Deja vu - when you feel you've experienced (or dreamed an experience) before, due to some glitch in the brain. Therefore, if you actually/have/ experienced or dreamed an experience before, it is not deja vu (in the case of dreaming something that later has come true, some would call this "premonition", others would call it "coincidence"), and is therefore not covered by studies of deja vu.
Incidentally, dreams are the sorting and moving of huge amounts of memories in the mind, which do not actually occur over a time line or story line. It's the recalling of a dream when you're awake that puts the dreams events a chronological order, based on how your mind can deal with those memories being triggered in such a short amount of time. Memories of "blue" and memories of "chairs" can therefore seem to be a single memory of a blue chair, collisions with a memory of a person and a memory of losing something can result in a dream experience of this person taking your blue chair. This is why dreams can seem very random, and produce experiences you've never actually experienced before (nobody ever actually took your blue chair, you don't even have a blue chair).
I'll leave you to think about what this might mean for your experiences, or you can just write it off as "not [always] true".
No, because it would be caused by observing a change/event with one eye before observing it with the other, although I don't think this is the cause, as deja vu can go beyond (and even exist without) visual memory.
Yes but we're talking about increasing efficiency of marketing, not increasing the effects through brute force. No marketing company are going to waste their time and money on you if they know you're not going to be buying their product. They only do because they're not sure, and if they advertise to enough 'not sure's they're going to find some 'yes's.
"why would they reduce their advertising budget right after they made ads more effective?"
That's like asking why would somebody want to reduce their electricity bill after saving money by switching to energy saving lightbulbs? Businesses (and people in general) *want* to save money, and switching to a more efficient/effective system is the best way to do this.
"If an ad is more likely to result in a sale, logic would imply that firms should spend MORE on ads, not less"
An ad would be more likely to result in a sale because they reach less people who don't want to purchase the product. When you're looking for a certain product, however, adverts you recieve from companies selling that product are pieces of information letting you know what choices you have, which I find invaluable, as it saves me time having to find them out myself.
As somebody working on the other side at the moment, with a client who's trying to market their product, I can tell you that the last thing we want is to advertise to people who aren't interested. We spend more time trying to weed those people/out/, than finding people to weed/in/, as they're a waste of the marketing budget.
"Maybe you can explain to me b), how a government incompetent enough to put an innocent on the watch list would be competent enough to catch real terrorists"
That would depend on how quickly their "innocence" is established and removed from the list. It shows that they're watching people. But unless you're seen switching a bomb on in your shoe, it's always going to be a case of guesswork, which means "I would like to know who here really thinks the world is a safer place since 9/11"
9/11? To you that might be some significant date, but more a lot of the rest of the world it's an arbitrary date plucked out of the air. For certain countries, the date that sticks in their minds may be the date their own country was attacked (by usa/others, or something completely unrelated). Question really is, how do you think the date in which one arbitrary country (USA) was attacked was meant to make the world safer? Bush doesn't care about safer, he just cares about not being made to look a fool again, which means tightening the grip so much to avoid an attack on usa soil again. That's all.
I've added this secret government list to my secret list of secret government lists. I have got a few non-secret government lists on my secret secret government list list, but hey, I have quotas too ya know.
I also have a few secret non-government lists on it, and a few secret government non-lists... and a couple of internets.
Maybe she was meant to? Could have various effects, such as a) Deterrent. This person's less likely to do something bad if they know they're being watched. b) Spread calm. A none-terrorist is gonna tell people "hey they put me on a watchlist!", giving people confidence that the government is actually on the watchout, keeping ppl safe. c) Spread fear. Same as b, but in order to convince people there is something to fear, so they can be controlled better and hand over liberties in the name of safety.
Or maybe of cause they haven't put anywhere near that much thought into it:-)
My parents (who have kids as young as 2) moved house last year. Telewest/blueyonder availability was checked before deciding on the new house. Okay, like me, they run internet businesses, so connectivity is very important (just as most people wouldn't want to live too far away from where they work), but still... I wouldn't move to an area where I'd only have ADSL to "choose" from either. If you stop and think about it - that's pretty extreme!
It depends how well they use the information. As accuracy approaches 100%, you will only ever see adverts for things you are going to buy. So, anything that moves accuracy towards 100% is going to reduce the adverts you see (unless you're the kind of person who buys everything they see in an ad).
You're obviously not paranoid enough. Your slashdot account has been suspended. Come back when you believe the world revolves around knowing all about you, following you, and making you do what "they" want.
How is Joe Hacker going to put IR cameras in enough places to get any useful results? Attach them to street signs with some kind of power supply, computer, a wifi transmitter to he can receive the results, and hope nobody peels off the duct tape and runs off with his equipment?
Err, you do realise these aren't GPS devices, right? They take pictures and do a kinda OCR on it. The only way you could do that, is by spreading these devices around enough, and linking them all together using a series of tubes, and feeding it into a database. So, to establish somebody's route, you'd need one of these devices at each section along their route to begin with.
Far easier to put a tracker on their car. *cough* I've heard.
Without marketing information, we blanket-market... that is, put flyers/posters, web banners, use pay-per-clicks etc, *everywhere*. It's a gamble, and most people who see the ads aren't going to be interested in them, but it's all you can do.
However, with better marketing information, we cut out all the places we know people aren't going to be interested. The result: less pointless adverts everywhere.
I wouldn't get car insurance circulars through my door, millions of pizza delivery ads, or loads v14gr4 spam, -if only- they knew I wasn't interested in them.
Proper marketing information helps *all parties involved*. Unfortunately so many people have a deluded sense of grandure and think "omg they're watching *me*" like there's someone with a telescope watching and giggling everytime you fart. No company has that much time! It's usually done statistically.
The link's a client's tho who I'm trying to draw traffic (or at least, google rating, although it doesn't seem to be working)... perhaps I should include a "my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of..." disclaimer in my sig too?:-)
You don't need multiple NICs, I use iptables to classify packets from different IP addresses so they get picked up by different tc rules.
I also set up port forwarding on address ranges to different IPs, for example, 20000-20999 -> 192.168.1.20 21000-21999 -> 192.168.1.21
Then, anything that someone wants to run on their machine, they just set the port within that range (most listening programs will let you specify a port to listen on). New services can be added no problem without having to configure the firewall each time.
I use blueyonder through telewest (cable modem), and we've had our bandwidth maxed out for long periods of time without any complaint ever. I'm not sure how many gigs this translates to per month, but it's about the most you can get with that speed connection. This is achieved through running p2p apps constantly, with a linux gateway/router to give priority to certain packet types (eg, so shareaza doesn't slow down ssh etc)
"replaced it with sharing equal power of decision who's to rule, aka democracy. Now if the same happened to economy"
Corruption would occure just as it does in a "democracy", and where corruption doesn't occure, things will often end up being driven into the ground because decision is given equally to people who are less able to make good judgement. Various levels of this can occure with economy, such as socialism (the rebalance of some wealth) or communism (wealth spread evenly), but human nature stops them from working as well as they could do (or stops them working completely). Or something. Tired, going off point here, think i should go to bed:-p
Slashdot Mirror
Your mom!
See I can say stupid things too.
or "jy-gga", as in "gigantic", where the term apparently came from.
Deja vu - when you feel you've experienced (or dreamed an experience) before, due to some glitch in the brain. Therefore, if you actually /have/ experienced or dreamed an experience before, it is not deja vu (in the case of dreaming something that later has come true, some would call this "premonition", others would call it "coincidence"), and is therefore not covered by studies of deja vu.
Incidentally, dreams are the sorting and moving of huge amounts of memories in the mind, which do not actually occur over a time line or story line. It's the recalling of a dream when you're awake that puts the dreams events a chronological order, based on how your mind can deal with those memories being triggered in such a short amount of time. Memories of "blue" and memories of "chairs" can therefore seem to be a single memory of a blue chair, collisions with a memory of a person and a memory of losing something can result in a dream experience of this person taking your blue chair. This is why dreams can seem very random, and produce experiences you've never actually experienced before (nobody ever actually took your blue chair, you don't even have a blue chair).
I'll leave you to think about what this might mean for your experiences, or you can just write it off as "not [always] true".
No, because it would be caused by observing a change/event with one eye before observing it with the other, although I don't think this is the cause, as deja vu can go beyond (and even exist without) visual memory.
Yes but we're talking about increasing efficiency of marketing, not increasing the effects through brute force. No marketing company are going to waste their time and money on you if they know you're not going to be buying their product. They only do because they're not sure, and if they advertise to enough 'not sure's they're going to find some 'yes's.
"Now the biggest threat to American security is president fucktard"
s/American/World/
"why would they reduce their advertising budget right after they made ads more effective?"
/out/, than finding people to weed /in/, as they're a waste of the marketing budget.
That's like asking why would somebody want to reduce their electricity bill after saving money by switching to energy saving lightbulbs? Businesses (and people in general) *want* to save money, and switching to a more efficient/effective system is the best way to do this.
"If an ad is more likely to result in a sale, logic would imply that firms should spend MORE on ads, not less"
An ad would be more likely to result in a sale because they reach less people who don't want to purchase the product. When you're looking for a certain product, however, adverts you recieve from companies selling that product are pieces of information letting you know what choices you have, which I find invaluable, as it saves me time having to find them out myself.
As somebody working on the other side at the moment, with a client who's trying to market their product, I can tell you that the last thing we want is to advertise to people who aren't interested. We spend more time trying to weed those people
"Maybe you can explain to me b), how a government incompetent enough to put an innocent on the watch list would be competent enough to catch real terrorists"
That would depend on how quickly their "innocence" is established and removed from the list. It shows that they're watching people. But unless you're seen switching a bomb on in your shoe, it's always going to be a case of guesswork, which means "I would like to know who here really thinks the world is a safer place since 9/11"
9/11? To you that might be some significant date, but more a lot of the rest of the world it's an arbitrary date plucked out of the air. For certain countries, the date that sticks in their minds may be the date their own country was attacked (by usa/others, or something completely unrelated). Question really is, how do you think the date in which one arbitrary country (USA) was attacked was meant to make the world safer? Bush doesn't care about safer, he just cares about not being made to look a fool again, which means tightening the grip so much to avoid an attack on usa soil again. That's all.
I've added this secret government list to my secret list of secret government lists. I have got a few non-secret government lists on my secret secret government list list, but hey, I have quotas too ya know.
I also have a few secret non-government lists on it, and a few secret government non-lists... and a couple of internets.
"probably shouldn't have told him that"
:-)
Maybe she was meant to? Could have various effects, such as
a) Deterrent. This person's less likely to do something bad if they know they're being watched.
b) Spread calm. A none-terrorist is gonna tell people "hey they put me on a watchlist!", giving people confidence that the government is actually on the watchout, keeping ppl safe.
c) Spread fear. Same as b, but in order to convince people there is something to fear, so they can be controlled better and hand over liberties in the name of safety.
Or maybe of cause they haven't put anywhere near that much thought into it
I thought it was clever :-)
My parents (who have kids as young as 2) moved house last year. Telewest/blueyonder availability was checked before deciding on the new house. Okay, like me, they run internet businesses, so connectivity is very important (just as most people wouldn't want to live too far away from where they work), but still... I wouldn't move to an area where I'd only have ADSL to "choose" from either. If you stop and think about it - that's pretty extreme!
It depends how well they use the information. As accuracy approaches 100%, you will only ever see adverts for things you are going to buy. So, anything that moves accuracy towards 100% is going to reduce the adverts you see (unless you're the kind of person who buys everything they see in an ad).
Well in the UK there's the data protection act, dunno about america tho
Yeah and a person with a knife can stab you, haven't you seen psycho?
I won't even tell you what a person with a chainsaw can do!
but OMG!!1!! Watch out for the people who might look at your car and read the letters advertised on the front and back!!!
You're obviously not paranoid enough. Your slashdot account has been suspended. Come back when you believe the world revolves around knowing all about you, following you, and making you do what "they" want.
How is Joe Hacker going to put IR cameras in enough places to get any useful results? Attach them to street signs with some kind of power supply, computer, a wifi transmitter to he can receive the results, and hope nobody peels off the duct tape and runs off with his equipment?
Err, you do realise these aren't GPS devices, right? They take pictures and do a kinda OCR on it. The only way you could do that, is by spreading these devices around enough, and linking them all together using a series of tubes, and feeding it into a database. So, to establish somebody's route, you'd need one of these devices at each section along their route to begin with.
Far easier to put a tracker on their car. *cough* I've heard.
Without marketing information, we blanket-market... that is, put flyers/posters, web banners, use pay-per-clicks etc, *everywhere*. It's a gamble, and most people who see the ads aren't going to be interested in them, but it's all you can do.
However, with better marketing information, we cut out all the places we know people aren't going to be interested. The result: less pointless adverts everywhere.
I wouldn't get car insurance circulars through my door, millions of pizza delivery ads, or loads v14gr4 spam, -if only- they knew I wasn't interested in them.
Proper marketing information helps *all parties involved*. Unfortunately so many people have a deluded sense of grandure and think "omg they're watching *me*" like there's someone with a telescope watching and giggling everytime you fart. No company has that much time! It's usually done statistically.
"oops" :-)
:-)
The link's a client's tho who I'm trying to draw traffic (or at least, google rating, although it doesn't seem to be working)... perhaps I should include a "my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of..." disclaimer in my sig too?
That generalisation, as well as all generalisations, is completely false.
You don't need multiple NICs, I use iptables to classify packets from different IP addresses so they get picked up by different tc rules.
I also set up port forwarding on address ranges to different IPs, for example,
20000-20999 -> 192.168.1.20
21000-21999 -> 192.168.1.21
Then, anything that someone wants to run on their machine, they just set the port within that range (most listening programs will let you specify a port to listen on). New services can be added no problem without having to configure the firewall each time.
"I say we make them all women to make sure that we can control the population"
Make them all female, or make them all women? Cuz if you're looking for a theme park where you can find a load of women in cages, well err...
forget it, you can google for it yourself!
I use blueyonder through telewest (cable modem), and we've had our bandwidth maxed out for long periods of time without any complaint ever. I'm not sure how many gigs this translates to per month, but it's about the most you can get with that speed connection. This is achieved through running p2p apps constantly, with a linux gateway/router to give priority to certain packet types (eg, so shareaza doesn't slow down ssh etc)
"replaced it with sharing equal power of decision who's to rule, aka democracy. Now if the same happened to economy"
:-p
Corruption would occure just as it does in a "democracy", and where corruption doesn't occure, things will often end up being driven into the ground because decision is given equally to people who are less able to make good judgement. Various levels of this can occure with economy, such as socialism (the rebalance of some wealth) or communism (wealth spread evenly), but human nature stops them from working as well as they could do (or stops them working completely). Or something. Tired, going off point here, think i should go to bed