The problem with your logic is, that if we stopped, it would work again. And if we wouldn’t stop, nobody would have Internet. Not us, and not the Chinese people.
I think a botnet, DOSing them, makes more sense, and is already done.
You don’t need censorship. Your social engineers — which you call “mainstream media” — are much better. You don’t have as much censorship, but your perceived reality is just as twisted. (Oh, and bleeping out some of your words definitely is censorship. And shows how well the mind-twisting works.)
We here in Germany aren’t a bit better by the way. I think the population is even more gullible since they still think that the mainstream media is really trustworthy.
It’s as art, to twist the minds in a way that makes opposing statements look like confirmation of your own statements. And if you approach it like science, you can become really good at it.
Mass social engineering is the censorship of the 21st century. It’s the art of creating botnets made of human minds.
But without making false dichotomies and suggesting fights till death, how are they going to pull bullshit “stories” out of their asses?
Besides: PNG is vastly superior to GIF. Theora isn’t superior to H.264. Not even close. That’s the problem here. But I would (have to) use it on a website where there would be a danger of getting sued...
Actually that’s close to the perfect temperature for a steak or roast. The meat will be godlike. But it will take hours. A great steak after a good fight... that would be something I could get used to. Caveman hunter style!:D
Are you trying to say that the WSJ is something good, and hence he can”t be that bad? I’m sorry but that doesn’t work, since the WSJ in now included for the very reason of fitting the rest of his portfolio perfectly, in terms of crappiness. ^^
See it like this: On a “free” site, they only get money for a click on an advertisement. Not for showing it. And CPT (Cost per Thousand) lies perhaps at about $50. But a click rate of 0.1% is considered exceptionally high! So at at more normal rate of 0.03%, $50 equals about 3,333,333 page views. Or about $0.00,00,15 per ad view!
From there you should be able to get a feeling for how little they need, to be more profitable than before. Those £3 should be good for about 300,000 ad views, or at 3 ads per page, about 100,000. With a guaranteed click rate of 0.03%. Nobody will do that many page views in a single week. not even a hundredth.
Of course these are very inexact calculations, but retaining above only about 1% of their users should make them more money than now.
I guess the reason they leave us with no choice but to pay, is that with adblock, nobody sees any ads anymore anyway. Much less clicks them. But the money for the staff must come from somewhere...
Well, I have general terms and conditions of private communication and ramblings for companies, their speakers and the like. I charge about $1000 a minute. My invoice is going out right now. With a warning of possible court action. ^^
WTF? Someone should tell them that the BBC is perhaps the greatest government-owned TV/radio station on the planet! Seriously, I’m from Germany, and have seen many different ones. Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, USA, etc. And BBC... Top Gear. Dr. Who, the science shows, the news, the openness to different modern styles of music, that nobody here has ever heard of... And the want to scale it down? They could sell all their shows and stuff to half the world, and scale things UP massively, while still making profits. If our service here were that good, I’d happily pay for it. Instead most Germans boycott the government’s “you have to pay for our crappy shows, even if you don’t watch them, as long as you own a TV.”
Seriously, here they apply the same principle as putting a sausage stand in front of a building, and suing anyone passing by because he could have bought one. (MAFIAA logic) Because without that, nobody would pay for their crap.
Please BBC, take over our national TV and radio stations! We’ll give you loads of money for it!
Well, there is one near it at the center of the mainboard, one in the phone on the desk, one in the amplified next to it, one in my pocket which still can count. But all others are further away. ^^ But I don’t know if I should divide that by the number of cores in that CPU.;)
Only if you interpret things in the same completely wrong and retarded way as those idiots.
But I bet you also took the units of information from your TV host, and now talk in “libraries of congress” and clogging tubes, while referring to a lone display as “the computer”, because you got no fucking spine to stand by what you know (because you are the expert) is right, right?
What benefits? Diseases over diseases, toxics, trash, destruction of the very environment we need to live, loss of freedom, lack of free thought, loss of happiness, everyone being a hamster in a wheel, running behind the money god for not fucking reason whatsoever? Those benefits? What’s the point of all the goods you buy, when you are less happy and less healthy than a jungle tribe guy??
Go watch Fight Club to come down to the basics again. You are not the car that you drive and you don’t need all the shit you buy. Go find some(one who) love(s you), and something to (do that you) love, and you’re better off.
I’s not about being flexible. It’s about not being retarded. We are the experts on the subject. We know better. Period. So for someone to tell us how our computer should work, it must be someone who is even more of an expert. A standards committee is not someone like that.
The simple fact is, that all computers nowadays are base 2. So for the numbers to be useful, they must also be base two. Half your ram, hard disk, cache, display resolution, data rate, etc, will always be a nice round number in base 2, 8 or 16, and a very hard to remember number in base 10.
I think anyone who uses a computer (as in, uses it for what it is there: to automate things), will continue to use base-2-based number systems. And base 10 will be for the appliance fiddlers who only play with colorful clickables, and should in fact not called users at all.
Oh, and “but what can one person do?” is not an excuse but the cause of its own problem, because it’s circular reasoning. Others wouldn’t be the only ones, if someone started it. Someone — as in you (or in my case me). Not as in “Anyone but me, so I can continue to use it as an excuse, just like everybody else.”
(Yep, I’m working hard on changing what I can in this world, so what I think is better for us all, has a bigger chance of coming true.)
And it’s your fault. They are your employees! Fire them, or shut the fuck up! If you don’t stand by your rules, but put up with shit, obviously others will walk all over you. (If voting isn’t effective anymore, there are other ways.)
Simple solution: You set the stakes higher, until you can process them, and thereby become more exclusive. Let them do the work, if they want a certification. In way that makes it very easy and quick for you to verify it. (But don’t use money as a blocker, as that harms small companies who are great but can’t afford it yet.)
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The problem with your logic is, that if we stopped, it would work again.
And if we wouldn’t stop, nobody would have Internet. Not us, and not the Chinese people.
I think a botnet, DOSing them, makes more sense, and is already done.
Chilean official: "Whoops..." (with big grin on face).
There, fixed that for ya.
What dialogs? Real men don’t need no stinkin” GUIs!
Yes, I’m posting this, by holding an acoustic coupler like a telephone and whistling. Now get off my line!
Or you could have simply installed another PDF reader!
Did you buy an iPhone and jail-broke it, by any chance? ;)
You don’t need censorship. Your social engineers — which you call “mainstream media” — are much better. You don’t have as much censorship, but your perceived reality is just as twisted. (Oh, and bleeping out some of your words definitely is censorship. And shows how well the mind-twisting works.)
We here in Germany aren’t a bit better by the way. I think the population is even more gullible since they still think that the mainstream media is really trustworthy.
It’s as art, to twist the minds in a way that makes opposing statements look like confirmation of your own statements. And if you approach it like science, you can become really good at it.
Mass social engineering is the censorship of the 21st century. It’s the art of creating botnets made of human minds.
But without making false dichotomies and suggesting fights till death, how are they going to pull bullshit “stories” out of their asses?
Besides: PNG is vastly superior to GIF. Theora isn’t superior to H.264. Not even close. That’s the problem here.
But I would (have to) use it on a website where there would be a danger of getting sued...
Well, at least this comment has been posted before.
Dude, you’re only piling it up. Like with trolling: If you react to it, you only make it worse.
And because I’m not better, I’m now gonna end it, by stating that: yes, yes, I’m also not making it better. ^^ :)
Oh wait... now I am!
Unless you “deduplicate” the CPU work, that’s not going to happen. ^^
I prefer using a spoon.
Why?
BECAUSE IT HURTS MORE! :D
P.S: On a related note: The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
Actually that’s close to the perfect temperature for a steak or roast. The meat will be godlike. But it will take hours. :D
A great steak after a good fight... that would be something I could get used to. Caveman hunter style!
Well you sissies... Let me throw a full-scale realtime global illumination renderer at that thing, and see how well it fares THEN! ^^
Are you trying to say that the WSJ is something good, and hence he can”t be that bad?
I’m sorry but that doesn’t work, since the WSJ in now included for the very reason of fitting the rest of his portfolio perfectly, in terms of crappiness. ^^
Next: Step two: Extend.
Well, depends on what they charge.
See it like this: On a “free” site, they only get money for a click on an advertisement. Not for showing it. And CPT (Cost per Thousand) lies perhaps at about $50. But a click rate of 0.1% is considered exceptionally high! So at at more normal rate of 0.03%, $50 equals about 3,333,333 page views. Or about $0.00,00,15 per ad view!
From there you should be able to get a feeling for how little they need, to be more profitable than before. Those £3 should be good for about 300,000 ad views, or at 3 ads per page, about 100,000. With a guaranteed click rate of 0.03%.
Nobody will do that many page views in a single week. not even a hundredth.
Of course these are very inexact calculations, but retaining above only about 1% of their users should make them more money than now.
I guess the reason they leave us with no choice but to pay, is that with adblock, nobody sees any ads anymore anyway. Much less clicks them. But the money for the staff must come from somewhere...
Well, I have general terms and conditions of private communication and ramblings for companies, their speakers and the like. I charge about $1000 a minute. My invoice is going out right now. With a warning of possible court action. ^^
WTF? Someone should tell them that the BBC is perhaps the greatest government-owned TV/radio station on the planet!
Seriously, I’m from Germany, and have seen many different ones. Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, USA, etc.
And BBC... Top Gear. Dr. Who, the science shows, the news, the openness to different modern styles of music, that nobody here has ever heard of... And the want to scale it down?
They could sell all their shows and stuff to half the world, and scale things UP massively, while still making profits.
If our service here were that good, I’d happily pay for it. Instead most Germans boycott the government’s “you have to pay for our crappy shows, even if you don’t watch them, as long as you own a TV.”
Seriously, here they apply the same principle as putting a sausage stand in front of a building, and suing anyone passing by because he could have bought one. (MAFIAA logic) Because without that, nobody would pay for their crap.
Please BBC, take over our national TV and radio stations! We’ll give you loads of money for it!
We should tell Berlusconi about this. ^^
Everyone, just write a small letter/e-mail about it to him, ok?
Well, there is one near it at the center of the mainboard, one in the phone on the desk, one in the amplified next to it, one in my pocket which still can count. But all others are further away. ^^ ;)
But I don’t know if I should divide that by the number of cores in that CPU.
Only if you interpret things in the same completely wrong and retarded way as those idiots.
But I bet you also took the units of information from your TV host, and now talk in “libraries of congress” and clogging tubes, while referring to a lone display as “the computer”, because you got no fucking spine to stand by what you know (because you are the expert) is right, right?
What benefits? Diseases over diseases, toxics, trash, destruction of the very environment we need to live, loss of freedom, lack of free thought, loss of happiness, everyone being a hamster in a wheel, running behind the money god for not fucking reason whatsoever? Those benefits? What’s the point of all the goods you buy, when you are less happy and less healthy than a jungle tribe guy??
Go watch Fight Club to come down to the basics again. You are not the car that you drive and you don’t need all the shit you buy. Go find some(one who) love(s you), and something to (do that you) love, and you’re better off.
I’s not about being flexible. It’s about not being retarded.
We are the experts on the subject. We know better. Period.
So for someone to tell us how our computer should work, it must be someone who is even more of an expert.
A standards committee is not someone like that.
The simple fact is, that all computers nowadays are base 2. So for the numbers to be useful, they must also be base two. Half your ram, hard disk, cache, display resolution, data rate, etc, will always be a nice round number in base 2, 8 or 16, and a very hard to remember number in base 10.
I think anyone who uses a computer (as in, uses it for what it is there: to automate things), will continue to use base-2-based number systems. And base 10 will be for the appliance fiddlers who only play with colorful clickables, and should in fact not called users at all.
But I want a dirty coal lawn mower penis implant / knife-wrench! I like hot and steamy and dirty! ;)
Oh, and “but what can one person do?” is not an excuse but the cause of its own problem, because it’s circular reasoning. Others wouldn’t be the only ones, if someone started it. Someone — as in you (or in my case me). Not as in “Anyone but me, so I can continue to use it as an excuse, just like everybody else.”
(Yep, I’m working hard on changing what I can in this world, so what I think is better for us all, has a bigger chance of coming true.)
And it’s your fault. They are your employees! Fire them, or shut the fuck up!
If you don’t stand by your rules, but put up with shit, obviously others will walk all over you.
(If voting isn’t effective anymore, there are other ways.)
Simple solution: You set the stakes higher, until you can process them, and thereby become more exclusive. Let them do the work, if they want a certification. In way that makes it very easy and quick for you to verify it. (But don’t use money as a blocker, as that harms small companies who are great but can’t afford it yet.)