Let's turn this around and put the burdon on advertisers to make us WANT to watch commercials. We shouldn't have to be force fed this stuff.
If a commercial is worth watching (ie I will get something out of it - a laugh, or whatever) then I'll probably watch it. And I'll probably tell 5 other people about how funny it was. So then they watch it and it goes from there.
Just because they're putting it in the EULA doesn't make it right! There should be a limits here.
I know some of the responsibility lies with the installer, but come on. Honestly, how many EULAs have you read from start to finish? Am I the exception here? I'd be curious who from this crowd could lay claim to "The Most EULAs Read Award".
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I agree that the hype is heavy for Web Services. However, I do see benefits for using Web Services.
Making Web Services work in a useful way sometimes takes some creativity. Take Google as an example. With the recent release of the Google API, I was able to use PHP and SOAP to access their search results. One of the methods offered through the service is spell checking. By integrating this spell checking with my company's internal search engine, I now have the ability to make search term suggestions to users. This functionality would be very difficult to provide if it had to be created from scratch.
Web Services will NOT work for all things and in all situations, but they WILL work for some things and in some situations. Creativity is the key.
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Nothing beats putty: http://www.puttyworld.com/
What of other professionals like builders, architects, and even plumbers?
.com anyway.
I guess they're not good enough since they're in the "more professionals to come" category. They'd be better off with a
Let's turn this around and put the burdon on advertisers to make us WANT to watch commercials. We shouldn't have to be force fed this stuff.
If a commercial is worth watching (ie I will get something out of it - a laugh, or whatever) then I'll probably watch it. And I'll probably tell 5 other people about how funny it was. So then they watch it and it goes from there.
Just because they're putting it in the EULA doesn't make it right! There should be a limits here.
I know some of the responsibility lies with the installer, but come on. Honestly, how many EULAs have you read from start to finish? Am I the exception here? I'd be curious who from this crowd could lay claim to "The Most EULAs Read Award".
I agree that the hype is heavy for Web Services. However, I do see benefits for using Web Services.
Making Web Services work in a useful way sometimes takes some creativity. Take Google as an example. With the recent release of the Google API, I was able to use PHP and SOAP to access their search results. One of the methods offered through the service is spell checking. By integrating this spell checking with my company's internal search engine, I now have the ability to make search term suggestions to users. This functionality would be very difficult to provide if it had to be created from scratch.
Web Services will NOT work for all things and in all situations, but they WILL work for some things and in some situations. Creativity is the key.