Keith Casey wrote:
Anyone else catch this from O'Reilly this morning:
http://blogs.caseysoftware.com/ (Yes, it's a link to my blog.)
Anyway, they had a banner ad from our Good Friends in Redmond(tm) that
opened a *huge* frame on top of the rest of the window when you tried
to do anything. Forget actually trying to check out what's on their
site, they obviously want you to read about the "power" of Visual
Studio 2005.
I'm relatively pragmatic in many tech aspects and would complain the
same if Novell/Redhat/mysql was doing this crap, but I *thought*
O'Reilly had more regard for their customers.
--
Keith Casey
CEO, http://CaseySoftware.com
That's the same MS ad as in DrDobbs. I had already reamed
it on my dashboard plastic Noam Chomsky ad-troll doll.
"A free popup comes with the mugging".
The mugging is the massage. A popup is like a mugging, as
far as massage, right?
Post-makeover, MS cubuns have time for "haircut, tennis". Only
MS can EMPOWER me with CHOICE of what to do with MY time.
But deliver that message via popup mugging, and the mugging
is the only massage as far as we're concerned, to paraphrase
Marshal McLuhan with an eye to Orwell.
Popups are spam. "The hormel, the hormel", A-popup-eclipse Now
(F9 key in ctwm).
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