Then form your own group to do the opposite. Write the FCC and tell them you like to see Justin Mouthbreather sexually assault Janet Hasbeen. I bet you could find plenty of folks around here to join your group.
I personally do what you recommend. I don't watch much network TV. Besides, since MST3K and Futurama were cancelled there's not much worth watching.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't think it should be so hard to adhere to some reasonable standards for broadcast TV. It wasn't much of problem for over 50 years.
Unfortunately, nowadays, shocking or tittilating people has become more and more of an excuse for avoiding the effort of being creative.
It also doesn't lose data once your store gets to about a gig or gig-and-a-half in size, so I guess "Express" also means "doesn't suck".
(Frickin' two minute thingy completely infuriates me. Hey, Slashbots, some of us can think fast enough to write more than once good comment every two minutes. I suggest one minute (and 15 seconds for writing a comment, because quick witty responses don't always take 20 seconds. I'm really sick of "Slow down, cowboy." Wake up, CowboyNeal, et al, I'm not the usual mouth-breathing frost-pister type, I just type fast. Quit penalizing me for having a working brain!)
FireFox follows Microsoft's standards to the letter
I realize that. So where are the "backup" and "restore" features? I use robocopy from the appropriate directory, but it would be nice if this were implemented in the app. When I reinstalled after replacing a harddrive, I had to find the data store, copy it, and after I reinstalled Thunderbird, copy that directory back in and pray it would actually work.
Fortunately it did, but this is not user-friendly by any definition.
I only turn off ads when they annoy me. You know what annoys me? Ads that are friggin Flash games. It's really difficult to read text when you all these flying objects moving around in the next frame over. I have no problems with static ads and will happily view them and even click on them when I am interested.
But some of these epileptic-fit-inducing ads just make me work all the harder to eliminate them.
Or do I have to wander the maze of twisty little directories in Microsoft's "Documents and Settings" directory to find where it stores mail.
Remember, it's in "Application Data" and not "Local Settings\Application Data", and also please note all these directories for hidden for some stupid reason.
I'd be happy if I could just specify where the data is stored like most apps (even Microsoft ones).
Don't get me wrong, I love using Thunderbird and switched from Outlook shortly after I realized how deeply flawed it was (despite having a good UI and spam filtering), around version 0.5.
Anyhow, congrats to the Mozilla team for another excellent release. But please, give us some data store management.
True, but I wanted to point out that it was not a grammatical error per se, as the parent poster had stated. Although to me, "Congress were" sounds awkward, there are plenty of instances where the same kind of construction actually sounds better to my ears.
It reminds me of the time at work someone was busting on an article that used the "-ise" suffix (like "organise") wondering how they could make such a mistake. I pointed out that "-ise" was actually the correct spelling in English English (c.f. American English). They were all surprised by that and even more so that I would actually know it. It wasn't the kind of place where people read a lot of books (defense contractor). I'm glad I was only there a few months.
Also, an actual on-topic point: Just because most FCC complaints come from this one group doesn't mean they don't have a point. I, for one, am often offended by things on broadcast TV. It's a shame that those media that use the public airwaves think they must descent into smut, violence and crudity to compete with cable, satellite, etc. Here's a hint: Try making some good shows for a change. There are several shows I watch on network TV that I think are excellent, but most of it isn't worth the paper it takes up in the TV Guide listings.
That construction is perfectly valid and a commonly used idiom in English speech, and I suspect most people will recognize it as a reasonable alternative to the American standard of treating entities composed of people as singular.
Even though this is an American topic, don't forget/. != USA
By the time the 2ed came out, everything coming from TSR was beating you over the head with "You must use official rules!" or you're not playing AD&D. It was completely opposed to the spirit of the game.
I recall the disparaging tone in Dragon magazine about the idea of even considering using non-standard rules or anything that wasn't blessed with the TSR imprimatur (and requiring an other $30 purchase). It got really embarrassing.
I haven't played in more than 10 years, so I don't know if that ever got better. Somehow given the increasing size of the owning companies, I can't imagine it is.
Wait a minute, a "conservative Christian" who doesn't run around pronouncing "Jesus" with more than two syllables, doesn't reject any science since the 16th century and doesn't wear a T-shirt that says "God Hates Fags!".
According to the New York Times, sir, you shouldn't exist. If they are wrong about that... maybe they are wrong about...
Well, we all know Network Solutions is only about 1 step better than phishers on the scumbag scale to begin with.
I'm sure I've blown away legit e-mail because I don't want to deal with trying to decide if it's real or not. As long as SMTP is in use we will continue to see these kinds of things.
It's going to take some fundamental changes to make this stuff go away (or even just abate)... and seeing as how IPv6 has been just around the corner for about a decade, I don't expect those kinds of reforms to go any faster.
Hey, I'll buy DVD sets of all my favorite shows, but "The Simpsons" is only up to season 4. Of course I have almost all the first run episodes on VHS, but it's sure nice to burn a bunch of DVD's of seasons 5+.
I believe the biggest superstition (at least around here) is that reason and relgion are somehow at odds with each other.
Religious belief does not put one in conflict in science any more than the belief that people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Science has not, and cannot, answer all the questions, and it certainly has not disproved religion (leaving the Mormons aside for the moment).
It's a false conflict, one that has been played up a lot in light of the recent election by people who wish to cast their political opponents as ignorant and backwards. It's based on a stereotype drawn from the exaggerated extremes.
I don't find your comments out of line, even though I disagree with you, but comments like those Jeffrey_Baker is making imply they are coming from knuckle-dragging bigots.
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Then form your own group to do the opposite. Write the FCC and tell them you like to see Justin Mouthbreather sexually assault Janet Hasbeen. I bet you could find plenty of folks around here to join your group.
I personally do what you recommend. I don't watch much network TV. Besides, since MST3K and Futurama were cancelled there's not much worth watching.
I would just like to have a context-menu entry to kill Flash like Nuke Anything.
Stop posting to slashdot and get back to work
In order to do that I would have to start working.
I don't disagree with you, but I don't think it should be so hard to adhere to some reasonable standards for broadcast TV. It wasn't much of problem for over 50 years.
Unfortunately, nowadays, shocking or tittilating people has become more and more of an excuse for avoiding the effort of being creative.
It also doesn't lose data once your store gets to about a gig or gig-and-a-half in size, so I guess "Express" also means "doesn't suck".
(Frickin' two minute thingy completely infuriates me. Hey, Slashbots, some of us can think fast enough to write more than once good comment every two minutes. I suggest one minute (and 15 seconds for writing a comment, because quick witty responses don't always take 20 seconds. I'm really sick of "Slow down, cowboy." Wake up, CowboyNeal, et al, I'm not the usual mouth-breathing frost-pister type, I just type fast. Quit penalizing me for having a working brain!)
FireFox follows Microsoft's standards to the letter
I realize that. So where are the "backup" and "restore" features? I use robocopy from the appropriate directory, but it would be nice if this were implemented in the app. When I reinstalled after replacing a harddrive, I had to find the data store, copy it, and after I reinstalled Thunderbird, copy that directory back in and pray it would actually work.
Fortunately it did, but this is not user-friendly by any definition.
I'm sure any difference is completely unnoticeable, because like most apps, e-mail would be highly I/O bound.
Just how much horsepower could an e-mail app need?
It is a little sluggish, however, it's still an order of magnitude (literally) faster than Outlook when both have a large message store.
Outlook was taking 30 seconds or more to open a folder, which was one of the reasons I dropped it for Thunderbird several months ago.
Ironically, Outlook Express never had this kind of problem.
I only turn off ads when they annoy me. You know what annoys me? Ads that are friggin Flash games. It's really difficult to read text when you all these flying objects moving around in the next frame over. I have no problems with static ads and will happily view them and even click on them when I am interested.
But some of these epileptic-fit-inducing ads just make me work all the harder to eliminate them.
This is all part of capitalism. Adapt or die.
Or do I have to wander the maze of twisty little directories in Microsoft's "Documents and Settings" directory to find where it stores mail.
Remember, it's in "Application Data" and not "Local Settings\Application Data", and also please note all these directories for hidden for some stupid reason.
I'd be happy if I could just specify where the data is stored like most apps (even Microsoft ones).
Don't get me wrong, I love using Thunderbird and switched from Outlook shortly after I realized how deeply flawed it was (despite having a good UI and spam filtering), around version 0.5.
Anyhow, congrats to the Mozilla team for another excellent release. But please, give us some data store management.
True, but I wanted to point out that it was not a grammatical error per se, as the parent poster had stated. Although to me, "Congress were" sounds awkward, there are plenty of instances where the same kind of construction actually sounds better to my ears.
It reminds me of the time at work someone was busting on an article that used the "-ise" suffix (like "organise") wondering how they could make such a mistake. I pointed out that "-ise" was actually the correct spelling in English English (c.f. American English). They were all surprised by that and even more so that I would actually know it. It wasn't the kind of place where people read a lot of books (defense contractor). I'm glad I was only there a few months.
Also, an actual on-topic point: Just because most FCC complaints come from this one group doesn't mean they don't have a point. I, for one, am often offended by things on broadcast TV. It's a shame that those media that use the public airwaves think they must descent into smut, violence and crudity to compete with cable, satellite, etc. Here's a hint: Try making some good shows for a change. There are several shows I watch on network TV that I think are excellent, but most of it isn't worth the paper it takes up in the TV Guide listings.
Congress were
/. != USA
That construction is perfectly valid and a commonly used idiom in English speech, and I suspect most people will recognize it as a reasonable alternative to the American standard of treating entities composed of people as singular.
Even though this is an American topic, don't forget
I recall the amusing extreme of this floppy disk mentality:
When a Lisa locked up, you had to take the machine apart to get the floppy out.
By the time the 2ed came out, everything coming from TSR was beating you over the head with "You must use official rules!" or you're not playing AD&D. It was completely opposed to the spirit of the game.
I recall the disparaging tone in Dragon magazine about the idea of even considering using non-standard rules or anything that wasn't blessed with the TSR imprimatur (and requiring an other $30 purchase). It got really embarrassing.
I haven't played in more than 10 years, so I don't know if that ever got better. Somehow given the increasing size of the owning companies, I can't imagine it is.
But of course Adobe doesn't ask you to pay for bug fixes.
Someone without a life for a long time. Like me.
Wait a minute, a "conservative Christian" who doesn't run around pronouncing "Jesus" with more than two syllables, doesn't reject any science since the 16th century and doesn't wear a T-shirt that says "God Hates Fags!".
According to the New York Times, sir, you shouldn't exist. If they are wrong about that... maybe they are wrong about...
Norman! Please coordinate.
got an email from Network Solutions the other day
Well, we all know Network Solutions is only about 1 step better than phishers on the scumbag scale to begin with.
I'm sure I've blown away legit e-mail because I don't want to deal with trying to decide if it's real or not. As long as SMTP is in use we will continue to see these kinds of things.
It's going to take some fundamental changes to make this stuff go away (or even just abate)... and seeing as how IPv6 has been just around the corner for about a decade, I don't expect those kinds of reforms to go any faster.
Hey, I'll buy DVD sets of all my favorite shows, but "The Simpsons" is only up to season 4. Of course I have almost all the first run episodes on VHS, but it's sure nice to burn a bunch of DVD's of seasons 5+.
Yeah? Well at least they're actually doing something honest to increase their revenue this time.
Cut 'em some slack.
And then nail 'em next time they flex their monopoly muscles.
Actually as soon as I hit submit I realized that "pansapienist" probably has something to do with intelligent cookware.
I hate religion, and I'm not a complete and total asshole.
Maybe not. But seeing fit to "hate" something intangible is certainly a strike against you.
I know what I'm talking about. I hate Microsoft, and it's a very immature attitude.
I believe the biggest superstition (at least around here) is that reason and relgion are somehow at odds with each other.
Religious belief does not put one in conflict in science any more than the belief that people have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Science has not, and cannot, answer all the questions, and it certainly has not disproved religion (leaving the Mormons aside for the moment).
It's a false conflict, one that has been played up a lot in light of the recent election by people who wish to cast their political opponents as ignorant and backwards. It's based on a stereotype drawn from the exaggerated extremes.
I don't find your comments out of line, even though I disagree with you, but comments like those Jeffrey_Baker is making imply they are coming from knuckle-dragging bigots.
I'm a pansapienist
;-)
You believe all men are bread?
Only if you want to see three times in the next week.
Tomorrow: lukewarmfusion visits the dentist
Friday: Teeth grinding can wear down your enamel
Tuesday: Cute dental hygenists might notice your wedding ring
(and a bonus: Next Friday: Ask Slashdot: What's the best method for dental hygiene?)