Shog9 wrote:

Since i don't have any inside information on all this, i'll just suggest you send an email to the biz people[^] and let them give you a solid answer.

Thanks. But I just don't trust the guy who's selling the ads to be completely honest with me :). I just wondered if the figures looked kosher to you.

Shog9 wrote:

You might want to give the media kit pages[^] a look

And here's another curious one. According to those "surveys", "More than 60% of CodeProject.com readers - over 1.1 million individuals - use .NET (June 2005)." But every survey I can find on the home page has less than 150 people responding! How did they get "1.1 million individuals" to provide such detailed information, including household income, etc? Or are they just taking the numbers off the check boxes on the sign-up sheet (which, incidently, I didn't pay any attention to)?

Steve Echols wrote:

I can say, every time I'm online, there's at least 8000-10000 other people online as well, so if you place an ad, it will definitely be "seen".

But is it the same 10,000 over and over, or is it all 3.5 million in rotation? Makes a difference in potential sales (1% of 3.5 million is 35,000 :); 1% of 10,000 is only 100, which won't even pay for the ads :().

Shog9 wrote:

You might want to give the media kit pages[^] a look

Okay, it says 2.9 million "unique" visitors each month with 5.8 million user sessions (each visitor comes, on the average, twice a month). But what do they mean by unique? IP address? Email address? They say there are only 366,000 "opt-in email subscribers" so it's probably not email address. At least not verified ones. And there are only 17.9 million pages served per month - meaning each user (on the average) sees only six pages per month. That's not much when the flashing ads are shared between many advertisers. Besides, I'm a nobody newbie here and I've been served at least 150 pages this evening just clicking around the forums. And I think it would be hard to complete a search for an article on a particular subject and then read it with only six page serves. I'm just having trouble getting these numbers to add up. Help?

So how many of the 3,508,376 members here are really members (ie, people I might be able to sell something to if I wrote and article and/or placed some ads)? I would think my product might appeal to, say, 1% of the membership (which would give me 35,083 sales), but I'm wary because the membership role has increased by 681 since I signed up this very afternoon, which seems like suspiciously rapid growth for an established site.

In another thread (http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=1742657&forumid=2605#xx1742657xx[^]), someone named Christian Gauss threatened to talk to Chris someone about banning someone else from the site (perhaps Trollslayer, though I wasn't sure where the message was orignially hung). Does that work? Doesn't the offender just sign up with a new name and fake email a few minutes later?

Chris Austin wrote:

Narrow as the thoughts may be, it is also the simplest answer. Ever heard of Ockham's razor?

Yes. Sorry. Just making sure you considered all the alternatives. By the way, nice signature. It reminds me of a character in a Kurt Vonnegut novel who said something like, "Show me a specialist, and I'll show you a man who's so scared he's dug a hole to hide in." Hope you feel better (once you're immune system is properly updated) :).

The fact is that there are some things better done with text, others better done with pictures. Drawing a form is more efficient and effective than coding coordinates; writing a sort algorithm is better than graphically trying to explain one. The same one-sided kind of thinking arises almost everywhere. Server-side code or client-side code? Correct answer: the one for things that ought to be done on the server, the other for things that ought to be done on the client. Both are right; either is wrong. (Wow! That statement belongs in someone's signature!)

Tim Carmichael wrote:

What is the purpose, besides beauty, of leaves changing colors in the Autumn?

To remind us, especially in times of persecution, of Psalm 116:15, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints."

Chris Austin wrote:

Why don’t sick people stay at home and keep their illnesses to themselves!!!!!

Perhaps they did, in your case, and carried the illness in before they were aware of any symptoms. Or perhaps you caught it from something you touched somewhere other than work. Or perhaps it's in the heating ducts and was awakened by the system's first use. Or perhaps it's airborne and you caught it outside. Or perhaps it's a mercy, and will modify your immune system in such a way that you will later be able to fight off a more serious disease. Your thinking, like most of the thinking here, seems a bit narrow. On another subject, if we all sign up with fake names today, CodeProject will be able to boast over 7,000,000 members tomorrow and Chris will be able to charge more for his ads and then he'll be able to pay for better servers that don't error out as often. I don't ever remember getting an ASP error on Google...