People will click on things that look interesting and legitimate. "Hit the monkey to win $50" is obviously going to be some kind of a scam, and people will aviod it. OTOH, the AMD ad that ran on Slashdot a while back for a webcast of the kernel summit was BRILLIANT! The ad stated what it was, demonstrated that it contained content of interest to Slashdot's readership, and got their brand a positive image.
Even for less well targeted readerships, look at newspaper ads for ideas of things that work. Announce a sale for your online store, mention a new product, or give people some other reason to follow the link! Make pretty, flashy ads, and people will tune them out. Make informative, intriguing ads, and people will follow.
Also, one more suggestion: make an advertiser index, like magazines do. Sometimes an ad will look appealing, but you don't have time to follow up on it just then. Later on, you can't find the ad again, so the site doesn't get the hit it deserves.
Yup, Next Generation. Fairly late, maybe 6th or 7th season? Around the time when they were setting up the Cardassians as the villains to base DS9 on. I thought it was a pretty decent episode. I have a friend who thinks it's the best, but he's more into the whole Cardassian/Bejoran (sp?) thing than I am.
As you apparently don't recall, Ximian support for Mandrake is always about one version behind. Generally speaking, they add support for the current version of Mandrake about the time Mandrake releases Beta 1 of the next version.
What about this: if homosexuality is accepted as perfectly normal, then there will no longer be any social pressure for gays to get together with members of the opposite sex. No intercourse means no biological kids. No biological kids means those with the gay gene (assuming that there actually is one, but I SO do not want to get into nature vs. nurture) get bred out of the genome within a couple of generations, and the incidence of mutations is probably not going to be very high.
You mean... sort of like the episode The Lower Decks, which focuses around low ranking crewmembers, one of whom gets killed, and none of whom ever have any idea what's going on?
Don't remember any malfunctioning holodecks though.
Not only that, but it featured the Kzin, from Larry Niven's Known Space universe. I've never seen it, but I understand that the episode was written by Niven, and follows the same basic plot as one of his short stories (forgotten the name) about a powerful gun left behind by an ancient, extinct civilization.
I'm probably the only person in the world who has it, but the original Star Trek Roleplaying game was made after the animated series, but before TNG, and so features prominently many bits of Trek lore from TAS.
Interesting theory... Unfortunately for you, 4 was one of the most successful in the series, and is a favorite among many fans. Now, you personally may not have enjoyed it, but if 10 turns out to like 4, the studios will be happy. As for 8, compare 8 to 7 and 9, and tell me which the best Next Generation movie so far has been.
I think the Comic Book Guy is the closest they have. Well, that and the time where Snake holds up the cybercafe, and steals Homer's bank account ("Oh yeah, download to Papa. Goodbye, alt-backslash-losers"). Nothing else really occurs to me.
No, you don't need that many. You only need a statistical deviance of maybe 5-10% before it becomes not worthwhile anymore. I'm not saying the plan will work, but you don't need anywhere near 60% participation.
The "El" is an Elevated Train, hence the name. The T is Boston, unless by an amazing coincidence it is both Pittsburg and Boston. A few more: Muni Underground in San Francisco (aka the Streetcar, because it spends a lot of its time aboveground), the Subway in New York, and the Monorail in Disneyland:)
...IF I had some kind of guarantee that there will be songs available. If Napster provided the songs to download, that'd be one thing. Relying on the selflessness of others, however, is not a winning service.
First of all, this is not animated. That makes it a much bigger deal right there. The animated version was clearly meant as a child's cartoon, whereas this is potentially going to appeal to people of all ages.
Second, when have you EVER seen a good fantasy movie? There are legions of people who have grown up on Tolkien, Dungeons and Dragons (and its assorted spawn), and King Arthur, but never has a truly good movie been made with these elements. Excalibur was passable, I think (or maybe I just think that because it's one of the first movies I saw with nudity as a pre-teen), but this has the potential to be downright GOOD.
Those are the reasons I'm interested in it anyway.
Huh? Is this somehow easier than holding shift and typing FUND? Sure, it causes earthquakes sometimes, but just type it a lot before you start playing, or save before you do it.
Come in on Fridays at 0530 and stay until at least 1700, or when you get your work done, whichever comes second. My mother worked as a lawyer for Pacific Bell back in the late 70's-early 80's, and had a coworker who commuted to The City from the East Bay, and would get in by 6 or 7 every morning, the excuse being "to beat rush hour." Because of this excuse, no one accused him of kissing up, and he was making double his salary within a year.
Basically, my point is, by allowing you to telecommute, the company is providing you with a perk, and they're taking a risk during dangerous times. In exchange, you should be willing to prove through your actions that this means a great deal to you. And, you might just get promoted while you're at it:)
For the initial step, I agree with the above post, that you should convince them to allow a trial month, once a week, while you're still at your current location. Then, once you get them up to two days, move, and work early mornings. From there, three or even four days a week should be relatively easy.
Except then you'd create SUPER pigeons through natural selection. Only those pigeons tough enough to fly through a turbine would survive, and they would be INDESTRUCTIBLE! Just imagine how the pigeon population would explode then, it would make antibiotic resistant bacteria look like a blessing.
There is a big difference between the Nazis and 'Islamic Fundamentalism'. The Nazis created themselves and had decided that Germany should be the dominant power in Europe. 'Islamic Fundamentalism' is a reaction to sustained policies of the West, led by America.
Well, first and foremost, Nazism was a reation to the sustained policies of the Allied powers after WWI. So your argument is bullshit.
Second, wars in the middle east cannot be like Vietnam because there's nowhere to hide. Why do you think Iraq was so easy to defeat? Because our satellites could see where they were, our missiles could hit them, our bombers could bomb them, and all engagements took place out in the open. It's the exact opposite of what made Vietnam such a nightmare.
Well, right, don't blindly support. I personally do support going to war if we discover that a nation was behind this attack, but to each his own. But, I think the point he was trying to make was, just try to be a little nicer. Don't make fun when he stutters, maybe wait a week or two before we start the Dmitry protests up again, that kind of thing.
Given the amount of time we spend on/. insulting each others' countries, it really means something to know that when something horrible happens, the rest of the world actually does care.
My prediction is that they'll wait until the investigation has turned up some solid information before doing anything. I should point out, Clinton made a not very subtle threat against the middle east in the wake of Oklahoma City. He looked pretty stupid when it turned out to be an American anarchist. Still, given that something on the order of half a dozen attacks occured nearly simutaneously (two planes into the WTC, one car bomb nearby, some unknown means of attack against the pentagon building, and a crashed plane outside of western PA), this was probably the work of either a very large terrorist organization or a foreign government.
The usefulness of a $20 bill is backed by the United States Armed Forces. Read what it says on a bill sometime. It says "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private." And the US Government means it.
It used to be that people would write into contracts that a certain portion of debt had to be repaid in gold, as protection against devaluation of the dollar. By making the greenback legal tender, these sorts of contracts were made unenforcable. Furthermore, in the options and futures markets, one does not necessarily have to pay in shares of stock or barrels of oil, or whatever. One may instead delviver the fair market value of those goods. Finally, if you were to offer in trade a car in exchange for (for example) two cows, then you would be legally obligated to accept the dollar value of two cows.
Basically what I'm driving at is this: it is illegal to refuse to accept US dollars within the borders of the US. You are right that hyperinflation could devalue currency very quickly, however as long as the police and, push come to shove, the armed forces, have enough power to keep the population in line, the value of a dollar cannot hit zero.
That being said, I agree with your point that if people will give you money for your Diablo stuff, it has value. It is certainly a highly unstable investment, but that doesn't mean its necessarily worthless.
Caffine is totally flushed out of your system in less than 24 hours. So, that means that in order to remain addicted to caffine, you cannot go a single day without a cup of coffee (or a Jolt, or Penguin mints, or whatever your perferred source is). Not a week, not 2-3 days, just one day.
You can be highly psychologically addicted, but as far as physical addictions go, caffine is a really easy one to break. Oh, and as for smoking, my advice is to smoke a pipe. I've never seen a cigarette smoker derive as much enjoyment from a cigarette as I get from my pipe, and the time it takes means that I generally smoke about once every 2-4 weeks, never allowing myself to become addicted. Also, by puffing instead of inhaling, my lung cancer risk is also cut to near zero. It's a wonderful way to relax, if done correctly.
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Or, maybe the advertisers could just troll slashdot like the folks at adequacy.org :P
Even for less well targeted readerships, look at newspaper ads for ideas of things that work. Announce a sale for your online store, mention a new product, or give people some other reason to follow the link! Make pretty, flashy ads, and people will tune them out. Make informative, intriguing ads, and people will follow.
Also, one more suggestion: make an advertiser index, like magazines do. Sometimes an ad will look appealing, but you don't have time to follow up on it just then. Later on, you can't find the ad again, so the site doesn't get the hit it deserves.
Yup, Next Generation. Fairly late, maybe 6th or 7th season? Around the time when they were setting up the Cardassians as the villains to base DS9 on. I thought it was a pretty decent episode. I have a friend who thinks it's the best, but he's more into the whole Cardassian/Bejoran (sp?) thing than I am.
As you apparently don't recall, Ximian support for Mandrake is always about one version behind. Generally speaking, they add support for the current version of Mandrake about the time Mandrake releases Beta 1 of the next version.
Quite frankly, Shatner didn't have the bare chest for it either, but I guess standards were different then.
What about this: if homosexuality is accepted as perfectly normal, then there will no longer be any social pressure for gays to get together with members of the opposite sex. No intercourse means no biological kids. No biological kids means those with the gay gene (assuming that there actually is one, but I SO do not want to get into nature vs. nurture) get bred out of the genome within a couple of generations, and the incidence of mutations is probably not going to be very high.
Don't remember any malfunctioning holodecks though.
I'm probably the only person in the world who has it, but the original Star Trek Roleplaying game was made after the animated series, but before TNG, and so features prominently many bits of Trek lore from TAS.
Interesting theory... Unfortunately for you, 4 was one of the most successful in the series, and is a favorite among many fans. Now, you personally may not have enjoyed it, but if 10 turns out to like 4, the studios will be happy. As for 8, compare 8 to 7 and 9, and tell me which the best Next Generation movie so far has been.
I am presently at work on a secret project which I am not at liberty to divulge. *cough* cyborgs! *cough*
I think the Comic Book Guy is the closest they have. Well, that and the time where Snake holds up the cybercafe, and steals Homer's bank account ("Oh yeah, download to Papa. Goodbye, alt-backslash-losers"). Nothing else really occurs to me.
No, you don't need that many. You only need a statistical deviance of maybe 5-10% before it becomes not worthwhile anymore. I'm not saying the plan will work, but you don't need anywhere near 60% participation.
Yes they do. Perhaps you've never heard of a recent invention known as the "aircraft carrier?" Navy crew, navy pilots.
The "El" is an Elevated Train, hence the name. The T is Boston, unless by an amazing coincidence it is both Pittsburg and Boston. A few more: Muni Underground in San Francisco (aka the Streetcar, because it spends a lot of its time aboveground), the Subway in New York, and the Monorail in Disneyland :)
...IF I had some kind of guarantee that there will be songs available. If Napster provided the songs to download, that'd be one thing. Relying on the selflessness of others, however, is not a winning service.
Second, when have you EVER seen a good fantasy movie? There are legions of people who have grown up on Tolkien, Dungeons and Dragons (and its assorted spawn), and King Arthur, but never has a truly good movie been made with these elements. Excalibur was passable, I think (or maybe I just think that because it's one of the first movies I saw with nudity as a pre-teen), but this has the potential to be downright GOOD.
Those are the reasons I'm interested in it anyway.
Huh? Is this somehow easier than holding shift and typing FUND? Sure, it causes earthquakes sometimes, but just type it a lot before you start playing, or save before you do it.
Basically, my point is, by allowing you to telecommute, the company is providing you with a perk, and they're taking a risk during dangerous times. In exchange, you should be willing to prove through your actions that this means a great deal to you. And, you might just get promoted while you're at it
For the initial step, I agree with the above post, that you should convince them to allow a trial month, once a week, while you're still at your current location. Then, once you get them up to two days, move, and work early mornings. From there, three or even four days a week should be relatively easy.
Except then you'd create SUPER pigeons through natural selection. Only those pigeons tough enough to fly through a turbine would survive, and they would be INDESTRUCTIBLE! Just imagine how the pigeon population would explode then, it would make antibiotic resistant bacteria look like a blessing.
Well, first and foremost, Nazism was a reation to the sustained policies of the Allied powers after WWI. So your argument is bullshit.
Second, wars in the middle east cannot be like Vietnam because there's nowhere to hide. Why do you think Iraq was so easy to defeat? Because our satellites could see where they were, our missiles could hit them, our bombers could bomb them, and all engagements took place out in the open. It's the exact opposite of what made Vietnam such a nightmare.
Well, right, don't blindly support. I personally do support going to war if we discover that a nation was behind this attack, but to each his own. But, I think the point he was trying to make was, just try to be a little nicer. Don't make fun when he stutters, maybe wait a week or two before we start the Dmitry protests up again, that kind of thing.
Given the amount of time we spend on /. insulting each others' countries, it really means something to know that when something horrible happens, the rest of the world actually does care.
My prediction is that they'll wait until the investigation has turned up some solid information before doing anything. I should point out, Clinton made a not very subtle threat against the middle east in the wake of Oklahoma City. He looked pretty stupid when it turned out to be an American anarchist. Still, given that something on the order of half a dozen attacks occured nearly simutaneously (two planes into the WTC, one car bomb nearby, some unknown means of attack against the pentagon building, and a crashed plane outside of western PA), this was probably the work of either a very large terrorist organization or a foreign government.
It used to be that people would write into contracts that a certain portion of debt had to be repaid in gold, as protection against devaluation of the dollar. By making the greenback legal tender, these sorts of contracts were made unenforcable. Furthermore, in the options and futures markets, one does not necessarily have to pay in shares of stock or barrels of oil, or whatever. One may instead delviver the fair market value of those goods. Finally, if you were to offer in trade a car in exchange for (for example) two cows, then you would be legally obligated to accept the dollar value of two cows.
Basically what I'm driving at is this: it is illegal to refuse to accept US dollars within the borders of the US. You are right that hyperinflation could devalue currency very quickly, however as long as the police and, push come to shove, the armed forces, have enough power to keep the population in line, the value of a dollar cannot hit zero.
That being said, I agree with your point that if people will give you money for your Diablo stuff, it has value. It is certainly a highly unstable investment, but that doesn't mean its necessarily worthless.
You can be highly psychologically addicted, but as far as physical addictions go, caffine is a really easy one to break. Oh, and as for smoking, my advice is to smoke a pipe. I've never seen a cigarette smoker derive as much enjoyment from a cigarette as I get from my pipe, and the time it takes means that I generally smoke about once every 2-4 weeks, never allowing myself to become addicted. Also, by puffing instead of inhaling, my lung cancer risk is also cut to near zero. It's a wonderful way to relax, if done correctly.