This would devalue your advertising pretty fast actually. The more unbalanced in favour of views the views:sales ratio is, the less you get paid. So all this 'pretend viewing' is doing is delaying the drop in revenue until the advertisers catch on that it isn't worth as much anymore.
What I have found over this time is that even on the most technical of sites (where use of ad-blockers was highest) it was always beneficial to block the blockers. The method changed depending on content and user profiling but it always helped the site financially and never hurt page exposure in the mid-long term.
Thanks for identifying yourself. You are part of the problem.
I know that I've seen a couple of sites like this and with the exception of sites with no comparable competition - I move on. This requirement for advertising is offensive, I cannot stand the ads on TV, so I no longer watch TV. I cannot stand the ads on the internet, so I block the annoying ones.
Do you care to share which site it is you use this policy on, so I can block it (in its entirety) preemptively?
The internet doesn't need you, and it doesn't need ads.
But terrorism as a potential threat may vary in strength, but it will never go away. Therefore this wiretapping will never stop. By your rules, they shouldn't remove the wiretapping until they no longer need the information.
But never mind wiretapping laws, Bush should be convicted as a war criminal for endorsing and using torture, and he should be locked up for a very long time.
In your humble opinion, those people with money to spare should be taxed less. Yeah, fuck that. Those with money to spare should be contributing more to society to bring those with less into line with 'a reasonable standard of living' which all human beings deserve.
You seem to making a mistake: That's the core *feature* of the game. For once Lv10 Fighter =/= Other Lv10 Fighter, and people who really know the game have a tremendous advantage and can go looking for other people with as much skills as themselves. I like a game with a bit of depth to the game system, and just like D&D - munchkinism is both rampant and fun, when it's an intended part of the game. (And since they haven't fixed it in 7 years and it wouldn't be that technically difficult to fix, I think that's beyond question)
AO suffers from aged graphics, some unbalance, and the PvP system is lacking at best, but hey - it's fun, and it's a ~clever~ game - and you don't see a lot of that in the MMO world.
You may want to consider that speeds currently go (where I live) up to roughly ten times that figure. Consider that HD is becoming more and more prevalent, and you'll see that if you're downloading at 1mB/second 1/10th of the time, you'll reach the same figure. Now how many people could fairly be using their maximum speed somewhere in the region of 1/10th of the time? 250gb is 100k/sec, or it's also roughly 9-10gb/day. If I download a game, that's 5-10gb on its own (legal games are on the internet too) If I download a movie, that's 1-3gb, non-HD, and who knows how much if it's HD quality. A TV series? 10-40gb per season. As was recently stated on TWiT - the average person watches 8 hours of TV per day, and some HD streams hit 1gb/hour - that's your bandwidth gone in 250hours (At 8 hours a day, that's roughly a month) If you hadn't noticed, more and more bandwidth is being required by increasingly large files being transferred across the net, now even average users are using p2p services to watch TV, and the quality increases over time.
And btw, a webserver, and a couple of backups a week aren't exactly bandwidth intensive.
But hey, better than secret bandwidth caps where they just cut your off or nerf your connection because they don't like you using it.
These are problems - they have solutions - and Blizzard either isn't interested in them, or they haven't thought of the solution yet. That's the whole point of TFA, there are people with this specific goal in mind, and they're working on the solution.
Just because Blizzard chose not to try this doesn't mean it doesn't work. It means Blizzard chose not to try this.
I'm pretty sure you just suggested charging all college students as if they were pirates... But to your other point...
You charge everyone for using the internet on the assumption that they pirate. You then use the methods already in use to determine who is and who isn't pirating (Mostly guesswork) You then reward the people who win the pirate lottery by reimbursing them the charge for already being assumed a pirate.
The force people to create workarounds to the same problem, instead of working on the next problem - that's not creating innovation, that's wasting talent.
Since when are activist enviromentalists called terrorists? The aims are different, and for the most part the methods are different - some cross lines, but not the majority. When an enviromentalist group starts using nailbombs on civilian populations - then we can start calling them terrorists.
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This would devalue your advertising pretty fast actually.
The more unbalanced in favour of views the views:sales ratio is, the less you get paid.
So all this 'pretend viewing' is doing is delaying the drop in revenue until the advertisers catch on that it isn't worth as much anymore.
What I have found over this time is that even on the most technical of sites (where use of ad-blockers was highest) it was always beneficial to block the blockers. The method changed depending on content and user profiling but it always helped the site financially and never hurt page exposure in the mid-long term.
Thanks for identifying yourself. You are part of the problem.
I know that I've seen a couple of sites like this and with the exception of sites with no comparable competition - I move on.
This requirement for advertising is offensive, I cannot stand the ads on TV, so I no longer watch TV.
I cannot stand the ads on the internet, so I block the annoying ones.
Do you care to share which site it is you use this policy on, so I can block it (in its entirety) preemptively?
The internet doesn't need you, and it doesn't need ads.
1) How do you know they're not doing that - if they told you ... it wouldn't work.
2) If it became widely known that many drugs were in fact placebos - then the non-placebo drugs would have a negative placebo effect.
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Well, it would have made it more clear if you hadn't done it wrong.
It's "Hear hear"
As in "listen up"
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Someone mod this man +1 Ubergeek
Suffering an ignorance deficit?
On the other hand, 100 scathing letters might encourage her to think before speaking and acting.
Teachers have to have the right to confiscate property.
[Needs citation]
And if they can't pile up the money, how will they ever build the cash-pile-of-Babel.
And they need that so they can climb up and say "Hey God(s), Religion is kinda popular on the internet. Time to be paying your ISP taxes."
But terrorism as a potential threat may vary in strength, but it will never go away.
Therefore this wiretapping will never stop.
By your rules, they shouldn't remove the wiretapping until they no longer need the information.
But never mind wiretapping laws, Bush should be convicted as a war criminal for endorsing and using torture, and he should be locked up for a very long time.
In your humble opinion, those people with money to spare should be taxed less.
Yeah, fuck that.
Those with money to spare should be contributing more to society to bring those with less into line with 'a reasonable standard of living' which all human beings deserve.
Has anyone patented RL yet?
You seem to making a mistake: That's the core *feature* of the game.
For once Lv10 Fighter =/= Other Lv10 Fighter, and people who really know the game have a tremendous advantage and can go looking for other people with as much skills as themselves.
I like a game with a bit of depth to the game system, and just like D&D - munchkinism is both rampant and fun, when it's an intended part of the game.
(And since they haven't fixed it in 7 years and it wouldn't be that technically difficult to fix, I think that's beyond question)
AO suffers from aged graphics, some unbalance, and the PvP system is lacking at best, but hey - it's fun, and it's a ~clever~ game - and you don't see a lot of that in the MMO world.
No, it doesn't - unless you're willing to let your friends screw up your game world.
I think this is going to interfere with the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
*Damn he looks good in those tight camo-pants.*
You may want to consider that speeds currently go (where I live) up to roughly ten times that figure.
Consider that HD is becoming more and more prevalent, and you'll see that if you're downloading at 1mB/second 1/10th of the time, you'll reach the same figure.
Now how many people could fairly be using their maximum speed somewhere in the region of 1/10th of the time?
250gb is 100k/sec, or it's also roughly 9-10gb/day.
If I download a game, that's 5-10gb on its own (legal games are on the internet too)
If I download a movie, that's 1-3gb, non-HD, and who knows how much if it's HD quality.
A TV series? 10-40gb per season.
As was recently stated on TWiT - the average person watches 8 hours of TV per day, and some HD streams hit 1gb/hour - that's your bandwidth gone in 250hours (At 8 hours a day, that's roughly a month)
If you hadn't noticed, more and more bandwidth is being required by increasingly large files being transferred across the net, now even average users are using p2p services to watch TV, and the quality increases over time.
And btw, a webserver, and a couple of backups a week aren't exactly bandwidth intensive.
But hey, better than secret bandwidth caps where they just cut your off or nerf your connection because they don't like you using it.
These are problems - they have solutions - and Blizzard either isn't interested in them, or they haven't thought of the solution yet.
That's the whole point of TFA, there are people with this specific goal in mind, and they're working on the solution.
Just because Blizzard chose not to try this doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It means Blizzard chose not to try this.
I'm pretty sure you just suggested charging all college students as if they were pirates...
But to your other point...
You charge everyone for using the internet on the assumption that they pirate.
You then use the methods already in use to determine who is and who isn't pirating (Mostly guesswork)
You then reward the people who win the pirate lottery by reimbursing them the charge for already being assumed a pirate.
I for one, welcome our new Beowolf Cluster of Linux-running series of tube Overlords.
duhhh - "This forces people"
The force people to create workarounds to the same problem, instead of working on the next problem - that's not creating innovation, that's wasting talent.
Since when are activist enviromentalists called terrorists?
The aims are different, and for the most part the methods are different - some cross lines, but not the majority.
When an enviromentalist group starts using nailbombs on civilian populations - then we can start calling them terrorists.
This gives a system where a brute force attack as a somewhat pathetic 2^8 attempts.
That's significantly less secure than picking a 2 letter password.