The button should read "Whatever". Whenever something bad happens and a message pops up with no options (usually it's trying to tell you something useful) the button should read "Whatever", or possibly "Dismiss".
My Rev B (I think) PSX has the FMV-skip issue. I bought an MP3 player add-on for it, but there's not enough buffer so the damn thing mangles the music. I'd tried ajusting the tiny pots (or whatever) in the unit as one FMV-skip fix suggests, but I'd not tried putting it on its side. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a go.
BTW: The only game this causes real problems with is Bomberman World, which appears to expect a perfect read first time, every time and does not appear to use any error detection when loading data. It regularly gets corrupted sprites, background and sound -- and sometimes it totally locks up. All my other games cope fine.
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But I consider advertising to be a punishment. It certainly feels like it. I even recall during discussions about ads saying something like "If I buy a computer, I should get a 'get out of jail free' card that prevents me from seeing ads about computers" -- note the implication that ads are like going to jail, a punishment. And I'd rather that the regular contributors to/. aren't punished, while the leaches are.
Regardless, good content is more likely to keep me coming back than crap ads are going to drive me away. Lack of interesting content is why I gave up on Plastic, not the excessive advertising and sponsored stories.
I finally got around to creating a hosts file like that when I was working at a company that had IE locked down so hard that you couldn't even turn off animated GIFs. I strongly recommend it as a solution, or at least a start. Here's my little collection (Note, it kills almost all CNET images);127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 active.macromedia.com
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ads-c.focalink.com
127.0.0.1 adfarm.mediaplex.com
127.0.0.1 js-adex3.flycast.com
127.0.0.1 us.a1.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 ad.iwin.com
127.0.0.1 ads.mindsetnetwork.com
127.0.0.1 a1444.g.akamai.net
127.0.0.1 image.linkexchange.com
127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com
127.0.0.1 adremote.pathfinder.com
127.0.0.1 a.r.tv.com
127.0.0.1 adsrv.news.com.au
127.0.0.1 images.ads.fairfax.com.au
127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com
127.0.0.1 ads1.sptimes.com
127.0.0.1 ad.au.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 global.msads.net
127.0.0.1 au.a1.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 eur.a1.yimg.com
127.0.0.1 utils.mediageneral.com
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"...the right way: be aboveboard, keep content free, and hopefully make..."
I know some of the stories recently wouldn't have passed the lameness filter imposed upon the comments, but calling/. "content free" is a bit much.
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This reminds me of The Well -- anyone know how financially healthy it is?
Quite frankly, I'm happier to spend time optimising my use and reducing the cost to/. of my using the system than I am to pay to see ads go away. Mind you, I have the time, I don't have the money. Also, I already filter ads.
I wonder what ThinkGeek's click-through rate is...
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I would like to directly oppose this posters views. Nothing nasty, I just believe that the pages should be heavily customisable and a combination of personal prefernce and community moderation should be used to generate pages I read. Basically I'd want to use the community rating system to remove noise and my own settings to pick the signals I enjoy.
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The most common influence ads have on me is to steer me away from them because of their obnoxiousness.
Is it just me, or are TV ads becoming much more obscure? For a start, I have cable so I don't see a lot of ads, but there's some weird shit out there like some ad that makes reference to Torval and Dean's Bollaro, but I have no idea what it's an ad for - maybe ice cream or something freezer-related. And there's some 3D chicken that does "the twist" that's advertising for one of the fast food outlets that sells chicken (which probably excludes KFC). Sure, I'm remembering that I saw these ads, but 10 times out of 10 I could not tell you what company or specific product they're for. Even the physical advertising in the stores is having the wrong effect on me. The Coke family have some really interesting isle signs that consist of a lit liquid-filled tube with air bubbling through it, but they don't make me want to buy a coke, they make me want to buy one of the signs, or possibly a lava lamp.
Seriously, for sustainable income, ads are not the way to go.
I believe that's the term used to describe selling your news and so forth to other sites/services./. needs to find a way to sell its stories and high rating comments to other sites. (They the other sites have to worry about revenue, not/.)
Perhaps "features" could be created by taking the base story and any posts that add significant information and those features could be sold. Sort of a "Premium Slashback".
Actually, if you disable the Slashboxes there is no space down the right.
While I'm talking about disabling stuff, I think that everyone should turn off the icons and if you don't use the Slashboxes turn them off too. Remember, a quarter of a million people rendering and downloading stuff they don't need or use wastes a lot of money that the/. crew don't necessarily have.
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I'd seriously consider subscribing if it meant I could access the submission queue, like Plastic does for people with over 50 Karma. Or maybe it's "did", I haven't been back there for weeks.
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I'll send in a donation a lot quicker than I'd buy a subscription.
Umm, why? When they amount to the same thing.
I like what the Penny Arcade crew have done. Each month they have a new bit of artwork that they give to people who donate money that month. If I like the artwork I "buy" it by making a "donation". I've also bought a couple of T-shirts from them. It's not a subscription, but it might as well be.
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How about being able to use Karma to avoid ads. Every day you visit/. you lose one Karma point. If you reach zero you start seeing ads. Since submitting stories that are accepted scores a bit of Karma that works well with your suggestion. Insightful comments that the community favours will also earn you ad-free days.
To stop excessive posting in the hunt for Karma you could have it that every 5 posts costs a Karma point. That way people will need to be brief and positive or they start seeing ads.
Of course, this all falls apart when ad-filters come into play, but you can't have everything.
As a person that hates the abuse typically dished out by ACs, I'd just like to state that I have "Show your real email address without cowering behind childish anonymity or obfuscation" checked and if you follow links from my info page I'm pretty much an open book.
Hopefully this AC killer will let me read at +1 again without the screen filling with crap. That's right, I've been reading at +2, so how do all you pro-AC people who don't get a +1 Bonus on your posts feel about ACs now?
(And yes, I'd like to ignore "+1 Funny" ratings when my pages are generated too.)
Actually, the Toyota RAV4 pretty much from concept car to production car with only minor modifications. There are other examples, but I can't name them right now.
Anyway, concept cars are often about showcasing a particular single technology, not a whole car.
It looks like he used the original black and white version. I have one. Currently an image of the watch itself is wrapped 'round my gameboy camera webcam pic on my journal. I had some images up at CamBorg as "Krisjohn", but they're mostly expired. My cat is in the best of 2000 -- in fact, the two on the right, top row are both mine.
...try convincing your friends to use encrypted email without them thinking you're some paranoid freak.
I've got PGP integrated with Eudora and ICQ but no one I send messages to or receive messages from is interested in supporting it. So I continue to post stuff, including some fairly private details, on the equivalent of a post card.
I'd like to see my regular montly bill/statements emailed to me in PGP encrypted form -- surely it's cheaper (and safer) than printing out pages and pages of stuff every month and stuffing them in an envelope.
I've worked in a company where email is company property and can be "monitored" at the drop of a hat (with appropriate notification). Email can also be redirected if you're away or handed to your replacement if you leave. This system works really well.
And I've worked in a company where email is a private thing that the company won't touch. This means that if you're away your incoming email isn't dealt with, regardless of how important it is. This also means that when you leave you have to manually forward every work-related message to another address or the person taking over your job won't have a clue what's going on. This system barely works at all, and completely falls over for positions with a high turnover.
I believe a company email address is for company stuff and if you want to send and receive non-work-related emails then you should use your own personal account (from your own ISP or a Yahoo/Hotmail sort of thing). I don't understand this obsession with privacy protection on work resources -- even work phone-tap laws are becoming less relivant as more people get mobiles.
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Actually, the portable SNES is called the Game Axe.
The button should read "Whatever". Whenever something bad happens and a message pops up with no options (usually it's trying to tell you something useful) the button should read "Whatever", or possibly "Dismiss".
BTW: The only game this causes real problems with is Bomberman World, which appears to expect a perfect read first time, every time and does not appear to use any error detection when loading data. It regularly gets corrupted sprites, background and sound -- and sometimes it totally locks up. All my other games cope fine.
Regardless, good content is more likely to keep me coming back than crap ads are going to drive me away. Lack of interesting content is why I gave up on Plastic, not the excessive advertising and sponsored stories.
I finally got around to creating a hosts file like that when I was working at a company that had IE locked down so hard that you couldn't even turn off animated GIFs. I strongly recommend it as a solution, or at least a start. Here's my little collection (Note, it kills almost all CNET images);127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 active.macromedia.com 127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 m.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ln.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 ads-c.focalink.com 127.0.0.1 adfarm.mediaplex.com 127.0.0.1 js-adex3.flycast.com 127.0.0.1 us.a1.yimg.com 127.0.0.1 ad.iwin.com 127.0.0.1 ads.mindsetnetwork.com 127.0.0.1 a1444.g.akamai.net 127.0.0.1 image.linkexchange.com 127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com 127.0.0.1 adremote.pathfinder.com 127.0.0.1 a.r.tv.com 127.0.0.1 adsrv.news.com.au 127.0.0.1 images.ads.fairfax.com.au 127.0.0.1 ads.msn.com 127.0.0.1 ads1.sptimes.com 127.0.0.1 ad.au.doubleclick.net 127.0.0.1 global.msads.net 127.0.0.1 au.a1.yimg.com 127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com 127.0.0.1 eur.a1.yimg.com 127.0.0.1 utils.mediageneral.com 127.0.0.1 ads.ad-flow.com 127.0.0.1 ads.gamespy.com
This reminds me of The Well -- anyone know how financially healthy it is?
Quite frankly, I'm happier to spend time optimising my use and reducing the cost to /. of my using the system than I am to pay to see ads go away. Mind you, I have the time, I don't have the money. Also, I already filter ads.
I wonder what ThinkGeek's click-through rate is...
I would like to directly oppose this posters views. Nothing nasty, I just believe that the pages should be heavily customisable and a combination of personal prefernce and community moderation should be used to generate pages I read. Basically I'd want to use the community rating system to remove noise and my own settings to pick the signals I enjoy.
Seriously, for sustainable income, ads are not the way to go.
Perhaps "features" could be created by taking the base story and any posts that add significant information and those features could be sold. Sort of a "Premium Slashback".
While I'm talking about disabling stuff, I think that everyone should turn off the icons and if you don't use the Slashboxes turn them off too. Remember, a quarter of a million people rendering and downloading stuff they don't need or use wastes a lot of money that the /. crew don't necessarily have.
I'd seriously consider subscribing if it meant I could access the submission queue, like Plastic does for people with over 50 Karma. Or maybe it's "did", I haven't been back there for weeks.
I like what the Penny Arcade crew have done. Each month they have a new bit of artwork that they give to people who donate money that month. If I like the artwork I "buy" it by making a "donation". I've also bought a couple of T-shirts from them. It's not a subscription, but it might as well be.
To stop excessive posting in the hunt for Karma you could have it that every 5 posts costs a Karma point. That way people will need to be brief and positive or they start seeing ads.
Of course, this all falls apart when ad-filters come into play, but you can't have everything.
Hopefully this AC killer will let me read at +1 again without the screen filling with crap. That's right, I've been reading at +2, so how do all you pro-AC people who don't get a +1 Bonus on your posts feel about ACs now?
(And yes, I'd like to ignore "+1 Funny" ratings when my pages are generated too.)
When will this car appear on Lunacy8m's funky webcam and digital camera site?
Anyway, concept cars are often about showcasing a particular single technology, not a whole car.
It looks like he used the original black and white version. I have one. Currently an image of the watch itself is wrapped 'round my gameboy camera webcam pic on my journal. I had some images up at CamBorg as "Krisjohn", but they're mostly expired. My cat is in the best of 2000 -- in fact, the two on the right, top row are both mine.
Mind you, I use a Logitech cordless keyboard pro and my mouse mat is an old SNES mouse pad, so I guess I'm a little biased.
I've got PGP integrated with Eudora and ICQ but no one I send messages to or receive messages from is interested in supporting it. So I continue to post stuff, including some fairly private details, on the equivalent of a post card.
I'd like to see my regular montly bill/statements emailed to me in PGP encrypted form -- surely it's cheaper (and safer) than printing out pages and pages of stuff every month and stuffing them in an envelope.
Next: an RIAA marketing campaign of spam, telling everyone how nice they are.
Use the Mitnick formula and it'll cost them $100,00 just to do a portscan.
And I've worked in a company where email is a private thing that the company won't touch. This means that if you're away your incoming email isn't dealt with, regardless of how important it is. This also means that when you leave you have to manually forward every work-related message to another address or the person taking over your job won't have a clue what's going on. This system barely works at all, and completely falls over for positions with a high turnover.
I believe a company email address is for company stuff and if you want to send and receive non-work-related emails then you should use your own personal account (from your own ISP or a Yahoo/Hotmail sort of thing). I don't understand this obsession with privacy protection on work resources -- even work phone-tap laws are becoming less relivant as more people get mobiles.