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Help me upgrade from BLX surge 100 to pro staff 90 or 95
Hi guys, I started tennis 2 months ago and i enjoy it a lot, i play tennis now 6-8 hours a week with my coach, now i have BLX surge 100 in case any of you want to know exact detail i know u are pro but just in case (http://www.tennis-warehouse.com/descpage-WBLXS.html) i will be really happy if you can help me find out do i need to move toward better racquets like pro staff 90 and 95,
I'm 24 yo, 78 kg (172 Pound) and I'm 182 cm tall almost 6 feet. please let me know if you need any more information,:)
Why do you want to upgrade? You've only been playing for two months. I'd focus on what your coach says, rather than tinker with equipment.
my couch says sooner or later u need a racquet with smaller head size for more control, and the main reason i want to upgrade is weight of the BLX surge racquet that i think is bit lightweight.
Well if you had to choose between the PS 95 and PS 90, I would recommend the PS 95. This is because going from 10.4 oz to 12.6 oz is a huge jump, as is 100 to 90. You would be going from a lighter tweener to a heavy player's racket.
For the PS 95:
10.4 -> 11.5
100 -> 95
If your coach says that you need a different racquet in order to gain more control, then perhaps you have a bad coach. Most of the more talented coaches on this site all agree that control comes from the player, not the racquet. You learn how to control the ball through swing speed, timing, footwork, top spin, among other things.
One thing you could do with your current racket is change string and/or string it at a higher tension it will lend a bit more control without changing too many variables.
guys thanks a lot i try to keep what i have and focus more on my playing :P i have alrdy using luxilon original, if anything wrong with this string let me know thanks again
I like you playing with a Poly, but agree with everyone else saying that a smaller racquet for more control is just a crazy sentiment. Your sweet spot is much much larger with the Surge, and the Surge is actually a very tweener frame, stay with it for sure.
And what are you going to do in a rally? You're going to stop mid-rally just to switch to your "drop shot" racquet, or "retrieving racquet"?
A good coach would teach you to hit EVERY shot with whatever racquet you're using. None of this built-in excuse BS: "oh this racquet doesn't have enough control/power".
I see a lot of guys who play with 6.1 90 or 95 thinking they can hit like Federer, but are far from it.
For blade 98 18x20. Blade 16x19 will give you more spin and power... But if you really want to change to blx prostaff, go for ps 95. You always can add weight if you need too...
But seriously, if you only started playing 2 months, and you already have a decent stick, just stay with it until you develop your strokes further. Both the PS 95 and 90 require decent strokes for you to even keep the ball in play without being a dinker. You can jump straight to the 90 if you have the footwork, hand-eye, and decent strokes, but the one thing you should not do is use Poly strings if you are a beginner. Poly strings with mess up your arm if you aren't using correct technique. Polys weren't made for beginners anyways, they are intended for advanced players who hit hard, break strings, and need control. Polys are the worst for the weekend warriors, since they lose tension so fast, you are just wasting your money.
No racquet is really an "upgrade". Unless you're playing with a junior racquet I suppose. :)
If you're looking to experience more of the classic "player's racquet" feel, I suggest adding a bit of lead tape underneath your grip. That will give it a more headlight balance and add a bit of mass, and won't cost you $100+.
As for needing a smaller headsize for more control, I believe that guy that just won the Australian Open uses larger than a 95" headsize, and he seemed to have a decent amount of control over his shots.
Pretty weird for your coach to say. There are college, futures, pros, etc., using tweeners like the PD and APD. You might add a little weight/lead to your racket as you get better but there's no reason you need to switch from your current frame unless you personally feel it is not a good fit.
I wouldn't recommend poly either, until you are regularly breaking syn gut.
if you think changing my string will help me to play better and obviously i am looking to improve my tennis, so i try to change my string to a better one, if you have any suggestion on a good string for me let me know, and adding weight to the grip, can i do it my self (buy some lead tape and add it to the grip or does it need a professional who knows the balance ?)
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As a Possibilian, perhaps we can look forward to an RX10 MkII with 4Kvideo and the option of normal mechanical manual focus and zoom that work independently of electronics? As the RX100 has so far had three incarnations, is this RX10 a one-off like the R1 was or should I wait until I can use it in the same way as one could the R1 (at least for zooming)?
Movie Mode
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The RX10, on the other hand, samples the entire 1"-type sensor, so no lines are skipped. The results are noticeable both in our test scene and real world samples. Speaking of test scenes, we've used the same test chart used for stills to illustrate video quality as well. Here's how the RX10 compares to some other cameras:
Right off the bat, you can see how much better the video quality is on the RX10 versus Olympus' Stylus 1 premium superzoom. For example, you can't even read 'Digital Photography Review' above the logo on the Stylus. Here's another illustration of how much more fine detail is captured by the RX10. The RX10 also excels against the video-centric Panasonic GH3 as well as full-frame cameras like the Sony Alpha 7. What we're getting at here is that the DSC-RX10 arguably has the best video quality that we've seen.
In terms of actual specs, they aren't a whole lot different than other high-end Sony cameras (mainly constrained by the consumer-focused AVCHD recording standard):
1920 x 1080 60i/50i Avg. 24 Mbps (high quality)
1920 x 1080 60i/50i Avg. 17 Mbps (standard quality)
1920 x 1080 60p Avg. 28 Mbps (highest quality)
1920 x 1080 24p/25p Avg. 24Mbps (high quality)
1920 x 1080 24p/25p Avg. 17Mbps (standard quality)
1440 x 1080, 1080p (30/25fps), Avg. 12Mbps
640 x 480 (30/25fps), Av. 3Mbps
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The RX10 provides videographers with an impressive set of tools. As you'd expect, you can adjust shutter speed and/or aperture. In manual ('M') mode, you can fix the aperture and shutter speed, and use Auto ISO to maintain brightness. The RX10 also has an ND filter which can be turned on or off in movie mode (the 'Auto' option is for stills only).
There are two image stabilization modes available for video. There's the standard version, plus an 'active' mode for reducing severe shake. The 'catch' with active mode is that a portion of the image is cropped, and that resolution is reduced slightly.
Adjusting depth-of-field is easy. Just turn off the 'click' and the manual aperture dial moves smoothly. The zoom ring is variable speed, and turns smoothly. It adjusts the focal length at a much slower pace than the controller on the top of the camera - ideal for recording video.
In manual focus, this ring switches function, but remains variable in speed. This can make precise movements a bit challenging (since it's inconsistent) and makes it very hard to use follow focus rigs. Having a 'linear' mode that moved focus independent of dial rotation speed would be most helpful. In addition, the RX10 lacks a distance scale (when manually focusing) or a single AF mode in movie mode.
Speaking of focus, Sony provides a focus peaking display to allow pull focusing from one subject to another while recording. After some 'back and forth' establishing where the peaking was strongest, we were able to move from one subject to another with relative ease. You can also enlarge the frame while recording - just as with stills - with or without peaking enabled. Something that would make life easier is a distance scale. A touchscreen display would make it easier for those who wish to stick with autofocus to get a similar effect.
|New to the latest Sony models is 'zebra', an exposure warning display.
The threshold at which stripes are displayed can be set in 5% increments from 70 to 100, with an additional 100+ options only showing totally overexposed regions.
Zebra stripes continue to be visible while you're shooting movies (without affecting the recorded footage).
|Zebra can be combined with focus peaking, if you're manually focusing your video.
Buttons can be assigned to engage and disengage both features quickly, so you don't have to have them both visible throughout shooting.
Another useful tool for shooting video is zebra pattern, which displays overexposed areas of the scene. The threshold at which the pattern appears can be set from 70 to 100+. The RX10 has several options for audio recording, as well. These include audio level adjustment, a wind filter, and two choices for audio output ('live' or 'lip sync'). There's also a Auto Slow Shutter setting (which is on by default), which lowers the shutter speed automatically in low light, to reduce image noise, at the cost of more blurred frames.
Given all that's been said above, it should come as no surprise that the DSC-RX10 can output uncompressed 4:2:2 video over HDMI. This allows you to send video directly to an external recorder - something serious videographers will appreciate. Video output can be 'clean', meaning that no information is overlaid.
One thing that would've been nice on the RX10 is the ability to trim video in-camera, which could avoid a trip to Final Cut Pro or Premiere, for users wanting to perform simple edits.
The Cyber-shot DSC-RX10's video quality is truly excellent. The sharpness, lack of artifacts, and sound quality are top-notch, which makes the camera a compelling choice for serious videographers. We explained what makes the video quality better at the top of this page - now let's see some real-world samples:
Sample 1
First up is a quiet video taken on Lake Union. The camera is on a tripod with the resolution set to 60p and wind filter turned on. Water often shows strange artifacts, but there are none to be found here. The wind filter also does an impressive job.
|1920x1080 60p 28Mbps, MTS, 18 sec, 54.8 MB Click here to download original file
Sample 2
Everyone likes construction machinery, so here's an exciting video taken at 24p (also on a tripod) of a giant claw taking apart a local building. While the video is a bit overexposed, the amount of detail captured is impressive.
|1920x1080 24p 24Mbps, MTS, 27 sec, 68.2 MB Click here to download original file
Sample 3
Lastly, we have an example of manual focus pulling. The camera's on a tripod and manual focus (with peaking) was used. The frame rate is a very cinematic 24p. If you don't hear any sound, that's intentional.
|1920x1080 24p 24Mbps, MTS, 28 sec, 74.1 MB Click here to download original file
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Non-Smoking, no animals, in the northern part of district 15 (arrondissement 15) close to the Charles Michel (line 8) metro stop Commerce (line 10) and La Motte Picquet Grenelle (line 6), this cozy (38 m2) apartment offers everything you need to make your stay in Paris enjoyable.
It is located on the third floor (French standard) It is very quiet and secure place.
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The apartment is well located on the banks of the Seine. 2 supermarkets are not far away. The neighborhood is friendly and cosmopolitan. It takes a few minutes to walk to the nearest metro station Charles Michel (100 m away) line 8.
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Handling the body of a four-year-old girl, whose throat was slit by a thread used for flying a kite, could be one of the most tormenting tasks. "I do this every day. But while handling this little child, my hands trembled and I realised I had tears in my eyes after a long time," says J. Munusamy, recalling his recent experience at work.
Referred to as "cleaners" in mortuaries, persons like him are virtually "all in all" when it comes to ensuring the everyday functioning and maintenance of the morgues. Their assistance is vital for doctors performing autopsies.
On Wednesday, ambulances kept arriving one after another at the mortuary attached to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. With a pale green mask covering his nose and mouth, and trousers folded to three-quarters length, Mr. Munusamy, along with his colleagues, picks up the body that has just arrived and places it on a stretcher.
The cleaners attach a token number to the body before it is taken inside and placed in a cooler box. But this is only the beginning of their task. If it is a body meant for autopsy, they have to ready it. "And even after the post-mortem, we have to clean the body, wash it and pack it, before it is handed over to the family," says the 27-year-old with an unmistakable earnestness in his voice.
While Mr. Munusamy followed his father's footsteps and took up the job, the experience is quite new to M. Sasikumar, another cleaner who joined only three months ago. "I remember my first few days here…I could neither eat nor sleep when I got back home." The strong stench and the most unpleasant sights are likely to make anyone feel nauseous after a few minutes spent on the premises.
And what is worse is when the cleaners have to handle bodies of accident victims, particularly in cases of death on railway tracks. "Most of the body parts lie separately … it is a very challenging task," says a cleaner.
Handling queries from family members of missing persons is another mind-numbing task, say the cleaners and attendants at the GH mortuary. "You'll have someone crying and asking us if their relative's body is inside. Though we are used to such queries and respond mechanically, sometimes, it just hits us. The procedures may be clinical, but we are after all, human," says an employee of the mortuary.
How then do these cleaners carry on, enduring such difficulty on a daily basis? Mr. Muthusamy says: "My father told me, they [the bodies] are like God. I treat them that way and feel satisfied. After all, someone has to do this job, right?"
Cleaners' salaries differ depending on whether they are on the government rolls or they are hired on a contract basis. The average salary for those engaged on a contract is Rs.1,200 a month.
Cleaners at the mortuary attached to the Children's Hospital, Egmore, say their work is limited to packing and placing children's bodies in cooler boxes. "Post-mortem is not undertaken here, so we do not do much of cleaning or washing. But handling bodies of small children is no easy task. It takes the life out of you, really," says a cleaner.
After 12 hours of work, cleaners also follow the practice of going home and bathing in water with antiseptic. As a senior mortuary employee puts it: "There are machines available for several jobs done by human beings. But the job that we do cannot be done by a machine. We think we are the chosen ones for it."
Keywords: mortuary, Chennai government hospital


text: I have a pile of sacrificial P&S cams scattered about, but lately I've been thinking about offering up something different, like a Seagull (nobody'd want to keep one of those), or a battered (but not deep fried) Canon AE-1, or perhaps an AT-1, with 50mm lens. The cool thing about that is anyone who has Canon FD gear can substitute a lens of their choice. The danger there is they may send on the wrong lens, or none at all... The Yahoo Minolta group did it that way though. Then of course we could always circulate a MF back, though only users of that particular system would get to participate.


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is it possible to skip the summon animations?
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Shruuwcan! - English dub for Ken, SFIV. Epic fail.
Not in this one, I don't think.
If you encounter a situation where all hope is lost and you have only one chance for victory, follow these instructions:
"Do a Barrel roll"
You can't. Then again, there's no need for GF's (except maybe Doomtrain, or Eden if you REALLY want to). But no, you can't skip the animations. You can't skip them in ANY FF. You CAN shorten them on other FF's though (can't remember which ones exactly).
^You can shorten them in FFIX, but it results in a drop in power. Actually, the goal in there is to extend them.
Yeah you're right. I was thinking of FFX, I'm sure you can shorten them there as well.
After this I'm gonna replay FFIX.. then FFX.. then I'll hold.
*loves his brand-new copies of FFVI -> FFXII*
GF damage is terrible compared to physical attacks and limit breaks once you learn to use the Junction system to strengthen your characters instead. The only exception is Eden, which is still completely inefficient since it has an animation time at about 4 times longer than the others and will only hit for a third of what your big hitters can do with their limit breaks since Eden only hits once and can't go beyond the 60k damage range.
After you learn how to play the game efficiently by junctioning properly and abusing limit breaks, the only GFs you'll have a use for are Doomtrain for Meltdown status on enemies, Cerberus for both Double and Triple status on all of your characters, Diablos in the rare case you only want to damage the enemy but not kill them, and possibly Carbuncle for the Reflect status on all party members. Junctioning 100 Tornado (available even before entering the Fire Cavern with only about 15 minutes of playing cards per 100 spells) to Strength is all you need to make a character do almost twice as much damage as a boosted GF. By the time you leave for the Field Exam, you likely won't even want the GF command on your characters if you've learned how to properly junction to stats.
Aside from the GFs listed above, all the others only do damage and do it poorly compared to what your characters can do in one turn. Even Eden only does about 4/5 of the damage a properly junctioned Squall can do with a full Renzokuken without a finisher. With the Lion Heart finisher, Eden doesn't even do 1/3 of that damage. Given summoning time, animation time, and the minimal damage, GFs just aren't efficient for damage beyond the first 20 minutes of the game. You can keeping your level low to avoid letting your enemies get levels, keeping your health in critical (yellow) throughout almost the entire game to allow for fast limits, and abusing those limits by using them over and over, you can beat the game quite easily.
By the time the Aura spell comes around on the second disc, allowing you to use limits the same way at full HP, it'll be rare for you to use something other than limits to damage bosses.
I am a man. The CIA is just a cover.
just one problem with that
if the animations could be skipped eden could then do 60k+ (maximum is 65535) damage and protect you from damage while charging it up which would then not require using aura in the first turn or being at low health and gives you 2 lots of health (and providing you a way of protecting yourself from 100% kill attacks wthout boring yourself watching gf animations
though quick shot renzokuken and duel are great damage dealers :)
^False. Max damage is exactly 60k.
really? i swear i've gotten more than 60k, i'd just assume it woul be 65535 maximum as thats the highest a 16bit thingy can reach...
Junctioning 100 Tornado (available even before entering the Fire Cavern with only about 15 minutes of playing cards per 100 spells)
You'd also need 150ap for card, card mod, and t-rf.


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A mobile telephone of an advertiser broadcasts an advertisement over a wireless short range piconet link to a mobile telephone of a consumer. The advertisement is broadcast with a predetermined set of classification tags. The consumer phone has a filter set to accept only certain advertisements. When an advertisement of interest is received by the consumer phone it requests further details automatically via the piconet link and the advertiser phone provides the further details automatically via the piconet link. The consumer phone replies to the advertisement by sending a reply message to a broker device that changes (i.e., modifies or augments the reply message text) and communicates the changed reply message to the advertiser.
1. A method of advertising comprising:
receiving, at a consumer telecommunications device, a first part of an advertisement broadcast via a short range link from an advertiser telecommunications device;
receiving a second part of the advertisement at the consumer telecommunications device, wherein the second part of the advertisement is received from the advertiser device by the consumer device after the consumer device has screened the first part of the advertisement;
replying to the advertisement by sending a reply message including message data from the consumer telecommunications device to an advertisement broker device;
changing the message data of the reply message at the broker device to derive a changed reply message that includes at least a substantial portion of the reply message; and
communicating the changed reply message from the broker device to the advertiser telecommunications device.
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an advertiser device comprising a first telecommunications device having both a short range transmitter and receiver unit, and a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver, a memory, and a processor, the memory including an advertisement;
a consumer device comprising a second telecommunications device, having: (a) a short range, piconet transmitter and receiver unit, (b) a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver unit, (c) a second memory, and (d) a control processor, the second memory or the control processor of the consumer device having an advertisement receiver which, in use, is capable of receiving and storing the advertisement, wherein the advertisement has a first part and a second part, and wherein the advertisement receiver is configured to receive the second part of the advertisement from the advertiser device after the consumer device has screened the first part;
and an advertisement broker device contactable via wireless telecommunications with both the advertiser and consumer devices, the broker device being adapted to selectively (a) pass advertiser details to the consumer device in response to triggering, (b) pass consumer details to the advertiser device in response to triggering, and (c) block passage of at least one of (i) advertiser details to the consumer device and (ii) consumer details to the advertiser device.
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an advertiser device comprising a first telecommunications device having both a short range transmitter and receiver unit, and a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver, a memory, and a processor, the memory including an advertisement;
a consumer device comprising a second telecommunications device, having (a) a short range, piconet transmitter and receiver unit, (b) a long range telecommunications transmitter and receiver unit, (c) a second memory, and (d) a control processor, the second memory or the control processor of the consumer device having an advertisement receiver which, in use, is capable of receiving and storing the advertisement, wherein the advertisement has a first part and a second part, and wherein the advertisement receiver is configured to receive the second part of the advertisement from the advertiser device after the consumer device has screened the first part; and
an advertisement broker device contactable via wireless telecommunications with both the advertiser and consumer devices, the broker device being adapted to selectively (a) pass consumer details to the advertiser device in response to triggering and (b) block passage of at least one of (i) advertiser details to the consumer device and (ii) consumer details to the advertiser device.
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This invention relates to information acquisition by devices in a wireless network. It especially, but not exclusively, relates to advertising over a wireless network, and is especially useful in short range networks, such as Bluetooth(™).
There has long been a desire to advertise goods or information on networks, usually to be exchanged for money. Spam e-mails are a fact of life, as are television advertisements and radio advertisements. Advertisements on video screens in buildings, whilst waiting in queues, and even in washrooms are known. There is so much advertising it is losing its effect on people, and people can switch off their interest as soon as they realise they are receiving an advertisement, and not pay any attention to it. This directs advertisers to use short advertisements. On the other hand, someone who is actually considering a purchase, the very person an advertiser would like to contact, may want more information to assist them.
Another problem with advertising to a mass market is that the supply of goods, or special deals, may have been exhausted by the time that a recipient of the advertisement replies to the advertisement. This can be annoying to the prospective customer. Furthermore, the usefulness of a special deal may be somewhat limited to certain customers (e.g. cheap flights from Chicago to New York may not be interesting to some one who lives in Los Angeles).
A further form of advertising is unsolicited cold-calling at a persons house, e.g. at the doorstep, or unsolicited telephone calls to try to persuade a person to buy something. This can be quite disturbing to the recipient of these personal unsolicited approaches.
There are, of course, many other forms of advertising.
It is an aim of at least one embodiment of the invention to at least try to ameliorate at least one of the aforesaid problems.
According to a first aspect the invention comprises a method of advertising comprising:
broadcasting a short range advertisement from an advertiser telecommunications device;
receiving the broadcast advertisement on a consumer telecommunications device; and
replying to the advertisement via a broker device interposed in the telecommunications link between the advertiser device and the consumer device.
Thus the broker device is interposed between advertiser and consumer devices and can control what is communicated between them. It is therefore possible for the broker device to modify the message sent by the consumer device to the advertiser device, and/or to modify any follow-up message sent by the advertiser device, or a proxy or master advertising device, to the consumer device. The advertiser device may or may not include its own telecommunications address in its broadcast advertisement. It may include the telecommunications address of the broker device.
Short range is typically a few meters to something of the order of ten meters. Long distance can be of the order of a mile or miles, tens of miles, or hundreds of miles, or more.
The method may include broadcasting an advertisement including one or more advertisement classification codes which are compared with allowable advertisement codes in an advertisement screening operation by the consumer device. The consumer device may store or bring to the attention of user only those advertisements which are passed by the screening operation that it performs on the broadcast advertisements that it receives.
The consumer device may reply to an advertisement via short range, e.g. piconet, telecommunications, or via long range, e.g. cellular telephone, telecommunications. It may be preferred to reply to an advertisement via long range telecommunications because it may avoid the advertiser device knowing that the consumer device is close. The communication between the consumer device and the broker device, and/or the communication between the advertiser device and the broker device may be via long range telecommunications.
The method may comprise sending a first part of an advertisement via the short range telecommunications, and a second, preferably longer or larger, part of the advertisement via either long range or short range telecommunications. The first part may comprise substantially any advertisement classification codes. The second part may have 5, 10, 50, 100, or more, times as much data as the first part of the advertisement. The second part of the advertisement may be transmitted after the consumer device has screened the first part of the advertisement and communicated with the advertisement broker device or with the advertising device. The second part of the advertisement may be broadcast by the same advertiser device that broadcast the first part, or by a different advertiser telecommunications device.
Preferably the consumer telecommunications device is a portable, preferably a hand-portable, or pocketable, device. Preferably the advertiser device is a portable, preferably hand-portable, or pocketable, device (i.e. can be put in a normal pocket of normal clothing). One or both of the advertiser and consumer devices may comprise a mobile telephone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The mobile device(s) is/are preferably portable electronic devices, which preferably have both piconet short range and long range telecommunication capabilities.
The advertisement, or first part or second part of the advertisement, may comprise an offer to sell or to buy; or it may comprise data or information that is not normally considered advertisements, for example documents or information. The method is especially useful to disseminate short-form abstracts of documents prior to a user deciding if they wish to call down longer versions/more information.
The same device may be both a consumer and advertiser device. It can be advertising one or more different advertisements and willing to consume incoming advertisements, possibly a user set profile of incoming advertisements. It may advertise and consume simultaneously, or substantially simultaneously.
It will be appreciated that by using a broker device interposed between the advertiser device and the consumer device, the consumer device may be pre-loaded with a telecoms address for the broker device and the advertisement transmitted by the advertiser device may not need to include a telecoms address for the broker device (or its own address). This can reduce the data transmitted in the advertisement a little. Furthermore, the consumer device does not have to have an automatic address-selection/entering capability for variable advertisement follow-up addresses (which would be the case if the consumer device replied directly to the advertiser device over the cellular network). Many, many, mobile telephones, or devices, may be pre-loaded with the same broker device address. A refinement is of course that there may be a plurality of different broker devices, each with their own telecoms address, and the advertisement could simply flag which of the pre-loaded addresses to use (instead of containing the full address). Much of the complexity of the processing is moved to the broker device, which allows simpler and cheaper advertiser and/or consumer devices.
It will be appreciated that whilst it is envisaged that "advertisement" will usually be something offered for monetary recompense, it may not always be so. For example, it is possible that the advertisement may comprise a circulation of the titles or abstracts of recently published papers or internal news, and the "reply to advertisement" may be a request for the full copy of the documents, with or without payment; the advertisement may comprise a request for volunteers to perform a task, and the reply may be volunteers agreeing to perform the task and enquiring more about what is expected of them.
The invention may be seen as a way of telecommunication devices acquiring information.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The two telephones 10 and 12 can communicate in a piconet via their short range telecommunication channels when they are close enough together, and can communicate via their long range antenna 16 a and 16 b, (and via land emitters and receivers 30, and via satellite 32) at much greater distances apart (miles, hundreds of miles, or thousands of miles apart).
Such telephones may be termed "dual mode" or "hybrid" telephones. It will be appreciated that by "telephone" is meant primarily what is conventionally thought of as being a mobile telephone, but also "mobile telecommunications device", such as a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), laptop or palmtop computers, or even devices which have other functions, possibly even other primary functions, in addition to having short range and long range telecommunications abilities.
In the example of
The consumer's hybrid telephone, 12, has an advertisement filter 38 and when it receives the broadcast advertisement 34 it compares its categories or profile permissible parameters with those of its filter 38, and if there is a match to a suitable degree the consumer's telephone 12 sounds or vibrates, or otherwise alerts the consumer to the presence of an advertisement of interest. In an alternative embodiment it does not notify the consumer at this stage.
After the consumer's telephone 12 has determined that the broadcast advertisement is of interest it automatically sends out a signal via its short range telecommunications antenna 146 requesting a full advertisement from the telephone 10 (referenced 40 in
The consumer's telephone 12 receives the full advertisement and stores it in its memory 19 b. At this stage the device 12 notifies the consumer that it has an advertisement of interest (if it has not already done so). Alternatively, the telephone 12 may be configured to alert the consumer only at predetermined times (e.g. the end of the work day, or at lunch time), or at predetermined location (eg. at a consumer's home, at their office, or perhaps anywhere else but not whilst they are at certain locations (e.g. not in their car when they might be driving, and not in a main meeting room, not in a cinema etc.)
After the consumer has experienced the advertisement (it could be audio, visual, or both) they may wish to reply to the advertisement. They can do this by triggering an automatic reply dial. The advertisement category, short-form advertisement, that has already been received by the consumer's telephone 12, provided the telephone 12 with the telecommunications address of either the full advertisement, the reply address for the advertisement, or both. Alternatively the reply address may be communicated to the phone 12 by the full advertisement 42. However, the phone 12 becomes aware of the reply address, it sends a reply, referenced 44 and/or 4 b in
The phone 12 initially tries to reply to device 10 via the short range telecomms 14 a and 14 b. If that is successful then the two phones 10 and 12 can continue to communicate over, for example, Bluetooth, or the like.
If no reply connection can be established over the local piconet, the device 12 uses its long range cellular telecommunications ability, via antenna 16 b, to reply to the advertisement. This is referenced 46 in
The amount of data, and the content of the data, in the reply 44 or 46 may be constrained by the advertising service provider referenced 50.
When the advertiser agrees to pay the advertisement broker (if this is necessary) the advertisement broker provides the direct telecomms address of the consumer to the advertiser, or of the advertiser to the consumer, or both of their addresses to each other. It will be appreciated that the arrangement may be that the interested consumer may pay/agree to pay instead of or as well as the advertiser before they are put properly directly in touch with each other.
The advertisement is screened, at step 64, against the pre-existing filter profile in the phone 12. If the profile of the advertisement does not match that of the filter to an acceptable degree the consumer is not alerted to the presence of the advertisement, and the advertisement in the buffer memory can be overwritten by future advertisement received by the device 12, or may even be positively deleted. If the advertisement is passed by the filter it is transferred to longer term memory of the phone 12, see step 66.
This embodiment has the feature of being able to alert a consumer of an advertisement very promptly, if appropriate to do so. This may be important if the advertisement has short range (geographical range) applicability, for example a "30% reduction in set meal cost today only" advertisement broadcast by a restaurant, or "upload newspaper now—$1" broadcast by an electronic news-stand. These are situations where the offer is either of immediate interest to the consumer or not, and there is little point in the consumer discovering some hours later that they could have had a special lunch deal hours ago, but have missed it now.
As illustrated at 68 in
The user can decide whether to play the advertisement now, or save it until later, referenced 70. If the user decides to ignore the advertisement for now they can decide not to play it, and their phone 10 saves it with an automatic recall function 72 where the advertisement is re-presented on the phone to the user for playing at either a predetermined time later (e.g. 2 hours later, provided replay time is between 8.00 am and 10.00 pm), or a set event (e.g. 5 minutes after detecting the user's home base beacon at their house, or at their office, or in their car).
The advertiser device transmits more information to the consumer device 10 via the long distance, e.g. cellular, network. The device 10 saves the expanded advertisement, with the extra information to memory, step 90 (possibly temporary memory, or possibly long term memory). The user can reply to the advertisement via long range telecomms 94.
The user selects, in step 122, which categories are to be excluded and which are to be included. In this example the ASP gives weightings to other non-specifically indicated categories, dependant upon what has been screened positively in and out of the filter profile, and may pass to the consumer non-specifically screened in, or screened out, advertisements that have a high enough weighting/point score. In this example the user is required specifically to select whether to allow urgency flags to trigger an immediate advertisement alert (if the advertisement if the advertisement passes the rest of the filter) or not, step 124.
When the user has set their filter profile on the ASP it is downloaded from the ASP to the phone, step 126, and the user disconnects from the ASP.
The advertiser device 136 (or a similar device associated with another organisation, not necessarily the example given) may emit electronic vouchers or coupons, redeemable against certain goods or services, possibly with a time expiry date.
It will be appreciated that a static advertiser device can reach a lot of people if it is in a busy place such as a shopping mall, turnstile or doorway of a building, or a transport station, such as a train or subway station. A mobile advertiser station, e.g. in a train or taxi, or even carried by a person (e.g. their mobile phone) may be in piconet contact with a great many other devices over a period of time.
Some advertisers may pay some people or organisations to carry their advertisements. For example a company may agree to contribute to a mobile telephone bill if the mobile telephone carries their advertisement and broadcasts it. An amount per enquiry originating from their telephone, or a "rental" fee payable to the owner of the device may be envisaged.
The advertisement could be on offer to sell or supply, or a request to buy or receive.
It will also be appreciated that it may be preferred in some situations to ensure that the reply to an advertisement is transmitted via long range telecommunications, or at least not let the advertiser know that the reply has come via short range telecomms. It can be awkward for a potential customer if a seller/advertiser knows that there is such a potential customer (i.e. someone whose telecomms device has replied to their advertisement) within a few meters of them—in a piconet with them.
The advertisement may take the form of an auction, or reverse auction. An item may be open for bids for a fixed time period and then sold to the highest bidder (or in the reverse auction scenario, the lowest bidder).
A benefit of using a wideband link for the short-form advertisement is that it makes the transmission time of a short form advertisement short, for example less than one second is envisaged. The transmission of the full advertisement and associated details, over Bluetooth or other short range telecomms, might be of the order of a few seconds. The data rate envisaged for the short range telecomms is of the order of 500 kbits/second or better. Perhaps ten times that, or better can be achieved. Video clips may be transmitted.
The short range wideband link may have a data rate that is perhaps 10 to 1000 times as great as that of the long distance telecomms link. In an alternative embodiment the data rates may vary by a factor of <2, 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000, or more, or by an amount defined by a range between any of those values.
Although primarily described in relation to advertisements, the invention is potentially applicable to other situations where a first tranche of data is provided to a user who may or may not want a further tranche of data, for example abstracts of documents may be distributed via short range piconet links, with users able to obtain fuller text via long range telecomms (and there may or may not be a cost payable to the host/ASP/database for the fuller text).
The fact that the piconet advertisements are necessarily originating from a local source may be attractive. The invention may be thought of as the broadcasting and filtering of local advertisements over a piconet, with the probable provision of a writing tool (e.g. WAP based) and the possible provision of a broker for responses to advertisements that come back via the cellular network or piconet.
The user presses the "send" button 148 (or "yes" button) when advertisement 3 is selected and the phone 140 transmits a piconet signal broadcast generally. The piconet advertiser device that is advertising parking space then sends back details of where the parking space is, and how much it costs. In this example the advertiser device does not make a charge for fleshing out the short-form advertisement. The user can now drive to the car parking space knowing that it is close. Whilst each piconet device has a range of the order of a few meters to tens of meters, a piconet in a city, for example, could extend hundreds of meters due to piconet devices passing on messages to other piconet devices in the piconet. Thus the car parking space can be much further away from the phone 140, even if the advertising device is in the car park (which it need not be).
Item 5 on the display 142 illustrates another characteristic label that may be displayed with the short form advertisement: whether the advertisement is from a commercial organisation or a private individual (i.e. word "PRIVATE" indicates private individual's advertisement).
The phone 140 presents the advertisement categories 1 to 5 initially as text only. The list of advertisements on its display may be a limited number of advertisements, limited to the best matches to the filter. The list may be a rolling list which is scrollable through advertisements received, either manually scrollable or automatically scrolling. The phone may have no filter.
To return to an overview of embodiments of the invention: It will be apparent that the advertisement of short range high bandwidth wireless technologies such as Bluetooth will give rise to a new class of hybrid mobile phones that combine both a long range cellular link with a separate short range wireless link in the same device. With such hybrid phones, it will be possible to communicate via the cellular link, passing information received directly on through the short range link to nearby devices, and vice-versa. The present invention takes advantage of this to provide an advertisement service that uses these hybrid phones to broadcast advertisements, receive advertisements and respond to these advertisements.
The advertiser preferably broadcasts only a minimal advertisement to those in the vicinity, typically the advertisement category. If there is a match of interest in the consumer's phone, the consumer's phone then requests the full advertisement details which are quickly transferred over the short range link. This "advertisement transaction" will happen very quickly, and because of the short range communication that is used, by the time the consumer has had time to consider the advertisement the advertiser may be out of range. Thus, there is proposed a response route via the long range cellular network. The consumer indicates on his phone his desire to purchase the item, and signals this back via the cellular network. The advertisement broker matches the ID of the advertisement with that of the advertiser and passes on a message to the advertiser informing him of the consumer's interest.
The wireless nature of the short and long range telecomms envisaged is attractive.
The service provider, or advertising device could provide an auction, or other value-added services.
Each mobile phone or PDA could be viewed as a walking billboard. It is of course possible to configure a phone to respond to accept no advertisements.
It will be appreciated that in the prior art a user who wants to have details of a lot of documents/data (e.g. advertisements) from a remote site has been able to transmit the database to themselves and to discard what they do not want. This is very wasteful in telecommunication capacity and requires a great deal of bandwidth, and also a lot of memory at the receiving device.
The present invention reduces the amount of data that is carried via telecommunications, and that is stored (albeit temporarily), in comparison with transferring everything and then discarding at the user's end.
An alternative known system is for a user to type in a search strategy to a computer to instruct a remote database host to perform a search for the data of interest and to transmit to the user via telecommunications just the result of the database search. However, this does not lend itself very well to the situation such as advertising where a user does not know that there is data that they might like to see (because they would not know to type in an appropriate search command). Some embodiments of the present invention positively, and proactively, draws to the attention of a user opportunities to discover more about a data record.
Some embodiments of the invention transmit relatively large volumes of data over high bandwidth, cheap (or even free-to-air) short range wireless transmissions. This avoids congesting land lines, or long range cellular networks. These embodiments may restrict the use of the long range wireless telecommunications, which typically are more expensive in transmission costs and are often more congested, to smaller volumes of data, and/or to data that is known to be of interest (rather than speculative unsolicited data). This can improve the overall availability of the long distance e.g. cellular network, the connection rate for successful connections, and can reduce the rate for connections being unexpectedly terminated.
By having the advertisement writer and filter creator at a remote site, the mobile consumer and advertiser devices can potentially have simpler microprocessors/software stored on them, and require less processing power and memory than they otherwise would, since the software and databases used to create the advertisements and filters need not be stored in them, or be operable in their processor chips.
By having advertisements, or other data, broadcast at low power over a short range piconet by an advertiser device (e.g. mobile telephone), it is possible to avoid using high power, longer distance, transmitters, and the power density of radiation in the environment may be kept down (in comparison with having a big long range transmitter). This may help reduce electromagnetic "pollution" of the electromagnetic environment, and may reduce the likelihood of signals interfering with other things undesirably.
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Chicken Soup with Cabbage & Sweet Potatoes
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ARCADIA, Calif.-- Game On Dude won a controversial running of the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap on Saturday, giving jockey Chantal Sutherland the distinction of being the first woman rider to win the historic race -- and the first woman rider to be booed as she rode into the winner's circle.Game On Dude survived a 12-minute inquiry by track stewards into a bumping incident in early stretch involving the 14-1 winner, runner-up Setsuko, and 1-2 favorite Twirling Candy. After a lengthy ...
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Unidentified persons gained entry into the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Irugur and decamped with nine tonnes of red sanders. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence had handed over the red sanders consignment to the ICD management after it seized the wood in Dharapuram in January this year. The value of the stolen red sanders is around Rs. 4 crore.
Sources said that though the DRI had seized the red sanders, it was for the ICD management to prefer the complaint with the Singanallur Police as the wood was in its custody.
Singanallur Police said that they were yet to receive a formal complaint.
The sources also said that the DRI would review how it stored the seized valuables, though this was the first time such an incident had happened in Coimbatore.
Meanwhile, the Container Corporation of India (Concor) is likely to review the security at ICD. An official of Concor told The Hindu that this was a rare incident and had not happened in the usual security area. Investigations were on and after consultations with all the stakeholders, it would review the security provided at the ICD. "It was DRI cargo that was kept in a container. We will now review and strengthen the security," the official said. The ICD has a warehouse too.
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The monthly Previews catalog from Diamond Comic Distributors is always chock-full of awesome new products, but this month's Diamond Select Toys offerings are even more awesome than ever! Not only is DST soliciting its new line of Batman resin busts in the new issue, they've got an upsized Mr. Stay Puft bank, the first Ghostbusters…
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October 3, 2013
By now, everyone is probably enjoying their copy of Iron Man 3 on DVD or Blu-Ray, as well as enjoying their two Marvel Select action figures based on the film. You wouldn't think things could get much more enjoyable than that, but they just did! The two Disney Store-exclusive Iron Man 3 Marvel Select figures…
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September 24, 2013
Halloween has come a little early, and Diamond Select Toys is sending some of their spookiest Select figures ever to comic shops and specialty stores this week! The Munsters Select line gets four brand-new family figures, and Universal Monsters Select brings to life Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and the Hunchback of Notre Dame! Plus, Wolverine…
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The October issue of Previews won't reach comic shops until the end of this month, but retailers are already taking orders for all the new items from Diamond Select Toys! Early 2014 will bring a bunch of cool items, including a new Star Trek ship, two new Marvel Minimates box sets, two new Universal Monsters…
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It's New Toy Day, and the new toys are coming fast and furious! New Minimates assortments, a new Marvel Select figure, a new Femme Fatale and a new Minimates carrying case (with exclusive Minimate!) are all available for purchase or order at your local comic book shop starting today. Check out the details below and…
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August 19, 2013
The print edition won't be out for a week or two, but the digital edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' Previews catalog is online, and retailers have already begun offering all of the great new products from DST! Check out what you can pre-order now below, and find your nearest comic shop at comicshoplocator.com! MARVEL Marvel…
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August 15, 2013
Diamond Select's flagship action figure line, Marvel Select, has been around for 11 years, and in that time they've put out some pretty good-looking toys. But while the toys look good on their own, once you add dynamic poses, dramatic lighting and realistic environments, they look incredible! To honor the amateur photographers who make the…
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The Des Moines Building Apartments405 6th Avenue Suite 209, Des Moines, IA 50309 View On Map (515) 992-6450
Modern living in the historic Des Moines Building.
The Art Deco jewel of downtown Des Moines has new life as 136 design-conscious apartments in the core of the city. Units include a wide selection of studio, one bedroom, and two bedroom apartments that feature modern amenities and wonderful views. A signature amenity is the conversion of the 360-degree rooftop patio into common space for tenants to gather, socialize, and enjoy panoramic views of downtown Des Moines. While half of the units are market rate, the other half feature attractive monthly rents for residents with an income of $42,000 or less.
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Historic Art Deco mixes with modern design to create a truly unique living space in the core of downtown Des Moines. Amenities have been designed for the modern tenant that wants blazing fast internet, rooftop space, a third floor dog park, and more.
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With money, power and fame, comes the reality that your dirty little secrets will someday be revealed to everyone. At some point, America evolved into a scandal-thirsty nation where millions obsess over juicy rumors and news. Best kept secrets in today's Twitter age? None exist.
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