As a college student who has to carry a lot of data with me between the campus and my home computer, it would be nice to not only have the iPod as an MP3 player but also as a Mass Storage Device since a 100 MB Zip disk doesn't go very far when it comes to large Flash and Photoshop files.
It's too bad you have to install software on every single computer you're going to use your iPod on as a disk, and you're dead in the water if software installations are restricted on your machine.
Yeah, it's more than likely unintentional that it's happened to you and could be caused by something as simple as an "onload" command in the HTML (which continues to wait for everything on the page to fully load). That's just a guess though, I can't be sure.
As to turning the ad filter on and off to access webpages with this "anti-block" system, that would probably be the key reason for using such a thing - to force users to lower their filters to view the contents of their page (including ads) if they really wanted to view it that badly. If you choose not to lower your defenses you're simply denied access, no harm done. Of course, depending on how popular ad blocking software truly becomes, these websites just might be digging their own graves too.
Either way ads go I agree, I don't believe the Internet as a whole would be threatened by a sudden extinction of ads, but certainly the little people (those with free personal webpages) may go out with it too.
The idea sounds really bizarre (and I honestly don't like the sound of it), but say a non-commercial site that runs through bandwidth faster than water really does count on every penny these banner ads generate, regardless of whether it can cover all of a server's costs alone (and their $18 t-shirts and $15 mousepads from CafePress aren't helping them out very much). Could sites like this simply deny surfers access if they detect that their ads have not been downloaded (via CGI or PHP scripts)?
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As a college student who has to carry a lot of data with me between the campus and my home computer, it would be nice to not only have the iPod as an MP3 player but also as a Mass Storage Device since a 100 MB Zip disk doesn't go very far when it comes to large Flash and Photoshop files. It's too bad you have to install software on every single computer you're going to use your iPod on as a disk, and you're dead in the water if software installations are restricted on your machine.
Yeah, it's more than likely unintentional that it's happened to you and could be caused by something as simple as an "onload" command in the HTML (which continues to wait for everything on the page to fully load). That's just a guess though, I can't be sure. As to turning the ad filter on and off to access webpages with this "anti-block" system, that would probably be the key reason for using such a thing - to force users to lower their filters to view the contents of their page (including ads) if they really wanted to view it that badly. If you choose not to lower your defenses you're simply denied access, no harm done. Of course, depending on how popular ad blocking software truly becomes, these websites just might be digging their own graves too. Either way ads go I agree, I don't believe the Internet as a whole would be threatened by a sudden extinction of ads, but certainly the little people (those with free personal webpages) may go out with it too.
The idea sounds really bizarre (and I honestly don't like the sound of it), but say a non-commercial site that runs through bandwidth faster than water really does count on every penny these banner ads generate, regardless of whether it can cover all of a server's costs alone (and their $18 t-shirts and $15 mousepads from CafePress aren't helping them out very much). Could sites like this simply deny surfers access if they detect that their ads have not been downloaded (via CGI or PHP scripts)?