Linux is about choice....the users just wouldn't stand for it.
You meant to say SOME users wouldn't stand for it. Specifically the user who have uncompromising egos or specific needs, while the rest of humanity might actually CHOOSE Linux for day-to-day use. People are mostly the same in what they want. I'll give you time to count how many companies are wildly successful, based on this premise.
As with most adolescent games, WoW is about dominance and control (along with a fair share of hoarding wealth...to show dominance and control). It's a nice gig to do research showing patterns that don't exist for people more ignorant than the average teenager. Must be a government funded study. Next in the news, the MMORPG diseases never kill anyone for very long making it a kind of minigame to infect as many people as possible. Didn't even need a grant for me to know that, just common sense.
Isnt that still "making available" a recording under the same premise? The fact that I have a right to own a copy or them to sell a copy doesnt change the fact that others can copy the recordings if either of us make them "available" to others via a public channel. Selling a CD that is going to be played to an audience and possibly be played on a CDburner combo drive has effectively made the recording digitally available as if it had been put on a torrent.
I see about 80% retention in the past. Granted I'm in tech, so you might think that geeks usually go for the most reliable technology that offers the best tools and such, but I dont introduce FF to techs...they are already using it. I see about 80% retention from non-techs that I introduced it to. Now that tabbing is a feature of both browsers, 25% still seems very low.
Customers will just be calling Walmart shortly. Closing call centers and storefronts is just good business given the new opportunity to sell out of Walmart.
Moreover, I'd bet dollars to donuts that you have been defrauded by your clients or had your data stolen at least once in the last year,
2 years I've been here, it has never happened.
Nobody with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend does large transactions with companies they havent checked out thoroughly. Running credit checks on companies is something you might expect. A number of us have our credit histories run as a requirement as well. It's not like you simply tell General Mills that you have this list to sell them and they send you a check lol. You're gonna be waiting 90 days and probably have the rate reduced based on the conversions the list provided. The companies with the money don't need to buy random data from people they don't know. That spammer sending you viagra emails isn't getting paid 20 per diem from Pfizer but is phishing for more practically useful data.
The freezing is the most unrealistic part as I understand it. There's nothing to transfer energy to, so the only heat loss should be normal body heat radiation. The problem is the near-0 pressure.
You have a strong incentive to portray your own company positively, and they may in fact be positive about these practices.
I do not own a company. I'm not sure what I've said to portray my employer in a positive light, but have tried to relay the facts about advertising companies. I've dealt with about 200 to date (not counting the actual customers like Pfizer, Random House, Nestle, etc.)
Your "facts" don't seem to be agreed with by most folks, or may even be unsupported (as they are in your statement here).
I'm not really concerned too much about "most folks". "Most folks" are ignorant. If you are going to be dealing or have dealt with advertising companies, my characterization should be rather helpful in what to expect or similar to what you have experienced. I'm sure it's very hard to believe given what you see in your email box but I have little interest in debating the reality. ValueClick, DoubleClick, Q-Interactive, RedMcCombs they all work the same today and I don't need to prove it, it's my experience. *shrug*
But no, *all* advertising companies do not have these policies.
The average spammer is related to an advertising company like a Tiajuana ratburger cart to McDonalds. They both sell food, but I dont consider the cart owner to be a restaurant. If an advertising company is doing 300k a year, yea you do have these policies. It's about the money. LOTS of companies dont and they fail like any business selling used condoms does. So there's truth in your statement to that extent. Not all (online) advertising companies have these policies. I guess we have a difference in opinion as to what an online advertising company is.
Scammers/Spammers are just plain unreliable, go figure!, but we sell data to whoever wants to pay for it with a 10k minimum and a passing credit check and a good track record in regards to invoicing so it's more than possible, it's business.
Honestly, not selling your data is a bad business move
There's PLENTY of reasons NOT to sell soft data. For starters, what you collect tells someone a lot about how you are using it. You almost never want that to get out. Most companies are not Google:p and anyone with the right financing can copy you. Using the data to form trends and selling the metadata quietly is where it's at. Offering to serve Cingular ads to people who have a Verizon number in a cookie or to show graphs as to how many creatives per campaign per year Ford buys into, to Chevy reps, is selling the data without selling the actuals. That's smart business.
Most mailing lists consist of hard data; always worth good money. The value of personal information is inversely proportional to the number of people who have access to it. The ol' Wizard of Oz. The trick is to sell it to all the vendors you know at once so nobody can sell it to each other and the contacts quickly start changing their numbers, addresses and emails. Assume all "we wont sell your data" claims to be false. Up front, I agree, it will be sold.
Also, it has recently been tested that you don't have to live up to your own privacy policy.
In the United States maybe. That is legally binding in many European companies.
All advertising companies with more than a few months using an ad-server or doing performance level campaigns, have these basic policies. Of course corruption and stupidity leads to exceptions and we have let a number of people go over the years for straightforward incompetence and deception. It's advertising, so there's always leaks.
P.S. It's interesting to see people mod down (my)facts about the industry and mod up people who have no idea as to what actually happens to this type of data.
They hope to learn how Web advertising firms protect the personal data they collect,
They protect it fiercely. Keeping the data secret keeps the valuation of the data high for resale and ensures that they retain a competitive edge in the niche markets where the competition is weakest or they are using the technology to capitalize on the data.
how they notify consumers about that data,
You are never notified about soft data collection and most multinationals notify you when collecting hard data.
and whether the data is sold to or used by other firms.
The soft data that is relatively transient (like behavior in terms of topical or contextual interests and IP address) is only kept for 2 weeks and is not resold anywhere. The data's worth the most within 48 hours of being collected and drops precipitously from there. It's basically worthless as corporate red tape, formatting issues, and technical exploitation exceeds a timetable of 2 weeks for someone else to exploit. The hard data like address, phone number, etc. is sold periodically at some point, multiple times and maintains a minimal value for up to 10 years (YMMV).
This can't be even acceptable as a means for counting Apache installations
Your logic implies that any method that would have inconsistencies makes the data largely unreliable? What about the myriad of ways to obfuscate server type? There's nothing wrong with their method as it's efficient and gives a relatively good number to saying, "if the data is not an exact match to reality, it's not worth showing."
And this is yet more evidence that Apple is as evil as MS. While Apple has almost always been the underdog, geeks tend to identify with Apple without examining what Apple does. Make no mistake, it's about the bottom line for the sake of the bottom line, not for the advancement of computing.
Which people? No real person quotes Dvorak. The only reason the articles get on the frontpage are the cokehead mods who cant do dupe search or spellchecks. Those are tools, not people.
4 Years with a mouse, 6 years with a trackball (kensington) and I found that you cannot get the pricision with a trackball that you can with a mouse...but a tablet is even better.
Trackballs are imprecise at small movements, mice at smooth arcs and tablets allow you to do any shape in any dimension that your hand could normally do on your workspace.
There's no game that has an authentication method proving who you are. In gaming circles, the most common method of "proving" who someone is, consists of third party apps or in-game communication where you can do a human-Voight-Kampff test of audio/video/behavioral cues (can you name a game that features streaming video of current players?) to determine "if someone is REALLY who they claim to be". The state of NAT'd networks means almost every networkable game simply has to deal with the fact that computers masquerade their origin and that players are likely to want to "connect" from one of multiple locations so there is no location-identification either. Convenient. All games and most other virtual interactions are, effectively, anonymous.
gaming has permeated to every echelon of our social fabric. Rich, poor, well educated, and high school drop outs can all be seen gaming
How does this relate to behavior? It shows that "gamers" are have an independent, consistent, culture. How easy it is to find a "gamer" doesn't change the culture of immaturity resulting from anonymity. The "gamers" in poor countries who game face to face do not suffer from the same immature behavior of outlandish outbursts or petty behavior within the game.
You don't need a game to be involved to see antisocial behavior over the 'Net.
Gaming that does not occur over a network cannot be called immature or even meaningfully gauged. It's not bias to restrict a observational data to something that can be observed.
I find this to be untrue. The majority of groupings, larger and smaller in number, do not exhibit this to a degree that they are classified by the characteristic of "immature". Antisocial behavior is only acceptable over a network. I cannot understand why you would think that gamer behavior has a bearing on normal human interaction. The "internet community" is most comparable to the CB radio bands, but even less empathetic. It's not really amazing that removing channels to exhibit emotion leads to intense emotional outbursts.
In general, gamers are immature. That's like saying it's not fair to classify blind people are poor drivers and argue over the definition of what skill is involved in driving. As the dicussion rages on, it becomes less practically important. The original statement may not be formulated in a nice way, but it is accurate.
or 50x that of the (fully functional) used car on the road. 40 years time, I have no doubts cars will be largely electric. That's pretty far off. This "sane" person that knows electric will be practical, is naturally practically minded. I have to get to work most days, including Monday to make the money that allows me to buy another conventional car, so forgive me for rolling my eyes. It's easy enough to call others short-sighted when you set the marker at "delusional".
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This is the typical, ignorant, American, consumerist mindset. The Tivo runs under 200$ plus a 15$/mo subscription or a 200$ lifetime subscription. If I move to say, Irvine California where I have to have DishNetwork, I have my DVR. After 3 years, my tivo has literally paid for itself. I am a financially responsible individual and I'm planning to be alive to pay my mortgage for 30 years...why would you choose to throw money away? The idea that people rather rent than buy is simply MISINFORMATION aimed at the large number of people who love to live in debt.
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As with most adolescent games, WoW is about dominance and control (along with a fair share of hoarding wealth...to show dominance and control). It's a nice gig to do research showing patterns that don't exist for people more ignorant than the average teenager. Must be a government funded study. Next in the news, the MMORPG diseases never kill anyone for very long making it a kind of minigame to infect as many people as possible. Didn't even need a grant for me to know that, just common sense.
Isnt that still "making available" a recording under the same premise? The fact that I have a right to own a copy or them to sell a copy doesnt change the fact that others can copy the recordings if either of us make them "available" to others via a public channel. Selling a CD that is going to be played to an audience and possibly be played on a CDburner combo drive has effectively made the recording digitally available as if it had been put on a torrent.
By putting the IP on a media which is copyable, hasn't the RIAA engaged in the same activity? What about radio? What about my beloved YAHOO MUSIC :(
I see about 80% retention in the past. Granted I'm in tech, so you might think that geeks usually go for the most reliable technology that offers the best tools and such, but I dont introduce FF to techs...they are already using it. I see about 80% retention from non-techs that I introduced it to. Now that tabbing is a feature of both browsers, 25% still seems very low.
Customers will just be calling Walmart shortly. Closing call centers and storefronts is just good business given the new opportunity to sell out of Walmart.
Nobody with hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend does large transactions with companies they havent checked out thoroughly. Running credit checks on companies is something you might expect. A number of us have our credit histories run as a requirement as well. It's not like you simply tell General Mills that you have this list to sell them and they send you a check lol. You're gonna be waiting 90 days and probably have the rate reduced based on the conversions the list provided. The companies with the money don't need to buy random data from people they don't know. That spammer sending you viagra emails isn't getting paid 20 per diem from Pfizer but is phishing for more practically useful data.
The freezing is the most unrealistic part as I understand it. There's nothing to transfer energy to, so the only heat loss should be normal body heat radiation. The problem is the near-0 pressure.
Scammers/Spammers are just plain unreliable, go figure!, but we sell data to whoever wants to pay for it with a 10k minimum and a passing credit check and a good track record in regards to invoicing so it's more than possible, it's business.
Most mailing lists consist of hard data; always worth good money. The value of personal information is inversely proportional to the number of people who have access to it. The ol' Wizard of Oz. The trick is to sell it to all the vendors you know at once so nobody can sell it to each other and the contacts quickly start changing their numbers, addresses and emails. Assume all "we wont sell your data" claims to be false. Up front, I agree, it will be sold.In the United States maybe. That is legally binding in many European companies.
All advertising companies with more than a few months using an ad-server or doing performance level campaigns, have these basic policies. Of course corruption and stupidity leads to exceptions and we have let a number of people go over the years for straightforward incompetence and deception. It's advertising, so there's always leaks.
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It's interesting to see people mod down (my)facts about the industry and mod up people who have no idea as to what actually happens to this type of data.
I think your study needs work.
Your logic implies that any method that would have inconsistencies makes the data largely unreliable? What about the myriad of ways to obfuscate server type? There's nothing wrong with their method as it's efficient and gives a relatively good number to saying, "if the data is not an exact match to reality, it's not worth showing."
That's also, not what I said.
The idea that company will financially lobby to hobble an industry politically, whatever the motivations, is specifically evil.
And this is yet more evidence that Apple is as evil as MS. While Apple has almost always been the underdog, geeks tend to identify with Apple without examining what Apple does. Make no mistake, it's about the bottom line for the sake of the bottom line, not for the advancement of computing.
Which people? No real person quotes Dvorak. The only reason the articles get on the frontpage are the cokehead mods who cant do dupe search or spellchecks. Those are tools, not people.
4 Years with a mouse, 6 years with a trackball (kensington) and I found that you cannot get the pricision with a trackball that you can with a mouse...but a tablet is even better.
Trackballs are imprecise at small movements, mice at smooth arcs and tablets allow you to do any shape in any dimension that your hand could normally do on your workspace.
There's no game that has an authentication method proving who you are. In gaming circles, the most common method of "proving" who someone is, consists of third party apps or in-game communication where you can do a human-Voight-Kampff test of audio/video/behavioral cues (can you name a game that features streaming video of current players?) to determine "if someone is REALLY who they claim to be". The state of NAT'd networks means almost every networkable game simply has to deal with the fact that computers masquerade their origin and that players are likely to want to "connect" from one of multiple locations so there is no location-identification either. Convenient. All games and most other virtual interactions are, effectively, anonymous.
I find this to be untrue. The majority of groupings, larger and smaller in number, do not exhibit this to a degree that they are classified by the characteristic of "immature". Antisocial behavior is only acceptable over a network. I cannot understand why you would think that gamer behavior has a bearing on normal human interaction. The "internet community" is most comparable to the CB radio bands, but even less empathetic. It's not really amazing that removing channels to exhibit emotion leads to intense emotional outbursts.
In general, gamers are immature. That's like saying it's not fair to classify blind people are poor drivers and argue over the definition of what skill is involved in driving. As the dicussion rages on, it becomes less practically important. The original statement may not be formulated in a nice way, but it is accurate.
or 50x that of the (fully functional) used car on the road. 40 years time, I have no doubts cars will be largely electric. That's pretty far off. This "sane" person that knows electric will be practical, is naturally practically minded. I have to get to work most days, including Monday to make the money that allows me to buy another conventional car, so forgive me for rolling my eyes. It's easy enough to call others short-sighted when you set the marker at "delusional".
This is the typical, ignorant, American, consumerist mindset. The Tivo runs under 200$ plus a 15$/mo subscription or a 200$ lifetime subscription. If I move to say, Irvine California where I have to have DishNetwork, I have my DVR. After 3 years, my tivo has literally paid for itself. I am a financially responsible individual and I'm planning to be alive to pay my mortgage for 30 years...why would you choose to throw money away? The idea that people rather rent than buy is simply MISINFORMATION aimed at the large number of people who love to live in debt.