Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
I thought, the imperal (dump the work english, cos we want rid of it!) was invented because putting 12 different peoples feet end to end, and taking the average was relatively similar accross the kingdom. It was designed in the days macro sized measurement, and is rather unsuitable for micro measurement, smallest unit an inch???
Imperial is designed for fractions, adding lots of fractions can give very exact answers over decimal, but also can be very hard to do.
My grandfather could add 3 columns of pounds shillings and pence. I kind of noticed the dollar was rather base 10.
Metric was designed for a mathematical purpose, and it the perfect tool for the job, imperical was not. As to which base you use, really! They picked base 10 because people were used to base ten. The base picked is rather a non argument, because people generally do imperical in base 10 too, except my grandfather of course! Imperial is even worse because it does not have a standard base!
And the units are the same accross the world, as they had to be developed.
There of course there is the problem of 1 billion being a million million, however amercia who don't use the system, call it 1000 million.... Strange but true, and we had to change.
I wondered what the world would have been like if solaris had been free. However during the time that it mattered (5 years ago). It was not, and linux was, and you can't change what has happened.
Solaris comparied to linux (Use both), feels more finished, working with linux is more like trying to hit a moving target.
Solaris hardware support is terrible, and is going to get worse as Sun is interested in the high end market.
As to stating that solaris does everthing linux does. Correct and also wrong. Who here uses ip masq? You have to buy solstice firewall for that one! How about software raid or striping? Soltice metadisk. Join two partition together to make one big one over 2 disks really is core functionality these days!
In my oppion solaris might implement the core OS functionality better and APIs are more stable, however linux offers far more added value software (for free), and driver support is on a different level entirely.
Linux is also open source, so if you don't like something you can change it, and if your way is better it will probably be adopted... I don;t think sun is about to do that.
Not as many are you would think, I read in the new scienist that 47 monkeys are more genetically diverse than the entire human population!
As to how to bring back an extinct species and a compatible one, if you have the sperm you can bring them back, by fertalising a generically compatible special, (like mammoth and elephant) get a female one, and do the same again and again. Within 4 generations you get within 93.625% of the orginal. 50+25+12.5+6.125, actually thats the minimum as the species was genetically compatible in the first place, it will share many traits.
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Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
James
Personnal I believe it is wrong to change the image in that way. An advertiser pays money to have their advert in a location, particularly in sports stadiums, and they pay an high price based on the fact that their sign will be shown in media broadcasts. This basically allows the media company to resell slots that are rightly that of the stadiums. Also if a advertiser lost out to a competitor, the could get a media company to replace the add. Coke and Pepsi spring to mind.
The problem is not knowing if it will or will not happen. If Advertisers knew it would happen, they would not pay so much for stadium adds, and the stadium would probably charge more for coverage, which seems fair.
I have noticed for a while my cable TV company replaces some of the add breaks between shows with there own. I have oftain wondered if the advertiser knew they would lose coverage... or if the station knew....
It could however be claimed it was a good thing... as media companies can localise the ads for say the super bowl to each state it was broadcast in. However advertisers buy slots knowing that they will get national/international coverage.
Probably this is a thing that requires some regulation, as it seems at the moment its buyer beware!
James
Personnally I went for the drink line, because there are alot of them... pretty lame.... BUT
You can type the drinks, so the big unix boxes where spirts, and smaller ones beers.
I used lagers for Xterms cos there are a bit week.
Leaving achopops for the NT servers.
Softdrinks for PCs. (diet ones laptops)
My box is absinth.
I thought, the imperal (dump the work english, cos we want rid of it!) was invented because putting 12 different peoples feet end to end, and taking the average was relatively similar accross the kingdom. It was designed in the days macro sized measurement, and is rather unsuitable for micro measurement, smallest unit an inch???
Imperial is designed for fractions, adding lots of fractions can give very exact answers over decimal, but also can be very hard to do.
My grandfather could add 3 columns of pounds shillings and pence. I kind of noticed the dollar was rather base 10.
Metric was designed for a mathematical purpose, and it the perfect tool for the job, imperical was not. As to which base you use, really! They picked base 10 because people were used to base ten. The base picked is rather a non argument, because people generally do imperical in base 10 too, except my grandfather of course! Imperial is even worse because it does not have a standard base!
And the units are the same accross the world, as they had to be developed.
There of course there is the problem of 1 billion being a million million, however amercia who don't use the system, call it 1000 million.... Strange but true, and we had to change.
I wondered what the world would have been like if solaris had been free. However during the time that it mattered (5 years ago). It was not, and linux was, and you can't change what has happened.
Solaris comparied to linux (Use both), feels more finished, working with linux is more like trying to hit a moving target.
Solaris hardware support is terrible, and is going to get worse as Sun is interested in the high end market.
As to stating that solaris does everthing linux does. Correct and also wrong. Who here uses ip masq? You have to buy solstice firewall for that one! How about software raid or striping? Soltice metadisk. Join two partition together to make one big one over 2 disks really is core functionality these days!
In my oppion solaris might implement the core OS functionality better and APIs are more stable, however linux offers far more added value software (for free), and driver support is on a different level entirely.
Linux is also open source, so if you don't like something you can change it, and if your way is better it will probably be adopted... I don;t think sun is about to do that.
Not as many are you would think, I read in the new scienist that 47 monkeys are more genetically diverse than the entire human population!
As to how to bring back an extinct species and a compatible one, if you have the sperm you can bring them back, by fertalising a generically compatible special, (like mammoth and elephant) get a female one, and do the same again and again. Within 4 generations you get within 93.625% of the orginal. 50+25+12.5+6.125, actually thats the minimum as the species was genetically compatible in the first place, it will share many traits.