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ISH' Muslim Community
Re: What ever happened to these players...
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0.28571428571
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Originally Posted by Uncle Drew
Do you watch basketball?
no
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Banned
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Good college starter
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Are those serious questions? Cause there's something called Google that may help.
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
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Originally Posted by Genaro
Are those serious questions? Cause there's something called Google that may help.
What's that?
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Lord Olajuwon
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Originally Posted by Fudge
What's that?
Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords, an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil."In 2004, Google moved to its new headquarters in Mountain View, California, nicknamed the Googleplex.
Rapid growth since incorporation has triggered a chain of products, acquisitions and partnerships beyond Google's core search engine. It offers online productivity software including email (Gmail), a cloud storage service (Google Drive), an office suite (Google Docs) and a social networking service (Google+). Desktop products include applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging. The company leads the development of the Android mobile operating system and the browser-only Chrome OS for a netbook known as a Chromebook. Google has moved increasingly into communications hardware: it partners with major electronics manufacturers in the production of its "high-quality low-cost" Nexus devices and acquired Motorola Mobility in May 2012. In 2012, a fiber-optic infrastructure was installed in Kansas City to facilitate a Google Fiber broadband service.
The corporation has been estimated to run more than one million servers in data centers around the world (as of 2007); and to process over one billion search requests, and about 24 petabytes of user-generated data, each day (as of 2009).In December 2013 Alexa listed google.com as the most visited website in the world. Numerous Google sites in other languages figure in the top one hundred, as do several other Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Blogger. Its market dominance has led to prominent media coverage, including criticism of the company over issues such as search neutrality, copyright, censorship, and privacy.
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships between websites. They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, and the importance of those pages, that linked back to the original site.
A small search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services designed by Robin Li was, since 1996, already exploring a similar strategy for site-scoring and page ranking. The technology in RankDex was patented in July 1999 and used later when Li founded Baidu in China.
Page and Brin originally nicknamed their new search engine "BackRub", because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of a site. Eventually, they changed the name to Google, originating from a misspelling of the word "googol", the number one followed by one hundred zeros, which was picked to signify that the search engine was intended to provide large quantities of information. Originally, Google ran under Stanford University's website, with the domains google.stanford.edu and z.stanford.edu.
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997, and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. It was based in the garage of a friend (Susan Wojcicki) in Menlo Park, California. Craig Silverstein, a fellow PhD student at Stanford, was hired as the first employee.
In May 2011, the number of monthly unique visitors to Google surpassed one billion for the first time, an 8.4 percent increase from May 2010 (931 million).In January 2013, Google announced it had earned US$50 billion in annual revenue for the year of 2012. This marked the first time the company had reached this feat, topping their 2011 total of $38 billion.
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I don't get picked last at the park anymore
Re: What ever happened to these players...
Originally Posted by Taller than CP3
Quentin Richardson
Director of Player Development for the Detroit Pistons
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King Heno
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Fred Jones. Man, dude could jam and hit the three with ease.
Tarence Kinsey
Iakovos Tsakalidis
Sun Yue
Yuta Tabuse
Ike Diogu
Originally Posted by Taller than CP3
Quentin Richardson
Traded five times in one year.
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Re: What ever happened to these players...
Originally Posted by 305Baller
Gilbert Arenas
A buddy randomly walked into a marijuana dispensary that happened to be owned by Gilbert Arenas, and he saw him walk out of a room filled with smoke, high as ****. This was in LA.
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Cancer
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Damn, reading some of these names is a huge flashback.
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NBA rookie of the year
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Originally Posted by JerrySeinfeld
no
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NBA Superstar
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Originally Posted by scm5
Corey Maggette
Bad Porn was the best nickname in NBA history. I feel like James Harden should take over that mantle.
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NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
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Originally Posted by JebronLames
Dan dickau
I heard him give a fascinating radio interview a few years back. He was saying that he was against the veterans' minimum because he tried out for multiple teams later in his career and was cut. He said the multiple GMs told him that they wanted him on the team, but could get young guys for cheaper than they were allowed to pay Dan, thus essentially ending his career. Was kind of sad to hear.
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