[geeks] I. Don't. Get. It.

[Kevin]

Amen!  The first thing that pissed me off about Acrobat 7.0 was
the built-in Yahoo add crap.... WTF????  The adds may have
been there in v6, as i never used v6, but i know v5 didn't have
any advertising.

Makes me glad v4 was the last version for IRIX.

/KRM

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:27:38 -0500
Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 
> The whole gang of marketing morons are shoving ads into
> *EVERYTHING*.  I  watched someone use Quicken the other day,
> just doing basic accounting,  and the interface was peppered
> with ads!  What the hell is that?
> 
> It's even in paperback books now, and even DVDs you buy now
> have ads.  I  remember when I was a kid you bought cable TV to
> avoid the ads, and now  they have more than network TV.
> 
> You go in a Walmart, and some mind bogglingly stupid idiot has
> gotten  the idea to hang televisions over your head
> broadcasting ads while you  shop.  I mean good grief, I am *IN
> THE DAMNED STORE*, I don't need to be  "attracted" any more!
> 
> Sometimes I think this crap is going to cause violence.  One
> day you'll  read in the paper about how a few hundred ad
> workers were rounded up and  shot in cold blood at a Madison
> Avenue office party.