Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight (racial insults are a dead giveaway), it's Flamebait.
They are simple to block now because the reliy on flash, external ad servers, or popups.
And we WANT to block them because they rely on flash and pop-ups. If their solution to adblocking is to abandon the intrusive formats that begat adblock in the first place, then hurrah!
Why enter an arms race you have no chance of winning? Sure, you can block the ads however in the end if/when enough people block ads and the ad-supported business model becomes unviable then you will have lost the so-called arms race as you will be unable to access the websites without a subscription.
You might not have noticed, but subscription-only cable channels ALSO have ads.
Movie theatres didn't use to have ads. Subscription site don't have ads... yet.
I block your ads when they get in my way. Remember the [blink] tag? Why would a flashing graphic be any less annoying? If your ads flash, blink, move around, make noise, or freeze my browser for 3 minutes while it loads an in-banner video I do not want to see, I will block your ads.
Do not bitch, moan, or say "but it's the advertisers that want to annoy you so". Just don't have ads that attempt to FORCE me to watch them. I will go to your site, I will block the ads, I will not feel bad about it. I used to block them my putting hand over the screen, now I have a ready-made plug-in that lets me rest my arm. The more intolerable your ads become, the more drastic our countermeasures become. This didn't have to be an arms race, but since you forced our hand, now we have adblock.
I remember when Google first came out, the name was unusual and it took me months to get used to it. It seemed such a clumsy and stupid name, and as I was familiar with "googol", it 'felt' to me every time that it somehow should rather have been, or was supposed to be, "googol".
Me too, first time I heard about it I was hesitant to use it. I thought "if they can't spell their own name right, what are the chances that they can make a better search engine?". Turns out spelling isn't all that important : )
Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it right for you to go slaming other peoples beliefs. I'm no church-goer, but I respect peoples rights to believe in what they want...as long as they'll respect mine, and not call me (or others) an idiot.
I believe in letting it be known when I feel someone is an idiot. I believe it's wrong to pretend to respect someone when you don't. I believe that euphemisms and contrived politeness are poisons of the mind.
I'm surprised nobody (at my threshold?) has mentioned Rooster Teeth Productions' The Strangerhood, an online series done using The Sims 2.
We were attempting the "if you ignore it it'll go away" strategy. However, now that you broke the spell: You're right, it's eerily similar.
That thing reeks of "big corporation buys out lil' guys that had one good idea and pays them to make uninspired, derivative drivel to hype their product", in my humble opinion.
This would be a very bizarre cross-breed indeed. Most "reality" shows aren't reality, they're game shows (Survivor, Big Brother, Bachelorette, etc.). Perhaps the "follow people around" shows count as reality (The Osbornes, Nic & Jessica, etc.).
I hate "reality tv", but I have to say: Watching an elderly, incoherant rockstar take out the garbage is strangely fascinating.
I think what people really need is interactive Discovery Channel
Interactive Steve Irwin! I like it! We could tell him which dangerous animals to poke (and then declare "grumpy"), and which poisonous snakes to put on his head!
Looking at Googol and then Google you have to say it was one hell of a lucky mistake. Google rolls off the tounge and everyone knows it's easy to spell where as googol is just an annoying nameto think about.
Yes, it's amazing how a word you've seen and heard almost everyday for the past, oh, five years is easier to say and spell than one you aren't familiar with. What an incredible coincidence!
Following the logic of the original poster, why would one ever bother to learn to play an instrument when there's all of that recorded music out there?
Answer: for the sheer joy of playing.
Hi, Please reduce the amount of sheer joy in your life.
Nor did I accuse ONLY one side of being disrespectful. Maybe you should "take a second" and realize that YOU jumped to a conclusion that I was bashing non-religious persons.
Bashing religious people, especially Christians, is easy. What's difficult is treating people with respect who will never understand why you believe the way you do because they are afraid of your beliefs.
Where's the part where you accuse the other side? You only accuse non-religious people of bashing and cowardice: Not a word on the other side of the medal.
Maybe we should place a warning label on your shirt as well: Caution, due to certain quantum theories, this person may or may not exsist. Please keep an open mind and use caution not to accept his existsence blindly.
Then they would collapse the probability waveform by reading it.
I agree that the reason the sticker is on the books is definitely biased but the message itself is fairly neutral and fully accurate so far as I can tell. If they had stated that the theory of evolution was false or had been proven incorrect then they would be inaccurate and the sticker defintely should be removed. As it stands it is just a statement of common sense that should be practiced by any scientist.
If the sticker had just been a general informative statement that scientific theories != facts; No problem.
BUT, it singled out one theory. It is clearly an attack on that one single theory. And therefore not a statement of common sense to be followed by all scientists. What does a phycisist care about that statement? It's directed at biology, not physics.
It was worded to sound neutral, but it obviously isn't.
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Flamebait -- Flamebait refers to comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage. If someone is not-so-subtly picking a fight (racial insults are a dead giveaway), it's Flamebait.
They are simple to block now because the reliy on flash, external ad servers, or popups.
And we WANT to block them because they rely on flash and pop-ups.
If their solution to adblocking is to abandon the intrusive formats that begat adblock in the first place, then hurrah!
Why enter an arms race you have no chance of winning?
Sure, you can block the ads however in the end if/when enough people block ads and the ad-supported business model becomes unviable then you will have lost the so-called arms race as you will be unable to access the websites without a subscription.
You might not have noticed, but subscription-only cable channels ALSO have ads.
Movie theatres didn't use to have ads. Subscription site don't have ads... yet.
Thanks for that informative link to Slashdot on the Slashdot home page. Now I know how to get to Slashdot to read the news.
You are just asking for a [redundent] mod : )
Personally I think blocking popups and ads is the same for news as music piracy is for music industry.
The media corporations will call it the end of the world while their revenues actually increase?
Yeah, I think so too.
I don't really think that Darwin would exactly be an authority you would want to ask even if he was extremely young for his age.
I'd settle for "mildly alive for his age", but you're perfectly right.
And stop calling at my house!
If I wanted to buy your product, I would go out and do so, not wait at home for you to call and offer it to me.
Hello webmasters,
I block your ads when they get in my way.
Remember the [blink] tag? Why would a flashing graphic be any less annoying?
If your ads flash, blink, move around, make noise, or freeze my browser for 3 minutes while it loads an in-banner video I do not want to see, I will block your ads.
Do not bitch, moan, or say "but it's the advertisers that want to annoy you so". Just don't have ads that attempt to FORCE me to watch them. I will go to your site, I will block the ads, I will not feel bad about it. I used to block them my putting hand over the screen, now I have a ready-made plug-in that lets me rest my arm. The more intolerable your ads become, the more drastic our countermeasures become. This didn't have to be an arms race, but since you forced our hand, now we have adblock.
Sincerly,
Someone fed up.
I remember when Google first came out, the name was unusual and it took me months to get used to it. It seemed such a clumsy and stupid name, and as I was familiar with "googol", it 'felt' to me every time that it somehow should rather have been, or was supposed to be, "googol".
Me too, first time I heard about it I was hesitant to use it. I thought "if they can't spell their own name right, what are the chances that they can make a better search engine?".
Turns out spelling isn't all that important : )
Where is the physical evidence for the theory of common ancestry?
In DNA.
Just because you don't believe in something doesn't make it right for you to go slaming other peoples beliefs. I'm no church-goer, but I respect peoples rights to believe in what they want...as long as they'll respect mine, and not call me (or others) an idiot.
I believe in letting it be known when I feel someone is an idiot.
I believe it's wrong to pretend to respect someone when you don't. I believe that euphemisms and contrived politeness are poisons of the mind.
Stop slamming my belief.
when these movies were actually good! Now look at them. He's waiting for THAT?
Dude! Haven't you heard? In this one, they're gonna surf on lava!
And now I'm late for the head of the line... I gotta get my tent!
I'm surprised nobody (at my threshold?) has mentioned Rooster Teeth Productions' The Strangerhood, an online series done using The Sims 2.
We were attempting the "if you ignore it it'll go away" strategy. However, now that you broke the spell: You're right, it's eerily similar.
That thing reeks of "big corporation buys out lil' guys that had one good idea and pays them to make uninspired, derivative drivel to hype their product", in my humble opinion.
This would be a very bizarre cross-breed indeed. Most "reality" shows aren't reality, they're game shows (Survivor, Big Brother, Bachelorette, etc.). Perhaps the "follow people around" shows count as reality (The Osbornes, Nic & Jessica, etc.).
I hate "reality tv", but I have to say: Watching an elderly, incoherant rockstar take out the garbage is strangely fascinating.
I think what people really need is interactive Discovery Channel
Interactive Steve Irwin! I like it!
We could tell him which dangerous animals to poke (and then declare "grumpy"), and which poisonous snakes to put on his head!
I'd even watch THAT on pay-per-view!
"I feel lucky" is nearly never used. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
;-)
Exactly, "I'm Feeling lucky" keeps "Google" search from looking naked for some odd reason. It's Genious.
I think people don't use it because if they do, they feel like google is calling them "punk" while routing them
Looking at Googol and then Google you have to say it was one hell of a lucky mistake. Google rolls off the tounge and everyone knows it's easy to spell where as googol is just an annoying nameto think about.
Yes, it's amazing how a word you've seen and heard almost everyday for the past, oh, five years is easier to say and spell than one you aren't familiar with. What an incredible coincidence!
Titan is a place, unlike any we've seen before
Yeah! Those pictures of rocky deserts are completely different from all the other pictures of rocky deserts that NASA has shown us.
Or, it's a place that looks exactly like like mars, depending on if you look at the pictue or if you read the descriptions.
The iPod SHuffle is a POS. I use my MP3 player for AUDIOBOOKS. Imagine listening to a book with everything out of bloody order?
"The space shuttle is a POS. I use my car to go from home to work. Imagine having to blast into orbit and then go through reentry every morning!"
Yes, not catering to your specific niche needs makes equipments pieces of shit. Sure it does. Off course.
Also, it don't shuffle if you set it at "don't suffle". Read beyond the product name before you troll, next time.
I am not saying that Apple believes there is a valid claim, but they don't want to get sued.
My "system beep" says otherwise...
;-)
Following the logic of the original poster, why would one ever bother to learn to play an instrument when there's all of that recorded music out there?
Answer: for the sheer joy of playing.
Hi,
Please reduce the amount of sheer joy in your life.
Sincerly,
Your neighbor's association.
How did someone make it through an Ivy League school without learning to write?
I $ have $ no $ idea. That's $ gonna $ keep $ me $ up $ all $ night $ now...
If $ only $ there $ was $ an $ explanation!
Where's the part where you accuse the other side?
You only accuse non-religious people of bashing and cowardice: Not a word on the other side of the medal.
Maybe we should place a warning label on your shirt as well: Caution, due to certain quantum theories, this person may or may not exsist. Please keep an open mind and use caution not to accept his existsence blindly.
Then they would collapse the probability waveform by reading it.
I agree that the reason the sticker is on the books is definitely biased but the message itself is fairly neutral and fully accurate so far as I can tell. If they had stated that the theory of evolution was false or had been proven incorrect then they would be inaccurate and the sticker defintely should be removed. As it stands it is just a statement of common sense that should be practiced by any scientist.
If the sticker had just been a general informative statement that scientific theories != facts; No problem.
BUT, it singled out one theory. It is clearly an attack on that one single theory. And therefore not a statement of common sense to be followed by all scientists. What does a phycisist care about that statement? It's directed at biology, not physics.
It was worded to sound neutral, but it obviously isn't.