OK, you're all talking about the movie instead of staplers. Right behind me is the reference desk. On it are arrayed a grand total of four staplers. There are three black ones and one cream one. There used to be one or two burgundy ones (who says red staplers don't sell. I'd imagine burgundy ones are fairly common.) but they must have circulated on to someone's desk.
The reason we have four staplers is one of them is always broken. The worst part is that students using the things try to fix them. "No!" I always say. "Just use another one." In my mind's eye, I see a student with bloody fingers from trying to manually extract a jammed staple. Even worse is a student employee trying to fix a broken stapler.
There is a good fool proof and very annoying (to the right people) way to fix a jammed stapler. Take it, open it as if you're going to staple notices to a corkboard. Then fling it hard against the bottom of a bookshelf or a wall. Watch heads in the work room behind the desk turn. Watch students go yikes.
Then pick up the stapler and use it. Chances are very very good it works. The toss and impact dislodge the jammed staple and gets the other staples into line, and nobody risks bloody fingers.
OK, and for being so sweet and patient and putting up with my post, you are all invited for a virtual tour of my office.
Yes, and if the ads get bad enough, the provider can always charge a small fee to get rid of them. This fee ranges enormously, and I have paid it at times. I paid $96 to server.com to get ads pulled off a board for one year. This was a gouge but I did not know it at the time.
A more reasonable fee is $12/year at Crosswinds, $5/year at Geocities, $5/year Alxbook etc.... There are ads on ZOID's ballot (Flashbase You can't get one because they are not taking on new customers) because Flashbase charges $300/year to get rid of them.
At what point are the ads bad enough that folks will pay to get rid of them? When does cheap become better than free?
This is a bit like the joke about the man confronting the "lady" in the street and asking her if she'll sleep with him for $100, and then $50, and then $5 etc.... She finally says "What kind of a girl do you think I am?" The man answers: "We've alreaady established that. Now we're just discussing the price."
If "free space," "free email," and "free remotely-hosted cgi" disappear due to the collapse of banner advertising, who is going to be hurt?
Face it if you have to pay for something, you have to be serious about it. I am. I rented 500mb of web space for $99 a year and am moving a Crosswinds site out of pop-up land. I pay for my ISP because I know paying customers get better treatment. My cheapskate mother whom I love dearly has two free ISP's and has discovered she can't get on what is a very robust backbone in Westchester County in the evenings because there are too many users for the space.
We enthusiasts will pay, build, and shop around to keep what we have. It's people like my mother whom the loss of free services will hurt. It's also the fifteen year old kid who does not have a credit card or checking account but who wants a web page. She can't rent space. Yes there are money orders but the best deals on space rent yearly. It will hurt the SAHM who wants to put up a page about her husband, kids, and pets as well as a memorial to her own mother. Her voice is as legitimate as ours but she needs free space. And what of the grandmother or the woman suffering from some chronic disease.
These are not the people to whom the media gives an authentic voice. The free internet has been the place they have been heard. The free internet has given these people a voice and with its loss, their voices will be lost too.
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OK, you're all talking about the movie instead of staplers. Right behind me is the reference desk.
On it are arrayed a grand total of four staplers.
There are three black ones and one cream one.
There used to be one or two burgundy ones (who says red staplers don't sell. I'd imagine burgundy ones are fairly common.) but they must have
circulated on to someone's desk.
The reason we have four staplers is one of them is always broken. The worst part is that students using the things try to fix them. "No!" I always
say. "Just use another one." In my mind's eye,
I see a student with bloody fingers from trying to manually extract a jammed staple. Even worse is
a student employee trying to fix a broken stapler.
There is a good fool proof and very annoying (to the right people) way to fix a jammed stapler. Take it, open it as if you're going to staple
notices to a corkboard. Then fling it hard against the bottom of a bookshelf or a wall. Watch heads
in the work room behind the desk turn. Watch
students go yikes.
Then pick up the stapler and use it. Chances
are very very good it works. The toss and impact
dislodge the jammed staple and gets the other
staples into line, and nobody risks bloody
fingers.
OK, and for being so sweet and patient and putting up with my post, you are all invited for a virtual tour of my office.
http://nakedmolerat.org.uk/office/
Yes, and if the ads get bad enough, the provider can always charge a small fee to get rid of them. This fee ranges enormously, and I have paid it at times. I paid $96 to server.com to get ads pulled off a board for one year. This was a gouge but I did not know it at the time.
A more reasonable fee is $12/year at Crosswinds, $5/year at Geocities, $5/year Alxbook etc.... There are ads on ZOID's ballot (Flashbase You can't get one because they are not taking on new customers) because Flashbase charges $300/year to get rid of them.
At what point are the ads bad enough that folks will pay to get rid of them? When does cheap become better than free?
This is a bit like the joke about the man confronting the "lady" in the street and asking her if she'll sleep with him for $100, and then $50, and then $5 etc.... She finally says "What kind of a girl do you think I am?" The man answers: "We've alreaady established that. Now we're just discussing the price."
If "free space," "free email," and "free remotely-hosted cgi" disappear due to the collapse of banner advertising, who is going to be hurt?
Face it if you have to pay for something, you have to be serious about it. I am. I rented 500mb of web space for $99 a year and am moving a Crosswinds site out of pop-up land. I pay for my ISP because I know paying customers get better treatment. My cheapskate mother whom I love dearly has two free ISP's and has discovered she can't get on what is a very robust backbone in Westchester County in the evenings because there are too many users for the space.
We enthusiasts will pay, build, and shop around to keep what we have. It's people like my mother whom the loss of free services will hurt. It's also the fifteen year old kid who does not have a credit card or checking account but who wants a web page. She can't rent space. Yes there are money orders but the best deals on space rent yearly. It will hurt the SAHM who wants to put up a page about her husband, kids, and pets as well as a memorial to her own mother. Her voice is as legitimate as ours but she needs free space. And what of the grandmother or the woman suffering from some chronic disease.
These are not the people to whom the media gives an authentic voice. The free internet has been the place they have been heard. The free internet has given these people a voice and with its loss, their voices will be lost too.