Comment Re:This is it! (Score 1) 584
This is the year of Linux!
For me it's been the last six years..Anyway,I personally dislike fluff pieces where a person makes predictions...In reality,he has no more clue how things will pan out than anyone on
Comment Re:Not good enough... (Score 2) 330
You know what? People are making money doing creative work. We're done. The "problem" of piracy isn't a problem, any more than the expiration of copyright was a problem.
Agreed. Avatar was one of the top films ever pirated and look how much money it made. I don't think it's about piracy at all.
Comment Re:They got paid for this... (Score 1) 247
> If ads were all friendly I wouldn't block any of them. I think many (most?) people probably feel the same way.
Um, no, as in DO. NOT. WANT> I want my surfing speed back so I block EVERY fucking ad.
i.e. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ and http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm FTW
Well they are not friendly..In this case,it tool a law to make them "friendlier "on tv in the USA. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57342486-503544/govt-asks-viewers-to-police-too-loud-tv-ads/ "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve rules implementing legislation that makes it illegal for advertisers to pump up the volume during television commercial breaks. The law, called the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, aims to answer the complaints of Americans who have for years protested that commercials are too loud."
Comment Re:War on ad blockers (Score 1) 247
Like others have said, if "you" or "your site" serve ads that aren't obnoxious, Flash(®)y, popping up/under/over/down/in/out, data-collecting, page-grabbing, content-masking, survey-taking, usage-tracking, loud, seizure-inducing, eye-bleeding, *totally* inappropriate, or just downright frackin' toxic, then I just might consider easing up on the ad filter for your site.
I agree. I'm not surfing the web to be your personal money bag. With or without AB I won't click on your ads cause I don't want/need what you are selling. If I want something,I can find it without some ad pusher leading me by the eyeballs down their sleazy little path. And ad makers brought this on themselves by engaging in the most insulting,obnoxious, irritating ads they could conjure. Did they think people would not eventually get sick of seeing their visual vomit? Really? The can't be that stupid. Anyway,I agree with Dave below on what advertisers are really about: "Advertising seeks to make those perfectly happy folks unhappy so they will spend more. " Dave
Submission + - Skype Crashes and Burns in Worldwide Outage (thinq.co.uk) 1
Stoobalou writes: VoIP and instant messaging service Skype has disappeared from the Internet, nary a fortnight after Microsoft snaffled up the outfit in an overpriced $8.5 billion deal.
Submission + - Open source foiled the Microsoft antitrust case (computerworld.com)
dcblogs writes: The U.S. Department of Justice remedies supervision in the Microsoft antitrust case ends Thursday, closing the landmark case, which began in 1998. But the questions posed by trial federal Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's attempted remedy remain, Did tech innovation suffer over the last 10 years because Microsoft wasn't broken up? "Not really," said Vinton Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, "It has to do with the fact that open source has become such a strong force in the software world."
