"I'd find it impressive if someone came up with a way of making a vacuum tube with hardly any equipment or skill, some combination of glass, wire, and glue that doesn't require glass blowing or shaping."
Don't you remember that episode of McGyver, where he builds a vacuum tube cellphone jammer out of an old oatmeal carton, a match, and some barbed wire, and disables the remote controlled bomb 2 seconds before it was supposed to detonate?
Me either, but damn, that would have been a good show.
Clearly you have me confused with someone else, or have no understanding of what I'm talking about.
Providing feedback ratings (positive or negative) on untargeted ads is *HOW* advertisers learn to properly target them.
As to being anal about privacy, well, there is certainly nothing wrong with that. The reason people erase cookies and clear usage history is because all too often, advertisers use them to do far more than simply get a hint of what you're interested in, they use them to track your every move.
There's no reason that your privacy can't be preserved on a set to box, while simultaneously providing advertisers the information they are after. They don't need to know anything more than USER #23324432894 like to watch shows about Motorcycle racing, football, anything on the Science Channel and hates commercials about feeling fresh.
It's when your set top box user ID becomes associated with who you are specifically that people get pissed off.
"actually i would love a DVR that would tell the advertisers everytime i fast forward through their commericials. Maybe they would get the hint that they don't offer anything worth while."
Exactly. I Tivo most programs (ugh, there I go verbing again), and seldom watch any commercials, but mostly because they are crap. If there was a way to Thumbs down every feminine hygiene, Burger King, and other junk I'm not interested in, and Thumbs up things I like, pretty soon they'd have an idea of what I like. Then they could insert targeted ads into the commercial break (which could now be shorter since the dollar value per minutes would be higher since it is target specific). Then I'd only see what I'm really interested in, and I might actually watch a commercial or 2. Hell, if they really want to capitalize on this, why not let me push a button and get MORE information on the product (a detailed video clip) or have them send me dead trees if I prefer.
Certain obsolete software may face compatibility problems due to the change, but those issues are addressed in an ICANN report Wouldn't that be handled better with an ICANT report?
Wanna "make friends" at a place like Best Buy or Circuit City? Wait till you see Grandma about to buy one of those cables and is being pounced on by the salesguy -- then tell her about the twenty other options for getting that cable for next to nothing. So that's what nerds have been reduced to.... picking up old ladys at Best Buy with promises of cheap USB cables. *shudder*
DVORAK: Now wait a minute, for the numbers.. See people.... Give John a break. He's clearly being intentionally obtuse to get you all riled up, thus causing a huge response and big "numbers", which leads to bigger advertising revenue, all of which he intends to donate to charity to feed the poor.
"Had to think of a way to keep the C64 running for a long session of Telengard (loaded from a cassette drive.)"
For me, heat wasn't an issue. It was the godawful long load time from cassette. Once I got the 1541 drive, I transferred the game to disk, and rewrote the code (which was BASIC) so it would load/save your character to the floppy instead of cassette.
More to the point, why in the world would this file even be included on Windows Server 2003? Not all business prohibit games, but I doubt there are any sysadmins playing games on their server machines.
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I though Dvorak was the only kook at PC Mag, but after reading TFA, I'm starting to think there might be something in the water.
is we're all a bunch of stealing illegal file downloading copyright infringing pirates.
Just ask the MPAA.
Guess the payments have been brought up to date.
"The mods seem to disagree with you; rather than flamebait, it's simply overrated"
That's because we don't have an Oh brother *rolls eyes* mod yet.
"I'd find it impressive if someone came up with a way of making a vacuum tube with hardly any equipment or skill, some combination of glass, wire, and glue that doesn't require glass blowing or shaping."
Don't you remember that episode of McGyver, where he builds a vacuum tube cellphone jammer out of an old oatmeal carton, a match, and some barbed wire, and disables the remote controlled bomb 2 seconds before it was supposed to detonate?
Me either, but damn, that would have been a good show.
Clearly you have me confused with someone else, or have no understanding of what I'm talking about.
Providing feedback ratings (positive or negative) on untargeted ads is *HOW* advertisers learn to properly target them.
As to being anal about privacy, well, there is certainly nothing wrong with that. The reason people erase cookies and clear usage history is because all too often, advertisers use them to do far more
than simply get a hint of what you're interested in, they use them to track your every move.
There's no reason that your privacy can't be preserved on a set to box, while simultaneously providing advertisers the information they are after. They don't need to know anything more than
USER #23324432894 like to watch shows about Motorcycle racing, football, anything on the Science Channel and hates commercials about feeling fresh.
It's when your set top box user ID becomes associated with who you are specifically that people get pissed off.
"actually i would love a DVR that would tell the advertisers everytime i fast forward through their commericials. Maybe they would get the hint that they don't offer anything worth while."
Exactly. I Tivo most programs (ugh, there I go verbing again), and seldom watch any commercials, but mostly because they are crap.
If there was a way to Thumbs down every feminine hygiene, Burger King, and other junk I'm not interested in, and Thumbs up things I like,
pretty soon they'd have an idea of what I like. Then they could insert targeted ads into the commercial break (which could now be shorter
since the dollar value per minutes would be higher since it is target specific). Then I'd only see what I'm really interested in,
and I might actually watch a commercial or 2. Hell, if they really want to capitalize on this, why not let me push a button and get
MORE information on the product (a detailed video clip) or have them send me dead trees if I prefer.
"but even you guys have to think about how your parents are going to watch TV while you're gone. :-D"
I have my *own* TV in the basement, thank you very much!
Agreed. If anything, lack of Sony's participation sounds like an upside to me.
Also sad but true.
Oh crap...
Nope. Wife owns you.
Not like the name "gamecock" is going to be hard to remember.
Fixed it for you.
DVORAK: Now wait a minute, for the numbers.. See people.... Give John a break. He's clearly being intentionally obtuse to get you all riled up,
thus causing a huge response and big "numbers", which leads to bigger advertising revenue,
all of which he intends to donate to charity to feed the poor.
And you all though he was just an arse.
"Had to think of a way to keep the C64 running for a long session of Telengard (loaded from a cassette drive.)"
For me, heat wasn't an issue. It was the godawful long load time from cassette.
Once I got the 1541 drive, I transferred the game to disk, and rewrote the code (which was BASIC) so it would load/save your character to the floppy instead of cassette.
Bloomberg TV did a pretty informative story on it as well.
The popular website known as "Slashdot" is riddled with questionable legal advice.
Though it *is* the best place to find a poorly constructed car analogy.
"But then rationality returns to me and I wish that the parents of those tards in Congress hadn't had children"
I tend to agree, but keep in mind there is no shortage of morons to replace them.
Must be running their servers off that "insufficient battery technology"
"I never found Apple's DRM onerous, obtrusive, or objectionable (nice alliteration, eh?)"
Unless you are one of the millions of people that have a non-Apple MP3 player.
More to the point, why in the world would this file even be included on Windows Server 2003?
Not all business prohibit games, but I doubt there are any sysadmins playing games on their server machines.
Corrected link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_Dots
"Hopefully they'll reformulate them"
Surely they will. No doubt with something much safer... lead perhaps.
"Now that probably dates me."
Maybe, but a "GET OFF MY LAWN" would make it a little clearer
(I owned a 2600 as a kid, so GET OFF MY LAWN as well)