I actually like targeted ads, too. But there are those who don't, and my preferences shouldn't override their privacy. In fact, I like to know about new things, so long as they don't annoy me with the process.
But it should also be noted that targeted ads existed before tracking cookies. A gamer-oriented forum should be targeting gamers, and it did. No big surprise there. The new targeted ads target the person directly, based on their history. I'm not even sure that's better! If I'm on a gaming forum, and see an ad for gaming stuff, I've already been primed to want it by the forum itself. I'm in that community and thinking about that kind of thing already. If they give me an ad for one of my other hobbies, I'm probably not in the mood to think about that right now, and they've lost me.
The newspaper wasn't killed by lack of targeted advertising, anyhow. It was caused by lack of readers. What's the point in targeting readers you don't have?
This doesn't block ads, it just protects people's privacy from being abused by them. The companies will still be able to show ads. For targetted ads, they'll have to use the same techniques they use for TV and print media, and those things haven't died yet.
I've actually considered it, but I have 2 main problems:
1) It's expensive and time-consuming. While I want to enjoy the site, I don't want to run the site.
2) I'm a very heavy-handed moderator. I recognize this failing in myself enough that I wouldn't put me in charge of that. It would be okay at first, but who knows how long it would be until someone annoyed me and I abused me power? No thanks, I don't need that stress.
Have you found a place for good topic-based sharing of links and information and discussion that doesn't allow this kind of sickness?
I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Reddit (and most other sites) lately because of the ridiculous groupthink that occurs on them and I'd love to have moderated place for actual discussions on a wide array of topics.
Maybe they were so rabidly insane that any change brought out the worst in all of them? There is such a thing as a customer that isn't worth having. Perhaps there were ~7 million of them on this game.
They really need to make a sequel for that. Index just isn't nearly as interesting as Railgun. She really started to come into her own at the end of the series, walking on walls and stuff. She was really starting to see the full potential of her ability.
Why not be picky? Have you seen the stats for divorce lately? Anything is better if it helps people have good relationships instead settling for whatever came along when got fed up.
True love is unrealistic. That doesn't mean it's a bad goal.
I'm currently dating a wonderful girl I met online after many years of not finding anyone I would spend my life with. Had I not been 'picky' I could have settled for any number of other women that wouldn't make me happy. Why would I do that to myself?
I actually agree that we are too cautious in our space explorations. We need to take more risks and spend more money.
But in this case, they were told exactly what would fail, why, and how. And they argued late into the night, and Boisjoly was so sure that he refused to watch the launch. There was absolutely no doubt in 5 engineers' minds that this would happen.
This was not an acceptable risk. It was easily avoidable. Not with 14 lives at stake. (The $5 billion ship might have been acceptable, though.)
The summary is so contradictory because it quotes from 2 articles, and each of them is completely different. One says that the parts were space-tested and fine, and the other says they were never space-certified and were definitely bad. The first one says instead that a software bug caused parts of the system to reboot. The second doesn't know what happened and just blames faulty hardware.
By letting his good name remain sullied, they are somehow making sure they don't make unjust laws in the future?
I say the opposite. By leaving that as a crime on his record, they are saying that they could return to having that as a crime at any time. They have not legally acknowledged the wrongness, despite their public apology.
Grant a blanket pardon to everyone they convicted of this 'crime' that was not a crime and they WILL send the message that justice is their goal.
So even though we know the law was unjust, and that he was justified in breaking it, he still can't get a posthumous pardon for it? Wow. Guilty of being gay. Who'd have thunk it?
Unless they're saying that they think the law was just. And I'm sure they really, really don't want to say that.
This is my only complaint about T-Mobile's customer service. The only way to block this is to pay $5/month and then micromanage your lines. -sigh-
I had this problem with my father's line. He somehow got signed up for all kinds of garbage, and we didn't figure it out until later. (Really gotta watch that bill better.) They reversed a few months' charges, but they're only willing to go back so far. (I don't blame them, there.)
But I did expect them to help me prevent the charges in the future, without me paying for the service.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz "It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2."
Offering an attractive suite of free resources, and more attractive non-free resources, means that the free ones are loss leaders. Once you get someone using your platform for free stuff, it's easier to get them to use their existing account for non-free stuff. Compared to getting them to start using your services from scratch, I mean.
I actually meant it as an adult, but others took it to mean as a country... And I find I can't really disagree with them... But I don't think kids learn to bully other kids by watching our government bully other nations. At least, not at first. They might get some tips from it later, though.
So when those kids go outside and get bullied, there will be a support program for them. -sigh-
The best way to teach out kids that bullying is bad is to stop doing it ourselves, and to teach them it's not okay to pick on others for any reason. Mine taught me, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." For me, it stuck. For others, it apparently didn't, or they weren't taught it. Am I perfect at it? No. But I try.
But a government program to teach it? No way. It'll never work. It has to be something every citizen wants, not something that the government tries to force us into. Actually wants, not just says they want.
I'm not against providing nice, safe outdoor play areas for kids. Hopefully away from my apartment windows and doors. I would have loved to have it as a kid, and I'd love to have them away from my apartment now. But attacking an industry to do so is not the way to go about it.
It stutters a bit when he plays the muppets. My linux box has trouble with 1080p video and IIRC it's quite a bit more powerful than a R-Pi. I'll be waiting to see some serious reviews before I look to use this as an HTPC.
It's just the usual 'I used to get everything for FREE' rant that ignores the fact that the company has costs and unlimited plans were doomed from the start. They are so massively unfair to 90% of the users that I'm surprised there aren't more people clamoring for cheaper, metered plans.
I say this while I'm in the top 5%, if not the top 1%. When I was in highschool, back in the dialup days, I was "#1 abuser" at my local ISP. Yes, they told me that directly. I was part of the reason they ended their 'unlimited' dialup plan. (They nearly went out of business soon after and ended up selling out to an ISP that still had an unlimited plan.)
The problem is that the word 'unlimited' is very attractive to us, even if we're paying more than we should. At the moment, I have unlimited internet bandwidth, cell minutes, cell texts, cell bandwidth and probably other things I've forgotten. With my usage, it probably makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that the entire rest of my family (not living near me) has most of the same unlimited things, and they'd probably be better off with metered service. But they've got this 'don't want to pay overages' mentality that makes them keep paying too much. Notice that I said, "probably makes sense" for me. I haven't done the math! I could very well save some money if I examined it, but I feel a resistance to even doing that.
tl;dr - It's a psychological thing that overrides logic.
FileSonic is the most extreme, but other sites have started mass-banning, mass-deletion, and other measures to combat piracy on their systems.
I think it's too late for them, if there are criminal charges coming... But maybe they think they can get off lighter if they comply before they are asked.
Or maybe they've already been asked.
At any rate, there are major changes taking place, and pirates everywhere are shifting their focus. The last time this happened, torrents were born. As an IT professional, it's going to be interesting to see what pops up to fill this gap. Adversity tends to spur innovation.
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I actually like targeted ads, too. But there are those who don't, and my preferences shouldn't override their privacy. In fact, I like to know about new things, so long as they don't annoy me with the process.
But it should also be noted that targeted ads existed before tracking cookies. A gamer-oriented forum should be targeting gamers, and it did. No big surprise there. The new targeted ads target the person directly, based on their history. I'm not even sure that's better! If I'm on a gaming forum, and see an ad for gaming stuff, I've already been primed to want it by the forum itself. I'm in that community and thinking about that kind of thing already. If they give me an ad for one of my other hobbies, I'm probably not in the mood to think about that right now, and they've lost me.
The newspaper wasn't killed by lack of targeted advertising, anyhow. It was caused by lack of readers. What's the point in targeting readers you don't have?
This doesn't block ads, it just protects people's privacy from being abused by them. The companies will still be able to show ads. For targetted ads, they'll have to use the same techniques they use for TV and print media, and those things haven't died yet.
I've actually considered it, but I have 2 main problems:
1) It's expensive and time-consuming. While I want to enjoy the site, I don't want to run the site.
2) I'm a very heavy-handed moderator. I recognize this failing in myself enough that I wouldn't put me in charge of that. It would be okay at first, but who knows how long it would be until someone annoyed me and I abused me power? No thanks, I don't need that stress.
Have you found a place for good topic-based sharing of links and information and discussion that doesn't allow this kind of sickness?
I've been increasingly dissatisfied with Reddit (and most other sites) lately because of the ridiculous groupthink that occurs on them and I'd love to have moderated place for actual discussions on a wide array of topics.
Maybe they were so rabidly insane that any change brought out the worst in all of them? There is such a thing as a customer that isn't worth having. Perhaps there were ~7 million of them on this game.
Because it cost more than $5mil to run it for that time, and/or it didn't look like it would produce a profit in the future?
They really need to make a sequel for that. Index just isn't nearly as interesting as Railgun. She really started to come into her own at the end of the series, walking on walls and stuff. She was really starting to see the full potential of her ability.
Why not be picky? Have you seen the stats for divorce lately? Anything is better if it helps people have good relationships instead settling for whatever came along when got fed up.
True love is unrealistic. That doesn't mean it's a bad goal.
I'm currently dating a wonderful girl I met online after many years of not finding anyone I would spend my life with. Had I not been 'picky' I could have settled for any number of other women that wouldn't make me happy. Why would I do that to myself?
I actually agree that we are too cautious in our space explorations. We need to take more risks and spend more money.
But in this case, they were told exactly what would fail, why, and how. And they argued late into the night, and Boisjoly was so sure that he refused to watch the launch. There was absolutely no doubt in 5 engineers' minds that this would happen.
This was not an acceptable risk. It was easily avoidable. Not with 14 lives at stake. (The $5 billion ship might have been acceptable, though.)
The summary is so contradictory because it quotes from 2 articles, and each of them is completely different. One says that the parts were space-tested and fine, and the other says they were never space-certified and were definitely bad. The first one says instead that a software bug caused parts of the system to reboot. The second doesn't know what happened and just blames faulty hardware.
Maybe he means http://www.geekologie.com/2010/03/topeka-kansas-renamed-google-k.php
By letting his good name remain sullied, they are somehow making sure they don't make unjust laws in the future?
I say the opposite. By leaving that as a crime on his record, they are saying that they could return to having that as a crime at any time. They have not legally acknowledged the wrongness, despite their public apology.
Grant a blanket pardon to everyone they convicted of this 'crime' that was not a crime and they WILL send the message that justice is their goal.
Yes, I spoke to them on the phone about this.
So even though we know the law was unjust, and that he was justified in breaking it, he still can't get a posthumous pardon for it? Wow. Guilty of being gay. Who'd have thunk it?
Unless they're saying that they think the law was just. And I'm sure they really, really don't want to say that.
This is my only complaint about T-Mobile's customer service. The only way to block this is to pay $5/month and then micromanage your lines. -sigh-
I had this problem with my father's line. He somehow got signed up for all kinds of garbage, and we didn't figure it out until later. (Really gotta watch that bill better.) They reversed a few months' charges, but they're only willing to go back so far. (I don't blame them, there.)
But I did expect them to help me prevent the charges in the future, without me paying for the service.
I think the most important part is actually "possible red flags". This automatically scans, but doesn't seem to automatically ban.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz "It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_dioxide "Silica is used primarily in the production of glass for windows, drinking glasses, beverage bottles, and many other uses."
Glass and quartz.
Offering an attractive suite of free resources, and more attractive non-free resources, means that the free ones are loss leaders. Once you get someone using your platform for free stuff, it's easier to get them to use their existing account for non-free stuff. Compared to getting them to start using your services from scratch, I mean.
I actually meant it as an adult, but others took it to mean as a country... And I find I can't really disagree with them... But I don't think kids learn to bully other kids by watching our government bully other nations. At least, not at first. They might get some tips from it later, though.
So when those kids go outside and get bullied, there will be a support program for them. -sigh-
The best way to teach out kids that bullying is bad is to stop doing it ourselves, and to teach them it's not okay to pick on others for any reason. Mine taught me, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all." For me, it stuck. For others, it apparently didn't, or they weren't taught it. Am I perfect at it? No. But I try.
But a government program to teach it? No way. It'll never work. It has to be something every citizen wants, not something that the government tries to force us into. Actually wants, not just says they want.
I'm not against providing nice, safe outdoor play areas for kids. Hopefully away from my apartment windows and doors. I would have loved to have it as a kid, and I'd love to have them away from my apartment now. But attacking an industry to do so is not the way to go about it.
Are they going to make all loss leaders illegal? Seems to me it works the same for everyone, regardless of the industry.
It stutters a bit when he plays the muppets. My linux box has trouble with 1080p video and IIRC it's quite a bit more powerful than a R-Pi. I'll be waiting to see some serious reviews before I look to use this as an HTPC.
No, seriously. I absolutely love 3D. There isn't a bigger 3D fanboy in the world.
And I reiterate: Don't do it.
2D converted to 3D is what is wrong with the current 3D. It's absolute garbage. It makes me want to pull my hair out.
It's just the usual 'I used to get everything for FREE' rant that ignores the fact that the company has costs and unlimited plans were doomed from the start. They are so massively unfair to 90% of the users that I'm surprised there aren't more people clamoring for cheaper, metered plans.
I say this while I'm in the top 5%, if not the top 1%. When I was in highschool, back in the dialup days, I was "#1 abuser" at my local ISP. Yes, they told me that directly. I was part of the reason they ended their 'unlimited' dialup plan. (They nearly went out of business soon after and ended up selling out to an ISP that still had an unlimited plan.)
The problem is that the word 'unlimited' is very attractive to us, even if we're paying more than we should. At the moment, I have unlimited internet bandwidth, cell minutes, cell texts, cell bandwidth and probably other things I've forgotten. With my usage, it probably makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that the entire rest of my family (not living near me) has most of the same unlimited things, and they'd probably be better off with metered service. But they've got this 'don't want to pay overages' mentality that makes them keep paying too much. Notice that I said, "probably makes sense" for me. I haven't done the math! I could very well save some money if I examined it, but I feel a resistance to even doing that.
tl;dr - It's a psychological thing that overrides logic.
FileSonic is the most extreme, but other sites have started mass-banning, mass-deletion, and other measures to combat piracy on their systems.
I think it's too late for them, if there are criminal charges coming... But maybe they think they can get off lighter if they comply before they are asked.
Or maybe they've already been asked.
At any rate, there are major changes taking place, and pirates everywhere are shifting their focus. The last time this happened, torrents were born. As an IT professional, it's going to be interesting to see what pops up to fill this gap. Adversity tends to spur innovation.