It has always been my contention that advertising has its own uncanny valley, where the best advertising is either not advertising (real, honest, incidental product endorsement... which is getting very rare) or something that is apparent as advertising. Anything too close to "reality" is going to fall in that valley and breed this kind of cynicism.
This is a problem for advertisers, as the conclusion or argument of an ad used to simply be "buy me," but in the current digital age it has resorted to simply "watch me." (Listen to the "Commercial Bowl" episode from the Princeton Review LSAT Podcast for a good review of this principle. In order to be seen, the ad must not seem like an ad. Unfortunately, or maybe even ironically, the less it looks like an ad the more it is likely to be viewed with skepticism and cynicism.
What's the solution? Some might argue product placement or something like it, something inseperable from the content. This solves the "watch me" problem, but not the cynicism problem. Perhaps the solution is simply to go back to "this show brought to you by brand x thingamabobs." Be open about it, get people to want your product based on the art you support. That's one approach.
I'm interested to see where advertising goes in the next decade or two. It's almost certain to look nothing like what we are used to today.
I think for me the moment I realized that the idea of tags needed a little bit of work was the day I saw them on Amazon.com. I was viewing a product there, and it had been tagged "Presents for Jim".
You know there is a difference between megaBytes per second and megaBits per second right?
Thank you! This was the number one cause of calls complaining about speed when I worked at an ISP. People would look at the download speed number in IE when they were dowloading pics from their grandkids or something, and it would invariably NOT be the speed of their DSL connection. They would then call to complain and we would have to explain that there were two different ways to measure bandwidth, and if I go into the router and flood ping your connection from a completely different ASN that yes in fact I show that you are getting your full connection speed with no data loss, as measured in megaBITS not megaBYTES per second.
So here's to having two completely different ways to measure the same thing!
At Staples, where I work, we've been selling Skype kits for over a month. I wonder, then, how this Radioshack deal constitutes a U.S. Retail debut.
No, you can't find the phones on the staples.com website, unfortunately. I found this out the hard way when a guy who had been buying quite a few for some out-of-country employees of his came in to buy more than we had in stock, and I had to get them from another store rather than just ship them to him from an online order.
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> Microsoft only fixes security holes, not bugs.
That is because none of their stuff HAS bugs, just undocumented features.
>we aren't really much closer to solving it than 10 or 20 years ago.
That's a prediction in and of itself. If the solution was even 100 years off, we'd be measurably closer (~20% closer) to the solution via timeline alone. If we truly aren't really much closer to solving it than 10 or 20 years ago, that would mean the solution is tens of thousands of years off.
For some reason this reminds me of the scenario from the first Godfather movie, where they figure out where the meeting will be because the Police Chief has to let his station know where he'll be at all times
I seem to remember that Disney (ABC, whoever) owned a copyright on the words "Mad Hatter". When I was in high school, I was a member of a choral group who called themselves the "Mad Hatters" and we got into a brief spat w/ Disney's lawyers over that.
Yes, but you have to admit that being a result in a google search is MUCH more high profile than just sitting there on a random IP.
That being said, it would be dumb to allow any sensitive data to be brought up from a http request, no matter how obscure. Prudence would dictate that you AT LEAST.htpasswd protect it, or better yet don't make it serveable by your web server.
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Thanks to inflation, keeping the product at the same cost over time means prices HAVE been "cut down".
What about the rest of us who don't work for a Federal company?
It has always been my contention that advertising has its own uncanny valley, where the best advertising is either not advertising (real, honest, incidental product endorsement ... which is getting very rare) or something that is apparent as advertising. Anything too close to "reality" is going to fall in that valley and breed this kind of cynicism.
This is a problem for advertisers, as the conclusion or argument of an ad used to simply be "buy me," but in the current digital age it has resorted to simply "watch me." (Listen to the "Commercial Bowl" episode from the Princeton Review LSAT Podcast for a good review of this principle. In order to be seen, the ad must not seem like an ad. Unfortunately, or maybe even ironically, the less it looks like an ad the more it is likely to be viewed with skepticism and cynicism.
What's the solution? Some might argue product placement or something like it, something inseperable from the content. This solves the "watch me" problem, but not the cynicism problem. Perhaps the solution is simply to go back to "this show brought to you by brand x thingamabobs." Be open about it, get people to want your product based on the art you support. That's one approach.
I'm interested to see where advertising goes in the next decade or two. It's almost certain to look nothing like what we are used to today.
When did you forget the concept of casting?
I think for me the moment I realized that the idea of tags needed a little bit of work was the day I saw them on Amazon.com. I was viewing a product there, and it had been tagged "Presents for Jim".
Nope. Somebody mentioned that fallacy to me, so I whipped this up:
http://sysadminco.com/vuln/
No intervention needed on payload page. Javascript does it all automagically.
This whole article reminds me of the greatest movie of 1996!
There's something wrong with little Signund.
Hilarious
Thank you! This was the number one cause of calls complaining about speed when I worked at an ISP. People would look at the download speed number in IE when they were dowloading pics from their grandkids or something, and it would invariably NOT be the speed of their DSL connection. They would then call to complain and we would have to explain that there were two different ways to measure bandwidth, and if I go into the router and flood ping your connection from a completely different ASN that yes in fact I show that you are getting your full connection speed with no data loss, as measured in megaBITS not megaBYTES per second.
So here's to having two completely different ways to measure the same thing!
I remember saying that quite awhile ago, or at least something vaguely along those lines.
At Staples, where I work, we've been selling Skype kits for over a month. I wonder, then, how this Radioshack deal constitutes a U.S. Retail debut.
No, you can't find the phones on the staples.com website, unfortunately. I found this out the hard way when a guy who had been buying quite a few for some out-of-country employees of his came in to buy more than we had in stock, and I had to get them from another store rather than just ship them to him from an online order.
> Microsoft only fixes security holes, not bugs.
That is because none of their stuff HAS bugs, just undocumented features.
Selectively choose the input data set, and I can make the numbers say anything.
Seen on a rebate sticker for a Microsoft Keyboard:
"Thank you for your interest in a Microsoft Keyboard Products."
Wait, I thought your mom didn't shield you from anything?
My mother [...] didn't shield me from anything
You know, I think I could die happy if just once I heard, "you know what, I was a crappy kid. I have no one to blame but myself. I'm an idiot."
Does nobody see this as a potential problem, as Microsoft will now have a vested interest in NOT fixing their O/S so that spyware can't get in?
>we aren't really much closer to solving it than 10 or 20 years ago.
/not an opinion, just an observation
That's a prediction in and of itself. If the solution was even 100 years off, we'd be measurably closer (~20% closer) to the solution via timeline alone. If we truly aren't really much closer to solving it than 10 or 20 years ago, that would mean the solution is tens of thousands of years off.
Why is it people have trouble with the distinction between what something was intended for, and what it is acutally used for?
Case in point: the pledge of allegience. It was written by a Socialist who worked for a flag-making company in an attempt to sell more flags.
So, is the pledge of allegiance currently used as a socialist tool? No. Is the flag-making lobby responsible for keeping it in our schools? No.
It matters very little what it was written for, it's all about what it is now.
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/News/1147824
SEC Filings are public.
For some reason this reminds me of the scenario from the first Godfather movie, where they figure out where the meeting will be because the Police Chief has to let his station know where he'll be at all times
600 pages for very small values of 600
I seem to remember that Disney (ABC, whoever) owned a copyright on the words "Mad Hatter".
When I was in high school, I was a member of a choral group who called themselves the "Mad Hatters" and we got into a brief spat w/ Disney's lawyers over that.
Does anyone else know more about this?
Data havens are preparing for an influx in hosting contracts.
I think it was more like
if the rider (speeds up abruptly || encounters an obstacle || continues to ride) && receiving a low-battery alert
That's how I read it.
Yes, but you have to admit that being a result in a google search is MUCH more high profile than just sitting there on a random IP.
.htpasswd protect it, or better yet don't make it serveable by your web server.
That being said, it would be dumb to allow any sensitive data to be brought up from a http request, no matter how obscure. Prudence would dictate that you AT LEAST
Not that MSN doesn't have a vested interest in some other search engine or anything.