Darren New wrote:

> Yeah. Part of the problem is that companies get paid *big* bucks 
> (relatively speaking) to put thngs like Google's toolbar and Yahoo's 
> toolbar and AOL's tool bar and every other piece of crapware out there 
> that they can. You can (or at least could) get something like $5 every 
> time some customer agrees to install Yahoo's toolbar, which is a *lot* 
> of money when you're distributing ad-supported software with a $0.05 
> click-thru payment on the ads.

Grr, Yahoo bar pisses me off. It seems everything includes it in its 
installation, and if you blindly click "Next" it's usually on a page 
somewhere, typically toward the end of the options screens, and already 
helpfully selected for you.

I swear FireFox needs a feature that says "Hey, while you were away from 
the browser, someone else decided to add a plug-in. Did you really want 
to do this?"

> I bought a 4-core x64 2.88GHz machine with 6G of RAM and gigabit 
> ethernet. And it came with a 56K modem card, so they could put Earthlink 
> and AOL and Juno and ..... links on the desktop. They *have* to be 
> getting a kickback on those icons big enough to justify putting in a 
> modem card nobody in their right mind is going to need. :-)
> 

Heh. They still make 56k Modems??!

-- 
~Mike

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