Isn’t the greatest experience on mobile when so little of the content can be seen due to popups.
I forgot that I use Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin. I don't see any ads NEVER.
So you see some ads occasionally? Then why are you asking "what ads"?
I'm not sure, but we've been trying the online advertising model for a few decades now, and it's been terrible. Pop-ups, pop-unders, malware, I could go on and on. At some point it's fine to just say "no" to the advertisers after so much abuse.
Also, there's nothing stopping a website from hosting their own ads: these generally are not blocked by ad-blockers because they're served from the same domain, rather than a known ad-serving domain. But they never want to do this for some reason.
If we accept that most people won’t pay a subscription, and take ads off the table as an option, then I can only think of 2 other options:
* charitable patrons (this is a thing, but I guess not effective enough?) * selling other products to subsidize the free content
These both appear to have obvious problems and for a dubious goal of making another party subsidize the visitor’s consumption cost.
Having the visitor cover their own cost seems reasonable. What currency do they have other than money or attention? Maybe a small work problem that provides an abstracted service to a separate payer (a la reCAPTCHA, but for $).
No, I mean they could host their own ads. The way ad-blockers work is that they see requests from a web page to other domains, particularly known ad-serving domains, so they reject those requests, take those elements out of the page, etc. But they don't alter self-hosted images. So if a web page has a bunch of JPGs which are really ads and not just helpful illustrations, and embeds those into the page, the ad-blocker has no way of knowing these are actually ads, and can't block them.
But these places never do this because they want to outsource the advertising to someone else, and the advertisers want to not just show ads, but also track how many times the ad was served, who it was served to, how long it was viewed, and lots of other information that isn't necessary for advertising (and was never a factor back when ads were simply printed on newspaper or shown on TV). In short, the advertisers insist on spying on people now. This should not be tolerated or excused, ever.
Some people here think it's wonderful most of Wikipedia was built without paying its editors. Depends who you ask.
* "Queen Bumblebees’ Tongues Aren’t Built for Slurping Nectar"
* "Why the Computer Scientist Behind the World’s First Chatbot Dedicated His Life to Publicizing the Threat Posed by A.I."
* "NASA to Resume Search for Missing Mars Orbiter"
* "Spaceflight Temporarily Changes the Position and Shape of Astronauts’ Brains, MRI Data Suggests"
... and more of the same.
Where have you seen what you describe?
Statement from the Viking Museum:
https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/about-us/news-and-press...
Documentary referenced in the statement (I think):
https://www.dr.dk/drtv/episode/gaaden-i-dybet_-fra-ukendt-ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cog_(ship)
larger ships in the later middle ages were the Caravel and the Carrack, which typically had more than a single mast.
I'm surprised the raw materials came together over such a distance. That transporting lumber was economical back then is remarkable.
> Per the statement, the large vessels were made to sail north from the Netherlands, around Denmark and toward the Baltic Sea. [...] Uldum adds that shipbuilders made the cogs as large as possible to transport bulky cargo, like timber
Once you've built one cog, you've got the ideal tool to fetch Polish timber to build more!
This happened with tin all the way back in the Bronze Age, where a lot of it was shipped as ingots from industrial-scale mines / smelters in Cornwall all the way to the Mediterranean empires to mix with copper to make Bronze.
A cog-based auto-catalytic wood industry is super interesting.
The exception being guys like JP Morgan who organized industry cartels that acted as private "central planners", part of which turned into the current Federal Reserve Bank.
But for countries like China and many others in Asia with strong state capacity, industrial policy was planned top-down for the "commanding heights" of industry like: roads, rail, shipping, airlines, telecom, steel, energy, etc., and that actually worked very well, faster than private markets alone, with the benefit of existing tech and models to follow.
> There is no need for computers or grand design or hyper-managerial government.
The response above is just pointing out that although you don't need a grand design or hyper-managerial government, it can be done using that approach too.
It's cogs all the way down!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_sources_and_trade_during_a...
Also, there's a "rings" joke in here somewhere about Tinder not being for finding a marriage but I can't figure it out.
Fast forward 200 years, and I was sweating at the cost just to hire someone to deliver new hardwood countertops from a place not much further away. By truck. By a single person. In a single afternoon. No horses required.
Thinking about the logistics of such a feat at that time is wild to me for just the construction of a private residence.
Wood ranges from one extreme to another in terms of density, hardness, ease of working, strength in various directions and so on. There are hardwoods that are so hard that you can't really work them with normal tools and there are softwoods so light that you have to handle them carefully or you'll dent them.
I suppose this explains why the thing that exists on more modern ships is called a “forecastle”.
PS go check the pronunciation for that word as it’s quite surprising.
You aren’t wrong.
Meanwhile, a built-up and elevated stern 'castle' is advantageous place to put the steering and command position, close to the rudder and with visibility of the whole ship, it's rig, plus where the ship is going. While maximizing mid-ship area for cargo. If you have to pick one end or the other, stern is the more comfortable end of the ship being most sheltered from wave action and weather. Being elevated and fortified also helps as a fighting/defensive position, but that is less important for modern cargo ships. 'Anticipation' isn't quite the right word as shipbuilders have always worked within the same basic design considerations and trade-offs, as the sea itself continues to enforce the same fundamental constraints.
Not quite as old but preserved almost intact and now restored on dry land. Well worth a visit.
https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/c-a-thayer.htm
The ship they found "measures about 92 feet long, 30 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Experts estimate its cargo capacity was 300 tons"
The C.A. Thayer is 219 feet long, 36 feet wide and carried 453 tons.
Random off hand thought is the big difference between these two is the Thayer was longer. A problem I've read with long wooden ships is the flexing can open the seams between the planks to open up requiring the crew to bail water.
Off Orford Ness she sprang a leak
Hear her poor old timbers creak
Pump you blighters, pump or drown