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Firefox New York Times Ad, Soon
An anonymous reader submits "CNet has an update on the status of the New York Times Firefox ad. According to the article, the delays are largely because of the decision to go with 10,000 names rather than the original 2500. The amount of content means each change to the ad requires 15 minutes of rendering. They also must be careful in crafting the ad, so that stay on the advocacy side of things. As a non-profit, they can still qualify for the under $50,000 rate, but if the ad is too commercial, they would need to pay the $130,000+ business rate. They say they're close to finishing, and the ad should run by mid-December, or at the latest, by Christmas. Firefox is also close to 10,000,000 downloads in the first month of release."
Now I can understand the delay.
After all, would we really like to see Osama bin Laden support Firefox in the New York Times?
Hmm, so the ad runs at 11 users per second.
Solution obvious! We either overclock the New York Times, or we lobby the printer industry to break the Adobe monopoly by supporting Firescript (originally called Postzilla, and occasionally still referred to as Lexscape by some marketroids at A Certain Very Big And Very Evil Corporation), the new page description language interpreter that provides for enhanced security, usability, and performance on phototypesetting equipment of all types!
Rendering the Firefox New York Times ad.
I usually move from doors, moving from windows is too much impratical, and it looks suspicious to neighbors they call the cops when seeing you do that.
They should buys some popups advertising for the popup-blocker
Case in point: MLXchange, an on-line real-estate database which ONLY supports new versions of IE....i'm guessing this is the case because they took advantage of certain flaws in the software?
I think it's more likely that the New york Times' advertising department will decline the ad because they're pissed off about Firefox users blocking all their popups.
What "names" are they talking about? And a 15 minute ad?! Are they fucking insane?
The Magic Clue-Ball(tm) tells me the New York Times is a newspaper, not a TV station. That means no moving video. Some things should be spelled out. Others belong to that category I like to call "general knowledge everyone but you seems to know".
Gecko.
*ducks and runs*
Use Ctrl-C instead of ESC in Vim!
Not to mention requiring the use of X fonts making the entire thing unreadable at any point size :)
Or about the bugmenot plugin keeping them from requiring a DNA sample from people who want to read the articles.
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
Do they really have to stick with Firefox? With a name like FireBush, I'm sure the NYT will give them the generous non-profit discount. It's even a biblical reference!!!
They mentioned red cunt hair in the bible? I don't think so.
Could someone who has donated change their name to Bill Gates please? Thanks!
I like muppets.
I would, the only reason i donated is to get my name in the NYT.
I'm sure i'm not the only one.
You're an idiot to assume shit like this.
C'mon, give us a little credit. We're obviously using networked TI-80s with a graphics app I wrote in 10th grade study hall.
Rob Davis
That would be the "mainstream" trade press.
fine names of Iwanna Tingle, Hugh Jass and Pat McGroin in print.
Sssssssssssh! I'm giving everyone I know FireFox for Christmas! Don't let them know it's free! They'll all think I'm a cheap ass!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Show me some pr0n and I'll gladly submit a "DNA sample". But it'll be hard for the NYT to figure this out, as pictures of naked people do not arouse me in the way that one would expect "pr0n" to.