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Christmas presence not free?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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presents or presence? two different meanings. I actually don't understand your post, at all. Sorry. Are you trying to be funny, I don't know.
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Surprising, here in Québec and in Canada, 2 major newspapers are going the other way, La Presse and The Toronto Star are free when using the tablet application ( which is different and better than the smaller free phone apps)
The tablet application, done by La Presse, is very well done, not perfect, nothing is, but well done.
I'd rather be phishing!
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One of the local papers here gives you 10 reads free per month. Which is -really- annoying since they base it off IP address. It pretty much means the first 10 people in the entire building to open an article each month, are the only ones who get to read anything.
Fortunately they are also part of a bigger news syndicate. So all the smaller town papers do the same thing and have the same stories. Which is pretty much copy and paste for anything outside of extremely local news.
I'm fine paying for news if it is both actually newsworthy and a reasonable price. $25/month is not worth reading what amounts to 90% copy/paste AP stories. So I pretty much don't get local news.
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The only local news I really get, is when I watch it on the TV, but I still pay for that, in a way, via the monthly cable bill.
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I guess the way it works is instead of 10,000 free readers + money from ads, they end up with 200 paid readers and eventually no ad revenue, once the ads stop getting hits.
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Not how it works. Ads in newspapers are priced on circulation. If your website is free you can't include any readers there in the circulation figure. Assuming that the readership of the paper version is stable anybody who buys an online subscription will be an addition to the circulation figures and therefore potentially extra ad income.
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Online news sites use standard online ad companies, and the ads are not digital versions of the print versions. The ad revenue is primarily based on ad click-throughs.
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My town's newspaper (one of 6 local titles the publisher produces) certainly doesn't. Local news, local ads, with the online version basically a clone of the paper one.
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Even getting a printed newspaper is subscription-based. If any business has the right of offering digital subscription-based products it is newspappers and magazines.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: If any business has the right of offering digital subscription-based products it is newspappers and magazines.
I totally agree. However, this site has been free of charge for years. It just recently (within the last 2 months) went to subscription based and it is NOT worth the money, hence, my dismay.
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~ published under the CPOPL, the CodeProject Open Poetic license, copyleft assigned to CodeProject's Aesthetic Repository for cryogenic preservation until such time as the author can be medically reconstituted ~
H: This is a bit strange, meeting like this, but I don't mind you being late ... gave me a bit of time to kind of get "centered."<br />
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S: Indeed, our compatibility profiles do indicate we'd both find this strange, be a bit self-conscious ... awkward ... about ... this. And, your profile does show you are quite flexible in interpersonal interaction ... as long as the context is outside work-related stuff.<br />
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H. I took the liberty of ordering what I'm having for you since your profile shows you are often more comfortable as a 'follower,' and shows our tastes in food in early evening meals is almost identical.<br />
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S: I guess that does make me a bit uncomfortable, but it also makes me wonder what version of "HowAboutYouAndMe" you're using to view my profiles.<br />
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H. I'm using version fifteen; aren't you ?<br />
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S: No, I'm using the sixteen beta, but I am in the loop for preview betas.<br />
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H: That's impressive, I didn't see any sign in your profiles you were an early adopter.<br />
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S: I think the company may want to keep the preview "under-wraps" ... and, it is the only software I'm doing this for.<br />
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H: But, you said you were uncomfortable about my ordering for you, which, of course, I respect ... and, that does make me wonder about what I might be missing in your profiles.<br />
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S: Perhaps a few dimensions of me that ... well, I forgot about this ... the new software may be interpolating some statistically valid inferences that are only visible in version sixteen.<br />
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H: Well, I feel a little uncomfortable with you spending more time telling me about what I don't know about you, than sharing yourself with me.<br />
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S: Uh-oh, we may be headed toward an escalation here ... both our profiles indicate a tendency to fixate on small irritations, and turn them into conflict, rather than let them go ...<br />
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H: Are we more than our profiles ?<br />
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S: What ? ... What do you mean by that ? <br />
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H: You didn't see that coming, did you ?<br />
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S: Are you mocking me ? I'm getting upset ...<br />
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H: No, I'm just really thinking here ...<br />
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S: Perhaps thinking a bit too deeply for a first date ?<br />
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H: Well, that's me, always wanting to go a bit deeper ...<br />
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S: But, that's not me; I like to stay shallow until I know what's in the deeper waters.<br />
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H: I am enjoying your gift for metaphor; I'd guess our reciprocal profile status on that one is congruent.<br />
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S: Yes, you like to hear analogies, parables, rich idiomatic context; I like to use those, but ... and this may seem like a hang-up of mine ...<br />
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H: Yes, I like to hear them, but making them up is not my thing ... and, you don't really like to be on the receiving end of similes, and adages, and such ...<br />
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S: Are we defusing now ?<br />
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H: Yes, and here's dinner, and, I'm really sorry, but I have to leave ... this is just not working for me in spite of all the things our profiles say we share ...<br />
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S: Well, you have to leave, you have to leave ... you will pay for my dinner ?<br />
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H: What ? Your profile says you are a modern woman who acts independently until she's ready to accept any form of gesture, or act, that may indicate her comfort in a more traditional feminine role ...<br />
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S: You cheap b**terd !<br />
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H: Wow ! That's not in your profile !<br />
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S: And, what's not in your profile besides being a boor, and a bore ?<br />
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H: I'd say this is ... over.<br />
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S: It's over when you pay for the dinner I didn't order.<br />
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H: There's one thing I should tell you ...<br />
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S: If it starts with "I'm sorry," I'm all ears.<br />
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H: I work for "HowAboutYouAndMe."<br />
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S: What ?<br />
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H: I'm a programmer, and I'm doing in vivo field-testing on an early alpha of seventeen ...<br />
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S: You are going to be sorry for this !<br />
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H: But, I really liked you and wanted to meet you !<br />
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S: Oh, was I the best-looking rat in the cage ?<br />
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H: I understand you're upset ...<br />
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S: ... no you don't ! What'd you do: fake your own profile to get me interested ?<br />
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H: No, in fact, I didn't. Testing would mean nothing if any profiles were faked.<br />
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S: And, this is supposed to mean something ?<br />
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H: It does ... mean something ... it means that the inferences version seventeen alpha made about your reactions to ambiguity, and other people appearing irritated, or acting irrational, are, quite possibly, valid.<br />
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S: Liar ! You said you were using fifteen ! I'm leaving, and if you don't pay for my dinner, I'm calling the cops.<br />
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H: Not to worry, the company is paying for dinner, and I have a very special gift for you for your time and trouble ... provided you sign the standard non-disclosure about this test which ... well, here ... read for yourself.<br />
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S: What's the gift ?<br />
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H: A brand new IPad XX, completely tricked out ... <br />
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S: How many cores, how much memory ?<br />
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H: Oh, 32 cores, 256 gigs ram, 8 terabyte ssd, 64 megapixel 4D camera, holograph projector ...<br />
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S: ... I'll take the IPad.<br />
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H: Could you sign the NDA, and hand it to me, please.<br />
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S: Here.<br />
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H: And, here's your IPad.<br />
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S: Thanks for the IPad, and I hope whatever piece of a soul is left in whatever scum you are withers and dies as soon as possible.<br />
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H: Thanks for your understanding; we know how difficult this sense of not being in full control can be for you. ... mmm ... if you ever get over this ... and want to get together ?<br />
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S: That will never happen ... a##hole !<br />
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~<br />
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S. takes a plate of lasagna, and pours it in the lap of H., pours her wine on H.'s head.<br />
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Exit S.
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
modified 23-Dec-15 7:05am.
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I was hoping for a happy end, would have fit better this time of the year...
...though I am not a native speaker I know that "happy ending" is ambiguous. I was referring to the innocent meaning
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U. G. Leander wrote: referring to the innocent meaning Even I can't get away with blaming age and experience for never finding meaning innocent
«Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.» Benjamin Franklin
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Whilst many of us will have finished work til the new year, or are winding down and taking it easy for the next week or two, I have just read that today is the busiest day of the year for burglars in the UK.
So, not feet up and taking it easy for everyone just yet.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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You right...I went and opened the garage door...
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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Also peak day for social engineering hacks - if you get a call from some important manager who has forgotten his password today....
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I have my machete within reach ...
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We use the same solution I see...
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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Burglar was the answer I use to give as a kid when an adult asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I think it had something to do with the stubble and the black and grey hooped shirt. I have the stubble and I don't always scan everything through the self-service checkout*
*Fast and hard rule - if it doesn't scan after the 3rd attempt, it goes in the bag.
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Thanks Chris - for giving me the opportunity for shameless self promotion.
I have written a free webcam based movement detection security piece of software[^] for anyone concerned about their home security.
It really is free - I only make beer money out of the advertising.
(It has been downloaded in the region of 531,000 times since its release 5 years ago - so it can't be completely crap, actually I take that back[^])
[edit - retraction of my claim of 531k of downloads making it a non-crap piece of software]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 23-Dec-15 8:06am.
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Quote: Microsoft Windows --> XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Wot no 10?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It probably works on 10(my professionalism just shines though in that statement).
It's just that I have not installed 10 on any of my machines, yet... because I am scared of Windows 10
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Ah, you heard that 10 8 9?
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chriselst wrote: the busiest day of the year for burglars in the UK.
Well, some of us prefer to avoid the long lines, awful muzac, and grumpy clerks at the retail stores.
Marc
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