They think Google is being unfair, block it outright.
Why haven't they done this? Because they know that 1) They're in the wrong
and
2) They would lose just about all of their customers
You know there's more to it when the simple and obvious solution is not employed, and then forgotten about.
Google is what the consumers want, the consumers have paid for their internet connection, as have Google, end of story? Hah I wish.
Who pays attention to version numbers on anything nowadays? I don't they've all because ridiculously named and hard to keep track of, ME, XP, 2K, MX, CS1/2/3/S, Gusty Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hoary Hedgehog etc etc.
What happened to the good old days when it really was just simple version numbers?
Don't forget to mention manufacture discrepancies. How accurately measured is the bottle? Does it hold EXACTLY five liters? Or 5 liters give or take a few milliliters? Plus I thought bottles always held a little bit extra than what the label states as to allow for air bubbles etc, and the volume on the bottle label actually referred to the volume of whatever is contained within the bottle upon purchase ^_^
And yet where would the computers be if the humans hadn't set the up and programmed them in the first place?
But anyway half the sites I find using these annoying, and hard to read CAPTCHAs usually don't(Immediately anyway) seem to need them in the first place. They more seem to be a cool feature to add on rather than a preventative measure that is actually necessary.
So many sites DON'T use them and get along just fine, CAPTCHAs are just frustrating to legitimate users, and getting harder and harder to deal with. Plus they also seem to me like the kind of challenge a lot of people would get off on trying to solve just because they're there? Hell, I might even look into it now >.>
So what is the niche exactly? Complete idiots? Seriously the only people I can imagine buying this case are exactly the people who shouldn't be tinkering with their hard ware in the first place.
My mother and younger brother would want something like this, and I don't want them to have it, they cause me problems.
Besides, that thing is friggin' ugly, it's big and inconveniently shaped. Where would I put it? There's no room for it on top of my desk, no while it's that shape and size. It can't go under my desk.. That's where my sub woofer goes, and I like to put my feet on my sub woofer, I don't want to/CAN'T put my feet on than thing.
Plus how much is it going to cost in maintenance? That case screams to me, either a LOT of compressed air, or lots of time and effort being careful with a vacuum cleaner.
I find it very amusing that so many people are complaining about the introduction of data caps, personally I would consider my self lucky to have gone without them for so long. We've had them from the very start, thanks to the government selling 90% of the copper land lines to Telecom years and years ago, we've had to deal with a monopoly from the beginning, and the caps were always there, the service always sucked, and _everybody_ was/is getting ripped off. Sure, eventually other ISPs were appearing, but they all had to rent Telecom's lines anyway. Only very recently has the government gotten off its ass and forced Telecom to split up into separate companies and unbundle the local loops, but guess what: We still have to wait for all the other ISPs to get in there and install their own hardware, and that's going to take time, and money. Sure, there are companies like Snap, who are building their own fibre network, but that's also very expensive, and wont be available to the general public until around 2011ish, and I know my exchange isn't scheduled to be upgraded to VDSL2 until late 2009/early 2010. The average user over here is capped at 10-60 gigabytes a month, jesus, you're complaining about 250 gigs? We should be so lucky.
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They think Google is being unfair, block it outright. Why haven't they done this? Because they know that 1) They're in the wrong and 2) They would lose just about all of their customers You know there's more to it when the simple and obvious solution is not employed, and then forgotten about. Google is what the consumers want, the consumers have paid for their internet connection, as have Google, end of story? Hah I wish.
Who pays attention to version numbers on anything nowadays? I don't they've all because ridiculously named and hard to keep track of, ME, XP, 2K, MX, CS1/2/3/S, Gusty Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hoary Hedgehog etc etc.
What happened to the good old days when it really was just simple version numbers?
Don't forget to mention manufacture discrepancies. How accurately measured is the bottle? Does it hold EXACTLY five liters? Or 5 liters give or take a few milliliters? Plus I thought bottles always held a little bit extra than what the label states as to allow for air bubbles etc, and the volume on the bottle label actually referred to the volume of whatever is contained within the bottle upon purchase ^_^
And yet where would the computers be if the humans hadn't set the up and programmed them in the first place? But anyway half the sites I find using these annoying, and hard to read CAPTCHAs usually don't(Immediately anyway) seem to need them in the first place. They more seem to be a cool feature to add on rather than a preventative measure that is actually necessary. So many sites DON'T use them and get along just fine, CAPTCHAs are just frustrating to legitimate users, and getting harder and harder to deal with. Plus they also seem to me like the kind of challenge a lot of people would get off on trying to solve just because they're there? Hell, I might even look into it now >.>
So what is the niche exactly? Complete idiots? Seriously the only people I can imagine buying this case are exactly the people who shouldn't be tinkering with their hard ware in the first place. My mother and younger brother would want something like this, and I don't want them to have it, they cause me problems. Besides, that thing is friggin' ugly, it's big and inconveniently shaped. Where would I put it? There's no room for it on top of my desk, no while it's that shape and size. It can't go under my desk.. That's where my sub woofer goes, and I like to put my feet on my sub woofer, I don't want to/CAN'T put my feet on than thing. Plus how much is it going to cost in maintenance? That case screams to me, either a LOT of compressed air, or lots of time and effort being careful with a vacuum cleaner.
I find it very amusing that so many people are complaining about the introduction of data caps, personally I would consider my self lucky to have gone without them for so long. We've had them from the very start, thanks to the government selling 90% of the copper land lines to Telecom years and years ago, we've had to deal with a monopoly from the beginning, and the caps were always there, the service always sucked, and _everybody_ was/is getting ripped off. Sure, eventually other ISPs were appearing, but they all had to rent Telecom's lines anyway. Only very recently has the government gotten off its ass and forced Telecom to split up into separate companies and unbundle the local loops, but guess what: We still have to wait for all the other ISPs to get in there and install their own hardware, and that's going to take time, and money. Sure, there are companies like Snap, who are building their own fibre network, but that's also very expensive, and wont be available to the general public until around 2011ish, and I know my exchange isn't scheduled to be upgraded to VDSL2 until late 2009/early 2010. The average user over here is capped at 10-60 gigabytes a month, jesus, you're complaining about 250 gigs? We should be so lucky.