Well, not pong, but video games in general. Basically they just show the game while a couple guys play and talk. They aren't especially good, they're not reviewing the game (from what I can tell, and none of the games are new releases) and they rarely show the human players. Usually just the game screen.
Now, this is in a country where I believe there are about (only) 15 channels or so (where I am). It's on during the day too. So I guess someone likes it. In the evening it gets even more interesting when the chat shows begin. 9pm or so one or two channels show what is basically just a pretty IRC console. And you watch people chat. Fun.
I leave for home on Saturday. Gonna miss this place.
I can smell the improper application of an 'offtopic' to this post already....
Why do these companies/sites always spring up in the USA? It's a shame. Perhaps moving someplace else would be an attractive option for some of these people (Google, Napster etc.) Just don't come to Canada. The US can find a way to throw you in jail if you do so much as sell a Brita to Cuba, I'm sure they can do more.
Figure that the average family size is over 2 and your number of actual consumers drops quite a bit... 30M people doesn't mean 30M target consumers. Still, I have an ATI with some crappy TV program software that still gets accurate data for Waterloo. It's not impossible, they just don't do it.
Yup, but they'd still have to click. And if they're important words, they're less likely to. I tried that, and b'ored' got the most hits. It was like $.05PC, where as 'engineer' or 'engineering' was like $1.05 or something, and never got a click. And it's the CTR that gets counted, not your amount paid, so I don't think just spending more would help anyway. IIRC.
I noticed this new 'pay for click' advertising format on Google during the whole Xenu.net thing and decided to give it a try. I figured it would maximize my exposure while keeping my costs low. It was basically nonesense ads to my personal website targeted to words like 'stupid, lazy, engineer, engineering, waterloo' and the like. No one would click I figured, and I'd get a vew thousand views before I got my campain canned.
That's exactly what happened. My click-thru rate was too low and my ads stopped displaying. Never noticed that CTR clause when I was signing up, I figured I'd have a longer free ride. I still think it was a fun way to spend $5, (well, $5.70 with the price of all those clicks I got) and there's no one I'd rather give it to than Google.
It's a shame about the CTR limit, it would be nice to have accessable, effective advertising like this. The cost of 'important' words is deterrent enough for joyriders like me.
Actually, propane is lighter than air. It also doesn't smell. The reason it sinks/stinks is because of a tracer mixed in with it for exactly these reasons, to control fire and allow detection. It's just like how antifreeze tastes bad/makes you sick. It's just The Man trying to spoil our fun:)
I wasn't raised by one parent, I was raised by two Grandparents and one parent. There's more to a family than a mother and father. We should compare notes on childhood and see who comes out on top.
Isn't having a bastard child still illegal in some places? It's only a matter of time before people relax/let slip their moral views on the whole thing like they did with kids bon out of wedlock. Lucky for me I was born in such a lax time.
The people who are starving/dying of famine/etc weren't deliberately murdered innocents. That's a huge distinction.
Right, I'll forward this to the 1.5 million or so Iraqis who have died as a result of the UN embargo for the last 11 years. I'm sure they'll agree there's a big distinction.
Well, for that matter the TiBook doesn't as well. I think the Ti in TiBook stands for something;) Never really looked into it, it could just be a marketing gimmick, but I think the bodies are made of titanium.
Any chance someone has started doing this commercially, like these guys do for GBAs and the like? I'd like to get this done, but to source the parts and have the time/skill is a definite problem. Especially in the skill area. A friend of mine trashed his LCD trying something like this. I guess the paint ran off into the back or something.
I always figured dnet was on the way to UD anyway. This seemed to imply that, but I guess it was just people they took, noth the project. I guess there's no money in cracking crypto;) The idea of distributed computing has been proven, and I think the original goal of allowing stronger crypto standards in the US has been achieved as well(?), so now it's on to more useflul tasks.
I still like seing my clients from my first job 4 years ago still submitting packets, gives me a nice feeling;) Wish I never used my real email address though.
Well, I do. It just wasn't as interactive then. So much more fun to pester the little guy. Man, I miss the good days of SNL. Actually, I kinda miss TV. Especially during the Olympics. Oh well.
That's why you write to your MPs. They're the ones who change the laws. It was an MP who started all this in '97 when she introduced bill C-32. Also, they should do a better job of forwarding your complaints on to boards like this (if you trust them to). I wrote 2 MPs and the board. I may do the formal objection if I get the time later.
I trimmed the opening and closing. Here's the meat. Not that good, but you asked for it.
I have been reading today about the increase in tariffs for recordable media (tapes, CDs, DVDs, Hard Drives, RAM, etc.). I have read through the document outlining this plan here:
and have some feedback. Hopefully you will share my concerns and will accept the task of expressing these and other objections more formally to the Board.
Shortly but sweetly, here is my list of objections thus far:
1: The tariff will now apply to devices used to transport and non-permanently store music. RAM and hard drives are not a permanent, single use storage medium, as are cassettes (short usable life) and CDs. This is an extension beyond what I believe is the logical scope of the original tariff, and the potential to future extension to similar devices is frightening (cables, computers, internet access). This is the second increase/extension since Bill C-32 in 1997. I wish I had been paying attention then.
2: My money is going to support record companies lost profit even if I am using the technology fairly, and even if I am using the media to record something but music. Why BMG should get $.03 every time I make a computer backup or create a disc of pictures is beyond me. The Government is taxing the people in an effort to offset the people stealing from the companies. There's no mystery here, which gives us 3.
3: Now that the Government has clarified their role as the tax collectors on piracy by fortifying the tariff of 2000, I can feel justified that the mechanism for control is in place, and feel right to take advantage of it. After all, I'm paying the companies for the (implied) right to pirate music. Let the good times roll.
4: This is a horrible situation for independent artists. Now the recording industry is receiving more money, while they themselves are giving it to them by buying the blank media to promote their work.
5: I don't own a car. Some day I will have to pay $21 per spoke on my bike so that the oil and car companies will be fairly compensated. With logic like that used in Bill C-32 ('97) and the extensions, it's bound to happen some day.
I really should be working now. Thanks for your time.
5 years ago Bill C-32 passed. Read a bit about it here and remember that we must fight these things at every opportunity, as they will only be extended to perversion. Case in point...
Deadline for written comment is May 8, 2002. So get writing! And for the love of God, use paper, much better impact. Remember, you don't need a stamp to mail your MP, so enjoy the free ride:) Look up an address here.
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Um, because it made me laugh? Well, I would have, but it was at 4 and I'd rather reply to you.
Well, not pong, but video games in general. Basically they just show the game while a couple guys play and talk. They aren't especially good, they're not reviewing the game (from what I can tell, and none of the games are new releases) and they rarely show the human players. Usually just the game screen.
Now, this is in a country where I believe there are about (only) 15 channels or so (where I am). It's on during the day too. So I guess someone likes it. In the evening it gets even more interesting when the chat shows begin. 9pm or so one or two channels show what is basically just a pretty IRC console. And you watch people chat. Fun.
I leave for home on Saturday. Gonna miss this place.
I can smell the improper application of an 'offtopic' to this post already....
Why do these companies/sites always spring up in the USA? It's a shame. Perhaps moving someplace else would be an attractive option for some of these people (Google, Napster etc.) Just don't come to Canada. The US can find a way to throw you in jail if you do so much as sell a Brita to Cuba, I'm sure they can do more.
Does this article qualify? With the number of definitions and cries of said procedulral error I've seen posted, you'd think so.
Figure that the average family size is over 2 and your number of actual consumers drops quite a bit... 30M people doesn't mean 30M target consumers. Still, I have an ATI with some crappy TV program software that still gets accurate data for Waterloo. It's not impossible, they just don't do it.
Yup, but they'd still have to click. And if they're important words, they're less likely to. I tried that, and b'ored' got the most hits. It was like $.05PC, where as 'engineer' or 'engineering' was like $1.05 or something, and never got a click. And it's the CTR that gets counted, not your amount paid, so I don't think just spending more would help anyway. IIRC.
I noticed this new 'pay for click' advertising format on Google during the whole Xenu.net thing and decided to give it a try. I figured it would maximize my exposure while keeping my costs low. It was basically nonesense ads to my personal website targeted to words like 'stupid, lazy, engineer, engineering, waterloo' and the like. No one would click I figured, and I'd get a vew thousand views before I got my campain canned.
That's exactly what happened. My click-thru rate was too low and my ads stopped displaying. Never noticed that CTR clause when I was signing up, I figured I'd have a longer free ride. I still think it was a fun way to spend $5, (well, $5.70 with the price of all those clicks I got) and there's no one I'd rather give it to than Google.
It's a shame about the CTR limit, it would be nice to have accessable, effective advertising like this. The cost of 'important' words is deterrent enough for joyriders like me.
The moderation made me laugh even more. Perhaps Redundant mods should be getting +1 instead of -1? Seems to be the vogue around here.
Actually, propane is lighter than air. It also doesn't smell. The reason it sinks/stinks is because of a tracer mixed in with it for exactly these reasons, to control fire and allow detection. It's just like how antifreeze tastes bad/makes you sick. It's just The Man trying to spoil our fun :)
I wasn't raised by one parent, I was raised by two Grandparents and one parent. There's more to a family than a mother and father. We should compare notes on childhood and see who comes out on top.
Isn't having a bastard child still illegal in some places? It's only a matter of time before people relax/let slip their moral views on the whole thing like they did with kids bon out of wedlock. Lucky for me I was born in such a lax time.
America, America, America.... You just illustrated his point for him.
Pleasee excuse my lack of compassion in these tough times.
Well, for that matter the TiBook doesn't as well. I think the Ti in TiBook stands for something ;) Never really looked into it, it could just be a marketing gimmick, but I think the bodies are made of titanium.
Any chance someone has started doing this commercially, like these guys do for GBAs and the like? I'd like to get this done, but to source the parts and have the time/skill is a definite problem. Especially in the skill area. A friend of mine trashed his LCD trying something like this. I guess the paint ran off into the back or something.
I always figured dnet was on the way to UD anyway. This seemed to imply that, but I guess it was just people they took, noth the project. I guess there's no money in cracking crypto ;) The idea of distributed computing has been proven, and I think the original goal of allowing stronger crypto standards in the US has been achieved as well(?), so now it's on to more useflul tasks.
;) Wish I never used my real email address though.
I still like seing my clients from my first job 4 years ago still submitting packets, gives me a nice feeling
Amen to that. 4A here I come....
Well, I do. It just wasn't as interactive then. So much more fun to pester the little guy. Man, I miss the good days of SNL. Actually, I kinda miss TV. Especially during the Olympics. Oh well.
I sure am excited to read this review! You can tell because I use so many exclamation marks in my first paragraph!
I'm having flashbacks of Tiny Elvis for some reason. "Woah! Look at the size of that icon! That thing is huuuge!!"
Yes, I understand your excitement. Those first three exclamation marks really drove it home.
That's why you write to your MPs. They're the ones who change the laws. It was an MP who started all this in '97 when she introduced bill C-32. Also, they should do a better job of forwarding your complaints on to boards like this (if you trust them to). I wrote 2 MPs and the board. I may do the formal objection if I get the time later.
I trimmed the opening and closing. Here's the meat. Not that good, but you asked for it.
0 02 -b.pdf
I have been reading today about the increase in tariffs for recordable media
(tapes, CDs, DVDs, Hard Drives, RAM, etc.). I have read through the
document outlining this plan here:
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/tariffs/proposed/c09032
and have some feedback. Hopefully you will share my concerns and will
accept the task of expressing these and other objections more formally to
the Board.
Shortly but sweetly, here is my list of objections thus far:
1: The tariff will now apply to devices used to transport and
non-permanently store music. RAM and hard drives are not a permanent,
single use storage medium, as are cassettes (short usable life) and CDs.
This is an extension beyond what I believe is the logical scope of the
original tariff, and the potential to future extension to similar devices is
frightening (cables, computers, internet access). This is the second
increase/extension since Bill C-32 in 1997. I wish I had been paying
attention then.
2: My money is going to support record companies lost profit even if I am
using the technology fairly, and even if I am using the media to record
something but music. Why BMG should get $.03 every time I make a computer
backup or create a disc of pictures is beyond me. The Government is taxing
the people in an effort to offset the people stealing from the companies.
There's no mystery here, which gives us 3.
3: Now that the Government has clarified their role as the tax collectors
on piracy by fortifying the tariff of 2000, I can feel justified that the
mechanism for control is in place, and feel right to take advantage of it.
After all, I'm paying the companies for the (implied) right to pirate music.
Let the good times roll.
4: This is a horrible situation for independent artists. Now the recording
industry is receiving more money, while they themselves are giving it to
them by buying the blank media to promote their work.
5: I don't own a car. Some day I will have to pay $21 per spoke on my bike
so that the oil and car companies will be fairly compensated. With logic
like that used in Bill C-32 ('97) and the extensions, it's bound to happen
some day.
I really should be working now. Thanks for your time.
5 years ago Bill C-32 passed. Read a bit about it here and remember that we must fight these things at every opportunity, as they will only be extended to perversion. Case in point...
If that's a word... ;)
Deadline for written comment is May 8, 2002. So get writing! And for the love of God, use paper, much better impact. Remember, you don't need a stamp to mail your MP, so enjoy the free ride :) Look up an address here.