Even with "only a few percent" buying keywods, the on-line ad market is already saturated. More businesses buying google ads isn't going to increase the ads effectiveness - quite the contrary, it dilutes the product. The ONLY benefactor is google.
Think of it in relation to another medium - TV - there are more ads now, in part because ads were split into segments as short as 15 seconds - so that allowed overall ad revenue to increase, while individual ads are now less effective.
Or compare it to junk mail - I now get so much that it ALL goes straight into the recycling bin (though I *do* keep the plastic bags they come in to use when walking my dogs).
Once any advertising medium carries more than a certain prcentage of ads, people resort to all sorts of tactics to become "ad-blind". With TV ad radio, it's channel-surfing. With junk mail, it's the recycling bin. With online ads, eye-tracking studies show people never even look at those parts of the page any more (and this doesn't count ad-block, etc).
You're not the only one who hates this "new un-improved" index.
We were talking about ways to improve slashdot, including these suggestions by Stargoat, which included "The user interface is too GUIed up. It needs simplification. Eliminate all the bouncy visual crap."
Maybe it's proof that excessive exposure to perl causes brain damage?
Ask her ONE buying decision she made because of a post from an internet marketer on facebook. Just ONE.
All this money being poured into "social media marketing", and it's become a vast echo chamber of companies doing it because they see other companies doing it, and figure "it must be working for them, we don't dare miss the train."
But that's all it is. A vast echo chamber, with everyone mimicking everyone else. If you want to do something original, you don't do it on facebook or twitter, where it will get lost in the torrential spew of useless posts.
Heck, I sat down with our social marketer yesterday and we discussed this issue. Of the ~100 posts from her friends, she could only remember ONE.
The short retention of the medium bodes ill for the long term. It's designed for the 5-second attention span - because reading even 100 posts at 15 seconds a piece is beyond the capability of most users, whose reading skills started deteriorating before they left school.
We marketers don't just throw stuff out there and hope it works. We test, test, and test again, and the stuff we keep doing is the stuff that brings in eyes / buys / signups for our clients.
I can buy both followers and signups for well under a nickel each.
Pay per click fraud is alive and well, and anyone who believes otherwise is a total idiot. Social networks have already passed their apogee in terms of effectiveness - like the Catholic church, it just takes time for the rot to become apparent to the average person.
Notepad++ is not Notepad. As they say on their site, it's 'free as in both "free speech" and "free beer"'
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad
replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is
governed by GPL License.
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API
and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many
routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon
dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption,
resulting in a greener environment.
This project is mature. However, there may be still some bugs and missing features that are being
worked on. If you have any questions or suggestions about this project, please post them in the forums. Also, if
you wish to make a feature request, you can post it there as well. But there's no guarantee that I'll
implement your request.
You're encouraged to translate Notepad++ into your native tongue if there's not already a translation
present in the Binary Translations page. And if you want, help translating Notepad++ official site into your
native tongue would be greatly appreciated.
I hope you enjoy Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.
You might want to re-think your arguments. To state...
it doesn't matter what caused the cancer
... and then to state...
The treatment depends on where the cancer is, what kind of cells are affected, and whether it has begun to noticeably spread.
... is contradictory - since it depends on the type of cancer, which depends on what caused it in the first place. See the following as just one example:
Example - prostate cancer - if you're beyond a certain age, it's simply not worth treating because it's usually ssssllloooowwww. That's the decision that former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau faced.
The causes of prostate cancer are far different from, say, skin cancer. Unless you're the goat guy, exposure to UV in the sun didn't cause your prostate cancer.
And Oracle can rename their backport of LibreOffice L'Orifice. I'll leave it to someone else to insert the ob. goatse. reference
And then LibreOffice can rename itself XMLOffice. Just to p*** off Microsoft with their Office Open XML format naming ploy.
And then Microsoft can pretend it likes open source (Balminator: "If it's Tuesday, open source is a cancer, if it's Wednesday, we like open source, the rest of the week they're lying thieves.")
And everyone suddenly discovers that they're sick of all the stupid fighting and would rather stick with 7-bit clean ASCII and downloads Notepad++ or vim.
Sure it does - because it takes time between acquiring the disease and being diagnosed.
Think about it, and it should be obvious...:-)
Sure, a lot of it was labeled "consumption" - but that was a catch-all phrase, same as today we say "cancer", when we could be dealing with cancers caused by cell mutation, by viruses, by chemical disruptors - all very different.
And yet even then there were plenty then who lived past 65 (half of those who made it to 30), and even now 50%, according to your own figures, get lung cancer well under the age of 70.
Of course, the total population has almost quadrupled as well - that means a much larger sample size to draw from.
Fortunately, we can't do a "live double-blind" test. What we *can* do is try to get people to stop, or at least reduce, the amount they smoke.
Synergy - the asbestos makes it harder for the lungs to cough up the fine tobacco particles, and those particles contain traces of actinides from a-bomb tests that will continue to filter down to the ground from the stratosphere to be absorbed by broad-leafed tobacco plants for another hundred years.
100 years ago, lung cancer was so rare that doctors would tell their students to take a good look, because they'd probably never see another case in their lifetime. People were smoking back then, but we didn't have both bomb residues and high levels of asbestos dust (asbestos brake shoes meant that pretty much everyone has bee exposed).
Now, instead of killing people with toxic fibers in the air, we clog up their arteries instead.
Seriously, there was one study done on asbestos exposure to miners, and it turned out that the miners who smoked were 900 TIMES more likely to get lung problems.
Doesn't work like that because Confluence has user-friendly rich text editing. MediaWiki does not. By default.
Mediawiki ships with a user-friendly rich text editor. You only need to change one line in the config file to enable it. I installed a copy last week to use internally at work, and when someone asked, I enabled it.
Throw it on a copy of MediaWiki - EVERYONE knows how to read a wiki, and it's 10 minutes to show them how to write to it.
Wikipedia is usually one of the first results for any search. Show them how good the wiki search is, how easy it is to create new pages, links, headings, lists, etc, and how quickly they can find anything through the search box.
... they should have renamed openoffice to xmloffice. It would have finessed Microsoft's "Office Open XML" confusion strategy, AND been Buzzword 2.0 compliant.
Read the patent - it has NOTHING to do with mouse roll-overs.
Besides, we've been doing menu highlighting since before dBASE. Anyone with a copy of telix or quickedit can show prior art well before this "invention".
And I don't know a single person who stuck with Crapuntu. What we *do* know, and Canonical confirmed this, is that returns of Ubuntu on Dell laptops were at least 4x higher than anticipated.
Slashdot Mirror
Think of it in relation to another medium - TV - there are more ads now, in part because ads were split into segments as short as 15 seconds - so that allowed overall ad revenue to increase, while individual ads are now less effective.
Or compare it to junk mail - I now get so much that it ALL goes straight into the recycling bin (though I *do* keep the plastic bags they come in to use when walking my dogs).
Once any advertising medium carries more than a certain prcentage of ads, people resort to all sorts of tactics to become "ad-blind". With TV ad radio, it's channel-surfing. With junk mail, it's the recycling bin. With online ads, eye-tracking studies show people never even look at those parts of the page any more (and this doesn't count ad-block, etc).
We were talking about ways to improve slashdot, including these suggestions by Stargoat, which included "The user interface is too GUIed up. It needs simplification. Eliminate all the bouncy visual crap."
Maybe it's proof that excessive exposure to perl causes brain damage?
-- Barbie
All this money being poured into "social media marketing", and it's become a vast echo chamber of companies doing it because they see other companies doing it, and figure "it must be working for them, we don't dare miss the train."
But that's all it is. A vast echo chamber, with everyone mimicking everyone else. If you want to do something original, you don't do it on facebook or twitter, where it will get lost in the torrential spew of useless posts.
Heck, I sat down with our social marketer yesterday and we discussed this issue. Of the ~100 posts from her friends, she could only remember ONE.
The short retention of the medium bodes ill for the long term. It's designed for the 5-second attention span - because reading even 100 posts at 15 seconds a piece is beyond the capability of most users, whose reading skills started deteriorating before they left school.
I can buy both followers and signups for well under a nickel each.
Pay per click fraud is alive and well, and anyone who believes otherwise is a total idiot. Social networks have already passed their apogee in terms of effectiveness - like the Catholic church, it just takes time for the rot to become apparent to the average person.
It remained active because nobody reads tweets. Just like nobody reads facebook.
All you "internet marketers", forget it - people's eyes glaze over after the 1,000th message - it doesn't even stay in short-term memory.
-- Barbie
Example - prostate cancer - if you're beyond a certain age, it's simply not worth treating because it's usually ssssllloooowwww. That's the decision that former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau faced.
The causes of prostate cancer are far different from, say, skin cancer. Unless you're the goat guy, exposure to UV in the sun didn't cause your prostate cancer.
So your attempt to justify the use of "gay" is rather ghey.
(though actually neither one is really all that acceptable, except when referring to Apple).
And then LibreOffice can rename itself XMLOffice. Just to p*** off Microsoft with their Office Open XML format naming ploy.
And then Microsoft can pretend it likes open source (Balminator: "If it's Tuesday, open source is a cancer, if it's Wednesday, we like open source, the rest of the week they're lying thieves.")
And everyone suddenly discovers that they're sick of all the stupid fighting and would rather stick with 7-bit clean ASCII and downloads Notepad++ or vim.
-- Barbie
Think about it, and it should be obvious ... :-)
Sure, a lot of it was labeled "consumption" - but that was a catch-all phrase, same as today we say "cancer", when we could be dealing with cancers caused by cell mutation, by viruses, by chemical disruptors - all very different.
Of course, the total population has almost quadrupled as well - that means a much larger sample size to draw from.
Fortunately, we can't do a "live double-blind" test. What we *can* do is try to get people to stop, or at least reduce, the amount they smoke.
The dose-response relationship wouldn't change much if it's non-linear..
100 years ago, lung cancer was so rare that doctors would tell their students to take a good look, because they'd probably never see another case in their lifetime. People were smoking back then, but we didn't have both bomb residues and high levels of asbestos dust (asbestos brake shoes meant that pretty much everyone has bee exposed).
Now, instead of killing people with toxic fibers in the air, we clog up their arteries instead.
Seriously, there was one study done on asbestos exposure to miners, and it turned out that the miners who smoked were 900 TIMES more likely to get lung problems.
Oh, right - silly me, ethics no longer has anything to do with business decisions.
-- Barbie
Wilson's Nails, etc.
-- Barbie
Mediawiki ships with a user-friendly rich text editor. You only need to change one line in the config file to enable it. I installed a copy last week to use internally at work, and when someone asked, I enabled it.
Wikipedia is usually one of the first results for any search. Show them how good the wiki search is, how easy it is to create new pages, links, headings, lists, etc, and how quickly they can find anything through the search box.
... they should have renamed openoffice to xmloffice. It would have finessed Microsoft's "Office Open XML" confusion strategy, AND been Buzzword 2.0 compliant.
Only someone who didn't know both languages would make such a stupid mistake. c and c++ are complementary languages.
The pre-processor is one of c and c++ strengths. It enables a type of workflow that languages w/o it could benefit from.
-- Barbie
Besides, we've been doing menu highlighting since before dBASE. Anyone with a copy of telix or quickedit can show prior art well before this "invention".
Too bad that the planet probably doesn't exist ...
R2D2, C3PO and the others would like a word with you, sir.
-- Barbie
The real question is - why is this unexpected? It's what I would have expected, and I'm not even deaf!
And I don't know a single person who stuck with Crapuntu. What we *do* know, and Canonical confirmed this, is that returns of Ubuntu on Dell laptops were at least 4x higher than anticipated.