I simply say "Oh, I'm sorry, this is a Technical Support Hotline that you've called."
Nine times out of ten they'll sheepishly apologise for bothering me. I'm not sure why this works so well but I think it's because everyone is basically aware that you'll never get what you want by talking to a Technical Support Hotline, so they feel stupid for calling.
I think I'm right in saying that.SWF *is* an open file format. Lots of developers have created.SWF files that play in Flash Player and authoring packages for creating SWF files. I've even seen a web app that takes plaintext descriptive files as input and spits out valid SWF
I think it's only.FLA which Macromedia keeps under lock and key. But then that is their 'source document' format for their own Flash authoring application. Other developers have their own formats for 'project' files.
All good points. Though if I have a choice when downloading a large file I choose an FTP server precisely *because* my ISP's forced HTTP proxy is so terrible (most likely configured very badly). I would be the exception, rather than the rule though.
Firstly, I was pretty sure that Google *don't* take cash to rank sites higher - only for ads that run along side the results of relevant queries - that's what their site says.
Anyway - the great thing about Google is that if you want to be in the first few results, don't spend "30 hours a week monitoring and improving your ranking" - just have a great site/product/service in the first place! Google tries to work in a similar way to 'word-of-mouth', right? If you've got something great, people will talk about it on forums, and other sites will link to it. Having a fantastic, no-tricks product is what pays, and Google itself is a perfect example of honest service winning the day in my opinion.
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I simply say "Oh, I'm sorry, this is a Technical Support Hotline that you've called."
Nine times out of ten they'll sheepishly apologise for bothering me. I'm not sure why this works so well but I think it's because everyone is basically aware that you'll never get what you want by talking to a Technical Support Hotline, so they feel stupid for calling.
I think I'm right in saying that .SWF *is* an open file format. Lots of developers have created .SWF files that play in Flash Player and authoring packages for creating SWF files. I've even seen a web app that takes plaintext descriptive files as input and spits out valid SWF
.FLA which Macromedia keeps under lock and key. But then that is their 'source document' format for their own Flash authoring application. Other developers have their own formats for 'project' files.
I think it's only
All good points. Though if I have a choice when downloading a large file I choose an FTP server precisely *because* my ISP's forced HTTP proxy is so terrible (most likely configured very badly). I would be the exception, rather than the rule though.
Firstly, I was pretty sure that Google *don't* take cash to rank sites higher - only for ads that run along side the results of relevant queries - that's what their site says. Anyway - the great thing about Google is that if you want to be in the first few results, don't spend "30 hours a week monitoring and improving your ranking" - just have a great site/product/service in the first place! Google tries to work in a similar way to 'word-of-mouth', right? If you've got something great, people will talk about it on forums, and other sites will link to it. Having a fantastic, no-tricks product is what pays, and Google itself is a perfect example of honest service winning the day in my opinion.