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Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by mkull on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:32PM (#2020209)
OT but those kontera in-text ads are absolutely horrible. They are like land minds spread throughout the article making it just about unreadable (I tend to mouse over the text I am currently reading)
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by chrisaycock on Saturday December 18, 2010 @08:36PM (#2020798)
I used arc90's Readability to get through it all.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by jamesbritt on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:07PM (#2020302)
They're a complete fuck-over on my G1, where browser navigating seems to always want to hover on links, and the popups make it near impossible to actual read the damn article.

I generally assume that any site that is using this sort of crap is not interested in me as a reader and probably isn't concerned with the quality of the content they are offering; they are just trying to lure clicks and eyeballs.

Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by wtallis on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:50PM (#2020398)
They're a linux-oriented benchmarking site. They're probably pretty strapped for cash on a good day, so they have to use an excess of ads to stay online. They're catering to a small market, so it seems like a fair tradeoff. Besides, their most annoying ads are the easiest to block on any reasonable browser.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by Groxx on Sunday December 19, 2010 @01:53AM (#2021292)
Thank goodness there's Adblock. I disabled it to see what you were talking about; it was terrifying.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by jacquesm on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:36PM (#2020220)
What is really interesting is that the 'linux' buyers are willing to pay roughly 2x what the windows buyers are willing to pay. ($13.71 vs $6.40)
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by StavrosK on Saturday December 18, 2010 @06:07PM (#2020546)
We're just grateful we got some games.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by jberryman on Saturday December 18, 2010 @08:22PM (#2020781)
I was thinking abour this earlier, and I think linux users feel "wealthier" in terms of software, and so are willing to pay more. Windows users have to scour the dark, virus-infected recesses of the internet to find free software. We just do apt-get.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by nfriedly on Sunday December 19, 2010 @02:29AM (#2021326)
I know of one person who paid $0.01 to download the Windows copies. (To be fair, he's in high school and doesn't have much money, but he could probably afford more than that.) I suspect there are more of these folks on Windows than any other OS.

I'd be curious to see the averages if the top and bottom 1% were omitted.

Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by marchdown on Sunday December 19, 2010 @11:31AM (#2021921)
It would be interesting to see more complete statistics.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by aeurielesn on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:21PM (#2020338)
I still love the image when you put an amount less than a dollar :)

http://cdn.humblebundle.com/hib2/sad_developer.jpg

Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by tsuraan on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:22PM (#2020186)
Link to the original source, for those who want an updating total: http://www.humblebundle.com/ .
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by SingAlong on Saturday December 18, 2010 @11:01PM (#2021046)
touched $1 million and I'm happy!

I bought it and influenced another friend on twitter to buy it :) Also Jeff (@humble) tweeted that he has a surprise for all buyers and that it'll be up in an hour or so. I'm curious as to what that surprise would be.

Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by sagarun on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:54PM (#2020266)
I am from a developing country, i just paid 10$ and got all the games. Awesome!
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by eccp on Saturday December 18, 2010 @07:58PM (#2020732)
Not only that, you get all the games for ALL the platforms. I happen to have both an Ubuntu laptop and another with Windows 7.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by nanexcool on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:25PM (#2020350)
I already had 2 of the games, Machinarium on Steam, and Braid on Xbox 360. Still bought it.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by DrStalker on Saturday December 18, 2010 @08:50PM (#2020822)
I had the two games from the bundle I wqas most interested in, so I just paid less for the bundle. I figure everyone wins that way, compared to me not buying at all.
Re:Humble Bundle #2 Breaches $900k, On Way To $1M USD by wildmXranat on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:58PM (#2020415)
Great success. I bought a pack for myself and it's worth every penny.