I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the occasional taxi driver making a tourist's trip 10x longer than it's supposed to be...
In New York this rarely happens on NYC Yellow Cabs, because the fee schedule is set up so that the drivers make their best money from the initial fee. I think it has more to do with speeding tickets than ripping passengers off. Most Cabbies in NYC clock 60+ mph on the avenues. I take cabs at least 4 times a week for the last 4 years. I can't remember the last time a driver tried to take me for a ride, but at least half the time they drove at least 30+ over the speed limit.
"Microsoft, the most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. "We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever," said Amir Majidimehr, the head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group."
The statement begs the question; how is it possible to make a payment but provide no financial incentive? There is no such thing as payment, that is not a financial incentive. A contingency is a financial incentive but not a check, but there is no such thing as a payment that is not a financial incentive. Either the reporter is an idiot, or Microsoft is full of shit.
I think we have beaten this into the ground. Frankly, I don't think there should be any javascript at all. The code they give you should just be an iframe. That way, the contents of the page are protected from the advertiser by cross domain policy. The whole reason they use javascript is so they can read/write cookies on your domain and do other questionable things.
I think you are confusing the method used to manipulated the DOM with when the script is run. You know you can just put the ad code at the end of the html. Right before you run the ad code is run, move your element where ever your want. I fault the site developers, not the javascript that serves the ad. Go read the last 3 lines of html, at Digg.com and you will understand what I mean. (Sorry for using Digg as a referencce, I just happened to remember it was a site where the ads load after the page load)
As with most critical path planning, it is beneficial to do the important stuff first (getting the page into a readable state) and leave the less important stuff until the end (loading the ads and other relatively unimportant scripts), even if it might take marginally longer.
I couldn't agree more. I don't understand why developers have to be idiots and put the ad code in the middle of the content.
Which brings up a question... Does automated ad removal create an unauthorized derivative of a copyrighted work? IANAL, but I don't think it is so long as the ads require web requests to other remote documents. If the ads are embedded (like the Google SERPs), then removing the ads probably constitutes copyright infringement.
Last time I checked, modifying the dom tree is typically slower than document.write or innerHTML. Document.write/innerHTML leverages the power of the C/C++ html parsing engine. Firefox is fast in either case, IE 6 DOM methods suck.
The problem with ads is generally not the javascript execution time, but the ad server response time. Some ad servers require 5+ connections because they use redirection and CDNs.
He also was the winner of the American Economics Association's John Bates Clark Medal in 1991 and is considered one of the country's foremost neo-Keynesian economists This is all 100% correct, but as a political columnist he is a fruit. Below are a couple of example of krugman garbage:
From a column about health care:
"OK, it's not news that (President) Bush has no empathy for people less fortunate than himself." (ad hominem attack, Bush seems to have plenty of empathy for illegal immigrants)
From a column about the Florida Recount:
"Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore." (This is simply a lie, so much for those fact checkers)
I dislike Bush as much as the next guy, but you have to read Krugman with a grain of salt despite his past laurels.
With rear facing seats, you die from all of the flying debris. I am not sure how I would rather go, impacting the seat in front of me or getting killed by a laptop to the face.
The VC / startup mentality is practically impossible in Germany or France because the labor markets are so rigid. The EU shouldn't be seeding promising startups, but rather loosing the labor markets so venture capital is promising to both investors and entrepreneurs. Giving millions to established corporations only makes the problem worse.
What they need is an environment where to two Phd students can go to some rich dude's doorstep, pitch an idea, and walk away with a check for $100k without ever being invited inside.
I've read numerous studies (too lazy to link to them) that conclude the Vickrey auction to set a much fairer and true price than traditional auctions. That's funny, because the article you did link to mentions a bunch of problems. Some are particularly applicable to ebay auctions.
Despite the Vickrey auction's strengths, it has shortcomings:
* The auction is not budget balanced. It does not maximize the seller revenues; the seller revenues may even be zero in VCG auctions. If the purpose of holding the auction is to maximize profit for the seller, as is often the case, the Vickrey auction is a poor choice.
* It does not allow for Price discovery, that is, discovery of the market price if the buyers are unsure of their own valuations, without sequential auctions.
* Sellers may use shill bids to increase profit.
* In iterated Vickrey auctions, the strategy of revealing true valuations is no longer dominant.
The Vickrey-Clark-Groves mechanism has the additional shortcomings:
* It is vulnerable to collusion by losing bidders.
* It is vulnerable to shill bidding with respect to the buyers.
* The seller's revenues are non-monotonic with regard to the sets of bidders and offers.
The number of people who do that are slim to none. Changing the user agent from Firefox to IE for all sites breaks more stuff than it fixes, including Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo Mail.
From the article, The state Department of Revenue, which fined Teixeira, has asked legislators to waive the $2,500 bond for small fuel users. The department also told Teixeira, after the Observer asked about his case this week, that it will compromise on his fine.
So Big Brother has asked Big Brother to fix a stupid law. Big Brother is also willing to compromise on Big Brother's cut. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
With the increase of rich applications in the browser (AJAX etc.), the need to install binaries on a mobile decreases. If, as promised, the iPhone basically has the full build of Safari on it -- then this should be possible.
Apparently you have never tried to use Google Docs on Safari.
To add...
About 8% of the population is O-, and another 10% are one of A-, B-, AB-. O- is the only type of blood you can give a patient without know his blood type, so this would approximately double the supply of blood available for Emergency situations. There really isn't a shortage of any other blood type. O+ is one of the most common blood types (IIRC ~40% of the population is O+). Stripping the Rh factor, would actually be more useful because you could then convert the very common O+ to O-.
I think you missed the joke. Read it again, and think about what would happen if someone had voice control turned on and the mac ad came on a TV in the same room as the computer.
PC: Hi I'm a PC
Mac: and I'm a Mac
PC: I have a cool new feature called voice control.
Mac: That is stupid. I have the Time-Machine which let's you recover old documents. Let's say you accidently delete the documents folder
PC: Okay
Mac: To get you documents back, all you have to do is slide the time machine back one minute.
PC: Sounds cool, but cant you just get the documents out of the trash?
Mac: Yes, but it works even if you accidentally empty the recycle bin
I agree, but you would have to be careful, because every newsletter/promotion might get marked as spam by a couple of people. The algorithm would need to be pretty sophisticated.
There is a provision that the distributor has the option to negotiate a "fair market" agreement with the content owner to distribute the content without DRM. So in the case of Creative Commons Licensed/Free material, there should be no problem because the license grants the right of free distribution.
However, this law really sucks, and will likely have unintended consequences. As I read it, the law would outlaw a Tivo, because a Tivo allows me to record TV show and movie sound tracks by title.
> bingo. that's why i store the IP address along with the session ID in the database.
How does that do anything for the example given? If someone uses a sniffer at a wireless access point with NAT, they have access to the same IP as their victim.
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I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with the occasional taxi driver making a tourist's trip 10x longer than it's supposed to be...
In New York this rarely happens on NYC Yellow Cabs, because the fee schedule is set up so that the drivers make their best money from the initial fee. I think it has more to do with speeding tickets than ripping passengers off. Most Cabbies in NYC clock 60+ mph on the avenues. I take cabs at least 4 times a week for the last 4 years. I can't remember the last time a driver tried to take me for a ride, but at least half the time they drove at least 30+ over the speed limit.
"Microsoft, the most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. "We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever," said Amir Majidimehr, the head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group."
The statement begs the question; how is it possible to make a payment but provide no financial incentive? There is no such thing as payment, that is not a financial incentive. A contingency is a financial incentive but not a check, but there is no such thing as a payment that is not a financial incentive. Either the reporter is an idiot, or Microsoft is full of shit.
I think we have beaten this into the ground. Frankly, I don't think there should be any javascript at all. The code they give you should just be an iframe. That way, the contents of the page are protected from the advertiser by cross domain policy. The whole reason they use javascript is so they can read/write cookies on your domain and do other questionable things.
I think you are confusing the method used to manipulated the DOM with when the script is run. You know you can just put the ad code at the end of the html. Right before you run the ad code is run, move your element where ever your want. I fault the site developers, not the javascript that serves the ad. Go read the last 3 lines of html, at Digg.com and you will understand what I mean. (Sorry for using Digg as a referencce, I just happened to remember it was a site where the ads load after the page load)
As with most critical path planning, it is beneficial to do the important stuff first (getting the page into a readable state) and leave the less important stuff until the end (loading the ads and other relatively unimportant scripts), even if it might take marginally longer.
I couldn't agree more. I don't understand why developers have to be idiots and put the ad code in the middle of the content.
Which brings up a question... Does automated ad removal create an unauthorized derivative of a copyrighted work? IANAL, but I don't think it is so long as the ads require web requests to other remote documents. If the ads are embedded (like the Google SERPs), then removing the ads probably constitutes copyright infringement.
Last time I checked, modifying the dom tree is typically slower than document.write or innerHTML. Document.write/innerHTML leverages the power of the C/C++ html parsing engine. Firefox is fast in either case, IE 6 DOM methods suck.
The problem with ads is generally not the javascript execution time, but the ad server response time. Some ad servers require 5+ connections because they use redirection and CDNs.
From a column about health care:
"OK, it's not news that (President) Bush has no empathy for people less fortunate than himself." (ad hominem attack, Bush seems to have plenty of empathy for illegal immigrants)
From a column about the Florida Recount:
"Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore." (This is simply a lie, so much for those fact checkers)
I dislike Bush as much as the next guy, but you have to read Krugman with a grain of salt despite his past laurels.
I didn't mean "LOSING". Maybe you would prefer "loosening", but my usage of "loosing" is correct.
With rear facing seats, you die from all of the flying debris. I am not sure how I would rather go, impacting the seat in front of me or getting killed by a laptop to the face.
The VC / startup mentality is practically impossible in Germany or France because the labor markets are so rigid. The EU shouldn't be seeding promising startups, but rather loosing the labor markets so venture capital is promising to both investors and entrepreneurs. Giving millions to established corporations only makes the problem worse.
What they need is an environment where to two Phd students can go to some rich dude's doorstep, pitch an idea, and walk away with a check for $100k without ever being invited inside.
* The auction is not budget balanced. It does not maximize the seller revenues; the seller revenues may even be zero in VCG auctions. If the purpose of holding the auction is to maximize profit for the seller, as is often the case, the Vickrey auction is a poor choice.
* It does not allow for Price discovery, that is, discovery of the market price if the buyers are unsure of their own valuations, without sequential auctions.
* Sellers may use shill bids to increase profit.
* In iterated Vickrey auctions, the strategy of revealing true valuations is no longer dominant.
The Vickrey-Clark-Groves mechanism has the additional shortcomings:
* It is vulnerable to collusion by losing bidders.
* It is vulnerable to shill bidding with respect to the buyers.
* The seller's revenues are non-monotonic with regard to the sets of bidders and offers.
The number of people who do that are slim to none. Changing the user agent from Firefox to IE for all sites breaks more stuff than it fixes, including Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo Mail.
From the article, The state Department of Revenue, which fined Teixeira, has asked legislators to waive the $2,500 bond for small fuel users. The department also told Teixeira, after the Observer asked about his case this week, that it will compromise on his fine.
So Big Brother has asked Big Brother to fix a stupid law. Big Brother is also willing to compromise on Big Brother's cut. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
Apparently you have never tried to use Google Docs on Safari.
He probably doesn't even like linux. He just decided it is easier than uninstalling all of the crapware that came with the computer.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Logical Design Solutions uses the law to stop mormons from advertising.
To add...
About 8% of the population is O-, and another 10% are one of A-, B-, AB-. O- is the only type of blood you can give a patient without know his blood type, so this would approximately double the supply of blood available for Emergency situations. There really isn't a shortage of any other blood type. O+ is one of the most common blood types (IIRC ~40% of the population is O+). Stripping the Rh factor, would actually be more useful because you could then convert the very common O+ to O-.
I think you missed the joke. Read it again, and think about what would happen if someone had voice control turned on and the mac ad came on a TV in the same room as the computer.
PC: Hi I'm a PC
Mac: and I'm a Mac
PC: I have a cool new feature called voice control.
Mac: That is stupid. I have the Time-Machine which let's you recover old documents. Let's say you accidently delete the documents folder
PC: Okay
Mac: To get you documents back, all you have to do is slide the time machine back one minute.
PC: Sounds cool, but cant you just get the documents out of the trash?
Mac: Yes, but it works even if you accidentally empty the recycle bin
I agree, but you would have to be careful, because every newsletter/promotion might get marked as spam by a couple of people. The algorithm would need to be pretty sophisticated.
The free upgrade from IE6 to IE7 is the perfect example of existing but broken functionality.
However, this law really sucks, and will likely have unintended consequences. As I read it, the law would outlaw a Tivo, because a Tivo allows me to record TV show and movie sound tracks by title.
I know what you mean, I spent all day looking for a metric adjustable wrench to change an alternator.
I can't image a javascript application being much larger than that.
How does that do anything for the example given? If someone uses a sniffer at a wireless access point with NAT, they have access to the same IP as their victim.