TiVo doesn't remove advertising - you do by fast forwarding through commercials. Fair enough, I do that too, as do the vast majority (I assume) of TiVo users.
However, even though you may not want advertising, there is a lot of research out there that says that people do, in fact, want advertising, as long as it is something they're interested in. Therein lies the problem - how do you know, ahead of time, what someone would be interested in? The solution up until now has been to target ads at demographic groups, not individuals - that's why you see diaper and suppository ads on during the soap operas in the afternoon, and Lexus commercials in the evening.
TiVo learns about the kind of programming you enjoy, and builds up recommendations based on how you rate different shows - that's why it's good to always give a thumbs up or thumbs down to each show you watch. (TiVo actually gives a one thumbs up to any show you record automatically). Since they're building up this information about you, advertisers could, in theory, use this information to target specific advertising at you - stuff you would actually be interested in learning more about. That saves everybody time and money in the long run (well, except you, if you go out and buy more stuff as a result.:-)
Good theory, one I'd like to believe in, but remember - in the U.S., it's not who votes for you, but how much money those people put into your campaign coffer. Can't exactly run a national campaign in this day and age without a multi-million dollar advertising budget.
Jeez... W raised over _100_ million dollars in the last campaign if memory serves right. Mayor Bloomberg is a _billionaire_. The _last_ people these politicians listen to are the working class. Sad as it may be.
You do realize that kissing ass actually is a very disgusting, dehumanizing act, not to mention fraught with danger of disease, and that aftertaste... WHEW...! Those execs deserve every bit of that 6%. After the first couple of nibbles, I'd probably be in the stall for a few hours puking my guts out. Hats off to you execs out there, you deserve a break today!
I agree that more redundancy should make things safer, and personally think Airbus is throwing aviation back to the stone age with each new plane they come up with...
HOWEVER...
It isn't noted anywhere in the article how many times the triple redundancy built in to the Boeing jets has actually saved a plane from a catastrophic depressurization. Perhaps the three motor design is really overdesign, but we can't know without some more details from Boeing (maybe somebody can search the NTSB site to see if there are any reports).
Clearly there have been a couple of high profile accidents in the last two years (the Boeing 737 in Greece, and the 747 in China) where an in-flight depressurization likely led to the disaster. If those planes were equipped with a triple redundancy system, clearly that wasn't _enough_ design.
We're just mere/.'ers here, not aerospace scientists (well at least not me - AE was full when I started college, had to settle for CS, and damn, am I ever GLAD I did that!:-p )
What's really ironic is how self-referential the article is, without deliberately stating so... i.e., IBM does this sort of crap every day. Hypocrites.
Exactly... And I know that people here are probably just a weeeeee bit biased against conservatives, but jeez... at least Reagan got this point right: make them _think_ you're crazy enough to use the bomb, without actually _saying_ you're going to use it (well, hehe, except for that one little slip where he said in a live press conference, "We're launching the missiles in 15 minutes"). Mutually Assured Destruction only works if _neither_ side decides to actually use the g*d@mn weapons.
Can we start the civil war yet? Please? Pretty please?
Mmm hmm... I'm with you there. And to those who think this behavior is rampant around the world, obviously haven't been to a civilized country like Japan yet. (Yes, they apparently _have_ learned some hard lessons from WWII).
All in all, people should learn to secure their wireless networks.
Wireless networks should not be sold with security turned off - users should have to explicitly do that. This is exactly the same thing that Microshit did years back by distributing Windows NT with filesharing turned on, and passwords turned off. Consumers definitely have a responsibility (both under the law and as owners of a wi-fi node) to secure the damn thing, but jeez, it's apparently obvious that somebody needs to tell the manufacturers to make it easier for them to do so!
I thought it was funny when I went to launch a video from CNN's site today in Mozilla on my Win2K box, only to have the machine very suddenly and unexpectedly spotaneously reboot. No BSOD, no error popup, nothing. For a second I thought it was switching to full screen mode to show an interstitial commercial, til I saw the nice big "IBM" logo that always comes up when my machine boots.
Come to think of it, it wasn't so funny after all.
... but why do these inane press releases keep referring to "browser market share", as if there's some MARKET out there where people BUY and SELL web browsers! Last time I checked (about 5 seconds ago), IE and Firefox were, yep, you guessed it, still FREE!
So who cares if IE has higher "market share", or if Firefox is creaping up and capturing some "market share" of it's own... I simply don't see the point in referring to anything as "market share" if there isn't something being bought and sold there.
You will have a burning desire when we tell you to have one. You will own XBox 2. We will provide entertainment for you. On XBox 2. We will instruct you in ways of gaming and pleasure far beyond your wildest dreams.
We are the Microsoft. Gaming as you have known it will cease to exist. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. All your XBox are belong to us, and we will own you XBox 2.
I use White House Custom Color. When you setup an account, you have to go through a process where you upload 5 images and they send you 8x10 prints of them for free. This is to confirm that your color calibration is correct and matches their color calibrated printers, which are all calibrated to the sRGB colorspace.
Their prices are very competitive, and the quality, in my opinion, is second to none. Very good service and turnaround as well... I usually get my prints shipped within a day or two of uploading, and they always send via UPS 2-Day.
Then when a bunch of Korean/Indian/Chinese workers started producing higher quality games for less money, you'd have to hear these exact same whiners go on about how we're outsourcing.
Uh huh... name one, just one, game produced in Korea, India, or China that has sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.S.
If anybody's worried about the game market moving overseas, you need to tune into reality. Repressed societies do not foster the kind of creativity that have produced some of the best selling games _ever_ - namely, Grand Theft Auto, Halo 2, Warcraft III, and The Sims. Jesus, half of the U.S. thinks that GTA should be banned outright, and it's still possible for a game like that to succeed here. You think it would even be possible to imagine a game like that in China, where the government is _closing_ all the internet cafes where people are playing games _far_ less violent? I don't think so.
Gamespy... mmm, yes indeed... the cream of the gamer crop. No, no way the statistics would be skewed toward the clueless, nor affected by the script kiddies that litter the Gamespot forums. Nah.
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Not to mention the fact that the more music he accumulates, the bigger a threat he becomes. Sort of like all those nukes that Iran and Iraq were supposedly stockpiling. Hey, wasn't there a war about that or something? And lawsuits, I definitely remember something about lawsuits too.
Why does/. bother with anything related to games? I mean, there are PLENTY of much more detailed sites containing everything you could possibly want to know about any game released in the last 10 or so years... why bother with these reviews? There's no way that the same level of depth or even breadth could be applied here... To me it seems like a lack of focus.
Or perhaps I'm just an old fogey. (ugh, 30 years old!)
Certainly the "public pain threshold" was reached long ago on T.V., and longer ago before that on radio, and still, we've got our boob tubes, and ear jocks every morning, afternoon, and night.
The public doesn't really care about advertising, in whatever form it comes. Certainly not enough, anyway, to give up their lazy lifestyles of channel surfing and station tuning.
You know, they ought to put the RFID chips in the Driver's Licenses, and pair it with one implanted in your brain. Bury it deep enough though, so that if somebody tries to circumvent this wonderful technology by removing it from their head, irreperable brain damage will occur, maybe even death.
It's so simple... it would be pretty much impossible to fake one's own identity at that point, unless of course you could change the chip out in your head.
Maybe I could even write a book about this, and sell it on the Internet (sic if you're Wired.com), and make billions of dollars, and start my own government, no, wait, religion, because of course, religion is the answer!:-)
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TiVo doesn't remove advertising - you do by fast forwarding through commercials. Fair enough, I do that too, as do the vast majority (I assume) of TiVo users.
:-)
However, even though you may not want advertising, there is a lot of research out there that says that people do, in fact, want advertising, as long as it is something they're interested in. Therein lies the problem - how do you know, ahead of time, what someone would be interested in? The solution up until now has been to target ads at demographic groups, not individuals - that's why you see diaper and suppository ads on during the soap operas in the afternoon, and Lexus commercials in the evening.
TiVo learns about the kind of programming you enjoy, and builds up recommendations based on how you rate different shows - that's why it's good to always give a thumbs up or thumbs down to each show you watch. (TiVo actually gives a one thumbs up to any show you record automatically). Since they're building up this information about you, advertisers could, in theory, use this information to target specific advertising at you - stuff you would actually be interested in learning more about. That saves everybody time and money in the long run (well, except you, if you go out and buy more stuff as a result.
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Good theory, one I'd like to believe in, but remember - in the U.S., it's not who votes for you, but how much money those people put into your campaign coffer. Can't exactly run a national campaign in this day and age without a multi-million dollar advertising budget.
Jeez... W raised over _100_ million dollars in the last campaign if memory serves right. Mayor Bloomberg is a _billionaire_. The _last_ people these politicians listen to are the working class. Sad as it may be.
You do realize that kissing ass actually is a very disgusting, dehumanizing act, not to mention fraught with danger of disease, and that aftertaste... WHEW...! Those execs deserve every bit of that 6%. After the first couple of nibbles, I'd probably be in the stall for a few hours puking my guts out. Hats off to you execs out there, you deserve a break today!
Queue Mrs. Broflowski:
:)
"Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their beady little eyes
And flappin' heads so full of lies"
No, seriously, Canada is cool with me.
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Guy
I agree that more redundancy should make things safer, and personally think Airbus is throwing aviation back to the stone age with each new plane they come up with...
/.'ers here, not aerospace scientists (well at least not me - AE was full when I started college, had to settle for CS, and damn, am I ever GLAD I did that! :-p )
HOWEVER...
It isn't noted anywhere in the article how many times the triple redundancy built in to the Boeing jets has actually saved a plane from a catastrophic depressurization. Perhaps the three motor design is really overdesign, but we can't know without some more details from Boeing (maybe somebody can search the NTSB site to see if there are any reports).
Clearly there have been a couple of high profile accidents in the last two years (the Boeing 737 in Greece, and the 747 in China) where an in-flight depressurization likely led to the disaster. If those planes were equipped with a triple redundancy system, clearly that wasn't _enough_ design.
We're just mere
What's really ironic is how self-referential the article is, without deliberately stating so... i.e., IBM does this sort of crap every day. Hypocrites.
Exactly... And I know that people here are probably just a weeeeee bit biased against conservatives, but jeez... at least Reagan got this point right: make them _think_ you're crazy enough to use the bomb, without actually _saying_ you're going to use it (well, hehe, except for that one little slip where he said in a live press conference, "We're launching the missiles in 15 minutes"). Mutually Assured Destruction only works if _neither_ side decides to actually use the g*d@mn weapons.
Can we start the civil war yet? Please? Pretty please?
Ugh.
China, France, the UK, probably North Korea, Israel, and what's left of the former USSR. (that we know of).
Mmm hmm... I'm with you there. And to those who think this behavior is rampant around the world, obviously haven't been to a civilized country like Japan yet. (Yes, they apparently _have_ learned some hard lessons from WWII).
All in all, people should learn to secure their wireless networks.
Wireless networks should not be sold with security turned off - users should have to explicitly do that. This is exactly the same thing that Microshit did years back by distributing Windows NT with filesharing turned on, and passwords turned off. Consumers definitely have a responsibility (both under the law and as owners of a wi-fi node) to secure the damn thing, but jeez, it's apparently obvious that somebody needs to tell the manufacturers to make it easier for them to do so!
I thought it was funny when I went to launch a video from CNN's site today in Mozilla on my Win2K box, only to have the machine very suddenly and unexpectedly spotaneously reboot. No BSOD, no error popup, nothing. For a second I thought it was switching to full screen mode to show an interstitial commercial, til I saw the nice big "IBM" logo that always comes up when my machine boots.
Come to think of it, it wasn't so funny after all.
Uh, no... 6800 Ultras start at $449 and up, one year later. But thanks for playing!
Not to mention IM. I'd think that'd be the most efficient way given the expected high latency.
AlL oF YOur Sla/ do. r B3l0ng to US$$.
... but why do these inane press releases keep referring to "browser market share", as if there's some MARKET out there where people BUY and SELL web browsers! Last time I checked (about 5 seconds ago), IE and Firefox were, yep, you guessed it, still FREE!
So who cares if IE has higher "market share", or if Firefox is creaping up and capturing some "market share" of it's own... I simply don't see the point in referring to anything as "market share" if there isn't something being bought and sold there.
You will have a burning desire when we tell you to have one. You will own XBox 2. We will provide entertainment for you. On XBox 2. We will instruct you in ways of gaming and pleasure far beyond your wildest dreams.
We are the Microsoft. Gaming as you have known it will cease to exist. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. All your XBox are belong to us, and we will own you XBox 2.
I use White House Custom Color. When you setup an account, you have to go through a process where you upload 5 images and they send you 8x10 prints of them for free. This is to confirm that your color calibration is correct and matches their color calibrated printers, which are all calibrated to the sRGB colorspace.
Their prices are very competitive, and the quality, in my opinion, is second to none. Very good service and turnaround as well... I usually get my prints shipped within a day or two of uploading, and they always send via UPS 2-Day.
Nah, that sounds like hypocrisy to me.
Then when a bunch of Korean/Indian/Chinese workers started producing higher quality games for less money, you'd have to hear these exact same whiners go on about how we're outsourcing.
Uh huh... name one, just one, game produced in Korea, India, or China that has sold more than 100,000 copies in the U.S.
If anybody's worried about the game market moving overseas, you need to tune into reality. Repressed societies do not foster the kind of creativity that have produced some of the best selling games _ever_ - namely, Grand Theft Auto, Halo 2, Warcraft III, and The Sims. Jesus, half of the U.S. thinks that GTA should be banned outright, and it's still possible for a game like that to succeed here. You think it would even be possible to imagine a game like that in China, where the government is _closing_ all the internet cafes where people are playing games _far_ less violent? I don't think so.
Gamespy... mmm, yes indeed... the cream of the gamer crop. No, no way the statistics would be skewed toward the clueless, nor affected by the script kiddies that litter the Gamespot forums. Nah.
Not to mention the fact that the more music he accumulates, the bigger a threat he becomes. Sort of like all those nukes that Iran and Iraq were supposedly stockpiling. Hey, wasn't there a war about that or something? And lawsuits, I definitely remember something about lawsuits too.
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Why does /. bother with anything related to games? I mean, there are PLENTY of much more detailed sites containing everything you could possibly want to know about any game released in the last 10 or so years... why bother with these reviews? There's no way that the same level of depth or even breadth could be applied here... To me it seems like a lack of focus.
Or perhaps I'm just an old fogey. (ugh, 30 years old!)
Certainly the "public pain threshold" was reached long ago on T.V., and longer ago before that on radio, and still, we've got our boob tubes, and ear jocks every morning, afternoon, and night.
The public doesn't really care about advertising, in whatever form it comes. Certainly not enough, anyway, to give up their lazy lifestyles of channel surfing and station tuning.
You know, they ought to put the RFID chips in the Driver's Licenses, and pair it with one implanted in your brain. Bury it deep enough though, so that if somebody tries to circumvent this wonderful technology by removing it from their head, irreperable brain damage will occur, maybe even death.
:-)
It's so simple... it would be pretty much impossible to fake one's own identity at that point, unless of course you could change the chip out in your head.
Maybe I could even write a book about this, and sell it on the Internet (sic if you're Wired.com), and make billions of dollars, and start my own government, no, wait, religion, because of course, religion is the answer!
SHHHhhhhh!!! Keep it on the down low... somebody out there might hear you!