There are plenty of us out there that are willing to reward those who behave in a manner we consider "good" with money as incentive to continue along that path.
That's why I don't own Microsoft stock but do own Google stock. The question will be, how many of those people are aware of this and how many are Radiohead fans? I'm a bit shamefaced to admit that while I've heard of them, I wouldn't be able to name a song by them without resorting to Google/Wikipedia. But then, I'm not that into the music world. I probably have heard their songs day in and day out and simply haven't connected the song to the group.
This model, the cheap disc vs the expensive collector's item with goodies, has worked well in the video game and anime markets. I don't see much of a difference here other than the fact that they are marketing the cheap disc as "really cheap". I hope it works out for them. If previous experience is anything to go by, I think it will.
Sadly, the drive was later mistaken as a normal CD drive and one of the researchers attempted to play the collection of Sony CD's on it. Now the drive refuses to do anything, claiming the pesticides are patented and trademarked and detecting them would be a violation of someone's Intellectual Property.
You get to pick, if your site does flash ads or not. So I wouldn't consider this evil. If you are visiting sites that think flash is 'cool' then they'll be serving up flash one way or the other. And I would place the blame, either way, on the site itself.
In terms of "evil" what will determine if Google's lost track is if they maintain control over the ads or if they'll be come the malware crap that so many shady flash ad distribution networks use.
Bullshit. You can trout that nonsense out when it comes to driving because driving actually requires some form of responsibility to keep you from slaughtering everyone else on the road.
Flying, unless you are the PILOT, doesn't.
Along the same lines, it's a privilege to live in the US. After all, you could flip out and kill everyone around you any minute now. Maybe we should just commit you now and skip the whole surveillance.
While looking for comparison numbers I found this blog article which has breakdowns for several conventions of a fan nature (as opposed to say, the annual Florida Dental Association Convention).
From informal google searching. So PAX is not quite E3 levels yet, but given PAX's popularity and E3's current lack thereof, they could easily swap roles in a few years.
They are "Opening the source" but not going open source. Basically if you are non-commercial (i.e. academic or amateur) you can get a free license to play around with the code, but if you are commercial then you have to pay.
This is more like one of Microsoft's aborted attempts at opening source, where they'll let you have access as long as you don't do anything they might have wanted to do or competes in anyway with them.
How exactly will a webmaster find ads that users are willing to accept if the ads are blocked and nobody ever sees them?
Here is a hint. I have ad block plus installed and see several ads on numerous web sites that I visit. Additionally, I don't go to the effort of adding them to the filter list.
Or to be more direct:
I think your question could be more accurately rephrased as...
How exactly will a webmaster find annoying flashy ads that attempt to force users to divert attention from my content, that users are willing to accept, if the ads are blocked and nobody ever sees them?
The ads in themselves will be the reason why people do or don't block them.
The straw that breaks the camel's back may just be one straw. It may not even be the heaviest or biggest straw. It may owe it's entire fame to all the straws that came before it.
But it's still the straw that broke the camel's back. The first straw didn't, the straw just before the last straw didn't, just the one straw. The last straw.
Thats the straw that gets remembered.
How many people attempted to fly solo transatlantic before Charles? Can you name any, and if so, do you consider it an acheivement or a matter of 'everyone knows that'?
That isn't to belittle RMS or his works, but for all he put into it, it would have come to naught if Linus or someone else hadn't come along and given the final push.
While I was in college I happened to notice the following posted on the door of the office of my statistics professor.
"My dear friends, I am here to warn you of a tremendous crisis we are facing today. We all remember times when we could go to sleep at night secure in the knowledge that our homes and lives are safe. But today, this is no longer so!
Here are two charts, one showing the violent crime rate in our fair town as it has increased in the past decade, as reported via calls to 911!
The second chart shows the rapid proliferation of telephone poles that have been placed in our fair community!
Clearly, you can see that as the number of telephone poles goes from zero a decade ago to the dizzying heights we have today, the rate of crime being reported via 911 has drastically risen as well!
The answer is clear! To protect our town we MUST cut down the telephone poles!"
There are plenty who have done the same, with less intent. My parents happen to teach in a small rural area, the amount of pure, for lack of a better word, "disinformation" provided by some parents to their children is scary. And while this is an example is in a rural area and thus easier to swallow for most here, given stereotypes, the same sort of thing happens everywhere.
Yes, people who raise their children outside of the 'norm' of culture are typically looked down upon and if these people weren't already ostracized, they normally become so. But for the US (at least) the line where someone actually steps on and says "no, this is wrong" is drawn well in favor of the parent.
We've all been brainwashed as youth, as long as we are going to allow free thinking, we are going to have to deal with the results of people going to extremes outside of what we consider acceptable.
Any argument along the same lines as the one you presented can be boiled down to the same sentiment: "My belief/moral/cultural system is superior to theirs."
In some cases many would agree with you, in some cases not. Isn't what is currently being discussed simply the same argument that you've presented, only with the parents speaking instead of an unrelated 3rd party?
To be perfectly honest, I think a world where everyone believed the same as I would be paradise. I consider my moral system to be without flaw, and I know that if everyone followed it as well as I did there would be no conflict or violence in the world. But the rest of the monkeys don't seem to agree. So the question is, are you of the same mind as I or are you one of those who is willing to let others practice their own values regardless of how large a mistake you think those values are?
We both know what the majority of the Christians this product is aimed out would say.
As other people have mentioned, the auto companies are subsidized by the participating state governments to design and build these cars. The states are simply attempting to ensure that the auto companies aren't taking the money and then selling the results to the rest of the nation for 'free'.
You assume the phones in the front row will be activated and not 'freed'. If they are freed, then they don't count as activated and thus the probelm is still solvable.
It's an interesting idea, but given the overwhelming majority of traffic on publicly maintained roads is commercial in nature, what this really results in is the same thing as an income tax, just one which favors companies with a inefficient localized and decentralized distribution network as opposed to companies with efficient centralized regional ones.
While the more frugal of citizens might see a reduced impact on their wallet, more than likely any savings would be quickly eaten up by increased costs on the products they purchase.
Unless they buy only from local suppliers, who normally are already more expensive due to their inability to deal in the same volume as national suppliers.
Of course, since the vast majority of the tax base in most locations is not from the citizens but from the corporations that work there, this might have a positive economic effect on the area, up to the point where it becomes infeasible for an outside company to compete with the local ones and we suddenly revert to pre-interstate level commerce where the majority of the products you and I take for granted today are simply not available for purchase as we don't live in an area that can produce them.
You are missing the teen sarcasm tags. They weren't included explictly in the write up since teen sarcasm is the least subtle type around and thus rarely needs to be explicitly tagged as such.
The above paragraph for instance, properly should have been tagged as sarcasm, as I am no longer a teen and you may have taken it as serious discourse. However, had a teen typed it, you would have been assaulted by the vistage of the poster rolling their eyes and snorking derisively in your directly simply by glancing at this post. You would have thus been assured that the meat of this post was purely to point out the fact that we were talking about a father teasing his 17 year old son about asking permission to play GTA. And thus the discussion was carried out in the tone of "Well DUH!".
as well as providing a fairly simple manner of performing DOS against a domain, simply spoof your way into seeming to be their mail server and slam in the garbage.
The original color of the magic shoes Dorothy wore were silver. When MGM made the movie, they changed the color of the shoes to red. This was for the same reason the Witch became green, to show off their new technicolor technology.
If you are going to give Oz the "American McGee" or "Todd McFarlane" treatment (i.e. horribly twist the story into a Gothic horror with heavy adult themes), you are going to have to make her boots Red (if you are aiming for the movie) or Silver (if you are aiming for the books). Anything else and you've just got a trussed up tart in fairy tale land.
Google Books seems to have it. If the link doesn't work (haven't tried linking through it before), just search for the name.
This is actually the first of the 19 books she wrote to continue the story after Baum died. However it's a mix between fans whether they consider the books cannon or not. Some feel she took too much liberty with the characters and situations.
Most of her books, however, are still covered by copyright. It's only the very earliest that have passed back into the public domain.
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There are plenty of us out there that are willing to reward those who behave in a manner we consider "good" with money as incentive to continue along that path.
That's why I don't own Microsoft stock but do own Google stock. The question will be, how many of those people are aware of this and how many are Radiohead fans? I'm a bit shamefaced to admit that while I've heard of them, I wouldn't be able to name a song by them without resorting to Google/Wikipedia. But then, I'm not that into the music world. I probably have heard their songs day in and day out and simply haven't connected the song to the group.
This model, the cheap disc vs the expensive collector's item with goodies, has worked well in the video game and anime markets. I don't see much of a difference here other than the fact that they are marketing the cheap disc as "really cheap". I hope it works out for them. If previous experience is anything to go by, I think it will.
Sadly, the drive was later mistaken as a normal CD drive and one of the researchers attempted to play the collection of Sony CD's on it. Now the drive refuses to do anything, claiming the pesticides are patented and trademarked and detecting them would be a violation of someone's Intellectual Property.
You get to pick, if your site does flash ads or not. So I wouldn't consider this evil. If you are visiting sites that think flash is 'cool' then they'll be serving up flash one way or the other. And I would place the blame, either way, on the site itself.
In terms of "evil" what will determine if Google's lost track is if they maintain control over the ads or if they'll be come the malware crap that so many shady flash ad distribution networks use.
Bullshit. You can trout that nonsense out when it comes to driving because driving actually requires some form of responsibility to keep you from slaughtering everyone else on the road.
Flying, unless you are the PILOT, doesn't.
Along the same lines, it's a privilege to live in the US. After all, you could flip out and kill everyone around you any minute now. Maybe we should just commit you now and skip the whole surveillance.
Hope this helps.
2006 - 60,000
2005 - 70,000
2004 - 65,000
From informal google searching. So PAX is not quite E3 levels yet, but given PAX's popularity and E3's current lack thereof, they could easily swap roles in a few years.
So, when it comes out, "Jailbreak" it and install a suite of "real" PDA apps. It's not as if this won't be the iPod Homebrewer's dream.
They are "Opening the source" but not going open source. Basically if you are non-commercial (i.e. academic or amateur) you can get a free license to play around with the code, but if you are commercial then you have to pay.
This is more like one of Microsoft's aborted attempts at opening source, where they'll let you have access as long as you don't do anything they might have wanted to do or competes in anyway with them.
Here is a hint. I have ad block plus installed and see several ads on numerous web sites that I visit. Additionally, I don't go to the effort of adding them to the filter list.
Or to be more direct: I think your question could be more accurately rephrased as...
How exactly will a webmaster find annoying flashy ads that attempt to force users to divert attention from my content, that users are willing to accept, if the ads are blocked and nobody ever sees them?The ads in themselves will be the reason why people do or don't block them.
The straw that breaks the camel's back may just be one straw. It may not even be the heaviest or biggest straw. It may owe it's entire fame to all the straws that came before it.
But it's still the straw that broke the camel's back. The first straw didn't, the straw just before the last straw didn't, just the one straw. The last straw.
Thats the straw that gets remembered.
How many people attempted to fly solo transatlantic before Charles? Can you name any, and if so, do you consider it an acheivement or a matter of 'everyone knows that'?
That isn't to belittle RMS or his works, but for all he put into it, it would have come to naught if Linus or someone else hadn't come along and given the final push.
Debunked here but still interesting.
In Soviet Russia, radioactive squirrels introduce you into the wild?
While I was in college I happened to notice the following posted on the door of the office of my statistics professor.
"My dear friends, I am here to warn you of a tremendous crisis we are facing today. We all remember times when we could go to sleep at night secure in the knowledge that our homes and lives are safe. But today, this is no longer so!
Here are two charts, one showing the violent crime rate in our fair town as it has increased in the past decade, as reported via calls to 911!
The second chart shows the rapid proliferation of telephone poles that have been placed in our fair community!
Clearly, you can see that as the number of telephone poles goes from zero a decade ago to the dizzying heights we have today, the rate of crime being reported via 911 has drastically risen as well!
The answer is clear! To protect our town we MUST cut down the telephone poles!"
There are plenty who have done the same, with less intent. My parents happen to teach in a small rural area, the amount of pure, for lack of a better word, "disinformation" provided by some parents to their children is scary. And while this is an example is in a rural area and thus easier to swallow for most here, given stereotypes, the same sort of thing happens everywhere.
Yes, people who raise their children outside of the 'norm' of culture are typically looked down upon and if these people weren't already ostracized, they normally become so. But for the US (at least) the line where someone actually steps on and says "no, this is wrong" is drawn well in favor of the parent.
We've all been brainwashed as youth, as long as we are going to allow free thinking, we are going to have to deal with the results of people going to extremes outside of what we consider acceptable.
Any argument along the same lines as the one you presented can be boiled down to the same sentiment: "My belief/moral/cultural system is superior to theirs."
In some cases many would agree with you, in some cases not. Isn't what is currently being discussed simply the same argument that you've presented, only with the parents speaking instead of an unrelated 3rd party?
To be perfectly honest, I think a world where everyone believed the same as I would be paradise. I consider my moral system to be without flaw, and I know that if everyone followed it as well as I did there would be no conflict or violence in the world. But the rest of the monkeys don't seem to agree. So the question is, are you of the same mind as I or are you one of those who is willing to let others practice their own values regardless of how large a mistake you think those values are?
We both know what the majority of the Christians this product is aimed out would say.
As other people have mentioned, the auto companies are subsidized by the participating state governments to design and build these cars. The states are simply attempting to ensure that the auto companies aren't taking the money and then selling the results to the rest of the nation for 'free'.
They can also draw mustaches and horns ALL OVER YOUR PICTURES! OMG!
Honestly, there are tin foil hat thoughts and there are just coming up with something to find a flaw, any flaw no matter how ridculous, thoughts.
You assume the phones in the front row will be activated and not 'freed'. If they are freed, then they don't count as activated and thus the probelm is still solvable.
It's an interesting idea, but given the overwhelming majority of traffic on publicly maintained roads is commercial in nature, what this really results in is the same thing as an income tax, just one which favors companies with a inefficient localized and decentralized distribution network as opposed to companies with efficient centralized regional ones.
While the more frugal of citizens might see a reduced impact on their wallet, more than likely any savings would be quickly eaten up by increased costs on the products they purchase.
Unless they buy only from local suppliers, who normally are already more expensive due to their inability to deal in the same volume as national suppliers.
Of course, since the vast majority of the tax base in most locations is not from the citizens but from the corporations that work there, this might have a positive economic effect on the area, up to the point where it becomes infeasible for an outside company to compete with the local ones and we suddenly revert to pre-interstate level commerce where the majority of the products you and I take for granted today are simply not available for purchase as we don't live in an area that can produce them.
Or at least, that's how I see it playing out.
Wouldn't a Mr Magoo film need the exact opposite effect? Everything out of focus?
You are missing the teen sarcasm tags. They weren't included explictly in the write up since teen sarcasm is the least subtle type around and thus rarely needs to be explicitly tagged as such.
The above paragraph for instance, properly should have been tagged as sarcasm, as I am no longer a teen and you may have taken it as serious discourse. However, had a teen typed it, you would have been assaulted by the vistage of the poster rolling their eyes and snorking derisively in your directly simply by glancing at this post. You would have thus been assured that the meat of this post was purely to point out the fact that we were talking about a father teasing his 17 year old son about asking permission to play GTA. And thus the discussion was carried out in the tone of "Well DUH!".
as well as providing a fairly simple manner of performing DOS against a domain, simply spoof your way into seeming to be their mail server and slam in the garbage.
*sigh*
The original color of the magic shoes Dorothy wore were silver. When MGM made the movie, they changed the color of the shoes to red. This was for the same reason the Witch became green, to show off their new technicolor technology.
If you are going to give Oz the "American McGee" or "Todd McFarlane" treatment (i.e. horribly twist the story into a Gothic horror with heavy adult themes), you are going to have to make her boots Red (if you are aiming for the movie) or Silver (if you are aiming for the books). Anything else and you've just got a trussed up tart in fairy tale land.
No, silver, of course. They can't be magic if they aren't silver or red.
Google Books seems to have it. If the link doesn't work (haven't tried linking through it before), just search for the name.
This is actually the first of the 19 books she wrote to continue the story after Baum died. However it's a mix between fans whether they consider the books cannon or not. Some feel she took too much liberty with the characters and situations.
Most of her books, however, are still covered by copyright. It's only the very earliest that have passed back into the public domain.