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1) "But you can turn it off!" - And here I thought it was about default settings and opt-in. Didn't we (users) already fight these battles with Windows Media Player and Real?

Yes, that's right, because Apple's hidden this 'feature' somewhere where the average user won't find it. There is a hidden option to turn it off, but what user is honestly going to stumble across that, even when they're looking for it?

Let's be realistic. It's pretty much impossible to notice this 'mini-store', especially on a resolution like mine, and everyone *I* know reacted the same as I did when I saw it - 'how do I turn it off?' For people with actual disposable income, this might actually be a great bonus.

I think that most people will tend to turn this off pretty fast, as it's not exactly subtle, and it takes up a significant amount of real estate. Anyone who doesn't explicitly want this is going to turn it off pretty fast. Compare this to RealPlayer or Windows Media Player, that have a small checkbox on an innocuous preferences page, which is the only way anyone would ever know (other than reading overblown sensationalism on Slashdot).

Can we be realistic, just for once? Please?

1) "But you can turn it off!" - And here I thought it was about default settings and opt-in. Didn't we (users) already fight these battles with Windows Media Player and Real?

Yes, that's right, because Apple's hidden this 'feature' somewhere where the average user won't find it. There is a hidden option to turn it off, but what user is honestly going to stumble across that, even when they're looking for it?

Let's be realistic. It's pretty much impossible to notice this 'mini-store', especially on a resolution like mine, and everyone *I* know reacted the same as I did when I saw it - 'how do I turn it off?' For people with actual disposable income, this might actually be a great bonus.

I think that most people will tend to turn this off pretty fast, as it's not exactly subtle, and it takes up a significant amount of real estate. Anyone who doesn't explicitly want this is going to turn it off pretty fast. Compare this to RealPlayer or Windows Media Player, that have a small checkbox on an innocuous preferences page, which is the only way anyone would ever know (other than reading overblown sensationalism on Slashdot).

Can we be realistic, just for once? Please?

It's bad enough when the ads are flashing (I find that my eyes tend to gravitate towards movement, since my peripheral vision isn't good), but when I have to deal with something like Ars Technica's Vonage Ad Overload I just get sick and tired. Sorry Ars, but your site is not worth it.

And for those of you who don't happen to get these ads (I believe Ars ads are geographically targetted), for several months this one single ad was the only ad I ever saw on Ars, and there was always three of them on every page. That situation might have changed, but I started blocking ads specifically because of Ars. It's not a bad ad, in the sense that it doesn't flash or make noise or so on, but it is animated, and when I go to a site and I'm too distracted by the ads to read their content, I'm not sure what the site gets out of it.

Caesar, if you're reading this: GET NEW ADVERTISERS!

Here's a screen capture of Katrina hitting the game world.

(originally stolen from http://data.4chan.org/b/src/1125712295576.jpg but mirrored for bandwidth).

You're right. Here's number two.

http://sites.darien.ca/temp/images/safari-acid2-ag ain.png

Of course, it doesn't matter, because I could just edit the URL bar and then take a screenshot, but whatever, here you are.

Here's a link to a screenshot of Safari rendering the ACID2 test, by the way, just in case anyone's curious.

http://sites.darien.ca/temp/images/safari-acid2.pn g

Here's a link to a screenshot of Safari rendering the ACID2 test, by the way, just in case anyone's curious.

http://sites.darien.ca/temp/images/safari-acid2.pn g