[FairfieldLife] Sigh...I'm leaving Paris just in time
Wistro, the cutely-named company that supplies Free Wifi to a number of Paris cafes, has finally gotten hip. I don't blame them...it's a wise thing to do from their point of view, because it doubles their sources of income. But it's still a sad sign of the times. In Wistro-equipped cafes, you used to be able to log on with the password your waiter gave you, look at a photo of the place you were sitting in and possibly a short, written blurb about its charms, but then you had free access to the Net for as long as you sat there. Now when you log in they've found a way to force you to watch a short ad video. Your Wifi isn't really connected until *after* you watch it. Sigh. End of an era, for the cafes who went for Wistro, and weren't hip enough to figure out how to do it themselves for cheaper. Now the Wistro folks get to charge not only the cafes, but the advertisers. But it works, and I can gripe about it on the Net, for free. Not such a bad deal, really. And all I had to do was watch a commercial for some product I don't remember while scantily-clad babes danced around carrying bags of some candy I don't remember. I mainly tuned it out, and it didn't really affect me at all. H. I wonder if they sell Skittles here? I should ask my waiter. :-)
Re: [FairfieldLife] Sigh...I'm leaving Paris just in time
What bugs me is sometime you get a 30 second ad on a 20 second video clip with no skip. The news outlets are doing this. And it's all things I have absolutely no interest in. Watching an episode of a TV series on Hulu I got the same ad every break for a pharmaceutical for arthritis that was 60 seconds long that had a 15 second endorsement by a golf pro and 35 seconds of warnings for use. Who the hell would want to take that? Hulu for the moment only has one or two ads depending on what you are watching. Their movies have none (except for web only). Some of the ads are nothing more than PSAs which are often no longer than 15 seconds. Tolerable but I bet that at some time in the future more advertisers will jump on board and those will expand to 2-3 minutes breaks. Ugh! When I am at Starbucks I need to remember to turn off wifi on my Android phone because it wants to use Starbucks wifi. However my phone data account is just as good at those locations and more secure. Downtown there is the also the choice of Starbucks wifi or free city wifi. Someone said the other day that France is reliving 1788. On 12/05/2013 11:52 AM, TurquoiseB wrote: Wistro, the cutely-named company that supplies Free Wifi to a number of Paris cafes, has finally gotten hip. I don't blame them...it's a wise thing to do from their point of view, because it doubles their sources of income. But it's still a sad sign of the times. In Wistro-equipped cafes, you used to be able to log on with the password your waiter gave you, look at a photo of the place you were sitting in and possibly a short, written blurb about its charms, but then you had free access to the Net for as long as you sat there. Now when you log in they've found a way to force you to watch a short ad video. Your Wifi isn't really connected until *after* you watch it. Sigh. End of an era, for the cafes who went for Wistro, and weren't hip enough to figure out how to do it themselves for cheaper. Now the Wistro folks get to charge not only the cafes, but the advertisers. But it works, and I can gripe about it on the Net, for free. Not such a bad deal, really. And all I had to do was watch a commercial for some product I don't remember while scantily-clad babes danced around carrying bags of some candy I don't remember. I mainly tuned it out, and it didn't really affect me at all. H. I wonder if they sell Skittles here? I should ask my waiter. :-)
[FairfieldLife] Sigh...a tear slips out from under my eyepatch
They'll probably be back, but if not I miss them already. I always loved their 'tude. The last line of the article says it all. Pirate Bay Sunk At Last After Europe-Wide Raids? [176] http://cdn.techi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/the_pirate_bay_logo_dis\ play.jpg The Pirate Bay is down this morning after reports of raids across Europe. According to thinq.co.uk http://thinq.co.uk/ , police in up to 14 countries raided locations suspected of housing file sharing servers or equipment. The seemingly invulnerable site has survived a number of attacks from copyright holders through the courts, and has become a beacon for file sharers and those who disagree with the position of content creators about the internet. Predictably, most of the raids occurred in Sweden, although raids are said to have taken place in the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Germany, Britain, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The big question remains where the authorities will turn next once prosecution takes place. The Pirate Bay may yet survive this action, since reports are already rife that the site is back up even though the trackers are still down. Even if The Pirate Bay were to be obsoleted, other torrent trackers remain, plus the many other sources of piracy such as Usenet and IRC. The sum total of this morning's action is the questioning of four individuals, which again brings into question the cost and effort required to even attempt to address the worldwide problem of piracy.
[FairfieldLife] sigh...
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/07/24/ remote_kibbutz_sees_return_of_bad_times/ http://tinyurl.com/f283p [...] Tiberias, usually a bustling tourist city on the Sea of Galilee, is a ghost town. Practitioners of Transcendental Meditation sit in the only open hotel, striving to create a spiritual shield against incoming missiles. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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OK I'm jealous (yet again). Talent everywhere you look (save in my direction). http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=361465 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
