Still, encouraging people to just click on any old banner that comes up, as in the original message to which I replied, is not a good idea. If overdone, this would lead to a large number of "empty" and "bogus" clickthroughs. Advertisers would not need to be particularly savvy to notice this; the larger advertisers can easily track which clickthroughs actually lead to sales (or subscriptions, requests for more information, whatever they're hawking) and smaller advertisers will probably just realize that, despite the larger number of clickthroughs from/., their sales are flatlining.
Mind you, I'm making the assumption that almost all of the people who would click on banners just to "support Slashdot" don't actually end up being enticed by pages that come up to buy something.
"So click an ad or fork over $5 - don't just pass the plate every week."
AFAIK, advertising on OSDN is impression-based, not clickthrough based, so seeing an ad generates money for/., while clicking on one just takes you to another site. See http://www.osdn.com/advertise/ad_types.html
Bullets continue to fly in antarctica as Tux takes on the Evil Polor Microsoft Mafia. Will he make it in time!? Also: The Secret Six meet again; what will their nepharious plans be for the x86 platform? Find out next time on "Here comes the SUN"!
[Trigun H.T. theme for end credits]
Ramen: Not just for college students anymore.
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I wonder how soon it will be before this is marketed to the general public, although I see no reason why people can't just survive on ice cream.
One thing I'll never understand about Google, as my signature notes, is why the spellcheck keeps on trying to replace "the men who killed kennedy" with "the man who killed kennedy". Am I missing something grammatically here? Do only singular nouns kill?
Oddly, this occurs only for the full prase "the men who." "The men" or "men who" will not cause google to suggest "man"
Equally intriquing, the phrase "The WHO killed kennedy" causes Google to point to Elvis as the assasin! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The +WHO+kille d+kennedy
Top 6 signs that your TV network is going to fail
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06. Name sounds like a system Apple came out with for no reason. 05. Your motto is "Get Game" 04. One of the your "original programs" is a show about simulations of sports. 03. Your target audiance is quite possibly the least likely to watch TV among those with access to them. And you know they have "short attention spans". 02. Executive quoted as saying "We won't compete."* 01. Logo rendered on an Atari 2600. Englarged with MS-Paint.
*A bit of a misquote, I know, but no less funny for it.:)
I think you misunderstand me. The comparison is not inbetween the promo's (which are full tracks btw, although sometimes with a small "this song provided courtesy of" note at the beginning and/or end) and the rest of the tracks on the RIAA's CDs. Rather, it's between the current mix of RIAA/Indy that comprises the chart and the independant/small label mix they used to have. To be fair, I may have overstated my case a little bit, but the fact remains that RIAA songs are taking up positions that used to go to independants and small-label artists. You may see the "Top 40" chart yourself at http://genres.mp3.com/music/
I would estimate that a good ten of those songs are from RIAA signed artists. It's subjective if ~25% of the chart is "clogged" or not. I believe it is.
Before the takeover, I used to like to patronize MP3.COM. Now their charts are all clogged with RIAA promo-crud, and it's harder to find something unique. Its too bad IUMA never took off, and didn't develop the Print-on-demand CDR capapibilities of MP3.com. Just out of curiousity, how difficult would it be for someone to set up a similiar POD system for mix-and-match OGG buring (MP3.com never had mix-and-match - you had to go with what they had)?
Perhaps a polite notice that what they're doing is very, very wrong would be appropriate. The EFF has already asked its member to mail a thank you note to Gateway. Best Buy has an address to send "general comments" to. I believe I'll be sending them a piece of my mind on this issue quite soon.
My humble suggestions for other people to send into "the holy void":
The Slashdot Crew: I think they had a series of stories about that.
Political radicals: Send 'em to Alpha Centauri and let 'em duke it out!
Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow: Dogbert once deduced that the smartest people eventually escape gravity anyway. Also, how else are they going to get those death-ray sats in orbit?
The Megatokyo Crew: It could be a special. "Dom in space" or something like that.
Big Media Copyright Lawyers: preferably without a return.
It depends on the actors and the setting. Giving an old book to a bunch of improv-specialists, telling them to go to it, and filming the result might make an excellent experiment. Anyone ever heard of something like this (Its almost certainly been done - also funny, what films SHOULD have been made this way -- I vote for The Phantom Menace ':7).
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I have to disagree. First off, the "spy software" being talked about is not of the marketing-data variety, but more of the Trojan Horse variety. In my opinion, Spectorsoft's actions constitute an initiation of force against anti-spy software and the people who use it.
As for limited resources and interest, I don't believe either is true. The wide variety of resources listed at EPIC's site, and the variety of anti-spy products, seem to contradict that idea.
IMHO, the joke was weird and pointless at best. I don't get it. Is GMontag trying to say that the MPAA is like a communist government? Or is he suggesting that the MPAA is altering the laws in our country to manipulate the population similiar to the Cuban government in the story?
I have to say that, while I am personally opposed to gambling in the traditional sense, I've never really understood why anyone would care if someone else out there in the wide world (or country, as may be appropriate) was gambling.
Of course, as John Stossel once pointed out, most state governments in the US heavily restrict gambling except under certain circumstances, then run lotteries and encourage their citizens to play. Silly and hypocritical, at best.
Does anyone have hard numbers as to the popularity and coverage of the Sundance channel? I tried a Google search after seeing several people here comment that they don't get it, but was unable to find anything. I was able to find that they are affiliated with the sundance film festival, which is for indy-films only. See http://www.sundancechannel.com/about/
(Hopefully this doesn't spark another Altavista vs. Google debate...)
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the privacy concerns that could easily evolve from this. The article didn't seem to mention what sort of Terms of Service, if any, the city has considered.
The way Dave Barry keeps on talking about how the computer "blames him" reminds me of the way Alan Cooper said that error messages are often worded to make "The User" feel responsible when something goes wrong.
Personally, I just think of error messages as "status indicators" -- much like a "paper jam" light on a copy machine. Apparently lots of other people don't feel this way.
Ah -- but will the movie that deserves a sequel get a sequel it deserves? Case in point: The original Star Wars were good. Ep. 1 had Jar-Jar (Yuck). IMO, Given the latest releases (some of which you point out), Tron fans may have been better off if a sequel were not being considered.
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Still, encouraging people to just click on any old banner that comes up, as in the original message to which I replied, is not a good idea. If overdone, this would lead to a large number of "empty" and "bogus" clickthroughs. Advertisers would not need to be particularly savvy to notice this; the larger advertisers can easily track which clickthroughs actually lead to sales (or subscriptions, requests for more information, whatever they're hawking) and smaller advertisers will probably just realize that, despite the larger number of clickthroughs from /., their sales are flatlining.
Mind you, I'm making the assumption that almost all of the people who would click on banners just to "support Slashdot" don't actually end up being enticed by pages that come up to buy something.
I wouldn't bet the server farm on it. I'm thinking specifically of the trolls on USENET with accounts at certain providers...
AFAIK, advertising on OSDN is impression-based, not clickthrough based, so seeing an ad generates money for /., while clicking on one just takes you to another site. See http://www.osdn.com/advertise/ad_types.html
On the next episode of "Here comes the SUN":
Bullets continue to fly in antarctica as Tux takes on the Evil Polor Microsoft Mafia. Will he make it in time!? Also: The Secret Six meet again; what will their nepharious plans be for the x86 platform? Find out next time on "Here comes the SUN"!
[Trigun H.T. theme for end credits]
I wonder how soon it will be before this is marketed to the general public, although I see no reason why people can't just survive on ice cream.
Bring out your dead! [clang] Bring out your dead! [clang]
MICROSOFT:
Here's one.
APPLE:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
MICROSOFT:
Yes, he is.
APPLE:
I'm not! I had a 40 million dollar profit last quarter!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
MICROSOFT:
Well, he will be soon. He's very ill.
APPLE:
I'm getting better!
MICROSOFT:
No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment.
To see the original: Bring out your dead.
Seriously, I think I made a bad bet.
One thing I'll never understand about Google, as my signature notes, is why the spellcheck keeps on trying to replace "the men who killed kennedy" with "the man who killed kennedy". Am I missing something grammatically here? Do only singular nouns kill?
e +WHO+kille d+kennedy
:-D
Oddly, this occurs only for the full prase "the men who." "The men" or "men who" will not cause google to suggest "man"
Equally intriquing, the phrase "The WHO killed kennedy" causes Google to point to Elvis as the assasin!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Th
Maybe it's a conspiracy...
The recent "G4 TV Network" article featured on Slashdot quoted a "Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television" of Syracuse University.
06. Name sounds like a system Apple came out with for no reason.
:)
05. Your motto is "Get Game"
04. One of the your "original programs" is a show about simulations of sports.
03. Your target audiance is quite possibly the least likely to watch TV among those with access to them. And you know they have "short attention spans".
02. Executive quoted as saying "We won't compete."*
01. Logo rendered on an Atari 2600. Englarged with MS-Paint.
*A bit of a misquote, I know, but no less funny for it.
I think you misunderstand me. The comparison is not inbetween the promo's (which are full tracks btw, although sometimes with a small "this song provided courtesy of" note at the beginning and/or end) and the rest of the tracks on the RIAA's CDs. Rather, it's between the current mix of RIAA/Indy that comprises the chart and the independant/small label mix they used to have. To be fair, I may have overstated my case a little bit, but the fact remains that RIAA songs are taking up positions that used to go to independants and small-label artists. You may see the "Top 40" chart yourself at http://genres.mp3.com/music/
I would estimate that a good ten of those songs are from RIAA signed artists. It's subjective if ~25% of the chart is "clogged" or not. I believe it is.
Before the takeover, I used to like to patronize MP3.COM. Now their charts are all clogged with RIAA promo-crud, and it's harder to find something unique. Its too bad IUMA never took off, and didn't develop the Print-on-demand CDR capapibilities of MP3.com. Just out of curiousity, how difficult would it be for someone to set up a similiar POD system for mix-and-match OGG buring (MP3.com never had mix-and-match - you had to go with what they had)?
Perhaps a polite notice that what they're doing is very, very wrong would be appropriate. The EFF has already asked its member to mail a thank you note to Gateway. Best Buy has an address to send "general comments" to. I believe I'll be sending them a piece of my mind on this issue quite soon.
That'll get the economy moving full bull-racing speed again! All those PC sales! The mind shudders! :)
http://www.linuxiso.org/redmondlinux.html has a mirror... Does anyone know if it is up-to-date?
I did a bit of searching, apparently it's named after some kind of plant, hence the "Flower Power" thing on their site. http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Flora_and_Fauna/Pl antae/Magnoliophyta/Liliopsida/Amaryllidaceae/Lyco ris/
Windows is "mindless to install."
In my opinion, "brainless" would be more appropriate here. ':7)
Seriously, looks interesting.
It depends on the actors and the setting. Giving an old book to a bunch of improv-specialists, telling them to go to it, and filming the result might make an excellent experiment. Anyone ever heard of something like this (Its almost certainly been done - also funny, what films SHOULD have been made this way -- I vote for The Phantom Menace ':7).
As for limited resources and interest, I don't believe either is true. The wide variety of resources listed at EPIC's site, and the variety of anti-spy products, seem to contradict that idea.
IMHO, the joke was weird and pointless at best. I don't get it. Is GMontag trying to say that the MPAA is like a communist government? Or is he suggesting that the MPAA is altering the laws in our country to manipulate the population similiar to the Cuban government in the story?
I have to say that, while I am personally opposed to gambling in the traditional sense, I've never really understood why anyone would care if someone else out there in the wide world (or country, as may be appropriate) was gambling.
Of course, as John Stossel once pointed out, most state governments in the US heavily restrict gambling except under certain circumstances, then run lotteries and encourage their citizens to play. Silly and hypocritical, at best.
Does anyone have hard numbers as to the popularity and coverage of the Sundance channel? I tried a Google search after seeing several people here comment that they don't get it, but was unable to find anything. I was able to find that they are affiliated with the sundance film festival, which is for indy-films only. See http://www.sundancechannel.com/about/
(Hopefully this doesn't spark another Altavista vs. Google debate...)
I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the privacy concerns that could easily evolve from this. The article didn't seem to mention what sort of Terms of Service, if any, the city has considered.
The way Dave Barry keeps on talking about how the computer "blames him" reminds me of the way Alan Cooper said that error messages are often worded to make "The User" feel responsible when something goes wrong.
Personally, I just think of error messages as "status indicators" -- much like a "paper jam" light on a copy machine. Apparently lots of other people don't feel this way.
Ah -- but will the movie that deserves a sequel get a sequel it deserves? Case in point: The original Star Wars were good. Ep. 1 had Jar-Jar (Yuck). IMO, Given the latest releases (some of which you point out), Tron fans may have been better off if a sequel were not being considered.