I am totally delighted to come here to complain about the "slides, " and then find that a half dozen folks beat me to the punch.
If it were a single webpage, I could keep tapping the keyboard's arrow-key to scroll the entire article. Requiring us to click on the arrow-image for 46(!) slides is a bother, requiring aiming and zeroing the mouse, much more annoying than just tapping on the keyboard's arrow. In case of argument, we're not on dial-up anymore, so continue including the pretty pictures. (Prefer pictures without tracking gizmos.)
Wiz-Bang wrote:
> I don't mind looking at ads, but when each slide has it's own 10 or 20 second ad and they cause the browser to hang due to poor programming of the advertising dev...
He's pretty smart. In my case, the ads gotta be delivered real discreetly for me to "not mind" seeing them.
Those ads are like webmasters sabotaging their own content. I don't understand why the article-content can't be delivered first, and if the ad takes 10 or 20 seconds to be delivered, that shouldn't delay us from seeing the article, and why would that be a problem for the advertiser?
Anyway, this exercise was so interesting, I lost interest in the article. It doesn't help that the first example provided by Slide 1 is for ordering a rent-a-car, and if that's the most significant example, I assume it's all downhill from there. I don't have a virtual assistant, so no big loss.
Since all the marketing about virtual assistants, the first question for me has always been, "Can't I get my regular computer to do that?"