Going to make an assumption here, but are you looking forward to your mom calling and asking if you can fix her iPad for her?
Anecdote -- my kids have, twice now, dumped an entire glass of water onto my wife's cellphone. Twice now, I have unscrewed the case, blown the water from the boards, let it dry for a few hours, then reassembled it back to complete functionality, with regular jeweler's screwdrivers, and without assistance from the manufacturer.
I was going to also make a car analogy about the roominess & mechanical nature of old-model vehicles versus their modern, cramped, circuit-switched descendants, but I don't really feel like it.
Earlier today, I'd been surfing $otherTechSite in Chrome. The header loaded, but the content of the site wouldn't. Chrome indicated it was waiting on ad.doubleclick.net...back to Firefox!
Perhaps you're so inured to the garish, Blade Runner-esque adspace that you don't need NoScript, but I enjoy not letting javascript execute as a matter of course.
Adblock also blocks simple ad banners and various other stuff Noscript doesn't.
In my experience, the set of non-javascript-generated off-site content that is also supremely obnoxious enough to notice approaches null. Can you elaborate on 'various other stuff'?
Mmmm, not quite, as many AC's have chimed in. For instance, I have Slashdot on my whitelist, but I've never seen an ad here: the scripts that tell which ad to run aren't on the slashdot.org domain.
What does Adblock give you that NoScript doesn't? "filter subscriptions"? Why should I have to worry about a blacklist when NoScript allows me to decide if my "web experience" is less than it should be and THEN unblock something?
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welcome this priority realignment on migration from our Cyber-Roach Forces.
Too soon.
Going to make an assumption here, but are you looking forward to your mom calling and asking if you can fix her iPad for her?
Anecdote -- my kids have, twice now, dumped an entire glass of water onto my wife's cellphone. Twice now, I have unscrewed the case, blown the water from the boards, let it dry for a few hours, then reassembled it back to complete functionality, with regular jeweler's screwdrivers, and without assistance from the manufacturer.
I was going to also make a car analogy about the roominess & mechanical nature of old-model vehicles versus their modern, cramped, circuit-switched descendants, but I don't really feel like it.
"It's very cold, and very beautiful, and you're not allowed to touch anything."
Sorry, I'm more of a hot-rodder than a passive consumer.
Say I want to write a speech synthesizer in JavaScript.
There is no emoticon for what I am feeling.
Only I am. All those other software engineers-cum-vulcanologists are woefully underinformed.
Hey, so do I, and I call bullshit fearmongering on the Yellowstone-like caldera unless someone else chimes in.
The problem isn't really with xkcd. The problem is that there are tens of thousands of idiots out there who think they're as funny as xkcd.
In my experience, those idiots are correct.
Who'd've ever thought that a stick figure comic would be guilty of trying too hard?
I guess desalinization plants are SO last century.
Too soon.
Low investment. You might as well ask why they spam at all.
TPM? Was it in the same league as Drop Dead Fred? No.
Not even close! Rik Mayall hit that one out of the park!
It really depends on how much the NoScript guy hates what Evil Advertisers do with HTML5, no?
I can imagine something looks better than it does...I can't imagine it's more fun to play than it is.
Very deep. Quoting in lieu of mod points.
I was never really into Farmville and Mafia wars, but I don't think they use flash.
My wife and her 5 fake accounts beg to differ. Farmville is a Flashbeast.
Multiple (a dozen or more) billings of your Warhammer account.
"No, no, it's German. It says "The Meetings, The."
"No one who speaks German could be bad!"
Heh, I did that as well. However, that only works (for every browser) when you're not going through a proxy.
Yeah, a few hours after that comment I had occasion to note that I had both of those enabled, as well.
Wow, you're a dick. I'm asking for some information, cuddlebunny.
Earlier today, I'd been surfing $otherTechSite in Chrome. The header loaded, but the content of the site wouldn't. Chrome indicated it was waiting on ad.doubleclick.net ...back to Firefox!
Perhaps you're so inured to the garish, Blade Runner-esque adspace that you don't need NoScript, but I enjoy not letting javascript execute as a matter of course.
Adblock also blocks simple ad banners and various other stuff Noscript doesn't.
In my experience, the set of non-javascript-generated off-site content that is also supremely obnoxious enough to notice approaches null. Can you elaborate on 'various other stuff'?
Mmmm, not quite, as many AC's have chimed in. For instance, I have Slashdot on my whitelist, but I've never seen an ad here: the scripts that tell which ad to run aren't on the slashdot.org domain.
Any other takers?
What does Adblock give you that NoScript doesn't? "filter subscriptions"? Why should I have to worry about a blacklist when NoScript allows me to decide if my "web experience" is less than it should be and THEN unblock something?
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experience as Admin Assistant with relevant skills in typing, scheduling and filing
They sound overqualified. Can they suck the life out of a roomful of people?