My spidey senses say that there will soon be an "OpenPets" github project, coupled with the obligatory web2.0 homepage. Essentially the nextgen version of virtual pets.
(Only half kidding btw)
I stand corrected, it wasn't coffee. It must have been a coupon for Steve's Hand-Crafted Meth Emporium.
Lemme guess...this morning you found a Dunkin Donuts "Buy 1 coffee get 10 free" coupon?
I remember defenestrating Outlook Express at least 10 years ago.
Or instead there ought to be a simple way to just opt in. Or they could produce a FF/IE addon. Or put a big notice on their homepage with this info. Or automated social media notifications. Etc.
Messing with DNS to redirect bad domains to ad parking pages is still around but no one cares anymore. However, this is right in the user's face which feels different, like it's an offensive volley, like one ISP is finally ready for war. The first battle in ISPs training users to accept a tainted connection.
In all honesty, I think they picked the perfect application to start the ball rolling. Few average Joe customers would argue against email outage notifications because it seems like it's an important function that the ISP should provide. More importantly users are used to dynamic pages now, it "feels" like a Facebook or Twitter thing. So in their mind it's probably ok, or at least something that would be hard to argue against from a layman's perspective.
So it's a good starting point to start boiling the frog. I'll bet that their internal calculations show no more than one year to completely boil the poor beast (i.e. ad insertions). That's the holy grail.
Well then, guess that makes you a pretty special snowflake.
Without picking on any network in particular, according to Nielson one network has an average viewer age over 65. Surprisingly, the competing networks are not wildly younger wrt age demos.
Not the source but a nice overview of the demographics:
http://www.quora.com/Fox-News-cable-news-network/What-are-the-demographics-of-Fox-News-viewers
Could certainly be considered trollish, I know. But it's an interesting hypothesis nonetheless.
I'd strongly argue that OWL was not crap. It was indirectly hindered by MS, which is what caused the frustration.
Remember that it was a brutally different time back then, when MFC was the most important thing to MS and the Windows codebase was tweaked to strongly favor MS products. Borland was at the complete mercy of Microsoft's shenanigans. As were many other companies in many other dev segments. But from a technical perspective OWL was certainly a much cleaner oo framework than MFC (imho).
Agreed, they've done quite well without the technology and Samsung has done quite well with it (Galaxy, Note, etc.). Primarily because the market that requires very accurate color representation is extremely small.
The real pain will set in when OLED goes mainstream in TVs and monitors in the next couple years. That's when Samsung's foresight over the last decade, coupled with Apple's misstep, will pay off huge dividends.
There's a very slim chance of that happening, even after Jobs' death. He was notoriously against anything OLED related, now it's finally going to be biting Apple in the ass since Samsung owns 90% of the OLED market (albeit through non-exclusive PHOLED materials agreements with Universal Display). That includes almost all flexible OLED production too. And Sharp's financial woes are causing problems on the Apple LCD front going forward. It really was a major blunder on Job's part to lock themselves so tightly with "old fashioned" LCD.
www.codeweavers.com
If you're trying to save the cost of an Office license, then that's a different story.
Considering the gp is in Indiana, it's a good thing Richard Mourdock didn't win. Getting legitimately raped by AT&T would be an issue he'd defend
Heh. Funny, but also insightful in a twisted sort of way.
"Just use channel 2 and you will be 50% better than on channel one already."
Well, I initially read it as the poster saying channel 2 will be better/more powerful than channel 1 because the number is bigger. Which is kind of funny but obviously not what he meant. So it's probably what made the mod go with funny.
TL;DR: It was kind of funny if you misinterpreted the post.
They're the biggest and the best, The people running MS aren't that stupid.
-1 Troll and +1 Funny
How exactly does this work, do the points cancel out meaning that your post never existed? Is it like a tree falling in the woods, the ghostbusters crossing beams, or alternate universes? Whatever it is, it seems dangerous.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
