On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:12:47 -0500 (EST) Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:16:03 -0500 (EST), Klistvud wrote: > > In all honesty, is there anybody over the mental age of 9 that actually > > "enjoys" flash??? > > I hate it too. But as with most things in life, it all comes down to > money. The bottom line is, "it sells". Or at least the Madison Avenue > types think that it does. The whole goal of advertising is to get > your attention. And from their point of view, even negative attention is > better than no attention. And from their point of view, making the web > page non-functional without flash is a good thing. That forces you to > view the ads, which increases their revenue. But don't forget that Google, a company for which the selling of advertising is its raison d'être, has thrived on its signature small, unobtrusive, text-link ads, rather than huge, annoying, garish Flash monstrosities. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org