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Spydir 
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umm... I totally agree wiley, about the business sense of things, but you're making it sound like trillian has advertisements. it doesn't. It is however NOT displaying AOL's ad's... if that's what you were saying, i'm just stupid and not reading it right and thought you were saying that not only was it not displaying AOL's, but it was also displaying it's own..
I've used it for a few months now, and I really like it. I do think it's pretty fucked up that AOL is doing that, but they have the complete right to. Doesn't make a difference, cuz it all sucks ass anyways.
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richard
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Posted on: Feb. 08 2002,03:35 |
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Wiley, in all due respect...that is a fucking lousy opinion. These software giants are always thinking locally, not globally. It's always "gimmee gimmee gimmee!" It's time for AOL to grow up, and stop being domineering arseholes.
When Edison invented the lightbulb, he ddn't corner the market on artificial light.
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editor
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Posted on: Feb. 08 2002,03:57 |
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errr, um, he didn't have to.
What Edison did was corner the market on electricity.
Remember Tesla? Imagine a life with out extension cords; but getting a good zolt off every doorknob isn't my idea of fun either.
Always interesting to see you around, RT.
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veistran
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Posted on: Feb. 08 2002,04:45 |
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if Edison had corned the market on electricity, we'd have a lot more power plants and everything would be running on DC.
Anyway, I doubt AOL is gonna be able to stop trillian, without stopping support for older clients and forcing them to use a newer client, and they won't do that because it's too many lusers potentially lost from the hassle and no guarantee that in a weeks time the trillian crew won't have figured it out.
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editor
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Posted on: Feb. 08 2002,05:24 |
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ya, got them reversed; guess this means Richard has a point!
it was Tesla who went for long distance AC and Edison who lied about how dangerous it really wasn't.
you win, RT.
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veistran
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| Quote (editor @ 07 Feb. 2002,03:24) | ya, got them reversed; guess this means Richard has a point!
it was Tesla who went for long distance AC and Edison who lied about how dangerous it really wasn't.
you win, RT. |
Anyway, yes, Tesla is the one who was the brains behind AC, but don't forget that Westinghouse was the money behind it and the true power behind it's adoption. 
hehe, anyone seen the videos Edison made, electrocuting an elephant to make AC look bad?
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ic0n0
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Did you know that tesla invented the radio long before Marconi even though Tesla get;s almost no credit for it. Tesla also died penniless.
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veistran
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Tesla pretty much gave a bunch of his patents to Westinghouse, he got $260K for patents worth a then(1907) $~12M.
And on that note, yes and Edison didn't invent the lightbulb, it was invented about ten years earlier by a brit I believe. He just managed to perfect it really. Avg light bulb life was 150hrs, he got it up to 1300hrs, modern lightbulbs get about 1500hrs.
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Wiley
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| Quote (Spydir @ 07 Feb. 2002,19:24) | | umm... I totally agree wiley, about the business sense of things, but you're making it sound like trillian has advertisements. it doesn't. |
What it has is potential advertising space, which is sometimes just as good. At the peak of the internet boom it was said that a banner on Yahoo would get the same market penetration as a sixty second commercial run durring the Super Bowl, this is what drove investors to Yahoo ...even though they didn't charge any money to visitors or turn a profit in any way. Think about it, have you ever paid a dime to Yahoo? Has anybody you ever met paid them any money? So how come they were worth millions? Potential advertising has a value to it. Trillian can attract investors by telling them that their client is running on X amount of desktops and has that much advertising potential. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I just wanted to play the devil's advocate here and give the business site of the story. Actually I'm suprised that I have not gotten flamed to death for defending AOL.
Next up, 101 reasons why Microsoft is your friend
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ic0n0
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Some of Microsoft’s actions might be considered illegal whereas AOL is just a bunch of jerks there is a big deference.
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