It seems to me that the people that advertise in newspapers would feel as though they were willing to pay more for ads if the newspapers would put the entire content online.
Not necessarily.
For targeted advertising, it could also be argued that people who pay for the article (subscription, whatever) are the ones who are REALLY interested in the content and are therefore more likely to be interested in what the advertiser is selling.
It's the same reason why ads are generally more expensive in daily paid-subscription newspapers than in free-handout rags at the subway station, even though the handout rag might actually distribute more copies.
I run a movie theatre and the lights are on the outside of my theatre building. They are security lights so nobody kills himself on the way in or out of the door at night (or just passing by the theatre), and to provide a disincentive to vandals and the like.
It's also nice to have a light to see where I'm going when putting the garbage out and whatnot.
As I recall, security lights of that nature are actually required by the fire code here for this type of building.
CFLs that operate in freezing conditions are very expensive and still don't work that well.
People keep saying this.
I live where it gets below -40 in the winter and I use ordinary CFL bulbs in my outside security lights that stay on all night. In the coldest days of winter, they still work fine. They take about 15 minutes to warm up when it's really cold (they come on almost instantly in the summer) and during that 15 minutes they give off a weak pinkish glow. But after they get warmed up, they're fine for the rest of the night.
I couldn't use them in my unheated garage, of course, because I want to be able to switch that light on, do my thing, and switch it off again. But in an application where the lights stay on all night, regular CFL bulbs work fine in the coldest days of winter.
Too much thermal paste is a Bad Idea. In fact, it's counter-productive.
Use a very thin layer. There is about twenty times too much thermal paste in the little tubes that come with heatsinks and CPU's, and people who use all of it are defeating the purpose.
And I have *no choice* because there's no way to tell whether a website is covered witth 100MB of ads to download, or text-only google ads (or even none).
In your situation I would consider telling Firefox to not load images, or possibly even doing my primary web browsing with elinks.
Or perhaps less drastically, you might want to look at Privoxy and Squid.
It looks like this chap has a grudge against Microsoft (he says his company was "eradicated from the market the usual way", apparently by Microsoft) so he wrote this webserver to hit them "where it hurts".
I don't know if spite is the best motivation to write excellent software.
Plenty of applications don't need the kinds of optimization one is going to get with C/C++
Optimization aside (though it's nice to have), stuff written in C is about as future-proof as you can get with computers. C has been around for 37 years now, and userland code written in 1972 can generally be compiled with a modern ISO-compatible C compiler with very few or no modifications.
Sure, printf() isn't necessarily all that pretty in a GUI environment, but that's not exactly the point -- it still works.
C does take a bit of thought and it might take a bit longer to get a usable result out of, but that result will generally be serviceable a lot longer than a program written in the programmer's flavour-of-the-week.
Maybe it's just my approach, but I would rather put in a bit more time up front and have something that I can just recompile to run on a CPU that hasn't been invented yet, instead of having to rewrite it from scratch.
crappy ass light bulbs that take half a minute to come up to full brightness
You must be using the wrong brand of CFL bulb.
I have some CFL bulbs in a "floodlight" form that do take some time to get up to full brightness, but those are in use where, as you say, the lights get turned on and left on for several hours.
Most of my CFL bulbs are the regular twisty-tube format, and the brand is Sylvania. I get them at the local hardware store. Those bulbs switch on instantly and unlike my "floodlights" they aren't significantly brighter after being on for several seconds.
I have seen twisty-tube bulbs that take a while to warm up, but the Sylvania bulbs don't.
I can see an issue with this for people like me (and I'm sure I'm not unique). I mostly read line-by-line when I'm reading a novel and I read word-by-word when I'm trying to get and apply information out of a tech manual, but when I'm reading things like newspapers and Slashdot, I tend to scan paragraphs. I take in the content of a paragraph overall, then read it in detail (line by line) if I find it interesting.
Fast audio seems like a good way to get through stuff if it's your only option, and it's a damn sight better than not having any option at all, but how do you keep your attention on the content when you get to a "boring sentence"? I would tend to lose track of where I was in the content. "Reading aloud" tends to put me to sleep.
I think you live in a different world than I do. I don't think I have ever seen anyone bringing a laptop with them into my theatre.
(Ironic in a way, since I'm typing this on my laptop right beside the ticket counter; it lives on a shelf under the counter when I'm not using it.)
Having said that, I suppose it's like anything else people have with them when coming through the door. If it's not so bulky that it will be an obstruction, then I don't see a problem with it.
If the laptop owner pulled it out of the case and started using it while the show was on, then I would have a problem with it, and would probably invite the laptop owner out into the lobby for a discussion about appropriate behaviour in the theatre. But it's not much different than the teenage girls with their blackberries, in that regard.
How so? If you offer me a project under a dual license that includes the GPL, I can accept it under the GPL and modify it, and distribute both it and my modifications in accordance with the terms of the GPL without reading/accepting or agreeing to any other license that you choose to offer it under. I don't have to care what other license you may offer.
The fact that you may not be able to dual-license my GPL-licensed modifications isn't my problem.
I try not to "block" anyone from entering with anything reasonable. If it's a bulky item that will be in everyone's way, I'll keep it for them until the show is over. The one thing (other than food) that I will not allow anyone to carry into the auditorium is a skateboard. All skateboards must be left at the counter.
I do what I can to prevent outside food from being brought in, partly because nobody wants to smell someone's liver and onion taco or stepping on their half-eaten ice cream cone, and partly because, as I tell sometimes tell people, "Would you go to a restaurant and bring your own meal?" Bringing your own meal to a theatre is simply not a reasonable expectation. Most people have no problem with this.
I request that people keep their cell phones, mp3 players and whatever else turned off until the show is over, and I enforce that to the best of my ability. I really do wish that cell phone blockers were legalized -- I would love to have one of those, and I'm sure 99+% of my customers would be in favour.
Businessmen hate losing money. It makes them hide in their office and cry.
Not in my case.
I own and operate a movie theatre.
My theatre. My personal property, in fact. And most importantly, my rules. If you don't like it I'll be happy to see you walking out of the door, preferably with the least possible fuss but I can provide you with a police escort if it's absolutely necessary.
Most of my customers appreciate the fact that things here are kept under control -- no booze, no loud talking, no cell phones (and that annoying light!), no kids running up and down the aisle unsupervised.
Those who attempt to create the Animal House atmosphere are welcome to take their money to other theatres; I'm really not that desperate for a sale.
I own and operate a theatre in a small town. I keep a close eye out for light from cell phones (it's easy to spot) and come out to tell people to shut their phone off until the end of the show.
Most of the customers are trained by now, but the few that aren't usually comply without any problem.
I did have an incident this past Monday night when the there were not too many people at the show, though. A guy was fiddling with his phone while the movie was on; I told him to quit. He started up again 5 minutes later; I again told him to quit. He did it again so I invited him out to the lobby with me and told him the show was over for him. He left...
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Several paperback books in the mid-70's had ads bound into the middle of the books.
They were printed on a similar cardboard to the book cover, but were generally not glossy like the cover might have been.
Unfortunately, due to the stiffness of the cardboard, the book tended to split in half and fall apart even more easily than "regular" paperbacks did.
As far as the advertising content, I think most of them were cigarette ads, but I haven't seen one for so long I'm not entirely sure any more.
How about Google simply allowing logged in readers to use checkboxes to hide certain outlets?
http://www.customizegoogle.com/
It seems to me that the people that advertise in newspapers would feel as though they were willing to pay more for ads if the newspapers would put the entire content online.
Not necessarily.
For targeted advertising, it could also be argued that people who pay for the article (subscription, whatever) are the ones who are REALLY interested in the content and are therefore more likely to be interested in what the advertiser is selling.
It's the same reason why ads are generally more expensive in daily paid-subscription newspapers than in free-handout rags at the subway station, even though the handout rag might actually distribute more copies.
Why are you having lights on outside all night?
I run a movie theatre and the lights are on the outside of my theatre building. They are security lights so nobody kills himself on the way in or out of the door at night (or just passing by the theatre), and to provide a disincentive to vandals and the like.
It's also nice to have a light to see where I'm going when putting the garbage out and whatnot.
As I recall, security lights of that nature are actually required by the fire code here for this type of building.
CFLs that operate in freezing conditions are very expensive and still don't work that well.
People keep saying this.
I live where it gets below -40 in the winter and I use ordinary CFL bulbs in my outside security lights that stay on all night. In the coldest days of winter, they still work fine. They take about 15 minutes to warm up when it's really cold (they come on almost instantly in the summer) and during that 15 minutes they give off a weak pinkish glow. But after they get warmed up, they're fine for the rest of the night.
I couldn't use them in my unheated garage, of course, because I want to be able to switch that light on, do my thing, and switch it off again. But in an application where the lights stay on all night, regular CFL bulbs work fine in the coldest days of winter.
I added a giant blob of silver paste
Too much thermal paste is a Bad Idea. In fact, it's counter-productive.
Use a very thin layer. There is about twenty times too much thermal paste in the little tubes that come with heatsinks and CPU's, and people who use all of it are defeating the purpose.
And I have *no choice* because there's no way to tell whether a website is covered witth 100MB of ads to download, or text-only google ads (or even none).
In your situation I would consider telling Firefox to not load images, or possibly even doing my primary web browsing with elinks.
Or perhaps less drastically, you might want to look at Privoxy and Squid.
Why can't the serving of ads be done from the primary website's server?
Control.
The ad server outfit wants to control the ad content and the ad count from their end to avoid fraud by the content site owner.
By the way, a well-run ad network can give better performance than a poorly-run in-house network.
Are you really saying that MY_CONTENT+EXTERNAL_ADS will load faster than MY_CONTENT alone?
Does not compute....
Sounds like this: http://www.privoxy.org/
Privoxy works very well -- I have been using it and Squid in combination for years.
I just have this line as part of the the nightly script that backs up my desktop computer's data:
rm -r ~/.macromedia
Nothing to install, nothing to remember.
Maybe that's the only thing he felt competent to write?
An operating system or a word processor would be a more complex project than a basic webserver.
In the immortal words of whatzisname: if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
It looks like this chap has a grudge against Microsoft (he says his company was "eradicated from the market the usual way", apparently by Microsoft) so he wrote this webserver to hit them "where it hurts".
I don't know if spite is the best motivation to write excellent software.
Plenty of applications don't need the kinds of optimization one is going to get with C/C++
Optimization aside (though it's nice to have), stuff written in C is about as future-proof as you can get with computers. C has been around for 37 years now, and userland code written in 1972 can generally be compiled with a modern ISO-compatible C compiler with very few or no modifications.
Sure, printf() isn't necessarily all that pretty in a GUI environment, but that's not exactly the point -- it still works.
C does take a bit of thought and it might take a bit longer to get a usable result out of, but that result will generally be serviceable a lot longer than a program written in the programmer's flavour-of-the-week.
Maybe it's just my approach, but I would rather put in a bit more time up front and have something that I can just recompile to run on a CPU that hasn't been invented yet, instead of having to rewrite it from scratch.
Except that Americans like to vote on everything.
And?
If it's important enough to vote on, it's important enough to count properly.
crappy ass light bulbs that take half a minute to come up to full brightness
You must be using the wrong brand of CFL bulb.
I have some CFL bulbs in a "floodlight" form that do take some time to get up to full brightness, but those are in use where, as you say, the lights get turned on and left on for several hours.
Most of my CFL bulbs are the regular twisty-tube format, and the brand is Sylvania. I get them at the local hardware store. Those bulbs switch on instantly and unlike my "floodlights" they aren't significantly brighter after being on for several seconds.
I have seen twisty-tube bulbs that take a while to warm up, but the Sylvania bulbs don't.
An exclusive license can be revoked in certain circumstances, a transfer is just that.
netbook user (and enjoying 7 hours of battery life)
How do you get that? My Acer Aspire One (the model with a 160gb hard drive) doesn't quite make it to 2 hours on a charge.
I can see an issue with this for people like me (and I'm sure I'm not unique). I mostly read line-by-line when I'm reading a novel and I read word-by-word when I'm trying to get and apply information out of a tech manual, but when I'm reading things like newspapers and Slashdot, I tend to scan paragraphs. I take in the content of a paragraph overall, then read it in detail (line by line) if I find it interesting.
Fast audio seems like a good way to get through stuff if it's your only option, and it's a damn sight better than not having any option at all, but how do you keep your attention on the content when you get to a "boring sentence"? I would tend to lose track of where I was in the content. "Reading aloud" tends to put me to sleep.
I think you live in a different world than I do. I don't think I have ever seen anyone bringing a laptop with them into my theatre.
(Ironic in a way, since I'm typing this on my laptop right beside the ticket counter; it lives on a shelf under the counter when I'm not using it.)
Having said that, I suppose it's like anything else people have with them when coming through the door. If it's not so bulky that it will be an obstruction, then I don't see a problem with it.
If the laptop owner pulled it out of the case and started using it while the show was on, then I would have a problem with it, and would probably invite the laptop owner out into the lobby for a discussion about appropriate behaviour in the theatre. But it's not much different than the teenage girls with their blackberries, in that regard.
How so? If you offer me a project under a dual license that includes the GPL, I can accept it under the GPL and modify it, and distribute both it and my modifications in accordance with the terms of the GPL without reading/accepting or agreeing to any other license that you choose to offer it under. I don't have to care what other license you may offer.
The fact that you may not be able to dual-license my GPL-licensed modifications isn't my problem.
I try not to "block" anyone from entering with anything reasonable. If it's a bulky item that will be in everyone's way, I'll keep it for them until the show is over. The one thing (other than food) that I will not allow anyone to carry into the auditorium is a skateboard. All skateboards must be left at the counter.
I do what I can to prevent outside food from being brought in, partly because nobody wants to smell someone's liver and onion taco or stepping on their half-eaten ice cream cone, and partly because, as I tell sometimes tell people, "Would you go to a restaurant and bring your own meal?" Bringing your own meal to a theatre is simply not a reasonable expectation. Most people have no problem with this.
I request that people keep their cell phones, mp3 players and whatever else turned off until the show is over, and I enforce that to the best of my ability. I really do wish that cell phone blockers were legalized -- I would love to have one of those, and I'm sure 99+% of my customers would be in favour.
Can you also go to a restaurant and bring your own sandwich?
Businessmen hate losing money. It makes them hide in their office and cry.
Not in my case.
I own and operate a movie theatre.
My theatre. My personal property, in fact. And most importantly, my rules. If you don't like it I'll be happy to see you walking out of the door, preferably with the least possible fuss but I can provide you with a police escort if it's absolutely necessary.
Most of my customers appreciate the fact that things here are kept under control -- no booze, no loud talking, no cell phones (and that annoying light!), no kids running up and down the aisle unsupervised.
Those who attempt to create the Animal House atmosphere are welcome to take their money to other theatres; I'm really not that desperate for a sale.
I own and operate a theatre in a small town. I keep a close eye out for light from cell phones (it's easy to spot) and come out to tell people to shut their phone off until the end of the show.
Most of the customers are trained by now, but the few that aren't usually comply without any problem.
I did have an incident this past Monday night when the there were not too many people at the show, though. A guy was fiddling with his phone while the movie was on; I told him to quit. He started up again 5 minutes later; I again told him to quit. He did it again so I invited him out to the lobby with me and told him the show was over for him. He left...