(If you can't tell by the end of this message, the subject is facetious.)
I wonder what all these naysayers about Google's use of ads expect Google to do? Abandon ads and start miraculously growing money from trees so that they can continue to pay for the thousands and thousands of servers, along with the required bandwidth, electricity, and hard-working employee costs?
I think that text ads probably weren't generating enough revenue for Google, so they started thinking about introducing graphic ads, which better catch user eyes.
Google provides quality services to its customers, so I'll hardly complain about their use of myriad ads. Hell, even though none of the ads really interest me, I occasionally click a few in gmail for good measure.
Oh uhm, I guess I'm out of the loop. I thought this whole RIAA thing was long gone. I stopped buying shit from major record labels a long time ago. The RIAA had their chance, then they had another chance, and another, and they've fucked them all up.
I use a new online music store where the tracks are priced most affordably: free. This store is called KaZaa. Yes, I illegally download songs off of the Internet. I'm not putting any money into some shitty set of corporations, and I don't care what you think.
Screw all the apologetic cliches, like "Oh, I just use KaZaa to download an album to see if I like it before I buy it". Just download it and save yourself the bloated costsof buying the CD, the artists get jack shit from it anyways.
You want to support your favorite artists? Go to one of their shows, afterwards tell them how much you enjoyed them, and then slap a $50 in their hand and tell them this is for all the tracks of theirs you downloaded off of KaZaa.
Me? I've got more important things to do than feel like I owe the RIAA something. They're obsolete.
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Way to go Slashidiots! Directly linking to stolen IP is one of your finer decisions. Thanks.
(If you can't tell by the end of this message, the subject is facetious.)
I wonder what all these naysayers about Google's use of ads expect Google to do? Abandon ads and start miraculously growing money from trees so that they can continue to pay for the thousands and thousands of servers, along with the required bandwidth, electricity, and hard-working employee costs?
I think that text ads probably weren't generating enough revenue for Google, so they started thinking about introducing graphic ads, which better catch user eyes.
Google provides quality services to its customers, so I'll hardly complain about their use of myriad ads. Hell, even though none of the ads really interest me, I occasionally click a few in gmail for good measure.
Oh uhm, I guess I'm out of the loop. I thought this whole RIAA thing was long gone. I stopped buying shit from major record labels a long time ago. The RIAA had their chance, then they had another chance, and another, and they've fucked them all up. I use a new online music store where the tracks are priced most affordably: free. This store is called KaZaa. Yes, I illegally download songs off of the Internet. I'm not putting any money into some shitty set of corporations, and I don't care what you think. Screw all the apologetic cliches, like "Oh, I just use KaZaa to download an album to see if I like it before I buy it". Just download it and save yourself the bloated costsof buying the CD, the artists get jack shit from it anyways. You want to support your favorite artists? Go to one of their shows, afterwards tell them how much you enjoyed them, and then slap a $50 in their hand and tell them this is for all the tracks of theirs you downloaded off of KaZaa. Me? I've got more important things to do than feel like I owe the RIAA something. They're obsolete.