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Yahoo fate determined without unnecessary noise

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On August 1, the long-awaited meeting of shareholders Yahoo. Anyone who has followed developments since the beginning of the year, relieved with relief: a project to sell Yahoo Microsoft Corporation put bold cross. Until a few months ago, most analysts were confident: 1 August shareholders sacked the board members Yahoo, and instead appoint them surrogates known businessman, Orphanage and the largest stake holder in Yahoo Carl Ikana. That, in turn, promised to return to the negotiating table Microsoft. I recall that even in spring Software Corporation tried to buy Yahoo for $ 47.5 billion, but the top managers of Internet giant rejected the proposal. But Karl Ikan, with the support of many shareholders, has called for a deal with Microsoft. That is, in fact, came into confrontation with the board of directors and a majority of top managers of Yahoo. But the chairman of the board of directors Roy Bostoka Yahoo and Chief Executive Jerry Yang were their arguments against the alliance wit...

With Yahoo expects RuNet?

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Internet Corporation Yahoo, we can say, went in the footsteps of Google - decided to drastically increase its commercial activities in RuNet . However, based on multiple grounds, the zone increased attention Yahoo - all post-Soviet space. This year the Russian-speaking segment of commercial opportunities the Internet attracted the attention of many serious investors. One could even say that if in 2007 "in fashion" China was, in 2008 - m - Russia and CIS countries. Suffice it to recall the most recent deal to buy from Google, "Rambler" Internet advertising agency Begun "or emerging" by Yandex "immodesty issuance of shares to $ 5 billion in and out with them on" high-tech "stock exchange NASDAQ. The fact that the American Internet company Yahoo is going to open a full-fledged representative office in Russia, became known, one can say casually. For information on the imminent start of the "Russian department" managers staff posted at ...

Artificial intelligence and Integral properties in experiments

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Behavior of digital technologies and programs algorithmically opposite the work of our brain. They are unbundling the time and space on discrete samples, while we carefully collect all of krupitsam and integrate or, more simply put, sum. For example, in sound software and hardware of a complex sound wave recorded in the form of discrete digital taps. After she may share a number of simple sinusoid and kosinusoid using Fourier transform. We, on the contrary, take each of the frequencies separately with the help of receptor cells, after which all summed brain, that is a complex wave created as part of its action. Regarding the video, it is understandable. And the speed of reaction of our bodies is very high, much faster than the speed image processing. Therefore, the rapid shift in the beam we merges in light line. In a series of materials on the basics of digital video, I propose to hold its experience for those who are at least somewhat familiar with Adobe Flash. But, by the way, exact...