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Few people, even Valley leaders who have faced the dominance of Microsoft firsthand, suggest that Google needs to be checked by government regulators. "Does ad-subsidized software threaten legacy businesses? Of course," says Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (
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SUNW
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), "just like...eBay (
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EBAY
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) threatens Sotheby's (
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BID
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) and Amazon threatens Wal-Mart (
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WMT
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). But last I checked, these are all examples of competition, which we want in America. It's the heart of progress. It's good for consumers." And for Google's partners. Says Marc Benioff, the CEO of one such partner, customer management services provider
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Salesforce.com
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Inc. (
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CRM
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): "Google has really stepped up and defined what the future of our industry can be."
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MOREOVER, THERE'S LITTLE EVIDENCE
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that users have any problem with the company's power, even if they don't all take its informal motto, "Don't be evil," at face value. These fans might be excused for tossing back their own question to the whiners: Too powerful at what? Helping me find things, get work done, connect with friends? Bring it on!
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Few people, even Valley leaders who have faced the dominance of Microsoft firsthand, suggest that Google needs to be checked by government regulators. "Does ad-subsidized software threaten legacy businesses? Of course," says Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems (SUNW
), "just like...eBay (EBAY
) threatens Sotheby's (BID
) and Amazon threatens Wal-Mart (WMT
). But last I checked, these are all examples of competition, which we want in America. It's the heart of progress. It's good for consumers." And for Google's partners. Says Marc Benioff, the CEO of one such partner, customer management services provider Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM
): "Google has really stepped up and defined what the future of our industry can be."


MOREOVER, THERE'S LITTLE EVIDENCE that users have any problem with the company's power, even if they don't all take its informal motto, "Don't be evil," at face value. These fans might be excused for tossing back their own question to the whiners: Too powerful at what? Helping me find things, get work done, connect with friends? Bring it on!

Dr. Gonzo:
Hello? Hi Lucy, God bless. Yeah it's me. What? I dont know, I taught that bastard a lesson he'll never forget. What? No, not dead. But he won't be bothering anybody for a while. Yeah, I left him out there. I stomped him. I pulled all his teeth out. But we have a problem. That bastard cashed a bad cheque downstairs and gave you as a reference. They'll be looking for both of you. Yeah I know. You can't judge a book by it's cover... some people are just basically rotten. Well the last thing in the world you want to do is call this hotel again. They'll trace the call and put you straight behind bars. Yeah I'm moving to the tropicana right away... when I get a room I'll let you know which one it is... I gotta get off. They probably have this phone tapped baby... Yeah I know it's horrible but it's all over now.


[stomps foot]



Dr. Gonzo:
Oh my god... there's someone at the door. There's someone at the door!


[yelling]



Dr. Gonzo:
Ahh! Ahh! I'm innocent! It was Duke! It was Duke!


[inaudible noises]



Dr. Gonzo:
Ahh! Ahh! Don't put that thing on me! Aaah! Aaah! Aaah!


[hangs up]



Dr. Gonzo:
Well, that's the last we should be hearing from Lucy man. She's probably stuffing herself down the incinerator right now. You know what we need? We need some opium.

In the experiment, electrons moving in the interface between two semiconductors behaved as though they were made up of particles with only a fraction of the electron's charge. This so-called fractional quantum hall effect (FQHE) suggested that electrons may not be elementary particles after all. However, it soon became clear that electrons under certain conditions can congregate in a way that gives them the illusion of having fractional charge - an explanation that earned Laughlin, Horst Störmer and Daniel Tsui the Nobel prize (New Scientist, 31 January 1998, p 36).