Who are the people who click on adds? Are they the same people who buy the products sold by spam?
I've clicked on ads. No, I don't buy products sold by spam. I click on ads because - and this really is mind-numbingly obvious - sometimes I'm interested in what the advertisers have to offer. Most frequently the ads I click on are on search result pages; I guess they're most likely to be relevant to what I'm looking for.
If I'm looking for, say, a new phone and I see an advert for the phone I want why wouldn't I click on it? I don't understand people who never click on ads. Do their moms buy everything for them, so they never need to look for products and places to buy them from?
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Dell is finally selling PC's with AMD processors right along the Intel offerings.
They finally, now, have the platform.
Is that because AMD now have a platform (the lack of which didn't seem to stop other people making AMD-based machines - if I can do it, surely Dell's engineers can too), or because the heat from competition authorities on Intel is becoming unbearable? Allegedly, Dell (among others) used to sell only Intel machines because Intel paid them to do so. Recall that Dell didn't used to sell non-Windows machines till the competition authorities got heavy with Microsoft and they stopped punishing resellers for not shipping Windows.
You almost make it sound like retaining its contents when powered off is what defines SRAM. It doesn't of course, the Static refers to the fact that, unlike DRAM, it doesn't need its contents periodically rewritten. Non-volatile memory, NVRAM, is the stuff that's designed to keep its contents when powered off.
3 is behind NAT, but everything I've tried (HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, POP3, Bittorrent, Real) worked. I've not noticed them filtering things either, but I don't spend much time on 'dodgy' sites. If it got in the way I'd just set up a VPN back to a box at home, where I have real IPs and an unadulterated connection. If OFCOM agree with the ASA that services with explicitly stated limits can call themselves "unlimited" they won't give a fuck about this.
Whether or not HSDPA is usable rather depends on what you're want to do with it. With pings of 200ms - 1000ms gaming is obviously out. Anything which can't handle a bit of packet loss is also out; 10% packet loss is not unusual in my experience. In general, it works well for browsing and even downloads, but sometimes a request packet gets lost so nothing happens, connections pause and sometimes totally stall. At least on my network you don't get a routable IP address; it's all done with NAT. I love my HSDPA connection, but I wouldn't want it as my only option. ADSL is faster, cheaper, more reliable and has lower latency. My experience is based on using 3's network in the UK via a Nokia 6120, YMMV.
It would be viable if the invention was viable. Unfortunately, it isn't. Either they did their sums wrong or they have invented a zero-point energy source and the weight just bootstraps their process. Dropping 22.7 kg 1.2m over 4 hours is a rate of work of 0.018 watts. Say it outputs green light for maximum lumens-per-watt, that's would be 12 lumens, or about twice what my AAA keychain light puts out. That's the theoretical maximum allowed by physics - 100% efficient mechanism, generator, wiring and LED. Human power is inadequate for the level of lighting we desire.
The post above corrected you on GPS satellites not being geostationary. I'd like to point out that many weather satellites and some communications satellites are in non-geostationary orbits too.
Its good to see PhysX support, I know it was worth keeping my limbs rather than selling a arm or leg to make Ghost Recon Advance Warfare 2 to work good.
Pity, it looks like you already sold your grammar.
Who cares, we'll never be able to "go" any place that has life.
The second best bet for finding life in our solar system is Europa. It would only take a few years to get there. Humans encountering real alien creatures isn't really all that fantastic. Practically everywhere on Earth with liquid water we look we find life. Europa has water under the ice. With large expanses of water there's a fair chance not only for traces microbial life as me might hope to find on Mars, but more complex organisms.
Is archive.org in every network on facebook? That's the only way they should be able to see anybody's profile, by default. Of course, if you're not an idiot you turn viewing of your profile by your networks off - why on earth would I want everyone in the city I live in to be able to see my holiday snaps, know how I'm feeling and who my friends are?
The fact that those "degenerate non-societies" have lower rates of teen pregnancy than the USA suggests kids are going to fuck anyway and being open about it is much healthier than pretending they won't.
And it's because of people doing this that stuff gets tightened down and in the end, its not the thieving bastards who suffer but the rest of us who pay for what we use instead of stealing it.
Activation does nothing whatsoever to stop people stealing Windows, because if you steal it you get a serial number in the box. I doubt most stores inventory management systems are sophisticated enough to track the individual serial numbers of boxes in stock, so if you get away from the store without being caught it will activate and stay activated just fine. Indeed, activation makes stealing a copy more desirable than it was compared to the other illegal alternative: misappropriating a copy off the net.
If people writing client software actually did what they were supposed to, this wouldn't be a problem. This is not a designed-in bug, this is caused by a minority of developers eschewing the specifications and standard practice out of either ignorance or apathy.
Failing to be aware of how your users will likely behave is a design bug. If a tiny fraction of your users make a particular error it's probably their fault. If a significant proportion of your users make a particular error, it's your fault.
This is for ATMs, so the "thing you have" is the card rather than a one-time-pad, but otherwise and it works pretty much as you describe. The need for a different "password" entry system is that it's trivial to shoulder-surf a PIN and then obtain the card by distracting the person and taking their card as it is ejected from the machine, picking their pocket, stealing their bag, beating the crap out of them...
How far does he take it? Does he eschew phones, TVs, microwaves, cars and every other technology which contains an MCU ad attendant closed-source firmware?
I see no mention of ladders and online rankings in the Wikipedia article. If Snipes didn't have them it's irrelevant, they don't claim to have patented networked gaming in its entirety.
If only the EFF didn't have to waste its money on this kind of thing.
which is essentially the same as saying, "If only there was no incentive for companies to obtain patents in the first place."
I read it as something like "I wish the patent examiners only granted valid patents.", but I suppose that wouldn't support your argument. We see what we want to see.
There is a difference between avoiding looking at something and ensuring you can never see something. I never suggested watching advertising should be mandatory, but having visible advertising is absolutely mandatory for the business model that pays for this site, your favourite search engine and a bunch of other stuff you use every day. By removing yourself from the pool of possible ad-viewers, you are removing yourself from the pool of people who pay for the services and content. The rest of us have to see more ads to generate the same revenue, so your selfishness really does impact other people. That is freeloading.
If you don't think a shiny laptop, when combined with a shiny car, good clothes, great shoes and a nice watch don't change the way people perceive you in a way which may well help you score, you need to stop dreaming and get with the real world.
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I've clicked on ads. No, I don't buy products sold by spam. I click on ads because - and this really is mind-numbingly obvious - sometimes I'm interested in what the advertisers have to offer. Most frequently the ads I click on are on search result pages; I guess they're most likely to be relevant to what I'm looking for.
If I'm looking for, say, a new phone and I see an advert for the phone I want why wouldn't I click on it? I don't understand people who never click on ads. Do their moms buy everything for them, so they never need to look for products and places to buy them from?
Is that because AMD now have a platform (the lack of which didn't seem to stop other people making AMD-based machines - if I can do it, surely Dell's engineers can too), or because the heat from competition authorities on Intel is becoming unbearable? Allegedly, Dell (among others) used to sell only Intel machines because Intel paid them to do so. Recall that Dell didn't used to sell non-Windows machines till the competition authorities got heavy with Microsoft and they stopped punishing resellers for not shipping Windows.
You almost make it sound like retaining its contents when powered off is what defines SRAM. It doesn't of course, the Static refers to the fact that, unlike DRAM, it doesn't need its contents periodically rewritten. Non-volatile memory, NVRAM, is the stuff that's designed to keep its contents when powered off.
3 is behind NAT, but everything I've tried (HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, POP3, Bittorrent, Real) worked. I've not noticed them filtering things either, but I don't spend much time on 'dodgy' sites. If it got in the way I'd just set up a VPN back to a box at home, where I have real IPs and an unadulterated connection. If OFCOM agree with the ASA that services with explicitly stated limits can call themselves "unlimited" they won't give a fuck about this.
Whether or not HSDPA is usable rather depends on what you're want to do with it. With pings of 200ms - 1000ms gaming is obviously out. Anything which can't handle a bit of packet loss is also out; 10% packet loss is not unusual in my experience. In general, it works well for browsing and even downloads, but sometimes a request packet gets lost so nothing happens, connections pause and sometimes totally stall. At least on my network you don't get a routable IP address; it's all done with NAT. I love my HSDPA connection, but I wouldn't want it as my only option. ADSL is faster, cheaper, more reliable and has lower latency. My experience is based on using 3's network in the UK via a Nokia 6120, YMMV.
It would be viable if the invention was viable. Unfortunately, it isn't. Either they did their sums wrong or they have invented a zero-point energy source and the weight just bootstraps their process. Dropping 22.7 kg 1.2m over 4 hours is a rate of work of 0.018 watts. Say it outputs green light for maximum lumens-per-watt, that's would be 12 lumens, or about twice what my AAA keychain light puts out. That's the theoretical maximum allowed by physics - 100% efficient mechanism, generator, wiring and LED. Human power is inadequate for the level of lighting we desire.
The post above corrected you on GPS satellites not being geostationary. I'd like to point out that many weather satellites and some communications satellites are in non-geostationary orbits too.
Pity, it looks like you already sold your grammar.
Not any more. Lenovo bought IBM's laptop business, oooh, ages ago now.
Does the DPA apply to Facebook, given they're not based in the UK?
Is archive.org in every network on facebook? That's the only way they should be able to see anybody's profile, by default. Of course, if you're not an idiot you turn viewing of your profile by your networks off - why on earth would I want everyone in the city I live in to be able to see my holiday snaps, know how I'm feeling and who my friends are?
The fact that those "degenerate non-societies" have lower rates of teen pregnancy than the USA suggests kids are going to fuck anyway and being open about it is much healthier than pretending they won't.
Activation does nothing whatsoever to stop people stealing Windows, because if you steal it you get a serial number in the box. I doubt most stores inventory management systems are sophisticated enough to track the individual serial numbers of boxes in stock, so if you get away from the store without being caught it will activate and stay activated just fine. Indeed, activation makes stealing a copy more desirable than it was compared to the other illegal alternative: misappropriating a copy off the net.
Why would you have to parse it the same way as IE, let alone execute VBScript? You only need to exclude the contents of the !DOCTYPE tag.
If you read TFA you'd know that what you claim will work is exactly what they are already doing and it hasn't worked.
Failing to be aware of how your users will likely behave is a design bug. If a tiny fraction of your users make a particular error it's probably their fault. If a significant proportion of your users make a particular error, it's your fault.
For one thing, I don't think you could could fool this with a gummy bear.
This is for ATMs, so the "thing you have" is the card rather than a one-time-pad, but otherwise and it works pretty much as you describe. The need for a different "password" entry system is that it's trivial to shoulder-surf a PIN and then obtain the card by distracting the person and taking their card as it is ejected from the machine, picking their pocket, stealing their bag, beating the crap out of them...
How far does he take it? Does he eschew phones, TVs, microwaves, cars and every other technology which contains an MCU ad attendant closed-source firmware?
I see no mention of ladders and online rankings in the Wikipedia article. If Snipes didn't have them it's irrelevant, they don't claim to have patented networked gaming in its entirety.
I read it as something like "I wish the patent examiners only granted valid patents.", but I suppose that wouldn't support your argument. We see what we want to see.
There is a difference between avoiding looking at something and ensuring you can never see something. I never suggested watching advertising should be mandatory, but having visible advertising is absolutely mandatory for the business model that pays for this site, your favourite search engine and a bunch of other stuff you use every day. By removing yourself from the pool of possible ad-viewers, you are removing yourself from the pool of people who pay for the services and content. The rest of us have to see more ads to generate the same revenue, so your selfishness really does impact other people. That is freeloading.
Could you really live with an 800-x-something screen? If they had a decent screen resolution I'd have bought one already.
If you don't think a shiny laptop, when combined with a shiny car, good clothes, great shoes and a nice watch don't change the way people perceive you in a way which may well help you score, you need to stop dreaming and get with the real world.