I tried using their email forwarding service about a year and a half ago, and then cancelled my account. Since then, I've been getting "Bigfoot Anti-Spam" newsletters and other random ads from them on my cell phone (and I get to pay for the messages!). Their customer service did absolutely nothing when I emailed them.
Oh, and the messages come from randomly generated @news.bigfoot.com addresses, so there's no way to block them with my cell service provider (which only blocks specific addresses). Hmm, could this be... SPAM?
Roughly 450,000 people read [Metro], and they represent a young, affluent and savvy demographic.
Have you ever seen Metro? It's a cheap (quality-wise; we know it's free), informationless tabloid that's handed out (and usually refused) in the New York City subways. It does not represent a "young, affluent, and savvy demographic" -- it represents people slightly above those who read the supermarket tabloids, and who would like not know how to download and install OOo.
As for calling the proposed advertisement as bad as a "high school design project" -- that's a bit of insult to high school design projects. I was creating more professional stuff back in 9th grade.
The author of the article didn't understand his research. He said that according to Nielsen Ratings, 68% of US internet users connect with broadband. That's not true.
The Nielsen information for 2005 says that 68% of Americans use the internet - not necessarily through broadband. No statistics are given for broadband specifically, but they're definitely much lower. According to this article, US broadband usage will reach about 62% in 2010, and was 29% in 2004. I don't know about current stats, but it's probably near 35-40%.
It's amazing - just a day or two ago, I was thinking how convenient it would be to have a calendar in Gmail, rather than have my schedule sitting in Outlook on my home desktop and doing nothing. And now it turns out they're working on it.
And just a few months ago, I was hoping that Google would make an Israel version of Google News - and that came out on Tuesday, and looks great.
How often does it happen that a company consistently puts out programs and services that you'd wanted to use before they made them?
Of course, if AOL users had a few more brain cells, they'd have switched to broadband a long time ago. In the NYC area, 768k Verizon DSL costs 37% less than AOL 56k. That means AOL costs about 25 times more per kilobit per second (and you get all their lovely ads and resource-hogging connection software). You'd have to be a moron to keep using AOL dial-up. Or a typical AOL user. But I repeat myself.
Mini DVDs hold only 30 to 120 minutes of video, depending on quality. Even at the highest setting (read: standard, not worse-than-VHS), the quality is inferior to that of MiniDV because of the MPEG-2 compression. Furthermore, MPEG-2 video is terrible for editing, since the compression is interframe, not intraframe like with MiniDV.
Clearly, a Mini DVD camera would be a big step backward for this guy's purposes.
The House is the only place where the act had any chance of being struck down.
The Republican majority in the Senate will have a cakewalk getting it through.
Something I've been wondering about for a few years now...
Regular old-fashioned photopaper last much longer and keeps its color for much longer than printed materials, in my experience.
So instead of going through all this hoopla with "fade-resistant, smudge-resistant, water resistant, wallet-resistant" printer ink and paper...
Why not project digital photos onto regular old chemical photopaper?!!!
With a little work, they can get projector resolution up to a decent level. And then, you'll be able to go into your local pharmacy and get your digital photos developed for much less than printing them, and for much less than regular photo development, because you don't have to pay for the film.
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Fortunately, it's still available on another of Google's video services - Google Video!9 363628936
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=290759838
Verbix has been around for years (I've used it myself). What happened to prior art?
... like AOL.
OK, so let me see if I'm understanding this correctly...
Warner wants to promote a new format which will cost more and do less.
Brilliant! Sign me up!
I tried using their email forwarding service about a year and a half ago, and then cancelled my account. Since then, I've been getting "Bigfoot Anti-Spam" newsletters and other random ads from them on my cell phone (and I get to pay for the messages!). Their customer service did absolutely nothing when I emailed them.
Oh, and the messages come from randomly generated @news.bigfoot.com addresses, so there's no way to block them with my cell service provider (which only blocks specific addresses). Hmm, could this be... SPAM?
Have you ever seen Metro? It's a cheap (quality-wise; we know it's free), informationless tabloid that's handed out (and usually refused) in the New York City subways. It does not represent a "young, affluent, and savvy demographic" -- it represents people slightly above those who read the supermarket tabloids, and who would like not know how to download and install OOo.
As for calling the proposed advertisement as bad as a "high school design project" -- that's a bit of insult to high school design projects. I was creating more professional stuff back in 9th grade.
The author of the article didn't understand his research. He said that according to Nielsen Ratings, 68% of US internet users connect with broadband. That's not true.
The Nielsen information for 2005 says that 68% of Americans use the internet - not necessarily through broadband. No statistics are given for broadband specifically, but they're definitely much lower. According to this article, US broadband usage will reach about 62% in 2010, and was 29% in 2004. I don't know about current stats, but it's probably near 35-40%.
It's amazing - just a day or two ago, I was thinking how convenient it would be to have a calendar in Gmail, rather than have my schedule sitting in Outlook on my home desktop and doing nothing.
And now it turns out they're working on it.
And just a few months ago, I was hoping that Google would make an Israel version of Google News - and that came out on Tuesday, and looks great.
How often does it happen that a company consistently puts out programs and services that you'd wanted to use before they made them?
Of course, if AOL users had a few more brain cells, they'd have switched to broadband a long time ago. In the NYC area, 768k Verizon DSL costs 37% less than AOL 56k. That means AOL costs about 25 times more per kilobit per second (and you get all their lovely ads and resource-hogging connection software).
You'd have to be a moron to keep using AOL dial-up. Or a typical AOL user. But I repeat myself.
Huh! And ThinkGeek sells those green lasers for about 1/11th of this guy's price
Mini DVDs hold only 30 to 120 minutes of video, depending on quality.
Even at the highest setting (read: standard, not worse-than-VHS), the quality is inferior to that of MiniDV because of the MPEG-2 compression.
Furthermore, MPEG-2 video is terrible for editing, since the compression is interframe, not intraframe like with MiniDV.
Clearly, a Mini DVD camera would be a big step backward for this guy's purposes.
Google Scholar has been around, in beta, since November 2004. /. Where old news is good news.
The House is the only place where the act had any chance of being struck down. The Republican majority in the Senate will have a cakewalk getting it through.
Huh, that was the first thing I thought of, too.
Question is, will this be able to replace LCD monitors? What's the maximum refresh rate? Per-inch resolution? Color depth?
Something I've been wondering about for a few years now...
Regular old-fashioned photopaper last much longer and keeps its color for much longer than printed materials, in my experience.
So instead of going through all this hoopla with "fade-resistant, smudge-resistant, water resistant, wallet-resistant" printer ink and paper...
Why not project digital photos onto regular old chemical photopaper?!!!
With a little work, they can get projector resolution up to a decent level.
And then, you'll be able to go into your local pharmacy and get your digital photos developed for much less than printing them, and for much less than regular photo development, because you don't have to pay for the film.