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Comment Re: Is this a question? (Score 1) 3

But is the lack of alternatives something inherent to the medium, or is it just because we're lazy/unimaginative?

Basically, are there significant obstacles in the way of new models that only ads can overcome?

I can picture it like, "Hey, Jim, we got this new 'Internet' thing working. Now, how can we make money on it?" "I know, Bill! We can get people to pay us to advertise on it, just like the newspaper!"

Is it just too well-established, and nobody wants to reinvent the wheel? I saw an article on here a few days ago about how ad blockers are making the sky fall or something. Is it time to revisit some alternatives?

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Why is the Internet mostly ad-supported? 3

The Mysterious Dr. X writes: I hate ads, and I don't have the money to donate to every website I frequent. I wonder, though, how advertisements came to be the most popular means to support websites. How is it the Internet didn't evolve, for example, a distributed computing model in which visitors download a small packet of data to process and return? Is there something about advertisements that make it inherently better for supporting websites?

Comment Quite accurately? (Score 2, Interesting) 171

"Astronomers can calculate quite accurately how much lithium they expect to find in the early Universe," can they? How do they know it's accurate? What control values are they using?

It's not entirely semantic, either; it goes on to say, "But the numbers don't match."

So how is that "quite accurate"?

Comment Re:veterinarian (Score 1) 158

I work as a lab tech in a veterinary clinical pharmacology lab, and I can see what you mean.

Personally, I spend a large portion of my time working on our pharmacology database. One of my favorite projects was using VBA to make MS Access fax results to our clients. Other projects include generating lists of samples and the tests they need to run, as well as scripts to integrate chromatograms.

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