Greetings from this SDSU student. It's funny how SD place names screw people up -- you can tell if someone's from out of state almost solely based on their ability to pronounce the state capitol's name correctly.:)
This is a great idea! FreeRepublic.com uses a similar model. The site has NO ads -- much of its support comes from fundraising drives about 4 times a year. I think they raised something like $70,000 last time around, and FR is orders of magnitude smaller than Slashdot in terms of readership.
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But why would I want to go to X10's site to turn off their ads, when a simple "0.0.0.0 x10.com" in my hosts file will suffice?
...since price controls were in effect, they couldn't charge just whatever they wanted to sell used farm equipment. But they could sell farm equipment with other stuff and charge whatever they wanted. So ads would appear reading something like "For sale: 2 bales of hay. Comes with a free, like-new John Deere tractor. $1200." I wonder if we could do something similar, like, say, "Metallica CD for sale, comes with free Windows 98 CD and manual, $50".
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I tried it in IE 5.0 on my mom's iMac and didn't see anything really unusual. Just the usual banner ads, and one popup that I swiftly nuked.
Greetings from this SDSU student. It's funny how SD place names screw people up -- you can tell if someone's from out of state almost solely based on their ability to pronounce the state capitol's name correctly. :)
This is a great idea! FreeRepublic.com uses a similar model. The site has NO ads -- much of its support comes from fundraising drives about 4 times a year. I think they raised something like $70,000 last time around, and FR is orders of magnitude smaller than Slashdot in terms of readership.
But why would I want to go to X10's site to turn off their ads, when a simple "0.0.0.0 x10.com" in my hosts file will suffice?
...since price controls were in effect, they couldn't charge just whatever they wanted to sell used farm equipment. But they could sell farm equipment with other stuff and charge whatever they wanted. So ads would appear reading something like "For sale: 2 bales of hay. Comes with a free, like-new John Deere tractor. $1200." I wonder if we could do something similar, like, say, "Metallica CD for sale, comes with free Windows 98 CD and manual, $50".
Imagine Slashdot running on a Beowulf cluster of Mindstorms... :D
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Hehe. The Ford Pinto of notebooks, eh?