Maybe the clicking not turning into sales is an indicator that advertising doesn't work? Normal crappy advertising doesn't have this easily measured feedback, the advertising companies just make some figures up to justify their big fees. "Yeah, we increased your market share 5% against an overall decline in the shifting demographic since 9/11 , therefore give us more money."
Every day I see ads for crap that I could easily afford to change to, but I don't. I am sticking with Kodos.
According to your link, the sandcrawler is equipped with sandpits for the kids to play in. Nice. I guess this so they don't get left behind like if they were playing in the sand outside? Can you confirm this?
How much is the guy earning for doing this? And does he call it art?
If you get paid AND call it art, it is art. Paint spatter, not art.
Paint spatter that I call art but nobody will pay for, not art.
Paint spatter sold for big pile of cash, art.
Painted wall paid for at minimum wage and not described as art, not art.
Ditto light bulbs flashing, pile of car tyres, animal carcasses etc.
Screw the interface, I can't see the cool way the screen is projected onto my face anyway, I want the movie style infinite bandwidth data transfer and instant searching and pattern matching.
Hehe! I can sympathise, there. My wish feature would be when I am logged in at SuperAdminRootGodOfEverything and I tell the system to 'shut down now' it shuts down now without popping up 43 windows saying lame things like 'Media player(no file open) is running, do you wish to shut it down now?'.
Interesting point regarding blind acceptance of other people's theories, it is a good thing to encourage people to think for themselves.
However, the theory of evolution is a self contained 'explaination' for how we came to exist and how the world is the way it is, while any religious 'explaination' simply replaces the problem of 'where did we come from?' with 'where did god come from?'.
Also, religion is not subject to the same level of criticism and argument as scientific theory. Any attempt to analyse a religion quickly runs into "Because God says so, and He is God so there!" styles of response. Sometimes followed by riots, fisticuffs, wars etc.
My final observation is that the supreme being seems to require more donations from me than I would expect from the creator of the universe.
And who's going to retrofit all those servers with this 'serial port' you just made up? And install all the drivers for this fancy new technology? This blue sky thinking is all very well, but the guy needs something practical. Dumb ass.
There is probably some deep psychological meaning to be derived. Although not by the current state of the 'art' of analysis. And certainly not at those prices.
I also reckon $400 is cheap for a lesson about how capitalism works and why it is important to read contracts thoroughly. Hopefully, by making THE KIDS PAY the bill they ran up, this is a lesson that will stay with them for life.
I hadn't realised that li-ion and NiMH rechargable batteries were invented for cellphones and that cellphones would be useless without them. My first cellphone had 6 x aa nicads and worked just fine. and i could recharge it.
Also, digital cameras are possible only because of the development of flash memory (a miniturised hard disk) and OLED. Wow!
Thanks for the link!
I am happy to see that there will be big stupid icons in 90 billion colours wasting all the space, with the things you want to get at somewhere off the side of a scrollbar. Way to go! Which iteration of the gui is this?
What other stategy is there?
ATC "Hey, boss, those pesky radios are causing a danger to air traffic. If a plane crashes I will be blamed for not getting something done about it!"
Boss "STFU and get back to work. Don't worry, in the event of a crash I will protect my own ass."
There's loads of good stuff on TV!
There's Futurama, and Simpsons and QI and Green Room and Black Books, and 15 Storeys, the list goes on.
Okay, because most british programs only last 4 'seasons' of six half hour episodes a year that means that there is about 50 hours of good new television a year! Clearly a TiVo is vital to grab those gems from the other 500,000 hours of crap and 125,000 hours of advertising. And 5,000,000,000 hours of sports. And 10,000,000,000 hours of sports 'celebrities' talking drivel.
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What? You pay someone else to advertise your porn and this attracts customers for you who pay you money for your porn? Really?
If I was trolling, I would have posted as AC. Thanks for calling me a moron, come back when you have a point/clue/sense of perspective.
Maybe the clicking not turning into sales is an indicator that advertising doesn't work? Normal crappy advertising doesn't have this easily measured feedback, the advertising companies just make some figures up to justify their big fees. "Yeah, we increased your market share 5% against an overall decline in the shifting demographic since 9/11 , therefore give us more money."
Every day I see ads for crap that I could easily afford to change to, but I don't. I am sticking with Kodos.
According to your link, the sandcrawler is equipped with sandpits for the kids to play in. Nice. I guess this so they don't get left behind like if they were playing in the sand outside? Can you confirm this?
How much is the guy earning for doing this? And does he call it art?
If you get paid AND call it art, it is art.
Paint spatter, not art.
Paint spatter that I call art but nobody will pay for, not art.
Paint spatter sold for big pile of cash, art.
Painted wall paid for at minimum wage and not described as art, not art.
Ditto light bulbs flashing, pile of car tyres, animal carcasses etc.
Changing the way a problem is viewed is much easier and cheaper than fixing it. Welcome to the modern world.
Ooopsie. Thought you were pushing the "You are accepting someone elses word for it either way" view.
No it isn't more important than I think. The data availibility lags the display capabilities so much it isn't funny.
Screw the interface, I can't see the cool way the screen is projected onto my face anyway, I want the movie style infinite bandwidth data transfer and instant searching and pattern matching.
Hehe! I can sympathise, there. My wish feature would be when I am logged in at SuperAdminRootGodOfEverything and I tell the system to 'shut down now' it shuts down now without popping up 43 windows saying lame things like 'Media player(no file open) is running, do you wish to shut it down now?'.
D00d, read 'the blind watchmaker'. It addresses those points.
Interesting point regarding blind acceptance of other people's theories, it is a good thing to encourage people to think for themselves.
However, the theory of evolution is a self contained 'explaination' for how we came to exist and how the world is the way it is, while any religious 'explaination' simply replaces the problem of 'where did we come from?' with 'where did god come from?'.
Also, religion is not subject to the same level of criticism and argument as scientific theory. Any attempt to analyse a religion quickly runs into "Because God says so, and He is God so there!" styles of response. Sometimes followed by riots, fisticuffs, wars etc.
My final observation is that the supreme being seems to require more donations from me than I would expect from the creator of the universe.
I think the tv would work fine if, like me, you mount your tv aerial on the OUTSIDE of your house.
And who's going to retrofit all those servers with this 'serial port' you just made up? And install all the drivers for this fancy new technology? This blue sky thinking is all very well, but the guy needs something practical. Dumb ass.
If you have no expectation of privacy on the public road, where does that put unmarked patrol cars? Why should they remain anonymous?
There is probably some deep psychological meaning to be derived. Although not by the current state of the 'art' of analysis. And certainly not at those prices.
That's 'were' not 'mere' ! How long before you learn to type, you idoit?
Sadly, this can be extended to just about everything. Look at the way people drive, for one.
I also reckon $400 is cheap for a lesson about how capitalism works and why it is important to read contracts thoroughly. Hopefully, by making THE KIDS PAY the bill they ran up, this is a lesson that will stay with them for life.
I hadn't realised that li-ion and NiMH rechargable batteries were invented for cellphones and that cellphones would be useless without them. My first cellphone had 6 x aa nicads and worked just fine. and i could recharge it.
Also, digital cameras are possible only because of the development of flash memory (a miniturised hard disk) and OLED. Wow!
The tinfoil helmet. So much less cumbersome than the old helmets made from lead sheet(although they did give you big strong neck muscles).
Thanks for the link!
I am happy to see that there will be big stupid icons in 90 billion colours wasting all the space, with the things you want to get at somewhere off the side of a scrollbar.
Way to go!
Which iteration of the gui is this?
What other stategy is there?
ATC "Hey, boss, those pesky radios are causing a danger to air traffic. If a plane crashes I will be blamed for not getting something done about it!"
Boss "STFU and get back to work. Don't worry, in the event of a crash I will protect my own ass."
There's loads of good stuff on TV!
There's Futurama, and Simpsons and QI and Green Room and Black Books, and 15 Storeys, the list goes on.
Okay, because most british programs only last 4 'seasons' of six half hour episodes a year that means that there is about 50 hours of good new television a year! Clearly a TiVo is vital to grab those gems from the other 500,000 hours of crap and 125,000 hours of advertising. And 5,000,000,000 hours of sports. And 10,000,000,000 hours of sports 'celebrities' talking drivel.
Erm... I think 1 dead pixel is annoying and that was a way of testing if you found 1 dead pixel annoying before spending a few hundred bucks on kit.