5 cents probably wouldn't do it, it would take a bit more than that. Here are two examples:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Cost=$2.3 million (based on reports during network negotiation between WB/UPN). Viewers= approx 6 million. Cost Per Viewer: 38 cents.
Friends: Cost=$7.2 million (based on 8 minutes of ads, at $450,000 per 30 seconds). Viewers: approx 20 million. Cost per viewer: 36 cents.
The one really impressive thing I noticed when looking this up was the ratings. The top rated show November 17-23 was CSI, watched by approximately 16 million homes. That's out of 100 million homes. So the best-watched show on TV is only watched by 1 out of 6 households? And they're getting how much per ad? But, you could support a TV show for $8-$10 per season. Granted, that adds up, but not bad.
Actually, these days that doesn't work too well - they all seem to go to commercial at the same time. I don't know if it still happens, but try watching the intro to Leno & Letterman one night... they're timed so that they occur at exactly the same time.
The problem is, TV already is doing quite a bit of it. So it may get worse, but the networks won't see the kind of boost they'd see if they hadn't used it before.
It's worse than that - read the Usenet postings about it - apparently it's a piece of crap, alpha-grade software, and basically unsupported. Maybe they've fixed it in the past 6 months. Maybe not.
One clarification - most junk mail runs on a different pricing scheme from normal mail. And the rate for _that_ hasn't been raised in years, despite multiple stamp price increases.
I don't think it does it now, but the PrismIQ is planning to, and the Hauppauge may already. They're working on integration with Snapstream. And since Snapstream can pause liveTV, etc, you could probably rig something using either of those two boxes.
Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that NWN is turn based, but in a real-time setting so you don't really see the turns occuring. If you have your spells in the QuickBar, you should be fine.
That's hilarious. I'm more secure on 98 than XP. No PnP to get hacked, no Windows Messenger Service Spam, no extra services exposed to the internet. And I'm glad they finally figured out with 2003 that you don't need every single service turned on by default. SuSE, Mandrake, and others have been doing that for years.
Qcast (for the PS2): http://www.broadq.com/qcasttuner
I'm using the Prismiq and the XBMP. Both have advantages, both have issues. Anyone have any other recommendations?
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extreme shock that Iain M. Banks is inexplicably not on your list.
And my extreme pleasure that he's not. I've tried. I've read Use of Weapons (twice), and Consider Phlebas... both are drek. So horrid that I reread one, certain I was missing something. Nope. Lent it to a friend. Same thing - absolutely awful. Yes, I'll admit that I may read trash. I love Simon R. Green. L.E. Modesitt Jr. Jack L. Chalker. Robert A. Heinlein. James Alan Gardner. Ken MacLeod.
But Iain Banks? Pass.
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Don't forget the football game.
From JMS: We heard what we initially thought were disappointing figures, that we'd done a 1.7 when SFC was hoping for a 2.6 or better. It kind of puzzled everybody because the B5 audience is generally pretty reliable.
It became even *more* puzzling when the more detailed figures came in, showing that by quarter-hours, the show *gained viewers* and did not lose them. Meaning folks who came on the show by accident, stayed to watch. It should have been much higher than it was.
Then the final market-by-marked figures came in from the studio, and we had our mystery resolved.
The east coast ratings got hammered by the football game, which was the highest rated such game in something like 5 years. The B5 male demos are pretty much the same as for sports, and we lost heavily to football. So there we did not do well.
By contrast, on the west coast, where the show aired *after* the game had finished, we not only met but *exceeded* SFC's expectations, getting a 3.2 or 3.6 in many markets, which is actually pretty unheard of for a basic cable network.
The problem is that the average, 1.7, is still what's used for advertising. So we have to see if SFC will look past the show getting hammered by a big football event on the East Coast to look at the West Coast figures and see that there is, indeed, a market.
It's like the old saying about Telephone Operators - they had to flunk an intelligence test. Think about it. If _you_ were subjected to simply typing the name that came over your headset, pressing a button, then having it happen again and again, wouldn't you go insane? Snap? Leave? Same thing.
Sure they do - people aren't as conditioned as you'd expect. Baby steps at first... I moved my dad from Outlook Express to Mozilla, and from IE to Mozilla. He called me one night because he was just having too many problems with spam and popups. Now, he's happy. He's still on Windows, but now he knows that Open Source is not a bad thing. He rather likes it. Baby steps.
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Odds are it was due to a bad plugin. My wife's had that problem for a while. It's the plugin, not Moz, that's at fault.
Just curious.
The one really impressive thing I noticed when looking this up was the ratings. The top rated show November 17-23 was CSI, watched by approximately 16 million homes. That's out of 100 million homes. So the best-watched show on TV is only watched by 1 out of 6 households? And they're getting how much per ad? But, you could support a TV show for $8-$10 per season. Granted, that adds up, but not bad.
Actually, these days that doesn't work too well - they all seem to go to commercial at the same time. I don't know if it still happens, but try watching the intro to Leno & Letterman one night... they're timed so that they occur at exactly the same time.
The problem is, TV already is doing quite a bit of it. So it may get worse, but the networks won't see the kind of boost they'd see if they hadn't used it before.
It takes talent to turn a $179 computer into a $600 computer.
Yeah, as opposed to Microsoft which has been turning a $600 computer into a $179 computer for the past two years.
LOL. I still use the term A-i-git.
It's worse than that - read the Usenet postings about it - apparently it's a piece of crap, alpha-grade software, and basically unsupported. Maybe they've fixed it in the past 6 months. Maybe not.
As a friend of mine said: Stallman is like a lighthouse. You know you want to be in that general area, but you don't actually want to be there.
Seth Green - my first thought was "oh, a Greg the Bunny reference". Wow - he's been shat on twice by Fox.
One clarification - most junk mail runs on a different pricing scheme from normal mail. And the rate for _that_ hasn't been raised in years, despite multiple stamp price increases.
I don't think it does it now, but the PrismIQ is planning to, and the Hauppauge may already. They're working on integration with Snapstream. And since Snapstream can pause liveTV, etc, you could probably rig something using either of those two boxes.
Remember, Mozilla already offers something similar - you can tell it to not check for spam if the sender is in your address book.
The one place this can spectacularly fall down is with an email-sending virus on the sender's machine, but this is close. And it already exists.
Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure that NWN is turn based, but in a real-time setting so you don't really see the turns occuring. If you have your spells in the QuickBar, you should be fine.
Hell, without the option for multiplayer, it's nowhere near. (ToEE has no multiplayer - single player only)
One word: Formfucker.
that Microsoft is spoofing a 5 year old movie. Hey, they spoof a 5-year-old GUI, why not a movie?
That's hilarious. I'm more secure on 98 than XP. No PnP to get hacked, no Windows Messenger Service Spam, no extra services exposed to the internet. And I'm glad they finally figured out with 2003 that you don't need every single service turned on by default. SuSE, Mandrake, and others have been doing that for years.
Paul is a big fan of what he calls an "iterative," "task-based" operating system.
Oh. He's an OpenDoc fan, I take it?
I'm using the Prismiq and the XBMP. Both have advantages, both have issues. Anyone have any other recommendations?
extreme shock that Iain M. Banks is inexplicably not on your list.
And my extreme pleasure that he's not. I've tried. I've read Use of Weapons (twice), and Consider Phlebas... both are drek. So horrid that I reread one, certain I was missing something. Nope. Lent it to a friend. Same thing - absolutely awful. Yes, I'll admit that I may read trash. I love Simon R. Green. L.E. Modesitt Jr. Jack L. Chalker. Robert A. Heinlein. James Alan Gardner. Ken MacLeod.
But Iain Banks? Pass.
Don't forget the football game.
From JMS:
We heard what we initially thought were disappointing figures, that we'd done a 1.7 when SFC was hoping for a 2.6 or better. It kind of
puzzled everybody because the B5 audience is generally pretty reliable.
It became even *more* puzzling when the more detailed figures came in, showing that by quarter-hours, the show *gained viewers* and did not lose them. Meaning folks who came on the show by accident, stayed to watch. It should have been much higher than it was.
Then the final market-by-marked figures came in from the studio, and we had our mystery resolved.
The east coast ratings got hammered by the football game, which was the highest rated such game in something like 5 years. The B5 male
demos are pretty much the same as for sports, and we lost heavily to football. So there we did not do well.
By contrast, on the west coast, where the show aired *after* the game had finished, we not only met but *exceeded* SFC's expectations, getting a 3.2 or 3.6 in many markets, which is actually pretty unheard of for a basic cable network.
The problem is that the average, 1.7, is still what's used for advertising. So we have to see if SFC will look past the show getting hammered by a big football event on the East Coast to look at the West Coast figures and see that there is, indeed, a market.
It's like the old saying about Telephone Operators - they had to flunk an intelligence test. Think about it. If _you_ were subjected to simply typing the name that came over your headset, pressing a button, then having it happen again and again, wouldn't you go insane? Snap? Leave? Same thing.
Anyone wanna give directions for Moz? I'm running a fairly current nightly, but the Flash installer doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?
Sure they do - people aren't as conditioned as you'd expect. Baby steps at first... I moved my dad from Outlook Express to Mozilla, and from IE to Mozilla. He called me one night because he was just having too many problems with spam and popups. Now, he's happy. He's still on Windows, but now he knows that Open Source is not a bad thing. He rather likes it. Baby steps.