I think it mostly comes down to the content of the site when using Google's Adsense. As you know, they automatically pick the ads for your site based upon the content of it. If your site is about knitting, then it displays ads for knitting. Which also means that you probably won't get paid much for a clickthrough.
However, if your site is about Luxury cars or expensive network equipment, you will most likely much more money per clickthrough. As I mentioned in another post, I get $1 to $7 per clickthrough, however, I'm lucky if I get one or two clickthroughs per day. The demand just isn't that high for stuff like that. Now if I was running pr0n banners on a site that served pr0n, I'd probably get a ton more clickthroughs, but probably a fraction of a cent for each one.
I tried a couple of others in the past with some other sites and made a big fat zero. But google is actually decent. I get one or two clickthroughs a day, and depending on the ad, I get anywhere from $1 to $7 PER clickthrough. I know this seems a bit high, but given the content, the advertisers stand to make a lot of money off a sale.
In any case, it comes close to paying my hosting costs each month, but not enough to actually buy me a new server or turn a profit of any kind.
Because there is only one computer in afghanistan, according to a news story I read a year or so ago. And that one computer is so filled with spyware that it's almost unusable.
I got sick of supporting my friend's dad's computer. No matter what I did to it, he still managed to fill it with viruses and spyware. It was insanity. I had things set to autoupdate signatures and automatically run, but to no avail.
So last week he said he wanted a new computer, gave me his credit card number, told me what apps he needed, and let me order him one. I got him a shiny new Apple. No more friggin' spyware and virus hell, no more support calls for when his browser keeps crashing, and the security on it is miles higher than what he had with WinME. Plus, if he needs support, he can just go down to the local Apple Genius Bar.
I'm sure plenty of malware for the Apple will come, it's just a matter of time. But for now, I don't have to deal with it, and the Apple actually suits his business much better than his old windows box did.
TCF still requires you to use your SSN for a username. This is why I have moved to another bank. Not to mention that when I was in college, they would cash checks received on same day in the order that would get them the most profit from overdraft fees. Bastards.
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I don't believe you need to be a CLEC. My friend's ISP offers DSL service. There are two parts to the DSL service, the line itself (provided by the LEC), and the internet connectivity for it (provided by the LEC or a 3rd party).
Qwest provides the lines in this area, and by law, when you sign up for one, they have to tell you all of the 3rd parties that offer internet service over it. Any ISP that wants to provide internet connectivity for Qwest lines simply pays for a Qwest WAN circuit to their ISP (T-1 or larger). The CPE's have an ATM PVC which terminates at the particular ISP they signed up to be with. I think Qwest calls this a Megapop or Megacentral line.
In any case, it's not expensive. One can support about 200 DSL customers off a single T-1 because not everyone is using it at the same time. This sounds like a lot, but I've seen it done and the line is very rarely saturated.
So, unless you want to actually provide the physical line too, there's no reason to become a CLEC.
Get the GIAC chip. It's a bit more agressive than the others. I've tried the GIAC, MTM, and APR, and the GIAC is by far the best. Plus, the GIAC seems to respond better to other things, like MBC's and AFC's.
No probs yet. I suspect that the turbo probs people are having when modding their S4's stems from them continuing to use the restrictive stock exhaust. With that much backpressure, the turbos get insanely hot. They will start to fail at 1050C. Of the people I know that replaced their downpipes and exhaust, they've had no problems.
Name one example of this. Everything I've seen that you state is in addition to several other modifications. For example, the engine in the Gen 1 and 2 DSM's (Eclipse, Talon, and Laser) may have lower boost as compared to the Euro model of that engine, but it also has smaller intake and exhaust manifolds, a smaller turbo, different fueling, etc.
The Audi S4 and RS4 have the same engine, but the turbos differ, as do the heads, exhaust and intake manifolds, the entire intake tract, intercoolers, etc. Everything appears to be the same, but it's not apparent until you start taking things apart.
We get screwed here in the US. Most foreign car manufacturers detune the cars for the US market due to emissions regulations, insurance reasons, or whatever. But that detuning rarely involves simply changing software or boost levels for turbos/superchargers. Usually, major components of the engine are "downgraded" also because they don't need to spend the extra money to support the same amount of air or fuel flow as they do on the european counterpart.
Remember Hampsterdance.com? There was a Satanic version of it somewhere out there that played the song backwards. It was actually kinda disturbing.
So, I was at my friends house, and when he wasn't looking, I used AT under windows to have iexplorer.exe start up with that page, and I cranked the volume on his speakers. The time, 4am. He said his girlfriend started screaming, and he didn't know where he was for a few seconds. Once he figured it out, he knocked half the stuff off his desk trying to shut it up.
It's better than nothing though. If I go wardriving, I'm not even going to bother with networks that have WEP enabled, because in my experience, about 70% of the networks are completely open. Why not just use one of those?
Enabling WEP is a deterrent. No one is going to waste the time breaking your WEP key unlesss there is some reward for it that they can't get elsewhere. It's just like locking the door on your house, it's a deterrent. If someone wants to get in, they will kick the door in or break a window.
I was looking at this the other day. Why not just make something that runs the html email through a filter and removes all of the tags before analyzing it? Almost every spam that gets through my filters has this html trickery going on, wouldn't that put a stop to it rather quickly?
Remember the Virtualboy? The 3d gameboy that was out briefly? It was ahead of it's time, and the technology used didn't really give the best picture, but it was a 3d experience and it was definitely fun.
Now that we have better technology, isn't the market ripe for something like this again? I know I'd go out an buy one.
The current portable offerings are not really that interesting. I can play most of the games at home, on a big TV. I want something with a coolness factor, not a worse experience than I get playing games on my big TV.
No no no... The 300mg number is US milligrams, the 400mg number is in Canadian milligrams.
You have to convert every number coming out of Canadia. For example, an american IQ of 100, which is fairly low here, is actually an IQ of 170 in Canadian IQ units.
After dealing with my cable modem connection being flaky for months and no one doing anything about it, I got fed up. From the looks of traceroutes and pings, it looked like a router 2 hops past me either had a flaky interface or one of the links was being saturated.
I ended up finding a phone number for the NOC at the ISP, and gettting the person on the phone to believe I was a tier-3 support guy and need him to log into a router for me and take a look at the interfaces on it. Turns out one of the interfaces was flaky and my problems were fixed within a couple of days.
Sometimes the only way to get things done is to bluff your way around.
I remember a Popular Mechanics issue in the mid-80's that touted this thing as being out within the next year. They had a full article on it, and they even had an ad in the back where you could put $5000 down payment to get one of the first ones. So where are those people's money now?
I think this guy is financing the whole project with his profits from the Supertrapp muffler company, apparently he owns it. In any case, it's been like 20 years since that first article came out, and still no skycar.
If I remember correctly, it's actually a felony in the US to jam cellphones. You bet your ass if I'm in a building that I think are jamming my phone, I'm going to report them to the FCC.
Just because other people don't have the common courtesy to put their phones on silent mode in the theatre does not mean that my phone should be jammed. I get my pages for work and other sorts of alerts via SMS, and I also get calls that I cannot miss (in which case I can leave the theatre and call them back).
WTF don't some idiots realize that the valuable stuff on a computer is IN THE USERS HOME DIRECTORY.
This is why I keep all of my valuable stuff in/tmp. No trojan would bother to look there. I think when I get home though, I'll move it all to/dev/null.
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I think it mostly comes down to the content of the site when using Google's Adsense. As you know, they automatically pick the ads for your site based upon the content of it. If your site is about knitting, then it displays ads for knitting. Which also means that you probably won't get paid much for a clickthrough.
However, if your site is about Luxury cars or expensive network equipment, you will most likely much more money per clickthrough. As I mentioned in another post, I get $1 to $7 per clickthrough, however, I'm lucky if I get one or two clickthroughs per day. The demand just isn't that high for stuff like that. Now if I was running pr0n banners on a site that served pr0n, I'd probably get a ton more clickthroughs, but probably a fraction of a cent for each one.
I use Google Adsense on my site.
I tried a couple of others in the past with some other sites and made a big fat zero. But google is actually decent. I get one or two clickthroughs a day, and depending on the ad, I get anywhere from $1 to $7 PER clickthrough. I know this seems a bit high, but given the content, the advertisers stand to make a lot of money off a sale.
In any case, it comes close to paying my hosting costs each month, but not enough to actually buy me a new server or turn a profit of any kind.
Something like Somalia or Afghanistan?
Because there is only one computer in afghanistan, according to a news story I read a year or so ago. And that one computer is so filled with spyware that it's almost unusable.
I got sick of supporting my friend's dad's computer. No matter what I did to it, he still managed to fill it with viruses and spyware. It was insanity. I had things set to autoupdate signatures and automatically run, but to no avail.
So last week he said he wanted a new computer, gave me his credit card number, told me what apps he needed, and let me order him one. I got him a shiny new Apple. No more friggin' spyware and virus hell, no more support calls for when his browser keeps crashing, and the security on it is miles higher than what he had with WinME. Plus, if he needs support, he can just go down to the local Apple Genius Bar.
I'm sure plenty of malware for the Apple will come, it's just a matter of time. But for now, I don't have to deal with it, and the Apple actually suits his business much better than his old windows box did.
Felix is the last amusement applet I will ever let my mom run.
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Ah, how the tables turn when one grows up and learns about computers.
No, Yahoo is one of the most popular sites among people that don't know how to uninstall Alexa.
TCF still requires you to use your SSN for a username. This is why I have moved to another bank. Not to mention that when I was in college, they would cash checks received on same day in the order that would get them the most profit from overdraft fees. Bastards.
I don't believe you need to be a CLEC. My friend's ISP offers DSL service. There are two parts to the DSL service, the line itself (provided by the LEC), and the internet connectivity for it (provided by the LEC or a 3rd party).
Qwest provides the lines in this area, and by law, when you sign up for one, they have to tell you all of the 3rd parties that offer internet service over it. Any ISP that wants to provide internet connectivity for Qwest lines simply pays for a Qwest WAN circuit to their ISP (T-1 or larger). The CPE's have an ATM PVC which terminates at the particular ISP they signed up to be with. I think Qwest calls this a Megapop or Megacentral line.
In any case, it's not expensive. One can support about 200 DSL customers off a single T-1 because not everyone is using it at the same time. This sounds like a lot, but I've seen it done and the line is very rarely saturated.
So, unless you want to actually provide the physical line too, there's no reason to become a CLEC.
Get the GIAC chip. It's a bit more agressive than the others. I've tried the GIAC, MTM, and APR, and the GIAC is by far the best. Plus, the GIAC seems to respond better to other things, like MBC's and AFC's.
No probs yet. I suspect that the turbo probs people are having when modding their S4's stems from them continuing to use the restrictive stock exhaust. With that much backpressure, the turbos get insanely hot. They will start to fail at 1050C. Of the people I know that replaced their downpipes and exhaust, they've had no problems.
Name one example of this. Everything I've seen that you state is in addition to several other modifications. For example, the engine in the Gen 1 and 2 DSM's (Eclipse, Talon, and Laser) may have lower boost as compared to the Euro model of that engine, but it also has smaller intake and exhaust manifolds, a smaller turbo, different fueling, etc.
The Audi S4 and RS4 have the same engine, but the turbos differ, as do the heads, exhaust and intake manifolds, the entire intake tract, intercoolers, etc. Everything appears to be the same, but it's not apparent until you start taking things apart.
We get screwed here in the US. Most foreign car manufacturers detune the cars for the US market due to emissions regulations, insurance reasons, or whatever. But that detuning rarely involves simply changing software or boost levels for turbos/superchargers. Usually, major components of the engine are "downgraded" also because they don't need to spend the extra money to support the same amount of air or fuel flow as they do on the european counterpart.
Remember Hampsterdance.com? There was a Satanic version of it somewhere out there that played the song backwards. It was actually kinda disturbing.
So, I was at my friends house, and when he wasn't looking, I used AT under windows to have iexplorer.exe start up with that page, and I cranked the volume on his speakers. The time, 4am. He said his girlfriend started screaming, and he didn't know where he was for a few seconds. Once he figured it out, he knocked half the stuff off his desk trying to shut it up.
He's gonna burn the place down! Quick, someone call HR.
It's better than nothing though. If I go wardriving, I'm not even going to bother with networks that have WEP enabled, because in my experience, about 70% of the networks are completely open. Why not just use one of those?
Enabling WEP is a deterrent. No one is going to waste the time breaking your WEP key unlesss there is some reward for it that they can't get elsewhere. It's just like locking the door on your house, it's a deterrent. If someone wants to get in, they will kick the door in or break a window.
I was looking at this the other day. Why not just make something that runs the html email through a filter and removes all of the tags before analyzing it? Almost every spam that gets through my filters has this html trickery going on, wouldn't that put a stop to it rather quickly?
Marketing tip: You're not going to sell a lot of anything that sounds like it came from your Speedos.
Ebay has proved you so wrong on numerous occasions.
I call it the K-K-K-Keyboard!!!
Remember the Virtualboy? The 3d gameboy that was out briefly? It was ahead of it's time, and the technology used didn't really give the best picture, but it was a 3d experience and it was definitely fun.
Now that we have better technology, isn't the market ripe for something like this again? I know I'd go out an buy one.
The current portable offerings are not really that interesting. I can play most of the games at home, on a big TV. I want something with a coolness factor, not a worse experience than I get playing games on my big TV.
Heck yeah, I like Starbucks hot, strong and black.
What a coincidence! That's how the guy in the article likes his men!
No no no... The 300mg number is US milligrams, the 400mg number is in Canadian milligrams.
You have to convert every number coming out of Canadia. For example, an american IQ of 100, which is fairly low here, is actually an IQ of 170 in Canadian IQ units.
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After dealing with my cable modem connection being flaky for months and no one doing anything about it, I got fed up. From the looks of traceroutes and pings, it looked like a router 2 hops past me either had a flaky interface or one of the links was being saturated.
I ended up finding a phone number for the NOC at the ISP, and gettting the person on the phone to believe I was a tier-3 support guy and need him to log into a router for me and take a look at the interfaces on it. Turns out one of the interfaces was flaky and my problems were fixed within a couple of days.
Sometimes the only way to get things done is to bluff your way around.
I remember a Popular Mechanics issue in the mid-80's that touted this thing as being out within the next year. They had a full article on it, and they even had an ad in the back where you could put $5000 down payment to get one of the first ones. So where are those people's money now?
I think this guy is financing the whole project with his profits from the Supertrapp muffler company, apparently he owns it. In any case, it's been like 20 years since that first article came out, and still no skycar.
If I remember correctly, it's actually a felony in the US to jam cellphones. You bet your ass if I'm in a building that I think are jamming my phone, I'm going to report them to the FCC.
Just because other people don't have the common courtesy to put their phones on silent mode in the theatre does not mean that my phone should be jammed. I get my pages for work and other sorts of alerts via SMS, and I also get calls that I cannot miss (in which case I can leave the theatre and call them back).
WTF don't some idiots realize that the valuable stuff on a computer is IN THE USERS HOME DIRECTORY.
/tmp. No trojan would bother to look there. I think when I get home though, I'll move it all to /dev/null.
This is why I keep all of my valuable stuff in
From their docs: PearPC currently only supports two-button mice (i.e. middle-button click and the scrollwheel will be ignored).
:)
They are going to have to figure out how to disable that second mouse button if they want to truly emulate OSX.