When it comes down to it, so long as it is the user is in control of what they view there can be no complaint from web publishers.
The problem, as I see it, is that Microsoft would not merely be the company providing the smart tag technology, but they would also be the company choosing the smart tag content.
Otherwise, I would agree that these are a good advance.
Yes, a PBS style system would be _much_ better. I think many more people would give than the micropayment system.
Most importantly, notice how PBS doesn't ask you if you would like to donate money to Antiques Roadshow, or any other specific program, but they ask for money for the cause.
I, for one, would donate more easily to a Public Content Service, or some such thing, which funded many quality non-commercial web sites. I wouldn't doubt it if corporations would feel the same way.
One thing that might get me to look at ads is if they ever contained something I was interested in. Unfortunately, since ads cost money, only companies buy ads, so that is what I'm stuck looking (or rather, ignoring).
Why not set aside a certain percentage of ads (say 5%, 10%) to give away to charitable causes, like open source software. It would break the monotony if every once in a while you saw an ad for PHP or KDE or Apache or something.
I think the whole point of the article was that we can't send (actual, physical) pictures half-way across the galaxy with a laser beam. So, if we want to send pictures, we have to send them digitally, but if we send the digitally, we need to send a program to display them, and hence we need to be able to send text well.
Now, we're back to the original problem, remember, the problem that you reply "just use pictures" to.
Although I am too lazy to go find the article, I remember Slashdot reporting on this several months ago. If I remember correctly, ssn1 (formerly HackerNewsNetwork) first publicized the story. And excellent FAQ on Web Bugs is available at:
And the truly lazy, here are some of the ads that stand out - links go to the QuickTime versions... sorry, it was either that or Windows Media Player format:(
this desire, by the way, is the one thing that is likely to insure the future of e-books.
To be precise, it's likely to cause publishing companies to try to force e-books down our collective throat. The only thing that will insure the future of e-books is if there are enough people willing to live with the restricted rights e-books come with.
Everything I go there I can't believe it is a government site. In fact, when I first went there I was very hesitant to type in my information because I was sure I wasn't in the right place. I'm not saying that government sites have to be bland, but I think they should have a certain amount of respectability.
The Linux in a Box project has been around for a long time. The new release is version 3, but there is quite a bit of information cached about version 2. The main differences between version 2 and version 3 seem to be that version 3 uses 10-BaseT (instead of version 2's 10-Base2) ethernet and version 3 has 4 megabytes of flash rom. Below are several Google caches you may find informative:
Wavelet theory in mathematics is relatively (in computer terms) old, but it nothing like a 'technology.' The thoery of wavelets has been used in almost all image compression to date, most notably the JPEG and MPEG formats.
What Schroeder and Sweldens have done is develop a method for generating wavelets which better compresses geometrical data. This is news, and you most certainly did not evaluate a product using this algorithm at your last job.
You forget that compression research is done mostly by computer scientists and mathematicians. They have a completely different set of priorities than the software companies. Even if bandwidth increases to some rediculous point where software companies stop implementing the best compression algorithms, the research will not stop.
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When it comes down to it, so long as it is the user is in control of what they view there can be no complaint from web publishers.
The problem, as I see it, is that Microsoft would not merely be the company providing the smart tag technology, but they would also be the company choosing the smart tag content.
Otherwise, I would agree that these are a good advance.
Yes, a PBS style system would be _much_ better. I think many more people would give than the micropayment system.
Most importantly, notice how PBS doesn't ask you if you would like to donate money to Antiques Roadshow, or any other specific program, but they ask for money for the cause.
I, for one, would donate more easily to a Public Content Service, or some such thing, which funded many quality non-commercial web sites. I wouldn't doubt it if corporations would feel the same way.
One thing that might get me to look at ads is if they ever contained something I was interested in. Unfortunately, since ads cost money, only companies buy ads, so that is what I'm stuck looking (or rather, ignoring).
Why not set aside a certain percentage of ads (say 5%, 10%) to give away to charitable causes, like open source software. It would break the monotony if every once in a while you saw an ad for PHP or KDE or Apache or something.
I think the whole point of the article was that we can't send (actual, physical) pictures half-way across the galaxy with a laser beam. So, if we want to send pictures, we have to send them digitally, but if we send the digitally, we need to send a program to display them, and hence we need to be able to send text well.
Now, we're back to the original problem, remember, the problem that you reply "just use pictures" to.
IMHOYSRTFA
Although I am too lazy to go find the article, I remember Slashdot reporting on this several months ago. If I remember correctly, ssn1 (formerly HackerNewsNetwork) first publicized the story. And excellent FAQ on Web Bugs is available at:
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http://www.privacyfoundation.org/education/webbug
If you would like to see the ads again, go to
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http://www.adcritic.com
And the truly lazy, here are some of the ads that stand out - links go to the QuickTime versions... sorry, it was either that or Windows Media Player format
E-Trade: Dot-Com Graveyard
Budweiser: What Are You Doing?
EDS: Running With The Squirrels
Enjoy.
I'm for the bailing. Instead of asking
Are you so self centered, that you are willing to cash out on them?
I think the question is
Are you so self centered that you are sure your friends will lose their jobs if you leave?
I have had friends who were in this position and thought that if they left the company would go under. On the contrary, most didn't.
That reminds me of Donald Knuth's $2.56 checks, another great idea.
this desire, by the way, is the one thing that is likely to insure the future of e-books.
To be precise, it's likely to cause publishing companies to try to force e-books down our collective throat. The only thing that will insure the future of e-books is if there are enough people willing to live with the restricted rights e-books come with.
Please, whatever you do, don't make your sites like the FAFSA on the Web site.
Everything I go there I can't believe it is a government site. In fact, when I first went there I was very hesitant to type in my information because I was sure I wasn't in the right place. I'm not saying that government sites have to be bland, but I think they should have a certain amount of respectability.
don't forget, the acadmeics who initially embraced unix had jobs whose salaries were/are heavily subsidized by the government.
Wavelet theory in mathematics is relatively (in computer terms) old, but it nothing like a 'technology.' The thoery of wavelets has been used in almost all image compression to date, most notably the JPEG and MPEG formats.
What Schroeder and Sweldens have done is develop a method for generating wavelets which better compresses geometrical data. This is news, and you most certainly did not evaluate a product using this algorithm at your last job.
You forget that compression research is done mostly by computer scientists and mathematicians. They have a completely different set of priorities than the software companies. Even if bandwidth increases to some rediculous point where software companies stop implementing the best compression algorithms, the research will not stop.