"Overture currently is the most successful Internet ad network. It reported $288 million in revenue last year and turned a profit, a rarity for Internet ventures. As an incentive to show its paid listings first, Overture forked over more than half of its ad revenue to sites displaying its results. "
Aside from using Google, is there any other way to avoid contributing to this company? Do they have any domain names I can add to my junkbuster blockfile?
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Aren't all CompUSA stores networked together, with each store having a T1 connection... If so, you could upload data to a store in Atlanta, then email your friend in Los Angeles, who could go to his local store and pull the file to a demo PC there, and then to his iPod (this would require some knowledge of CompUSA's internal network setup, probably easily obtainable from a halfway knowledgable former employee).
Note: the above is intended only as a intellectual excercise. The author does not condone the unauthorized use of other parties' computer and network resources.
Agreed. One of the cases listed at the site, Television Sex and Violence Boycott Day, 1991 is really just a simple boycott rather than a case of censorship.
One of the most frequently heard arguments from "controversial" musicians and artists is "If they don't like it, they can just turn it off!". Well, here's a case where some people decided to do just that: voluntarily refrain from material that they found offensive. As far as I know there was no pressure, legal or otherwise, from government, church, business, or other institutions.
I don't use Microsoft products (I fired MS several years ago), but on my home computer, I maintain an MS-looking desktop, so my MS-dependent friends who visit, can use my computer without bothering me about how to use thing.
It's very easy to do, especially with the qvwm window manager. Unlike the examples on the qvwm page, I made a point of customizing my start menu so users knowthey're using Linux!.
This may be overkill for a home user, but in an office environment, especially where an admin is switching users off MS, it would help to ease the transition.
Keep in mind that there are a lot of companies where the majority of employees do the majority of their work in mainframe sessions. My company switched from dumb terminals to Windows PC's running terminal emulation sessions, only a few years ago. It took another year to convert everyone from the mainframe messaging system to "real" e-mail (OK, MS-Exchange).
I've always wanted to try switching one of our customer service reps' PC's with a Linux box, just as an experiment. As long as it had a "MS-Windows-looking" GUI and their familiar 3270 sessions, they probably wouldn't know the difference.
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"Overture currently is the most successful Internet ad network. It reported $288 million in revenue last year and turned a profit, a rarity for Internet ventures. As an incentive to show its paid listings first, Overture forked over more than half of its ad revenue to sites displaying its results. "
Aside from using Google, is there any other way to avoid contributing to this company? Do they have any domain names I can add to my junkbuster blockfile?
Note: the above is intended only as a intellectual excercise. The author does not condone the unauthorized use of other parties' computer and network resources.
Agreed. One of the cases listed at the site, Television Sex and Violence Boycott Day, 1991 is really just a simple boycott rather than a case of censorship. One of the most frequently heard arguments from "controversial" musicians and artists is "If they don't like it, they can just turn it off!". Well, here's a case where some people decided to do just that: voluntarily refrain from material that they found offensive. As far as I know there was no pressure, legal or otherwise, from government, church, business, or other institutions.
I don't use Microsoft products (I fired MS several years ago), but on my home computer, I maintain an MS-looking desktop, so my MS-dependent friends who visit, can use my computer without bothering me about how to use thing. It's very easy to do, especially with the qvwm window manager. Unlike the examples on the qvwm page, I made a point of customizing my start menu so users knowthey're using Linux!. This may be overkill for a home user, but in an office environment, especially where an admin is switching users off MS, it would help to ease the transition.
I'll be able to use VideoToaster once again?
Keep in mind that there are a lot of companies where the majority of employees do the majority of their work in mainframe sessions. My company switched from dumb terminals to Windows PC's running terminal emulation sessions, only a few years ago. It took another year to convert everyone from the mainframe messaging system to "real" e-mail (OK, MS-Exchange). I've always wanted to try switching one of our customer service reps' PC's with a Linux box, just as an experiment. As long as it had a "MS-Windows-looking" GUI and their familiar 3270 sessions, they probably wouldn't know the difference.