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Before anyone panics, it's worth noting that visions of TV becoming a vast interactive sales catalog are still mainly in the minds of futurists. Big-name brand advertisers are only starting to test the waters, experimenting with interactive ads in France, Britain and the U.S. Still, France's TPS, one of the vanguard channels, has hosted more than 25 interactive ad campaigns in the past four years and claims that up to 50% of viewers use the click-through option. Opel, which now devotes about 5% of its advertising budget to interactive spots, considers its TPS campaign promising...
There is a science to this, called queuing theory, and it's well known to large companies. Queuing theory is also one of the forces behind Ethernet technology, which has made it possible for various people to send vast amounts of information along a network at the same time. You never hear data complain, do you? The gist of it is that you can use a complicated mathematical model to predict, say, how many people will arrive at a checkout counter at a certain time--and therefore staff just the right number of folks needed to meet the demand. Unfortunately...
...city's building and becoming was testament to a continuity of production on a scale dwarfing the (European) self-construction of the American heartland. My first insight into the possibility of history was appropriately one of the oldest and commonest thoughts in history, while seeming to me both vast...
Megan, who spent the vast majority of his college years at Holy Cross on the stage, said he believes strongly in the importance of art to supplement a traditional education...
...explaining exactly how Uncle Sam plans to promote that goal. "I'm not sure why we have that as an objective," says an HHS staff member, noting that while it makes sense to encourage gaps between births in developing countries, "malnutrition isn't really an issue here." Indeed, the vast majority of closely spaced pregnancies in this country turn out just fine. Bao-Ping Zhu, author of a leading study on the subject, notes that women can improve those odds by getting plenty of rest and eating well to make up for lost nutrients and postpartum stress...