Do you not realize that the expansion of the economy is almost entirely due to debt?
I think you mean, due to massive amounts of automation, international trade, power generating capacity, and modern technology. Do you think in historical times a person who considered himself poor could be expected to be able to buy ~half a ton of wheat for one day's work?
I guess Caveat Emptor is now being taken care of by mother government...
In historical times, a dishonest merchant would be put to death. No one likes lying liars, they had better beware of us. Else, uh, "Death of a Salesman".
It has high transaction costs due to the need to check against fraud. Intentionally worn coins, gold-plated tungsten, gold-silver-copper alloy,... Also, the economy has expanded faster than gold can be mined. A gold coin the size of a dime (~.34 cm^3) would be worth ~$250, so good luck getting change.
I added a link to the news at the ffmpeg.org site re: the actual release, might have fixed some punctuation or some other trivial stuff, but the submission that became this post came in pretty much as-is.
Apologies for not noting this release a few days sooner, too; the things that FFmpeg make possible are deeply appreciated by naive end-users like me.
timothy
timmy?
Uh, this story is missing it's link, and you seem to have accidentally posted it in the comments section instead of the headlines section. Are you feeling OK?
That really wouldn't accomplish anything, and has two problems in particular: 1) Ad companies don't trust the website owners, which is part of why they have all that tracking and serve the ad themselves 2) Adblockers would adapt. If need be, with dynamically downloaded per-website blacklists, passing the pages through an ad-killing proxy (with a giant spam filter), or similar. There literally is nothing they can do, at least not that wouldn't cost them more than the ad impression is worth. I mean, any of the temporary solutions would only work until some scum-of-the-earth asshole decides to abuse it for maximum profits before all the other assholes abuse it, and then users will get pissed off and fix that, too.
A bigger ocean means more room for fish and assorted sea creatures.
They're already hogging 70% of our land. I say we reverse those numbers, get Trump to build a great big wall around one of the oceans, and then pump all the other oceans into it.
[...] which means 300 million mobile users just installed ad blocking software.....
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of assholes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I think something awesome has happened.
There actually is good advertizing. I mean, actually good and not merely unobtrusive. It's very rare but it exists. Here's how to see if any particular ad is an example: Are people better off for having seen the ad than if they hadn't?
This comes in a few forms: Reminders for something they wanted to do but forgot, or didn't think about. (People who bought X also bought Y.) Coordination issues. (Eg cellphone networks, or electric cars, or something else that needs multiple people buying it at the same time) Bargains (actual ones, not fake sales) Fundamentally new items
Of course, pretty much everyone will think that their pet product is worthy of everyone's attention, which is why basically all advertizing is equivalent to V!@GRA spam, only more deceitful.
Was it too difficult to wait until the precedent had been set, before demonstrating that those who warned us that it wouldn't end there they were exactly right?
Please mod the parent -1 redundant. All of the information in the above post was also in TFA.
The information that the information in the above post is in TFA, is already in TFA and the above post, which makes your post similarly redundant yet lacking any redeeming qualities.
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Just wait a bit, and they'll start resetting your "don't show me ads" setting by "accident" every update.
How much would it cost to get a Linux ad placed there?
ad for Square Enix's Rise of the Tomb Raider.
What do you say now, Microsoft shills?
Microsoft is not going to go tits up from displaying boobs by default.
Just replace the metal part of the bullet with a paintball, and it will save even more lives.
What, just because they're ~10,000 times less efficient than ion engines?
How much does it add up to, when you include late fees, compound interest, inflation, punitive damages, and the megacorp discount?
Do you not realize that the expansion of the economy is almost entirely due to debt?
I think you mean, due to massive amounts of automation, international trade, power generating capacity, and modern technology. Do you think in historical times a person who considered himself poor could be expected to be able to buy ~half a ton of wheat for one day's work?
I guess Caveat Emptor is now being taken care of by mother government...
In historical times, a dishonest merchant would be put to death. No one likes lying liars, they had better beware of us. Else, uh, "Death of a Salesman".
Gold makes a terrible currency? Since when?
It has high transaction costs due to the need to check against fraud. Intentionally worn coins, gold-plated tungsten, gold-silver-copper alloy, ... Also, the economy has expanded faster than gold can be mined. A gold coin the size of a dime (~.34 cm^3) would be worth ~$250, so good luck getting change.
Is as bad as using adblocker.
I'd like to see how it does on Rotten Tomatoes.
Those that refuse to be decrypted?
No, those that have a worm.
WiFi has no problem working through dust.
You're not right :)
I added a link to the news at the ffmpeg.org site re: the actual release, might have fixed some punctuation or some other trivial stuff, but the submission that became this post came in pretty much as-is.
Apologies for not noting this release a few days sooner, too; the things that FFmpeg make possible are deeply appreciated by naive end-users like me.
timothy
timmy?
Uh, this story is missing it's link, and you seem to have accidentally posted it in the comments section instead of the headlines section. Are you feeling OK?
This is a massive development.
That really wouldn't accomplish anything, and has two problems in particular:
1) Ad companies don't trust the website owners, which is part of why they have all that tracking and serve the ad themselves
2) Adblockers would adapt. If need be, with dynamically downloaded per-website blacklists, passing the pages through an ad-killing proxy (with a giant spam filter), or similar. There literally is nothing they can do, at least not that wouldn't cost them more than the ad impression is worth. I mean, any of the temporary solutions would only work until some scum-of-the-earth asshole decides to abuse it for maximum profits before all the other assholes abuse it, and then users will get pissed off and fix that, too.
How will Ocean pay for Wall?
Presumably, with about 40,000,000,000 acres of real estate.
A bigger ocean means more room for fish and assorted sea creatures.
They're already hogging 70% of our land. I say we reverse those numbers, get Trump to build a great big wall around one of the oceans, and then pump all the other oceans into it.
One bad apple increases the electricity generating capabilities of the whole bunch.
[...] which means 300 million mobile users just installed ad blocking software.....
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of assholes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I think something awesome has happened.
There actually is good advertizing. I mean, actually good and not merely unobtrusive. It's very rare but it exists. Here's how to see if any particular ad is an example:
Are people better off for having seen the ad than if they hadn't?
This comes in a few forms:
Reminders for something they wanted to do but forgot, or didn't think about. (People who bought X also bought Y.)
Coordination issues. (Eg cellphone networks, or electric cars, or something else that needs multiple people buying it at the same time)
Bargains (actual ones, not fake sales)
Fundamentally new items
Of course, pretty much everyone will think that their pet product is worthy of everyone's attention, which is why basically all advertizing is equivalent to V!@GRA spam, only more deceitful.
It simply demonstrates that they don't care what the outcome is going to be because most people (51% or so) don't care.
Most of the minority of people who answer a stranger's questions about their personal opinions over the phone, don't care.
Was it too difficult to wait until the precedent had been set, before demonstrating that those who warned us that it wouldn't end there they were exactly right?
Adding an 's' won't change the name nor IP address of the website you're visiting.
Please mod the parent -1 redundant. All of the information in the above post was also in TFA.
The information that the information in the above post is in TFA, is already in TFA and the above post, which makes your post similarly redundant yet lacking any redeeming qualities.