Every application takes up the entire screen, and I can use large fonts to reduce eye strain. Mozilla has the full width and height of my screen, and if I have to scroll horizontally, it's the site author's fault, not mine.
It's ironic that on my web browser, even zoomed to the full screen, I have to scroll horizontally to read this document!
(Disclaimer: I am using Konqueror with 'large' fonts (min size is 18) Like he says, large fonts reduce eyestrain!)
Hmm... 231 new emails but your filters say that 217 of those are likely to be spam. Even though they've been dropped into another folder you'll still have to wade through them to make sure that you don't miss an important message that might have been accidentally sidetracked by the less-than-perfect software.
Damn, it looks as if you've also received 5 new virus/trojan attachments as well and one of them was 20MB in size -- that's another $4 on your DSL bill.
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Suddenly a pop-up dialog box appears advising you that there are 2 new Windows Security updates that should be downloaded, totalling some 60MB in size (another $12 worth of traffic).
You just know that downloading these updates will require you to reboot your PC and you're in a hurry so you hit the "cancel" button and fire up your web-browser to check the latest news headlines.
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Be careful...-Dominic Computing in 2004...-Kez damn that's scary!...-Chris The Internet of 2004...-James Have Your Say
Within seconds, the PC's desktop comes alive with pop-up flashing, animated advertising banners -- but you're used to this highly intrusive advertising by now.
With my simple 'low-tech' VCR I can watch prime-time shows whenever I feel like it...and I do. Watching shows over the VCR is much nicer than watching them 'live' for the same features you cite...I can skip commercials. I can pause and resume watching anytime...a phonecall is no longer the couch-potatoe's bane it used to be.
The network execs SHOULD have ranted about these features when VCRs were being built in the 80's, not now. Oh wait, they already did...
I take offense to your post.
As a long-time farter, I can honestly say that there is nothing that bothers me more than having some right-wing tree hugger complain about my "second-hand fart".
Every restaurant I have ever entered in the past 10 years (with the exception of a few smaller bars) has established both a farting section and a non-farting section. Maybe I should explain the concept of these sections to you, since you obviously have some problems understanding. Farting section=People who fart. Non-Farting Section=People who don't like fart.
What exactly is the problem here?
As a farter, I make a conscious effort to keep my fart away from those who choose not to fart. This means that when I am in the presence of a non-farter I will excuse myself and go outside to fart. I also try to stay away from busy doorways and entrances when farting outside to allow passerbys to have the benefit of clean air. By banning ALL farting in restaurants, California has benefited non-farters, but is causing great inconvenience and discrimination against farters.
So, while YOU, personally, might not like fart, there are others of us who CHOOSE to fart and you should have the courtesy to respect their needs as well.
Sheesh!
Cecil Adams has already debunked this claim...you won't bankrupt the bulik mail companies this way, you'll just make the postal works go postal!
Dignity and privacy are not being eroded by technology. They're being eroded by people. The technology is simply "how" they're doing it. Take the technology away, and as long as the people are still determined to violate each other, they will find a way to do it
No. If that were true, then people would have done this 50 years ago, and this would be an old problem. Perhaps the banks & insurance agencies *would* have done this 50 years ago if they could, but they couldn't so they didn't.
about this part of the artocle...they might get ideas:
The confluence of these technologies has created a vicious circle. Rising production costs drive up bookstore prices, which makes more students buy used books, which reduces sales. To kill off the used book market, publishers bring out a new edition every few years, with just enough changes to make it impractical to use it side by side in the same classroom with the previous edition. To compensate for the added cost of tooling up for so many new editions, publishers raise their prices, which starts the whole cycle over again.
Can you say backwards-combatability, people? I knew you could...
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It's ironic that on my web browser, even zoomed to the full screen, I have to scroll horizontally to read this document!
(Disclaimer: I am using Konqueror with 'large' fonts (min size is 18) Like he says, large fonts reduce eyestrain!)
Well, it's not there anymore, now, is it???
Passenger 57 and Air Force One
Very therapeutic.
Gives a new meaning to "devil's advocate", now, doesn't it?
Hmm... 231 new emails but your filters say that 217 of those are likely to be spam. Even though they've been dropped into another folder you'll still have to wade through them to make sure that you don't miss an important message that might have been accidentally sidetracked by the less-than-perfect software.
Damn, it looks as if you've also received 5 new virus/trojan attachments as well and one of them was 20MB in size -- that's another $4 on your DSL bill.
Aardvark's Web-site Survey Service
If you're launching a new website, upgrading an existing one, or just frustrated that your web-presence isn't performing as it should then maybe you need an Aardvark Site Survey. Read more...
Suddenly a pop-up dialog box appears advising you that there are 2 new Windows Security updates that should be downloaded, totalling some 60MB in size (another $12 worth of traffic).
You just know that downloading these updates will require you to reboot your PC and you're in a hurry so you hit the "cancel" button and fire up your web-browser to check the latest news headlines.
Readers Say
(updated hourly)
Be careful...-Dominic Computing in 2004...-Kez damn that's scary!...-Chris The Internet of 2004...-James Have Your Say
Within seconds, the PC's desktop comes alive with pop-up flashing, animated advertising banners -- but you're used to this highly intrusive advertising by now.
With my simple 'low-tech' VCR I can watch prime-time shows whenever I feel like it...and I do. Watching shows over the VCR is much nicer than watching them 'live' for the same features you cite...I can skip commercials. I can pause and resume watching anytime...a phonecall is no longer the couch-potatoe's bane it used to be.
The network execs SHOULD have ranted about these features when VCRs were being built in the 80's, not now. Oh wait, they already did...
I'll provide attribution. That was my very-first-time-ever /. post! :)
perl -p -e 's/smoke/fart/g;'
gives this rant a whole new perspective:
I take offense to your post.
As a long-time farter, I can honestly say that there is nothing that bothers me more than having some right-wing tree hugger complain about my "second-hand fart".
Every restaurant I have ever entered in the past 10 years (with the exception of a few smaller bars) has established both a farting section and a non-farting section. Maybe I should explain the concept of these sections to you, since you obviously have some problems understanding. Farting section=People who fart. Non-Farting Section=People who don't like fart.
What exactly is the problem here?
As a farter, I make a conscious effort to keep my fart away from those who choose not to fart. This means that when I am in the presence of a non-farter I will excuse myself and go outside to fart. I also try to stay away from busy doorways and entrances when farting outside to allow passerbys to have the benefit of clean air. By banning ALL farting in restaurants, California has benefited non-farters, but is causing great inconvenience and discrimination against farters.
So, while YOU, personally, might not like fart, there are others of us who CHOOSE to fart and you should have the courtesy to respect their needs as well.
Sheesh! Cecil Adams has already debunked this claim...you won't bankrupt the bulik mail companies this way, you'll just make the postal works go postal!
No. If that were true, then people would have done this 50 years ago, and this would be an old problem. Perhaps the banks & insurance agencies *would* have done this 50 years ago if they could, but they couldn't so they didn't.
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If we lived on Jupiter, we'd never notice this extra moon; we'd be too caught up in trying to recover from that mean ol' asteroid that crashed into us several years ago, and caused all the atmospheric stormes and earthquakes...if 'earthquake' is the right word for a gas giant. Or we'd have recovered but be so paranoid, we'd phaser it out of existence :-)