Be vaguely more convincing if the guy had actually bought one and checked. Never judge a book by it's cover. It could very well have been Fight Club for all he knows...
Actually I'm personally holding out for a highspeed link directly into my brain so I can entirely do away with any physical or social contact with the world and become one with the machine (though quite how the human brain will handle being bombarded by script kiddies trying to hack into it is a concern...)
The shrinking of the screen they stole from the sports channels. It was irritating then and it's VERY irritating now.
TNN have a CONSTANT black bar at the bottom of the screen telling you you're watching TNG or whatever. Of course rather than chop the bottom of the image off, they show it in fabulous squish-o-vision...
WORST surf logo I've seen was a station up here called Country Canada. I was taping Twin Peaks (cutting the ads out... WOO! I'm a thief!), and there was a HUGE blue logo in the corner of the screen telling me the station. I wrote and bitched about it to the network CEO and he wrote back saying, amongst other things, and this is a DIRECT quote, "the logo provides a source of comfort to our viewers". Seriously, that was what he said. He then went onto say they were going to make it less intrusive (so read that and his prior statement as "we want our viewers to feel LESS "comfortable"..."). Last time I checked, which admittedly was when the 6 month free period ended, it was still the same.
Oh, and on this same note, on SOME Global channels up here, in the middle of shows we get a sponsor logo in the left corner and then... the weather forecast in the right. TOTALLY destroys the atmosphere of any TV show. Was watching "Band of Brothers" recently, and it was a case of "We're in 1944... OH WAIT! It's snowing apparently" and being bought crashing back to reality.
I've since stopped watching channels that do that.
LOL! While I suffered at the hands of the dot com bust, it is rather amusing to see these paper millionaries that were on CNBC be touted as the future of business now slinging waffles at Dennys.
What's next, prove you've bought something from a sponsor to be let in?
"To gain access to this website, you must send proof of purchase to the below address via registered mail. Processing time should be 6-8 weeks. We thank you for visiting us here on the web and we hope you enjoy your time here in 6-8 weeks."
Popups steal OUR time and OUR system resources and OUR bandwidth, so technically WE'RE the ones who should be pissed and be running popups that appear on the webmasters system to recoup what they've cost us!
Okay, I think I need to lay down after that as it just continues to spiral...
Which is good. If a business is stupid enough to use this to block popups, they'll make no money, ergo they go bankrupt, ergo less bandwidth wasted by stupid businesses.
Should website creators just sacrifice hundreds of hours of their spare time, often almost ALL of their spare time, so that people can get stuff for nothing
Then you said:
And that doesn't say anything about just what a huge amount of work it is to provide content for the website and keep it up to date.
No one put a gun to your head and forced you to run a website. There's this little thing called "contributing to the community". I've spent many MANY hours on various contributions to the net (websites, audio content (and no, not ripped MP3's)) etc... I've made precisely dick squat from it. Do I care? Not in the least. I've been writing about sports on the net FOR FREE for 6 years, and have had thousands, probably tens of thousands of readers. I've invested thousands of hours writing over the years and while it would have been NICE to make money, I haven't. Oh well, I did it to contribute. Actually, to be entirely honest, thinking back, I have made a grand total of $22 in 6 years from doing it.
Popup's are pathetic, and I would love to see financial statements showing the revenue from them compared to banner ads. I have no problem with banner ads at all. Just popups.
Any idiot website that insists on using popup ads when the entire planet hates them deserves to not get any revenue... If people were watching TV and halfway through your show a huge popup ad appeared over the screen you'd be pissed.
If sites that force popup ads shut down... Well boohoo...
First of all, if it's a browser check, then that's easy. Hack your info to say Lynx.
If it's a jscript check, that's easy. With Proxomitron I can disable jscript, or disable it temporarily in my brower. In fact I think I'll do a quick check...
So rather than change an offensive, annoying practice that pisses EVERY web user off, some idiots are now making it so you HAVE to see the damn things... *sigh* Of course, it was recently declared that fast forwarding through commercials on your Tivo or VCR was theft as well... Some of these shitheads need to look up the word "theft" in the dictionary.
Dictionary.com defines theft as:
1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
2. Obsolete. Something stolen.
Hmmm....
Remember when the web was actually about content?
Guess I need another list to go with the "Sites that insist I use IE" for sites that can go fuck themselves.
Reinstalling software? Perhaps you should stop fucking over your PDA. I've had to do that once on my Palm, and that was because of my own stupidity. Haven't even had to do a soft reset since April.
Paper gets lost when you write stuff down, but if you're any kind of half intelligent human, you're not going to lose a $200+ PDA.
Don't know why the onUnload bug is mentioned, it's been around for ages, and there's a simple fix you can do for it by adding one line to a configuration file. (Can't remember the fix right now.)
I'm open minded, but there are SO many problems with the mood landings that I hope NASA DO prove it. I WANT TO BELIEVE, but honestly, everything I've read points to it being a hoax. The timing, technical points (deadly radiation etc... when there was little shielding on the vessel, the strange lighting in photos where there was no light source) I don't know... I think they SHOULD spend the money. Be nice to have it cleared up.
VERY obscure. (I'm a Brit, living in Canada for the last 6 years, but courtesy of MP3 I have every episode of BJ.) Took a couple of seconds to come to mind how I knew it. Great line.
Case modding is slowly becoming more mainstream. While trawling the TV at an ungodly hour last week, I saw an ad for a PC ("Tomorrows technology today" was the catchline, which was funny, given the fact they were using an old ATI Radeon in it...). The side of the case was carved out, had plexiglass fitted, and had neon lights inside. WAY cool looking machine.
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars. More and more people are customising their systems to add some individuality, which is hardly surprising given the prevalence of beige...
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Be vaguely more convincing if the guy had actually bought one and checked. Never judge a book by it's cover. It could very well have been Fight Club for all he knows...
Actually I'm personally holding out for a highspeed link directly into my brain so I can entirely do away with any physical or social contact with the world and become one with the machine (though quite how the human brain will handle being bombarded by script kiddies trying to hack into it is a concern...)
God knows I use the net WAY more now I have DSL! This is a not a good thing.
I know. I used to live there:) The licence fee, for all it's failings, was great for commercial free TV and radio.
The shrinking of the screen they stole from the sports channels. It was irritating then and it's VERY irritating now.
TNN have a CONSTANT black bar at the bottom of the screen telling you you're watching TNG or whatever. Of course rather than chop the bottom of the image off, they show it in fabulous squish-o-vision...
WORST surf logo I've seen was a station up here called Country Canada. I was taping Twin Peaks (cutting the ads out... WOO! I'm a thief!), and there was a HUGE blue logo in the corner of the screen telling me the station. I wrote and bitched about it to the network CEO and he wrote back saying, amongst other things, and this is a DIRECT quote, "the logo provides a source of comfort to our viewers". Seriously, that was what he said. He then went onto say they were going to make it less intrusive (so read that and his prior statement as "we want our viewers to feel LESS "comfortable"..."). Last time I checked, which admittedly was when the 6 month free period ended, it was still the same.
Oh, and on this same note, on SOME Global channels up here, in the middle of shows we get a sponsor logo in the left corner and then... the weather forecast in the right. TOTALLY destroys the atmosphere of any TV show. Was watching "Band of Brothers" recently, and it was a case of "We're in 1944... OH WAIT! It's snowing apparently" and being bought crashing back to reality.
I've since stopped watching channels that do that.
LOL! While I suffered at the hands of the dot com bust, it is rather amusing to see these paper millionaries that were on CNBC be touted as the future of business now slinging waffles at Dennys.
What's next, prove you've bought something from a sponsor to be let in?
"To gain access to this website, you must send proof of purchase to the below address via registered mail. Processing time should be 6-8 weeks. We thank you for visiting us here on the web and we hope you enjoy your time here in 6-8 weeks."
Popups steal OUR time and OUR system resources and OUR bandwidth, so technically WE'RE the ones who should be pissed and be running popups that appear on the webmasters system to recoup what they've cost us!
Okay, I think I need to lay down after that as it just continues to spiral...
Which is good. If a business is stupid enough to use this to block popups, they'll make no money, ergo they go bankrupt, ergo less bandwidth wasted by stupid businesses.
*Roger Ebert voice* I give that TWO BIG THUMBS UP!
Foolish people (anti-leech that is).
You said:
Should website creators just sacrifice hundreds of hours of their spare time, often almost ALL of their spare time, so that people can get stuff for nothing
Then you said:
And that doesn't say anything about just what a huge amount of work it is to provide content for the website and keep it up to date.
No one put a gun to your head and forced you to run a website. There's this little thing called "contributing to the community". I've spent many MANY hours on various contributions to the net (websites, audio content (and no, not ripped MP3's)) etc... I've made precisely dick squat from it. Do I care? Not in the least. I've been writing about sports on the net FOR FREE for 6 years, and have had thousands, probably tens of thousands of readers. I've invested thousands of hours writing over the years and while it would have been NICE to make money, I haven't. Oh well, I did it to contribute. Actually, to be entirely honest, thinking back, I have made a grand total of $22 in 6 years from doing it.
Popup's are pathetic, and I would love to see financial statements showing the revenue from them compared to banner ads. I have no problem with banner ads at all. Just popups.
Any idiot website that insists on using popup ads when the entire planet hates them deserves to not get any revenue... If people were watching TV and halfway through your show a huge popup ad appeared over the screen you'd be pissed.
If sites that force popup ads shut down... Well boohoo...
Dude. There's plenty of content on the net that's ad free. About 5% (if that) of the sites I visit regularly actually have advertising.
And no TV without advertising? Would that be a bad thing?
First of all, if it's a browser check, then that's easy. Hack your info to say Lynx.
If it's a jscript check, that's easy. With Proxomitron I can disable jscript, or disable it temporarily in my brower. In fact I think I'll do a quick check...
Yep, simply turning JS off defeats it. LOL!
So rather than change an offensive, annoying practice that pisses EVERY web user off, some idiots are now making it so you HAVE to see the damn things... *sigh* Of course, it was recently declared that fast forwarding through commercials on your Tivo or VCR was theft as well... Some of these shitheads need to look up the word "theft" in the dictionary.
Dictionary.com defines theft as:
1. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
2. Obsolete. Something stolen.
Hmmm....
Remember when the web was actually about content?
Guess I need another list to go with the "Sites that insist I use IE" for sites that can go fuck themselves.
Reinstalling software? Perhaps you should stop fucking over your PDA. I've had to do that once on my Palm, and that was because of my own stupidity. Haven't even had to do a soft reset since April.
Paper gets lost when you write stuff down, but if you're any kind of half intelligent human, you're not going to lose a $200+ PDA.
While the on rocket cams are good, I think the tower ones are most impressive. I'm amazed the cameras still worked afterwards! Wow!
If they have Mozilla, but don't know that they should keep up on fixes etc...
Don't know why the onUnload bug is mentioned, it's been around for ages, and there's a simple fix you can do for it by adding one line to a configuration file. (Can't remember the fix right now.)
I'm open minded, but there are SO many problems with the mood landings that I hope NASA DO prove it. I WANT TO BELIEVE, but honestly, everything I've read points to it being a hoax. The timing, technical points (deadly radiation etc... when there was little shielding on the vessel, the strange lighting in photos where there was no light source) I don't know... I think they SHOULD spend the money. Be nice to have it cleared up.
VERY obscure. (I'm a Brit, living in Canada for the last 6 years, but courtesy of MP3 I have every episode of BJ.) Took a couple of seconds to come to mind how I knew it. Great line.
I'm sure he's deeply upset.
You just made my friends list.
Or maybe a masochist?
Nice Chris Morris sig BTW.
Case modding is slowly becoming more mainstream. While trawling the TV at an ungodly hour last week, I saw an ad for a PC ("Tomorrows technology today" was the catchline, which was funny, given the fact they were using an old ATI Radeon in it...). The side of the case was carved out, had plexiglass fitted, and had neon lights inside. WAY cool looking machine.
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars. More and more people are customising their systems to add some individuality, which is hardly surprising given the prevalence of beige...
hehehe Yeah, "Next time you toke up, do it in front of a Mac!"
Surprised they're airing the Ellen ad. It is a funny one though. (She's hot in a disturbing drugged out freak kind of way.)