Bear in mind that the technology is a one-off cost, while plane tickets are an on-going thing.
Also, if your average corporate honcho rates at around $50 - $150 / hr cost, then a 12 hour flight is the equivalent of wasting $600 - $1800 per direction, plus ticket costs, accomodation and misc expenses. That's a big pile of cash wasted for what could be a 5-minute meeting.
Adds up, huh? Whereas $70k and the ability to get to your audience without moving is fantastic!
Let me begin with an example: Last week we were looking around for an ethernet capable webcam with internal image server for a client. I jumped on to/. and saw a ThinkGeek ad for exactly that. That was the fastest click-thru I've ever made.
My point: The real estate at the top of the screen is going to be filled with some sort of advertising anyhow. If I can exercise some sort of control over what ads I see, then great! Now, I can choose to filter all these ads out but I will miss ads like the ThinkGeek one. But if I know that the advertising is going to be of interest to me then the chance of a click-thru are higher and I feel better about the advertiser.
So from the article and the posts here, a few thumbs-up.
Let me choose the type of ads I want to see. This way the advertiser knows that the ads are being viewed by the exact demographic that are interested in their business.
Let me ban an ad I hate. The advertiser will soon work out which ads are annoying the audience and change 'em. Also, gives me more control - now I'll look at every ad and weigh up whether to kill it. I feel good, and the advertiser shows me the ad every time.
Let me mark an ad for later viewing Mentioned by another reader, this is good. An interesting ad comes up, but I'm busy reading about how all my bases are now belonging to someone else. I click the "add the ad" button and I can view it later, when I'm less worked up.
Just a few thoughts and re-interations. A good idea: anything that makes for a better and more friendly ad system, the better.
...after reading the posts that: a) Smith should be reasonably entitled to compensation from Nike for costs incurred in redirecting the nike.com traffic back to nike through his DNS. b) Nike should pay the man for his time and effort, thank him and there should end the relationship between Nike and Smith. No negligence suit against Nike should (and IMHO could) be instigated. c) Nike probably has reasonable cause to take measures against NSI for negligence (for allowing the attackers access to compromise the nike web presence)
...and perhaps someone should be sued for starting the sudden analogy explosion on this forum.
Not a good move! It's only a matter of time until some disheartened, but incredibly lucky mathematician and a cocky yet loveable figher pilot get ensconced in a governmental global-protection scheme, borrow some alien vehicle and UPLOAD A VIRUS!
Everyone knows that Macs are the best way to bring down a space station:)
We have a ping-pong table set up in the garage, a pool table in the lounge and a fooz-ball table upstairs. We spend FAR more time on these archaic devices than on Q2 and the like (Q3? That's waaay too modern:)
Presumably a perfect game is "winning from the first move". In tic tac toe (and chess), all that is needed to win is a) to start and b) to know the permutations and appropriate counter-moves required to get you to victory. Let us suppose that both players satisfy b) then the game could be said to be solved, as the result is decided by the starting order. A computer (computers!) could conceivably "solve" chess in this manner, but us mere humans could never begin to remember the billions of permutations required to always win.
But neat idea - It'd be cool to log into a chess machine and see "The computer has chosen white. You lose. Play again? (Y/N)". Bring it on!
Yup. Works fine here. We had 3 machines on EQ at one time, all masqed by the box and running nicely. Gimme a yell if you need to look at my masq setup.
The StarTAC is technically a good little phone; what with call clarity, battery-life and size. But in my experience there are some annoying problems that don't give them my vote.
Firstly, the display screen is on the inside of the phone when closed. This means that callerID is useless to you when you answer the phone by flipping the case open. Also, while robust when closed, the damn thing snaps repeatedly when dropped while open.
I've had a few different types of phone in my time. Currently the Nokia 6110 is doing the job very well. Best reception and clarity I've used and the functionality is fantastic. Plus it's got an IR port:) The best thing about Nokia though, is their intuitive menu system that is fairly standard throughout all their phones. Ericsson is a good brand too - I had a GF768 (the little flip-front "world"). It was small, light and with a good battery life. But all this was overshadowed by ericsson's cool standard feature: programmable ring tones. Very cool. The new ericsson's now are very stylish - especially with auto-flip-answer features. Oh, and while you're looking for phones make sure you check out the range that Bosch offers. They're damn good as well.
Have to totally diagree with you here. Napster to me (as to many other/.ers) is a tool for trialling music before buying. I do not view it as evil and criminal as you and others imply.
Your argument suggests that every "pirated" song eats away the profits of the music industry. This implies that in the absence of Napster and the like, people would ALWAYS purchase the album instead. This is an untruth - People would simply go without. As an example, I rarely buy albums unless I have heard and enjoyed a few of the tracks, yet if I were to obtain a copy of these songs from Napster, I could listen to the music and develop a taste for the band. This could inspire me to purchase the album, and perhaps subsequent albums. This makes me happy and the band gains my approval. The non-Napster alternative would be total ignorance of the band AND song. This is the principle behind "hit radio" - songs are played to entice listeners into album purchase. Napster is merely a more direct and choice-based form of radio-style song promotion.
Napster allows users to listen to music they would never dream of purchasing, thus increasing the exposure of new bands. It's a good thing, and should stay. Stop the beligerence.
There was a teeny tiny water outage as well, but due to the same wind problems shutting off power. You can find out all about it at: http://onenews.co.nz/millennium/2000/01/01/0001443 6.htm In other news, THIS New Zealander suffered some real millennium problems - my vision got very blurry, voice got louder, artificial horizon broke down, love for everyone seemed to increase and an unknown singing algorhythm seemed to spark into life. These problems lasted several hours, but have since stopped. Be warned, rest of the world, these phenomena could happen to YOU! Have a great one!
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Also, if your average corporate honcho rates at around $50 - $150 / hr cost, then a 12 hour flight is the equivalent of wasting $600 - $1800 per direction, plus ticket costs, accomodation and misc expenses. That's a big pile of cash wasted for what could be a 5-minute meeting.
Adds up, huh? Whereas $70k and the ability to get to your audience without moving is fantastic!
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My point: The real estate at the top of the screen is going to be filled with some sort of advertising anyhow. If I can exercise some sort of control over what ads I see, then great! Now, I can choose to filter all these ads out but I will miss ads like the ThinkGeek one. But if I know that the advertising is going to be of interest to me then the chance of a click-thru are higher and I feel better about the advertiser.
So from the article and the posts here, a few thumbs-up.
- Let me choose the type of ads I want to see.
- Let me ban an ad I hate.
- Let me mark an ad for later viewing
Just a few thoughts and re-interations. A good idea: anything that makes for a better and more friendly ad system, the better.This way the advertiser knows that the ads are being viewed by the exact demographic that are interested in their business.
The advertiser will soon work out which ads are annoying the audience and change 'em. Also, gives me more control - now I'll look at every ad and weigh up whether to kill it. I feel good, and the advertiser shows me the ad every time.
Mentioned by another reader, this is good. An interesting ad comes up, but I'm busy reading about how all my bases are now belonging to someone else. I click the "add the ad" button and I can view it later, when I'm less worked up.
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a) Smith should be reasonably entitled to compensation from Nike for costs incurred in redirecting the nike.com traffic back to nike through his DNS.
b) Nike should pay the man for his time and effort, thank him and there should end the relationship between Nike and Smith. No negligence suit against Nike should (and IMHO could) be instigated.
c) Nike probably has reasonable cause to take measures against NSI for negligence (for allowing the attackers access to compromise the nike web presence)
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Everyone knows that Macs are the best way to bring down a space station :)
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We have a ping-pong table set up in the garage, a pool table in the lounge and a fooz-ball table upstairs. :)
We spend FAR more time on these archaic devices than on Q2 and the like (Q3? That's waaay too modern
Vive la pinball et al...
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Erk :) Yup, that's exactly true. I have *NO* idea what the hell I was talking about...
Aaaaah, sleep. How we take you for granted...
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In tic tac toe (and chess), all that is needed to win is a) to start and b) to know the permutations and appropriate counter-moves required to get you to victory. Let us suppose that both players satisfy b) then the game could be said to be solved, as the result is decided by the starting order.
A computer (computers!) could conceivably "solve" chess in this manner, but us mere humans could never begin to remember the billions of permutations required to always win.
But neat idea - It'd be cool to log into a chess machine and see "The computer has chosen white. You lose. Play again? (Y/N)". Bring it on!
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Yup. Works fine here. We had 3 machines on EQ at one time, all masqed by the box and running nicely.
Gimme a yell if you need to look at my masq setup.
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Firstly, the display screen is on the inside of the phone when closed. This means that callerID is useless to you when you answer the phone by flipping the case open. Also, while robust when closed, the damn thing snaps repeatedly when dropped while open.
I've had a few different types of phone in my time. Currently the Nokia 6110 is doing the job very well. Best reception and clarity I've used and the functionality is fantastic. Plus it's got an IR port :) The best thing about Nokia though, is their intuitive menu system that is fairly standard throughout all their phones.
Ericsson is a good brand too - I had a GF768 (the little flip-front "world"). It was small, light and with a good battery life. But all this was overshadowed by ericsson's cool standard feature: programmable ring tones. Very cool. The new ericsson's now are very stylish - especially with auto-flip-answer features.
Oh, and while you're looking for phones make sure you check out the range that Bosch offers. They're damn good as well.
Good luck!
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Your argument suggests that every "pirated" song eats away the profits of the music industry. This implies that in the absence of Napster and the like, people would ALWAYS purchase the album instead. This is an untruth - People would simply go without. As an example, I rarely buy albums unless I have heard and enjoyed a few of the tracks, yet if I were to obtain a copy of these songs from Napster, I could listen to the music and develop a taste for the band. This could inspire me to purchase the album, and perhaps subsequent albums. This makes me happy and the band gains my approval. The non-Napster alternative would be total ignorance of the band AND song. This is the principle behind "hit radio" - songs are played to entice listeners into album purchase. Napster is merely a more direct and choice-based form of radio-style song promotion.
Napster allows users to listen to music they would never dream of purchasing, thus increasing the exposure of new bands. It's a good thing, and should stay.
Stop the beligerence.
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There was a teeny tiny water outage as well, but due to the same wind problems shutting off power. You can find out all about it at: http://onenews.co.nz/millennium/2000/01/01/0001443 6.htm In other news, THIS New Zealander suffered some real millennium problems - my vision got very blurry, voice got louder, artificial horizon broke down, love for everyone seemed to increase and an unknown singing algorhythm seemed to spark into life. These problems lasted several hours, but have since stopped. Be warned, rest of the world, these phenomena could happen to YOU! Have a great one!