So after that, I see the goal and I applaude it, but I just feel somewhat mislead to believe the agency was in money troubles, really isn't. Kind of like loaning a friend $100 so they can pay rent, only to see them hauling in a 63" Flat Screen T.V. they just bought the next week.
Your numbers are all wrong. It's more like you lent them $100 for rent, and then you caught them spending 50 cents to super-size a meal at McDonalds.
maybe a 'solution' would be to have many shorter commerical breaks
That sounds awful. My biggest complaint about ad-supported television is that the ads interrupt the flow of the narrative, chopping it up into little pieces. Shorter but more frequent ad breaks would exacerbate the problem.
The reason why they don't want you skipping their adds is that if the avertisers found out that their sales are unnafected by the decrease in "person views" then the TV industry would be screwed.
There's little doubt in my mind that advertising can work, depending on what's being sold. One summer I had a job fielding calls to a toll-free number that was associated with an AT&T marketing campaign. You could tell when a commercial was aired: Suddenly there would be an enormous flood of incoming calls. Traffic swelled by a factor of 50, easily. So it's clear that advertising was working in this case. What's less clear is whether or not it works for something like, say, soap, where you can't respond so immediately to the ad.
So, you would rather have only pay TV than the choice you have now, between pay TV, donation supported TV and ad-supported TV?
I would much, much rather have only pay TV. As things are now, most TV is ad-supported, and most of it sucks. Pay TV tends to be much higher in quality, on average. If ad-supported TV went away, we'd probably see a good bit more pay TV, and much more quality stuff.
No. It's not the rights of Nike's employees and shareholders that are being curtailed. It's the right of Nike itself, which is a distinct entity from said employees and shareholders. This distinction is the point of corporations.
The other alternative, of course, is HBO: Programming so good it's worth paying for, and supports itself without any need for in-line ads.
I never had cable until I spent a year living in a corporate apartment with free cable and HBO a few years ago. After that, I couldn't stand watching ad-supported television any more. I'd come to find commercial breaks incredibly jarring, and couldn't enjoy programs that were fragmented by the inclusion of ads. It's hard to develop good quality programs when the narrative flow is broken every 7-8 minutes by advertisements for soap and toilet paper.
He who pays the piper calls the tune. Is it any surprise that most ad-supported TV sucks, given that it's paid for by advertisers who can usually manage to insult the audience's intelligence a half-dozen times in the space of a single 30-second spot?
Another way to save money is going standard as opposed to automatic transmission.
This may be true if you're planning to drive the car until it dies, or the resale value is negligable anyways. But the last car I owned had a standard transmission, and selling that thing was heinously difficult. I heard from probably a dozen people who lost interest when I mentioned it wasn't an automatic. I ended up going significantly below the blue book value just to get rid of the thing.
I cant quite understand why Apple is moving back to DVI interface...Is this just for the powerbook or a general change of strategy?
The ADC interface provides power as well as signal. Probably the PowerBook doesn't have a power supply capable of handling an external monitor.
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I tell ya, the next big leap will come when rudimentary AI coupled with decent robotics create the robotic house butler or house maid. It would result in the creation of more free time for a lot of people.
It's easy to achieve the same result today, through a simple technique known as "not giving a shit that you're a slob".
This may not be entrapment, but it is dangling a carrot in front of desparate people and bored kids.
In what way does this constitute a "carrot"? Judging from the article, there's nothing any more enticing about this car than any other random parked car. If that's a carrot, then the streets of most cities are just littered with carrots.
Its either that or state run stations (yeah, PBS is fine).
PBS is not state run. In fact, it doesn't even get very much of its money directly from the government. Rather, most of its money comes from local public TV stations (which generally are publically funded).
Should the Sultan have a heart attack, the volunteer will be killed, his heart transplanted.
Uh, isn't that little "killing the volunteer" step illegal? Maybe there's a special exception in Dubai, but you mention that the donor travels everywhere with the Sultan, and surely that must include plenty of places where no such exception exists.
Here's a tip to get rid of the nag screen: Set your system clock ahead, say, 20 years. Run the quicktime player. When it asks you to buy the full version, click the "later" option. Exit the player. Restore your clock to the correct time. You won't get the nag screen again for 20 years.
11. Houston, We Have a Problem, Part 2: Business 2.0 puts Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling on the cover of its August/September issue as a symbol of the digital revolution. A week after the issue hits newsstands, Skilling resigns from his job. In retrospect, perhaps Skilling's pose on the cover should have provided a clue.
I was in London last November, and visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. I was familiar with the Harrison clocks and story, but I hadn't known they were kept there. So it was a pleasant surprise to find them there. If you're a geek and you happen to be in London, it's well worth your time to go take a look.
The first three clocks are these large (roughtly 1.5 ft in each dimension) contraptions with lots of visible moving parts, wooden gears, etc. Then you get to H4, and it's this elegant little package. The leap between the first three clocks and the fourth is enormous.
There's a fair amount of other neat stuff at Greenwich, too. They have a number of displays about the development of "time infrastructure". I remember reading one bit that talked about how, in 1852 (I believe), Greenwich began transmitting the time to the rest of England via telegraph. I couldn't help but be reminded of how clock signals are distributed around a CPU and other synchronous logic devices, and think that maybe humanity is somewhat more borg-like than we usually acknowledge.
So because we can't make the interface smart enough to recognize and avoid all pathological configurations, we shouldn't bother to put in code to deal with those that are recognizable? Amazing logic.
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This is hardly a major criticism, since I have yet to hear of a biz school that turns out good managers.
Your numbers are all wrong. It's more like you lent them $100 for rent, and then you caught them spending 50 cents to super-size a meal at McDonalds.
That sounds awful. My biggest complaint about ad-supported television is that the ads interrupt the flow of the narrative, chopping it up into little pieces. Shorter but more frequent ad breaks would exacerbate the problem.
There's little doubt in my mind that advertising can work, depending on what's being sold. One summer I had a job fielding calls to a toll-free number that was associated with an AT&T marketing campaign. You could tell when a commercial was aired: Suddenly there would be an enormous flood of incoming calls. Traffic swelled by a factor of 50, easily. So it's clear that advertising was working in this case. What's less clear is whether or not it works for something like, say, soap, where you can't respond so immediately to the ad.
I would much, much rather have only pay TV. As things are now, most TV is ad-supported, and most of it sucks. Pay TV tends to be much higher in quality, on average. If ad-supported TV went away, we'd probably see a good bit more pay TV, and much more quality stuff.
And how long did it take you to acquire the knowledge required to do this?
Forgive me if I find this hard to believe.
No. It's not the rights of Nike's employees and shareholders that are being curtailed. It's the right of Nike itself, which is a distinct entity from said employees and shareholders. This distinction is the point of corporations.
So what? It's not their right to free speech that's being curtailed here.
Nonsense. Maybe those vi nutbars can be thought of as cult members, but those of us who use emacs are simply intelligent, rational decision makers.
Hey, I'm completely tolerant of your decision to not have an abortion.
I never had cable until I spent a year living in a corporate apartment with free cable and HBO a few years ago. After that, I couldn't stand watching ad-supported television any more. I'd come to find commercial breaks incredibly jarring, and couldn't enjoy programs that were fragmented by the inclusion of ads. It's hard to develop good quality programs when the narrative flow is broken every 7-8 minutes by advertisements for soap and toilet paper.
He who pays the piper calls the tune. Is it any surprise that most ad-supported TV sucks, given that it's paid for by advertisers who can usually manage to insult the audience's intelligence a half-dozen times in the space of a single 30-second spot?
This may be true if you're planning to drive the car until it dies, or the resale value is negligable anyways. But the last car I owned had a standard transmission, and selling that thing was heinously difficult. I heard from probably a dozen people who lost interest when I mentioned it wasn't an automatic. I ended up going significantly below the blue book value just to get rid of the thing.
The ADC interface provides power as well as signal. Probably the PowerBook doesn't have a power supply capable of handling an external monitor.
It's easy to achieve the same result today, through a simple technique known as "not giving a shit that you're a slob".
In what way does this constitute a "carrot"? Judging from the article, there's nothing any more enticing about this car than any other random parked car. If that's a carrot, then the streets of most cities are just littered with carrots.
Its either that or state run stations (yeah, PBS is fine).
PBS is not state run. In fact, it doesn't even get very much of its money directly from the government. Rather, most of its money comes from local public TV stations (which generally are publically funded).
Uh, isn't that little "killing the volunteer" step illegal? Maybe there's a special exception in Dubai, but you mention that the donor travels everywhere with the Sultan, and surely that must include plenty of places where no such exception exists.
Huh? Beer contains no fat whatsoever.
Why is it "logical" to ignore factors that have a significant influence on how a technology is going to be applied in practice?
Here's a tip to get rid of the nag screen: Set your system clock ahead, say, 20 years. Run the quicktime player. When it asks you to buy the full version, click the "later" option. Exit the player. Restore your clock to the correct time. You won't get the nag screen again for 20 years.
I was in London last November, and visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. I was familiar with the Harrison clocks and story, but I hadn't known they were kept there. So it was a pleasant surprise to find them there. If you're a geek and you happen to be in London, it's well worth your time to go take a look.
The first three clocks are these large (roughtly 1.5 ft in each dimension) contraptions with lots of visible moving parts, wooden gears, etc. Then you get to H4, and it's this elegant little package. The leap between the first three clocks and the fourth is enormous.
There's a fair amount of other neat stuff at Greenwich, too. They have a number of displays about the development of "time infrastructure". I remember reading one bit that talked about how, in 1852 (I believe), Greenwich began transmitting the time to the rest of England via telegraph. I couldn't help but be reminded of how clock signals are distributed around a CPU and other synchronous logic devices, and think that maybe humanity is somewhat more borg-like than we usually acknowledge.
No. Web browsers are the warmed-over dumb terminals. Application servers are warmed-over mainframes.
However, while what you say is true, the fact that the model is old doesn't mean that it isn't right for a lot of purposes.
So because we can't make the interface smart enough to recognize and avoid all pathological configurations, we shouldn't bother to put in code to deal with those that are recognizable? Amazing logic.