S3 is - basically - a tax on bytes. Maybe that's a way to go. But it would end up encouraging sites that move large amounts of data, instead of being useful and efficient. Not so good.
If it uses too many bytes and that means the cost to the user is too high, then I think that would drive away users.
I really don't have an answer to how to keep good sites going. All the possibilities in use have significant drawbacks. Maybe the best option is "beggarware" where they ask for donations or tips. If people really care about a particular site, then you better hope that enough of them think it's worth a certain level of a donation to pool into something that's enough to keep the site going.
Firefox with popups blocked in the preferences and the Adblock Plus add-on installed. So the vast majority of people are doing 2/3 things that I mentioned.
But most people don't even use Firefox. As long as IE is at the top of the heap, that statement can't be true.
If you think that most people are going anywhere near the extent you say you are, then I think it's a lot more likely that you need to broaden your social circle.
People generally pay for newspapers and they still get ads. People generally pay for magazines and still get ads. People generally pay for internet service but still get ads.
In each case, the part that you pay only pays for a portion of the costs, though the last case is a special case.
I think what you pay for on the newspapers is about what the paper material costs, it's not enough to pay people to gather the content and put it in.
The moon program was sold in a time when people in the US were afraid of a world ruled by Soviets. Manned space travel needs to be sold better, or rather, it needs a reason to be. Science is a hard sell since robots can do maybe 95% of the same work with maybe 5% of the budget.
Not only that, this developer somehow managed to get angel investment for a Firefox plug-in? I've not heard of something like that happening, especially with an idea of such little value and I think the concept is available in other forms for free and without nags. Given that most FF plug-ins are free, even the really good and useful ones, I think it would have to really sell itself as a commercial product.
Now we just need to convince NPR to put the rest of their shows on the web in podcast form. I am not at my computer when I listen to audio shows, my time doesn't work that way. Their local FM station doesn't tune well either, static and dropouts galore.
There's one caveat that I don't think people here noticed:
When text usage goes up, the carriers don't even have to install new infrastructure as long as it is proportional to voice usage.
For as long as I remember, texting has grown disproportionately to text usage.
I try to make it a point not to use texting, but I'm clearly outvoted by youth that use it to communicate in class and other settings where discreteness is required, then the remaining times they keep using it out of habit. And they seem to buy the package plans.
You've often gotta pay more for Coke if you want it with sugar.
Fructose is sugar too, just a less desirable form.
If you're talking about non-fructose sugar, in the US, it's pretty hard to find Coke like that. Even the stuff in expensive glass bottles at Sam's Club and such is fructose.
Bruce hardcoded it in and it was fed from technocrat.net itself. It wasn't a banner ad from one of the services, and AdBlock didn't catch it unless you explicitly blocked that ad.
Blocking specific images (two or three clicks) or specific paths in adblock is so ridiculously easy, it doesn't seem like it should be a problem. Did he have dozens of different images mixed with a lot of non-ads in the same path?
Vietnam is communism in name only (not even that since it calls itself socialist).
That in itself doesn't mean much. I thought most communist countries call themselves socialist, I think it still fits within the term, communism is an extreme form of socialism. Some of those countries and the communist countries that don't call themselves socialist call themselves democratic.
I stopped going there around October because Bruce felt the need to put banner adverts up for the Obama campaign. I don't go to "Geek sites" for political adverts.
To add to the other replies to this post, why are you here then? Weren't there Obama banner ads on this site back in the campaign days?
And, of course, the fact that you have to pay for these apps isn't shown in the ad.
In the ads that show the app store in use, it looks like Apple is pretty clear in calling it the App store. I think that should be a hint that they might be pay-for apps. Not only that, even in the 320p ad clips on the Apple site, it's easy to read the prices for a given app. When an app is selected, the button with the price is shown before the person taps it, then the buttons says "buy now" then the person taps again.
Only a few centuries ago? European civilization from a century ago doesn't look remotely like what it does today. I'm pretty sure that the European languages have changed a lot in the same time too, maybe not as much. The fact that there is such old precedence and that it's not a use that is only a decade ago tells us it's not something new.
I think it's funny that on a web where LOL-speak is commonplace that they complain that "someone else" is trying to change the meaning of words and how they are allowed to use them. Languages are malleable and no one subculture or interest group is going to be able to lay any legitimate claim to being the sole gatekeeper for how the meanings of words change.
My answer? Be your own boss. It comes with a caveat: starting your own business alone is a bad idea. Guess what? It takes more than one person to provide something of value.
Guess what? That's not absolutely true. It's not hard for one person to provide something of value. You're not going to start a Tesla Motors but if you chose projects and products approprate for a one person operation, you might even do those projects and products better than larger operations could.
I don't know where you think otherwise, but my experience shows such an absolute statement is not true. I'm in business for myself, no partners and no employees. Even before I started it, I knew several people that are in business for themselves, more people than had partnerships or larger businesses. From what I understand, partnerships are generally riskier ventures than sole proprietorships. I think the way to make a business partnership work is to have one person that's actually in control, the other partners are "minor" partners, or hire a non-partner to do the management work.
I don't know how what you're saying even applies. Most Obama supporters are not in the Obama campaign, Obama's campaigns don't have access to Ohio government resources like some in Huckabee's campaign might have been in Huckabee's home state, nor did Obama ask his supporters to violate the privacy of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Don't conflate these situations needlessly. All those that misuse their government office for election gain should be held accountable. In this case, it looks like maybe those in the Huckabee campaign may been doing this, but this veil of secrecy prevents knowing whether this is true. Maybe that this was the work of an independent Huckabee supporter, but without a proper investigation, we won't know. In SJW's case, Ohio government resources aren't under Obama's jurisdiction.
Using government resources to edit wikipedia entries does not sound like an ethical thing to do, anonymously or not. In this case, it looks like taxpayer money being used for political gain, another no-no.
I'm lost on how the antenna in a phone is a major power consumer. Aren't the screen, power converters, CPU and all the modulators in the radios each consuming more power than the wire that connects the transceiver to the antenna? If it's really consuming that much power, then it stands to reason that wire should burn up.
The article is short on details and so poorly worded that I think the article should not have been published. Even if it's valid, the writing makes it look like pseudoscience.
The "200CK" is irrelevant, it's silly unit for a kind of treatment that's no better than placebo. It's supposed to sound important, which is how it works, by tricking the mind.
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S3 is - basically - a tax on bytes. Maybe that's a way to go. But it would end up encouraging sites that move large amounts of data, instead of being useful and efficient. Not so good.
If it uses too many bytes and that means the cost to the user is too high, then I think that would drive away users.
I really don't have an answer to how to keep good sites going. All the possibilities in use have significant drawbacks. Maybe the best option is "beggarware" where they ask for donations or tips. If people really care about a particular site, then you better hope that enough of them think it's worth a certain level of a donation to pool into something that's enough to keep the site going.
Firefox with popups blocked in the preferences and the Adblock Plus add-on installed. So the vast majority of people are doing 2/3 things that I mentioned.
But most people don't even use Firefox. As long as IE is at the top of the heap, that statement can't be true.
If you think that most people are going anywhere near the extent you say you are, then I think it's a lot more likely that you need to broaden your social circle.
So how does your explanation account for them not letting them board after they've been given the all-clear by the appropriate authorities?
People generally pay for newspapers and they still get ads. People generally pay for magazines and still get ads. People generally pay for internet service but still get ads.
In each case, the part that you pay only pays for a portion of the costs, though the last case is a special case.
I think what you pay for on the newspapers is about what the paper material costs, it's not enough to pay people to gather the content and put it in.
The moon program was sold in a time when people in the US were afraid of a world ruled by Soviets. Manned space travel needs to be sold better, or rather, it needs a reason to be. Science is a hard sell since robots can do maybe 95% of the same work with maybe 5% of the budget.
Not only that, this developer somehow managed to get angel investment for a Firefox plug-in? I've not heard of something like that happening, especially with an idea of such little value and I think the concept is available in other forms for free and without nags. Given that most FF plug-ins are free, even the really good and useful ones, I think it would have to really sell itself as a commercial product.
That's partly my fault. Instead of buying $600 computers like last year, I placed several $20 orders of 300 bouncy balls.
Now we just need to convince NPR to put the rest of their shows on the web in podcast form. I am not at my computer when I listen to audio shows, my time doesn't work that way. Their local FM station doesn't tune well either, static and dropouts galore.
Correction:
For as long as I remember, texting has grown disproportionately to voice usage.
There's one caveat that I don't think people here noticed:
When text usage goes up, the carriers don't even have to install new infrastructure as long as it is proportional to voice usage.
For as long as I remember, texting has grown disproportionately to text usage.
I try to make it a point not to use texting, but I'm clearly outvoted by youth that use it to communicate in class and other settings where discreteness is required, then the remaining times they keep using it out of habit. And they seem to buy the package plans.
You've often gotta pay more for Coke if you want it with sugar.
Fructose is sugar too, just a less desirable form.
If you're talking about non-fructose sugar, in the US, it's pretty hard to find Coke like that. Even the stuff in expensive glass bottles at Sam's Club and such is fructose.
Bruce hardcoded it in and it was fed from technocrat.net itself. It wasn't a banner ad from one of the services, and AdBlock didn't catch it unless you explicitly blocked that ad.
Blocking specific images (two or three clicks) or specific paths in adblock is so ridiculously easy, it doesn't seem like it should be a problem. Did he have dozens of different images mixed with a lot of non-ads in the same path?
I guess they're worried that they'll use that aluminum and convert a shanty town into a nuke refinery.
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Vietnam is communism in name only (not even that since it calls itself socialist).
That in itself doesn't mean much. I thought most communist countries call themselves socialist, I think it still fits within the term, communism is an extreme form of socialism. Some of those countries and the communist countries that don't call themselves socialist call themselves democratic.
While everything you said may be true, the fact is that the internet changed the efficiencies for advertising.
It doesn't help that one of the biggest culprits is someone that lists classified ads for panhandling money i.e. he just does it for donations.
I stopped going there around October because Bruce felt the need to put banner adverts up for the Obama campaign. I don't go to "Geek sites" for political adverts.
To add to the other replies to this post, why are you here then? Weren't there Obama banner ads on this site back in the campaign days?
And, of course, the fact that you have to pay for these apps isn't shown in the ad.
In the ads that show the app store in use, it looks like Apple is pretty clear in calling it the App store. I think that should be a hint that they might be pay-for apps. Not only that, even in the 320p ad clips on the Apple site, it's easy to read the prices for a given app. When an app is selected, the button with the price is shown before the person taps it, then the buttons says "buy now" then the person taps again.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/ads/
Only a few centuries ago? European civilization from a century ago doesn't look remotely like what it does today. I'm pretty sure that the European languages have changed a lot in the same time too, maybe not as much. The fact that there is such old precedence and that it's not a use that is only a decade ago tells us it's not something new.
I think it's funny that on a web where LOL-speak is commonplace that they complain that "someone else" is trying to change the meaning of words and how they are allowed to use them. Languages are malleable and no one subculture or interest group is going to be able to lay any legitimate claim to being the sole gatekeeper for how the meanings of words change.
My answer? Be your own boss. It comes with a caveat: starting your own business alone is a bad idea. Guess what? It takes more than one person to provide something of value.
Guess what? That's not absolutely true. It's not hard for one person to provide something of value. You're not going to start a Tesla Motors but if you chose projects and products approprate for a one person operation, you might even do those projects and products better than larger operations could.
I don't know where you think otherwise, but my experience shows such an absolute statement is not true. I'm in business for myself, no partners and no employees. Even before I started it, I knew several people that are in business for themselves, more people than had partnerships or larger businesses. From what I understand, partnerships are generally riskier ventures than sole proprietorships. I think the way to make a business partnership work is to have one person that's actually in control, the other partners are "minor" partners, or hire a non-partner to do the management work.
I think some people would take less money rather than work outside in the winter. Working outside in the summer isn't always a picnic either.
I don't know how what you're saying even applies. Most Obama supporters are not in the Obama campaign, Obama's campaigns don't have access to Ohio government resources like some in Huckabee's campaign might have been in Huckabee's home state, nor did Obama ask his supporters to violate the privacy of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. Don't conflate these situations needlessly. All those that misuse their government office for election gain should be held accountable. In this case, it looks like maybe those in the Huckabee campaign may been doing this, but this veil of secrecy prevents knowing whether this is true. Maybe that this was the work of an independent Huckabee supporter, but without a proper investigation, we won't know. In SJW's case, Ohio government resources aren't under Obama's jurisdiction.
Using government resources to edit wikipedia entries does not sound like an ethical thing to do, anonymously or not. In this case, it looks like taxpayer money being used for political gain, another no-no.
I'm lost on how the antenna in a phone is a major power consumer. Aren't the screen, power converters, CPU and all the modulators in the radios each consuming more power than the wire that connects the transceiver to the antenna? If it's really consuming that much power, then it stands to reason that wire should burn up.
The article is short on details and so poorly worded that I think the article should not have been published. Even if it's valid, the writing makes it look like pseudoscience.
The "200CK" is irrelevant, it's silly unit for a kind of treatment that's no better than placebo. It's supposed to sound important, which is how it works, by tricking the mind.