There are very, very few products that work with a global audience. Everything is regional. Snow tires don't sell in Florida or Tokyo. 'Swamp coolers' don't sell in Maine or Madrid. The exact same TV is sold by different brands in Sao Paulo vice San Antonio.
Brand recognition concepts like "Intel Inside" or McDonalds might work, but only for brand recognition. Even among massively global companies (Proctor & Gamble, Ford, Visa), the exact same product is marketed differently in different countries/regions. An ad that might work well in Peoria would be too tame for Paris.
Targeted marketing is the way these guys work. They have spent decades honing and refining this process. And these guys are the 'consumers' who fund the TV. We are merely the product.
TV has production costs. No way around that. Someone has to pay that. Either the advertisers do, or we do. And I'm not sure there's enough of'us' that would pay on a per show basis to make it work.
Here's a concept that might work, though. Would you pay an extra $1/$5/$10/$20/$50 on your cable/internet bill to be able to download some premium content? I might. NASCAR currently has a whole premium Java based multimedia thing. Trackpass. In-car audio between the driver and crewchief, position updating in realtime, etc. If you're really into NASCAR, you might pay for it. But if you have TimeWarner in Cincinnati (and I assume elsewhere), it's included as part of your cable internet. That concept might work for other types of computer based video/TV.
As opposed to the value that they would have if I were to legally record the show to VCR and fast-forward the ads?
The percentage of people that do that (along with the number of people that make a sandwich or go to the bathroom) is factored into their 'numbers of eyeballs' calculations. The advertisers, networks, and media survey people have surveys and stats on this going back decades.
Bitrate, sure. But is it cut off a few seconds before the end? Is it a 'rip' from an LP (scratchpopfizzle) rather than a straight CD rip? Is there some glitch in the middle of the file?
Getting something from iTunes is easier and far more reliable than some unknown quality track on a P2P service, yet I've heard many, many people say 'why pay a dollar a track if I can get it for free?'
Internet video runs into problems of too many competing formats and file size. For movies and TV, only now is the required bandwidth becoming widespread. Apple appears ready to get into video distribution. And cable companies have been doing pay per view movies and VOD for some time now.
The affected industries have to get their acts together and turn things back around to how they should be.
How they think it should be and how we think it should be are probably not be the same thing.
Neither, I assume, does the guy's mother. It's interesting that the MPAA and co. only stopped screaming about how morally wrong the concept of home recording was when it became clear that it was a major cash cow.
Taping audio/video and passing it among your friends has been going on for decades. Also, that couldn't expand very far due to generational losses. Technically copyright infringement, but way under their radar.
The difference now is your circle of friends has expanded to include everyone online (potentially millions), and the copies they receive are identical to the original, and can be distributed again and again.
Eventually they will come to terms with this, but the landscape is changing too fast for them to keep up.
One of the main problems is people have come to expect free downloading of music and video. Why should I pay when I can get it from eDonkey or BitTorrent for free? In the music realm, iTunes has made some inroads into legal, pay downloads. But free still trumps $1 per track for a lot of people.
If you're going to have a Win2003 course, it might make sense to have a few Win2003 boxes around in the lab. Same as if you're going to teach RH 9 vs RH 7 or 8. I fail to see how either of these situations promotes a 'required update' or a loss of control of your update schedule.
And "How much does it cost?" means something far different if a FOSS alternative does not exist. Who is writing all the various applications that a school dept needs? See any on SourceForge?
To make a long story short, your computer lab, just to stay compatable with Microsoft will cost $100,000 more than switching to FOSS. Repeat this process every three years to maintain the upgrade cycle and you will see the true cost of your computer lab staying proprietary.
Only if you upgrade all the time. Many, many organizations are still on Office97. A suite getting on almost 10 years old. No real need to switch. And the FOSS world is almost as bad on older hardware/new applications. The most recent KDE/OpenOffice really chokes on an old PII300 laptop just as bad as WinXP and a recent MSOffice. It runs, but very badly.
Was anyone actually 'visited'? No. Did the authorities investigate? Anecdotal evidence (from Fark) says yeah, maybe they did. Evidently, they also found nothing of interest. I'm not saying 'no harm no foul', but let's not blow things up out of context. I find it a little troubling as well, but let's be honest. There was no knock on the door.
If your monitored discussion includes: explosives, How to introduce them onto an aircraft and airport security, how to defeat or airport job, how to obtain and Semtex, where to obtain and language = [keyword] or location = [keyword]
Personally, I can't see how any property crime could even be stretched to fit the definition of terrorism
It's the message and intent involved.
"The government building explosion downtown last night was a warning. If the current government does not change it's policies regarding X, we will destroy one public or corporate building each day, until these policies are changed. As we do not want to needlessly kill our fellow citizens (recruits), we will give 5 minutes warning to the target of the day."
Much different than a high school vandal breaking out a few windows. Even if he does it with a stick of dynamite.
The same thing might easily happen in England. Threats agasint the Queesn are equally prohibited.
Disliking the president is one thing. Hoping for his literal death is something else altogether.
How long would such a person last in Saddam's Iraq, or KJI's North Korea? A 'request' to Fark for their email address? No. A threat to 'our beloved leader' would end up quite a bit nastier than that.
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I wonder how high one would get?
All the way to the crash site.
This is still very, very new. They're not caught up yet, and still would be chasing a fast-moving target.
Brand recognition concepts like "Intel Inside" or McDonalds might work, but only for brand recognition. Even among massively global companies (Proctor & Gamble, Ford, Visa), the exact same product is marketed differently in different countries/regions. An ad that might work well in Peoria would be too tame for Paris.
Targeted marketing is the way these guys work. They have spent decades honing and refining this process. And these guys are the 'consumers' who fund the TV. We are merely the product.
TV has production costs. No way around that. Someone has to pay that.
Either the advertisers do, or we do. And I'm not sure there's enough of'us' that would pay on a per show basis to make it work.
Here's a concept that might work, though. Would you pay an extra $1/$5/$10/$20/$50 on your cable/internet bill to be able to download some premium content? I might. NASCAR currently has a whole premium Java based multimedia thing. Trackpass. In-car audio between the driver and crewchief, position updating in realtime, etc. If you're really into NASCAR, you might pay for it. But if you have TimeWarner in Cincinnati (and I assume elsewhere), it's included as part of your cable internet. That concept might work for other types of computer based video/TV.
Within a couple of days, a hack will be out to get around that. Witness the NYT registration workarounds.
They have to bring Ellison in to complete the quad.
The percentage of people that do that (along with the number of people that make a sandwich or go to the bathroom) is factored into their 'numbers of eyeballs' calculations. The advertisers, networks, and media survey people have surveys and stats on this going back decades.
All 'quality' issues I've gotten.
Internet video runs into problems of too many competing formats and file size. For movies and TV, only now is the required bandwidth becoming widespread. Apple appears ready to get into video distribution. And cable companies have been doing pay per view movies and VOD for some time now.
The affected industries have to get their acts together and turn things back around to how they should be.
How they think it should be and how we think it should be are probably not be the same thing.
Taping audio/video and passing it among your friends has been going on for decades. Also, that couldn't expand very far due to generational losses. Technically copyright infringement, but way under their radar.
The difference now is your circle of friends has expanded to include everyone online (potentially millions), and the copies they receive are identical to the original, and can be distributed again and again.
Eventually they will come to terms with this, but the landscape is changing too fast for them to keep up.
One of the main problems is people have come to expect free downloading of music and video. Why should I pay when I can get it from eDonkey or BitTorrent for free? In the music realm, iTunes has made some inroads into legal, pay downloads. But free still trumps $1 per track for a lot of people.
No, they generally don't.
Tools|Options|Internet Options - Uncheck "When an HTML message contains pictures...."
I agree with you about HTML in email, though.
Please stop with the FUD. In OL2003, it's off by default. In previous versions, it's easy to turn it off.
If it arrives instantly, what is the point of 'taking it back'? The recipient has already seen it.
If there's a time delay after you send it and before the recipient sees it, it's not 'instant' messaging anymore.
If you're going to have a Win2003 course, it might make sense to have a few Win2003 boxes around in the lab. Same as if you're going to teach RH 9 vs RH 7 or 8. I fail to see how either of these situations promotes a 'required update' or a loss of control of your update schedule.
And "How much does it cost?" means something far different if a FOSS alternative does not exist. Who is writing all the various applications that a school dept needs? See any on SourceForge?
Because the needed software doesn't exist.
I know what you're saying, but it's not quite as simple as Linux = free forever and Windows = replace your entire infrstructure every 3 years.
Only if you upgrade all the time. Many, many organizations are still on Office97. A suite getting on almost 10 years old. No real need to switch. And the FOSS world is almost as bad on older hardware/new applications. The most recent KDE/OpenOffice really chokes on an old PII300 laptop just as bad as WinXP and a recent MSOffice. It runs, but very badly.
Was anyone actually 'visited'? No. Did the authorities investigate? Anecdotal evidence (from Fark) says yeah, maybe they did. Evidently, they also found nothing of interest.
I'm not saying 'no harm no foul', but let's not blow things up out of context. I find it a little troubling as well, but let's be honest. There was no knock on the door.
No, I say that like a Jeff Foxworthy joke.
If your monitored discussion includes:
explosives, How to introduce them onto an aircraft
and airport security, how to defeat or airport job, how to obtain
and Semtex, where to obtain
and language = [keyword] or location = [keyword]
You might be a terrorist.
It's the message and intent involved.
"The government building explosion downtown last night was a warning. If the current government does not change it's policies regarding X, we will destroy one public or corporate building each day, until these policies are changed. As we do not want to needlessly kill our fellow citizens (recruits), we will give 5 minutes warning to the target of the day."
Much different than a high school vandal breaking out a few windows. Even if he does it with a stick of dynamite.
Disliking the president is one thing. Hoping for his literal death is something else altogether.
How long would such a person last in Saddam's Iraq, or KJI's North Korea? A 'request' to Fark for their email address? No. A threat to 'our beloved leader' would end up quite a bit nastier than that.
A: Only your point of view.
I think the difference is bomb/no bomb, and choice of target.