Regarding the 'Think Geo' ads...
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Noticed the 'Think Geo' ads on the site have a little 'you are here' indicator, placed somewhere outside Canberra, and probably 300km from where I'm sitting. What I'm curious about is whether this is some static ad, or whether they're using some tricky ip geolocation to point out where I am. If it's the first one, it's not a very good ad as it only works if you life somewhere in the target area, if it's the second then it's not a very good ad as it's pretty inaccurate! Does anyone get a 'you are here' close to where they actually are? Of course I could just pick my PC up and travel to another state, but I figured asking here would probably be simpler ;)
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It says I'm in the West Country (in England) which is wrong - Usually I'm in Glasgow (Scotland) and this week I'm in Maidenhead (England).
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It says I'm in the West Country (in England) which is wrong - Usually I'm in Glasgow (Scotland) and this week I'm in Maidenhead (England).
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
You only think you're in Maidenhead. With all the flooding, you can't be sure.:laugh: Mind you, it has me sitting just outside New York. While my location does have New in it, it's a slightly older one in Newcastle.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Noticed the 'Think Geo' ads on the site have a little 'you are here' indicator, placed somewhere outside Canberra, and probably 300km from where I'm sitting. What I'm curious about is whether this is some static ad, or whether they're using some tricky ip geolocation to point out where I am. If it's the first one, it's not a very good ad as it only works if you life somewhere in the target area, if it's the second then it's not a very good ad as it's pretty inaccurate! Does anyone get a 'you are here' close to where they actually are? Of course I could just pick my PC up and travel to another state, but I figured asking here would probably be simpler ;)
I have no blog...
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You only think you're in Maidenhead. With all the flooding, you can't be sure.:laugh: Mind you, it has me sitting just outside New York. While my location does have New in it, it's a slightly older one in Newcastle.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
It is pretty dry where I am - Nice sunny day today.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
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Impressive, GeoIP locates me in ~50 km. This may turn useful.
Luca
The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.
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He means one thousand. Europeans use the dot as a thousands separator and a comma as the decimal separator.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
God we had fun with that when we tried running some old bit of legacy code in our Spanish office - somewhere deep down it was using the language settings for parsing numbers, so it interpreted 1.250 as 1250 (since it thought the dot was a thousands separator rather than a decimal point)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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He means one thousand. Europeans use the dot as a thousands separator and a comma as the decimal separator.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
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God we had fun with that when we tried running some old bit of legacy code in our Spanish office - somewhere deep down it was using the language settings for parsing numbers, so it interpreted 1.250 as 1250 (since it thought the dot was a thousands separator rather than a decimal point)
-- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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It is pretty dry where I am - Nice sunny day today.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
Nice - the weather's OK here in Newcastle at the moment, but I can't say how long that will carry on.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Both it and the add correctly locate the town I'm in, I'm about 10mi east of the center point where the add points the arrow.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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He means one thousand. Europeans use the dot as a thousands separator and a comma as the decimal separator.
Upcoming events: * Glasgow: Mock Objects, SQL Server CLR Integration, Reporting Services, db4o, Dependency Injection with Spring ... "I wouldn't say boo to a goose. I'm not a coward, I just realise that it would be largely pointless." My website
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Europeans use the dot as a thousands separator and a comma as the decimal separator.
That is just so wrong.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004