In '03 when I moved to socal I happen to shouldersurf the guy in front of my at Ralph's telephone number, as he punched it in to the "club card" thing. Thanks to me, he has a LOT of wine club credit built up over the last 3 years.
I'm sure you've already got plenty of bad karma (and I don't mean in the Slashdot sense), achieved spouting your nonsense on the interweb.
How do you suggest we control this "excess" you speak of? And who gets to decide what is excess?
Take away the freedom to have whatever a person wants, and people stop striving to better themselves economically.
I'm glad to see you're leaving, we don't want you. Persons capable of such rants are usually counterproductive to [American] society.
Perhaps you should elect to learn to read. If that's not too consumer for you, of course. As I stated before, I was combatting the elitist GGP post about people needing/wanting such large living spaces. Just like you have the right to live below your means, I have the right to live at mine. If I can work a little harder than I need to in order to survive, and be able to have a house that makes me happier, shouldn't I?
These are basic tenets of capitalism. If you don't like it, I suggest you head to China. But even they're starting to come around.
Your socialist comments are unwanted on this side of the globe. Good luck finding a suitable home where YOU will be able to "have contact with another soul".
It embarasses you that I work hard to enjoy a larger living space? I was only responding to the GP judging people for needing a bigger room/apartment. Living in a 10m^2 here would be called poverty, for a reason. By our standards, it is.
15 (m^2) = 161.458656 sq ft
The hotel room I'm sitting in as I write this is 4.5x larger than your apartment. My apartment is about 8x larger.
Just because you're comfortable living in a closet, doesn't mean the rest of the world is. Get over yourself.
The other day my bank's online banking suddenly stopped working with my browser (FF), firing tons of javascript errors. I was perplexed for several minutes, then realized I had switched my user agent string for another website, and forgotten to change it back. My bank's interface is highly dynamic, and apparently they do browser detection.
The moral of this is, your bank sucks. I use a tiny, tiny bank with something like 20,000 members - and they specifically cater to FireFox. Switch banks.
I, too, have seen this.
Service Adjustment [?] $-x.xx
I don't know what their ToS is on revealing that, so you can draw your own assumptions about what the amount of that credit was based on the digits:)
I grew up in Ohio. I'd say the reason for that is no one speaks Spanish in Ohio, so they can only put the immigrants in positions that don't require much communication. I'm not saying it's the employers' fault at all, but simply that I expect thats the reason they are placed in lower-skill jobs. There is a correlation between lower skill and lower level of communication necessary.
what does low-skill jobs have to do with illegal immigration? i live in socal, and most of the border jumpers are more competent in every single area (bar English) than their counterparts around here. i'm in favor of stricter border laws, but these people had the initiative to go on one hell of a journey to better themselves. you can't convince most orange county kids to do anything. they want, and expect, everything handed to them.
10. Give the gift of Linux this holiday season. If a few burned CDs are too cheap for you, buy a Linux book that comes with the CDs.
10a) How many of us have nerd families that would appreciate this?
9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!)
9a) Not bad, but the teachers are clueluess in general. Your crusade falls on deaf ears. Else they wouldn't be working at a primary school. Those who can do, those who can't teach.
8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway?
8a) Yeah, that's realistic. Do you have a job?
7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software?
7a) I agree.
6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy.
6a) Yes, adding useless costs to free software projects is helping the cause. They don't mind paying to send those CDs out because it earns a new user. When you send out 1000 and 2 people install them, that's not helping.
5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section.
5a) Um, yeah. People stick random CDs into their computer. Then get confused when Windows won't run the installer. Case closed.
4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway?
4a) I like this, around '97 when I first tried Linux it was frustrating there were no books at the library. (I was 13, then.)
3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us.
3a) You're the Jehovah's Witness of Linux. Neat.
2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back.
2a) This is a huge disservice, unless your kids already know Windows. They're going to need Windows for school and job skills, not Linux. Sorry.
1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference!
1a) Interesting, but who's going to know what it was running? From my experience when people don't recognize Windows and see a GUI they assume its a Mac, since thats all they know.
10. Give the gift of Linux this holiday season. If a few burned CDs are too cheap for you, buy a Linux book that comes with the CDs.
10a) How many of us have nerd families that would appreciate this?
9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!)
9a) Not bad, but the teachers are clueluess in general. Your crusade falls on deaf ears. Else they wouldn't be working at a primary school. Those who can do, those who can't teach.
8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway?
8a) Yeah, that's realistic. Do you have a job?
7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software?
7a) I agree.
6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy.
6a) Yes, adding useless costs to free software projects is helping the cause. They don't mind paying to send those CDs out because it earns a new user. When you send out 1000 and 2 people install them, that's not helping.
5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section.
5a) Um, yeah. People stick random CDs into their computer. Then get confused when Windows won't run the installer. Case closed.
4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway?
4a) I like this, around '97 when I first tried Linux it was frustrating there were no books at the library. (I was 13, then.)
3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us.
3a) You're the Jehovah's Witness of Linux. Neat.
2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back.
2a) This is a huge disservice, unless your kids already know Windows. They're going to need Windows for school and job skills, not Linux. Sorry.
1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference!
1a) Interesting, but who's going to know what it was running? From my experience when people don't recognize Windows and see a GUI they assume its a Mac, since thats all they know.
The only useful exploits against Googlebot (what Google crawls with), would be finding ways to exploit its ranking mechanisms to cause your results to rank higher.
The problem is, there won't be a perfect disclosable way to rank pages. The reason the algorithm works as well as it does, is because people on the outside don't know precisely what it uses to score pages. There are tons of whitepapers, speculation via patents, et al. None of these can come as close to pegging its methodology as if we could just peek at the source.
So, there you have it. The biggest `Net company relies on security through obscurity. And that won't change anytime soon.
only on homepages (the bar at the top of the comment), not on in-comment links. dunno why. that was a pretty useless link, anyways. no anchor text? lame.
Sorry, I should have said a clause. One clause's validity (or lack thereof) does not jeopardize another in the same contract. They will be evaluated independently.
I'm component-ignorant, but how is it that the ethernet chip is >$10, and there are several full-featured PCI NICs for $3-4 on the market? Do these ethernet chips do something that is otherwise handled by software in a PC environment?
We do this with our non-free e-books we produce. Although it'd be much easier to remove the watermarks than from a video, it's still a nice deterrent for most of the folks. In the header and footer of the book, your name/address is printed on every page. Look for that to happen at random places in these movies, it's kinda the way of the future for content publishers.
Intuit QuickBooks is a $200-$4000 package. Has their affiliate links/banners for things ranging from mortgages to accountants and so on all over it. Vote with your wallet, if you let them spam - they will.
Post an obfuscated URL here and I'll help you out with your campaigns, I can get your CPCs back to where they used to be.. no fee if its an easy fix, I'll be able to tell by looking at your campaign(s). If anyone else is interested, post your contact details.. I'll do what I can. -MH
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Google's traffic estimators (accessible to AdWords customers) include AOL searches.
Worthy to note that AOL serves up Google results, both paid and organic. Google's total marketshare, by those numbers, is 46.4%.
In '03 when I moved to socal I happen to shouldersurf the guy in front of my at Ralph's telephone number, as he punched it in to the "club card" thing. Thanks to me, he has a LOT of wine club credit built up over the last 3 years.
I'm sure you've already got plenty of bad karma (and I don't mean in the Slashdot sense), achieved spouting your nonsense on the interweb. How do you suggest we control this "excess" you speak of? And who gets to decide what is excess? Take away the freedom to have whatever a person wants, and people stop striving to better themselves economically.
I'm glad to see you're leaving, we don't want you. Persons capable of such rants are usually counterproductive to [American] society.
Perhaps you should elect to learn to read. If that's not too consumer for you, of course. As I stated before, I was combatting the elitist GGP post about people needing/wanting such large living spaces. Just like you have the right to live below your means, I have the right to live at mine. If I can work a little harder than I need to in order to survive, and be able to have a house that makes me happier, shouldn't I?
These are basic tenets of capitalism. If you don't like it, I suggest you head to China. But even they're starting to come around.
Your socialist comments are unwanted on this side of the globe. Good luck finding a suitable home where YOU will be able to "have contact with another soul".
It embarasses you that I work hard to enjoy a larger living space? I was only responding to the GP judging people for needing a bigger room/apartment. Living in a 10m^2 here would be called poverty, for a reason. By our standards, it is.
15 (m^2) = 161.458656 sq ft The hotel room I'm sitting in as I write this is 4.5x larger than your apartment. My apartment is about 8x larger. Just because you're comfortable living in a closet, doesn't mean the rest of the world is. Get over yourself.
Traditional adsense is served up via a javascript call, while premium are xml feeds parsed and rendered into html results serverside.
The other day my bank's online banking suddenly stopped working with my browser (FF), firing tons of javascript errors. I was perplexed for several minutes, then realized I had switched my user agent string for another website, and forgotten to change it back. My bank's interface is highly dynamic, and apparently they do browser detection.
The moral of this is, your bank sucks. I use a tiny, tiny bank with something like 20,000 members - and they specifically cater to FireFox. Switch banks.
I, too, have seen this. Service Adjustment [?] $-x.xx I don't know what their ToS is on revealing that, so you can draw your own assumptions about what the amount of that credit was based on the digits :)
why did this guy get modded down? thats the best article on SEO available. slashdot sucks.
I grew up in Ohio. I'd say the reason for that is no one speaks Spanish in Ohio, so they can only put the immigrants in positions that don't require much communication. I'm not saying it's the employers' fault at all, but simply that I expect thats the reason they are placed in lower-skill jobs. There is a correlation between lower skill and lower level of communication necessary.
what does low-skill jobs have to do with illegal immigration? i live in socal, and most of the border jumpers are more competent in every single area (bar English) than their counterparts around here. i'm in favor of stricter border laws, but these people had the initiative to go on one hell of a journey to better themselves. you can't convince most orange county kids to do anything. they want, and expect, everything handed to them.
10. Give the gift of Linux this holiday season. If a few burned CDs are too cheap for you, buy a Linux book that comes with the CDs.
10a) How many of us have nerd families that would appreciate this?
9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!)
9a) Not bad, but the teachers are clueluess in general. Your crusade falls on deaf ears. Else they wouldn't be working at a primary school. Those who can do, those who can't teach.
8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway?
8a) Yeah, that's realistic. Do you have a job?
7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software?
7a) I agree.
6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy.
6a) Yes, adding useless costs to free software projects is helping the cause. They don't mind paying to send those CDs out because it earns a new user. When you send out 1000 and 2 people install them, that's not helping.
5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section.
5a) Um, yeah. People stick random CDs into their computer. Then get confused when Windows won't run the installer. Case closed.
4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway?
4a) I like this, around '97 when I first tried Linux it was frustrating there were no books at the library. (I was 13, then.)
3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us.
3a) You're the Jehovah's Witness of Linux. Neat.
2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back.
2a) This is a huge disservice, unless your kids already know Windows. They're going to need Windows for school and job skills, not Linux. Sorry.
1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference!
1a) Interesting, but who's going to know what it was running? From my experience when people don't recognize Windows and see a GUI they assume its a Mac, since thats all they know.
10. Give the gift of Linux this holiday season. If a few burned CDs are too cheap for you, buy a Linux book that comes with the CDs. 10a) How many of us have nerd families that would appreciate this? 9. Refer all charity organizations and any group strapped for cash to Linux. Every year when my kid's school does parent-teacher conferences, I never fail to bring up open-source after the teachers mention school budget cutbacks. (there's always a good opportunity to work that in when the teachers apologize for not getting the reports printed out because XP crashed - again!) 9a) Not bad, but the teachers are clueluess in general. Your crusade falls on deaf ears. Else they wouldn't be working at a primary school. Those who can do, those who can't teach. 8. Drop IE-compatibility from your websites. Use this: http://www.stopie.com/stopie/home/ which will refer viewers to download Firefox. Aren't you tired of having to make your website botched up just to work for the lamest browser on the web, anyway? 8a) Yeah, that's realistic. Do you have a job? 7. Earn money by referring people to Firefox with Google toolbar while you're at it: http://downhillbattle.org/node/view/554 Who *says* there's no money in free software? 7a) I agree. 6. Go to the Ubuntu site - the page where you can order an Ubuntu disk sent to you for free - and fill in RANDOM ADDRESSES. Mystery gifts from the software fairy. 6a) Yes, adding useless costs to free software projects is helping the cause. They don't mind paying to send those CDs out because it earns a new user. When you send out 1000 and 2 people install them, that's not helping. 5. Anybody with a CD burner and a Linux fetish will have old Linux CDs they don't use anymore - like when you've updated to the new version. Take these CDs with you to the library, and tuck them into the Windows books in the computer books section. 5a) Um, yeah. People stick random CDs into their computer. Then get confused when Windows won't run the installer. Case closed. 4. While you're in the library, be sure to fill out those request/suggestion forms for new books to buy with the latest Linux books you're just dying to check out - and hasn't "DOS for Dummies" and "Windows 3.1 - the complete reference" gotten old, anyway? 4a) I like this, around '97 when I first tried Linux it was frustrating there were no books at the library. (I was 13, then.) 3. Never pass a computer store without walking in and asking for software titles that run on Linux. The idea is to make them aware that Linux users *would* spend *some* money, if only anybody cared to do business with us. 3a) You're the Jehovah's Witness of Linux. Neat. 2. Teach your kids Linux. This is the easiest - kids will absorb Linux like little sponges, all you have to do is install it and stand back. 2a) This is a huge disservice, unless your kids already know Windows. They're going to need Windows for school and job skills, not Linux. Sorry. 1. Go to second-hand stores such as Salvation Army and Goodwill. Find a used computer on sale plugged in and running. Stick Knoppix on it. Reboot it. Walk away whistling. Trust me, I've spoken to employee and customer alike at these places - nobody would ever know the difference! 1a) Interesting, but who's going to know what it was running? From my experience when people don't recognize Windows and see a GUI they assume its a Mac, since thats all they know.
The only useful exploits against Googlebot (what Google crawls with), would be finding ways to exploit its ranking mechanisms to cause your results to rank higher. The problem is, there won't be a perfect disclosable way to rank pages. The reason the algorithm works as well as it does, is because people on the outside don't know precisely what it uses to score pages. There are tons of whitepapers, speculation via patents, et al. None of these can come as close to pegging its methodology as if we could just peek at the source. So, there you have it. The biggest `Net company relies on security through obscurity. And that won't change anytime soon.
WTF was with that link, dude? Got something with some more uncloseable flash popups and spam?
only on homepages (the bar at the top of the comment), not on in-comment links. dunno why. that was a pretty useless link, anyways. no anchor text? lame.
Sorry, I should have said a clause. One clause's validity (or lack thereof) does not jeopardize another in the same contract. They will be evaluated independently.
Contracts are invalid if their execution would require someone to do something illegal or impossible.
I'm component-ignorant, but how is it that the ethernet chip is >$10, and there are several full-featured PCI NICs for $3-4 on the market? Do these ethernet chips do something that is otherwise handled by software in a PC environment?
We do this with our non-free e-books we produce. Although it'd be much easier to remove the watermarks than from a video, it's still a nice deterrent for most of the folks. In the header and footer of the book, your name/address is printed on every page. Look for that to happen at random places in these movies, it's kinda the way of the future for content publishers.
Intuit QuickBooks is a $200-$4000 package. Has their affiliate links/banners for things ranging from mortgages to accountants and so on all over it. Vote with your wallet, if you let them spam - they will.
Oops, obfuscated (anti-spam) E-mail, I meant.
Post an obfuscated URL here and I'll help you out with your campaigns, I can get your CPCs back to where they used to be.. no fee if its an easy fix, I'll be able to tell by looking at your campaign(s). If anyone else is interested, post your contact details.. I'll do what I can. -MH