the they you are refering to are your fellow slashdot readers they moderate and call people like you trolls, admitedly the option to call someone a troll is given to moderators but with posts like yours i think the option to call someone a troll is quite usefull.
While a tshirt would be pretty funny, i think it would be even better to use that little virus everyone has been talking about, and change it so taht it displays the full text of these messages as the wallpaper of all affected computers. and you would only have to change the subject from i love you to i love microsoft, people are bound to open that just from sheer curiosity as to what sort of freak would make such a statement.
While i hesitate to call blocking adds stealing, i do think that it will lead to problems eventually. Now we can be fairly safe in assuming that a browser like Ie or Netscape is not going to to include a feature like this, for their own benefit, i do8ubt micr$oft will add such a feature out of the goodness of their hearts. However, when browsers like Mozilla become widely distributed say 30% if it turns out to be better than most browsers which features liek this will help it be. Now if 30% of people are blocking out banner ads then the value of banner ads will decrese by around 30% which means a loss of 30% of revenue for some sites which rely completly on advertising dollars to stay afloat. I think this would be a shame, because while banner ads are annoying it is very easy to ignore them, the only issue is with the sucking up of bandwidth. Yet bandwidth will not be a problem in say 2 years or maybe 5 at the latest most people will have high bandwidth connections (sorry to mention Australia again, but since the two major tele. companies offered flat rate cable services, the amount of people with cable has skyrocketed.) and when most people have high bandwidth connections there won't be the issue of losing bandwidth (at least from a users perspective, i know it still effects the servers) but i think waiting a few years is a small price to pay for saving the revenue of alot of small sites. because in a few years this problem will be fixed. Having said this i am sure everyone will still block internet ads because we are humans and we are irrational and we do trhe best for ourselves even if it ends up being the worst for everyone(including us). Just remeber teh prisoners dilema.
Firstly if teh last 5 posts 3 have involved australia, 2 of these however you would hope would be interesting to most/. readers, ie a new way of observing space (i know it isn't in america but it does still exist) and the other one is about what someone in australia wrote, how this renders it only interesting to australians i am not sure. What do you want/. the American version, and/. for Greater America (read the rest of the world)
I assume you are using a hypothetical figue here, because i would be suprised if targeted ads get 55% response rate. also i am going by the figure of $80/1000 ads for targeted advertising.
When the imacs were first released Apple needed more than a pretty box to entice customers, and products like this were a good incentive to go out and get a new mac. But the imac has shown that it sells and so it seems pretty fair that they release software like imovie, because it isn't going to hurt imac sales at all.
Bulk mailing has always been more effective in getting responses, and it only makes sense that this will carry over to the internet. When you can reach 50 random people for the price of targeting one person it is obvious which is going to work out in the long run.
i have to admit i was wrong lisa these lizards have been a god send "ah...isn't that a little short sighted, what happens when we are overrun by lizards" "oh that simple we just realease wave after wave of deadly NASA robot snakes" "but what about when we are overrun by snakes?" "Its simple we just bring in a type of gorrilla that thrives of snakes?" "ok...but then what about the gorrillas" "that the beauty of it lisa when winter rolls in all the gorrillas will simply freeze to death."
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the they you are refering to are your fellow slashdot readers they moderate and call people like you trolls, admitedly the option to call someone a troll is given to moderators but with posts like yours i think the option to call someone a troll is quite usefull.
While a tshirt would be pretty funny, i think it would be even better to use that little virus everyone has been talking about, and change it so taht it displays the full text of these messages as the wallpaper of all affected computers. and you would only have to change the subject from i love you to i love microsoft, people are bound to open that just from sheer curiosity as to what sort of freak would make such a statement.
While i hesitate to call blocking adds stealing, i do think that it will lead to problems eventually. Now we can be fairly safe in assuming that a browser like Ie or Netscape is not going to to include a feature like this, for their own benefit, i do8ubt micr$oft will add such a feature out of the goodness of their hearts. However, when browsers like Mozilla become widely distributed say 30% if it turns out to be better than most browsers which features liek this will help it be. Now if 30% of people are blocking out banner ads then the value of banner ads will decrese by around 30% which means a loss of 30% of revenue for some sites which rely completly on advertising dollars to stay afloat. I think this would be a shame, because while banner ads are annoying it is very easy to ignore them, the only issue is with the sucking up of bandwidth. Yet bandwidth will not be a problem in say 2 years or maybe 5 at the latest most people will have high bandwidth connections (sorry to mention Australia again, but since the two major tele. companies offered flat rate cable services, the amount of people with cable has skyrocketed.) and when most people have high bandwidth connections there won't be the issue of losing bandwidth (at least from a users perspective, i know it still effects the servers) but i think waiting a few years is a small price to pay for saving the revenue of alot of small sites. because in a few years this problem will be fixed. Having said this i am sure everyone will still block internet ads because we are humans and we are irrational and we do trhe best for ourselves even if it ends up being the worst for everyone(including us). Just remeber teh prisoners dilema.
Firstly if teh last 5 posts 3 have involved australia, 2 of these however you would hope would be interesting to most /. readers, ie a new way of observing space (i know it isn't in america but it does still exist) and the other one is about what someone in australia wrote, how this renders it only interesting to australians i am not sure. What do you want /. the American version, and /. for Greater America (read the rest of the world)
I assume you are using a hypothetical figue here, because i would be suprised if targeted ads get 55% response rate. also i am going by the figure of $80/1000 ads for targeted advertising.
When the imacs were first released Apple needed more than a pretty box to entice customers, and products like this were a good incentive to go out and get a new mac. But the imac has shown that it sells and so it seems pretty fair that they release software like imovie, because it isn't going to hurt imac sales at all.
The people who click on banner ads are same people who click on an email attachment, when they don't know what it is or where it came from.
Bulk mailing has always been more effective in getting responses, and it only makes sense that this will carry over to the internet. When you can reach 50 random people for the price of targeting one person it is obvious which is going to work out in the long run.
i have to admit i was wrong lisa these lizards have been a god send "ah...isn't that a little short sighted, what happens when we are overrun by lizards" "oh that simple we just realease wave after wave of deadly NASA robot snakes" "but what about when we are overrun by snakes?" "Its simple we just bring in a type of gorrilla that thrives of snakes?" "ok...but then what about the gorrillas" "that the beauty of it lisa when winter rolls in all the gorrillas will simply freeze to death."