Someone please explain this to me.
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Mozilla 1.7 Released
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I run a dualboot WinXP / FC1 at work and use IE and Firefox.8 in XP and Firefox.8 in my FC.
Does anyone actually have all 3 or in some cases 4 different browsers installed?
Why would you need all of them? Is Firefox that much different then Thunderbird that you need to have both?
I also can't see the one grand feature that would make me completly switch from IE. I know allot of people
will bring up a ton of good reasons, but whats the BIGGEST reason to switch?
For a novice user as myself I can't find that great big thing no matter how hard I look.
First, MSDN is by far the best documentation source I have ever encountered. Not only is depth of information huge, the interface is easy to use and the community that is willing to answer your questions so large but the information is also provided in such a way that finding an answer or a code sample is easy.
Second, I don't ever want to deal with the code of an API or a Library. To me it has to be a black box that I can trust (or at least place blame on) because its not my job to debug the API.
Third. Complie debug code into every library? What?
A long answer would be Yes, if that method of advertising would not lower peoples oppinion of my company. I quickly realized that it would be dammaging to our reputation so we never tried it again. Like I said in my previous post, alot of small companies are coned into this type of advertising because they don't know what they are getting into. I did not know all the facts at that time. I get offers like these once or twise a week and I always turn them down, no matter the potential. And belive me, there is a lot of pottential.
The people that make malware and spyware and the other crud that steals our time every day don't care about anything google has to say.
I think that a better aproach would be to target the companies who advertise on their networks. Sime kind of a "Google Aproved" icon would show that this company does not use pupups, spyware or whatever other neusances are out there. When I am about to make a purchase and I see a Versign button I pretty much know that I can trust the transaction. When I see a eTrust button the company went through the effort (and paid money) to at least provide me with their possition in regards to my privacy.
I fully admit it. As a matter of fact I did it just to see if there would be any ROI from it. After I realized that this is all a scam I never did it again, nor would I recommend anyone to do so. Like I said in my first post, they target small startups that have no Idea what they are doing with Internet Advertising.
Patrick Byrne's comments regarding the hijacking of affiliate profits are dead on.
I haven able to gather some interesting statistics about the "Parasitic" methods discussed in the article. The conversion of Visitors to Customer is about.2% of what you would
normally get by traditional targeted banner advertising but the cost of the campaign is
about 30% of the price. When you consider that in a commercial banner campaign your
best hope is a 2% clickthrough (and even that is not that easy anymore) I can't see anyone except the ad companies making any money.
In my humble experience the spyware companies and their affiliates target small startup companies luring them in with the cheap cost of getting new customers. Heck that's how they got me to spend 350$ on a campaign that ran on WhenU. For the money spend I received 0 Customers, 3 Complains and my CC being charged triple that took almost 30 days to resolve. But I receive at least 5 e-mails daily and at least 1 call per week from people advertising this exact same product.
You don't know how right you are. But then again you probibly do.
I am waiting for the price of Fedora Core to drop so I can finaly upgrade to that new fangled kernel I've been hearing about.
I am still waiting for the prices of LCD monitors to drop to make it worth the switch from my trusted CRT. Based on what I have seen with the progression of LCDs into the mainstream it will take at least 5 years for something like this to become affordable. By then we will have 3D displays slowly hitting the market.
I am saying that this practice is accepted. Nothing so far has been invented to stop this. I might also point to a very recent insident with Amazon with respected critics and writers faking reviews of theirs and their competitors books.
History will always repeat itself, despite all the good efforts made. The worst the practice, the more often it will be repeated.
My heart is forever broken. To think that this kind of crap would go on within
the open source "Community". Newsflash : This happens everywhere. On every review
site, on every opinion forum - EVERYWHERE. I have competitors anonymously bashing me
on Yahoo Shopping, E-Pinions, Shopping.com etc. It is done for one reason - profit.
J-Boss is trying to make money, and they are willing to use all the tools at their
disposal to discredit everyone who does not share their opinions. This is nothing new
and nothing that will not happen again.
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Out of Gas
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I travel around 400-600 miles every week (Usualy drive from LA to SD at least once). Living in Los Angeles, where the price is about.50 higher then what I remember a year ago I spend an average of $15 more each week or about $50 per month. While this sounds pretty bad, I have to add that my rent has increased by $200 in the past year, my insurance is up by at least $100 and my average living cost went up by at least another $100 for the same things I used to buy last year. The $50 doesnt faze me, the $500 does.
I run a mid-sized jewelry shop on the web and have been using paypal for over a year. I actualy switched from using MerchantServices because of the constant headache with fraud and chargebacks. As much as people hate to hear it, PayPal is on the side of the merchant not the customer and in 9 cases out of 10 (at least for me) the customer is the one trying to screw me over. Before I get flamed, I would like to say that I am in no way trying to deffend their actions in this case, however I have learned that their verification techniques are always based on some specific activity.
I think that most people forget how much cash Microsoft actualy has on hand. I belive that they can aquire AOL and still be able to show a proffit to their board. In my experience with AOL recently I doubt it could get any worst for their users...
Microsoft could be an actual improvement..:)
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I run a dualboot WinXP / FC1 at work and use IE and Firefox .8 in XP and Firefox .8 in my FC.
Does anyone actually have all 3 or in some cases 4 different browsers installed?
Why would you need all of them? Is Firefox that much different then Thunderbird that you need to have both?
I also can't see the one grand feature that would make me completly switch from IE. I know allot of people will bring up a ton of good reasons, but whats the BIGGEST reason to switch?
For a novice user as myself I can't find that great big thing no matter how hard I look.
Just my humble opinion.
First, MSDN is by far the best documentation source I have ever encountered. Not only is depth of information huge, the interface is easy to use and the community that is willing to answer your questions so large but the information is also provided in such a way that finding an answer or a code sample is easy.
Second, I don't ever want to deal with the code of an API or a Library. To me it has to be a black box that I can trust (or at least place blame on) because its not my job to debug the API. Third. Complie debug code into every library? What?
That PDB made me stupider.
A short answer would be Yes.
A long answer would be Yes, if that method of advertising would not lower peoples oppinion of my company. I quickly realized that it would be dammaging to our reputation so we never tried it again. Like I said in my previous post, alot of small companies are coned into this type of advertising because they don't know what they are getting into. I did not know all the facts at that time. I get offers like these once or twise a week and I always turn them down, no matter the potential. And belive me, there is a lot of pottential.
Not for small companies. Its hard to enforce copyright law when you are a small buisness.
Most of the sites that use the new TLDs are
A) Scams
B) Squaters
or C) Fakes
The people that make malware and spyware and the other crud that steals our time every day don't care about anything google has to say.
I think that a better aproach would be to target the companies who advertise on their networks. Sime kind of a "Google Aproved" icon would show that this company does not use pupups, spyware or whatever other neusances are out there. When I am about to make a purchase and I see a Versign button I pretty much know that I can trust the transaction. When I see a eTrust button the company went through the effort (and paid money) to at least provide me with their possition in regards to my privacy.
I fully admit it. As a matter of fact I did it just to see if there would be any ROI from it. After I realized that this is all a scam I never did it again, nor would I recommend anyone to do so. Like I said in my first post, they target small startups that have no Idea what they are doing with Internet Advertising.
Patrick Byrne's comments regarding the hijacking of affiliate profits are dead on.
.2% of what you would
normally get by traditional targeted banner advertising but the cost of the campaign is
about 30% of the price. When you consider that in a commercial banner campaign your
best hope is a 2% clickthrough (and even that is not that easy anymore) I can't see anyone except the ad companies making any money.
I haven able to gather some interesting statistics about the "Parasitic" methods discussed in the article. The conversion of Visitors to Customer is about
In my humble experience the spyware companies and their affiliates target small startup companies luring them in with the cheap cost of getting new customers. Heck that's how they got me to spend 350$ on a campaign that ran on WhenU. For the money spend I received 0 Customers, 3 Complains and my CC being charged triple that took almost 30 days to resolve. But I receive at least 5 e-mails daily and at least 1 call per week from people advertising this exact same product.
I feel your pain. I love taking the train (pay an extra $5 and the drinks are free!) but in most cases I have to have a car when I am there.
You don't know how right you are. But then again you probibly do. I am waiting for the price of Fedora Core to drop so I can finaly upgrade to that new fangled kernel I've been hearing about.
I am still waiting for the prices of LCD monitors to drop to make it worth the switch from my trusted CRT. Based on what I have seen with the progression of LCDs into the mainstream it will take at least 5 years for something like this to become affordable. By then we will have 3D displays slowly hitting the market.
I am saying that this practice is accepted. Nothing so far has been invented to stop this. I might also point to a very recent insident with Amazon with respected critics and writers faking reviews of theirs and their competitors books. History will always repeat itself, despite all the good efforts made. The worst the practice, the more often it will be repeated.
I would be lying if I said "no".
My heart is forever broken. To think that this kind of crap would go on within the open source "Community". Newsflash : This happens everywhere. On every review site, on every opinion forum - EVERYWHERE. I have competitors anonymously bashing me on Yahoo Shopping, E-Pinions, Shopping.com etc. It is done for one reason - profit. J-Boss is trying to make money, and they are willing to use all the tools at their disposal to discredit everyone who does not share their opinions. This is nothing new and nothing that will not happen again.
I travel around 400-600 miles every week (Usualy drive from LA to SD at least once). Living in Los Angeles, where the price is about .50 higher then what I remember a year ago I spend an average of $15 more each week or about $50 per month. While this sounds pretty bad, I have to add that my rent has increased by $200 in the past year, my insurance is up by at least $100 and my average living cost went up by at least another $100 for the same things I used to buy last year. The $50 doesnt faze me, the $500 does.
I run a mid-sized jewelry shop on the web and have been using paypal for over a year. I actualy switched from using MerchantServices because of the constant headache with fraud and chargebacks. As much as people hate to hear it, PayPal is on the side of the merchant not the customer and in 9 cases out of 10 (at least for me) the customer is the one trying to screw me over. Before I get flamed, I would like to say that I am in no way trying to deffend their actions in this case, however I have learned that their verification techniques are always based on some specific activity.
I think that most people forget how much cash Microsoft actualy has on hand. I belive that they can aquire AOL and still be able to show a proffit to their board. In my experience with AOL recently I doubt it could get any worst for their users... Microsoft could be an actual improvement.. :)
Funny follow up.