My hypothesis was that our eyes were just drawn to any graphic at the top left, no matter what it was, and so we'd click on it.
I have a Google Adwords block on my personal website. Up until a month ago, the ad had been on the top right corner of the screen. I was playing around and moved it to the top left.
From January 1 to June 1, I had x hits, y clicks, and made $z in ad income.
From June 1 to July 1, I had almost exactly x/5 hits; I served 1.03 times more hits during that month than I had per average in the last five months. I also had.54*y clicks that month, or 2.71 times as many clicks per average month. Finally, I earned 1.42*$z last month, or 7.11 times per month as much as during the first five months. Of the top 20 highest-earning days in the last 5 years, 6 were in the last month.
Let me repeat that: changing almost nothing but the ad placement from top-right to top-left increased my click-through rate 171% and my monthly ad income by 611%, on almost the exact same number of hits.
The eMacs got hit with the same bad capacitors that the Dells did. Unlike Dell, Apple instituted a repair extension program for the affected machines, so that's probably why they fixed it for free that far out of warranty.
That's exactly why they fixed it. Rather than try to dodge blame or explain why the warranty was expired, they cheerfully ate the expense of working on my machine. Everyone has a bad batch of hardware from time to time. Most telling is how a company reacts to the problem. In my case, Apple quickly took the most customer-friendly route.
That's why I buy Macs. The last time I had to call Apple support a couple years ago, the tech I spoke to was in Texas.
I bought a used eMac from a friend. When it was just shy of 3 years old, it started crashing and having all sorts of video issues. A Google search said that it might have bad caps on the video card and told where to look for them, so I did, and it had them. I called Apple and told the woman what I'd found and she gave me an RMA to replace everything that could have potentially gone bad.
The second-hand machine had a one-year warranty. Apple fixed the whole thing, free of charge, a week before it turned 3. That is why my next computer will be an Apple.
I think the connotation is that you need to commit to a course of action. Either get on with it or give up and get ready for your next attempt. Don't just limp along half-assed.
What's the difference between a name and a tag like this?
My parents picked my name, and if I don't like it, I can change it. It doesn't even have to be formal; I can just start introducing myself as Bob Smith from now on. As long as I'm not doing it to commit fraud, that's perfectly OK.
Contrast with the some government functionary doling out the next name on the list: "That's a lovely girl, Ms. JCLF3000527! What's her name?" "KMPT5837520, but we call her '20'."
I really don't care what arbitrary reason they picked. I'm just glad to hear of someone - anyone - standing up and saying that they refuse to be tagged like cattle. Good for you, Indians!
Anal-abusing males and group-masturbating females (commonly known as lesbians) do not contribute children towards the population of Planet Earth and USA in particular.
I'll give you a pass on that one, even though it's completely wrong, but here's one he can't wriggle out of by blaming Bush: ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
A million times, yes! If Obama actually cared about the issue, he could end it with a single phone call to the National Security Council - which he's a part of: "gentlemen, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is unconstitutional and I pledged to stop it. I'm doing that. Now. As of this call, it is no longer official policy of the US Armed Forces. Make it so."
But he won't. That would make him the potential lightning rod for any political fallout, and if there's one thing I absolutely trust of Obama, it's that he'll let someone else carry a political burden (but will take credit for signing a repeal bill if Congress presented one to him and it was well received).
I second that. My major project of the upcoming year is to replace my company's current, large Zope 2 app with something less horrid to manage, probably using Turbogears. Zope is definitely cool in its own way, but actually developing with it is just terrible.
I've known bartenders who have been shaken down by ASCAP thugs for fees that they clearly didn't owe, as bands that performed in those bars played their own, non-ASCAP compositions.
Ever daydream that you're on a jury, and you get to convince your fellow jurors to acquit the biker gang who just beat an ASCAP representative into retardation? And afterward, the gang buys you a beer out of gratitude, and it turns out that they're pretty OK guys who just didn't want someone shaking down their favorite hangout?
For what it's worth, that was one of the issues that finally pushed me away from the party. I couldn't stand listening to alleged conservatives backing Romney's health reforms when they were blatantly anti-conservative.
In order to provide wireless across this whole rural continent (including farmers in the middle of noplace) you would have to erect a billion towers. Maybe more. That's simply impossible.
One of my friends let an ISP erect an antenna on his barn in exchange for free Internet service. I think this is a lot more common than you seem to think.
Incorrect. Newton's Laws, for instance, are flat-out wrong. You can use them to calculate, for instance, the distance a projectile fired from a cannon travels. The results will be close, but wrong because they don't take into account relativity, as will any calculations involving objects moving at different velocities.
The fastest non-microscopic manmade object is the Helios 2, trucking away at up to 252,792 km/h (in a near vacuum, so you can ignore atmospheric effects). The Lorentz transform for 70220 m/s is within.000002% of being ignorable.
If the Earth was a plane so that you could ignore curvature, and if it had no atmosphere or magnetic field or anything else that could cause drag on the projectile, and if your propellant and aiming systems and barrel and everything else is absolutely perfect, and if you launched a projectile at Helios 2's speed in a ballistic arc at a target half the Earth's circumference away: if all that is true, relativity will make you miss by less than.5 meters.
No. 7: They favor the elimination of the songwriter and publisher rights for server, cache and buffer copies.
That one's a joke. Isn't it? Because no one can be fucking stupid enough to believe that they should have rights to ephemeral cached or buffered copies.
The proverbial million monkeys have left their typewriters, and are taking photos now with digital cameras. I don't say that disparagingly. I am one of the million monkeys.
So am I. I just got an email this morning that a location-based networking service used one of my Flickr pictures (CC with attribution) to represent a tourist attraction in a city I'd been in last month. I'm sure some professionals would be happy to sell similar - and almost certainly much better - photos of the same place. My price was right, though, and the shot was good enough for the user's purposes.
Things like that have to be terrifying to stock photographers.
Don't get me wrong. I agree that being able to keep Pandora going while I do other stuff is a nicety, but I don't think that something like that is such a "must have" thing that it warrants all of the articles and posts we've seen demanding that Apple make significant changes to the OS and its API in order to make it possible.
Forget Pandora. I want my VOIP app to be able to answer calls even when I'm not actively using it. Of course, I haven't really figured out why they couldn't handle that with push notifications, but the powers that be seem to think it requires multitasking so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
The good motherboards these days (such as Asus R2E and others) have the tool ready to launch from bios which can lift the bin file directly from the USB disk.
I have a Gigabyte X48-DS4 motherboard. As you said, it has a BIOS option to navigate a USB drive to locate and select a new bin file. It also has double the flash necessary to hold a BIOS image. When you load the new image, it copies it to the unused half of the flash. Then, when you reboot, it attempts to use the new image but falls back to the old one if it can't.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with an easier, safer way to upgrade a BIOS - especially when not using Windows so those single-platform in-OS updaters are useless.
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My hypothesis was that our eyes were just drawn to any graphic at the top left, no matter what it was, and so we'd click on it.
I have a Google Adwords block on my personal website. Up until a month ago, the ad had been on the top right corner of the screen. I was playing around and moved it to the top left.
From January 1 to June 1, I had x hits, y clicks, and made $z in ad income.
From June 1 to July 1, I had almost exactly x/5 hits; I served 1.03 times more hits during that month than I had per average in the last five months. I also had .54*y clicks that month, or 2.71 times as many clicks per average month. Finally, I earned 1.42*$z last month, or 7.11 times per month as much as during the first five months. Of the top 20 highest-earning days in the last 5 years, 6 were in the last month.
Let me repeat that: changing almost nothing but the ad placement from top-right to top-left increased my click-through rate 171% and my monthly ad income by 611%, on almost the exact same number of hits.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you.
The eMacs got hit with the same bad capacitors that the Dells did. Unlike Dell, Apple instituted a repair extension program for the affected machines, so that's probably why they fixed it for free that far out of warranty.
That's exactly why they fixed it. Rather than try to dodge blame or explain why the warranty was expired, they cheerfully ate the expense of working on my machine. Everyone has a bad batch of hardware from time to time. Most telling is how a company reacts to the problem. In my case, Apple quickly took the most customer-friendly route.
That's why I buy Macs. The last time I had to call Apple support a couple years ago, the tech I spoke to was in Texas.
I bought a used eMac from a friend. When it was just shy of 3 years old, it started crashing and having all sorts of video issues. A Google search said that it might have bad caps on the video card and told where to look for them, so I did, and it had them. I called Apple and told the woman what I'd found and she gave me an RMA to replace everything that could have potentially gone bad.
The second-hand machine had a one-year warranty. Apple fixed the whole thing, free of charge, a week before it turned 3. That is why my next computer will be an Apple.
I wonder if this would surprise him: at 4AM Pacific today, I searched for "knuth announcement".
Not likely. A lot of computer scientists have strange hours.
So is Ethernet. Have you ever viewed a JPEG that didn't look as bright and crisp as it could because you were using the wrong brand of CAT5?
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How's that netbook treatin' ya?
Not as long as Wal-Mart has a dumpster out back, I won't.
I think the connotation is that you need to commit to a course of action. Either get on with it or give up and get ready for your next attempt. Don't just limp along half-assed.
Try getting by in the U.S. without a social security number for a while, hero.
Excellent point. It's too late for us, but we can cheer on other countries who are trying to keep it from happening in their own lands.
What's the difference between a name and a tag like this?
My parents picked my name, and if I don't like it, I can change it. It doesn't even have to be formal; I can just start introducing myself as Bob Smith from now on. As long as I'm not doing it to commit fraud, that's perfectly OK.
Contrast with the some government functionary doling out the next name on the list: "That's a lovely girl, Ms. JCLF3000527! What's her name?" "KMPT5837520, but we call her '20'."
I really don't care what arbitrary reason they picked. I'm just glad to hear of someone - anyone - standing up and saying that they refuse to be tagged like cattle. Good for you, Indians!
Anal-abusing males and group-masturbating females (commonly known as lesbians) do not contribute children towards the population of Planet Earth and USA in particular.
Neither do infertile people; stone them.
Next argument?
For the non hams, that stands for AMateur Packet Radio and when used in AMPRNet it is AMateur Packet Radio Network.
Thank you. I wouldn't have gotten that second one.
I'll give you a pass on that one, even though it's completely wrong, but here's one he can't wriggle out of by blaming Bush: ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
A million times, yes! If Obama actually cared about the issue, he could end it with a single phone call to the National Security Council - which he's a part of: "gentlemen, Don't Ask, Don't Tell is unconstitutional and I pledged to stop it. I'm doing that. Now. As of this call, it is no longer official policy of the US Armed Forces. Make it so."
But he won't. That would make him the potential lightning rod for any political fallout, and if there's one thing I absolutely trust of Obama, it's that he'll let someone else carry a political burden (but will take credit for signing a repeal bill if Congress presented one to him and it was well received).
I second that. My major project of the upcoming year is to replace my company's current, large Zope 2 app with something less horrid to manage, probably using Turbogears. Zope is definitely cool in its own way, but actually developing with it is just terrible.
I've known bartenders who have been shaken down by ASCAP thugs for fees that they clearly didn't owe, as bands that performed in those bars played their own, non-ASCAP compositions.
Ever daydream that you're on a jury, and you get to convince your fellow jurors to acquit the biker gang who just beat an ASCAP representative into retardation? And afterward, the gang buys you a beer out of gratitude, and it turns out that they're pretty OK guys who just didn't want someone shaking down their favorite hangout?
Yeah, me neither.
For what it's worth, that was one of the issues that finally pushed me away from the party. I couldn't stand listening to alleged conservatives backing Romney's health reforms when they were blatantly anti-conservative.
In order to provide wireless across this whole rural continent (including farmers in the middle of noplace) you would have to erect a billion towers. Maybe more. That's simply impossible.
One of my friends let an ISP erect an antenna on his barn in exchange for free Internet service. I think this is a lot more common than you seem to think.
Incorrect. Newton's Laws, for instance, are flat-out wrong. You can use them to calculate, for instance, the distance a projectile fired from a cannon travels. The results will be close, but wrong because they don't take into account relativity, as will any calculations involving objects moving at different velocities.
The fastest non-microscopic manmade object is the Helios 2, trucking away at up to 252,792 km/h (in a near vacuum, so you can ignore atmospheric effects). The Lorentz transform for 70220 m/s is within .000002% of being ignorable.
If the Earth was a plane so that you could ignore curvature, and if it had no atmosphere or magnetic field or anything else that could cause drag on the projectile, and if your propellant and aiming systems and barrel and everything else is absolutely perfect, and if you launched a projectile at Helios 2's speed in a ballistic arc at a target half the Earth's circumference away: if all that is true, relativity will make you miss by less than .5 meters.
The "no visible tattoo" policy is the antithesis of the 1st Amendment.
I agree wholeheartedly. Having "FUCK YOU" tattooed on your forehead should not prevent you from working as an investment banker.
Did that even make sense when you wrote it?
No. 7: They favor the elimination of the songwriter and publisher rights for server, cache and buffer copies.
That one's a joke. Isn't it? Because no one can be fucking stupid enough to believe that they should have rights to ephemeral cached or buffered copies.
Right? Please tell me that was sarcasm.
The proverbial million monkeys have left their typewriters, and are taking photos now with digital cameras. I don't say that disparagingly. I am one of the million monkeys.
So am I. I just got an email this morning that a location-based networking service used one of my Flickr pictures (CC with attribution) to represent a tourist attraction in a city I'd been in last month. I'm sure some professionals would be happy to sell similar - and almost certainly much better - photos of the same place. My price was right, though, and the shot was good enough for the user's purposes.
Things like that have to be terrifying to stock photographers.
and the power brick would need to supply 1.21 gigawatts to the drive
I have an external 2.5GW PSU for my Radeon.
Don't get me wrong. I agree that being able to keep Pandora going while I do other stuff is a nicety, but I don't think that something like that is such a "must have" thing that it warrants all of the articles and posts we've seen demanding that Apple make significant changes to the OS and its API in order to make it possible.
Forget Pandora. I want my VOIP app to be able to answer calls even when I'm not actively using it. Of course, I haven't really figured out why they couldn't handle that with push notifications, but the powers that be seem to think it requires multitasking so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
The good motherboards these days (such as Asus R2E and others) have the tool ready to launch from bios which can lift the bin file directly from the USB disk.
I have a Gigabyte X48-DS4 motherboard. As you said, it has a BIOS option to navigate a USB drive to locate and select a new bin file. It also has double the flash necessary to hold a BIOS image. When you load the new image, it copies it to the unused half of the flash. Then, when you reboot, it attempts to use the new image but falls back to the old one if it can't.
I'd be hard pressed to come up with an easier, safer way to upgrade a BIOS - especially when not using Windows so those single-platform in-OS updaters are useless.