[Sandwich]

INT'L COMPANY: WESTERN ECONOMY DEPENDS ON ISRAELI TECHNOLOGY, Arutz 7, 21 July 2002
Israel's strong hi-tech industry received national recognition this week, reports the Jewish Agency's Global Agenda.  Leading global advisory firm Giga Information Group, in a position paper published on Wall Street this past week, wrote, "Without Israeli technology, the west will not develop.  Many organizations throughout the world, including the American national infrastructure, will not survive for long without constant support from the revolutionary technology coming from Israel."

In response to inquiries from various large organizations regarding the advisability of continuing to acquire Israeli products, the heads of Giga note: "Israeli technology has the greatest influence on the modern world, since it is leading both conceptually and technologically. Israeli engineers find elegant and creative solutions to deal with the biggest problems and threats. Israeli innovativeness sets a very high standard that challenges other technologies. Therefore products from countries such as Sweden, Germany, England, Asia, and even North America become much better thanks to the standards set by Israel."

Just a few of the examples of this in the software world that you all might be familiar with: ICQ, IMesh, and Atomica (formerly known as GuruNet).

[TheCelestialOne]

Originally posted by sandwich


Just a few of the examples of this in the software world that you all might be familiar with: ICQ, IMesh, and Atomica (formerly known as GuruNet).

ICQ : Don't use it...

Imesh :

Atomica (Gurunet) :

[Shrike]

Sounds like it's a bit exagerated in a case of national ego-stroking.

Don't worry, every nation does it.

[Stryke 9]

ICQ is SATAN! SAAATAAAN!

[Martinus]

Originally posted by Shrike
Sounds like it's a bit exagerated in a case of national ego-stroking.

Don't worry, every nation does it.

We invented Guinness! Whayee!!

[Knight Templar]

ICQ locked up my comp for 2 minutes each time i started it up.


Keep on truckin' Israel

[LtNarol]

I hate ICQ, its evil and crashes my comp every couple of days.  Other than that

[CP5670]

I must have seen at least ten articles like this in the last few months except that they pertain to India and its programmer workforce. (my dad sends me these things )

[Unknown Target]

But ICQ is a big, clunky, and unwieldy memory hog:D:p

[Martinus]

Considering all of the problems you guys are having why not switch to ICQ lite? It doesn't allow file transfers and there are no bells and whistles but if you just want to speak to somebody on ICQ it will do the job.

http://lite.icq.com/

That or use Odigo which kicks ass

[an0n]

Pfff. Yahoo Messenger 0wnz ICQ.

[Stryke 9]

I don't have ICQ at all. When I did, my comp got hacked, because it's up as long as your connection is, basically a permanent backdoor, adn I've got a DSL line that's always up. It's SATAN! SAAATAAAN!!!

[CP5670]

Use Trillian.

[penguin]

Originally posted by Maeglamor


We invented Guinness! Whayee!!

Gets my vote for all-time technological triumph

[Martinus]

Originally posted by CP5670
Use Trillian.

It's the worst IM I've ever used. It bombed almost immediately on me.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by CP5670
Use Trillian.

I find myself agreeing with CP5670!

It's the worst IM I've ever used. It bombed almost immediately on me.

Have the latest version you did not, hmmm?
If latest version you did have, upgrade your system you must.

[Shrike]

I'd use Trillian, but it doesn't convert Miranda ICQ lists over.

[Sandwich]

Well, in ICQ's defense, I'll say this: it started the whole IM craze. When AOL saw the oppourtunity, they bought out Mirabilis and started getting their grubby hands on ICQ. IIRC the last Mirabilis ICQ version was ICQ 99 Alpha... after that it became bloatwre in AOL's hands.

[Shrike]

That's why I went from 99b to Miranda.

[Carl]

well, see, back then ICQ was actually good.