For me, it's about music. We listen (not watch) to tons of music via YouTube through a Roku.
And, having 7 year olds, we watch fucking cat videos. For the record we have two cats and they are pretty awesome.
Shameless self promotion, here's a cool time lapse dash cam video I put together with a basic guitar bit I wrote, sunrise during a rural-to-urban drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's what I use it for. Also have the videos of a band practice from the early 90s out there, nostalgic. Shotgun against laptop, yeah, did that.
We also used to sponsor MMA fights (over 25 fight nights over 5+ years, it was a serious hobby) and put all of it on YouTube, another perfect use case. Most local promoters don't do that, or at least didn't when we were.
There are tons of uses for YouTube, but not a lot that can be monetized in my opinion. Or that are interesting, but there are some of each. I typically hate video.
Remember, remember, the 18th of May, not November The 2012 "You have no privacy" plot I know of no reason why Zuckerberg's season Should NOT be killed off and forgot.
This is why I go camping. Fulfills all of your comments including random people (when and if I want to be social, head to the river overlook around sunset - camp hosts are also awesome, known then for years).
I like to go solo camping, as having the kids along makes "bored" impossible.
I do text with the wife (Arrived! Alive!) and bring a laptop for a movie or some gaming, neither of which I have much time for at home.
I like two night trips, so I can wake up, be outside, and then fall asleep in a tent over a full day.
Thanks for the response, seriously. I'm prone to things like axe wounds and spider bites (my current issue), but my wife is her real name on my cell phone (other than some additional characters the kids added to the end).
Thinking it through, responders would be able to get into her unlocked phone (no security code or anything), and the most recent calls would be myself or her parents (or someone else that knows me).
But that doesn't address your comment, I very much appreciate what you said and have emailed her regarding it.
I'm Agent Hotline in my wife's phone. She used to sell insurance and when she broke her phone (she subscribes to breaking phones, 3-4 per year) and I reloaded stuff my number loaded rather than the insurance company one.
I am Agent Hotline. I'm exciting.
Anyway, making pancakes for breakfast. And everyone has to use the bathroom...
This is about spying. Snowden showed that the US is #1!!!
I'm sure Russia has a good spy program, as well as England, Israel, and China. Probably some European countries as well (maybe South Korea, but aimed at the North). Australia is in there as well, which is surprising to me.
And the US's spending on military is unmatched (but probably envied). We spend about as much as the next top 10 countries combined, those other countries represent well over 2 billion people (China and India are in there):
Why is the US a primary target of things such as Wikileaks? Because everyone else in the world is a target of ours. And our own citizens are as well. Sad, as someone currently in power would say.
The actuaries aren't so good at code, other than mostly recorded macros. They are good at creating horrifying Excel formulas, think something longer than 1K characters.
And this is mostly for data production/preparation for loads and such. There are good (meaning expensive) modeling products for both Life and Property lines, which they use (job on the line type of stuff).
Anyway, I was a life actuary for a bit back in the day. Excel is a favorite tool, and it is abused like nothing else.
Excel 2010 was the pinnacle of Excel, before the ribbon and all of the keyboard shortcuts disappearing. Nothing of value has been added since then except for advanced pivot stuff.
There's quite a bit of porn on Facebook. Women encounter the brunt of it, from guys.
Some "women" (assuming not actually people, but the photos are obviously real from somewhere) use nudes to try and get "friends", I'm not sure of the nature of these but I figure it's scamming.
Some people also send friend requests of other people just to have them see something horrifying.
I Facebook about twice a year, it's others in the family that do it more and I really wish they didn't (photos/tags of my kids and me/wife). I use Facebook for the birthday reminders which come via email.
Oh, and the facial recognition they have is frightening. It's accurate. There was another post just today here about this, worth a read.
It's true, my mom won Christmas on accident, and with some embarrassment. She's older and has never used emojis. She just thought they were cute bean bag chairs.
What I like best about them is that the little balls that come out from inside usually have some static electricity and will move away from a person's finger when it gets close (not touching them). We like to move them around the poop without touching them (a good science lesson actually, and awesome fun).
Amazon and Walmart both carry it on their websites. They are pretty cool, always a hit when friends visit (they make good defense structures during the Nerf wars).
For Christmas last year my mom bought two bean bags in the shape of what she thought was chocolate cake, for my 7 year old twins. Full size bean bags, not a little pillow.
When my kids opened them (from large trash bags), they freaked out; they had huge poop emojis!!! It was their favorite gift of the season.
My mother was initially mortified ("I gave them big pieces of shit?"), then reluctantly positive (it's hard to ignore the happiness the kids were having), and now laughs about it. I just laughed my ass off because it was awesome. They still love to jump onto the poop from the bunk bed.
Anyway, pretty dumb post for Slashdot, but it brought back that memory which was fun. I don't think Slashdot readers use emojis much, I sent my first one just recently, a camp fire (while I was camping).
Use drones to drop them. Have them report GPS coordinates a few seconds after pressure/weight trigger. They only need to last 3-4 days (situational awareness rather than full time monitoring), they could be the size of a nickel. Maybe have higher power radio transmitters dropped as well that the individual sensors communicate with and proxy info to the command center (makes battery issues much easier to deal with, also resolves distance issues).
Color them to match the locale (so dull yellow for the endless desert operations).
I'm not sure when the image is from, but right now it's spring in Africa with summer coming up. It will probably be snow free at some point during their summer.
And missing the date by a couple of years for something like that, that's rather accurate in my opinion.
Best movie experience, and usually less expensive. Bring candy, buy a soda and popcorn (I know, the raping). Theaters are clean as well given the show time.
A couple of Nat Geo issues ago there was an article where a scientist said, due to lower gravity on Mars, we would become taller with more thin arms and legs, after only a couple of generations (maybe a single one if born there). Due to the lower gravity.
It would seem someone BORN on Earth would probably suffer health problems on Mars (given what zero gravity does, it isn't hard to conclude that lower gravity would cause issues), it would be interesting to see someone BORN on Mars grow up though.
Nat Geo's website sucks, I couldn't find the relevant info (my goodness, it's all about the TV channel). It was interesting.
The model is flawed. I don't want to see what I just purchased advertised to me, but maybe related items. But that requires cross-site.
Adverts should be local or related to the content of an article or website. It shouldn't be based on shit I searched for recently. I either purchased that shit or didn't. Seeing it again is comical at best.
Local means the things you see on the morning news. Cars, events, furniture, etc.
Website level is pretty clear (more niche sites), advertise related sites that you don't provide product for.
Current example, I'm researching my grandfather's WW2 battle rifle which I received a few days ago, it's a British made Enfield #4 MK1 (three days of research to verify). On the sites I'm visiting, I would appreciate ads for ammunition, parts, reconditioning services, etc..303 British ammo isn't common in the US midwest...
It is difficult to target to such niche items. But as an example, a company providing rarer ammo should be advertising on all sites related to legacy guns. That's a click generator.
My thought is that we need an image only advert service that pushes ad images to sites so they are local, but static. Images would be noted as advertisements, but displayed via algorithms to make them relevant to site content or locality.
I'd call it Old Timey Ads. This is my copyright/trademark moment... Slashdot doesn't forget.
Static image adverts focused on things related to the site or based on locality.
VPNs kill locality though, right now the internet believes I'm in Birmingham, AL, USA, but I'm not. That's just the home office.
Google is a different beast. It can do related adverts from simple search results. Do we know how much cross site stuff they provide or promote?
Slashdot Mirror
Then they cancel your service and pass your account to a collection agency and your credit gets destroyed.
They win, they don't need your money, just your anecdote to others who will invariably obey rather than fact the consequences.
I was reading a 1982 Nat Geo yesterday and there was a full page ad from Bell Company talking about why not to break up the monopoly.
It was enlightening and very relevant to current times.
For me, it's about music. We listen (not watch) to tons of music via YouTube through a Roku.
And, having 7 year olds, we watch fucking cat videos. For the record we have two cats and they are pretty awesome.
Shameless self promotion, here's a cool time lapse dash cam video I put together with a basic guitar bit I wrote, sunrise during a rural-to-urban drive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's what I use it for. Also have the videos of a band practice from the early 90s out there, nostalgic. Shotgun against laptop, yeah, did that.
We also used to sponsor MMA fights (over 25 fight nights over 5+ years, it was a serious hobby) and put all of it on YouTube, another perfect use case. Most local promoters don't do that, or at least didn't when we were.
There are tons of uses for YouTube, but not a lot that can be monetized in my opinion. Or that are interesting, but there are some of each. I typically hate video.
Remember, remember, the 18th of May, not November
The 2012 "You have no privacy" plot
I know of no reason why Zuckerberg's season
Should NOT be killed off and forgot.
That's the IPO date by the way.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/...
This is why I go camping. Fulfills all of your comments including random people (when and if I want to be social, head to the river overlook around sunset - camp hosts are also awesome, known then for years).
I like to go solo camping, as having the kids along makes "bored" impossible.
I do text with the wife (Arrived! Alive!) and bring a laptop for a movie or some gaming, neither of which I have much time for at home.
I like two night trips, so I can wake up, be outside, and then fall asleep in a tent over a full day.
Camping is my reset button.
Thanks for the response, seriously. I'm prone to things like axe wounds and spider bites (my current issue), but my wife is her real name on my cell phone (other than some additional characters the kids added to the end).
Thinking it through, responders would be able to get into her unlocked phone (no security code or anything), and the most recent calls would be myself or her parents (or someone else that knows me).
But that doesn't address your comment, I very much appreciate what you said and have emailed her regarding it.
Damn it, I want to be Agent Hotline!!!!
That is all. WTF?
I'm Agent Hotline in my wife's phone. She used to sell insurance and when she broke her phone (she subscribes to breaking phones, 3-4 per year) and I reloaded stuff my number loaded rather than the insurance company one.
I am Agent Hotline. I'm exciting.
Anyway, making pancakes for breakfast. And everyone has to use the bathroom...
The other stuff that artist has done is awesome.
In case you haven't seen it, here's Darth Vader circa WWI:
http://edgeofarabia.com/artist...
This is about spying. Snowden showed that the US is #1!!!
I'm sure Russia has a good spy program, as well as England, Israel, and China. Probably some European countries as well (maybe South Korea, but aimed at the North). Australia is in there as well, which is surprising to me.
And the US's spending on military is unmatched (but probably envied). We spend about as much as the next top 10 countries combined, those other countries represent well over 2 billion people (China and India are in there):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Same goes for spending on nuclear weapons:
http://www.icanw.org/the-facts...
Why is the US a primary target of things such as Wikileaks? Because everyone else in the world is a target of ours. And our own citizens are as well. Sad, as someone currently in power would say.
Dear Mr Gates,
Thanks for the info, will try regarding shortcuts, and yes, I used to traverse the menus via muscle memory.
And regarding a .Net solution to replace VBA, oh god, I can't help but fear helping an actuary with VB.Net or C# coding!!!
Office 2016 still supports VBA, I don't think they can fully deprecate it, hasn't been updated for a while that I know of.
Anyway, best user name ever for the response.
turp
The actuaries aren't so good at code, other than mostly recorded macros. They are good at creating horrifying Excel formulas, think something longer than 1K characters.
And this is mostly for data production/preparation for loads and such. There are good (meaning expensive) modeling products for both Life and Property lines, which they use (job on the line type of stuff).
Anyway, I was a life actuary for a bit back in the day. Excel is a favorite tool, and it is abused like nothing else.
Excel 2010 was the pinnacle of Excel, before the ribbon and all of the keyboard shortcuts disappearing. Nothing of value has been added since then except for advanced pivot stuff.
There's quite a bit of porn on Facebook. Women encounter the brunt of it, from guys.
Some "women" (assuming not actually people, but the photos are obviously real from somewhere) use nudes to try and get "friends", I'm not sure of the nature of these but I figure it's scamming.
Some people also send friend requests of other people just to have them see something horrifying.
I Facebook about twice a year, it's others in the family that do it more and I really wish they didn't (photos/tags of my kids and me/wife). I use Facebook for the birthday reminders which come via email.
Oh, and the facial recognition they have is frightening. It's accurate. There was another post just today here about this, worth a read.
It's true, my mom won Christmas on accident, and with some embarrassment. She's older and has never used emojis. She just thought they were cute bean bag chairs.
What I like best about them is that the little balls that come out from inside usually have some static electricity and will move away from a person's finger when it gets close (not touching them). We like to move them around the poop without touching them (a good science lesson actually, and awesome fun).
I'm in St. Louis and this was a year ago... It's certainly possible. Wally World would be my best bet. At this point I'd just order them online.
Amazon and Walmart both carry it on their websites. They are pretty cool, always a hit when friends visit (they make good defense structures during the Nerf wars).
For Christmas last year my mom bought two bean bags in the shape of what she thought was chocolate cake, for my 7 year old twins. Full size bean bags, not a little pillow.
When my kids opened them (from large trash bags), they freaked out; they had huge poop emojis!!! It was their favorite gift of the season.
My mother was initially mortified ("I gave them big pieces of shit?"), then reluctantly positive (it's hard to ignore the happiness the kids were having), and now laughs about it. I just laughed my ass off because it was awesome. They still love to jump onto the poop from the bunk bed.
Anyway, pretty dumb post for Slashdot, but it brought back that memory which was fun. I don't think Slashdot readers use emojis much, I sent my first one just recently, a camp fire (while I was camping).
Use drones to drop them. Have them report GPS coordinates a few seconds after pressure/weight trigger. They only need to last 3-4 days (situational awareness rather than full time monitoring), they could be the size of a nickel. Maybe have higher power radio transmitters dropped as well that the individual sensors communicate with and proxy info to the command center (makes battery issues much easier to deal with, also resolves distance issues).
Color them to match the locale (so dull yellow for the endless desert operations).
Freaky good idea!
Screw class action lawsuits (class action = lawyers get paid, nothing else really), millions of individuals need to do small claims court lawsuits.
That's what I'm doing.
You forgot IBM, they came up with this business model a couple of decades before your examples; yours are still relevant of course, and appreciated.
Here it is more recently, just about free of snow.
https://www.google.com/maps/pl...
I'm not sure when the image is from, but right now it's spring in Africa with summer coming up. It will probably be snow free at some point during their summer.
And missing the date by a couple of years for something like that, that's rather accurate in my opinion.
It seems we have a propensity, as a species, to name bird species after cleavage.
In the Galapagos you have several species of Boobies.
Meanwhile, in the UK, you actually have a bird called "great tits"... This is rather creepy to be honest.
I think the ornithologists need to get out more, but I'm not sure if that would help.
The awkward conversation:
"I think that bird looks like a woman's breast, I shall call it Great Tits!"
"Have you ever seen a woman's breast?"
"No, but I would expect it to look like a bird."
Off topic a bit, but I noticed that on Amazon, Burning Chrome is cheaper as a paperback than the Kindle version.
I'm seeing $9.49 for the Kindle and $8.11 for the paperback. As a Prime member, shipping is $0.00.
https://www.amazon.com/Burning...
Trees would seem to be more expensive that bits down the wire. Dystopia.
Three words: Weekend morning matinees.
Best movie experience, and usually less expensive. Bring candy, buy a soda and popcorn (I know, the raping). Theaters are clean as well given the show time.
A couple of Nat Geo issues ago there was an article where a scientist said, due to lower gravity on Mars, we would become taller with more thin arms and legs, after only a couple of generations (maybe a single one if born there). Due to the lower gravity.
It would seem someone BORN on Earth would probably suffer health problems on Mars (given what zero gravity does, it isn't hard to conclude that lower gravity would cause issues), it would be interesting to see someone BORN on Mars grow up though.
Nat Geo's website sucks, I couldn't find the relevant info (my goodness, it's all about the TV channel). It was interesting.
The model is flawed. I don't want to see what I just purchased advertised to me, but maybe related items. But that requires cross-site.
Adverts should be local or related to the content of an article or website. It shouldn't be based on shit I searched for recently. I either purchased that shit or didn't. Seeing it again is comical at best.
Local means the things you see on the morning news. Cars, events, furniture, etc.
Website level is pretty clear (more niche sites), advertise related sites that you don't provide product for.
Current example, I'm researching my grandfather's WW2 battle rifle which I received a few days ago, it's a British made Enfield #4 MK1 (three days of research to verify). On the sites I'm visiting, I would appreciate ads for ammunition, parts, reconditioning services, etc. .303 British ammo isn't common in the US midwest...
It is difficult to target to such niche items. But as an example, a company providing rarer ammo should be advertising on all sites related to legacy guns. That's a click generator.
My thought is that we need an image only advert service that pushes ad images to sites so they are local, but static. Images would be noted as advertisements, but displayed via algorithms to make them relevant to site content or locality.
I'd call it Old Timey Ads. This is my copyright/trademark moment... Slashdot doesn't forget.
Static image adverts focused on things related to the site or based on locality.
VPNs kill locality though, right now the internet believes I'm in Birmingham, AL, USA, but I'm not. That's just the home office.
Google is a different beast. It can do related adverts from simple search results. Do we know how much cross site stuff they provide or promote?