Very interesting. I wonder if the fact that most of our applications run from the network, and not locally makes a difference.
Thank you for the response. Now I have a new tangent to explore;-)
Just out of curiosity, what applications are we talking about here? Are they mainly developement tools, debuggers and the like? I use XP for work, and I'm locked down pretty tight, yet it seems that the indigenous MS stuff (Office, IE, Outlook) works just fine, along with the third party CAD/CAM/CAE packages.
I never used it myself, but my Dad had actually signed up with them, I guess thinking that he was surely the next big-money winner. I had no idea what iWon was all about, until I ran AdAware on his machine, and turned up some 400+ tracking cookies--from iWon alone. All in all there were 678 objects (the number still stands out in my head!), who knows how many of the extras were precipitated from 'registering' with iWon's advertisers.
Putting trust in something, and merely paying attention to it are two totally differnt things. I "pay attention" to reviews, not looking for truth, but to perhaps gain some insight on specific product details that I hadn't thought about, and may sway my decision.
It's kind of like reading/. I would never trust *all* of the opinions, but the ideas flow rampantly. It's up to me to decide if should get further investigation or not.
Even truly bogus garbage can be thought provoking.
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Very interesting. I wonder if the fact that most of our applications run from the network, and not locally makes a difference. ;-)
Thank you for the response. Now I have a new tangent to explore
Just out of curiosity, what applications are we talking about here? Are they mainly developement tools, debuggers and the like? I use XP for work, and I'm locked down pretty tight, yet it seems that the indigenous MS stuff (Office, IE, Outlook) works just fine, along with the third party CAD/CAM/CAE packages.
Yes, the gimmicks were definitely their downfall.
I never used it myself, but my Dad had actually signed up with them, I guess thinking that he was surely the next big-money winner. I had no idea what iWon was all about, until I ran AdAware on his machine, and turned up some 400+ tracking cookies--from iWon alone. All in all there were 678 objects (the number still stands out in my head!), who knows how many of the extras were precipitated from 'registering' with iWon's advertisers.
I hope Yahoo! has different plans...
I don't trust *any* online review...
/. I would never trust *all* of the opinions, but the ideas flow rampantly. It's up to me to decide if should get further investigation or not.
Putting trust in something, and merely paying attention to it are two totally differnt things. I "pay attention" to reviews, not looking for truth, but to perhaps gain some insight on specific product details that I hadn't thought about, and may sway my decision.
It's kind of like reading
Even truly bogus garbage can be thought provoking.
Just because Opera's statistics are incorrectly represented, it doesn't mean that Firefox's numbers are inflated...