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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Most users would prefer if there would be no ads at all. I don't think putting ads in Firefox will reduce ads on websites.
Comment · 11 years ago
From your first link:
> This is still one of our early steps towards our goal of improving the state of digital advertising for the Web – delivering greater transparency for advertisers, better, more relevant content experiences and, above all, greater control for Firefox users.
At least one would hope they could be honest in their goal, I don't think anybody care about the state of digital advertising except marketers.
Comment · 11 years ago
In 2012 they had a surplus of more than $100,000,000 though...
And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I have no idea what they spent so much money on)
Comment · 11 years ago
> But that's not good either?
Indeed, it's not a binary decision, there are other ways than just sell you user's data.
For starter, Google (and now Yahoo) were giving hundreds of millions every year. What did Mozilla do with that?
Comment · 11 years ago
Who in their right mind would push such a thing? How can they think it'll will win them any user? I have no words.
Comment · 12 years ago
Speaking about pizza, does anybody has the perfect recipe for the pie/whole pizza? I saw once here from a obsessed chef but can't remember the link. Thanks!
Comment · 12 years ago
You forget that mandatory voting also mean that minorities and other "difficult" groups also don't have to make excuses as to why they are voting and also that everything is done to make them votes (since it's mandatory). An employer can't refuse a employee to go voting for example.
Comment · 12 years ago
In Vimperator you can do this:
:set toolbars=nonavigation,notabs
Comment · 12 years ago
APNG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apng) is the answer, but Chrome doesn't support natively.
Comment · 12 years ago
Except an Incredible Journey is not a normal shut down, it's the shutdown of a company, because the buyer took the thing it was interested in and then ran away.
So in your case, it should rather read:
"After 43 years in business, Joe's Pizza will be shutting down after July 10th because of its acquisition by Pizza Hut, which will tore down the place and puts its own pizzeria here. Be happy we got rich!"
People gets emotional with place they go to or things they use, you can think it's irrational, but it's just a fact of life.
Comment · 12 years ago
From Predictive Edge website:
Many thanks to you all for your feedback & support, and here's to a
new chapter!
An incredible journey is:
One company buying another and closing its services down. This is a
purchase of the second company’s staff, rather than their product. An
acquihire.
If you look through the archives this is what all the incredible
journeys have in common. A company gets bought, its staff are excited
(publicly, anyway) about their new home, but sorry that the service
which brought them to the attention of their new bosses will have to be
closed. “But thanks for joining us on our incredible journey!”
This is what is galling. A company that can afford to pay millions for
some new staff but not for what those staff built. The people who used
the service, and invested their belief and time in uploading photos, or
forming friendships, or logging data, are left to find new virtual homes
while their former hosts enjoy a nice (if possibly delayed) payday.
This repeated pattern only encourages more people to create flashy
services that have no hope of being sustainable businesses in their own
right, but may survive long enough, with VC funding, to attract the
attention of a large company eager for new ideas and staff.
It’s one thing for companies to go bust, or to close their service
after failing to make it work. This is business. It’s capitalism. But
starting services only to close them a couple of years later when payday
arrives is a vicious way to treat people.Comment · 12 years ago
Because for all the tech progression in the last 20 years, a javascript heavy page is still really slow to load and use if you have more than a few tabs open.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/05/28/apples-app-store-r...