I really dont understand why online advertising has to be different from normal print/radio/televison advertising. The big problem seems to be that ads are required to be targeted and revenues are usually based on click throughs. Television shows dont target specific products....and they dont pay for them based on the number of people that rush out and call the company. Why do banners need to be interactive at all? What happened to the idea of brandrecognition? Another thing I have never understood is why not look at a model of sponsorship similar to the way PBS does it, a general news site about racing for instance could be sponsored my Texaco etc....
Well it has a 12 bit screen rather than a 16 bit one...it has no built in expandability...it cannot recognize more than one button press at a time...and has a dust problem...the new ones now have a color problem....and oh yea it looks like something out of the matrix which makes it l33t despite the problems.
Actually there is Sprint Broadband Wireless service in:
Tucson, Houston, Phoenix, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Portland, Seattle, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Fresno, Denver, Colorado Springs, Melborne, and Salt Lake City.
Sorry no new england states at the moment....as a matter of fact the florida pop is the only one on the atlantic coast.
For the time being that is it....further launches are at least a year out. Most likely there will be expansion into other markets once the second generation product is available. The second generation product will offer near or non line of sight, better throughput and a cellular deployment...which could theoretically open the door for the mobile broadband wireless discussed earlier in later generations.
I am part of the team that got the Chicago system for Sprint Broadband Wireless up and running. There has been a one way service there for some time but the two way in Chicago was just finished market acceptance.
Its uses a fixed dish that connects to an external modem made by a company called Hybrid. The reciever and transmitter are combined and the unit works for the most part like any standard cable modem.
On average you can expect in a fully subscribed market around t1 speeds down and isdn speeds up.
The technology from the tower to the fixed wireless antenna at a subscriberes home is RF based cloud cover and rain fade do not have nearly the affect on RF as it does on satellite based systems, the only time weather really has much affect at all is when there is very heavy ice build up and even then its minimal.
I really dont get the hype over the Ipaq. I had one for around 2 months. After problems with dust getting behind the screen I sent it back for repair 2 weeks after the ipaq was returned the screen flipped out on me and I had to send it back again. The second time it was returned to me I ebay'ed it. Bought a casio 125, 64 compact flash, a serial keyboard and still had enough cash left for dinner.
So far I have had no problems with the Casio no dust, 16bit color vs 12bit, 8 way direction pad vs 4 way, multiple button press vs single button press, etc.... Plus the casio turned out to be highly overclockable so now it runs at 200mhz too. Everyone told me that it was unusable outdoors, thats simply not true..sure you may need to adjust the contrast but its plenty readable.
Maybe im missing something but I just dont see whats so great about the Ipaq anymore. Granted it looked cool, but i dont see asthetics outweighing functionality.
With 50 million users i really dont think anyone is refering to doubleclick or linkexchange...more like Coke or Pepsi buying perm ad space. The reason why banner ads are dead is because there was no method to the maddness. Targeted advertising and sponsorships are the way that advertising can and will be successful on the web.
Since aquiring my PocketPC i have actually been reading much more often. At any one moment, I keep around 10 novels on compact flash and have found myself reading between appointments, in bed (no booklight needed) and in meeting its great you can read a book and still look very busy. When travelling I dont have to lug around 4-5 paperbacks and I never loose my place if i fall asleep reading, since if remembers where I dropped off. Sure I still enjoy the smell of printed paper and still buy my share of both paperbacks and hardbacks but for convenience sake I find ebooks a more than worthy addition to my library.
This sounds oddly like my previous employer. I have spent the last 10 years between 4 failed startups...the first 3 I rode out through missed paychecks and empty promises util I had ruined my credit, strained my relationship with my wife and missed alot of opportunites for training...I guess the.com millionaire prospects were just too enticing. My last employer decided after 4 years to take the company in "a new direction" and one by one let go of all the IT staff in favor of outsourcing, I was the last to be "let go" after being promised that I would at least be kept on so ther would be one admin on staff. Coincidently I was let go the week after I had finished building the company intranet. 3 weeks following my being "let go" they called to say they had a major hardware crash and the outsourcing company couldnt be there to fix it until the following monday...I was told I should care since I was a stock holder...
The moral to the story....very few companies are worth your loyalty in this business, if its deemed in the companies interest they would just as soon screw you anyway. Your fellow employees if they are competent should have no trouble finding work, if they are not...they will have to face reality.
Bail while you can, if management is as bad as you say, then you have absolutely nothing to gain. I can cite no example of any sinking.com that suddenly found sucess by "shifting focus" the need to shift IMHO shows a lack of solid ideals for the company to start with.
If you have that much ability, the talent to back it up and are only making $45 than you are indeed getting fucked in the ass....I live in a small metropolis that averages on the low end of the IT pay scale but programmers here make better than that, hell, all i do most of the time is stare at network monitoring software, occasionally build a tunnel and on rare instances configure a router or two and I make more than that. Get your resume out there...I recommend dice.com it gets numerous responses quite quickly.
I really dont understand I have friends doing the same preording a console for a single game that isnt even due out until Sept of 2001...and after the inevitable delays probably 1st quarter 2k2.
Howbout that for the price of a psx2, you can buy a dreamcast and have enough money left over to get a dvd that actually has a remote and some real functionality. BTW the psx1 compatablity is nowhere close to 100% and is not enhanced visually in anyway...
Oh wait i forgot most of the dreamcast games have to suck since most are actually innovative rather than sequels.
First off, Im a while male in the biz and I happen to agree with the article. I dont know if its the falsely assumed anonimity of the net or just the isolation that tends to surround alot of techno geeks that tends to bring out the worst in people but its true.
I think alot of it stems from a lack of social skills, many that I know have practically no life outside of the net and what little socializing is done is with fellow hermits like themselves. Fortunately I think these folks are in the minority they just happen to have the time to be the most vocal.
What is going on now is not any different than what was around before the Internet was popular...only back in the bbs days elitisim was limited to small confined areas, with the expansion of the Internet into the general populace the fringe have kept up the attitude and suddenly you have Joe Bob sitting behind his screen thinking he is Lawnmower Man making whatever chat room, message board or forum uninhabitable by most others.
While I have no problem with ego's, most of us that are knowledgeable in the field have one...I do have a problem in that elitisim does nothing to further any cause. A friend of mine told me recently that he wished the net would go back to the way it was when it was just barely moving away from ARPA, but then in the same conversation he talks about how he wished that Linux would go aggresively more mainstream. You cant have it both ways, if you want social acceptance you have to be willing to bend towards the masses rather than expect them to bend towards you.
Flame if you want...its just my opinion, BTW im also Southern Baptist and trust me well over 50% are backwards hicks.
Also if you read a little further you find both rebuffed...it does play lower bitrate (good for old live boots, but not much else). I havent been able to reproduce the audio synch probelm...even with Austin Powers 2 (the one that supposedly had the problem) If the problem is there its either so small I cant notice or its not a consistent problem. It does have the 8.3 limit but hey I can live with that..
The problem isnt in canceling one account the problem is hundreds of accounts. They really need to enact an anti-spam policy.
I am a former admin of a fairly large news outsourcing service and believe me this problem is not new. Recently usenet posts have exploded to well over 20 gigs a day most of the time, many times now it has hit 30. A 250 gig raid can only retain about a weeks worth of articles now. Of that 250 gig I would guess that 2 days worth of retention space is lost to spam. Its a serious problem.
Just fighting off spammers on a local level is a full time job for a decent news service. Check http://www.spamhippo.com and look at the top 100 spam sites and you will be amazed at the sheer numbers.
I feel bad for any user that suffers due to their ISP's negligence but at the same time I know that locally we will comply with UDP. The suffering of the users unfortunately is the only way to stop it.
Most arent aware but there are actually people out there who do nothing but work as spammers for hire...they sign up for a newsservice and spam until they loose their account. @home has become a haven for them due to their apathy towards stopping them and several notorious spammers have been using them for months.
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I really dont understand why online advertising has to be different from normal print/radio/televison advertising. The big problem seems to be that ads are required to be targeted and revenues are usually based on click throughs. Television shows dont target specific products....and they dont pay for them based on the number of people that rush out and call the company. Why do banners need to be interactive at all? What happened to the idea of brandrecognition? Another thing I have never understood is why not look at a model of sponsorship similar to the way PBS does it, a general news site about racing for instance could be sponsored my Texaco etc....
Well it has a 12 bit screen rather than a 16 bit one...it has no built in expandability...it cannot recognize more than one button press at a time...and has a dust problem...the new ones now have a color problem....and oh yea it looks like something out of the matrix which makes it l33t despite the problems.
Actually there is Sprint Broadband Wireless service in: Tucson, Houston, Phoenix, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, San Jose, Portland, Seattle, Wichita, Oklahoma City, Fresno, Denver, Colorado Springs, Melborne, and Salt Lake City. Sorry no new england states at the moment....as a matter of fact the florida pop is the only one on the atlantic coast. For the time being that is it....further launches are at least a year out. Most likely there will be expansion into other markets once the second generation product is available. The second generation product will offer near or non line of sight, better throughput and a cellular deployment...which could theoretically open the door for the mobile broadband wireless discussed earlier in later generations.
Its uses a fixed dish that connects to an external modem made by a company called Hybrid. The reciever and transmitter are combined and the unit works for the most part like any standard cable modem.
On average you can expect in a fully subscribed market around t1 speeds down and isdn speeds up.
The technology from the tower to the fixed wireless antenna at a subscriberes home is RF based cloud cover and rain fade do not have nearly the affect on RF as it does on satellite based systems, the only time weather really has much affect at all is when there is very heavy ice build up and even then its minimal.
I really dont get the hype over the Ipaq. I had one for around 2 months. After problems with dust getting behind the screen I sent it back for repair 2 weeks after the ipaq was returned the screen flipped out on me and I had to send it back again. The second time it was returned to me I ebay'ed it. Bought a casio 125, 64 compact flash, a serial keyboard and still had enough cash left for dinner. So far I have had no problems with the Casio no dust, 16bit color vs 12bit, 8 way direction pad vs 4 way, multiple button press vs single button press, etc.... Plus the casio turned out to be highly overclockable so now it runs at 200mhz too. Everyone told me that it was unusable outdoors, thats simply not true..sure you may need to adjust the contrast but its plenty readable. Maybe im missing something but I just dont see whats so great about the Ipaq anymore. Granted it looked cool, but i dont see asthetics outweighing functionality.
With 50 million users i really dont think anyone is refering to doubleclick or linkexchange...more like Coke or Pepsi buying perm ad space. The reason why banner ads are dead is because there was no method to the maddness. Targeted advertising and sponsorships are the way that advertising can and will be successful on the web.
Since aquiring my PocketPC i have actually been reading much more often. At any one moment, I keep around 10 novels on compact flash and have found myself reading between appointments, in bed (no booklight needed) and in meeting its great you can read a book and still look very busy. When travelling I dont have to lug around 4-5 paperbacks and I never loose my place if i fall asleep reading, since if remembers where I dropped off. Sure I still enjoy the smell of printed paper and still buy my share of both paperbacks and hardbacks but for convenience sake I find ebooks a more than worthy addition to my library.
This sounds oddly like my previous employer. I have spent the last 10 years between 4 failed startups...the first 3 I rode out through missed paychecks and empty promises util I had ruined my credit, strained my relationship with my wife and missed alot of opportunites for training...I guess the .com millionaire prospects were just too enticing. My last employer decided after 4 years to take the company in "a new direction" and one by one let go of all the IT staff in favor of outsourcing, I was the last to be "let go" after being promised that I would at least be kept on so ther would be one admin on staff. Coincidently I was let go the week after I had finished building the company intranet. 3 weeks following my being "let go" they called to say they had a major hardware crash and the outsourcing company couldnt be there to fix it until the following monday...I was told I should care since I was a stock holder...
The moral to the story....very few companies are worth your loyalty in this business, if its deemed in the companies interest they would just as soon screw you anyway. Your fellow employees if they are competent should have no trouble finding work, if they are not...they will have to face reality.
Bail while you can, if management is as bad as you say, then you have absolutely nothing to gain. I can cite no example of any sinking .com that suddenly found sucess by "shifting focus" the need to shift IMHO shows a lack of solid ideals for the company to start with.
If you have that much ability, the talent to back it up and are only making $45 than you are indeed getting fucked in the ass....I live in a small metropolis that averages on the low end of the IT pay scale but programmers here make better than that, hell, all i do most of the time is stare at network monitoring software, occasionally build a tunnel and on rare instances configure a router or two and I make more than that. Get your resume out there...I recommend dice.com it gets numerous responses quite quickly.
I really dont understand I have friends doing the same preording a console for a single game that isnt even due out until Sept of 2001...and after the inevitable delays probably 1st quarter 2k2.
Howbout that for the price of a psx2, you can buy a dreamcast and have enough money left over to get a dvd that actually has a remote and some real functionality. BTW the psx1 compatablity is nowhere close to 100% and is not enhanced visually in anyway... Oh wait i forgot most of the dreamcast games have to suck since most are actually innovative rather than sequels.
Well thats great except...MGS2 isnt due out for another year and a half, FFX is 3rd quarter 2k1 and FFXI hasnt even started development yet.
I think alot of it stems from a lack of social skills, many that I know have practically no life outside of the net and what little socializing is done is with fellow hermits like themselves. Fortunately I think these folks are in the minority they just happen to have the time to be the most vocal.
What is going on now is not any different than what was around before the Internet was popular...only back in the bbs days elitisim was limited to small confined areas, with the expansion of the Internet into the general populace the fringe have kept up the attitude and suddenly you have Joe Bob sitting behind his screen thinking he is Lawnmower Man making whatever chat room, message board or forum uninhabitable by most others.
While I have no problem with ego's, most of us that are knowledgeable in the field have one...I do have a problem in that elitisim does nothing to further any cause. A friend of mine told me recently that he wished the net would go back to the way it was when it was just barely moving away from ARPA, but then in the same conversation he talks about how he wished that Linux would go aggresively more mainstream. You cant have it both ways, if you want social acceptance you have to be willing to bend towards the masses rather than expect them to bend towards you.
Flame if you want...its just my opinion, BTW im also Southern Baptist and trust me well over 50% are backwards hicks.
Also if you read a little further you find both rebuffed...it does play lower bitrate (good for old live boots, but not much else). I havent been able to reproduce the audio synch probelm...even with Austin Powers 2 (the one that supposedly had the problem) If the problem is there its either so small I cant notice or its not a consistent problem. It does have the 8.3 limit but hey I can live with that..
I am a former admin of a fairly large news outsourcing service and believe me this problem is not new. Recently usenet posts have exploded to well over 20 gigs a day most of the time, many times now it has hit 30. A 250 gig raid can only retain about a weeks worth of articles now. Of that 250 gig I would guess that 2 days worth of retention space is lost to spam. Its a serious problem.
Just fighting off spammers on a local level is a full time job for a decent news service. Check http://www.spamhippo.com and look at the top 100 spam sites and you will be amazed at the sheer numbers.
I feel bad for any user that suffers due to their ISP's negligence but at the same time I know that locally we will comply with UDP. The suffering of the users unfortunately is the only way to stop it.
Most arent aware but there are actually people out there who do nothing but work as spammers for hire...they sign up for a newsservice and spam until they loose their account. @home has become a haven for them due to their apathy towards stopping them and several notorious spammers have been using them for months.