| Yup, it's all about capitalism, and nothing about technical correctness.*sigh*

The long-term maximization of ROI requires technical correctness. Unfortunately there is often alot of arbitrage by people with very short-term goals. Sadly, some of the worst technologies are the ones that get lots of short-term interest.

Sean.

In case you haven't noticed, today's capitalist is not interested in long term ROI. It's all about put bucks in, churn fast, get bucks out before anyone notices that it's not as good as the hype has everyone believing. That scenario is playing out over and over all over the market and is the source of many of the woes being blamed on day traders, etc. The reality is that the true capitalists, the ones with control of the majority of the capital love the day traders. They get to deliver an innuendo, then watch the day traders create all kinds of momentum behind said innuendo, and proffit from the market moving in the predictable direction as a result. These are the people that put up a lot of the money that went into the internet stocks before they got so high. They're also the ones that sold out early and have been shorting them for the last 6 months. Hopefully, someone will eventually find a way to force a long term ROI to be an important factor to the market makers, but right now, the quick buck reigns supreme, at least in the US markets. This has been to the detriment of society in general, IMHO. Owen