Watching videos online is likely cheaper, unless lots of people watch the same thing over and over, it's not cached and they are users who are unlikely to click ads (there are a fair number of these, what, 5%?).
YouTube quality sucks. 700MB.AVIs are ok, but too much hassle to display on my TV.
I prefer DVD for the quality. I rent from zip.ca for a "pricy" $25/mo for 4 movies at a time. I get on average 10 movies a month. That's $2.50 to view a movie once, which is all I really need. DVDs should be $5 or $10 at the most. $20-$25 for 3. If they were that cheap I might actually start a collection, instead of feeling ripped off and regretting buying Saw 3 for $20 on a whim.
Auditude is a fingerprint system that basically embeds a watermark in the entire media file. That means any public web site that chooses to read this watermark can support the content creators by embedding ads over top of the media! Why oh why was this not done long ago to identify the source of piracy or at least add an extra step for pirates to remove the watermark?
The "open signed" interface may be cheesy, but does it work and with no review of your application? If so, isn't this good enough and what are the drawbacks?
That's why we distort the -question-! Mwahahah! I'm not sure my CAPTCHAS would be easy to OCR. I write the string of letters -three times- with a usually vertical offset and random angle difference. It doesn't look like -anything- OCR-software could read, but humans can put it together - they know the string is written three times and can usually figure it out by looking at all of the outside edges.
I write email software and there are ways to prevent this. The way I do it is insert rows into a queue table for each mailing, with each row containing the userid and messageid. As messages are queued to the SMTP server they are removed from this queue. The sending process checks in every 20 seconds. If a queue fails for more than 1 minute, it can be safely resumed with no duplicate messages. A further simple step is taken to prevent a "refresh" on the sending/queuing page. It seems to me they just need better software or a more competent advertising department.
I tried to expand your sig to see in more detail why someone would recommend modding you up.:P In fact, I only clicked because of the time - dead give-away!
Maybe it's time to sell an application-suite to customize the phone in a way many users want.:) You could sell it to cell phone stores, etc. Android ftw!
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I second this. I have a cell phone and a pager because the SMS network can experience lag that costs me $ when servers are down.
I've met a few people who have said they "love" the previews. What's up with that?
Fast forward always works for me on a number of sites, incl. YouTube
Watching videos online is likely cheaper, unless lots of people watch the same thing over and over, it's not cached and they are users who are unlikely to click ads (there are a fair number of these, what, 5%?).
YouTube quality sucks. 700MB .AVIs are ok, but too much hassle to display on my TV.
I prefer DVD for the quality. I rent from zip.ca for a "pricy" $25/mo for 4 movies at a time. I get on average 10 movies a month. That's $2.50 to view a movie once, which is all I really need. DVDs should be $5 or $10 at the most. $20-$25 for 3. If they were that cheap I might actually start a collection, instead of feeling ripped off and regretting buying Saw 3 for $20 on a whim.
Auditude is a fingerprint system that basically embeds a watermark in the entire media file. That means any public web site that chooses to read this watermark can support the content creators by embedding ads over top of the media! Why oh why was this not done long ago to identify the source of piracy or at least add an extra step for pirates to remove the watermark?
she witnessed one sure-fire tactic at a show, when a late-arriving fan made wild sprint to the front the instant the gates opened
FTW!
Solar power can power all of the US using a fraction of its desert... We dont need more diesel. :)
You stand uncorrected.
The "open signed" interface may be cheesy, but does it work and with no review of your application? If so, isn't this good enough and what are the drawbacks?
I tried to switch to Chrome. I really did. What killed it for me was all the textarea display and video playback bugs.
if it can dance, i'm guessing it's plugged in. (IDNRTFA)
Same font. same color. repeat the string several times with overlapping. Solvable by OCR?
That's why we distort the -question-! Mwahahah! I'm not sure my CAPTCHAS would be easy to OCR. I write the string of letters -three times- with a usually vertical offset and random angle difference. It doesn't look like -anything- OCR-software could read, but humans can put it together - they know the string is written three times and can usually figure it out by looking at all of the outside edges.
I write email software and there are ways to prevent this. The way I do it is insert rows into a queue table for each mailing, with each row containing the userid and messageid. As messages are queued to the SMTP server they are removed from this queue. The sending process checks in every 20 seconds. If a queue fails for more than 1 minute, it can be safely resumed with no duplicate messages. A further simple step is taken to prevent a "refresh" on the sending/queuing page. It seems to me they just need better software or a more competent advertising department.
I tried to expand your sig to see in more detail why someone would recommend modding you up. :P In fact, I only clicked because of the time - dead give-away!
And was the engineer sending text messages on the same day he worked?
I yanked this from an aggregator site covering every topic. ~1M hits/mo.
1. Internet Explorer 495,974 68.97%
2. Firefox 175,483 24.40%
3. Safari 19,977 2.78%
4. Opera 14,646 2.04%
5. Chrome 6,253 0.87%
What did we learn? Every site is different? :[
Aww, I was hoping for some secret phrase...
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Just another turtle for the stack
When has that ever stopped us?
what the hell are you talking about ?
oh, maybe this
This guy is gettin' paid by simply highlighting and deleting a few things from the source... genius
I don't know... Google it?
Maybe it's time to sell an application-suite to customize the phone in a way many users want. :) You could sell it to cell phone stores, etc. Android ftw!
What's 10.5% of $0? It seems pretty easy to comply to me. ;)