The real shame is that it's not going to be any more effective than the other attempts at web advertizing. All the people that ignore other web ads will ignore these newfangled full-motion ads too. Some people who put up with pop-ups and such will be pushed over the edge and just stop going to the site(s).
And in the end they are left with the same target group as they had before, only they are spending way more money to attract them. While ignoring the root cause of the problem: believing that click-throughs were indicative of ad effectiveness.
Except in my experience I have been asked to estimate how long it will take to build a bridge across a body of water. They won't tell me which body of water or even give me any size specifications for it, because they haven't decided yet. So, I give them my best "worst case" guesstimate.
When they finally get around to telling me (usually when the development time is half spent) that the bridge is across the atlantic ocean (arctic to antarctic even), my original guess was somehow written is stone... "We'll just make up the time during development", they tell me.
I always find it odd that they are willing to push the deadlines back for all the other aspects of the project, except for the part that matters most, the actual development.
And people form 'bands' so they can make money.
It's a small business organization. Radically different from playing a musical instrument for enjoyment.
People band together in groups to play music as a group, because it is more enjoyable than playing by oneself. The money-making thing usually comes later when they realize that they have a good sound. Many times it's after an encounter with an agent of some kind.
I'd really like to see some Joe Schmoe stand up to this and get hit with the full penalty (and not bargain it down like I seem remember someone doing). Imagine being $165,000,000 in debt. In fact, I'd like to see alot of people do this. Like everyone sharing mp3s. Probably a large portion of the country. The Music industry would be owned Trillions (Quadrillions?) of dollars. Where would this money come from? How could the economy survive? And how can the industry justify this debt when they were never worth anywhere near that much money in the best of times? Would be interesting, indeed. Too bad their bluff will never be called...
It has come to my attention that a celestial body that you own, the asteriod Eros, has been residing in the Milky Way galaxy, property owned by me and my company [stupid company name here]. According to our records, Eros has been in the Milky Way for many billions of years, however we are willing to wave the storage fees for all but the last 100 years. At the going rate or $7.00 per hour (maximum $75 per day), your total debt to us comes to $2,739,342.00.
Keep in mind that we will still continue to charge for storage at the above rate until Eros is removed from the Milky Way galaxy, and the appropriate paperwork is filled out in triplicate.
You don't need to evict anyone to claim property. If I, and my gang of armed aliens from outer space, came to your house and "took it over". There is no way you can evict me. My weapons are too strong. Evicting the probe (or me and my alien friends in this case) only applies if there are no laws. If we were all in a lawless earth, then what you are saying would apply.
If you and your gang of armed aliens took over my house, I'd be able to take you to court to get it back because, everyone say it now, there are established laws governing land ownership on earth. As the discussion is centered on an object that is not Earth and there are not laws that govern property ownership on asteroids, we are in agreement (you say that what I said would apply to a lawless location).
And what good is a court order going to do to get your house back from the powerful alien gang? Sure, legally you still have claim to the property, but without the might to back the claim, it doesn't mean anything. Infinite lawsuits and bills aren't going to get that probe off of the asteroid.
It's interesting that you say this, because you were very critical (heh) of the movie in the comments of the article following the release. Why the change of heart?
And I've always hated that about windows... Sure I have the login screen up, but the hard drive light is still pegged. And it takes 5 times as long to log in, unless I wait for everything to finish "loading in the background". I'd rather have it all done up front.
Of course that's just my opinion, which will make it nice when I can just not use this new "feature".
Why is it that the people that say "There's no way that humans could have done this" are the ones with the "open" minds, but those that say "Hmmm, humans are very intelligent, very resourceful and ingenious creatures, who are quite capable of such a task" are the ones with the "closed" minds?
I think that all the people invoking the supernatural (or the unknown) are vastly underestimating the capability of human beings.
It's called compromise. ["]I'm on the edge on this bill, but...if you give this to my state/pet issue you have my vote[."]
The way it should work: "I'm on the edge on your bill, but... if you agree to vote on my (different) bill, you have my vote on yours."
No, that's just trading votes. It should be: "I'm on the edge on your bill, see if you can convince me to vote for it." These aren't fucking baseball cards.
So if I left my TV and a chair sitting out on the sidewalk in front of my house (plugged into an outlet from my house), and someone sat down and turned on the TV to watch the prime time sitcoms, they would be stealing, right?
Just like standing outside a TV store after hours watching the TV they left turned on is stealing. Especially if you don't run out and purchase the products shown in the ads.
And don't forget sitting around outside of an open concert venue listening to the music being played on stage, without paying to get in.
Oh and if you happened to be sitting out on your porch with some of your buddies telling jokes, it would be stealing if I heard any of those jokes while walking past.
Wasn't this the subject of a Twilight Zone or something?
The thing is, you don't get to choose nor even know who is going to die when you press the button. It could be some leper in Thailand; it could be the daughter that you plan on spending all that wonderful money on. It could even be yourself. All you know is, you press the button, someone dies. You still wanna take the risk? Do you trust them to pick a person randomly? It could be a setup just to kill your family members off.
Also, what goes around comes around. Chances are, the next person to press the button for $1M is going to kill you...
I have to say that the ubiquitous advertising in the Minority Report world scared me more than the idea of pre-crime.
Forget about being imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit just because some clairvoyant saw it happen in the supposed future, there's no way I could live in a world with ads as annoying as those. It would drive me fscking insane!
Actually, in the sports world, when a individual or team reaches the pinnacle and becomes "the best", they will attract a large number of people that idolize them and people that hate them.
There are people that love MS, and there are people that hate MS. I don't see how MS is being treated any different than the Lakers. They've had their dynasty, but now it's time for someone else to take it away from them.
Hooey!!! Given paying any price and free, people choose free.
Just about anyone in the U.S. can get it for free from their kitchen tap, and yet it is a thriving industry. In other words, people are willing to pay a reasonable price for a product that they feel is worth the cost, even if a free alternative is available.
This is why people like me go out and purchase a CD for some artist even though we have the entire CD sitting on our hard drive in the form of MP3s that were ripped by someone else and given to us for free.
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The real shame is that it's not going to be any more effective than the other attempts at web advertizing. All the people that ignore other web ads will ignore these newfangled full-motion ads too. Some people who put up with pop-ups and such will be pushed over the edge and just stop going to the site(s).
And in the end they are left with the same target group as they had before, only they are spending way more money to attract them. While ignoring the root cause of the problem: believing that click-throughs were indicative of ad effectiveness.
Oh well, not my money being wasted...
He's saying that for every two 747s, there will be one false positive. Assuming that a 747 carries about 500 passengers, that's 1 in 1000 or 0.1%.
In other words, if a full 747 lands, there's a roughly 50-50 chance that there will be a false positive found.
Not 50% of the passengers will come up false positive. 1 person out of 2 planes. That's a 50% chance per plane of finding a single false positive.
Get it?
The cable company calls it "cable theft". I call it "television".
Except in my experience I have been asked to estimate how long it will take to build a bridge across a body of water. They won't tell me which body of water or even give me any size specifications for it, because they haven't decided yet. So, I give them my best "worst case" guesstimate.
When they finally get around to telling me (usually when the development time is half spent) that the bridge is across the atlantic ocean (arctic to antarctic even), my original guess was somehow written is stone... "We'll just make up the time during development", they tell me.
I always find it odd that they are willing to push the deadlines back for all the other aspects of the project, except for the part that matters most, the actual development.
I do the same sort of thing, only I'm a gigolo.
And people form 'bands' so they can make money.
It's a small business organization. Radically different from playing a musical instrument for enjoyment.
People band together in groups to play music as a group, because it is more enjoyable than playing by oneself. The money-making thing usually comes later when they realize that they have a good sound. Many times it's after an encounter with an agent of some kind.
I'd really like to see some Joe Schmoe stand up to this and get hit with the full penalty (and not bargain it down like I seem remember someone doing). Imagine being $165,000,000 in debt. In fact, I'd like to see alot of people do this. Like everyone sharing mp3s. Probably a large portion of the country. The Music industry would be owned Trillions (Quadrillions?) of dollars. Where would this money come from? How could the economy survive? And how can the industry justify this debt when they were never worth anywhere near that much money in the best of times? Would be interesting, indeed. Too bad their bluff will never be called...
Dear Mr. Nemitz,
It has come to my attention that a celestial body that you own, the asteriod Eros, has been residing in the Milky Way galaxy, property owned by me and my company [stupid company name here]. According to our records, Eros has been in the Milky Way for many billions of years, however we are willing to wave the storage fees for all but the last 100 years. At the going rate or $7.00 per hour (maximum $75 per day), your total debt to us comes to $2,739,342.00.
Keep in mind that we will still continue to charge for storage at the above rate until Eros is removed from the Milky Way galaxy, and the appropriate paperwork is filled out in triplicate.
Thank you,
Dr. Lyphorm
CEO
[stupid company name here]
It's interesting that you say this, because you were very critical (heh) of the movie in the comments of the article following the release. Why the change of heart?
Well, there was this movie...
It's worked that way on Windows for a long time.
And I've always hated that about windows... Sure I have the login screen up, but the hard drive light is still pegged. And it takes 5 times as long to log in, unless I wait for everything to finish "loading in the background". I'd rather have it all done up front.
Of course that's just my opinion, which will make it nice when I can just not use this new "feature".
Why is it that the people that say "There's no way that humans could have done this" are the ones with the "open" minds, but those that say "Hmmm, humans are very intelligent, very resourceful and ingenious creatures, who are quite capable of such a task" are the ones with the "closed" minds?
I think that all the people invoking the supernatural (or the unknown) are vastly underestimating the capability of human beings.
No, that's just trading votes. It should be: "I'm on the edge on your bill, see if you can convince me to vote for it." These aren't fucking baseball cards.
So if I left my TV and a chair sitting out on the sidewalk in front of my house (plugged into an outlet from my house), and someone sat down and turned on the TV to watch the prime time sitcoms, they would be stealing, right?
Just like standing outside a TV store after hours watching the TV they left turned on is stealing. Especially if you don't run out and purchase the products shown in the ads.
And don't forget sitting around outside of an open concert venue listening to the music being played on stage, without paying to get in.
Oh and if you happened to be sitting out on your porch with some of your buddies telling jokes, it would be stealing if I heard any of those jokes while walking past.
Yes, it all started when Urgh said to Grug, "Nngf o threrm huh kleeg unf roosh."
You're just mad because you can't cut and paste his algorithms right into your own code and take credit for it like you came up with them yourself.
Wasn't this the subject of a Twilight Zone or something?
The thing is, you don't get to choose nor even know who is going to die when you press the button. It could be some leper in Thailand; it could be the daughter that you plan on spending all that wonderful money on. It could even be yourself. All you know is, you press the button, someone dies. You still wanna take the risk? Do you trust them to pick a person randomly? It could be a setup just to kill your family members off.
Also, what goes around comes around. Chances are, the next person to press the button for $1M is going to kill you...
I have to say that the ubiquitous advertising in the Minority Report world scared me more than the idea of pre-crime.
Forget about being imprisoned for a crime you didn't commit just because some clairvoyant saw it happen in the supposed future, there's no way I could live in a world with ads as annoying as those. It would drive me fscking insane!
Actually, in the sports world, when a individual or team reaches the pinnacle and becomes "the best", they will attract a large number of people that idolize them and people that hate them.
There are people that love MS, and there are people that hate MS. I don't see how MS is being treated any different than the Lakers. They've had their dynasty, but now it's time for someone else to take it away from them.
Hooey!!! Given paying any price and free, people choose free.
Just about anyone in the U.S. can get it for free from their kitchen tap, and yet it is a thriving industry. In other words, people are willing to pay a reasonable price for a product that they feel is worth the cost, even if a free alternative is available.
This is why people like me go out and purchase a CD for some artist even though we have the entire CD sitting on our hard drive in the form of MP3s that were ripped by someone else and given to us for free.