I imagine that could be handled with some max amount that can be charged/credited to your account on a daily basis... something like 50 ads a day.
Also, perhaps implement a model where if an ad is shown more than once, each time it is shown again, there is an increasing charge to the advertiser... that will keep the ad mix "more entertaining".
The closest quote I could find on the net to "if it is possible it will happen. If it is impossible it will just take a little longer." was "Things are only impossible until they're not" by the distinguished captain, Jean-Luc Picard.
I imagine they would use accelerometers built out of tiny gyroscopes (kind of like what they use on the Segway). The accelorometer would let the beeper know when you were moving about or if it was just sitting in one spot. Even on the couch, most people tend to move around a little bit (reach for potato chips, drink coke, etc.).
Is it just me or are they all wearing the watch upside down? Shouldn't the little lcd display portion (which should be on the bottom of the watch) be on the side closest to their face?
I think I am the opposite. If my monitor is not against a wall, it would be facing towards the room where visually there is a lot more information for my brain to process.
I.e. with my monitor against the wall, I mainly just see the monitor. When looking out at the room, I am also seeing various other things in the room like books, people going/coming, the window, etc. Some small chunk of my brain seems to monitor what is going on out there instead of letting me just work uninterrupted.
A shoebox computer would work great for this too
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I have been building shoebox computers for years for our machine tools. They are small, compact, rugged, although a bit more expensive than a standard computer (case+motherboard ~ $500 - $550).
The point of the comment was not to compare the merits of Firewire vs. USB but just illustrate that USB 2.0 will have plenty of headroom to stream digital video if Tivo allows it. Sure, Firewire will scale up as well but even its current 400 mbps is not needed just to stream video.
Most USB ports sold today can support USB 2.0. They primarily need the proper software driver support (from the Tivo OS).
Compare:
USB 1.1: 12 mbps, USB 2.0: 480mbps. FireWire: 400mbps.
So USB 2 could quite easily be used for streaming to external storage devices, etc. if Tivo wants to enable that support. Whether Tivo does enable USB 2.0 or not is another matter all together.
My uncle does that: he got a DSL line but still kept his AOL acct active although at the reduced price of something like $12 / month.
The main reason he is not quitting AOL is he is used to it and everyone has his @aol.com email address and he doesn't want to change and AOL cannot be setup to forward the email to another acct either so he has to face the daily barrage of "buy this" advertising just to read his email.
If AOL allowed people to forward email from their @aol.com accts to their new accts, they would probably lose 25-30% of customers immediately.
What do you do when you receive merchandise that you didn't order? According to the Federal Trade Commission, you don't have to pay for it. Federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and then demanding payment.
Q. Am I obligated to return or pay for merchandise I never ordered?
A. No. If you receive merchandise that you didn't order, you have a legal right to keep it as a free gift.
Most 2-button mice have it setup so you hit both left and right buttons together to get the middle button. How could you do that on this mouse since you can only "swing" one direction at a time?
Micro and Mini PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) would be appropriate for an application like this and are very inexpensive with the added benefit of being able to run 24/7 without ever needing reboots or kernel updates, etc.
They can be programmed very easily with ladder-logic programs (basically large chunks of IF a AND b OR c TURN x ON/OFF) and already have built-in timers and counters that make an app like this as easy as pie.
A microPLC like a Mitsubishi Alpha with 4 inputs/2 relay outputs is about $85 and $110 for 6 inputs / 4 relay outputs.
I am sure CmdrTaco is going to start getting threating emails from Shifman tomorrow claiming he is going to sue Slashdot for linking to the petemoss webpage. And soon, all who post in this thread will get a email too... (Do you think he can decipher those tough email scrambling schemes/. uses... better alert my lawyers to be ready:-)
This whole thing just makes me sad that I am from same town as Shifman. And what kind of dumb "computer consultant" can't even use whois info to track down someone's address? It took me a whole 3 minutes to track down Neil Schwartzman's address.
While the content produced will increasingly come in many different languages as we move forward over the next few years, I still see little movement on the actual programming front.
Today, 99% of all programming is still done in English which ends up giving a definite bias towards English as the language of the web.
If someone comes out with some programming language that can be programmed in local languages and which gets popular, that is when I see a real shift happening in the base of the web. Otherwise, the content producer still ends up embedding their original language content inside English HTML.. which ends up meaning that he/she also must understand English, thereby limiting the scope of the Web to those who at least have a passing knowledge of English.
Normally, a company goes after the patent infringer that they are most likely to win a case against first. Then, with that decision in their pocket, they come back and start suing all the other infringers. Having won the original patent case, the rest are fairly simple to win as well. Since the other companies also know that, the usual result is a quick settlement out of court for previous infringements and a nice little lucrative royalty fee going forward as well.
I imagine that Xerox will go chase MS and all the other PDA mfr's next (i.e. like the Linux PDA guys as well).
I've been on the verge of getting a similar service that StarnetWx just started in Chicago but that offers 2 Mbps both up and down for $40-50/mo. They seem to have a smaller dish (12" square) than the one mentioned in the story but otherwise seems to be the same technology.
I'm still working on convincing my landlord to let me install it in my apt.. so far his best offer is to put the antenna in the balcony but Starnet isn't sure if I'll get enough signal there.
It could just be that they found a big stack of burned CD's... 2 TB is only about 3000 CD's. Figure that many of these warez geeks dl two or three gigs a day... probably just burn it onto cd's after that.
Responding to an attendee who complained about the intrusiveness of recent Yahoo ads, Coleman said that touched on one thing companies must balance: consumers' desires and advertisers' needs.
Yahoo did get started with a cool thing that allowed (consumers) to go anywhere. There was an internal zealot-like attitude where everything was consumer-driven, but the fact of the matter is, it's a business,
On a scale of one to ten, Coleman said he thought the ads on Yahoo are a three in terms of intrusiveness, but he thinks they should be a six to make the model work.
Check out the detailed analysis that the Federation of American Scientists worked up on Ramzi Yousef (the bomber who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and planned to blow up 11 airplanes on a single day in January 1995. It also illustrates the links between Yousef and Iraq and Saddam.
The title of the piece is THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters
A especially relevant theory that they advance is that in February 1993, Saddam ordered his agents to try to topple New York's tallest tower onto its twin, and in January 1995, Iraq sponsored an effort to destroy eleven U.S. airplanes in the Far East"
The DJs don't play music they like, they play music they are paid to play. It's like one 24/7 commercial.
To find out just how deep this corruption has gone, check out this article on Salon: Fighting pay-for-play.
Essentially some "middlemen" get paid by the record companies to promote songs to radio stations.... the way they go about doing this is to essentially pay radio stations a portion of what they get from the record companies for each time a "recommended" song is played. Pretty soon, all a radio station plays is "recommended" (aka paid-for) songs.
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I imagine that could be handled with some max amount that can be charged/credited to your account on a daily basis ... something like 50 ads a day.
... that will keep the ad mix "more entertaining".
Also, perhaps implement a model where if an ad is shown more than once, each time it is shown again, there is an increasing charge to the advertiser
Answering myself,
"The difficult we will do right away.... The impossible will take a little longer."
Major General Dawson Olmstead - chief signal officer 1941.
http://www.ussignalcorps.com/
The closest quote I could find on the net to "if it is possible it will happen. If it is impossible it will just take a little longer." was "Things are only impossible until they're not" by the distinguished captain, Jean-Luc Picard.
Anyone else come up with a better match?
I imagine they would use accelerometers built out of tiny gyroscopes (kind of like what they use on the Segway). The accelorometer would let the beeper know when you were moving about or if it was just sitting in one spot. Even on the couch, most people tend to move around a little bit (reach for potato chips, drink coke, etc.).
Is it just me or are they all wearing the watch upside down? Shouldn't the little lcd display portion (which should be on the bottom of the watch) be on the side closest to their face?
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I think I am the opposite. If my monitor is not against a wall, it would be facing towards the room where visually there is a lot more information for my brain to process.
I.e. with my monitor against the wall, I mainly just see the monitor. When looking out at the room, I am also seeing various other things in the room like books, people going/coming, the window, etc. Some small chunk of my brain seems to monitor what is going on out there instead of letting me just work uninterrupted.
I have been building shoebox computers for years for our machine tools. They are small, compact, rugged, although a bit more expensive than a standard computer (case+motherboard ~ $500 - $550).
Something like this at Axiom or Lanner
Add a little handle and they would be just great as a luggable computer for LAN parties
Searching via my Tivo, I see that there are several showings planned on the Sundance channel:
.. adjust for your time zone.
Monday, March 18 @ 11:00 pm
Thursday, March 22 @ 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 24 @ 3:00 pm
All times Central Standard time
The point of the comment was not to compare the merits of Firewire vs. USB but just illustrate that USB 2.0 will have plenty of headroom to stream digital video if Tivo allows it. Sure, Firewire will scale up as well but even its current 400 mbps is not needed just to stream video.
Most USB ports sold today can support USB 2.0.
They primarily need the proper software driver support (from the Tivo OS).
Compare:
USB 1.1: 12 mbps,
USB 2.0: 480mbps.
FireWire: 400mbps.
So USB 2 could quite easily be used for streaming to external storage devices, etc. if Tivo wants to enable that support. Whether Tivo does enable USB 2.0 or not is another matter all together.
My uncle does that: he got a DSL line but still kept his AOL acct active although at the reduced price of something like $12 / month.
The main reason he is not quitting AOL is he is used to it and everyone has his @aol.com email address and he doesn't want to change and AOL cannot be setup to forward the email to another acct either so he has to face the daily barrage of "buy this" advertising just to read his email.
If AOL allowed people to forward email from their @aol.com accts to their new accts, they would probably lose 25-30% of customers immediately.
As per the FTC:
What do you do when you receive merchandise that you didn't order? According to the Federal Trade Commission, you don't have to pay for it. Federal laws prohibit mailing unordered merchandise to consumers and then demanding payment.
Q. Am I obligated to return or pay for merchandise I never ordered?
A. No. If you receive merchandise that you didn't order, you have a legal right to keep it as a free gift.
Most 2-button mice have it setup so you hit both left and right buttons together to get the middle button. How could you do that on this mouse since you can only "swing" one direction at a time?
Micro and Mini PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) would be appropriate for an application like this and are very inexpensive with the added benefit of being able to run 24/7 without ever needing reboots or kernel updates, etc.
They can be programmed very easily with ladder-logic programs (basically large chunks of IF a AND b OR c TURN x ON/OFF) and already have built-in timers and counters that make an app like this as easy as pie.
A microPLC like a Mitsubishi Alpha with 4 inputs/2 relay outputs is about $85 and $110 for 6 inputs / 4 relay outputs.
I am sure CmdrTaco is going to start getting threating emails from Shifman tomorrow claiming he is going to sue Slashdot for linking to the petemoss webpage. And soon, all who post in this thread will get a email too... (Do you think he can decipher those tough email scrambling schemes /. uses ... better alert my lawyers to be ready :-)
This whole thing just makes me sad that I am from same town as Shifman. And what kind of dumb "computer consultant" can't even use whois info to track down someone's address? It took me a whole 3 minutes to track down Neil Schwartzman's address.
While the content produced will increasingly come in many different languages as we move forward over the next few years, I still see little movement on the actual programming front.
.. which ends up meaning that he/she also must understand English, thereby limiting the scope of the Web to those who at least have a passing knowledge of English.
Today, 99% of all programming is still done in English which ends up giving a definite bias towards English as the language of the web.
If someone comes out with some programming language that can be programmed in local languages and which gets popular, that is when I see a real shift happening in the base of the web. Otherwise, the content producer still ends up embedding their original language content inside English HTML
Normally, a company goes after the patent infringer that they are most likely to win a case against first. Then, with that decision in their pocket, they come back and start suing all the other infringers. Having won the original patent case, the rest are fairly simple to win as well. Since the other companies also know that, the usual result is a quick settlement out of court for previous infringements and a nice little lucrative royalty fee going forward as well.
I imagine that Xerox will go chase MS and all the other PDA mfr's next (i.e. like the Linux PDA guys as well).
I've been on the verge of getting a similar service that StarnetWx just started in Chicago but that offers 2 Mbps both up and down for $40-50/mo. They seem to have a smaller dish (12" square) than the one mentioned in the story but otherwise seems to be the same technology.
.. so far his best offer is to put the antenna in the balcony but Starnet isn't sure if I'll get enough signal there.
I'm still working on convincing my landlord to let me install it in my apt
It could just be that they found a big stack of burned CD's... 2 TB is only about 3000 CD's. Figure that many of these warez geeks dl two or three gigs a day ... probably just burn it onto cd's after that.
Check out the detailed analysis that the Federation of American Scientists worked up on Ramzi Yousef (the bomber who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 and planned to blow up 11 airplanes on a single day in January 1995. It also illustrates the links between Yousef and Iraq and Saddam.
The title of the piece is
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMB: Who is Ramzi Yousef? And Why It Matters
A especially relevant theory that they advance is that in February 1993, Saddam ordered his agents to try to topple New York's tallest tower onto its twin, and in January 1995, Iraq sponsored an effort to destroy eleven U.S. airplanes in the Far East"
To find out just how deep this corruption has gone, check out this article on Salon: Fighting pay-for-play.
Essentially some "middlemen" get paid by the record companies to promote songs to radio stations.... the way they go about doing this is to essentially pay radio stations a portion of what they get from the record companies for each time a "recommended" song is played. Pretty soon, all a radio station plays is "recommended" (aka paid-for) songs.