To all companies out there considering using this advertising method. Don't. If I block popups, it means I don't want to see your message. I don't care how much you think I want to see your bandwidth sucking ad, I don't.
The reason advertisers want to turn the net into tv is so that you have no choice about what you see. With banner ads, most people just kind of tune that area of the website out. Popup blockers are the next step.
Since when did advertisers give a flying fuck about whether or not you wanted to see their lame 'creative' pitch?
Both with Motion and the Unicast commercials, "advertisers can reach people during the day, when they typically don't watch television, and continue delivering that brand message in the same creative format," Mr. McDonough said, adding, "It's a wonderful way to surround the consumer."
I am thinking that this BS is not going to go away. Advertising is in trouble (dont know about you, but I rarely see commercials since I got tivo). Television commercials, radio commercials, and print ads are becoming less effective every day - as people move to the internet for their entertaiment/information.
They are losing their captive audience and are going to try as hard as they can to "surround" it again. Anyone think they will really discontinue such ads if people complain?
It seems to me that the only way to prevent circumvention of these ads (without requiring user feedback "enter this code") would be to control which browser they use. IE only sites? Where is your Trusted Computing Certificate? Don't have one? Sorry, you are not "trusted", you can only surf the "unsecure" web.
Release OS X for x86 - Linux Desktop Developers get your heads out of your ass and create something as functional and easy to use as Windows - time is of the essence!
Did you scan the side with the small yellow '20's?
From the adobe site:
How it works:
For those of you curious about how this algorithm detects a banknote, here is a slide of a short talk that I gave to our local research group soon after I discovered the "EURion Constellation" two years ago while experimenting with a new Xerox color photocopier and a 10 euro note:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf
The algorithm looks in the blue channel of a color image for little circles and most likely examines the distance distribution encountered. I have discovered a small constellation of just five circles (a bit like Orion with the belt starts merged) that will be rejected by a Xerox color photocopier installed next door from here as a banknote. Black on white circles do not work.
These little yellow, green or orange 1 mm large circles have been on European banknotes for many years. I found them on German marks, British pounds and the euro notes. In the US, they showed up only very recently on the new 20$ bill. On some notes like the euro, the circles are blatantly obvious, whereas on others the artists carefully integrated them into their design. On the 20 pound note, they appear as "notes" in an unlikely short music score, in the old German 50 mark note, they are neatly embedded into the background pattern, and in the new 20 dollar bill, they are used as the 0 of all the yellow 20 number printed across the note. The constellation are probably detected by the fact that the squares of the distances of the circles are integer multiples of the smallest one.
I have later been told that this scheme was invented by Omron and that the circle patter also encodes the issuing bank.
Imagine two naval vessels using Morris code and signal lamps to communicate - a 3rd party could "eavesdrop" on the conversation without disrupting the transmission of the message.
I hate this sort of thinking. If the question is, "What is it that allows humans to think abstractly and formulate efficient and creative strategies in the face of novel situations?" answering, "a soul" is just sleight of hand to avoid admitting that we don't know. Positing that every human being has a soul explains nothing, and tells us nothing that we didn't already know. Slapping a label on a phenomenon isn't the same as providing an explanation.
Answering, "a soul" to the above question is not a slight of hand - rather it implies the reason we are capable of intelligent thought is because we were intellegently designed - given such abilities - the same way we give computers the ability to play chess.
"We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused on the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys are going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year."
I wonder what would happen if all the interested parties filed lawsuits against SCO - much like Redhat has done. Stretch their 'limited energies' a little more. They already have requested to get the Redhat lawsuit merged with the IBM lawsuit.
I would imagine such a barrage could burn up their 60 million in no time. Hell, maybe someone would be sucessfull in getting SCO to actually disclose proof of their claims.
"Those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought by him" - Sun Tzu The Art of War
"In connection with SCO's intellectual property enforcement effort, SCOsource, SCO has alleged that the Linux 2.4 and the upcoming 2.6 kernel contain SCO intellectual property. In an effort to offer marketplace solutions to these Linux-related intellectual property issues, SCO released a licensing program to offer Linux users a right-to-use binary mode only license, subject to certain limitations... In the coming months, SCO intends to expand the licensing program to include migration options for those end users who may be looking for alternatives to Linux."
Hold on SCO, why don't you first disclose (at least to IBM) the infringing code?
The interface really has not changed at all. Still looks like it was designed by a focus group comprised of librarians, accountants and a laywers. There are a few new features, but nothing exciting - stick with 7.
You know, sometimes, I wish Apple would just go ahead and put photoshop to sleep. FCP stompes Premier, and Combustion make After Effects look like mickey mouse bs. I would not miss Adobe one bit.
"The executives have said we haven't had to do it yet," SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said of the invoice plan. They're happy with progress in the licensing program."
Translation:
Our stock is still soaring from our last round of FUD. The board is concerned we might have used too much of our FUD supply pumping our share price up and might not have enough left over to cover our asses when we start dumping our shares. Just good textbook FUD managment.
In related news: Trying to decide which applications to use for the benchmarks in his upcoming article Tom Mainelli scheduled a meeting with a mac genius at his local Apple Store. He asked the genius one question "what are the slowest, most loathed OS X applications which also are available for Windows XP?" The mac genius cut him off right as he was about to finnish his questions saying "Adobe Premier and Microsoft Office... Why?" Mailelli answered, "Oh, just wondering"
You are missing my point. I am not trying to correct your terminology, and I do understand what you are saying. My point is that, our justice system does not provide for any such 'holding pattern'... There is law - trial - appeal. Only way to junk the law is to have it ruled unconstitutional or have the legislature change the law...
Check out these guys. Take a look at the follow up forum - they destroy these people... Distribute flyers on their block, call their homes, notify their employer... Hell, the last guy got a spot in the 6 o'clock news on his local news station!
Anyways, my point is that I think that with this law - vigilantes could do some damage.
"Problem is, this is meaningless. It will almost certainly be suspended while it goes through the court system, to it's ultimate death at the hands of people who have much more money than you or I to pay off the lawyers, courts, politicos. This bill is meaningless."
Suspended? Do you have any idea how our legal system works? You mean appealed? Ha, you see this one going to the Supreme Court? "One's Constitutional Right to Spam"
This makes Spamming a crime... Which can be perused by the DA or anyone who is 'spammed'. No spammer has enough money to survive thousands of bloodsucking PI lawyers pressing class action suits - at $1000 a pop. Spammers are not influential millionaire tycoons - they are more like white trash who aspire to have their own infomercial one day.
Careful, it seems that SCO's FUD has convinced you that Free SW/Open Source is in need of credibility... Where did you get such an idea? Listen, watch this, then just ignore SCO's Mickey Mouse bullshit...
I think that people are taking SCO way to seriously - thus contributing to their credibility. They are nothing more than a bunch of crack smoking lunatics and should be treated accordingly.
I am of the opion that from this day forward, any comments pointed at the Open Source community from SCO that does not contain the alleged stolen code, should be responded to with a short sound byte (gurgling sound of a crack pipe) and a few "your momma is so fat" jokes.
"People figured out how to make the Xbox do something it wasn't designed to do."
Hate to break it to ya, but your xbox is nothing but a 733MHz Celeron system with a decent Nvidia GPU - nothing more.
"Microsoft has taken the stance that it doesn't want that happening on their systems, especially when you consider the fact that with Xbox Live factored into the equation, and that this might open the door for cheaters to ruin online game, hell Just look at SOCOM."
Funny, I thought that it was my Xbox... I have no objections to the patch being required for Xbox Live - but it should be my decision.
"...But jesus chrsit quit whining about how evil Microsofts intentions are."
Ha, lets see what you think about Microsoft's intentions when you are attempting to run some "unsafe" software, or burn an audio CD with your new "Trusted Computing" system and it calmly asks...
Yes, free speech is a bitch when you don't like what is being said... But, fret not... The SEC will be all over SCO when their stock takes a dive and McBride's use of "free speech" will come back to get him. McBride does not have enough money to buy a 'get out of jail' card'. In prison, he will get the 'up yours' from behind - not from some bureaucrats - but rather a 270 pound rapist from a few cells down.
Ya, McBride is out of line and is harming the industry, but he obviously is willing to risk becoming someone's cum dumpster for it, so I say let him. More freedom = More responsibility
"Finally, it is clear that the Open Source community needs a business model that is sustainable, if it is to grow beyond a part-time avocation into an enterprise-trusted development model."
Oh, you mean we should start filing lawsuits claiming that we never "consented" to releasing our IP under the GPL?
"...casts a shadow over the entire Open Source movement and raises questions about whether Open Source is ready to take a central role in business computing."
Open Source already has a centeral role in buisness computing... Ask IBM...
On the other hand - SCO could vanish into thin air tommorow, and apart from the lawsuit, buisness computing would not even notice.
"The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community"
Correction.
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is our contested claim that Linux, a open source OS, contains our Intellectual property.
Also, the open source community is not responsible for the DOS attack anymore than Mormons are responsible for Brigam Young abd his crazies slaughtering entire famlies of settlers at Mountain Meadows.
Well, I was assuming, given the description of the lady hit in the "temple", that if it was a shotgun ir would be some variation of a slug load, Which very well could leave a hole the size of a baseball in a car.
What about cars! What if your kid gets your keys and goes on a rampage running over pedestrians. Ok not likely. But what if someone else's kid gets his their car and does the same, maybe running over you. Not to mention the risk of your car being stolen. What if you catch the thief and he already has started your car. You might say you have a car alarm, but what if the thief just stole your neighbor's car?
For a safer environment, you have to sacrifice some things. Keeping you car at the race track seems to be a reasonable sacrifice. Sacrificing a safer environment for you to always have quick access to your car seems selfish and DUMB.
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To all companies out there considering using this advertising method. Don't. If I block popups, it means I don't want to see your message. I don't care how much you think I want to see your bandwidth sucking ad, I don't.
The reason advertisers want to turn the net into tv is so that you have no choice about what you see. With banner ads, most people just kind of tune that area of the website out. Popup blockers are the next step.
Since when did advertisers give a flying fuck about whether or not you wanted to see their lame 'creative' pitch?
Both with Motion and the Unicast commercials, "advertisers can reach people during the day, when they typically don't watch television, and continue delivering that brand message in the same creative format," Mr. McDonough said, adding, "It's a wonderful way to surround the consumer."
I am thinking that this BS is not going to go away. Advertising is in trouble (dont know about you, but I rarely see commercials since I got tivo). Television commercials, radio commercials, and print ads are becoming less effective every day - as people move to the internet for their entertaiment/information.
They are losing their captive audience and are going to try as hard as they can to "surround" it again. Anyone think they will really discontinue such ads if people complain?
It seems to me that the only way to prevent circumvention of these ads (without requiring user feedback "enter this code") would be to control which browser they use. IE only sites? Where is your Trusted Computing Certificate? Don't have one? Sorry, you are not "trusted", you can only surf the "unsecure" web.
Release OS X for x86 - Linux Desktop Developers get your heads out of your ass and create something as functional and easy to use as Windows - time is of the essence!
Did you scan the side with the small yellow '20's?
From the adobe site:
How it works:
For those of you curious about how this algorithm detects a banknote, here is a slide of a short talk that I gave to our local research group soon after I discovered the "EURion Constellation" two years ago while experimenting with a new Xerox color photocopier and a 10 euro note:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/eurion.pdf
The algorithm looks in the blue channel of a color image for little circles and most likely examines the distance distribution encountered. I have discovered a small constellation of just five circles (a bit like Orion with the belt starts merged) that will be rejected by a Xerox color photocopier installed next door from here as a banknote. Black on white circles do not work.
These little yellow, green or orange 1 mm large circles have been on European banknotes for many years. I found them on German marks, British pounds and the euro notes. In the US, they showed up only very recently on the new 20$ bill. On some notes like the euro, the circles are blatantly obvious, whereas on others the artists carefully integrated them into their design. On the 20 pound note, they appear as "notes" in an unlikely short music score, in the old German 50 mark note, they are neatly embedded into the background pattern, and in the new 20 dollar bill, they are used as the 0 of all the yellow 20 number printed across the note. The constellation are probably detected by the fact that the squares of the distances of the circles are integer multiples of the smallest one.
I have later been told that this scheme was invented by Omron and that the circle patter also encodes the issuing bank.
Imagine two naval vessels using Morris code and signal lamps to communicate - a 3rd party could "eavesdrop" on the conversation without disrupting the transmission of the message.
I hate this sort of thinking. If the question is, "What is it that allows humans to think abstractly and formulate efficient and creative strategies in the face of novel situations?" answering, "a soul" is just sleight of hand to avoid admitting that we don't know. Positing that every human being has a soul explains nothing, and tells us nothing that we didn't already know. Slapping a label on a phenomenon isn't the same as providing an explanation.
Answering, "a soul" to the above question is not a slight of hand - rather it implies the reason we are capable of intelligent thought is because we were intellegently designed - given such abilities - the same way we give computers the ability to play chess.
"We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused on the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys are going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year."
I wonder what would happen if all the interested parties filed lawsuits against SCO - much like Redhat has done. Stretch their 'limited energies' a little more. They already have requested to get the Redhat lawsuit merged with the IBM lawsuit.
I would imagine such a barrage could burn up their 60 million in no time. Hell, maybe someone would be sucessfull in getting SCO to actually disclose proof of their claims.
"Those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought by him" - Sun Tzu The Art of War
"In connection with SCO's intellectual property enforcement effort, SCOsource, SCO has alleged that the Linux 2.4 and the upcoming 2.6 kernel contain SCO intellectual property. In an effort to offer marketplace solutions to these Linux-related intellectual property issues, SCO released a licensing program to offer Linux users a right-to-use binary mode only license, subject to certain limitations... In the coming months, SCO intends to expand the licensing program to include migration options for those end users who may be looking for alternatives to Linux."
Hold on SCO, why don't you first disclose (at least to IBM) the infringing code?
No - but we Mac zealots are...
The interface really has not changed at all. Still looks like it was designed by a focus group comprised of librarians, accountants and a laywers. There are a few new features, but nothing exciting - stick with 7.
You know, sometimes, I wish Apple would just go ahead and put photoshop to sleep. FCP stompes Premier, and Combustion make After Effects look like mickey mouse bs. I would not miss Adobe one bit.
"The executives have said we haven't had to do it yet," SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said of the invoice plan. They're happy with progress in the licensing program."
Translation:
Our stock is still soaring from our last round of FUD. The board is concerned we might have used too much of our FUD supply pumping our share price up and might not have enough left over to cover our asses when we start dumping our shares. Just good textbook FUD managment.
http://www.discreet.com/products/combustion/
http://www.discreet.com/products/combustion3/
I agree. Combustion benchmarks are what I want to see.
I might think so as well if I was ignorant of the fact that Premier does not even use the 2nd processor.
In related news:
Trying to decide which applications to use for the benchmarks in his upcoming article Tom Mainelli scheduled a meeting with a mac genius at his local Apple Store. He asked the genius one question "what are the slowest, most loathed OS X applications which also are available for Windows XP?" The mac genius cut him off right as he was about to finnish his questions saying "Adobe Premier and Microsoft Office... Why?" Mailelli answered, "Oh, just wondering"
You are missing my point. I am not trying to correct your terminology, and I do understand what you are saying. My point is that, our justice system does not provide for any such 'holding pattern'... There is law - trial - appeal. Only way to junk the law is to have it ruled unconstitutional or have the legislature change the law...
Check out these guys. Take a look at the follow up forum - they destroy these people... Distribute flyers on their block, call their homes, notify their employer... Hell, the last guy got a spot in the 6 o'clock news on his local news station!
Anyways, my point is that I think that with this law - vigilantes could do some damage.
"Problem is, this is meaningless. It will almost certainly be suspended while it goes through the court system, to it's ultimate death at the hands of people who have much more money than you or I to pay off the lawyers, courts, politicos. This bill is meaningless."
Suspended? Do you have any idea how our legal system works? You mean appealed? Ha, you see this one going to the Supreme Court? "One's Constitutional Right to Spam"
This makes Spamming a crime... Which can be perused by the DA or anyone who is 'spammed'. No spammer has enough money to survive thousands of bloodsucking PI lawyers pressing class action suits - at $1000 a pop. Spammers are not influential millionaire tycoons - they are more like white trash who aspire to have their own infomercial one day.
I can't wait to get spam now! Ha.
Careful, it seems that SCO's FUD has convinced you that Free SW/Open Source is in need of credibility... Where did you get such an idea? Listen, watch this, then just ignore SCO's Mickey Mouse bullshit...
I think that people are taking SCO way to seriously - thus contributing to their credibility. They are nothing more than a bunch of crack smoking lunatics and should be treated accordingly.
I am of the opion that from this day forward, any comments pointed at the Open Source community from SCO that does not contain the alleged stolen code, should be responded to with a short sound byte (gurgling sound of a crack pipe) and a few "your momma is so fat" jokes.
"People figured out how to make the Xbox do something it wasn't designed to do."
Hate to break it to ya, but your xbox is nothing but a 733MHz Celeron system with a decent Nvidia GPU - nothing more.
"Microsoft has taken the stance that it doesn't want that happening on their systems, especially when you consider the fact that with Xbox Live factored into the equation, and that this might open the door for cheaters to ruin online game, hell Just look at SOCOM."
Funny, I thought that it was my Xbox... I have no objections to the patch being required for Xbox Live - but it should be my decision.
"...But jesus chrsit quit whining about how evil Microsofts intentions are."
Ha, lets see what you think about Microsoft's intentions when you are attempting to run some "unsafe" software, or burn an audio CD with your new "Trusted Computing" system and it calmly asks...
Yes, free speech is a bitch when you don't like what is being said... But, fret not... The SEC will be all over SCO when their stock takes a dive and McBride's use of "free speech" will come back to get him. McBride does not have enough money to buy a 'get out of jail' card'. In prison, he will get the 'up yours' from behind - not from some bureaucrats - but rather a 270 pound rapist from a few cells down.
Ya, McBride is out of line and is harming the industry, but he obviously is willing to risk becoming someone's cum dumpster for it, so I say let him. More freedom = More responsibility
"Finally, it is clear that the Open Source community needs a business model that is sustainable, if it is to grow beyond a part-time avocation into an enterprise-trusted development model."
Oh, you mean we should start filing lawsuits claiming that we never "consented" to releasing our IP under the GPL?
"...casts a shadow over the entire Open Source movement and raises questions about whether Open Source is ready to take a central role in business computing."
Open Source already has a centeral role in buisness computing... Ask IBM...
On the other hand - SCO could vanish into thin air tommorow, and apart from the lawsuit, buisness computing would not even notice.
"The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is the ongoing battle over software copyrights and intellectual property. This battle is being fought largely between vendors who create and sell proprietary software, and the Open Source community"
Correction.
The most controversial issue in the information technology industry today is our contested claim that Linux, a open source OS, contains our Intellectual property.
Also, the open source community is not responsible for the DOS attack anymore than Mormons are responsible for Brigam Young abd his crazies slaughtering entire famlies of settlers at Mountain Meadows.
Well, I was assuming, given the description of the lady hit in the "temple", that if it was a shotgun ir would be some variation of a slug load, Which very well could leave a hole the size of a baseball in a car.
What about cars! What if your kid gets your keys and goes on a rampage running over pedestrians. Ok not likely. But what if someone else's kid gets his their car and does the same, maybe running over you. Not to mention the risk of your car being stolen. What if you catch the thief and he already has started your car. You might say you have a car alarm, but what if the thief just stole your neighbor's car?
For a safer environment, you have to sacrifice some things. Keeping you car at the race track seems to be a reasonable sacrifice. Sacrificing a safer environment for you to always have quick access to your car seems selfish and DUMB.