Advertisers seem to be finding a way around AdBlock by using those floating DHTML ads that fly across your screen and land in the middle of the screen and block the story you're trying to read. (Wow, that's annoying). Does anyone know of a way to stop this kind of advertising besides turning off JavaScript in the browser?
You can block the individual JS files that load. Try blocking http://www.tek-tips.com/jsource.js
Microsoft has had some great innovative technologies, however their naming department isn't working all that hard.
Microsoft Windows
Windows Graphics Foundation
(B)it(M)a(P)
Microsoft Proxy Server
Exchange Server
Windows Update Server
Microsoft Word
and many more...
I would like convince my local theatre manager (I happen to know him) to do this, but he wants to know which steps are involved?
Who do you have to get permission from? What if you do not charge (peeps will still want popcorn and soda)? What hoops must you go through to have fun?
I just tried calling the theatre listed in the article (area code 435), they gave me Calvin Timothy's home phone (I pretended to be a manager of the local AMC theatre) and he said he's not at liberty to discuss the licensing, who they go through our how they got it.
They want to market the idea before anyone steals it. Whatever happened to letting kids have fun?
Estimates: For 10.000 units sold: MMO: 10.000 x 49,95 = 499.500 8.500 x 19,95 = 169.575 x 3 = 508.725 1.000 x 19,95 = 19.950 x 12 = 239.400 500 x 19,95 = 9.975 x 24 = 239.400 Total MMO: EUR 1.487.025
Offline game: 10.000 x 49.95 = 499.500 Total offline game: EUR 499.500
While that may be true, in a closed system that will be a net change of 300%. However, one major point of the argument which you did not address is the technical support, website, staffing, bandwidth and server(s) that are required to support such a massive endeavor.
So, without THOSE numbers, one doesn't know whether MMOs are more or less "lucrative".
I was going to write a long, well thought out reply to this story but the IT colour scheme is causing acid flashbacks
I seriously thought the sarcasm about the crappy color scheme was going to get old after a while, but actually it still seems appropriate. For Vishnu's sake, change the friggen colors!
The word "irony" is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as "the irony of fate", of an issue or result that seems to contradict normal expectations derived from the previous state or condition.
Irony of fate
The expression "irony of fate" stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals, with deliberate ironic intent. For example:
* Ludwig van Beethoven's loss of hearing;
* The rain that sets in immediately after one finishes watering one's garden, following many days of putting off watering in anticipation of rain.
Situations resembling poetic justice, but lacking the aspect of justice, may also be ascribed to the irony of fate.
I'm clearly not suggesting freezing the language and having everything set in stone. In fact, I am glad we have more words. Sometimes "good" just doesn't cut the feeling one has when he or she is in love, and must use a better, more refined word. We all saw how silly "double plus good" was in '1984'.
However, what I am proposing is at least LEARNING what terms mean now rather than use them because they make you sound important but meaning the exact opposite. I re-reference my terms moot and irony.
Hmm... But for something like a movie title, you'd think they referred to something happening in the movies. All the other 5 titles do.
You pretty much answered your own question. All of the other 5 titles reference things that happen in its referenced movie!
The first one was titled "The Phantom Menace" and you had no idea what/who that was, until you say the first one. The second, "Attack of the Clones", showed the attack of the clones at the end, not before it. Continue on, follow the pattern. "Return of the Jedi", showed their return...
So, this is a long shot here, but I'm guessing you'll have to see the 3rd movie to see why its called "Revenge of the Sith". It probably explains why they need to take revenge, and how they do it.
Ah, I see that now. Seems like I should pick up my "Elements of Style" more often.:)
While not trying to ignore the gravity of my mistake, I would have to agree with the other poster (since I am a programmer) about the use of quotation marks. I program more than I write so I guess my bad habit of putting punctation outside has been reinforced from there.
I claim not to be an English major and any knowledge I am lacking (which humbly, is be quite a bit) I am glad to learn from others. So thank you for sharing.
When "The Blair Witch Project" first came out, it was preceeded by all this hype, and even a History Channel (or was it Discovery?) special on the "Blair Witch".
Naturally, it helped set the ambiance for the movie and those people who saw it in the first few days (myself included) fell into the hype and took it as face value and "enjoyed the experience".
However, critics looked at it on the movie alone, gave it bad reviews and suddenly it became cool to dis it. Am I the only one who liked it??
Irony is one of those words that's very quickly being redefined by modern usage.
((please note, the usage of "you" in the following argument is defined as "you understood", the common plural usage. Not the singular usage. Or did that change?))
Ah, yes, the old "I'm too lazy to pick up a dictionary and find out what a word REALLY means so I'll just modify it" clause. While I am not picking on you in general, it does seem a custom to just change the meaning of a word. "moot", "hacker", and now an important literary term called "irony".
What about twenty, twenty-five years from now? Conversation will become more ambiguous (wait, that word still means 'open to more than one interpretation' right?). We, as a society, over time, have formulated words to more clearly define things. Take a look at any older language and you'll be hard pressed to find such modifiers as "terrible", "horrible", "fabulous", and "fantastic".
And now, just because someone doesn't feel like paying attention in English class, meanings of words get changed by the vulgar (definition 3). Years from now English classes will teach courses in "Irony: Not the modern kind, but the kind that employs such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect."
Why not just use a different word for what you mean? We have 26 letters, create a new word.
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Personally, my favorite response for the mis-use of irony is: "I believe thw word you were straining for was "coincidence". Irony deals with opposites, coincidence deals with things that are related. If a rescue helicopter happened to have killed the person they were trying to rescue, that would be irony. The fact that you are a moron and mixed up the definitions of 'irony' and 'coincidence' is just a coincidence".
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(s01e13) - Environmental Hysteria
Here Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a look at Greenpeace's activities.
Some huge artist needs to join the bandwagon...
Well, not quite just yet. As the music stores are generally old, specific band music stores are quite new. In fact, they probably got a Yahoo! News story or even a Google Headline (I really didn't search). But the point is they got visitors.
As specific group music stores start popping up, they will fall under the same umbrella that all other "repeats" do. Not even a mention in a local paper. So, even if they aren't the best, they at least got their name out there first.
I got a little fed up and created a fake aimbot/wallhack. Lamers download the hack,... sent to an unlisted page on my website where their IP is logged and they're added to a counter.
Personally, I think this is funny, but I really hope you don't get sued for fraud. You are distrubuting something which fails to be what you have claimed it to be. It may really be a keystroke logger or even a key emailer.
And remember, it was funny when the little guy does it to screw other little guys, but when big business does this (see: RIAA and fake files), somehow it doesnt' seem as funny or right.
It's not so much that they are illogical, but we jump to conclusions about what they are trying to communicate and conclude that they're being illogical. You should read "men are from Mars,...". It helped me understand women better...
We do jump to conclusions about what women are trying ot communicate. LOGICAL conclusions as to where the conversation or statement should progress to or where it stemmed from. Since what they did convey did not fall into our logically defined area "what should have logically concluded", we properly deem them illogical.
As you get too big for your britches and feel the need to post your 2-bit "review" (read: advertisement) on slashdot so you can get click-throughs and display money, please, for the love of God and all the 1s and 0s, use a reliable hosting company, and not your own l33t site off of your cable modem. When a story doesn't even have a post yet, and you are slashdotted, its time to seriously re-evaluate your how large you thought you were.
Sincerely,
TickleMeOzmo
(on behalf of the slashdot community)
Slashdot Mirror
Advertisers seem to be finding a way around AdBlock by using those floating DHTML ads that fly across your screen and land in the middle of the screen and block the story you're trying to read. (Wow, that's annoying).
Does anyone know of a way to stop this kind of advertising besides turning off JavaScript in the browser?
You can block the individual JS files that load. Try blocking http://www.tek-tips.com/jsource.js
Microsoft has had some great innovative technologies, however their naming department isn't working all that hard.
Microsoft Windows
Windows Graphics Foundation
(B)it(M)a(P)
Microsoft Proxy Server
Exchange Server
Windows Update Server
Microsoft Word
and many more...
I would like convince my local theatre manager (I happen to know him) to do this, but he wants to know which steps are involved?
Who do you have to get permission from?
What if you do not charge (peeps will still want popcorn and soda)?
What hoops must you go through to have fun?
assuming the licensing fees weren't too high
I just tried calling the theatre listed in the article (area code 435), they gave me Calvin Timothy's home phone (I pretended to be a manager of the local AMC theatre) and he said he's not at liberty to discuss the licensing, who they go through our how they got it.
They want to market the idea before anyone steals it. Whatever happened to letting kids have fun?
And even if there was, all you would have to do is do some cookie management. No WAY they will make you log in everytime.
Time to make a law to ban new technology so that old outdated business models can prospeR
By requiring a paid subscription, you virtually eliminate the industry-standard scapegoat of "piracy" when your game fails...
I was going to write a long, well thought out reply to this story but the IT colour scheme is causing acid flashbacks
I seriously thought the sarcasm about the crappy color scheme was going to get old after a while, but actually it still seems appropriate. For Vishnu's sake, change the friggen colors!
Happen to have a show date or a copy of the bit? I think that's worth saving
Swing and ooo, foul ball. Close though.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Irony
Use of irony
The word "irony" is frequently used figuratively, especially in such phrases as "the irony of fate", of an issue or result that seems to contradict normal expectations derived from the previous state or condition. Irony of fate
The expression "irony of fate" stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals, with deliberate ironic intent. For example:
* Ludwig van Beethoven's loss of hearing;
* The rain that sets in immediately after one finishes watering one's garden, following many days of putting off watering in anticipation of rain.
Situations resembling poetic justice, but lacking the aspect of justice, may also be ascribed to the irony of fate.
If language was frozen as it was now
*huffs and puffs and blows down your Straw Man*
I'm clearly not suggesting freezing the language and having everything set in stone. In fact, I am glad we have more words. Sometimes "good" just doesn't cut the feeling one has when he or she is in love, and must use a better, more refined word. We all saw how silly "double plus good" was in '1984'.
However, what I am proposing is at least LEARNING what terms mean now rather than use them because they make you sound important but meaning the exact opposite. I re-reference my terms moot and irony.
Hmm... But for something like a movie title, you'd think they referred to something happening in the movies. All the other 5 titles do.
You pretty much answered your own question. All of the other 5 titles reference things that happen in its referenced movie!
The first one was titled "The Phantom Menace" and you had no idea what/who that was, until you say the first one. The second, "Attack of the Clones", showed the attack of the clones at the end, not before it. Continue on, follow the pattern. "Return of the Jedi", showed their return...
So, this is a long shot here, but I'm guessing you'll have to see the 3rd movie to see why its called "Revenge of the Sith". It probably explains why they need to take revenge, and how they do it.
Ah, I see that now. Seems like I should pick up my "Elements of Style" more often. :)
While not trying to ignore the gravity of my mistake, I would have to agree with the other poster (since I am a programmer) about the use of quotation marks. I program more than I write so I guess my bad habit of putting punctation outside has been reinforced from there.
I claim not to be an English major and any knowledge I am lacking (which humbly, is be quite a bit) I am glad to learn from others. So thank you for sharing.
When "The Blair Witch Project" first came out, it was preceeded by all this hype, and even a History Channel (or was it Discovery?) special on the "Blair Witch".
Naturally, it helped set the ambiance for the movie and those people who saw it in the first few days (myself included) fell into the hype and took it as face value and "enjoyed the experience".
However, critics looked at it on the movie alone, gave it bad reviews and suddenly it became cool to dis it. Am I the only one who liked it??
Irony is one of those words that's very quickly being redefined by modern usage.
((please note, the usage of "you" in the following argument is defined as "you understood", the common plural usage. Not the singular usage. Or did that change?))
Ah, yes, the old "I'm too lazy to pick up a dictionary and find out what a word REALLY means so I'll just modify it" clause. While I am not picking on you in general, it does seem a custom to just change the meaning of a word. "moot", "hacker", and now an important literary term called "irony".
What about twenty, twenty-five years from now? Conversation will become more ambiguous (wait, that word still means 'open to more than one interpretation' right?). We, as a society, over time, have formulated words to more clearly define things. Take a look at any older language and you'll be hard pressed to find such modifiers as "terrible", "horrible", "fabulous", and "fantastic".
And now, just because someone doesn't feel like paying attention in English class, meanings of words get changed by the vulgar (definition 3). Years from now English classes will teach courses in "Irony: Not the modern kind, but the kind that employs such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect."
Why not just use a different word for what you mean? We have 26 letters, create a new word.
---
Personally, my favorite response for the mis-use of irony is: "I believe thw word you were straining for was "coincidence". Irony deals with opposites, coincidence deals with things that are related. If a rescue helicopter happened to have killed the person they were trying to rescue, that would be irony. The fact that you are a moron and mixed up the definitions of 'irony' and 'coincidence' is just a coincidence".
Until lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
The most commonly used currency is from a Legend of Zelda video game???
For more information on Greenpeace, check out Penn and Teller's Documentary on Environmental Hysteria and find out why the PRESIDENT and FOUNDER of Greenpeace decided to jump off the "Greenpeace" bandwagon.
m peg
(s01e13) - Environmental Hysteria
Here Penn & Teller explore the truth behind fears about global warming, air quality, water quality, acid rain, species extinction, and take a look at Greenpeace's activities.
http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=eh
http://www.team5150.com/~andrew/ptbs/ptbs-s01e13.
Some huge artist needs to join the bandwagon... Well, not quite just yet. As the music stores are generally old, specific band music stores are quite new. In fact, they probably got a Yahoo! News story or even a Google Headline (I really didn't search). But the point is they got visitors. As specific group music stores start popping up, they will fall under the same umbrella that all other "repeats" do. Not even a mention in a local paper. So, even if they aren't the best, they at least got their name out there first.
I got a little fed up and created a fake aimbot/wallhack. Lamers download the hack, ... sent to an unlisted page on my website where their IP is logged and they're added to a counter.
Personally, I think this is funny, but I really hope you don't get sued for fraud. You are distrubuting something which fails to be what you have claimed it to be. It may really be a keystroke logger or even a key emailer.
And remember, it was funny when the little guy does it to screw other little guys, but when big business does this (see: RIAA and fake files), somehow it doesnt' seem as funny or right.
There's only one way to test that. "Hold my sign, I don't want to lose it."
With respects to Bill Engvall
It's not so much that they are illogical, but we jump to conclusions about what they are trying to communicate and conclude that they're being illogical.
You should read "men are from Mars,...". It helped me understand women better...
We do jump to conclusions about what women are trying ot communicate. LOGICAL conclusions as to where the conversation or statement should progress to or where it stemmed from. Since what they did convey did not fall into our logically defined area "what should have logically concluded", we properly deem them illogical.
Dear Small Time Reviewer,
As you get too big for your britches and feel the need to post your 2-bit "review" (read: advertisement) on slashdot so you can get click-throughs and display money, please, for the love of God and all the 1s and 0s, use a reliable hosting company, and not your own l33t site off of your cable modem. When a story doesn't even have a post yet, and you are slashdotted, its time to seriously re-evaluate your how large you thought you were.
Sincerely,
TickleMeOzmo
(on behalf of the slashdot community)
They have the size down pat because there are WAD files. No bitmapped walls, no skins, no 3 min wav demo loops.