Content providers want DRM. Consumers want value. If every photocopier, scanner and printer built had to recognise a watermark in DRM protected magazines, money, online photos, webpages, etc. Do you think you could afford a color scanner/printer/fax all in one for under $200? DRM costs money. DRM can have false positives. DRM negates fair use. You are asking us to pay more for less? I think not. I can buy CD ROM's, Hard Drives, Memory, etc that work and properly verify a copy is an exact duplicate of the original image/sound/document/etc. Why would I pay to have the content encrypted and fail to work if a hard drive fails? I vote with my dollars. I buy un-encrypted content where possible and evaluate my need for encrypted content. I produce my own content (photos, documents, sounds) and I don't need it wrapped in DRM to make it hard to edit/copy and use. It's why I don't have a Sony Minidisk. It's serial copy protection breaks the functionality of a recording even if you are the content creator. It's more cumbersome to do a field recording using a PC instead of a Mini Disk, but the product is useful.
We currently have DRM-free copywrighted content on the web. It is that way because most users are using non-DRM browsers to view the web. (MS is trying to change that with motion pictures and sound) They want the eyeballs. On the fly encryption and transmission costs money and breaks the web for many. It's the quick way to obscurity. Think Google would have been a player if they went DRM all the way. They would have quickly lost to the competition. Support open standards and KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!).
If you want to buy someone else's content and see it, you are welcome to install someone else's media plug-in be it for Quicktime, MS, Adobe, Liquid Audio, or other if they trust you enough to provide a plug-in. They have every right to sit on the keys and not let you see the content on anything except a Trusted Computing platform. It's their choice. If they want to sell you the content, they will either have to convince you to keep a Trusted PC/cellphone/PDA, or they will have to realise the consumers are not being served and take steps to market to them.
There is no reason to bundle non-open binary DRM plug-in's in the open OS.
Free content is found in large quanities. Ignore the hype and be contented with Slashdot, Yahoo, Google and such and leave the high priced stuff alone. It isn't worth it most of the time.
Offset doesn't matter to me at all. I don't print my PCB masks double sided. I print each on a seprate sheet with registration marks which are aligned when I produce the negatives. I certanly don't load the printer with double sided printed circuit stock and directly try to print properly registered pattern on the board. The negatives are registered and contact printed to the circuit board.
One biggie is regarding the elevator shaft. Nothing is permited in an elevator shaft that is not directly related to the operation of the elevator.
There are some cable tray limits on the use of class 2 wireing in conduit and cable trays in an elevator access shaft which can be used for networking. Check the National Electrical Code and any local ordnances that may apply. The easiest way to check this is hire an electrician as a consultant that does class 2 electrical work if you plan on pulling the wire yourself.
In the analog world many times if noise in a system is a repeating wave (hum in an audio line), it can be duplicated, inverted and added to the original to eliminate the noise and leave the signal.
Apply this to a mail server. Hold all mail for about 5 minutes (from outside only). Compare them all. Look for matches of more than 50%. Cancel the matches out and filter the incomming for the same. This nails lots of the worms and spam by rejecting the common mode noise. Most spammers create a message and mass mail the same message, not create new messages for each reciepent (except some boilerplate name use). Hotmail could catch a lot of spam this way and yank it out of mailboxes before they are retreived and halt the remaining incomming very effeciently. Only the first few would make it past the filter, but then be recalled back out of mailboxes if the user hasn't retrieved them yet.
Sending the same mail from dozens of relays would have no effect on the filter. Where it comes from simply doesn't matter. If it has a large protion that is a match, it's dead. Newsgroup mail lists would have to be white listed on a case by case basis.
I never get nailed with those. I always call toll free numbers from the lobby pay phone. Any numbers that have a charge of anything, never get called. It keeps the suprises off my bill.
Probably store employees trying to preview them like they do the rest of the videos. They got a suprise when they couldn't be snuck back on the shelf. The color change gave away the tampering.
I think unless they price them the same as a daily newspaper, going to this format will destroy the used market because there will be no new cd's to become used for the used market. After all, are these selling new?
The problem can be addressed by putting people at risk of being charged postage. This can be done by requiring that senders post a bond of say 1/10 of 1 cent per item sent.
Since bulk mailers tend to steal resources, I think it would create problems with stolen credit card and banking numbers. As long as they are borrowing a relay or trojaned machine, why not borrow an account number also? Can you imagine the trouble trying to fix this. The receiver of SPAM is not willing to go unpaid to punish the spammer and you are trying to get your money back from 300,000 people. Good luck fighting the new fraud.
Even today Accoustic Research 3a's are used as reference speakers. Yamaha NS1000's are used for critical monitoring. Who would stick a substandard consumer driver into a pro cabinet? The driver is matched for the crossover. Using a substitute of differing coupling, suspension, and/or weight can mess up the system response and create resonances that didn't exist before. A sub is probably OK for your home theatre, but for studio critical monitoring, accept no substitutes. Your quality product depends on it.
Here is what Stereo Review has to say about both of them. See items 97 and 91. They are the ones I have.
http://www.stereophile.com/features/709/
Compare the graphs with anything BOSE. I'll tell you which one can create a better image of the original environment.
For my old 3a's, I do have the foam edge problem. I bought them used in 1978. Because they are acoustic suspension (very loose long throw) they are worth the money to find a shop that can do a good job re-coneing them. It's hard to replace the foam because of the damage removing it and the added weight of old + new glue. A good shop can re-cone them for about $40 each. I found a shop in Portland OR that does a great job.
The NS1000's are now going on 24 years old (bought in 1980) without any problems of any kind. There isn't much stuff out there that reliable to run problem free for 20+ years without a glitch. When they have a problem, I'll probably have them repaired instead of replaced as there isn't much on the market that has that quality, relibility and longevity. I've has other speakers fall apart in less than 1/3rd the time. Don't think they lasted this long just because I baby them. I don't.
It's sad when cheap speakers fall apart after only 10-15 years or less.
1: The Format is fee-free provided you follow the license
Sounds like the Adobe business model. The Acrobat reader is free for the asking. If you want to create a bunch of Acrobat files using anti-copy features or E-reader format, well then you have to pay the piper.
SCO brought it on themselves, they behaved immature and childish and now they're getting an immature and childish retaliation. Someone needs to take both SCO and the virus author out of the playground and give them a good spanking.
The first thing that came to mind was the thing you usualy learn in pre-school. People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. They got lots of people interested when they threw a big stone at someone big (IBM). It was only a matter of time that the throwing stones from a glass house would attract others attention. Everybody knows they might be next. Just what does SCO expect people to do? Ignore it?
They are trying to charge for the entire thing like they own the whole enchalada, not maybe a small corner of it. It's like a ref at the superbowl wanting all the proceeds of the game including all advertising, ticketing, and TV rights just because the superbowl couldn't happen without their valuable contribution and they own the rights to the rule book. They forgot the players, advertisers, networks, and fans may object very loudly up to the point of a riot. Especialy since they did the majority of the contribution.
SCO is in the midst of this type of riot for the same reason. It wasn't unexpected. It was just a matter of when and where.
Check the financial history. A good place to start is by checking the stock symbol SCOX. They got Microsoft onboard. Remember? SCO is a MS puppet to attack the open source community. MS can't do it directly but $10 million is a good start.
I already have two Linux licenses for a whole lot less money. Hit the bookstore. Lots of Linux manuals have a publishers edition of Red Hat and Caldera in them. Since SCO is renamed Caldera, there should be no way they can get you for using it. Be sure to read and follow the EULA.
I have a 2 publishers editions, one of 2.3 kernel and one 2.4 kernel. There should be no way they can demand more money for using it the way they sold it.
There may be a legal challange for having the Red hat copy that came with the book. I guess I'm going to have to hide it until the SCO case is over.
One copy makes a great SAMBA server and the other one is a great desktop web tool.
If you need it for outdoors, I would recommend using the aluminum coated insulating sheeting that can be purchased at any good building supply. It's the plywood with metal coating. Using the metal tape the HVAC guys use to seal up seams in ductwork would work well for assembly and provide weather protection.
Georga Pacific makes some. It's description from the website; GP Thermostat Radiant Barrier Sheathing enhances Plytanium plywood sheathing with a highly reflective aluminum foil. Thermostat Radiant Barrier Sheathing can reduce heat flow through the ceiling up to 50 percent and save up to 20 percent on cooling energy consumption in hot, sunny climates. (1) Best of all, it's made of Plytanium plywood, so you know it's strong and durable.
http://www.gp.com/build/product.aspx?pname=Plyta ni um%e2%84%a2+Thermostat%e2%84%a2+Radiant+Barrier+Sh eathing&pid=1741&hierarchy=
Never ever open an attachment from anyone that claims it's a patch for a virus. If you realy want to do good, provide a text link (not a hyperlink as I can cut and paste) to the well known AV vendor's website linking to the description of the beast, not the patch. From there I should be able to find and install the patch.
The learning, a patch sent to you isn't a patch but the worm! Why hasn't everybody learned this yet?
What??? That makes about as much sense as converting ogg to mp3. It can be done easily, but it'll be lossy as hell - they're different formats, damnit. Maybe I could an analyst and then they could pay me to be dumb.
Check out this business plan. We make a player. We sell tunes online. You can use someone elses inferiour tunes with our player. Try it. Compare. See how much better our tunes are?
Am I missing anything, or is my tinfoil hat on too tight?
In this experiment flash speed doesn't matter much. Their cannon is a low velosity device. Just how much does the air slow down going from a 3/8ths air compressor hose into a 1 inch pipe. They have no local surge tank behind the sprinkler valve so their hose orface size is a big speed limiter. Therefore they can get by with using a photosresistor sensor (very slow rise time) instead of photodiode or break wire, a microprocessor (more delays) a mechanical relay (need I say more?) and they still need to program in a delay into the uP. That chunk if iron isn't going very fast. It would never capture the muzzle velosity of a bullit going through a playing card or apple. Note the ritz cracker photo. The cracker moved a lot and the projectile hasn't left yet.
If they were shooting realy fast stuff, they would have to go to a wire break trigger or photodiode, eliminate the uP and mechanical relay and use a high speed flash. Adjusting the trigger location and using component rise times would be all the delay they would need. Since their stuff is relatively slow, a slow flash doesn't give much blurring.
Look at the photo (I don't know where right now) of a bullit cutting a playing card in half. The card which is much ligher hasn't moved much. These experiments are orders of magnatude diffrent in speed.
I thought that one of the advantages of the Edgerton setup was that he used a fast strobe, something on the order of 1/200,000 of a second. This produced much better detail than a generic camera flash unit.
Most geneeric flash units can be as slow as 1mS. I've done a few light bulb breaking photos using a camera flash and a sound trigger. They are not posted online. Only the tiny fast moving pieces of glass show any blurring.
The problem with it is many places won't bother to advertise that way, so actualy finding a popular spot or one close by that doesn't need to advertise won't be found. You will certanly get advertisements from the trendy places that target the cell phone upscale demographic. You'll find the ones with the big advertising budget with high prices to support the adverts.
Do you have any idea how many times I've grabbed a cityguide from a hotel when traveling to find the nearest good restraunt, only to pass dozens of others on the way to the nearest one listed? I gave up using those guides. Cell phone advertisements just seem to be an extension of the paper brochure in a hotel lobby with the same problems.
In your guidance example you left out one item between Turn left and two blocks. It's pass 4 sidewalk cafe's and one corner diner.
How do you tell the system to not track you while you are not on the phone? I don't think tracking can be turned off short of powering down the phone. It looks like the only option from the article is to not share the location with 3rd parties. It would work like blocking caller ID. The phone company knows you made the call and from where, but just don't pass on the information unless it's 911 or an 800 number. Don't forget the phone checks in with a tower on a regular basis (it's needed to ring your phone without trying to ring you nationwide). It is possible as evidenced by the location advertisements, to give your location to 3rd parties like the restraunt you just drove past. They don't even need a prior relationship with you to get the information. If the restraunt subscribes to a spam phones within 3 miles of here service hosted by the phone company for the revenue stream, the location information can still be kept in-house with the phone company while they take in advertising dollars for spamming you as you drive by. This may be a free service to you and not have the ten cent message SMS fee. Opt out might not save you from that as the restraunt never receives the location information, just the bill for sending the advertisement. Your wife may be able to hit a website and look up your whereabouts even if you are not on the phone. It is possible you will not given the option to opt out? I wonder how many distracted drivers are going to get into an accident checking a possible important message?
You are missing a point. Ever visit a site overloaded with banner ads and pop-ups? Closing an ad early only brings up the next and the next. (mostly got people to seriously consider pop-up blockers, shut off JS etc.) Too many advertisers pay per delivery. Don't expect it to just be one ad per page. There are enought sleezeball webmasters that do anything for an advertisers buck and provide no content. We don't need a skip button. We need a no way button for the entire site.
I can see it now. Due to demand Redmond provides multiple window desktops like Gnome. Several apps and browsers are open in several windows. Full page adds load in several windows. Surfers surf the channels to see which one is done with the commercials and has gone back to regular programming.
I quit watching TV due to the poor content and overload of advertising. Is the net next?
300KB/7KBps == 42+ seconds of *extra* download time, presuming the user is downloading at a full 56kbps
Connect speed and download speed are two diffrent things altogether. On dial up with a good ISP speeds of 8-15K are common. Many cheap ISP's have DL speeds in the 1-3K range. I used to get comments on how fast my modem was. It was a 28.8 with a good ISP and easly beat the speed of many rival ISP's on 56K modems.
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Content providers want DRM. Consumers want value. If every photocopier, scanner and printer built had to recognise a watermark in DRM protected magazines, money, online photos, webpages, etc. Do you think you could afford a color scanner/printer/fax all in one for under $200? DRM costs money. DRM can have false positives. DRM negates fair use. You are asking us to pay more for less? I think not. I can buy CD ROM's, Hard Drives, Memory, etc that work and properly verify a copy is an exact duplicate of the original image/sound/document/etc. Why would I pay to have the content encrypted and fail to work if a hard drive fails? I vote with my dollars. I buy un-encrypted content where possible and evaluate my need for encrypted content. I produce my own content (photos, documents, sounds) and I don't need it wrapped in DRM to make it hard to edit/copy and use. It's why I don't have a Sony Minidisk. It's serial copy protection breaks the functionality of a recording even if you are the content creator. It's more cumbersome to do a field recording using a PC instead of a Mini Disk, but the product is useful.
We currently have DRM-free copywrighted content on the web. It is that way because most users are using non-DRM browsers to view the web. (MS is trying to change that with motion pictures and sound) They want the eyeballs. On the fly encryption and transmission costs money and breaks the web for many. It's the quick way to obscurity. Think Google would have been a player if they went DRM all the way. They would have quickly lost to the competition. Support open standards and KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!).
If you want to buy someone else's content and see it, you are welcome to install someone else's media plug-in be it for Quicktime, MS, Adobe, Liquid Audio, or other if they trust you enough to provide a plug-in. They have every right to sit on the keys and not let you see the content on anything except a Trusted Computing platform. It's their choice. If they want to sell you the content, they will either have to convince you to keep a Trusted PC/cellphone/PDA, or they will have to realise the consumers are not being served and take steps to market to them.
There is no reason to bundle non-open binary DRM plug-in's in the open OS.
Free content is found in large quanities. Ignore the hype and be contented with Slashdot, Yahoo, Google and such and leave the high priced stuff alone. It isn't worth it most of the time.
Offset doesn't matter to me at all. I don't print my PCB masks double sided. I print each on a seprate sheet with registration marks which are aligned when I produce the negatives. I certanly don't load the printer with double sided printed circuit stock and directly try to print properly registered pattern on the board. The negatives are registered and contact printed to the circuit board.
Going multi-floor brings up legal issues.
One biggie is regarding the elevator shaft. Nothing is permited in an elevator shaft that is not directly related to the operation of the elevator.
There are some cable tray limits on the use of class 2 wireing in conduit and cable trays in an elevator access shaft which can be used for networking. Check the National Electrical Code and any local ordnances that may apply. The easiest way to check this is hire an electrician as a consultant that does class 2 electrical work if you plan on pulling the wire yourself.
In the analog world many times if noise in a system is a repeating wave (hum in an audio line), it can be duplicated, inverted and added to the original to eliminate the noise and leave the signal.
Apply this to a mail server. Hold all mail for about 5 minutes (from outside only). Compare them all. Look for matches of more than 50%. Cancel the matches out and filter the incomming for the same. This nails lots of the worms and spam by rejecting the common mode noise. Most spammers create a message and mass mail the same message, not create new messages for each reciepent (except some boilerplate name use).
Hotmail could catch a lot of spam this way and yank it out of mailboxes before they are retreived and halt the remaining incomming very effeciently. Only the first few would make it past the filter, but then be recalled back out of mailboxes if the user hasn't retrieved them yet.
Sending the same mail from dozens of relays would have no effect on the filter. Where it comes from simply doesn't matter. If it has a large protion that is a match, it's dead. Newsgroup mail lists would have to be white listed on a case by case basis.
I never get nailed with those. I always call toll free numbers from the lobby pay phone. Any numbers that have a charge of anything, never get called. It keeps the suprises off my bill.
Probably store employees trying to preview them like they do the rest of the videos. They got a suprise when they couldn't be snuck back on the shelf. The color change gave away the tampering.
You are a hacker if you are not the administrator on the machine and you ran a password cracking program to get the root password.
I think unless they price them the same as a daily newspaper, going to this format will destroy the used market because there will be no new cd's to become used for the used market. After all, are these selling new?
The problem can be addressed by putting people at risk of being charged postage. This can be done by requiring that senders post a bond of say 1/10 of 1 cent per item sent.
Since bulk mailers tend to steal resources, I think it would create problems with stolen credit card and banking numbers. As long as they are borrowing a relay or trojaned machine, why not borrow an account number also? Can you imagine the trouble trying to fix this. The receiver of SPAM is not willing to go unpaid to punish the spammer and you are trying to get your money back from 300,000 people. Good luck fighting the new fraud.
Even today Accoustic Research 3a's are used as reference speakers. Yamaha NS1000's are used for critical monitoring. Who would stick a substandard consumer driver into a pro cabinet? The driver is matched for the crossover. Using a substitute of differing coupling, suspension, and/or weight can mess up the system response and create resonances that didn't exist before. A sub is probably OK for your home theatre, but for studio critical monitoring, accept no substitutes. Your quality product depends on it.
Here is what Stereo Review has to say about both of them. See items 97 and 91. They are the ones I have.
http://www.stereophile.com/features/709/
Compare the graphs with anything BOSE. I'll tell you which one can create a better image of the original environment.
For my old 3a's, I do have the foam edge problem. I bought them used in 1978. Because they are acoustic suspension (very loose long throw) they are worth the money to find a shop that can do a good job re-coneing them. It's hard to replace the foam because of the damage removing it and the added weight of old + new glue. A good shop can re-cone them for about $40 each. I found a shop in Portland OR that does a great job.
The NS1000's are now going on 24 years old (bought in 1980) without any problems of any kind. There isn't much stuff out there that reliable to run problem free for 20+ years without a glitch. When they have a problem, I'll probably have them repaired instead of replaced as there isn't much on the market that has that quality, relibility and longevity. I've has other speakers fall apart in less than 1/3rd the time. Don't think they lasted this long just because I baby them. I don't.
It's sad when cheap speakers fall apart after only 10-15 years or less.
1: The Format is fee-free provided you follow the license
Sounds like the Adobe business model. The Acrobat reader is free for the asking. If you want to create a bunch of Acrobat files using anti-copy features or E-reader format, well then you have to pay the piper.
SCO brought it on themselves, they behaved immature and childish and now they're getting an immature and childish retaliation. Someone needs to take both SCO and the virus author out of the playground and give them a good spanking.
The first thing that came to mind was the thing you usualy learn in pre-school. People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks.
They got lots of people interested when they threw a big stone at someone big (IBM). It was only a matter of time that the throwing stones from a glass house would attract others attention. Everybody knows they might be next. Just what does SCO expect people to do? Ignore it?
They are trying to charge for the entire thing like they own the whole enchalada, not maybe a small corner of it. It's like a ref at the superbowl wanting all the proceeds of the game including all advertising, ticketing, and TV rights just because the superbowl couldn't happen without their valuable contribution and they own the rights to the rule book. They forgot the players, advertisers, networks, and fans may object very loudly up to the point of a riot. Especialy since they did the majority of the contribution.
SCO is in the midst of this type of riot for the same reason. It wasn't unexpected. It was just a matter of when and where.
Check the financial history. A good place to start is by checking the stock symbol SCOX. They got Microsoft onboard. Remember? SCO is a MS puppet to attack the open source community. MS can't do it directly but $10 million is a good start.
Remember the phrase "Follow the money"
I already have two Linux licenses for a whole lot less money. Hit the bookstore. Lots of Linux manuals have a publishers edition of Red Hat and Caldera in them. Since SCO is renamed Caldera, there should be no way they can get you for using it. Be sure to read and follow the EULA.
I have a 2 publishers editions, one of 2.3 kernel and one 2.4 kernel. There should be no way they can demand more money for using it the way they sold it.
There may be a legal challange for having the Red hat copy that came with the book. I guess I'm going to have to hide it until the SCO case is over.
One copy makes a great SAMBA server and the other one is a great desktop web tool.
If you need it for outdoors, I would recommend using the aluminum coated insulating sheeting that can be purchased at any good building supply. It's the plywood with metal coating. Using the metal tape the HVAC guys use to seal up seams in ductwork would work well for assembly and provide weather protection.
a ni um%e2%84%a2+Thermostat%e2%84%a2+Radiant+Barrier+Sh eathing&pid=1741&hierarchy=
Georga Pacific makes some. It's description from the website;
GP Thermostat Radiant Barrier Sheathing enhances Plytanium plywood sheathing with a highly reflective aluminum foil. Thermostat Radiant Barrier Sheathing can reduce heat flow through the ceiling up to 50 percent and save up to 20 percent on cooling energy consumption in hot, sunny climates. (1) Best of all, it's made of Plytanium plywood, so you know it's strong and durable.
http://www.gp.com/build/product.aspx?pname=Plyt
Hint,
Never ever open an attachment from anyone that claims it's a patch for a virus. If you realy want to do good, provide a text link (not a hyperlink as I can cut and paste) to the well known AV vendor's website linking to the description of the beast, not the patch. From there I should be able to find and install the patch.
The learning, a patch sent to you isn't a patch but the worm! Why hasn't everybody learned this yet?
Not mine. I did a cut and paste. My password is exactly ********
What??? That makes about as much sense as converting ogg to mp3. It can be done easily, but it'll be lossy as hell - they're different formats, damnit. Maybe I could an analyst and then they could pay me to be dumb.
Check out this business plan. We make a player. We sell tunes online. You can use someone elses inferiour tunes with our player. Try it. Compare. See how much better our tunes are?
Am I missing anything, or is my tinfoil hat on too tight?
Card cut photo has been found. Compare this one with how much the ritz cracker moved.
The url is http://www.afterimagegallery.com/dledgerton.htm
In this experiment flash speed doesn't matter much. Their cannon is a low velosity device. Just how much does the air slow down going from a 3/8ths air compressor hose into a 1 inch pipe. They have no local surge tank behind the sprinkler valve so their hose orface size is a big speed limiter. Therefore they can get by with using a photosresistor sensor (very slow rise time) instead of photodiode or break wire, a microprocessor (more delays) a mechanical relay (need I say more?) and they still need to program in a delay into the uP. That chunk if iron isn't going very fast. It would never capture the muzzle velosity of a bullit going through a playing card or apple. Note the ritz cracker photo. The cracker moved a lot and the projectile hasn't left yet.
If they were shooting realy fast stuff, they would have to go to a wire break trigger or photodiode, eliminate the uP and mechanical relay and use a high speed flash. Adjusting the trigger location and using component rise times would be all the delay they would need. Since their stuff is relatively slow, a slow flash doesn't give much blurring.
Look at the photo (I don't know where right now) of a bullit cutting a playing card in half. The card which is much ligher hasn't moved much. These experiments are orders of magnatude diffrent in speed.
I thought that one of the advantages of the Edgerton setup was that he used a fast strobe, something on the order of 1/200,000 of a second. This produced much better detail than a generic camera flash unit.
Most geneeric flash units can be as slow as 1mS.
I've done a few light bulb breaking photos using a camera flash and a sound trigger. They are not posted online. Only the tiny fast moving pieces of glass show any blurring.
The problem with it is many places won't bother to advertise that way, so actualy finding a popular spot or one close by that doesn't need to advertise won't be found. You will certanly get advertisements from the trendy places that target the cell phone upscale demographic. You'll find the ones with the big advertising budget with high prices to support the adverts.
Do you have any idea how many times I've grabbed a cityguide from a hotel when traveling to find the nearest good restraunt, only to pass dozens of others on the way to the nearest one listed? I gave up using those guides. Cell phone advertisements just seem to be an extension of the paper brochure in a hotel lobby with the same problems.
In your guidance example you left out one item between Turn left and two blocks. It's pass 4 sidewalk cafe's and one corner diner.
How do you tell the system to not track you while you are not on the phone? I don't think tracking can be turned off short of powering down the phone. It looks like the only option from the article is to not share the location with 3rd parties. It would work like blocking caller ID. The phone company knows you made the call and from where, but just don't pass on the information unless it's 911 or an 800 number. Don't forget the phone checks in with a tower on a regular basis (it's needed to ring your phone without trying to ring you nationwide). It is possible as evidenced by the location advertisements, to give your location to 3rd parties like the restraunt you just drove past. They don't even need a prior relationship with you to get the information. If the restraunt subscribes to a spam phones within 3 miles of here service hosted by the phone company for the revenue stream, the location information can still be kept in-house with the phone company while they take in advertising dollars for spamming you as you drive by. This may be a free service to you and not have the ten cent message SMS fee. Opt out might not save you from that as the restraunt never receives the location information, just the bill for sending the advertisement. Your wife may be able to hit a website and look up your whereabouts even if you are not on the phone. It is possible you will not given the option to opt out? I wonder how many distracted drivers are going to get into an accident checking a possible important message?
You are missing a point. Ever visit a site overloaded with banner ads and pop-ups? Closing an ad early only brings up the next and the next. (mostly got people to seriously consider pop-up blockers, shut off JS etc.) Too many advertisers pay per delivery. Don't expect it to just be one ad per page. There are enought sleezeball webmasters that do anything for an advertisers buck and provide no content. We don't need a skip button. We need a no way button for the entire site.
I can see it now. Due to demand Redmond provides multiple window desktops like Gnome. Several apps and browsers are open in several windows. Full page adds load in several windows. Surfers surf the channels to see which one is done with the commercials and has gone back to regular programming.
I quit watching TV due to the poor content and overload of advertising. Is the net next?
300KB/7KBps == 42+ seconds of *extra* download time, presuming the user is downloading at a full 56kbps
Connect speed and download speed are two diffrent things altogether. On dial up with a good ISP speeds of 8-15K are common. Many cheap ISP's have DL speeds in the 1-3K range. I used to get comments on how fast my modem was. It was a 28.8 with a good ISP and easly beat the speed of many rival ISP's on 56K modems.