Not nearly as much as having thousands of programmers constantly fighting with the weakness of HTML. It's not really that big a problem other than trying to get everyone switched over - which is fixed as easily as making the system degrade cleanly into HTML.
Most of the work has been done many times over in the form of UI and layout libraries. It just has to be ironed out and established. Obviously it doesn't have to be perfect on the first try either. It just has to be better than HTML and XHTML. It can still be similar to HTML. Probably using XML formated plain-text files as the basis and keeping a page concept.
HTML is like building a mud hut. It doesn't take a lot to learn how but there are limitations to the what you can do with it. A telented user of HTML can do some pretty cool stuff but it's a lot more work to do so than it should be and it'll never properly create some things - like taking mud hut technology and trying to build a skyscraper.
I don't think we should get rid of HTML but I do think we should create an alternative that will work for more advanced needs.
HTML is good enough for most people who aren't really creating anything. It's fine for MySpace pages and other ugly hard to use crap. When it comes to providing useful information and powerful interfaces for working with that information though it isn't very good and more and more end-users are demanding more. That means those of us that write web-based tools have to keep finding new ways to make stuff happen. HTML has been way to limited for quite some time now and Java and Flash are poor substitutes for the fluid enviroment HTML gives us. We need something with the benefits of Java and Flash combined with the benefits of HTML with some good CSS and scripting thrown in. Right now we're creating what amount to fancy kludges but they are rarely elegant ind esign because of the tools we're limited to.
HTML neither provides logical structure to information nor provides a nice way to create rich applications. It was originally made to put near plain-text with hyperlinks online and that is pretty much all it's good for. It was a minor improvement over Gopher. Switching to XHTML + CSS does help a lot but it still is a pretty crappy solution. I'd rather they create a new format for the web, without all the pointless hold overs, that makes it easy to keep information, layout, and function as discrete components that can easily be modified or alternated individually. HTML was good because it was simple and just worked which is what you need to get a technology going but eventually you have to make something that works well if you want a concept to keep growing.
Exactly - SuSE isn't a hardcore distro. I'd suggest it to someone that is new to Linux and wants a lot of stuff thrown in just to se what kind of packages are available. It's good for a first taste. It's not very good for serious server use. My biggest complaint about SuSE is YaST which is fine for toying around but really puts it's toe in the soup when you're trying to do anything serious. It's also somewhat buggy. A recent install for a friend reminded me why I don't care for it. During installation it out of no where asked if I wanted to install Flash and then proceeded to wipe the partition table. No idea what the heck is up with that but it seems a pretty serious installation bug.
Oracle might steal some of the mindless drones from RedHat but more likely it'll hurt Novell and similar companies that also have also-ran distros from a big name company with no future. Most of us that have been using Linux for more than a few years will stick with RedHat or Debian. Since RedHat is known for their extra support most companies employing these people that actually know how to use Linux will probably opt for RedHat.
Pardon me for saying so but most of the people I know who use distros other than RedHat or Debian (Slackware and Gentoo get a honorable mention as popular among real Linux geeks) are fairly new or inexperienced. I certainly wouldn't bet my business on some untested fad distro.
The only point I'd give her for her review of Slashdot is the left hand column. (Is that supposed to be some kind of menu?) I've been using Slashdot for years and still dislike that column - it just seems kind of a crammed together kludge. I dunno if it has to much air in it though.. we better check the pressure gauge.
Overall, I think Slashdot is well designed though and it's upgrade is pretty good. It's an informational site that has stood the test of time and many many users. That's more than most site's can say.
The whole Hot Coffee thing was stupid any way. First, GTA is obviously a game that parents shouldn't give to young children - it's rated M for 17 and older right on the damn box. Then to push up that rating with mods like Hot Coffee doesn't happen by accident - you have to search out, download, and install the mods. You might as well blame Mozilla when your kid finds Dads porn bookmarks and visits some sites they shouldn't.
I for one think GTA should have an XXX version created and released by Take2 that includes much more sex and violence. I don't care if I have to special order it - I'd still buy a copy. I'm sure others would too. Maybe something to try for the PS3? Take advantage of those big disks. I want to be able to break the door down and go into every building in the whole city.
Unfortuantely changing the US is probably not going to happen until after it crumbles. There are to many people who think the US is the best, because it's the US, and therefore perfect. These are the same people who tell you that if you don't like it then you should just go somewhere else. The US is probably one of the best countries out there but I can't help but feel that it's quickly falling. Lack of morality and responsibility are destroying us. We're very self-centered with everything being about personal freedom and gain. Simple statements such as saying that we need to balance capitialist greed with some intelligent social programs or that or our freedom to live our lives has to be limited by the negative impact we have on other lives are attacked as being un-American. The vocal minority of the country doesn't want change. The majority is to stupid and short-sighted to see that we need change. Those intelligent enough to see we need change and to see that the basic problems are social are to lazy, to scared, and to unsure what to do to make any significant difference. Simple fact - voting, by itself, isn't going to improve things. To really make things better is going to take getting involved. Form or join committees to decide what needs to be done and then use your own time, energy, and money to get it done. Inspire others to do likewise through your own actions.
I get mad that I see so many groups focusing on the needs of people in Africa, Asia, South America, etc when our own country is falling apart. Why don't people want to give to make America a better place? Some parts of the US are almost as bad as the third world countries we see on tv. Both rural and intercity areas of the US have a lot of violence, poor living conditions, and little chance for upward mobility of future generations. I can understand why these issues are largely ignored though. Nobody wants to face their own problems - it's easier to fix other people's problems. It's more glamorous to help starving HIV infected children in Africa than it is to help hard working but uneducated and poor hillbillies in the Appalachians or even kids born to meth addicts. It's just easier to look elsewhere - I can fight militant African tribesmen off with my bare hands easier than I can convince people in the US to even agree that a problem exists let alone get them to fix it.
I'd rather start over from scratch than fix the problems in the US. That is really how America came to be so it is a plan that can work. Unfortuantely there isn't a lot of wide open empty spaces left any more unless we're ready to colonize the oceans or space. I'm up for that challenge but would have to find enough others that felt the same way to make it plausible. In the meantime I'd love to make the US a better place and am doing my small part towards that goal all the time. I just don't think those small efforts are going to make a real difference unless others also act.
My basic premises are that every American needs to have decent health care, education, a place to live, utilities, food, transportation, and a job. There is no excuse for any American not to be able to have these things. The system now is not providing these things equally to every citizen and when it does provide these things they are wrapped in red tape and rules that are just plain stupid. Of course none of that will work unless you fix the social problems first. You have to give people some solid morals and a sense of responsibility for themselves, their family, and their community.
Girls that date for money? Heck, can get all that in Mexico and be within a short drive of the US. I think a tropical island with a secret volcano lair is more my thing tho.
Damn, everyone knows BT is for downloading porn, warez, and illegal copies of Weird Al tunes. Who ever heard of downloading legal stuff that way!
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If he is putting stuff out in twenty years I'll still be buying it. Weird Al is a genuis of comedy and has already outlived many of the artists he's spoofed. Between his talent with spoofs, funny takes on pop culture, and his genuine musical talent I think he'll be remembered long after he is to old to continue his work. Weird Al ranks up there with Monty Python as a cultural icon.
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Even Al's duds are pretty funny. His movie, UHF, is a classic of comedy and it was just a flop when released. I'm a lil bit annoyed that I paid so much for it and later saw it for $5 at Wal-Mart - I hope Al got a lil more profit off the one I paid for.
Weird Al I think is an artist that really profits from file sharing. I liked him when I was a kit but I never really knew who he was and then in the 90's when MP3s were just coming about I kept seeing 'Weird Al' on file sharing sites and wondering who the hell that was. I finally downloaded some of stuff and was able to remember him and discover his new work.. many cd, dvd, and other Al stuff purchases later I'm quite sure he's gottenh is money out of me many times over. I'm glad that he seems to realize all this and puts off great stuff like "Don't Download this Song" that makes fun of those lame ass lies on the beginning of DVDs.
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You must have a crappy PC. I can play or rip the music or video under both Linux and Windows on my PC. No problems with the Dual Disc stuff at all.
tmpfs might be good for some situations but I don't want it to grow out of control so I like having a hard limit to what can be stored. I also don't like swap because it wears out your hdd and slows everything down a lot. If you want to run fast enough that you'll use CF to improve load times then you should really not be using swap.
So for my usage there is no benefit to using tmpfs instad of a ramdisk.
I did allow that there were good uses for Flash - I just wouldn't say that many people use it that way. Also my point that plugins cause many browser problems is still valid.
As for myself, I hate YouTube and their shitty Flash based movies. The concept is good but Flash-based movies suck. I think MPEG-compat is a better solution but is even less likely to work since there isn't much in the way of even a decent embedded MPEG player. It all comes down to Flash sucking but not sucking as bad as the alternative in this case.
Flash is a horribly ineffecient way to pass around video content. YouTube would be much more profitable if they had the insight to control their processing and bandwidth needs better. But then they actually got something on the market and slapped a clever name on it so it caught on - always a good thing from a business perspective. Like eBay, MySpace, Flickr, and similar things it's not being the best solution that makes you a success - it's being out early, slapping a good name on yourself, and actually having some idea how to market yourself.
I use ext3 but make the filesystems read-only and I don't record access times. I store temp files on ramdisks formatted as ext2. I simply avoid writing to the CF whenever posible as I know it'll shorten their life to do so and that CF will never be the best solution for real data storage. I use either normal hdd or network for data storage. CF does make for fast load time of apps in my experience so the OS and frequently used programs and libraries I do try to keep on the CF.
If anything Apple should get out of the software business. Their hardware is pretty nice but their software sucks. Mac OS is crappy compared to other Unixes effeciency (although still better than Windows) and iTunes comes to mind as one of the crappiest programs I use on a regular basis but their hardware looks and works good.
Dude, Flash is one of the few things that sucks worse than IE. On any OS it's buggy, poorly designed, and frequently misused. When Flash is cleaned up and opened up enough to be fully intergrated into IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari in the least then it might be worth caring about. The general concept of plug-ins has proven to lead to a sucky web browsing experience even if the average user isn't aware that it's these crappy plug-ins making their browser crash, run slow, give confussing plug-in required messages, and sites that are poorly indexed by search engines, have strange hard to use interfaces, and difficult to use for people with accessibility needs.
Just say no to plug-ins for things like Flash. They can be useful at times but in the vast majority of uses they are only used because programmers are to lazy, stupid, or harried by lazy stupid bosses to use more compatible solutions that do the exact same things.
IE7 isn't that big of news to us geeks but it is a huge relief to us as it goes mainstream - it isn't as good as Firefox, Safari, or Opera but it is worlds better than IE6 and will make it much easier to develop nice websites without having to disable everything cool because it doesn't work in IE. Of course it'll be a few years before the majority of users have updated but at least the process has begun.
If only Microsoft wasn't so lame as to make it difficult for developers to run IE6 and IE7 side by side.
My experience is that finding a new, decent, job takes around seven months. I've done it several times and that is the average time it takes from the time I start looking until I start the job. I've not noticed learning new skills or getting job experience as speeding the process up that much. The most useful thing is to make contacts. I'd suggest starting some personal company utilizing your skills and join your local chamber of commerce and actually attend events and be social. It's rough if you're shy but the personal skills are important for you career. You may get hired by Ma & Pa's Kettle Shop instead of IBM but it'll give you some valid work experience and a paycheck. Learn some new skills too. Knowing the tech stuff is great but if you also understand business and other useful stuff you'll be a lot more useful to future employers.
The problem with resumes these days, IMO, is that you have to both make a resume that'll get through the automated filters many companies use and still be grabbing to the human that eventually will read it. Filters throw out anything without the right keywords so you have to cram your resume with lots of keywords. Obviously, like web pages that are stuffed with keywords, this leads to resumes that are long and ugly. Then you feel your resume is to long and repetitive so you feel the need to trim out details in your work and education history.
I always feel the need to explain not only what I know but also how well I know it and how recently I've used it. This is helpful I think but leads to a resume that some people throw out as simply being to verbose.
Then my girlfriend says my resume is ugly so she wants to spend a lot of time picking the right fonts, paper, etc despite the fact that the nicer looking version is actually harder to read. I hate resumes. Why don't we use one of the available XML-based formats for passing around resumes.
Google becomes an even better resource, more people use Google, and Google sells more ads elsewhere on their site. Pretty clear cut. You could also let them place ads for things like purchasing the book on Amazon etc but I think the creator of the content should be able to opt-out of such ads while their copyright is valid.
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Not nearly as much as having thousands of programmers constantly fighting with the weakness of HTML. It's not really that big a problem other than trying to get everyone switched over - which is fixed as easily as making the system degrade cleanly into HTML.
Most of the work has been done many times over in the form of UI and layout libraries. It just has to be ironed out and established. Obviously it doesn't have to be perfect on the first try either. It just has to be better than HTML and XHTML. It can still be similar to HTML. Probably using XML formated plain-text files as the basis and keeping a page concept.
HTML is like building a mud hut. It doesn't take a lot to learn how but there are limitations to the what you can do with it. A telented user of HTML can do some pretty cool stuff but it's a lot more work to do so than it should be and it'll never properly create some things - like taking mud hut technology and trying to build a skyscraper.
I don't think we should get rid of HTML but I do think we should create an alternative that will work for more advanced needs.
HTML is good enough for most people who aren't really creating anything. It's fine for MySpace pages and other ugly hard to use crap. When it comes to providing useful information and powerful interfaces for working with that information though it isn't very good and more and more end-users are demanding more. That means those of us that write web-based tools have to keep finding new ways to make stuff happen. HTML has been way to limited for quite some time now and Java and Flash are poor substitutes for the fluid enviroment HTML gives us. We need something with the benefits of Java and Flash combined with the benefits of HTML with some good CSS and scripting thrown in. Right now we're creating what amount to fancy kludges but they are rarely elegant ind esign because of the tools we're limited to.
HTML neither provides logical structure to information nor provides a nice way to create rich applications. It was originally made to put near plain-text with hyperlinks online and that is pretty much all it's good for. It was a minor improvement over Gopher. Switching to XHTML + CSS does help a lot but it still is a pretty crappy solution. I'd rather they create a new format for the web, without all the pointless hold overs, that makes it easy to keep information, layout, and function as discrete components that can easily be modified or alternated individually. HTML was good because it was simple and just worked which is what you need to get a technology going but eventually you have to make something that works well if you want a concept to keep growing.
Exactly - SuSE isn't a hardcore distro. I'd suggest it to someone that is new to Linux and wants a lot of stuff thrown in just to se what kind of packages are available. It's good for a first taste. It's not very good for serious server use. My biggest complaint about SuSE is YaST which is fine for toying around but really puts it's toe in the soup when you're trying to do anything serious. It's also somewhat buggy. A recent install for a friend reminded me why I don't care for it. During installation it out of no where asked if I wanted to install Flash and then proceeded to wipe the partition table. No idea what the heck is up with that but it seems a pretty serious installation bug.
Oracle might steal some of the mindless drones from RedHat but more likely it'll hurt Novell and similar companies that also have also-ran distros from a big name company with no future. Most of us that have been using Linux for more than a few years will stick with RedHat or Debian. Since RedHat is known for their extra support most companies employing these people that actually know how to use Linux will probably opt for RedHat.
Pardon me for saying so but most of the people I know who use distros other than RedHat or Debian (Slackware and Gentoo get a honorable mention as popular among real Linux geeks) are fairly new or inexperienced. I certainly wouldn't bet my business on some untested fad distro.
The only point I'd give her for her review of Slashdot is the left hand column. (Is that supposed to be some kind of menu?) I've been using Slashdot for years and still dislike that column - it just seems kind of a crammed together kludge. I dunno if it has to much air in it though.. we better check the pressure gauge.
Overall, I think Slashdot is well designed though and it's upgrade is pretty good. It's an informational site that has stood the test of time and many many users. That's more than most site's can say.
The whole Hot Coffee thing was stupid any way. First, GTA is obviously a game that parents shouldn't give to young children - it's rated M for 17 and older right on the damn box. Then to push up that rating with mods like Hot Coffee doesn't happen by accident - you have to search out, download, and install the mods. You might as well blame Mozilla when your kid finds Dads porn bookmarks and visits some sites they shouldn't.
I for one think GTA should have an XXX version created and released by Take2 that includes much more sex and violence. I don't care if I have to special order it - I'd still buy a copy. I'm sure others would too. Maybe something to try for the PS3? Take advantage of those big disks. I want to be able to break the door down and go into every building in the whole city.
Short attention spans? Short stories. Profit!
Unfortuantely changing the US is probably not going to happen until after it crumbles. There are to many people who think the US is the best, because it's the US, and therefore perfect. These are the same people who tell you that if you don't like it then you should just go somewhere else. The US is probably one of the best countries out there but I can't help but feel that it's quickly falling. Lack of morality and responsibility are destroying us. We're very self-centered with everything being about personal freedom and gain. Simple statements such as saying that we need to balance capitialist greed with some intelligent social programs or that or our freedom to live our lives has to be limited by the negative impact we have on other lives are attacked as being un-American. The vocal minority of the country doesn't want change. The majority is to stupid and short-sighted to see that we need change. Those intelligent enough to see we need change and to see that the basic problems are social are to lazy, to scared, and to unsure what to do to make any significant difference. Simple fact - voting, by itself, isn't going to improve things. To really make things better is going to take getting involved. Form or join committees to decide what needs to be done and then use your own time, energy, and money to get it done. Inspire others to do likewise through your own actions.
I get mad that I see so many groups focusing on the needs of people in Africa, Asia, South America, etc when our own country is falling apart. Why don't people want to give to make America a better place? Some parts of the US are almost as bad as the third world countries we see on tv. Both rural and intercity areas of the US have a lot of violence, poor living conditions, and little chance for upward mobility of future generations. I can understand why these issues are largely ignored though. Nobody wants to face their own problems - it's easier to fix other people's problems. It's more glamorous to help starving HIV infected children in Africa than it is to help hard working but uneducated and poor hillbillies in the Appalachians or even kids born to meth addicts. It's just easier to look elsewhere - I can fight militant African tribesmen off with my bare hands easier than I can convince people in the US to even agree that a problem exists let alone get them to fix it.
I'd rather start over from scratch than fix the problems in the US. That is really how America came to be so it is a plan that can work. Unfortuantely there isn't a lot of wide open empty spaces left any more unless we're ready to colonize the oceans or space. I'm up for that challenge but would have to find enough others that felt the same way to make it plausible. In the meantime I'd love to make the US a better place and am doing my small part towards that goal all the time. I just don't think those small efforts are going to make a real difference unless others also act.
My basic premises are that every American needs to have decent health care, education, a place to live, utilities, food, transportation, and a job. There is no excuse for any American not to be able to have these things. The system now is not providing these things equally to every citizen and when it does provide these things they are wrapped in red tape and rules that are just plain stupid. Of course none of that will work unless you fix the social problems first. You have to give people some solid morals and a sense of responsibility for themselves, their family, and their community.
Girls that date for money? Heck, can get all that in Mexico and be within a short drive of the US. I think a tropical island with a secret volcano lair is more my thing tho.
Damn, everyone knows BT is for downloading porn, warez, and illegal copies of Weird Al tunes. Who ever heard of downloading legal stuff that way!
If he is putting stuff out in twenty years I'll still be buying it. Weird Al is a genuis of comedy and has already outlived many of the artists he's spoofed. Between his talent with spoofs, funny takes on pop culture, and his genuine musical talent I think he'll be remembered long after he is to old to continue his work. Weird Al ranks up there with Monty Python as a cultural icon.
Even Al's duds are pretty funny. His movie, UHF, is a classic of comedy and it was just a flop when released. I'm a lil bit annoyed that I paid so much for it and later saw it for $5 at Wal-Mart - I hope Al got a lil more profit off the one I paid for.
Weird Al I think is an artist that really profits from file sharing. I liked him when I was a kit but I never really knew who he was and then in the 90's when MP3s were just coming about I kept seeing 'Weird Al' on file sharing sites and wondering who the hell that was. I finally downloaded some of stuff and was able to remember him and discover his new work.. many cd, dvd, and other Al stuff purchases later I'm quite sure he's gottenh is money out of me many times over. I'm glad that he seems to realize all this and puts off great stuff like "Don't Download this Song" that makes fun of those lame ass lies on the beginning of DVDs.
You must have a crappy PC. I can play or rip the music or video under both Linux and Windows on my PC. No problems with the Dual Disc stuff at all.
tmpfs might be good for some situations but I don't want it to grow out of control so I like having a hard limit to what can be stored. I also don't like swap because it wears out your hdd and slows everything down a lot. If you want to run fast enough that you'll use CF to improve load times then you should really not be using swap.
So for my usage there is no benefit to using tmpfs instad of a ramdisk.
I don't like Wikipedia's sarch so I go straight to Google and search Wikipedia.
I did allow that there were good uses for Flash - I just wouldn't say that many people use it that way. Also my point that plugins cause many browser problems is still valid.
As for myself, I hate YouTube and their shitty Flash based movies. The concept is good but Flash-based movies suck. I think MPEG-compat is a better solution but is even less likely to work since there isn't much in the way of even a decent embedded MPEG player. It all comes down to Flash sucking but not sucking as bad as the alternative in this case.
Flash is a horribly ineffecient way to pass around video content. YouTube would be much more profitable if they had the insight to control their processing and bandwidth needs better. But then they actually got something on the market and slapped a clever name on it so it caught on - always a good thing from a business perspective. Like eBay, MySpace, Flickr, and similar things it's not being the best solution that makes you a success - it's being out early, slapping a good name on yourself, and actually having some idea how to market yourself.
I use ext3 but make the filesystems read-only and I don't record access times. I store temp files on ramdisks formatted as ext2. I simply avoid writing to the CF whenever posible as I know it'll shorten their life to do so and that CF will never be the best solution for real data storage. I use either normal hdd or network for data storage. CF does make for fast load time of apps in my experience so the OS and frequently used programs and libraries I do try to keep on the CF.
If anything Apple should get out of the software business. Their hardware is pretty nice but their software sucks. Mac OS is crappy compared to other Unixes effeciency (although still better than Windows) and iTunes comes to mind as one of the crappiest programs I use on a regular basis but their hardware looks and works good.
Dude, Flash is one of the few things that sucks worse than IE. On any OS it's buggy, poorly designed, and frequently misused. When Flash is cleaned up and opened up enough to be fully intergrated into IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari in the least then it might be worth caring about. The general concept of plug-ins has proven to lead to a sucky web browsing experience even if the average user isn't aware that it's these crappy plug-ins making their browser crash, run slow, give confussing plug-in required messages, and sites that are poorly indexed by search engines, have strange hard to use interfaces, and difficult to use for people with accessibility needs.
Just say no to plug-ins for things like Flash. They can be useful at times but in the vast majority of uses they are only used because programmers are to lazy, stupid, or harried by lazy stupid bosses to use more compatible solutions that do the exact same things.
IE7 isn't that big of news to us geeks but it is a huge relief to us as it goes mainstream - it isn't as good as Firefox, Safari, or Opera but it is worlds better than IE6 and will make it much easier to develop nice websites without having to disable everything cool because it doesn't work in IE. Of course it'll be a few years before the majority of users have updated but at least the process has begun.
If only Microsoft wasn't so lame as to make it difficult for developers to run IE6 and IE7 side by side.
Never found an employer that actually accepted that format - unfortunately.
My experience is that finding a new, decent, job takes around seven months. I've done it several times and that is the average time it takes from the time I start looking until I start the job. I've not noticed learning new skills or getting job experience as speeding the process up that much. The most useful thing is to make contacts. I'd suggest starting some personal company utilizing your skills and join your local chamber of commerce and actually attend events and be social. It's rough if you're shy but the personal skills are important for you career. You may get hired by Ma & Pa's Kettle Shop instead of IBM but it'll give you some valid work experience and a paycheck. Learn some new skills too. Knowing the tech stuff is great but if you also understand business and other useful stuff you'll be a lot more useful to future employers.
The problem with resumes these days, IMO, is that you have to both make a resume that'll get through the automated filters many companies use and still be grabbing to the human that eventually will read it. Filters throw out anything without the right keywords so you have to cram your resume with lots of keywords. Obviously, like web pages that are stuffed with keywords, this leads to resumes that are long and ugly. Then you feel your resume is to long and repetitive so you feel the need to trim out details in your work and education history.
I always feel the need to explain not only what I know but also how well I know it and how recently I've used it. This is helpful I think but leads to a resume that some people throw out as simply being to verbose.
Then my girlfriend says my resume is ugly so she wants to spend a lot of time picking the right fonts, paper, etc despite the fact that the nicer looking version is actually harder to read. I hate resumes. Why don't we use one of the available XML-based formats for passing around resumes.
Google becomes an even better resource, more people use Google, and Google sells more ads elsewhere on their site. Pretty clear cut. You could also let them place ads for things like purchasing the book on Amazon etc but I think the creator of the content should be able to opt-out of such ads while their copyright is valid.