advanced on ground battle tactics by allowing soldiers to remain in contact even when they could no longer see each other (e.g. CRUCIAL in Vietnam jungle). It made recruiting in some of the mid 1900's war a lot easier through political propaganda and in essence fueled nationalism, Hitler him self said that the Nazi party would not of come together without the loud speaker because of how many people it allowed him to reach, but just imagine that same effect in terms of the radio that allowed him to reach so many people who might not of ever seen his face or heard of him or his ideas before.And finally it made other technologies possible such as the wireless UN-MANED fighter and scouter planes we use today, and the evolution of the radio lead to some of the technologies we consider essential to everyday life like cell phones and satellites, that Militaries everywhere take full advantage of everyday.
In contrast the construction of the Radio also aided in the down fall of the nations railroad system, because physical articles of mail or information became more an more useless. The radio also facilitated in, again political propaganda which might of benefited the government in terms of rallying or recruitment but it negatively effected the people as a whole because it made lying tothem a lot easier. The radio also as it evolved more into a everyday thing forced every family to purchase one, or risk the chance of not only missing this weeks latest Super detective story but also missing out on any possible bomb threats or weather inclinations such as tornadoes or floods. Finally Radios lead to Radio stations and radio stations need land lots of land not only to keep all their radio jockeys but to place there 3 story radio towers up to make broadcasting possible, that means something has to go in there place whether it be land on a nearby marsh or possible farmland or heavily habited forest. Leading to a whole monkey barrels worth of side effects and "back blow"
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