If you use Ad-block Plus you nuke all ads without first making that call. If you would visit Ars for a while with ads enabled you would see that the vast majority of ads are exactly not obnoxious or overbearing.
They do all of that except for the occasional animated ad which doesn't play for more then a few seconds. They are going to be re-opening your their store as well, but they do offer a yearly (soon to be monthly) subscription.
They have been running the site for 12 years (longer then most ad supported sites), and have actually had to lay off site because of drops in ad revenue. They also have a subscription model. The only two possible sources they don't have are micropayments (really not going to happen) and donations. They probably going to start merchandising again, which allow the equivalent of donations.
So they are really do everything they can to keep creating original content (which slashdot doesn't do) while just asking people to support them by loading a few KB of ads when they visit the page.
Have you been to Ars? Its ads are none of those, a single banner and 2 block ads (soon to be one). With the occasional single cycle animated flash ad (ie. the animation stops after a few seconds). They don't have any in text ads, and don't spread their articles over extra pages to get page views.
If nobody knows about your prefect product, how is it going to sell? You have to build awareness somehow, not everyone gets free press about every product they create (like Apple).
By the way "name dropping within actual content" is something that most journalist would *never do*. They might run a story about an interesting product they find, but how would anyone here about that product without any advertising? (See we have come full circle again).
I have been on that site for 5+ years, and they have only run 2-3 of those campaigns ever. And they were really nothing more then a large non-cycling animation banner on the top of the site, linking to the sidebar. You pervasive ad-block everything people are very oversensitive, the real world is much more annoying an unwilling to bend to your will.
So the only thing they had was animation and those animations stopped after a few seconds didn't they? They also loaded after the page's content. I think you have to get over yourself, they are as low key as possible while still satisfy the people who pay for the ads.
As for internet = TV, they are both "rich" media, ie. if it allows animation it will be used. If you are *truly* tired of the Internet being TV you would never use an online video site, or use it to gather video.
Also, if you skip Ads with a DVR they advertises don't know it. They also take that skipping into account when paying for ads. Ars on the other hand sells a certain number of ad views to advertisers, and these are very closely tracked.
They exclusively use doubleclick (google) to serve ads, and you can opt out their tracking: http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx
You can also disable third party tracking cookies so they can't determine the shape of your tinfoil hat;).
Yet Ars doesn't run those kind of ads. No autoplay sound, any animated ads are one-shot (ie. the animation stops in a few seconds). People who blanket ad-block never know if a site is running decent ads, because they never give anyone a chance.
Why should we spend time learning how to spell everything perfectly if we have a computer that can automatically correct the small errors for us? Not spending hours memorizing the exact spelling of words frees up more time for humans to spend time learning other higher level things.
And people scoff at those whole point to China as a credible thread to the US. It seems pretty simple, China is playing the game of geopolitical and economic dominance to win. They abide by just enough rules to make the rest of the world look away, turning EU and the US into patsies while China builds their strength. In several decades if technology is not able to meet the growing demands for natural resources and energy China might be too strong for anyone, the US included, to stop them taking what they want by force (whether its overt force or not).
If they could do a non-invasive brain and interior body scan to determine if you had explosives surgically implanted or were thinking about committing a terrorist attack they would, and there would be people cheering them on.
Gravatar just needs every user to supply a "salt" along with there email where ever there gravatar is used, they could even call it a password. Combine the password/salt with the emacs to generate the hash. This would make guessing the email from the hash much more difficult.
That's not true at all. When the LHC broke down the first time it caused a decent amount of damage, boring a deep whole into the surrounding concrete. Also the normal beam can bore a hole through 40 meters of solid copper, and it require a very special grouping of materials to stop used up beams.
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It only has a 30 mile range and gets just 0.5 hours of flight time with its 5 gallons of fuel. Not exactly the best commute vehicle. Source: http://www.martinjetpack.com/technical-information.aspx
If you use Ad-block Plus you nuke all ads without first making that call. If you would visit Ars for a while with ads enabled you would see that the vast majority of ads are exactly not obnoxious or overbearing.
Have you even RTFA? The Ars staff have directly responded to hundreds of reader posts.
If ads are not a valid income source, then how has Ars existed for 12+ years?
Click throughs don't figure into they way they sell ads. They only sell impressions.
They do all of that except for the occasional animated ad which doesn't play for more then a few seconds. They are going to be re-opening your their store as well, but they do offer a yearly (soon to be monthly) subscription.
They have been running the site for 12 years (longer then most ad supported sites), and have actually had to lay off site because of drops in ad revenue. They also have a subscription model. The only two possible sources they don't have are micropayments (really not going to happen) and donations. They probably going to start merchandising again, which allow the equivalent of donations.
So they are really do everything they can to keep creating original content (which slashdot doesn't do) while just asking people to support them by loading a few KB of ads when they visit the page.
Have you been to Ars? Its ads are none of those, a single banner and 2 block ads (soon to be one). With the occasional single cycle animated flash ad (ie. the animation stops after a few seconds). They don't have any in text ads, and don't spread their articles over extra pages to get page views.
If nobody knows about your prefect product, how is it going to sell? You have to build awareness somehow, not everyone gets free press about every product they create (like Apple). By the way "name dropping within actual content" is something that most journalist would *never do*. They might run a story about an interesting product they find, but how would anyone here about that product without any advertising? (See we have come full circle again).
I have been on that site for 5+ years, and they have only run 2-3 of those campaigns ever. And they were really nothing more then a large non-cycling animation banner on the top of the site, linking to the sidebar. You pervasive ad-block everything people are very oversensitive, the real world is much more annoying an unwilling to bend to your will.
So the only thing they had was animation and those animations stopped after a few seconds didn't they? They also loaded after the page's content. I think you have to get over yourself, they are as low key as possible while still satisfy the people who pay for the ads. As for internet = TV, they are both "rich" media, ie. if it allows animation it will be used. If you are *truly* tired of the Internet being TV you would never use an online video site, or use it to gather video.
Also, if you skip Ads with a DVR they advertises don't know it. They also take that skipping into account when paying for ads. Ars on the other hand sells a certain number of ad views to advertisers, and these are very closely tracked.
They exclusively use doubleclick (google) to serve ads, and you can opt out their tracking: http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx You can also disable third party tracking cookies so they can't determine the shape of your tinfoil hat ;).
Ars loads all ads in iframes in a such a way as they do not slow down page loading.
Yet Ars doesn't run those kind of ads. No autoplay sound, any animated ads are one-shot (ie. the animation stops in a few seconds). People who blanket ad-block never know if a site is running decent ads, because they never give anyone a chance.
Ars sells campaigns where in they agree to meet a certain view count. So they are not payed directly per view, but for meeting specific targets.
If only he had stayed away from Indy: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/187269
Why should we spend time learning how to spell everything perfectly if we have a computer that can automatically correct the small errors for us? Not spending hours memorizing the exact spelling of words frees up more time for humans to spend time learning other higher level things.
And people scoff at those whole point to China as a credible thread to the US. It seems pretty simple, China is playing the game of geopolitical and economic dominance to win. They abide by just enough rules to make the rest of the world look away, turning EU and the US into patsies while China builds their strength. In several decades if technology is not able to meet the growing demands for natural resources and energy China might be too strong for anyone, the US included, to stop them taking what they want by force (whether its overt force or not).
Confirmed. This kind of stuff is pretty crazy.
If they could do a non-invasive brain and interior body scan to determine if you had explosives surgically implanted or were thinking about committing a terrorist attack they would, and there would be people cheering them on.
Gravatar just needs every user to supply a "salt" along with there email where ever there gravatar is used, they could even call it a password. Combine the password/salt with the emacs to generate the hash. This would make guessing the email from the hash much more difficult.
No it means that linux will ship with an open source alternative to the closed source Nvidia drivers.
That's not true at all. When the LHC broke down the first time it caused a decent amount of damage, boring a deep whole into the surrounding concrete. Also the normal beam can bore a hole through 40 meters of solid copper, and it require a very special grouping of materials to stop used up beams.
Mod parent up: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,25727106-5014239,00.html