Back in the heyday of laserdisc games Badlands was a one-button only wonder. Basically you had to hit the button to shoot, but only when an enemy drew his gun and innocents weren't in the way.
Anti-consumer indicates they want to make profits by sacrificing something from the consumer.
Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. It's a give-and-take process, but even then I'm not sure I follow your malicious spin on these ads. No ads, no Salon. So far people are liking them over pop-ups, pop-unders, and those annoying animated ads that creep up over the content of a page.
As for better examples, check out the fscking web-site your currently reading! Did you have to sit through 30 seconds of advertising to read this post? No? Would you?
Whoa, calm down there Spanky. There is a big difference between paying writers to write articles for you and a site where all of its content comes from users and from linking to articles someone else paid for.
And to answer your question, yes I would sit through a 30 second commercial.
Ever searched for something on that little-known site, Google? I bet they have quite a bit of equipment, bandwith, employees, etc to pay for. But do you sit through 30 second ads to use their services? No? Would you?
I think it's safe to say Google is an an anomaly based on its sheer volume of users. Unlike political sites, Google appeals to EVERYONE. But just because Salon doesn't appeal to everyone doesn't mean they should just give up since they can`t use the same type of ads as google does.
And again, to answer your question, I would sit through a 30 second commercial once a day to use google.
Any entity that begins to implement anti-consumer actions
All aboard the hyperbole express. "Anti-consumer" would indicate that what they are doing is infringing on your rights as a consumer. You don't have the right to commercial-free access to their site.
If you can't stay out of the red by simply providing your service with a *reasonable* amount of revenue-generating methods, then that should tell you that either: a) You need better revenue-generating methods or b) Your service isn't profitable
So what you're saying is that if enough people use the day pass method and Salon stays afloat, but you don't find that method reasonable, then their service is not profitable?
Now you recommended that Salon use a "quality" service instead of what they use now, yet you don't provide any examples. What would you suggest, since you're so savvy in regards to the internet marketplace?
Are they going to start forming gangs? Are they going to walk into a local shop and threaten to fdisk their customer data unless they get their protection money?
Your analogy is somewhat flawed, in that the software that you can get cheaper is an illegal copy. A true analogy would be saying you can get a car from the dealer or a stolen copy of a car from some guy.
I'm not here to debate the moral implications of software piracy, I'm just saying it's not the same as shopping between legal car dealers and finding the best price.
ISP's should let you opt out of their default mail filtering policy,
I know not all ISPs do, but the ISP I work for does. We learned the hard way as we originally had the filtering in by default and we got all sorts of people calling saying things like "Well you're wrong. My sister is not a spammer." And you can't really go on about open relays and such because they just want their email (and I can understand that).
Now we have a free opt-in to get our spam filtering. We still get a few complaints but at least now we can say "Well you signed up for this service, you asked us to take out what our filters consider spam."
That, or she'd be happy that you're doing something vaguely meaningful in your life.
Oh yeah, because moms aren't all sentimental and stuff.
[phone rings]
MOM: Why did you send back my birthday card?
ME: Well you see, there's this lawsui--
MOM: Don't interrupt me! How could you do this to your poor mother who carried you for nine whole months?!
This sounds like a very interesting book and I'm definitely going to pick it up; but I do have one problem with it. What's with the whole Women Rising Up to Combat Poker Stereotypes angle?
There should be nothing about poker that would cause any kind of limitation to women playing it and winning. I play a weekly chump-change poker game with some friends (where going home $30 richer is an excellent night), and sometimes a wife or girlfriend will play for the night. In my limited experience their play is just as mediocre as the men I play poker with.
BTW Microsoft makes more than Apple for each Mac sold. The profit margin on MS Office is larger than the profit margin on the hardware and OSX (or OS9, or OS10.2).
From my experience that's not the case. When they were selling first-generation iMacs to its employees, I could've picked one up for $899 when the public was being charged $1299. Years later, a friend who was still working there after I left was able to pick up an iMac for $499 that normally cost $999.
Difference between sports and deathmatch? On average 15,000 people will pay $40 to watch a bunch of guys smack a puck around for three hours. And that's the smallest of the four major sports in the U.S.
How many people would pay to watch you use a rail gun?
That is excellent advise, Kjella. Too often people treat the internet as an excuse to be a jackass (or more accurately reveal to people how much of an asshole they really are).
I have to salute any of these developers that don't rip any of the whiners a new one. I recently went to Magic Workstation which is a site for beta game software. The message boards are filled with crap like:
You mean we have to wait another half month to download it? What are the updates, anyways?! and
i AM WAITING TO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Personally, I'd be giving these guys the verbal-bitchslap, but they and other developers I've seen are pretty calm and take whining as a part of the process.
When I read the article this morning I was glad that it wasn't five pages on her struggle with a sex change. The thing that endeared her to me and to many other people was that she created a game that was a fun part of our childhood. A number of people have had sex changes but what makes her stand out is her game, M.U.L.E., and the impact on the video game industry of the time.
"This is Shadow Traffic with your morning commute. We're leaving the Garden State Parkway and heading over to Lakehurst. It seems we've got a pile-up with some of them new hydrogen cars. Oh my god! It's burning up. The flames and the fire and, oh the humanity!"
I hear you. I work for an ISP and we have a number of domain customers who use Verizon as their internet access.
We get the inevitable calls ("I can receive mail but I can't send any.") And when we tell them that they have to use Verizon's SMTP, they would say that Verizon told them to call us because we'll allow them to relay mail (Liars!). Also we hear that Verizon tells them that this wouldn't be a problem if they just moved their hosting to Verizon's Superpages program.
I agree this is the best episode. Look what it has:
Homer dream sequence: "You can do it, Homer!" "YES I CAN!" Dr. Nick: "If you're not sure rrrrub it on a piece of paper. It's your window to weight gain." Marge's groans: "I need to use my least nagging tone." That guy that sounds like Charles Bronson: "I've got a movie for ya. 'A Fridge Too Far'" Ralph Wiggum: "I heard your dad went into a restaurant, and then ate all the food in the restaurant, and then they had to close the restaurant." Lenny and Karl on pushups: "Homer, I think a push-up contains both an up-and-down motion."
All quotes paraphased which means some of them might be off by a few words. Please deal with it.
Instead of taking what was in the box, Star Trek should have stuck with the red snapper. Verrrry tasty!
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Say the following out loud: M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-I
Likely, that sounded a bit strange to your ear (btw, that's a term of language. Obviously a phrase doesn't literally hit your ear.) The reason it sounds strange is due to the fact that you expect to hear two "P"s. No malice behind that thinking. No negative sentiment towards southerners. It just sounds weird.
The same thing occurs, but purposely, when a poet rearranges the order of words in a line or offers a play on words. It's done specifically because it grabs the reader's/listener's attention.
Considering the different ways people can listen to something and find it linguistically jarring, you're jumping the gun if you assume anyone who finds a generic "she" to have sexist attitudes.
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Back in the heyday of laserdisc games Badlands was a one-button only wonder. Basically you had to hit the button to shoot, but only when an enemy drew his gun and innocents weren't in the way.
Anti-consumer indicates they want to make profits by sacrificing something from the consumer.
Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. It's a give-and-take process, but even then I'm not sure I follow your malicious spin on these ads. No ads, no Salon. So far people are liking them over pop-ups, pop-unders, and those annoying animated ads that creep up over the content of a page.
As for better examples, check out the fscking web-site your currently reading! Did you have to sit through 30 seconds of advertising to read this post? No? Would you?
Whoa, calm down there Spanky. There is a big difference between paying writers to write articles for you and a site where all of its content comes from users and from linking to articles someone else paid for.
And to answer your question, yes I would sit through a 30 second commercial.
Ever searched for something on that little-known site, Google? I bet they have quite a bit of equipment, bandwith, employees, etc to pay for. But do you sit through 30 second ads to use their services? No? Would you? I think it's safe to say Google is an an anomaly based on its sheer volume of users. Unlike political sites, Google appeals to EVERYONE. But just because Salon doesn't appeal to everyone doesn't mean they should just give up since they can`t use the same type of ads as google does.
And again, to answer your question, I would sit through a 30 second commercial once a day to use google.
Any entity that begins to implement anti-consumer actions
All aboard the hyperbole express. "Anti-consumer" would indicate that what they are doing is infringing on your rights as a consumer. You don't have the right to commercial-free access to their site.
If you can't stay out of the red by simply providing your service with a *reasonable* amount of revenue-generating methods, then that should tell you that either: a) You need better revenue-generating methods or b) Your service isn't profitable
So what you're saying is that if enough people use the day pass method and Salon stays afloat, but you don't find that method reasonable, then their service is not profitable?
Now you recommended that Salon use a "quality" service instead of what they use now, yet you don't provide any examples. What would you suggest, since you're so savvy in regards to the internet marketplace?
Another paragraph in that faux-Aesop tone or another wacky capitalized description of a browser and my head was going to explode.
Journalism 101: Make it clear.
Are they going to start forming gangs? Are they going to walk into a local shop and threaten to fdisk their customer data unless they get their protection money?
Tell them "I'm sorry, I'd love to take your call, but I don't have a phone."
Something tells me that they won't ever be using Bill though.
They did, but after four straight failures they gave up.
Your analogy is somewhat flawed, in that the software that you can get cheaper is an illegal copy. A true analogy would be saying you can get a car from the dealer or a stolen copy of a car from some guy.
I'm not here to debate the moral implications of software piracy, I'm just saying it's not the same as shopping between legal car dealers and finding the best price.
ISP's should let you opt out of their default mail filtering policy,
I know not all ISPs do, but the ISP I work for does. We learned the hard way as we originally had the filtering in by default and we got all sorts of people calling saying things like "Well you're wrong. My sister is not a spammer." And you can't really go on about open relays and such because they just want their email (and I can understand that).
Now we have a free opt-in to get our spam filtering. We still get a few complaints but at least now we can say "Well you signed up for this service, you asked us to take out what our filters consider spam."
The problem is that the whole reasoning behind that is circular.
Why do they keep humans alive and plug wires into their brains?
To use their brains to run the Matrix.
Why are they running the Matrix?
To keep humans sedated and prevent them from revolting.
Seems to me the best thing for the machines to do is just kill off all the humans and prevent any chance of revolution.
That, or she'd be happy that you're doing something vaguely meaningful in your life.
Oh yeah, because moms aren't all sentimental and stuff.
[phone rings]
MOM: Why did you send back my birthday card?
ME: Well you see, there's this lawsui--
MOM: Don't interrupt me! How could you do this to your poor mother who carried you for nine whole months?!
This sounds like a very interesting book and I'm definitely going to pick it up; but I do have one problem with it. What's with the whole Women Rising Up to Combat Poker Stereotypes angle?
There should be nothing about poker that would cause any kind of limitation to women playing it and winning. I play a weekly chump-change poker game with some friends (where going home $30 richer is an excellent night), and sometimes a wife or girlfriend will play for the night. In my limited experience their play is just as mediocre as the men I play poker with.
I'd hope it's on the level of Kris Kringle in "Miracle on 34th Street" with bag after bag after bag coming in.
BTW Microsoft makes more than Apple for each Mac sold. The profit margin on MS Office is larger than the profit margin on the hardware and OSX (or OS9, or OS10.2).
From my experience that's not the case. When they were selling first-generation iMacs to its employees, I could've picked one up for $899 when the public was being charged $1299. Years later, a friend who was still working there after I left was able to pick up an iMac for $499 that normally cost $999.
Difference between sports and deathmatch? On average 15,000 people will pay $40 to watch a bunch of guys smack a puck around for three hours. And that's the smallest of the four major sports in the U.S.
How many people would pay to watch you use a rail gun?
That is excellent advise, Kjella. Too often people treat the internet as an excuse to be a jackass (or more accurately reveal to people how much of an asshole they really are).
I have to salute any of these developers that don't rip any of the whiners a new one. I recently went to Magic Workstation which is a site for beta game software. The message boards are filled with crap like:
You mean we have to wait another half month to download it? What are the updates, anyways?! and
i AM WAITING TO LONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Personally, I'd be giving these guys the verbal-bitchslap, but they and other developers I've seen are pretty calm and take whining as a part of the process.
When I read the article this morning I was glad that it wasn't five pages on her struggle with a sex change. The thing that endeared her to me and to many other people was that she created a game that was a fun part of our childhood. A number of people have had sex changes but what makes her stand out is her game, M.U.L.E., and the impact on the video game industry of the time.
"This is Shadow Traffic with your morning commute. We're leaving the Garden State Parkway and heading over to Lakehurst. It seems we've got a pile-up with some of them new hydrogen cars. Oh my god! It's burning up. The flames and the fire and, oh the humanity!"
I hear you. I work for an ISP and we have a number of domain customers who use Verizon as their internet access.
We get the inevitable calls ("I can receive mail but I can't send any.") And when we tell them that they have to use Verizon's SMTP, they would say that Verizon told them to call us because we'll allow them to relay mail (Liars!). Also we hear that Verizon tells them that this wouldn't be a problem if they just moved their hosting to Verizon's Superpages program.
I agree this is the best episode. Look what it has:
Homer dream sequence: "You can do it, Homer!" "YES I CAN!"
Dr. Nick: "If you're not sure rrrrub it on a piece of paper. It's your window to weight gain."
Marge's groans: "I need to use my least nagging tone."
That guy that sounds like Charles Bronson: "I've got a movie for ya. 'A Fridge Too Far'"
Ralph Wiggum: "I heard your dad went into a restaurant, and then ate all the food in the restaurant, and then they had to close the restaurant."
Lenny and Karl on pushups: "Homer, I think a push-up contains both an up-and-down motion."
All quotes paraphased which means some of them might be off by a few words. Please deal with it.
Instead of taking what was in the box, Star Trek should have stuck with the red snapper. Verrrry tasty!
Say the following out loud: M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-I
Likely, that sounded a bit strange to your ear (btw, that's a term of language. Obviously a phrase doesn't literally hit your ear.) The reason it sounds strange is due to the fact that you expect to hear two "P"s. No malice behind that thinking. No negative sentiment towards southerners. It just sounds weird.
The same thing occurs, but purposely, when a poet rearranges the order of words in a line or offers a play on words. It's done specifically because it grabs the reader's/listener's attention.
Considering the different ways people can listen to something and find it linguistically jarring, you're jumping the gun if you assume anyone who finds a generic "she" to have sexist attitudes.
Why should it be "weird" to use she?
For no other reason than the way that the phrase hits the ear. Stating that it sounds weird doesn't indicate that the person is some sexist pig.
Is it any mistake that when we think of great doings of the past we think of HIStory and hot HERstory?
It is a mistake, because herstory is not a word. Neither is him-icane nor shero.
It'd probably take more lines of code to render the mailbox in front of the white house than all of Zork in total.
:)
Plus how would you type "ECHO" in that one room with the lead pipe?
[Simpsons geek] On your sig, Ralph Wiggum made that quote. [/Simpsons geek]