oh, come on. it's not "without permission from anyone". the fact that your browser sends out those data points is public knowledge. some people just choose not to care -- most people, in fact. thus, like with the rest of our democratic society, consent is implied.
the ads that annoy me, and cause me to use a filter, are ads that have movement -- which of course is almost all of them. for the most part, i go to webpages wanting to read text, which i am absolutely unable to do if there is movement on the screen, drawing my eyes away from the point of text i am reading. i have little or no beef with ads don't blink, flash, or move.
for filtering i use ad_filter.css, which i find on the internet, and update from time to time. i wish i had something better. i tried Pith Helmet but that was a little too much, filtered a little too hard, and cost money, and was annoying. what i really want is the ability to right click on an image and choose "do not load any images from this location" which would mean from the directory of that image (didn't Mozilla used to do that?). also, even though it's only a three-step process to turn Flash on and off, i wish it were a one-step process, maybe one with a menu command.
and the answer to the other question is no, i don't think of internet ads as different from ads on tv and radio: i mute television commercials, and i only listen to radio from NPR, other than that i listen to music on my computer/stereo. in fact, i really wish that in addition to mute, that televisions had a feature to only update the image on the screen every, say, one second, so in addition to blocking the blaring noise, i could block the blaring, flashing television ads. (can i patent that idea? i bet i could.)
magazine ads are not the same because they don't move. it is far more difficut to make an annoying magazine ad. that said, i *do* refuse to pay for magazines which have too many ads -- above some difficult-to-define threshold. i figure that if there are THAT many ads, the 'zine should be free; but there must be so many ads that i have a hard time finding the actual content (you know, like all those three-hundred-page women's mags with two-hundred-fifty pages of ads), at which point they become like flashing webpage ads, keeping me from enjoyment of the content.
furthermore, and this wasn't in the question, i refuse to pay for clothing with brand names on it. well, for the most part. i don't beef clothes with brand names, but i figure those clothes should at LEAST be free, if not the companies should pay me to wear it. i mean, billboard companies don't pay advertisers to put up ads -- the money flows the other way; why would i pay to advertise someone else's product? that said, i love my Sambas, and all my concert t-shirts are advertisements, of a sort; and i don't anymore cut off the labels from my jeans, as i used to.
most people learn about new music by radio. apple does not control the radio. the best apple could do is plant a seed of online music discovery yand enjoyment, and hope it grows into a profitable market in the future.
music industry profits are not inflated, compared to many markets the cost of the cd, case, and label are trivial shares of the cost of producing an album itunes music store does not save the industry extreme amounts of money
the industry, however, is still greedy, inefficient, backward, undemocratic, bad for artists, bad for music, bad for consumers, and evil.
point of order: assembler uses APIs, too. unless you're typing hex or binary straight into a register, you're using an API and a programming language. think you're the balls because you hacked towers of hanoi in MIPS assembler? well "addi" "move" and "jal" are the "JTextField.setText()" and "Vector.getElementAt()" of the past.
/ that's not to say that knowing assembler isn't cool, or isn't important
PS if you think programming java, c++, or perl aren't complex, you've never tried them.
radio isn't dead yet. it won't be completely dead until NPR starts podcasting all of their content, instead of most of it which is available now; and that should happen in the next 18 months. at that point, everyone can throw away their radios and be done with it.
sometimes i try to leave NPR and see what else is on, and i make it all the way around the dial hearing nothing but commercials, maybe some terrible music; when i get back to NPR, it is like a safe haven.
i disagree. i like new content at the top, at the beginning, where i am going to read it. i think it's reasonable to put historical context in a subordinate position, like an appendex, at the end of the message.
did you notice that the apple site for the new phone didn't mention how many songs it can hold? did you notice how hard it was to find that number on the cingular site, too? i'll save you the trouble: it can hold a hundred songs.
a hundred.
i have a fricking ipod shuffle, and i can hold way more than that. how hard could it possibly be to put more flash memory in these things? if you can put four gigs of flash into an "impossibly small" ipod nano, you can certainly put the same amount in what looks like an oversized phone.
ah, i'm just complaining. what i wanted was an ipod that could make phone calls, not a phone that could play a tiny selection of songs. i was waiting for this announcement to re-up my cell phone sevice, but i sure won't be buying this phone.
1. does you niece know how to spell "my"? (how beautiful are you?)
2. my not-so-scientific opinion is that people who give in to bullshit arguments like "oh, society wants me to be dumb, so i will be" are dumb from the beginning. what i hear is that your niece *prefers* beauty to intelligence, which is fine, but if there is something wrong with that, then blame the niece, not the society.
yeah i wonder about that a lot, the clause which says a patent must not be obvious to anyone versed in the proper art. i mean, take that recent MS patent for making numbers stand out on a page. if you put, say, me (reasonably well versed in the art of programming) on a witness stand and asked me how i would make numbers in a document stand out visually, i would first say color, and second say draw a border around the numbers. seems obvious to me. lots of the patents we all complain about here on slashdot are the same.
i think 2000-2001 is around the time that banks began phasing out their OS/2 atms. there are still some out there, but not so many.
i have had the disconcerting displeasure of seeing a windows atm crash and reboot itself. i wondered whether a computer virus could withdraw in my name.
i've used macs my whole life, since i was in school, in college, and as a computer professional, too. i always hear that "Windows gets in your way" and "Macs just let you get work done". i love my mac and i agree that i get my work done pretty well, but i can't honestly say i know much about windows. how exactly does Windows "get in your way"? what does windows do that makes it hard to do work?
("windows crashes a lot" isn't a good enough answer. i'm most interested in UI frustrations.)
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i filter ads in Safari using custom css files, which you set in Preferences -> Advanced.
hth.
If you were really operating on principals, you'd pay the fair price for viewing the site.
{rolls eyes} okay, you tell me to send my three eights of a cent to.
oh, come on. it's not "without permission from anyone". the fact that your browser sends out those data points is public knowledge. some people just choose not to care -- most people, in fact. thus, like with the rest of our democratic society, consent is implied.
god damn. what mag costs two hundred and fifty dollars a year? for that price, you're right, there should be no ads.
I have yet to buy a magazine where an ad was pasted over the article and took 10 seconds to peel up to read the text underneath.
Shhhh. Don't give them any ideas.
you're both wrong. if he were an american, he would have been too lazy to email the company.
and he'd fucking hate cats.
/ thank you both for properly using the subjunctive mood
the ads that annoy me, and cause me to use a filter, are ads that have movement -- which of course is almost all of them. for the most part, i go to webpages wanting to read text, which i am absolutely unable to do if there is movement on the screen, drawing my eyes away from the point of text i am reading. i have little or no beef with ads don't blink, flash, or move.
for filtering i use ad_filter.css, which i find on the internet, and update from time to time. i wish i had something better. i tried Pith Helmet but that was a little too much, filtered a little too hard, and cost money, and was annoying. what i really want is the ability to right click on an image and choose "do not load any images from this location" which would mean from the directory of that image (didn't Mozilla used to do that?). also, even though it's only a three-step process to turn Flash on and off, i wish it were a one-step process, maybe one with a menu command.
and the answer to the other question is no, i don't think of internet ads as different from ads on tv and radio: i mute television commercials, and i only listen to radio from NPR, other than that i listen to music on my computer/stereo. in fact, i really wish that in addition to mute, that televisions had a feature to only update the image on the screen every, say, one second, so in addition to blocking the blaring noise, i could block the blaring, flashing television ads. (can i patent that idea? i bet i could.)
magazine ads are not the same because they don't move. it is far more difficut to make an annoying magazine ad. that said, i *do* refuse to pay for magazines which have too many ads -- above some difficult-to-define threshold. i figure that if there are THAT many ads, the 'zine should be free; but there must be so many ads that i have a hard time finding the actual content (you know, like all those three-hundred-page women's mags with two-hundred-fifty pages of ads), at which point they become like flashing webpage ads, keeping me from enjoyment of the content.
furthermore, and this wasn't in the question, i refuse to pay for clothing with brand names on it. well, for the most part. i don't beef clothes with brand names, but i figure those clothes should at LEAST be free, if not the companies should pay me to wear it. i mean, billboard companies don't pay advertisers to put up ads -- the money flows the other way; why would i pay to advertise someone else's product? that said, i love my Sambas, and all my concert t-shirts are advertisements, of a sort; and i don't anymore cut off the labels from my jeans, as i used to.
"honey i'm home. i brought a friend of mine... this is Trudy..."
why can't riaa pay apple to push songs on itms? in fact, is there any reason to assume they don't?
ps no one should listen to kenny g
most people learn about new music by radio. apple does not control the radio. the best apple could do is plant a seed of online music discovery yand enjoyment, and hope it grows into a profitable market in the future.
music industry profits are not inflated, compared to many markets
the cost of the cd, case, and label are trivial shares of the cost of producing an album
itunes music store does not save the industry extreme amounts of money
the industry, however, is still greedy, inefficient, backward, undemocratic, bad for artists, bad for music, bad for consumers, and evil.
point of order: assembler uses APIs, too. unless you're typing hex or binary straight into a register, you're using an API and a programming language. think you're the balls because you hacked towers of hanoi in MIPS assembler? well "addi" "move" and "jal" are the "JTextField.setText()" and "Vector.getElementAt()" of the past.
/ that's not to say that knowing assembler isn't cool, or isn't important
PS if you think programming java, c++, or perl aren't complex, you've never tried them.
radio isn't dead yet. it won't be completely dead until NPR starts podcasting all of their content, instead of most of it which is available now; and that should happen in the next 18 months. at that point, everyone can throw away their radios and be done with it.
sometimes i try to leave NPR and see what else is on, and i make it all the way around the dial hearing nothing but commercials, maybe some terrible music; when i get back to NPR, it is like a safe haven.
if you want to learn how to program, to go a tech school. if you want to learn *computer science*, get a BA and be happy you have it.
i disagree. i like new content at the top, at the beginning, where i am going to read it. i think it's reasonable to put historical context in a subordinate position, like an appendex, at the end of the message.
did you notice that the apple site for the new phone didn't mention how many songs it can hold? did you notice how hard it was to find that number on the cingular site, too? i'll save you the trouble: it can hold a hundred songs.
a hundred.
i have a fricking ipod shuffle, and i can hold way more than that. how hard could it possibly be to put more flash memory in these things? if you can put four gigs of flash into an "impossibly small" ipod nano, you can certainly put the same amount in what looks like an oversized phone.
ah, i'm just complaining. what i wanted was an ipod that could make phone calls, not a phone that could play a tiny selection of songs. i was waiting for this announcement to re-up my cell phone sevice, but i sure won't be buying this phone.
or you could take your shoes off and go play in the grass.
the interpretation of "no laptops" seems to be a very literal interpretation
a eula is supposed to be a legal contract, so think harder about this particular comment.
genious?
1. does you niece know how to spell "my"? (how beautiful are you?)
2. my not-so-scientific opinion is that people who give in to bullshit arguments like "oh, society wants me to be dumb, so i will be" are dumb from the beginning. what i hear is that your niece *prefers* beauty to intelligence, which is fine, but if there is something wrong with that, then blame the niece, not the society.
that is not at all apparent.
you have made the fundamental mistake of giving women credit for talents they believe they have, but in fact do not.
yeah i wonder about that a lot, the clause which says a patent must not be obvious to anyone versed in the proper art. i mean, take that recent MS patent for making numbers stand out on a page. if you put, say, me (reasonably well versed in the art of programming) on a witness stand and asked me how i would make numbers in a document stand out visually, i would first say color, and second say draw a border around the numbers. seems obvious to me. lots of the patents we all complain about here on slashdot are the same.
i think 2000-2001 is around the time that banks began phasing out their OS/2 atms. there are still some out there, but not so many.
i have had the disconcerting displeasure of seeing a windows atm crash and reboot itself. i wondered whether a computer virus could withdraw in my name.
i've used macs my whole life, since i was in school, in college, and as a computer professional, too. i always hear that "Windows gets in your way" and "Macs just let you get work done". i love my mac and i agree that i get my work done pretty well, but i can't honestly say i know much about windows. how exactly does Windows "get in your way"? what does windows do that makes it hard to do work?
("windows crashes a lot" isn't a good enough answer. i'm most interested in UI frustrations.)