So THAT's why my head feels warm after standing in the sun for any length of time! It's the flow of electrons being triggered by the sunlight, not radiation from the sun.
We pretty well have to link to whoever has the original story, don't we?
I don't know what browser YOU'RE using, but for me, Firefox 3.52 + Adblock PLus 1.1.1 doesn't pop up anything by mousing over anywhere on the original article page.
I would be very surprised if there were not a strong correlation between users who don't customize their settings and users who more frequently respond to advertising the way that the advertisers want them to.
"... folks who arrive at websites via Bing are 55% more likely to click on an ad than if they arrived from Google"
Well, let's see. As an independent consultant who helps private individuals with IT issues on their home computers, I have some experience with naive users and WIndows-based PCs.
Many of the people I know who still use Internet Explorer do so out of apathy, not out of some misguided belief in the product. Those same people tend to be the ones most likely to click away any prompt without paying too much attention to what it says. And, they also seem to be more likely to click on ads that appear to relate to something that interests them (and then deny it strenuously when they call me because their machines have drastically slowed down).
This is in contrast with those who I have managed to successfully convince to switch to Firefox + Adblock Plus, who in my limited experience, are much less likely to click on ads (since they do not actually see many).
Bing has now become Microsoft's preferred search engine, so it is not unthinkable that a recent Windows Update might have foisted it as a default upon those who chose to upgrade to IE 8. Certainly, if a dialog were to pop up asking whether to switch to Bing from their current search engine, it would not surprise me to learn that those same users chose the default answer, without consciously deciding to make a change (and then not knowing how to revert afterward, even if they wanted to do so).
In any case, I think it far likelier that these same people are now using Bing than the Firefox crowd.
The latter tend to be, as a group, far more aware of what they are doing and more likely to notice when they have been asked to make a choice, and to understand what the potential ramifications of that choice might be.
So I surmise that the lion's share of click-throughs from Bing are the former, use-the-default-browser, click-away-any-popups, just-show-me-what-I-wanted crowd.
Brilliant marketing strategy, on Microsoft's part, IMHO.
Actually, one feature in Vista has come in quite handy with my two adolescent boys. The built in Parental Controls , believe it or not.
By contrast, the Parental Controls in Windows 7 are missing web filtering/monitoring and require addon.software to do this.
Go figure...
This isn't about the kids who perform better. It's about the schools who by essentially bribing students to study for specific tests, show higher test scores, qualifying them for increased aid under NCLB.
It's not the ANSWER they're copyrighting, but the specific PRESENTATION of that answer.
To wit, the fact that they show the Input ("2 + 2"), the Result ("4"), the Number Name ("four"), and the Visual Representation (image of four dots) all together on the results page is their unique presentation.
Compare Google's version. No spelled out number name, no image of dots.
And this is with their current practice of hiring geniuses.
Fast forward five or ten years, to the point where they have reached the point in their growth that they would have had to start hiring "regular" people for the mundane jobs like network administration.
Perhaps, they had an opportunity and took it (to plant the tracking device) then realized that waiting until after the fact to ask for a warrant would hurt their chances of getting one.
No, WATCHING TV still requires no license, if you watch someone else's TV. A license is only required if you *OWN* a TV, unless you keep it in the box and never use it.
My vintage 2000 500MHz P-III, fully maxed out with 384MB of RAM ran Win98 for years, was later upgraded to Win98SE, then upgraded again to XP-Pro SP3, recently.
(I know, I know, you should ALWAYS install new and NEVER upgrade, but I have licensed software on it for which I no longer have install media or keys, and heck, it worked.)
Anyway it runs Firefox and Office 2003 just fine, if slowly.
When my kids misbehave, they have to use it instead of the regular machine to do their homework for an appropriate period of time.
When they REALLY misbehave, I disable MS Office (by changing the ACL on the install directory) and force them to run OpenOffice (with Java enabled) on it.
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So THAT's why my head feels warm after standing in the sun for any length of time! It's the flow of electrons being triggered by the sunlight, not radiation from the sun.
You're powerless. As you've always suspected.
Cool! Like the car parking sequence in I, Robot! Except it isn't stored vertically.
Probably not.
We pretty well have to link to whoever has the original story, don't we?
I don't know what browser YOU'RE using, but for me, Firefox 3.52 + Adblock PLus 1.1.1 doesn't pop up anything by mousing over anywhere on the original article page.
I think he probably meant denial of service from the developer's employer's point of view.
Nah, MY culture died after being exposed to hip-hop music.
My thoughts, exactly.
Well, let's see. As an independent consultant who helps private individuals with IT issues on their home computers, I have some experience with naive users and WIndows-based PCs.
Many of the people I know who still use Internet Explorer do so out of apathy, not out of some misguided belief in the product. Those same people tend to be the ones most likely to click away any prompt without paying too much attention to what it says. And, they also seem to be more likely to click on ads that appear to relate to something that interests them (and then deny it strenuously when they call me because their machines have drastically slowed down).
This is in contrast with those who I have managed to successfully convince to switch to Firefox + Adblock Plus, who in my limited experience, are much less likely to click on ads (since they do not actually see many).
Bing has now become Microsoft's preferred search engine, so it is not unthinkable that a recent Windows Update might have foisted it as a default upon those who chose to upgrade to IE 8. Certainly, if a dialog were to pop up asking whether to switch to Bing from their current search engine, it would not surprise me to learn that those same users chose the default answer, without consciously deciding to make a change (and then not knowing how to revert afterward, even if they wanted to do so).
In any case, I think it far likelier that these same people are now using Bing than the Firefox crowd.
The latter tend to be, as a group, far more aware of what they are doing and more likely to notice when they have been asked to make a choice, and to understand what the potential ramifications of that choice might be.
So I surmise that the lion's share of click-throughs from Bing are the former, use-the-default-browser, click-away-any-popups, just-show-me-what-I-wanted crowd.
Brilliant marketing strategy, on Microsoft's part, IMHO.
Actually, one feature in Vista has come in quite handy with my two adolescent boys. The built in Parental Controls , believe it or not. By contrast, the Parental Controls in Windows 7 are missing web filtering/monitoring and require addon.software to do this. Go figure...
Wait, wait!
You mean they teach this stuff?
Judging by the code I've seen (and continue to see regularly), I thought EVERYONE else learned this by doing it on their own, like me!
Gotta get me one of those.
One question: does it need to be primed, like a pump, with a handful of starter bugs to get it going?
don't call it meatspace, it freaks out the normal people.
(emphasis mine) Read: FEMALE normal people
Remember, this is Apple we're talking about. They get nothing from a C-64 emulation, fully licensed or otherwise.
But Apple ][ on the other hand ...
Finally! Parity between vehicles and pedestrians.
This isn't about the kids who perform better. It's about the schools who by essentially bribing students to study for specific tests, show higher test scores, qualifying them for increased aid under NCLB.
It's not the ANSWER they're copyrighting, but the specific PRESENTATION of that answer.
To wit, the fact that they show the Input ("2 + 2"), the Result ("4"), the Number Name ("four"), and the Visual Representation (image of four dots) all together on the results page is their unique presentation.
Compare Google's version. No spelled out number name, no image of dots.
And this is with their current practice of hiring geniuses.
Fast forward five or ten years, to the point where they have reached the point in their growth that they would have had to start hiring "regular" people for the mundane jobs like network administration.
OR,
Perhaps, they had an opportunity and took it (to plant the tracking device) then realized that waiting until after the fact to ask for a warrant would hurt their chances of getting one.
Both they, and I, hope never to find out... ...and BTW, it's Ubuntu
No, WATCHING TV still requires no license, if you watch someone else's TV. A license is only required if you *OWN* a TV, unless you keep it in the box and never use it.
Don't you ever watch Monty Python reruns?
My vintage 2000 500MHz P-III, fully maxed out with 384MB of RAM ran Win98 for years, was later upgraded to Win98SE, then upgraded again to XP-Pro SP3, recently.
(I know, I know, you should ALWAYS install new and NEVER upgrade, but I have licensed software on it for which I no longer have install media or keys, and heck, it worked.)
Anyway it runs Firefox and Office 2003 just fine, if slowly.
When my kids misbehave, they have to use it instead of the regular machine to do their homework for an appropriate period of time.
When they REALLY misbehave, I disable MS Office (by changing the ACL on the install directory) and force them to run OpenOffice (with Java enabled) on it.
Works great. They RARELY misbehave anymore.
Nice idea, but it'll never happen. These kinds of projects are only ever successful when a government steps in and does them properly.
And given the government's track record with doing things properly, even THAT probably wouldn't work in the US.
Json has dethroned XML for pure data interchange
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Somehow I don't think so. "AJAJ" just doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
... as IT folks have been known to say.
"Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair"