Comedy central is asking all viewers to stop watching their channel since well.. nobody does anyways.
What idiot in their marketing department said "hey, all these people in our target demographic who don't or might not currently watch us are getting interested in our shows... lets stop that from happening!"
Another wonderful example of brick and mortar media looking a gift horse in the mouth.
I'm sure Jon Stewart is excited that his total viewership just dropped by 80% ovenight:-/
And they sell their commercial services to US companies and citizens.
My legal knowledge is limited but if you are doing business in a country then you are indeed subject to their laws.
My Polo shirt and the virtually identical version I bought on canal street for $4.00 were both made in the same factory by the same 7 year old chinese girl.
Brand and status is all that matters to most people.
It's like free hosting. There is a cost associated with every assigned telephone number, there is a cost associated with every outbound call even to a local number, and the cost for long distance is even greater. Free hosts have to cheat, use cheap bandwidth and dump high use accounts to remain even marginally profitable.
Thus far in internet history, users have proven that they will do whatever is possible to block advertisements and that as they become desensitized to ad formats the CTRs plumet.
Short term perhaps ebay can create enough spin that they will be able to convince their stockholders that their 4 billion dollar blunder has an upside, but my bet is still that in 2010 we'll all look back and laugh.
I'm looking at an ad for baracuda firewalls right now.
If a site's adds get to annoying for me I just stop going.
i don't mean to sound preachy, but every time you load a page somebody is paying for it. bandwidth isnt free.
/. is ad supported, yahoo is ad supported, google is ad supported.
it's simple game theory. what's best for you is to block the ads because it makes your experience more pleasurable, but what is best for the overall internet is for ads to be profitable so that producers of content and services can subsidize their content.
You have a right to privacy, a right to freedom of speech, a right to practice the religion of your choice.
You DO NOT have a *right* to good search results, free software, free music etc..etc... because SOMEBODY is paying for it, and if you're not willing to be a good community member by watching ads then visit only paid content sites.
Grrrrr.
So Yahoo spiders you daily.. and the people's republic of google spider's you weekly.. why is that (according to some) a notch on google's belt?
The more information you have, the better. Or are many of you making the stupid assumption that Google is better and thus whatever they do is inherently better?
Google routinely blocks sites that they just don't like from organic results, regardless of their relevance... which means that relevance is not their primarry goal.
Take a look at http://www.google.com/?q=isearch and you'll notice that isearch.com, who is constantly searched is not even indexed.
Not to be a naysayer, but am I the only one who doesn't quite see the purpose of widgets?
These are essentially small applications running within a hidden desktop, each additional widget takes up additional resources, and so many of these widgets are redundant. A widget to control your system volume? Isn't that what the volume menu item is for?
Does anybody really need to check traffic so often that it is necessary to have an application running continuously?
I gave widgets the benefit of the doubt when they came out, but found that the actual Widget system in Tiger significantly slowed down our systems and that it was actually more accessible to simply keep my address book or calculator open but minimized rather than having to use key combinations to make a terribly scaled down version of each of those apps (you can't copy and paste from widgets to other applications).
Who knows though, maybe I'm just an old geezer who really doesn't understand the purpose or the actual usefulness of widgets like "Mosquito... A little Widget that displays the mosquito conditions within your zip code for today and tomorrow. " or "Nascar: RSS feed of Nascar news, choose from several feeds including Nextel Cup, Busch Series and Truck Series. Feed time interval settings available also."
This law seems fair in that it protects consumers from applications that seek to steal their personal information, alter their system settings, change their home pages, etc..etc...
What do you want? A law that says advertising and commerce is illegal unless you are google?
If you don't want advertisements then pay for your software or use open source and compile it yourself.
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Comedy central is asking all viewers to stop watching their channel since well.. nobody does anyways. What idiot in their marketing department said "hey, all these people in our target demographic who don't or might not currently watch us are getting interested in our shows... lets stop that from happening!" Another wonderful example of brick and mortar media looking a gift horse in the mouth. I'm sure Jon Stewart is excited that his total viewership just dropped by 80% ovenight :-/
And they sell their commercial services to US companies and citizens. My legal knowledge is limited but if you are doing business in a country then you are indeed subject to their laws.
Well said. YouOS looks like it's been slashdotted. Glad I don't have a midterm due tomorrow that i had saved on my youos word processor.
My Polo shirt and the virtually identical version I bought on canal street for $4.00 were both made in the same factory by the same 7 year old chinese girl. Brand and status is all that matters to most people.
It's like free hosting. There is a cost associated with every assigned telephone number, there is a cost associated with every outbound call even to a local number, and the cost for long distance is even greater. Free hosts have to cheat, use cheap bandwidth and dump high use accounts to remain even marginally profitable. Thus far in internet history, users have proven that they will do whatever is possible to block advertisements and that as they become desensitized to ad formats the CTRs plumet. Short term perhaps ebay can create enough spin that they will be able to convince their stockholders that their 4 billion dollar blunder has an upside, but my bet is still that in 2010 we'll all look back and laugh.
I'm looking at an ad for baracuda firewalls right now. If a site's adds get to annoying for me I just stop going. i don't mean to sound preachy, but every time you load a page somebody is paying for it. bandwidth isnt free.
/. is ad supported, yahoo is ad supported, google is ad supported. it's simple game theory. what's best for you is to block the ads because it makes your experience more pleasurable, but what is best for the overall internet is for ads to be profitable so that producers of content and services can subsidize their content. You have a right to privacy, a right to freedom of speech, a right to practice the religion of your choice. You DO NOT have a *right* to good search results, free software, free music etc..etc... because SOMEBODY is paying for it, and if you're not willing to be a good community member by watching ads then visit only paid content sites. Grrrrr.
So Yahoo spiders you daily.. and the people's republic of google spider's you weekly.. why is that (according to some) a notch on google's belt? The more information you have, the better. Or are many of you making the stupid assumption that Google is better and thus whatever they do is inherently better? Google routinely blocks sites that they just don't like from organic results, regardless of their relevance... which means that relevance is not their primarry goal. Take a look at http://www.google.com/?q=isearch and you'll notice that isearch.com, who is constantly searched is not even indexed.
Not to be a naysayer, but am I the only one who doesn't quite see the purpose of widgets?
These are essentially small applications running within a hidden desktop, each additional widget takes up additional resources, and so many of these widgets are redundant. A widget to control your system volume? Isn't that what the volume menu item is for?
Does anybody really need to check traffic so often that it is necessary to have an application running continuously?
I gave widgets the benefit of the doubt when they came out, but found that the actual Widget system in Tiger significantly slowed down our systems and that it was actually more accessible to simply keep my address book or calculator open but minimized rather than having to use key combinations to make a terribly scaled down version of each of those apps (you can't copy and paste from widgets to other applications).
Who knows though, maybe I'm just an old geezer who really doesn't understand the purpose or the actual usefulness of widgets like "Mosquito... A little Widget that displays the mosquito conditions within your zip code for today and tomorrow. " or "Nascar: RSS feed of Nascar news, choose from several feeds including Nextel Cup, Busch Series and Truck Series. Feed time interval settings available also."
Sigh.
This law seems fair in that it protects consumers from applications that seek to steal their personal information, alter their system settings, change their home pages, etc..etc...
What do you want? A law that says advertising and commerce is illegal unless you are google?
If you don't want advertisements then pay for your software or use open source and compile it yourself.