and yet, hotmail is still stuck at 2 mb. with constant emails begging you to upgrade. and damn near everything goes into my spam folder. and it goes down once a week. microsoft needs to step it up already. show us some of those monopoly-keeping practices and make users an offer they can't refuse.
they'd start charging for AIM. because they have such a monopoly in the instant messaging field that people would rather pay for AIM (spyware and ads included!) than use yahoo or msn.
why will people even pay for videoconferencing when it's free elsewhere?
Of course it's aiming at the wrong targets. The whole idea of pop-up advertising aims at the wrong targets. Almost no one wants these things, and measuring success by the number of people who (accidentally) click the ad (while trying to close it) seems a little shady. I'd rather see numbers relating to the actual activity on the site that comes from popups: products sold, travel arrangements booked, etc. I bet they're comparable to static banner ads.
The alternative to "windows" being a generic term is not that it was a trademarked term, but that it was a term not used at all before it was "created" by Microsoft.
it's good because spammers, in the privacy of their own little club, exchange spamming tricks. if we know their evil plan, we may be able to tweak filters to block it before it arrives. the whole point of spam filters is prevention, and knowing who it's coming from and how they plan to send it might be very helpful.
we all know that if/when i start checking out independent music (and others follow), the RIAA will assume that it's not that i don't WANT their crappy stuff, just that i'm downloading it for free, and sue everyone i know even more aggressively.
that's what bothers me about their strategy. they assume that there are two options: A)i buy their music or B)I download their music for free because i just can't resist their fabulous marketing techniques.
the other option, C) I am not interested in RIAA music or am actively boycotting it, never crosses their minds. i've found that the ability to download the music i like encourages my tastes to go farther and farther from the mainstream, and that's what scares the RIAA so much. not lost sales, but lost interest.
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My grandmother's eyesight isn't what it used to be. If i can make a theme with larger, easier to click buttons? Yeah, that's definitely useful.
Additionally, skinning Mozilla to look like IE makes the switch easier for some.
and yet, hotmail is still stuck at 2 mb. with constant emails begging you to upgrade. and damn near everything goes into my spam folder. and it goes down once a week.
microsoft needs to step it up already. show us some of those monopoly-keeping practices and make users an offer they can't refuse.
they'd start charging for AIM. because they have such a monopoly in the instant messaging field that people would rather pay for AIM (spyware and ads included!) than use yahoo or msn.
why will people even pay for videoconferencing when it's free elsewhere?
Of course it's aiming at the wrong targets. The whole idea of pop-up advertising aims at the wrong targets. Almost no one wants these things, and measuring success by the number of people who (accidentally) click the ad (while trying to close it) seems a little shady. I'd rather see numbers relating to the actual activity on the site that comes from popups: products sold, travel arrangements booked, etc. I bet they're comparable to static banner ads.
The alternative to "windows" being a generic term is not that it was a trademarked term, but that it was a term not used at all before it was "created" by Microsoft.
it's good because spammers, in the privacy of their own little club, exchange spamming tricks. if we know their evil plan, we may be able to tweak filters to block it before it arrives. the whole point of spam filters is prevention, and knowing who it's coming from and how they plan to send it might be very helpful.
we all know that if/when i start checking out independent music (and others follow), the RIAA will assume that it's not that i don't WANT their crappy stuff, just that i'm downloading it for free, and sue everyone i know even more aggressively.
that's what bothers me about their strategy. they assume that there are two options: A)i buy their music or B)I download their music for free because i just can't resist their fabulous marketing techniques.
the other option, C) I am not interested in RIAA music or am actively boycotting it, never crosses their minds. i've found that the ability to download the music i like encourages my tastes to go farther and farther from the mainstream, and that's what scares the RIAA so much. not lost sales, but lost interest.