#2 would a subscription disable all ads (including those at the top of the page)?
#3 apart from ads, what benefits would subscribers get? I realise this will depend on the price (i.e. I wouldn't expect anything more if it cost $5/year, but if I end up paying $10/month then I'd want something more)
Apart from that - I do believe that adding a subscription may be necessary, I read/. almost everyday and I wouldn't be opposed to paying a small fee in the interests of keeping the site afloat.
WARNING: the following is very Windows/DOS centric
At work we had an old server computer with over 2 gig of RAM. I fiddled around with it for a bit and got Windows 95 to boot, copy itself into a 1 gig RAM disk and run. I had to put an old 1 gig drive into the comp. (Drive D:) temporarily and install windows onto that, then copy that onto the original HDD (C:), rip out D: and put an entry into autoexec.bat that copied the windows dir from C: to D: (which was now the RAM disk).
I measured a total of 0.8% average speed increase (using some god-awful old DOS benchmarker) and the comp. took 23 minutes to boot. --
- Bob
Yes, Netscape did, at one point, hold a 'monopoly' of sorts over internet browsers. But Netscape did not hold sway over any other parts of the industry. Microsoft, however, is able to write browsers that will only work in Windows. With this happening, Microsoft has effectively cut out Linux or other UN*X based OSes from the consumer market. If the internet was totally inaccessable for you, would you change OSes? If Microsoft is allowed to create their own standards, then it stands to reason that they will not be allowing these standards to be supported on OSes that they don't make. Therefore, more people will move from Linux (for example) and back to Windows, simply because they can get on the internet. And, if Microsoft does manage to get IE accepted as a 'standard' then what is to stop them suddenly charging $$$ for it? They could get away with it if people had no alternative then to use IE. Mozilla better get things together and start playing catch up with a vengence - they're losing the race as it is. I'd hate to see them dissapear. -- - Bob
I have a similar setup - each time I sign up for something that requires an e-mail address I give something along the lines of companyname@aftermath.cx (eg. amazon.com@aftermath.cx) - this means I know exactly where it came from and can blame the correct party:) --
- Bob
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Yeah, and hand power to our favorite mass-marketers.
/. a viable place for spammers/mass marketers who would now be able to buy themselves a +5 bonus.
A system like this would only serve to make
#1 would have to be the obvious - how much?
/. almost everyday and I wouldn't be opposed to paying a small fee in the interests of keeping the site afloat.
#2 would a subscription disable all ads (including those at the top of the page)?
#3 apart from ads, what benefits would subscribers get? I realise this will depend on the price (i.e. I wouldn't expect anything more if it cost $5/year, but if I end up paying $10/month then I'd want something more)
Apart from that - I do believe that adding a subscription may be necessary, I read
WARNING: the following is very Windows/DOS centric
At work we had an old server computer with over 2 gig of RAM. I fiddled around with it for a bit and got Windows 95 to boot, copy itself into a 1 gig RAM disk and run. I had to put an old 1 gig drive into the comp. (Drive D:) temporarily and install windows onto that, then copy that onto the original HDD (C:), rip out D: and put an entry into autoexec.bat that copied the windows dir from C: to D: (which was now the RAM disk).
I measured a total of 0.8% average speed increase (using some god-awful old DOS benchmarker) and the comp. took 23 minutes to boot.
--
- Bob
Yes, Netscape did, at one point, hold a 'monopoly' of sorts over internet browsers. But Netscape did not hold sway over any other parts of the industry. Microsoft, however, is able to write browsers that will only work in Windows. With this happening, Microsoft has effectively cut out Linux or other UN*X based OSes from the consumer market. If the internet was totally inaccessable for you, would you change OSes?
If Microsoft is allowed to create their own standards, then it stands to reason that they will not be allowing these standards to be supported on OSes that they don't make. Therefore, more people will move from Linux (for example) and back to Windows, simply because they can get on the internet. And, if Microsoft does manage to get IE accepted as a 'standard' then what is to stop them suddenly charging $$$ for it? They could get away with it if people had no alternative then to use IE.
Mozilla better get things together and start playing catch up with a vengence - they're losing the race as it is. I'd hate to see them dissapear.
--
- Bob
I have a similar setup - each time I sign up for something that requires an e-mail address I give something along the lines of companyname@aftermath.cx (eg. amazon.com@aftermath.cx) - this means I know exactly where it came from and can blame the correct party :)
--
- Bob