Look websites, we get it, the social contract. I would be fine helping you out by watching your ads. But the ads on your site, aren't from you, they are from an adfarm, or an adhosting company, or any number of third parties I do not know or trust.
Although not a tech site, everyone here has probably heard of the NY Times third party ad supplier getting hit, and injecting an attack to visitors from a poisoned advertisement. *
I use Adblock mostly in self defense, along with NoScript, because I don't know who is pushing the ads, or what their policies are. If AdBlock is going to vet advertisers and guarantee safe content, then maybe I will loosen up a bit. But I'm still leery, as even certificate authorities these days are getting gamed.
In general blocking anything except the web content I'm trying to view, seems best practice.
I got to this thread late, this may have been mentioned, but I wanted to explain my reason for adblocking websites. Ads come from a third party, usually. It's that simple. If I visit a site I know and trust, I enable scripting and active content on their page (No Script for Firefox). But, not for their advertising affiliates. I really have no idea where the ads are coming from. If the NY Times can get hit by rogue ad servers, anyone can. Yes, they are not a tech site, but they are a well established major web presence with security and policies on par with most others. ( Article here for that story http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10351460-83.html ). I agree there should be a balance somewhere, but when I visit a page, look at my No Script alert and see the page trying to load scripts from 15 websites aside from the one I'm at, I don't exactly feel inclined to add to their revenue stream.
I've been seeing a lot of machines lately with the Bing Toolbar installed, and the client having no idea how it got there. Automated updates on a Windows machine are nice, but sometimes you get the latest helpful tool bar offering along with it. Sun Java, Adobe Flash, etc. often offer tool bars and other goodies that although are not harmful, might be unwanted. I'm not sure how much this would skew actual results, but it has to count for a few points of market share and larger reported install base of tool bars and hence search engine use.
"Your gameplay can be great fun but no matter how fun it is if the user interface and related systems are as unwieldy as trying to type a novel while wearing mittens it will leave players frustrated, and frustrated players will eventually leave."
Exactly, I couldn't even make it through the starting area of Tabula Rasa because of the mitten factor. AoC was on my list to try, but the heavy system requirements would have meant an entirely new computer, so I passed on it.
I looked at Dell, and said no, same for HP. I have to support enough of those at work. the Dell machines still have proprietary connectors for the power supply, but most everything else is standard. The HP rigs have this lovely thing with a partition on the hard disk for the re installation software, but no disks, so your rebuild is loaded with all the 'bonus software' from HP. Also, out of 12 HP machines at the office, 5 have required new hard drives and 9 have required new power supplies a year in. Might have been a bad lot, but the fact that HP ships their rigs with every driver ever made for every HP camera, scanner, printer, etc. and the automatic web update software installed by default, is a turn off. So far, Gigabyte mainboards, Patriot RAM, and a careful reading of the BIOS manual has kept me from juicing like Dr. Emilio Lizardo.
I understand the mindset, obligatory car analogy here, but it is not something I've ever done. Shopping for hardware has become a bit of a mine field lately, as most of the top tier motherboard and RAM manufacturers offer a *ton* of options for boosting the juice to various things all over the motherboard. They advertise this as a feature. I'm glad for those folks who like to go faster. It does make things a bit tricky having to check the RAM voltage, against what the motherboard can handle, and the processor will take, and hoping it all works. I'd like it if Asus and Gigabyte could maybe come up with a 'Get off my lawn!' series for us folks who like stock voltages, and wear onions on our belts.
I just noticed I was modded troll. I find that very interesting. I merely stated my opinion on the matter. Although you may choose to submit, and voluntarily give up your rights, I do not. You may either not fly, or you may give up your rights. There is no choice, there is an implied consent at airports, and nowhere else in my experiences traveling by bus, or train, have I been required to give up those rights afforded me as a citizen of the United States. Why is it that Americans just accept that an airport is a magical place where the Constitution does not apply?
Maybe you do not have a right to fly. What I do have is a guaranteed Constitutional right to be safe in my person and my effects from warrant less searches by the government. That is not debatable. If the airlines themselves had their own security, and they were the ones doing the searches, fine, their plane, their business, their rules. The TSA is a government agency, they need a warrant. This latest nonsense with millimeter wave peeping tom scanners is just another reason I haven't been on a plane in years, and won't be anytime soon.
I love ramen noodles, easy to prepare and very tasty. Unfortunately, I'm one of those folks who get the blinding headache followed by Exorcist style projectile vomiting when eating MSG. I've never found a ramen noodle package that didn't have a lot of MSG in it. Any others out there have the problem with the MSG? And are there non MSG loaded brands out there, I miss the noodles.
Right from the beginning of TFA, I got the sense that it was a bunch of old stodges saying "those newfangled machineries!, no sense to it!". I am not an artist, I can barely handle stick figures, but I think that computer aided artistry is going to end up like computer aided drafting, a vital step in the evolution of the species. Art has always existed for one purpose, to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, good or bad, that is art. If Artists today are using computers to progress faster, to push boundaries, to express themselves in ways not possible before, how can this be a bad thing?
I don't think Vonage is the right person to sue at all. I am not a Vonage customer, but a quick read of their website a few months back when I was looking for information on their service CLEARLY showed that 911 service was not the same as from a regular land line. The Texas AG is suing them for "deceptive advertising" and not disclosing how their 911 system functions and this is bunk. I had no problems finding the info at all.
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Look websites, we get it, the social contract. I would be fine helping you out by watching your ads. But the ads on your site, aren't from you, they are from an adfarm, or an adhosting company, or any number of third parties I do not know or trust.
Although not a tech site, everyone here has probably heard of the NY Times third party ad supplier getting hit, and injecting an attack to visitors from a poisoned advertisement. *
I use Adblock mostly in self defense, along with NoScript, because I don't know who is pushing the ads, or what their policies are. If AdBlock is going to vet advertisers and guarantee safe content, then maybe I will loosen up a bit. But I'm still leery, as even certificate authorities these days are getting gamed.
In general blocking anything except the web content I'm trying to view, seems best practice.
* http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2009/09/14/fake-antivirus-attack-hits-york-times-website-readers/
I got to this thread late, this may have been mentioned, but I wanted to explain my reason for adblocking websites. Ads come from a third party, usually. It's that simple. If I visit a site I know and trust, I enable scripting and active content on their page (No Script for Firefox). But, not for their advertising affiliates. I really have no idea where the ads are coming from. If the NY Times can get hit by rogue ad servers, anyone can. Yes, they are not a tech site, but they are a well established major web presence with security and policies on par with most others. ( Article here for that story http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10351460-83.html ). I agree there should be a balance somewhere, but when I visit a page, look at my No Script alert and see the page trying to load scripts from 15 websites aside from the one I'm at, I don't exactly feel inclined to add to their revenue stream.
I've been seeing a lot of machines lately with the Bing Toolbar installed, and the client having no idea how it got there. Automated updates on a Windows machine are nice, but sometimes you get the latest helpful tool bar offering along with it. Sun Java, Adobe Flash, etc. often offer tool bars and other goodies that although are not harmful, might be unwanted. I'm not sure how much this would skew actual results, but it has to count for a few points of market share and larger reported install base of tool bars and hence search engine use.
http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Moblin How are pig bulldog monster things going to help my netbook experience?
I hope I never get sick, or if I do, that I die quick. Health Care in the USA is the disease.
"Your gameplay can be great fun but no matter how fun it is if the user interface and related systems are as unwieldy as trying to type a novel while wearing mittens it will leave players frustrated, and frustrated players will eventually leave." Exactly, I couldn't even make it through the starting area of Tabula Rasa because of the mitten factor. AoC was on my list to try, but the heavy system requirements would have meant an entirely new computer, so I passed on it.
I looked at Dell, and said no, same for HP. I have to support enough of those at work. the Dell machines still have proprietary connectors for the power supply, but most everything else is standard. The HP rigs have this lovely thing with a partition on the hard disk for the re installation software, but no disks, so your rebuild is loaded with all the 'bonus software' from HP. Also, out of 12 HP machines at the office, 5 have required new hard drives and 9 have required new power supplies a year in. Might have been a bad lot, but the fact that HP ships their rigs with every driver ever made for every HP camera, scanner, printer, etc. and the automatic web update software installed by default, is a turn off. So far, Gigabyte mainboards, Patriot RAM, and a careful reading of the BIOS manual has kept me from juicing like Dr. Emilio Lizardo.
I understand the mindset, obligatory car analogy here, but it is not something I've ever done. Shopping for hardware has become a bit of a mine field lately, as most of the top tier motherboard and RAM manufacturers offer a *ton* of options for boosting the juice to various things all over the motherboard. They advertise this as a feature. I'm glad for those folks who like to go faster. It does make things a bit tricky having to check the RAM voltage, against what the motherboard can handle, and the processor will take, and hoping it all works. I'd like it if Asus and Gigabyte could maybe come up with a 'Get off my lawn!' series for us folks who like stock voltages, and wear onions on our belts.
I just noticed I was modded troll. I find that very interesting. I merely stated my opinion on the matter. Although you may choose to submit, and voluntarily give up your rights, I do not. You may either not fly, or you may give up your rights. There is no choice, there is an implied consent at airports, and nowhere else in my experiences traveling by bus, or train, have I been required to give up those rights afforded me as a citizen of the United States. Why is it that Americans just accept that an airport is a magical place where the Constitution does not apply?
Maybe you do not have a right to fly. What I do have is a guaranteed Constitutional right to be safe in my person and my effects from warrant less searches by the government. That is not debatable. If the airlines themselves had their own security, and they were the ones doing the searches, fine, their plane, their business, their rules. The TSA is a government agency, they need a warrant. This latest nonsense with millimeter wave peeping tom scanners is just another reason I haven't been on a plane in years, and won't be anytime soon.
I love ramen noodles, easy to prepare and very tasty. Unfortunately, I'm one of those folks who get the blinding headache followed by Exorcist style projectile vomiting when eating MSG. I've never found a ramen noodle package that didn't have a lot of MSG in it. Any others out there have the problem with the MSG? And are there non MSG loaded brands out there, I miss the noodles.
Right from the beginning of TFA, I got the sense that it was a bunch of old stodges saying "those newfangled machineries!, no sense to it!". I am not an artist, I can barely handle stick figures, but I think that computer aided artistry is going to end up like computer aided drafting, a vital step in the evolution of the species. Art has always existed for one purpose, to evoke an emotional response in the viewer, good or bad, that is art. If Artists today are using computers to progress faster, to push boundaries, to express themselves in ways not possible before, how can this be a bad thing?
I don't think Vonage is the right person to sue at all. I am not a Vonage customer, but a quick read of their website a few months back when I was looking for information on their service CLEARLY showed that 911 service was not the same as from a regular land line. The Texas AG is suing them for "deceptive advertising" and not disclosing how their 911 system functions and this is bunk. I had no problems finding the info at all.