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The fundamental disconnect is their assumption that those of us who run adblockers would ever:
0) Click on an ad even if it was relevant. or
1) Remember a product/service advertised that way for any other reason than because the ad they used was sufficiently obnoxious to earn them a slot on the viewers boycott list.
Every banner/popup/etc that I block from even downloading is one more that the advertiser hasn't thrown money away to pay for and that won't run the risk of eliminating any chance of my doing business with them in the future.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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If I rent out billboard space on the wall of my house, it's not really my problem if the advertisements on there aren't well placed. But if someone plants a tree in front the billboard, then it does become my problem.
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And when you decide a static billboard isn't good enough, and replace it with a 1.21gigawatt projector and a huge set of speakers that go to 11 and aim both to blast through my window when I'm doing something else it's a declaration of war and I won't be taking prisoners.
I don't know where the revenue model for the web is going to end up; but the barrage of video, talking, animated, content blocking, and seizure flashing banners/etc that elephanting advertiscum have been spraying all over the place are so far beyond the pale that they're not the answer. My blocking filters are entirely selfwritten; every banner host that's blocked and every page that's had all it's ad divs blocked has gotten on the list for disrupting my ability to do whatever I was on the site to do.
Ads that don't do that, like say the text banner in my gmail account, still get through.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I hear you, but the point was that it's not the advertisers themselves that decided to sue.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Erm...no.
Then you lose.
Marc
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Eric Schmidt wants you to know that robots are your friend. "Seasons don't fear the reaper. Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain"
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You know I hate to ask but, are 'friends' electric?
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
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Whew! So glad to know that robots are my friends.
I didn't think I had any.
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Says the guy who bought Boston Dynamics.
guck foogle.
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I'm not afraid of A.I. future, I'm just afraid the humans will stop us.
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Elon says fear it, I don't flinch. Google says don't fear it and I want to hide under my chair. I'm going to say these people don't have the reputations they want to.
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It would be very nice to see some intelligence out there, even if artificial.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Redmond says the US would be aghast if a foreign government behaved as it does. Everyone knows tramping over people's privacy is the business of corporations, not government
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I began to realize that some people believe that I invented the excessively overlong Windows "Hello World" program. I'm afraid I did not. Mr. Petzold doesn't take the blame for your writer's cramp
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His decision not to fully implement IGreeting<IPlanetaryBody> is the real issue here...that's why I never ported by 'Sup Jupiter app to windows.
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One of the commenters on that article...
Andrew, on Charles' blog posted:
Hey Charles
I, like many people of my age (I'm 60) learned Windows programming from your book. At the time, I would have said that the code was insanely complex. I recently re-read the book, Having grappled with the Microsoft APIs ever since then, I found it refreshingly simple. WCF, Entity Framework anyone?
— Andrew, Tue, 9 Dec 2014 21:04:53 -0500
I learned from the Programming Windows 3.0 book and thought it was complex too. But Andrew is right. It ain't nothing compared to "modern frameworks which make things so much easier". har har har
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Atlas, a DevOps and application-delivery SaaS, lets developers deploy and maintain apps on any platform with Vagrant and open-source technologies at its core.
Vagrant's moving into a big fancy house.
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Apple and IBM are starting to deliver on their "landmark partnership" to transform business use of iPads and iPhones today. The first round of 10 apps include a mixture of applications aimed at financial institutions, insurance businesses, and even government agencies.
All your apps is belong to us.
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Today we’re updating our platform roadmap with a few more features that we’ve started working on input type='yay'
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And I thought IE on it's way to be more and more standard...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Does it include better HTML5 support??
'cause the app we just launched 2 days ago works fine on every other browser. 80% of the bugs we're getting are because of IE 11s crap HTML5 support.
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Technically, yes (those are all HTML5 features). But generally? No, I think you might still be hosed. Sorry about that.
TTFN - Kent
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