That is very relevant here. chez17's comment implied that the whitelist applies to non-invasive and non-annoying ads, while there are a number of new qualifiers here, including a payment which you have omitted from your…
Are text ads on Bing and Yahoo searches invasive and annoying? The article appears to say they're still blocked by default while Google's are not.
Tags on new questions is a pretty bad way to measure that. SO traditionally had a huge .NET audience, so many questions are already answered. Total number of questions tagged would be a somewhat better metric. An even…
I think Google itself sets a higher bar than even 5 or 3 months for other companies and itself. http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/google-sets-new-agg...
Sorry, I thought you meant dynamic in the context of the opposite of static HTML content and didn't realize you meant interpreted vs. compiled.
I don't think that's accurate. Do you have a reference? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/stewart/adobes-q1-financials-show-... I would think ASP.NET/C# would make the most profits in the dynamic web language space.
> Does reality match up to my prejudices? Similar to how Apple takes ~75% of the handset market profits, IIS takes almost all the profit in the web server market and is increasing revenues year after year. It does quite…
That comment reminded me of the Microsoft ad video targeted at web devs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk&hd=1 Interesting and funny video, regardless of if you think anything changed.
> For many years now they've claimed that .Net was the present and future of Microsoft development And then the iPad and post-PC era happened, killing Silverlight in the process and PC sales are still in steady decline.
>6M users is just not interesting when you're chasing having hundreds of millions of users. In the use case of a type of site where cascading network effects are of paramount importance, 6M engaged users is huge.
Well, the case of Opera's Presto engine being forced to die in the past few years proved that the holy grail of everything being fine and dandy if browser engines and websites follow web standards is a big lie. Opera…
That is very relevant here. chez17's comment implied that the whitelist applies to non-invasive and non-annoying ads, while there are a number of new qualifiers here, including a payment which you have omitted from your…
Are text ads on Bing and Yahoo searches invasive and annoying? The article appears to say they're still blocked by default while Google's are not.
Tags on new questions is a pretty bad way to measure that. SO traditionally had a huge .NET audience, so many questions are already answered. Total number of questions tagged would be a somewhat better metric. An even…
I think Google itself sets a higher bar than even 5 or 3 months for other companies and itself. http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerability/google-sets-new-agg...
Sorry, I thought you meant dynamic in the context of the opposite of static HTML content and didn't realize you meant interpreted vs. compiled.
I don't think that's accurate. Do you have a reference? http://www.zdnet.com/blog/stewart/adobes-q1-financials-show-... I would think ASP.NET/C# would make the most profits in the dynamic web language space.
> Does reality match up to my prejudices? Similar to how Apple takes ~75% of the handset market profits, IIS takes almost all the profit in the web server market and is increasing revenues year after year. It does quite…
That comment reminded me of the Microsoft ad video targeted at web devs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk&hd=1 Interesting and funny video, regardless of if you think anything changed.
> For many years now they've claimed that .Net was the present and future of Microsoft development And then the iPad and post-PC era happened, killing Silverlight in the process and PC sales are still in steady decline.
>6M users is just not interesting when you're chasing having hundreds of millions of users. In the use case of a type of site where cascading network effects are of paramount importance, 6M engaged users is huge.
Well, the case of Opera's Presto engine being forced to die in the past few years proved that the holy grail of everything being fine and dandy if browser engines and websites follow web standards is a big lie. Opera…