Still doesn't help the mail servers that are choking and dying under the massive spam load, though.
Although, I'll freely admit that probably half of the "choking" servers just need to be properly tuned for their intended job. Too many folks just throw as much CPU/disk/RAM at it as they can, without actually thinking about how the data all flows through.
I honestly doubt that Canada and the US *can* change to the same kind of infrastructure that Japan has.
With Japan, there are no huge wide open spaces. No worries about long highways to provide expensive and infrequently used (but critical to getting customers) service to. Just slam home a cell tower every five blocks and bob's yer uncle.
They also have huge penetration because it's so ungodly cheap over there. My roomie just came back from Japan, and was virtually offended by how much the service here was going to cost him - AND they were making him pay for the phone! The nerve! In Japan he got better service, for a quarter the price, with a free phone included.
An alternative could be to have the submission queue viewer automatically search for all the links in a story in the archive. If there's a match, display a link to the story for the editor to test.
AFAIK, the popup containst javascript that reports back to the main page, telling it "Yes, I exist, so don't abort". If the main page doesn't get that message in a certain amount of time, it closes or similar.
Actually, I -did- read the article, and I was remarking on how interesting it was that every plausible explanation reads like something out of a sitcom, just like the article said for other interpretations.
People who had been willing to buy the paper copies, but stopped since the content was online for free, will resume buying paper copies. Not all, but still at a presumably higher amount of $$$ than they lose from the ads on the free stuff.
Those who eschew paper but still are willing to pay, will get the information electronically, again presumably making AOLTW more money via subscription fees than they are losing from their lost ad impressions.
They don't care about the ads anymore. The point is they want to sell the content, not the eyeballs. Frankly, I prefer that. When you're selling the content, you tend to make it a higher quality than when you're giving it away, IMO.
I don't see how you can conclude they'd get -less- subscriptions, either. The article contends the free content online was costing them subscriptions, not gaining them.
Believe me, I've checked that out the wazoo... the problem is sporadic, and others are saying they're seeing it too, so perhaps it's not my end at all. That, or it could possibly be the PTR assignment from the upstream breaks every now and then.
The offer pretty much what you listed... and given the infrequent, but bloody impossible to track down "address found, but no resource of requested type available" I'm getting these days from securityfocus mailing lists, even despite a spread setup like you mention, I'm starting to think hard about it. Evidently -something- isn't right with my local setup, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
It has to do with people's opinion that Bond films lately are turning into massive product placement vehicles. WW was an example of humorous and blatant placement, that's all.
The whole reason we have a laptop connection in our cybercafe in addition to our own machines is that people want to be able to send using their email client, attach files, collect mail and walk away with it etc, so what you are suggesting would effectively mean we could just stop offering the service.
No. The phrase you need to research is "transparent proxies".
The user will hook up, not change anything, and as soon as something goes out with a port 25 destination, your local mail server grabs the connection instead, and takes over sending the mail.
Their ease of use, your ease of control and security.
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see anything in the announcement or on the site that this is using DB2 (what I presume you mean by "IBM's db"). Are you just assuming that's the case because IBM's hosting it?
I'm impressed. The Mozilla bugzilla normally falls over the moment/. looks it's way, which is why it denies a slashdot referral now (if I remember correctly).
Either it's just the fact this one's basically empty at the moment, or he may have some advice for the mozilla folks on properly setting up bugzilla.:)
Could be even easier... combination locks. Send the physical object out early, then distribute the combo on release day (or the night before).
It also occured to me that you can avoid vagaries of couriers by having local "staging points" - non-theater people, presumably your own employees, that recieve the movies a few days in advance, in the various towns (so no courier problems), then take them out the night before to the theaters.
Not really a good argument though (if I understand you right). If it's the system libraries and precompiled binaries you're worried about having BIND4/8 "cancer", then it doesn't matter *what* you do - BIND9, TinyDNS, MaraDNS, DJBDNS. That cruft will still be in there, until you recompile everything without said base libs.
Well, you're also not allowed to fire an arrow inside that ten foot radius, either. Both for safety, and to keep pissed off heavies from taking a swing at a light that they had told "you're dead" just before they got shot anyways.
Don't call them combat archers, though - that's something VERY different up here.
In An Tir, a combat archer is a HEAVY FIGHTER with a bow. You close withing 10 feet, he draws his sword, and you go at it.
However, there's one facet you overlooked - and that's the movie theater OWNER, who for some reason enjoys allowing copies to be made.
I have heard it told - not witnessed myself, mind you - that some of the "theater tapings" have been made in completely empty theaters, with only the camera running, and often before the official release date.
The theaters HAVE to get the film before opening day, after all... well before it in most cases, because you do NOT want to have half a premiere because of some fedex delay.
Couple that advance availability with just one owner who feel philanthropic, and you have a very high quality theater recording hitting the streets in advance of the release.
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Still doesn't help the mail servers that are choking and dying under the massive spam load, though.
Although, I'll freely admit that probably half of the "choking" servers just need to be properly tuned for their intended job. Too many folks just throw as much CPU/disk/RAM at it as they can, without actually thinking about how the data all flows through.
I honestly doubt that Canada and the US *can* change to the same kind of infrastructure that Japan has.
With Japan, there are no huge wide open spaces. No worries about long highways to provide expensive and infrequently used (but critical to getting customers) service to. Just slam home a cell tower every five blocks and bob's yer uncle.
They also have huge penetration because it's so ungodly cheap over there. My roomie just came back from Japan, and was virtually offended by how much the service here was going to cost him - AND they were making him pay for the phone! The nerve! In Japan he got better service, for a quarter the price, with a free phone included.
An alternative could be to have the submission queue viewer automatically search for all the links in a story in the archive. If there's a match, display a link to the story for the editor to test.
You're going to delay each page load by five seconds?
Gods, what a clunky, unfriendly system.
Since the javascript runs on the -client- side, and the logs are on the -server- side, how exactly would the javascript get that information?
AFAIK, the popup containst javascript that reports back to the main page, telling it "Yes, I exist, so don't abort". If the main page doesn't get that message in a certain amount of time, it closes or similar.
*mentally kisses karma goodbye*
The article headline:
"Inventor arrested on drug charges"
In the article, it says he had a pound of marajuana, and two assault rifles. The article then goes on about drugs, drugs, drugs, more drugs.
Excuse me? The pound of dope was more of a threat (well, more newsworthy) than ASSAULT RIFLES?
*shakes head*
Not meant to be a troll, though I'm sure it'll be moderated as such. Just boggles my mind.
Actually, I -did- read the article, and I was remarking on how interesting it was that every plausible explanation reads like something out of a sitcom, just like the article said for other interpretations.
In closing,
STFU, GFY, HAND.
People who had been willing to buy the paper copies, but stopped since the content was online for free, will resume buying paper copies. Not all, but still at a presumably higher amount of $$$ than they lose from the ads on the free stuff.
Those who eschew paper but still are willing to pay, will get the information electronically, again presumably making AOLTW more money via subscription fees than they are losing from their lost ad impressions.
They don't care about the ads anymore. The point is they want to sell the content, not the eyeballs. Frankly, I prefer that. When you're selling the content, you tend to make it a higher quality than when you're giving it away, IMO.
I don't see how you can conclude they'd get -less- subscriptions, either. The article contends the free content online was costing them subscriptions, not gaining them.
Possibly one that accounts for two or more people in a given location, with differing interests.
IE: the pregnant wife, and the in-the-closet gay husband?
Man, this does have TV show written all over it.
Believe me, I've checked that out the wazoo... the problem is sporadic, and others are saying they're seeing it too, so perhaps it's not my end at all. That, or it could possibly be the PTR assignment from the upstream breaks every now and then.
Hmm... that would certainly explain why I'm not able to find a single damn thing wrong. :) Thanks for that cross-reference data point!
The offer pretty much what you listed... and given the infrequent, but bloody impossible to track down "address found, but no resource of requested type available" I'm getting these days from securityfocus mailing lists, even despite a spread setup like you mention, I'm starting to think hard about it. Evidently -something- isn't right with my local setup, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
Indeed... perhaps a better term would be "escrow licensing". Less negative connotations.
It has to do with people's opinion that Bond films lately are turning into massive product placement vehicles. WW was an example of humorous and blatant placement, that's all.
The user will hook up, not change anything, and as soon as something goes out with a port 25 destination, your local mail server grabs the connection instead, and takes over sending the mail.
Their ease of use, your ease of control and security.
Perhaps I missed it, but I don't see anything in the announcement or on the site that this is using DB2 (what I presume you mean by "IBM's db"). Are you just assuming that's the case because IBM's hosting it?
I'm impressed. The Mozilla bugzilla normally falls over the moment /. looks it's way, which is why it denies a slashdot referral now (if I remember correctly).
:)
Either it's just the fact this one's basically empty at the moment, or he may have some advice for the mozilla folks on properly setting up bugzilla.
$2000 for dishes and the towers they're mounted on.
That's dead cheap for a large tower, especially if you have to pay a company to build it for you.
Could be even easier... combination locks. Send the physical object out early, then distribute the combo on release day (or the night before).
It also occured to me that you can avoid vagaries of couriers by having local "staging points" - non-theater people, presumably your own employees, that recieve the movies a few days in advance, in the various towns (so no courier problems), then take them out the night before to the theaters.
They cut it that close? I'm rather surprised... but I suppose they do it every week, so it would be old hat by now.
Not really a good argument though (if I understand you right). If it's the system libraries and precompiled binaries you're worried about having BIND4/8 "cancer", then it doesn't matter *what* you do - BIND9, TinyDNS, MaraDNS, DJBDNS. That cruft will still be in there, until you recompile everything without said base libs.
Well, you're also not allowed to fire an arrow inside that ten foot radius, either. Both for safety, and to keep pissed off heavies from taking a swing at a light that they had told "you're dead" just before they got shot anyways.
Don't call them combat archers, though - that's something VERY different up here.
In An Tir, a combat archer is a HEAVY FIGHTER with a bow. You close withing 10 feet, he draws his sword, and you go at it.
However, there's one facet you overlooked - and that's the movie theater OWNER, who for some reason enjoys allowing copies to be made.
I have heard it told - not witnessed myself, mind you - that some of the "theater tapings" have been made in completely empty theaters, with only the camera running, and often before the official release date.
The theaters HAVE to get the film before opening day, after all... well before it in most cases, because you do NOT want to have half a premiere because of some fedex delay.
Couple that advance availability with just one owner who feel philanthropic, and you have a very high quality theater recording hitting the streets in advance of the release.