When will the entrepreneurs of the 'Net learn that the users do not want stuff shoved down their throats ?
A serious business, with a serious business model, will have to rely on its users returning to them to do business again and again. Only persons trying to rip people off can afford to tick people off while delivering their message. (Spam anyone?)
People do not care if it's a good cause; they don't want programs that
monitor your surfing habits or anything else you are up to
secretly piggyback other programs to get onto your hard drive
"enhance" your browsing (shopping toolbars, "Shop for..." in right click menus)
What are they thinking ? Such things create enough badwill to have people ignore whatever good comes out of it.
It's like those sites that take a misspelling of a popular url and trap the browser, goes into full screen, opens 20 new windows etc etc. No one is stupid enough to say to themselves "Hey this looks like a good place to enter my credit card number!"
Online entrepreneurs that have a legit long-term business plan (yeah, I know it's an oxymoron...) will have to realize that goodwill is more important online than irl.
This idea was suggested in an issue of MAD magazine, I think it was in the 70s or early 80s. I knew reading MAD would prove valuable one day.
Anyhow, the problem with subliminal messages - if they at all work - as a thing for learning is that they target one's sub-consciousness. What good is it learning everything there is to know about Cisco routers and networking when you have to be put into hypnosis in order to retreive the information ? Heck, I have a hard time remembering things I learn the ordinary way.
In related news, i.e. April fools jokes, a Swedish newspaper reports that it today introduces a way to pay per page viewed. It consists of a little device that you attach to your monitor in which you can put coins as you surf.
Every month someone from the newspaper will come to your home to retreive the coins.
Image showing the neat little device here: http://www.dn.se/DNet/articles/255500-25559 9/25554 6/mynt.jpg
..that they removed the blink tag from HTML but also built the browsers with support for animated gifs ?
Re:Right now...
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AC, since you seem to have real life experience with.NET, it would be interesting to get more specific information.
My thoughts on your post:
1) Java runs fine on the same HW as.NET, plus you can get alot of the software for it for free. Running on Unix boxes is just a way to scale up Java, something that is not available for.NET.
2) Same for Java.
3) Performance is often better for asp, what are your specific applications and platforms ?
4) Examples ?
5) Java has this too. Nice infrastructure that is.
6) What do you mean by data access layer ? Java is excellent for data access.
7) Java too.
8) Most java tools have this too.
Re:Grounds for divorce.
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That's A+ in Geek; walking out of a marriage over a piece of software.
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It would have been nice to see the article compare this to the latest technologies in STM (scanning tunneling microscopy).
It seems like STM's are not what is referred to as conventional microscopes, which makes sense, but it might be noteworthy that resolutions like those mentioned in the article are not particularly hard to achieve.
I am not refuting your findings whatever they might be, neither will I read what you call feeble excuses on your website. I'm refuting your post that suggests that you let your beliefs interefer with your findings.
Let me explain is so that you cannot misunderstand it:
G> "My beliefs and findings, [...] have proven corruption beyond all reasonable doubt [...]"
I interpret this as if you think that your beliefs - in conjunction with your findings - have proven something, which of course is rubbish. This led me to question whether your findings were somehow influenced by your beliefs that you value so highly.
As for the real issue, I understand what you are saying but I don't agree with your conclusion. I don't see corruptness or conspiracies here, but I never like X-files either otoh.
Well, you may be right in that the electron speeds are low and random in direction. That is not the point, however. The electric field and therefore the electrical signal still moves at near speed of light.
"Based on conversations with other buyers, Ms. Schweickert estimates that Mr. Richardson may have collected as much as $400,000 for items that were never received. The person familiar with the law-enforcement investigation says the actual figure may be closer to $225,000."
I don't get it. Why steal so little money, when you have to trade your whole life for it ? He's giving up his business, home and family. Apparently it was worth it, but I think it's a lousy trade...(well I haven't met his wife).
I mean, you can't live a good life in the US for a few hundred Ben Franklins, can you ? You need a home, cars and an addition to this you need to acquire a false identity. Unless he's moving abroad to some country where $ is gold, he'd be better off continuing his business.
Actually, the money *does* come from the viewers. If people watch it on TV instead of downloading it, the ratings would be higher and the advertising fee would be higher. The networks only get what they're entitled to, with respect to their share of the viewers.
As with music, the providers should facilitate viewing the programs through your computer. Media will be on-demand, and trying to hinder that is doomed. They should recognize the need for time-shifting TV using your computer.
I was really looking forward to the first episode, but I was sorely disappointed. Already from the start, the series was so openly pro-humbug and conspiracy and against science that it was unbearable. Pity that Gillian wasn't allowed to play her part as it should have; emphasizing on her scientific background, debunking Mulders alien dreams.
Maybe they can finally pick up that angle and make a spin-off series ?
Great tool, but not solving the problem...
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SQL Validator
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select * from
pretty much conforms to most SQL standards, so now we only need to stop developers from writing bad, albeit conforming, SQL.
I don't know how Google, or anyone else for that matter, finds all the pages it indexes. But, I'm sure that there are a bunch of pages that are public yet hidden, with no links to or from another page, just sitting there.
Howabout writing a program that will try to find pages that have no links to them, using one part randomness, one part cleverness ?
Slashdot Mirror
News for nerds ? Probably.
Stuff that matters ? Probably not.
The submmission pipeline cannot be that dry...
A serious business, with a serious business model, will have to rely on its users returning to them to do business again and again. Only persons trying to rip people off can afford to tick people off while delivering their message. (Spam anyone?)
People do not care if it's a good cause; they don't want programs that
What are they thinking ? Such things create enough badwill to have people ignore whatever good comes out of it.
It's like those sites that take a misspelling of a popular url and trap the browser, goes into full screen, opens 20 new windows etc etc. No one is stupid enough to say to themselves "Hey this looks like a good place to enter my credit card number!"
Online entrepreneurs that have a legit long-term business plan (yeah, I know it's an oxymoron...) will have to realize that goodwill is more important online than irl.
This idea was suggested in an issue of MAD magazine, I think it was in the 70s or early 80s. I knew reading MAD would prove valuable one day.
Anyhow, the problem with subliminal messages - if they at all work - as a thing for learning is that they target one's sub-consciousness. What good is it learning everything there is to know about Cisco routers and networking when you have to be put into hypnosis in order to retreive the information ? Heck, I have a hard time remembering things I learn the ordinary way.
In related news, i.e. April fools jokes, a Swedish newspaper reports that it today introduces a way to pay per page viewed. It consists of a little device that you attach to your monitor in which you can put coins as you surf.
9 9/25554 6/mynt.jpg
/. ?
Every month someone from the newspaper will come to your home to retreive the coins.
Image showing the neat little device here:
http://www.dn.se/DNet/articles/255500-2555
Maybe something for
..that they removed the blink tag from HTML but also built the browsers with support for animated gifs ?
AC, since you seem to have real life experience with .NET, it would be interesting to get more specific information.
.NET, plus you can get alot of the software for it for free. Running on Unix boxes is just a way to scale up Java, something that is not available for .NET.
My thoughts on your post:
1) Java runs fine on the same HW as
2) Same for Java.
3) Performance is often better for asp, what are your specific applications and platforms ?
4) Examples ?
5) Java has this too. Nice infrastructure that is.
6) What do you mean by data access layer ? Java is excellent for data access.
7) Java too.
8) Most java tools have this too.
That's A+ in Geek; walking out of a marriage over a piece of software.
:)
Maybe that's why you are unmarried ?
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Very effective, saved me lots of time.
They should give the astronauts all the spam we have down here. There's plenty.
/This only looks like a sig.
Yeah, and we need a new excuse:
DRAS - Didn't read article; Slashdotted.
R.I.P, mix and burn.
Here's a neat tool that let's you compare what your income would have to be elsewhere in order to have the same lifestyle.
$100,000 in Oklahoma City compares to $279,000 in Menlo Park.
I saw it on the Internet, so it must be true.
Garry, you seem like a guy who likes logical reasoning and that have a lot of time on your hands.
Please consider the following statements:
*My beliefs have shown my conclusions.
*My beliefs are based on my conclusions.
In logic, there's a term for this and I'm sure you are familiar with it.
This is what you actually wrote, and I find it quite similar:
* "My beliefs and findings, [...] have proven corruption beyond all reasonable doubt"
* "My beliefs are based on reasoned logic"
As I said, I'm not refuting your conspiracy theories, I only think that your post(s) lack the clarity and flawless logic I think you're after.
It would have been nice to see the article compare this to the latest technologies in STM (scanning tunneling microscopy).
It seems like STM's are not what is referred to as conventional microscopes, which makes sense, but it might be noteworthy that resolutions like those mentioned in the article are not particularly hard to achieve.
I am not refuting your findings whatever they might be, neither will I read what you call feeble excuses on your website. I'm refuting your post that suggests that you let your beliefs interefer with your findings.
Let me explain is so that you cannot misunderstand it:
G> "My beliefs and findings, [...] have proven corruption beyond all reasonable doubt [...]"
I interpret this as if you think that your beliefs - in conjunction with your findings - have proven something, which of course is rubbish. This led me to question whether your findings were somehow influenced by your beliefs that you value so highly.
As for the real issue, I understand what you are saying but I don't agree with your conclusion. I don't see corruptness or conspiracies here, but I never like X-files either otoh.
"My beliefs and findings, [...], have proven corruption beyond all reasonable doubt - nobody can refute the logical conclusions made."
That statement makes me wonder whether your findings and your ways to gather them really are separated from you beliefs.
Well, you may be right in that the electron speeds are low and random in direction. That is not the point, however. The electric field and therefore the electrical signal still moves at near speed of light.
"Based on conversations with other buyers, Ms. Schweickert estimates that Mr. Richardson may have collected as much as $400,000 for items that were never received. The person familiar with the law-enforcement investigation says the actual figure may be closer to $225,000."
I don't get it. Why steal so little money, when you have to trade your whole life for it ? He's giving up his business, home and family. Apparently it was worth it, but I think it's a lousy trade...(well I haven't met his wife).
I mean, you can't live a good life in the US for a few hundred Ben Franklins, can you ? You need a home, cars and an addition to this you need to acquire a false identity. Unless he's moving abroad to some country where $ is gold, he'd be better off continuing his business.
"...standards like Linux."
I'm sure you mean "the single standardized Linux distribution."
Actually, the money *does* come from the viewers. If people watch it on TV instead of downloading it, the ratings would be higher and the advertising fee would be higher. The networks only get what they're entitled to, with respect to their share of the viewers.
As with music, the providers should facilitate viewing the programs through your computer. Media will be on-demand, and trying to hinder that is doomed. They should recognize the need for time-shifting TV using your computer.
I was really looking forward to the first episode, but I was sorely disappointed. Already from the start, the series was so openly pro-humbug and conspiracy and against science that it was unbearable. Pity that Gillian wasn't allowed to play her part as it should have; emphasizing on her scientific background, debunking Mulders alien dreams.
Maybe they can finally pick up that angle and make a spin-off series ?
select * from
pretty much conforms to most SQL standards, so now we only need to stop developers from writing bad, albeit conforming, SQL.
EVERY classroom has overhead projectors
Wow. So had all classrooms I attended in the 70's.
Here's the full press release from NPD that triggered the article on ZDnet.
I don't know how Google, or anyone else for that matter, finds all the pages it indexes. But, I'm sure that there are a bunch of pages that are public yet hidden, with no links to or from another page, just sitting there.
Howabout writing a program that will try to find pages that have no links to them, using one part randomness, one part cleverness ?