Targeted advertising done well also reduces my demand for ad blockers.
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Except now ads will be actually part of the content, so it'll be a lot harder to filter them out...
Rather than just get a blank rectangle where a banner should be, you might end up with blank javascript pop-ups, which'll be more annoying then a banner ad could ever be, IMO.
Likewise for redirect links. If the actual link to the article you want to read requires that you step through, say, DoubleClicks site in order to see the ad and hence, retrieve the URL, then you'll be effectively blocked from content if your blocking proxy prevents you from visiting doubleclick.
About the only possibly ad that you could stand to ignore would be the popup when you're done reading what you were looking for... But those would be the most easily ignored.
I wouldn't expect to be able to escape ads on the web, just as you can't avoid them on TV, listening to the radio, watching movies, or reading magazines. Banner ads were simple, but they've lost their effectiveness... The next generation will be much harder to separate from the content, seeing as how an entire cottage industry has sprung up devoted to selling tools to consumers which prevent ads from appearing before their eyes.
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There's no reason for the MPAA and RIAA to not go after the P2P providers they can. Just because the article says that *p2p may not be a real challenge for traditional distribution channels* it has not been found in the court of law to be legal either. It's not like they should sit back and wait until it's actually hurting them before they make steps to accertain whether or not it's legal, and if not, attempt to stop it from growing further...
You're making the assumpotion that the only reason that someoen would develop an OS would be so that they could create the **best* OS on a technical front.... maybe open sourcing BeOS would create a better" OS, but Be,inc, the driving force behind the BeOS would not... and that'd be detrimental to the BeOS in the end. How would be stand to make money? Who'd pay their architects to devise improvements to their OS?
Yes, LInux has grown under the open source umbrella, but it still remains quite a few leaps and bounds from the reformity that BeOS possess...
If it he was selected by 10% of our population, that'd make the countries population around 450 million. We're quite aways from that... The more reasonable figure is 20 or 25% of the population chose our next president...
Which is better than some other coutries where the people don't have a choice... No comments further than that, though.
Screeched to a halt at 400 MHz? it's barely even reached that milestone as of yet... The simple reason why CPU MHz is racing past system bus/memory bus is quite simply, the circuits are a lot shorter and more defined/controlled within a CPU than across a motherboard. Frequencies that run okay inside a CPU would fry a motherboard because so much more voltage would need to drive them at that speed for the additional distances.
Quit griping about the low low levels of the computer unless you actually have a reason to. And by that i mean if you're running a linux kernel with a debugger on and it says that 90% of the time the cache is empty and it's waiting on the memory bus, then you'll have a gripe. But most operations these days are taking place inside the CPU and the chip is not spending a *great* deal of time waiting for new data, except in extreme cases...
Okay, i'm just thinking of a kernel level emulator... Just emulate the processor. For the sake of thing like closed source drivers. And for binary apps, like WordPerfect, Oracle, ColdFusion, WebTrends, etc...
I think it's impossible to ask that every vendor release the source to all their applications or even provide precompiled binaries for every possible platform their program could run under. Including an x86 emulator in the kernel could open up a world of programs to users.
Developers intent on continuing to use C, C++ to deliver their applications could do so and still reach a sizable audience, whereas vendors could also use Java as a more "forward looking" solution, except aside from the backend, enterprise machines, Java's largely missed it's original mark of being a common API across all platforms.
I would think that it'd make it easier for people to distribute x86 binaries to users of other platforms. Build in an x86 emulator, and then the end user of a MIPS, Alpha, or ARM machine can draw benefit from the world of precompiled binaries... A lot of programs spend enough time waiting that recompiling wouldn't really be much of an issue.
It could also lead to accelerated developement of "proprietary" drivers for all sorts of non-x86 PC's.
Am I wrong in these assumptions? Or do they just need to be fleshed out some more?
(i do believe that "IP" protection has been extended to wholly stupid lengths, largely in the name of protecting one damned mouse, but that's another story...)
Tell me why anyone else in the world besides the Walt Disney Corporation should have any rights what so ever to Mickey Mouse? It's their character, their creation. There's no reason why anyone else ever should have rights to use Mickey however they see fit, IMO.
If someone has a great new innovative concept for a film with Mickey Mouse and that film won't fly without them getting rights to Mickey, then either that film isn't so great, or else the writer should go talk to disney about doing a joint venture deal or simply about selling his or her story to them.
You may not like it, but then you didn't develop and market Mickey Mouse across all these years, either.
Stealing cable is stealing cable. Nothing physical is missing, but they're not selling you anything physical to you in the first place. "Theft of service". Just as if someone hired you to complete a task. You accomplish it, they don't pay you. They stole your services.
If Intellectual Property wasn't property, then there'd be no need for the GPL, because there'd be no risk of anyone stealing GPL'ed code in order to use it in propretary software. It's property. Stop this nonsense that just because someone's delivering bits to you rather than something tangible, it's any less deserving of protection.
And the moment that a CD comes with a sticker on the wrapper that states "playing this CD in the presence of unlicensed listeners is strictly prohibitted. Return to this compact disc to the place of sale if you do not agree to this license agreement" is the day i'll actually believe that the RIAA is as evil as everyone around here say they are and actually make available every CD i own to the world via napster.
They're living someone elses vision. Game developers, they're the visionaries, and by creating compelling games, they're leading the gamers into their vision of entertainment/fantasy/etc...
But some kid who gets RSI by age 15 from playing too much Playstation after school is hardly a "visionary".
Granted I didn't read the entire Katz article, but then how many people here did?
Imagine, an eOne (iMac lookalike) in a store window running this theme. Confusion. That's why apple defends their interfaces so hard.
OS X is a highly anticipated operating system. There's a great deal of unknowing people out there that have the belief that OS X will actually ship on Intel. Now add that to say, an unscrupulous shop that decides to display their latest 1.2 GHz Athlon systems in the store window running Linux, Enlightenment, and one of the Aqua themes and you've got a recipe for confusion and brand dilution. On the outide the themes resemble Aqua quite a bit... It'd take a customer who didn't know better a little while to discover that that wasn't indeed Apple's operating system. And for all the hype it's received so far, if any of them thought that what they were looking at was OS X, and from my playing with it, the Aqua theme doesn't even touch OS X's polished appearance, they might walk away with a bad taste in their mouth for Apple.
Yes, the courts have ruled that one can make an interface that has elements resembling those of another interface. But this is wholesale copying... There's nothing added. The only way to differentiate between them is that one's a lot more polished than the other...
Well, then i can lock MY door and keep you out. I might even tell my neighbors about you if you're really annoying. But i'm not going to lock my neighbors houses in anticipation of you arriving at their houses.
ISPs provide bandwidth. And that's all they should. People (mostly people who work there) around here think that an ISPs responsibility should extend beyond that. It doesn't and shouldn't. When people sign onto an ISP (aside from AOL which eases people onto the internet) they're generally expecting unfettered access to the internet. The terms of services' that i've read at numerous ISP's all prohibit spamming. Fine. But they make no mention that i might not be able to receive mail from friends of mine that happen to share ISP's with a spammer.
Slashdot generally doens't like America Online and their potential to either censor other sites or at least give their own sites premium placement above others. If bandwidth or disk space is getting chewed up to the point where they can't make a profit because of SPAM, they need to lower their prices, not cut off service to the end user, especially without telling them about it in advance.
Yes, we'd like to be a community. But with one small, unelected, unaccountable group making decisions that can effect millions of people, that's not community anymore. We're not cooperating. There's rows of thugs prodding, shoving and herding people back into line. Stray outside the line, you're dead.
Ahhh... so why aren't linux users using winmodems? Because it' "too hard" to reverse engineer the chips themselves. Why does everyone complain about Microsoft changing their file formats with every release of office? Because it's "too hard" to create a new filter everytime there's a new revision to word.
So many of the complaints around here are based on things being "too hard" for linux developers to do. Don't bash the end user for having similar issues.
you can get my number blocked, but if my friend also uses the same LEC as you, you're not entitled to have him unable to receive my phone calls as well. The RBL, as it's implemented, isn't granular enough. That's my issue with it. The choice to use the RBL should be that of the end user (the person who the email account was set up on behalf of), no one else.
Great advice to give my mother or grandmother one day...
"Yeah, I know you like using Netscape as your intenet application. And yeah, i know, i took you a few months to learn that you could click an address and it would be added into your address book, let alone how long it took you to learn to create rules to filter your messages between your "personal", "business", and "possible spam" folders, non of that matters now. You need to use Hotmail from now on. Or yahoo mail. You can't bring your address book or sent mail or received mail folders with you either. Oh no, don't worry you didn't do anything wrong. It's just that someone else that happens to use the same internet provider as you did, which is why none of your friends can get your emails...."
Can you see my point from a less elitist mind set, now? And maybe help come up with an idea that doesn't punish innocent people at the same time as punishing "guily" people? Not everyone in the world knows works at an ISP, or owns their own domain, or even edits their own DNS records. A solution to SPAM take that into account.
Using a non-computer analogy: you don't. You can come over to my house and say "Hey, you know your doors unlocked?" but you can't come in and change the locks on me just to insure that you know that my house is now "safe".
Say my ISP uses RBL, specifically how am i supposed to "turn it off"?
Switch ISPs? Not likely, because there's only a few DSL providers around here and they all string lines from Verizon. And there's only two possibilities (AFAIK) for cable access.
If they use MAPS and people in my address books' addresses get added to list, then effectively i have no recourse. I can switch ISPs, but how will i even know what's occuring until a couple days go by and i get a phonecall saying "hey, why haven't you responded to my email?"
ISPs, sendmail developers, RBLer's, someone's got to make a system where users opt in and opt out individually. For instance, when signing up for an account of any sort with an ISP, their web page or CSR could plainly ask "would you like your mailbox to be protected from spam using the RBL?", provide an explanation if they don't know what it is and let each customer choose for themself.
Who cares if 2 + 2 sometimes equals 3.9999999999 on a chip?
Obviously you've never been involved with a branding campaign... Consistency counts. If every piece of collateral about your company was in a slightly different shade of color, it'd make your company look low-budget at best and amateur at worst. Using Pantone colors from a design perspective costs you nothing. You'll have to pay a couple extra dollars to the printer because they have to pay more for their inks, but in the end you end up using colors that you know will always look the same, regardless as to where they appear, or who you have print each job...
In any case, lack of Pantone support pretty much shuts the Gimp out of the professional high-end DTP realm, moreso than lack of CMYK, IMO.
No... CMYK is first and Pantone is 2nd or 3rd... Because, you can lie about pantone colors if need be, in that you can make a multichannel image and specify to the printer - now, please print black black plate in black, the cyan channel in Pantone Blue 072, the magenta as Pantone Red 032, and the yellow plate as a varnish.:)
The file will look absolutely aweful on your screen though, but you can fake your way around with out actually using Pantone colors while creating your files, but that all depends on supplying a file format that will separate correctly at the service bureau (ie, you can examine the plates of a CMYK file in advance by printing separations on your laser printer, but even if you do so with a RGB file, the service bureau will convert your file from RGB to CMYK and destroy anything you thought was going to be a separation...
But again, GIMP won't ever have access to Pantone colors, and since CMYK is more unilaterally useful, it would seem obvious that right now, it's its greatest sore spot... Then device independent color (LAB) for color management purposes... I won't rattle down the entire list of short comings though, because CMYK's enough of a start to making the GIMP a useful program for tasks beyond making simple web graphics.
They haven't patented color. They've patented a very specific system of color definitions. You can use any color in the world you'd like without their permission or okay. But if you go to your local printer and leaf through their color swatch book and say "i'd like this plate to be this exact color", then you're generally using Pantone colors.
You generally only ever see pantone colors on print jobs of 1, 2 or 3 colors, because most of the specturm of colors can be recreated using 4 colors.
They fill a niche. I hope i explained it adequately... Maybe their website will offer a clearer explanation for you...:-)
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Targeted advertising done well also reduces my demand for ad blockers.
:)
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Don't say i didn't warn you...
Except now ads will be actually part of the content, so it'll be a lot harder to filter them out...
Rather than just get a blank rectangle where a banner should be, you might end up with blank javascript pop-ups, which'll be more annoying then a banner ad could ever be, IMO.
Likewise for redirect links. If the actual link to the article you want to read requires that you step through, say, DoubleClicks site in order to see the ad and hence, retrieve the URL, then you'll be effectively blocked from content if your blocking proxy prevents you from visiting doubleclick.
About the only possibly ad that you could stand to ignore would be the popup when you're done reading what you were looking for... But those would be the most easily ignored.
I wouldn't expect to be able to escape ads on the web, just as you can't avoid them on TV, listening to the radio, watching movies, or reading magazines. Banner ads were simple, but they've lost their effectiveness... The next generation will be much harder to separate from the content, seeing as how an entire cottage industry has sprung up devoted to selling tools to consumers which prevent ads from appearing before their eyes.
There's no reason for the MPAA and RIAA to not go after the P2P providers they can. Just because the article says that *p2p may not be a real challenge for traditional distribution channels* it has not been found in the court of law to be legal either. It's not like they should sit back and wait until it's actually hurting them before they make steps to accertain whether or not it's legal, and if not, attempt to stop it from growing further...
You're making the assumpotion that the only reason that someoen would develop an OS would be so that they could create the **best* OS on a technical front.... maybe open sourcing BeOS would create a better" OS, but Be,inc, the driving force behind the BeOS would not... and that'd be detrimental to the BeOS in the end. How would be stand to make money? Who'd pay their architects to devise improvements to their OS?
Yes, LInux has grown under the open source umbrella, but it still remains quite a few leaps and bounds from the reformity that BeOS possess...
If it he was selected by 10% of our population, that'd make the countries population around 450 million. We're quite aways from that... The more reasonable figure is 20 or 25% of the population chose our next president...
Which is better than some other coutries where the people don't have a choice... No comments further than that, though.
Screeched to a halt at 400 MHz? it's barely even reached that milestone as of yet... The simple reason why CPU MHz is racing past system bus/memory bus is quite simply, the circuits are a lot shorter and more defined/controlled within a CPU than across a motherboard. Frequencies that run okay inside a CPU would fry a motherboard because so much more voltage would need to drive them at that speed for the additional distances.
Quit griping about the low low levels of the computer unless you actually have a reason to. And by that i mean if you're running a linux kernel with a debugger on and it says that 90% of the time the cache is empty and it's waiting on the memory bus, then you'll have a gripe. But most operations these days are taking place inside the CPU and the chip is not spending a *great* deal of time waiting for new data, except in extreme cases...
they'er already on at least a "divide by 7" circuit... at least for for the 933 and 1.13 GHz versions...
so you bash rambus and lust after them all in the same post? that's rather interesting, i must say....
Okay, i'm just thinking of a kernel level emulator... Just emulate the processor. For the sake of thing like closed source drivers. And for binary apps, like WordPerfect, Oracle, ColdFusion, WebTrends, etc...
I think it's impossible to ask that every vendor release the source to all their applications or even provide precompiled binaries for every possible platform their program could run under. Including an x86 emulator in the kernel could open up a world of programs to users.
Developers intent on continuing to use C, C++ to deliver their applications could do so and still reach a sizable audience, whereas vendors could also use Java as a more "forward looking" solution, except aside from the backend, enterprise machines, Java's largely missed it's original mark of being a common API across all platforms.
I would think that it'd make it easier for people to distribute x86 binaries to users of other platforms. Build in an x86 emulator, and then the end user of a MIPS, Alpha, or ARM machine can draw benefit from the world of precompiled binaries... A lot of programs spend enough time waiting that recompiling wouldn't really be much of an issue.
It could also lead to accelerated developement of "proprietary" drivers for all sorts of non-x86 PC's.
Am I wrong in these assumptions? Or do they just need to be fleshed out some more?
(i do believe that "IP" protection has been extended to wholly stupid lengths, largely in the name of protecting one damned mouse, but that's another story...)
Tell me why anyone else in the world besides the Walt Disney Corporation should have any rights what so ever to Mickey Mouse? It's their character, their creation. There's no reason why anyone else ever should have rights to use Mickey however they see fit, IMO.
If someone has a great new innovative concept for a film with Mickey Mouse and that film won't fly without them getting rights to Mickey, then either that film isn't so great, or else the writer should go talk to disney about doing a joint venture deal or simply about selling his or her story to them.
You may not like it, but then you didn't develop and market Mickey Mouse across all these years, either.
Stealing cable is stealing cable. Nothing physical is missing, but they're not selling you anything physical to you in the first place. "Theft of service". Just as if someone hired you to complete a task. You accomplish it, they don't pay you. They stole your services.
If Intellectual Property wasn't property, then there'd be no need for the GPL, because there'd be no risk of anyone stealing GPL'ed code in order to use it in propretary software. It's property. Stop this nonsense that just because someone's delivering bits to you rather than something tangible, it's any less deserving of protection.
And the moment that a CD comes with a sticker on the wrapper that states "playing this CD in the presence of unlicensed listeners is strictly prohibitted. Return to this compact disc to the place of sale if you do not agree to this license agreement" is the day i'll actually believe that the RIAA is as evil as everyone around here say they are and actually make available every CD i own to the world via napster.
They haven't and until they do, i won't.
Okay, now that's just LAME!
Finally, a trully unneccessarily restrictive license agreement to gripe about...
:)
They're living someone elses vision. Game developers, they're the visionaries, and by creating compelling games, they're leading the gamers into their vision of entertainment/fantasy/etc...
But some kid who gets RSI by age 15 from playing too much Playstation after school is hardly a "visionary".
Granted I didn't read the entire Katz article, but then how many people here did?
What'd be really nice, IMO, is if Bochs were somehow implemented as a kernel module for non x86 CPU's... wonder if that's at all doable?
Imagine, an eOne (iMac lookalike) in a store window running this theme. Confusion. That's why apple defends their interfaces so hard.
OS X is a highly anticipated operating system. There's a great deal of unknowing people out there that have the belief that OS X will actually ship on Intel. Now add that to say, an unscrupulous shop that decides to display their latest 1.2 GHz Athlon systems in the store window running Linux, Enlightenment, and one of the Aqua themes and you've got a recipe for confusion and brand dilution. On the outide the themes resemble Aqua quite a bit... It'd take a customer who didn't know better a little while to discover that that wasn't indeed Apple's operating system. And for all the hype it's received so far, if any of them thought that what they were looking at was OS X, and from my playing with it, the Aqua theme doesn't even touch OS X's polished appearance, they might walk away with a bad taste in their mouth for Apple.
Yes, the courts have ruled that one can make an interface that has elements resembling those of another interface. But this is wholesale copying... There's nothing added. The only way to differentiate between them is that one's a lot more polished than the other...
Well, then i can lock MY door and keep you out. I might even tell my neighbors about you if you're really annoying. But i'm not going to lock my neighbors houses in anticipation of you arriving at their houses.
ISPs provide bandwidth. And that's all they should. People (mostly people who work there) around here think that an ISPs responsibility should extend beyond that. It doesn't and shouldn't. When people sign onto an ISP (aside from AOL which eases people onto the internet) they're generally expecting unfettered access to the internet. The terms of services' that i've read at numerous ISP's all prohibit spamming. Fine. But they make no mention that i might not be able to receive mail from friends of mine that happen to share ISP's with a spammer.
Slashdot generally doens't like America Online and their potential to either censor other sites or at least give their own sites premium placement above others. If bandwidth or disk space is getting chewed up to the point where they can't make a profit because of SPAM, they need to lower their prices, not cut off service to the end user, especially without telling them about it in advance.
Yes, we'd like to be a community. But with one small, unelected, unaccountable group making decisions that can effect millions of people, that's not community anymore. We're not cooperating. There's rows of thugs prodding, shoving and herding people back into line. Stray outside the line, you're dead.
Ahhh... so why aren't linux users using winmodems? Because it' "too hard" to reverse engineer the chips themselves. Why does everyone complain about Microsoft changing their file formats with every release of office? Because it's "too hard" to create a new filter everytime there's a new revision to word.
So many of the complaints around here are based on things being "too hard" for linux developers to do. Don't bash the end user for having similar issues.
you can get my number blocked, but if my friend also uses the same LEC as you, you're not entitled to have him unable to receive my phone calls as well. The RBL, as it's implemented, isn't granular enough. That's my issue with it. The choice to use the RBL should be that of the end user (the person who the email account was set up on behalf of), no one else.
Great advice to give my mother or grandmother one day...
"Yeah, I know you like using Netscape as your intenet application. And yeah, i know, i took you a few months to learn that you could click an address and it would be added into your address book, let alone how long it took you to learn to create rules to filter your messages between your "personal", "business", and "possible spam" folders, non of that matters now. You need to use Hotmail from now on. Or yahoo mail. You can't bring your address book or sent mail or received mail folders with you either. Oh no, don't worry you didn't do anything wrong. It's just that someone else that happens to use the same internet provider as you did, which is why none of your friends can get your emails...."
Can you see my point from a less elitist mind set, now? And maybe help come up with an idea that doesn't punish innocent people at the same time as punishing "guily" people? Not everyone in the world knows works at an ISP, or owns their own domain, or even edits their own DNS records. A solution to SPAM take that into account.
Using a non-computer analogy: you don't. You can come over to my house and say "Hey, you know your doors unlocked?" but you can't come in and change the locks on me just to insure that you know that my house is now "safe".
Say my ISP uses RBL, specifically how am i supposed to "turn it off"?
Switch ISPs? Not likely, because there's only a few DSL providers around here and they all string lines from Verizon. And there's only two possibilities (AFAIK) for cable access.
If they use MAPS and people in my address books' addresses get added to list, then effectively i have no recourse. I can switch ISPs, but how will i even know what's occuring until a couple days go by and i get a phonecall saying "hey, why haven't you responded to my email?"
ISPs, sendmail developers, RBLer's, someone's got to make a system where users opt in and opt out individually. For instance, when signing up for an account of any sort with an ISP, their web page or CSR could plainly ask "would you like your mailbox to be protected from spam using the RBL?", provide an explanation if they don't know what it is and let each customer choose for themself.
Who cares if 2 + 2 sometimes equals 3.9999999999 on a chip?
Obviously you've never been involved with a branding campaign... Consistency counts. If every piece of collateral about your company was in a slightly different shade of color, it'd make your company look low-budget at best and amateur at worst. Using Pantone colors from a design perspective costs you nothing. You'll have to pay a couple extra dollars to the printer because they have to pay more for their inks, but in the end you end up using colors that you know will always look the same, regardless as to where they appear, or who you have print each job...
In any case, lack of Pantone support pretty much shuts the Gimp out of the professional high-end DTP realm, moreso than lack of CMYK, IMO.
:)
No... CMYK is first and Pantone is 2nd or 3rd... Because, you can lie about pantone colors if need be, in that you can make a multichannel image and specify to the printer - now, please print black black plate in black, the cyan channel in Pantone Blue 072, the magenta as Pantone Red 032, and the yellow plate as a varnish.
The file will look absolutely aweful on your screen though, but you can fake your way around with out actually using Pantone colors while creating your files, but that all depends on supplying a file format that will separate correctly at the service bureau (ie, you can examine the plates of a CMYK file in advance by printing separations on your laser printer, but even if you do so with a RGB file, the service bureau will convert your file from RGB to CMYK and destroy anything you thought was going to be a separation...
But again, GIMP won't ever have access to Pantone colors, and since CMYK is more unilaterally useful, it would seem obvious that right now, it's its greatest sore spot... Then device independent color (LAB) for color management purposes... I won't rattle down the entire list of short comings though, because CMYK's enough of a start to making the GIMP a useful program for tasks beyond making simple web graphics.
They haven't patented color. They've patented a very specific system of color definitions. You can use any color in the world you'd like without their permission or okay. But if you go to your local printer and leaf through their color swatch book and say "i'd like this plate to be this exact color", then you're generally using Pantone colors.
:-)
You generally only ever see pantone colors on print jobs of 1, 2 or 3 colors, because most of the specturm of colors can be recreated using 4 colors.
They fill a niche. I hope i explained it adequately... Maybe their website will offer a clearer explanation for you...