In this case, it sounds like some are crying "click fraud" in order to pay less for the clicks their ads generate. If they can claim large amounts of fraudulent clicks, they pay less to Google.
Sure click fraud exists, but I imagine these "consultants" are advertising themselves as a way to pay Google less, while still having a high volume ad campaign. Taken to the logical extreme, any click-through that doesn't result in a sale was a fraudulent one.
I agree... huge problem here.
Their deskbar, while allowing custom searches, doesn't work with Google desktop search, or Google Maps very well.
Most of their software seems to be developed in a vacuum without much cross-referencing between other google products or outside products.
Not only did you forget any software costs, (OK use Linux, whatever), but you figure your time as free. Basically your $50 covers building the system, and installing linux and and anyother software. I think you have just proved our point, not yours.
Tycho has a way of doing that... in one single intricately crafted sentence he will boil down the absolute essence of idea, game review, or personal opinion.
However, quite often the sentence will require multiple readings to grasp the full meaning. He is an amazing writer.
There is already a free program that does this... Copernic Desktop Search. It lets you search PDFs also, and all text files regardless of file extension, and also searches the names and meta info of non-text files. It can run as a toolbar in your Windows taskbar. Quite customizable, and very fast.
Seriously, how could bootleg piracy videos really hurt their industry? Harry Potter's target audience isn't the people who scour the net for zero-day pirate releases, and anyone who doesn't go see the movie because they saw already saw it in a grainy fuzzy download, probably wasn't really that interested in the movie anyway.
Yeah! Connery's Bond ruled. I imagine a Hitman type game, starring a Connery 007, set in the 60s, mixing action, stealth, and character interaction= complete with vintage car chases, underwater levels, and everything. I want to preorder right now.
With any modern windows, multiple mice and controlers work perfectly. Plug the first mouse and keyboard into the ps/2 ports, and USB the rest.
Then just grab the one you feel like using at the moment.
Yeah- what I want is a way to have a run command line show permanently in my taskbar the way the new google deskbar does, and have the full functionallity of the Litestep command bar, or work like the great address bar / command line in the wonderful explorer alternative: Xplorer2 . That would make using Windows so much faster.
I think you will have a lot of pre-scripted events, thats what moves the story along. The difference will be that the the EVENT is scripted, and the AI will react and creat the event. It won't just be a cutscene type event where the same thing happens wether you stand and watch, or fire a rocket into the works, but rather the story event will happen, and you and the AI & NPCs will dynamically react. Sounds Awesome. I can't wait.
With all of the smartphones coming out lately using PalmOS or PocketPC, I can actually imagine a PDA programmer would be able to program this relatively easily. I'm not sure there would be a huge commercial market, however.
...well I think Opera's mail client rules! Seriously I wish they would make a stand-alone mail client with all its features. And strangely enough, Opera is only 3.3MB total, with both a browser and mail.
All the comments about open-source, business models, etc, and no reviews?
I downloaded the final beta bit ago- it is a very good racing game. You race street type sports cars, they handle very realistically, the online racing is quite good, the cars are customizable, there is a strong online community, and the whole game can be modded rather easily.
If you like sports cars, this gives you a very good approximation of actually racing street-legal real cars.
http://lfs.racesimcentral.com/ is the URL
Yeah... make it out of laptop components combined with Xbox parts and make it pretty like one of those little portable DVD players.
I think it would sell.
I personally can't believe we don't see more bluetooth mice.
I think a killer app that would see bluetooth become more prevelent in computers is a wireless bluetooth mouse... How nice would that be to use with your laptop on the go? Or just to eliminate one of your cables?
Logitech are you listening? (I think they have the best optical mouse around)
One thing to keep in mind, anytime you read about mass amounts of money being spent on, for instance, the space program, is that only the rocket parts etc. end up in space. All of the money that was spent went to the companies that built the components and the people who worked on the project. So although I am sure that good managment could have made it go a lot farther, the money was spent right here in the aerospace and technology fields, for the most part.
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In this case, it sounds like some are crying "click fraud" in order to pay less for the clicks their ads generate. If they can claim large amounts of fraudulent clicks, they pay less to Google.
Sure click fraud exists, but I imagine these "consultants" are advertising themselves as a way to pay Google less, while still having a high volume ad campaign. Taken to the logical extreme, any click-through that doesn't result in a sale was a fraudulent one.
I agree... huge problem here. Their deskbar, while allowing custom searches, doesn't work with Google desktop search, or Google Maps very well. Most of their software seems to be developed in a vacuum without much cross-referencing between other google products or outside products.
FWIW, you can check out your site in Opera using Small Screen Rendering (shift+F11) for an easy preview. It follows css rules nicely.
I hear that one is actually on the way!
Is there any more information out there about why and how the stations loses stability during spacewalks? I hadn't heard of this before.
Not only did you forget any software costs, (OK use Linux, whatever), but you figure your time as free. Basically your $50 covers building the system, and installing linux and and anyother software. I think you have just proved our point, not yours.
Well, you get a X terminal PLUS a full blown OSX PC. Very nice.
Tycho has a way of doing that... in one single intricately crafted sentence he will boil down the absolute essence of idea, game review, or personal opinion.
However, quite often the sentence will require multiple readings to grasp the full meaning. He is an amazing writer.
There is already a free program that does this... Copernic Desktop Search. It lets you search PDFs also, and all text files regardless of file extension, and also searches the names and meta info of non-text files. It can run as a toolbar in your Windows taskbar. Quite customizable, and very fast.
Seriously, how could bootleg piracy videos really hurt their industry?
Harry Potter's target audience isn't the people who scour the net for zero-day pirate releases, and anyone who doesn't go see the movie because they saw already saw it in a grainy fuzzy download, probably wasn't really that interested in the movie anyway.
Yeah! Connery's Bond ruled. I imagine a Hitman type game, starring a Connery 007, set in the 60s, mixing action, stealth, and character interaction= complete with vintage car chases, underwater levels, and everything. I want to preorder right now.
I think it just fell over, and they withdrew it because they couldn't get it to go across the start line.
With any modern windows, multiple mice and controlers work perfectly. Plug the first mouse and keyboard into the ps/2 ports, and USB the rest. Then just grab the one you feel like using at the moment.
Yeah- what I want is a way to have a run command line show permanently in my taskbar the way the new google deskbar does, and have the full functionallity of the Litestep command bar, or work like the great address bar / command line in the wonderful explorer alternative: Xplorer2 . That would make using Windows so much faster.
So true. Rebublicans tend to be very choosy, in soome strange ways, about what types of freedom they support.
Vote Libertarian.
I think you will have a lot of pre-scripted events, thats what moves the story along. The difference will be that the the EVENT is scripted, and the AI will react and creat the event. It won't just be a cutscene type event where the same thing happens wether you stand and watch, or fire a rocket into the works, but rather the story event will happen, and you and the AI & NPCs will dynamically react.
Sounds Awesome. I can't wait.
With all of the smartphones coming out lately using PalmOS or PocketPC, I can actually imagine a PDA programmer would be able to program this relatively easily. I'm not sure there would be a huge commercial market, however.
...well I think Opera's mail client rules! Seriously I wish they would make a stand-alone mail client with all its features. And strangely enough, Opera is only 3.3MB total, with both a browser and mail.
If you want to know a little more: Here is a glowing review with some awesome (but small) screenshots.
All the comments about open-source, business models, etc, and no reviews? I downloaded the final beta bit ago- it is a very good racing game. You race street type sports cars, they handle very realistically, the online racing is quite good, the cars are customizable, there is a strong online community, and the whole game can be modded rather easily. If you like sports cars, this gives you a very good approximation of actually racing street-legal real cars. http://lfs.racesimcentral.com/ is the URL
Yeah... make it out of laptop components combined with Xbox parts and make it pretty like one of those little portable DVD players. I think it would sell.
I personally can't believe we don't see more bluetooth mice.
I think a killer app that would see bluetooth become more prevelent in computers is a wireless bluetooth mouse... How nice would that be to use with your laptop on the go? Or just to eliminate one of your cables?
Logitech are you listening? (I think they have the best optical mouse around)
One thing to keep in mind, anytime you read about mass amounts of money being spent on, for instance, the space program, is that only the rocket parts etc. end up in space. All of the money that was spent went to the companies that built the components and the people who worked on the project. So although I am sure that good managment could have made it go a lot farther, the money was spent right here in the aerospace and technology fields, for the most part.