I tried using it every day for a week, and I could only get to the help page and the "Are you sure?" BS of one of the others, and each took almost half an hour to load. Even so, I kept it installed for almost a month.
I'm glad that they claim to have fixed those issues, because I seriously love the concept, and I'm jumping at the chance to try it again.
... but, these days, I find myself using Google's Newsgroup search before their main search for most things. The main search is so full of crap, but the Usenet search contains much less spam. Often more insigtful and informative, often conatining direct links to helpful websites, so you don't need to wade through the crap in a main search. On any given topic, there's usually some great old posts from 1994, or something, when the Newsgroups was (or seems to be, given the results I've been getting) damned near specialized periodicals from actual professionals in whatever topic a given group had. Hell, you can even do a porn search on the Googled Newsgroups, not get spammed crap, and actually find helpful information. You haven't been able to do that on a main web search since the early days of Yahoo's golden years, and even then it was mostly crap.
'The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' my ass. If they were such experts on interactivity, either artistically or scientifically, their fucking web page would use standard CSS, not IE broken BS CSS, or at least serve different pages to different browsers. If you haven't noticed, it renders correctly in IE and incorrectly in Mozila, Opera and other standards-based browsers. And, for that reason, I call these awards BS. This pretty much invalidates them, in my mind, from being a credible institution on any thing high techncnology-related, such as video game.
Note to 'The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences': if I weren't so horribly offended by your page design BS, I would love your article. I would read it, explore your site and click on your banners and do the same, again, when the winners are announced, and I'm sure many others would too. But, now, we won't.
Let's say that a billion pieces of spam are sent every day. All MS needs to do is send a few duotrigintillion 'Try MSN 9.0 Today' E-Mail per day, and, boom, the spam is effectively nonexistent. After all, anything MS sends is legitimate and solicited, right?
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Your dog wants a farmer's market; still no cure for boobies. Ackbar surrenders.
And I come pretty close to the stereotype (eg, I have a tricorder within arm's reach). And I haven't watched Enterprise at all since midway through last season. I still watch TOS, TNG and DS9 reruns religiously, but I just can't stand Enterprise.
After Nemesis and Enterprise, Star Trek needs to die. Brannon Braga and Rick Berman are a bunch of greedy fuckwits, dumbing down and morally sterilizing the franchise (God, I hate Janeway) to attract Mr. and Mrs. MTV lobotomized American, and should be killed as horribly and painfully as possible.
Okay, a little far. But Star Trek needs some serious time off, after which it should be handed over to someone who might actually care about the franchise, and hire proven, good writers who aren't afraid to take a chance. Berman, the franchise's current head, was Roddenberry's money guy, and Braga, the main writer, is a wannabe Jerry Bruckheimer hack, and he's not even very good at that. Someone like Joss Whedon (not sure if he even likes Star Trek, but he'd still do well), Ira Steven Behr, or even fucking Jonathan Frakes. I'm sure there are other, better candidates, but I haven't done my research.
The best idea I've heard, I'd even go so far as to say the only idea that might salvage our beloved Trek, is to do "Star Trek Adventures" (lame name, but I'm not in fucking marketing). Essentially, a series of short miniseries set in various times and places throughout the mythology. Like 3 gritty episodes following a Klingon strike team in the Dominion War, then a few following Q around, having fun. You could jump to way the fuck in the future and watch the crew of the Enterprise-Q make first (well, second) contact with the Andromeda galaxy, spend an episode following the successful assimilation of a civilization from the people's point of view, then another, from the Borgs', and then spend a few weeks chronicling Khan's rise to power in the 21st century. You could take any genre, jam it into a Star Trek setting, and have a go. It's unlimited! They could even pander to a few episodes of CSI: Ferenginar, or a stupid sitcom set on Bolius Prime. Hell, after a hiatus, you might even enjoy dropping in on the NX-01 for a while.
The current producers need to go, they need to get the fuck off UPN, and they possibly even need to ditch the whole lone ship of exploration thing. TOS and TNG were mostly original, DS9 went somewhere entirely different, and did damn well at it (mostly because Berman and Braga ignored it, and left it to his subordinates), Voyager was utterly derivative of TOS and TNG, with a quarter the enthusiasm and passion, and Enterprise started out as the third iteration of the law of diminishing returns on the whole lone ship in an increasingly sickeningly PC unexplored space. Something like "Star Trek Adventures", without Berman and Braga, is the only way to save Star Trek.
a) Not everybody has a lawyer
b) Especially not most 17 year-olds
Yeah, he did something stupid by taking the bait. But he's 17. Given most 17 year-olds I know, even those smart enough to run and maintain a website, its fortunate he didn't send back a death threat on Bill Gates, and really get himself in trouble.
Personally, I hope his status as a minor ends up as a big black cock in MSs legal asses.
Oh, please. No one here's naive enough to believe that "P2P networks are only being used by college students who want porn and music." They're also being used by high school students who want porn and music.
Not to sound like a newbie (I've been using Mozilla for a while, but I just never invested in much technical skill), but installing this seems to have fucked my mouse gestures, and, thus, significantly handicapped my Mozilla usage. I've tried reinstalling it, fucking with the settings, etc., but it still won't work. Specifically, I'm pretty dependant on the left-right and right-left sequences for a quick forward and back. Any suggestions?
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I think you mean 'frist psot!!1!'
God, I read too much Sci-Fi.
God, you furries just don't give up!
Drakedash Linux?
Dashfox Linux?
Firedrake Linux?
Manfox Linux?
Drakefox Dashux?
I'm glad that they claim to have fixed those issues, because I seriously love the concept, and I'm jumping at the chance to try it again.
... but, these days, I find myself using Google's Newsgroup search before their main search for most things. The main search is so full of crap, but the Usenet search contains much less spam. Often more insigtful and informative, often conatining direct links to helpful websites, so you don't need to wade through the crap in a main search. On any given topic, there's usually some great old posts from 1994, or something, when the Newsgroups was (or seems to be, given the results I've been getting) damned near specialized periodicals from actual professionals in whatever topic a given group had. Hell, you can even do a porn search on the Googled Newsgroups, not get spammed crap, and actually find helpful information. You haven't been able to do that on a main web search since the early days of Yahoo's golden years, and even then it was mostly crap.
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You know what's next.
Note to 'The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences': if I weren't so horribly offended by your page design BS, I would love your article. I would read it, explore your site and click on your banners and do the same, again, when the winners are announced, and I'm sure many others would too. But, now, we won't.
PS: Fuck you.
Damned right! If we keep pelting them with British landers, they'll have to give up, sometime!
it burns us! Stay in your dank cave and guard your precious!
"If you can't lead the intellectuals, then at least lead the perverts. There are far more of them, and most of them are the intellectuals." - Unknown
Finally a morally acceptable alternative to listening to RMS's Free Software Song all day.
I have 5 one foot high piles of unread novels on my bedside table from my last few trips to the bookstore. Reading's like crack.
Also, you forgot to make an RIAA variant, dumbass!
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Let's say that a billion pieces of spam are sent every day. All MS needs to do is send a few duotrigintillion 'Try MSN 9.0 Today' E-Mail per day, and, boom, the spam is effectively nonexistent. After all, anything MS sends is legitimate and solicited, right?
Your dog wants a farmer's market; still no cure for boobies. Ackbar surrenders.
Wnat to see DS( at its best, see "In The Pale Moonlight." Damned good TV, damned good Star Trek.
After Nemesis and Enterprise, Star Trek needs to die. Brannon Braga and Rick Berman are a bunch of greedy fuckwits, dumbing down and morally sterilizing the franchise (God, I hate Janeway) to attract Mr. and Mrs. MTV lobotomized American, and should be killed as horribly and painfully as possible.
Okay, a little far. But Star Trek needs some serious time off, after which it should be handed over to someone who might actually care about the franchise, and hire proven, good writers who aren't afraid to take a chance. Berman, the franchise's current head, was Roddenberry's money guy, and Braga, the main writer, is a wannabe Jerry Bruckheimer hack, and he's not even very good at that. Someone like Joss Whedon (not sure if he even likes Star Trek, but he'd still do well), Ira Steven Behr, or even fucking Jonathan Frakes. I'm sure there are other, better candidates, but I haven't done my research.
The best idea I've heard, I'd even go so far as to say the only idea that might salvage our beloved Trek, is to do "Star Trek Adventures" (lame name, but I'm not in fucking marketing). Essentially, a series of short miniseries set in various times and places throughout the mythology. Like 3 gritty episodes following a Klingon strike team in the Dominion War, then a few following Q around, having fun. You could jump to way the fuck in the future and watch the crew of the Enterprise-Q make first (well, second) contact with the Andromeda galaxy, spend an episode following the successful assimilation of a civilization from the people's point of view, then another, from the Borgs', and then spend a few weeks chronicling Khan's rise to power in the 21st century. You could take any genre, jam it into a Star Trek setting, and have a go. It's unlimited! They could even pander to a few episodes of CSI: Ferenginar, or a stupid sitcom set on Bolius Prime. Hell, after a hiatus, you might even enjoy dropping in on the NX-01 for a while.
The current producers need to go, they need to get the fuck off UPN, and they possibly even need to ditch the whole lone ship of exploration thing. TOS and TNG were mostly original, DS9 went somewhere entirely different, and did damn well at it (mostly because Berman and Braga ignored it, and left it to his subordinates), Voyager was utterly derivative of TOS and TNG, with a quarter the enthusiasm and passion, and Enterprise started out as the third iteration of the law of diminishing returns on the whole lone ship in an increasingly sickeningly PC unexplored space. Something like "Star Trek Adventures", without Berman and Braga, is the only way to save Star Trek.
a) Not everybody has a lawyer
b) Especially not most 17 year-olds
Yeah, he did something stupid by taking the bait. But he's 17. Given most 17 year-olds I know, even those smart enough to run and maintain a website, its fortunate he didn't send back a death threat on Bill Gates, and really get himself in trouble.
Personally, I hope his status as a minor ends up as a big black cock in MSs legal asses.
Oh, please. No one here's naive enough to believe that "P2P networks are only being used by college students who want porn and music." They're also being used by high school students who want porn and music.
Not to sound like a newbie (I've been using Mozilla for a while, but I just never invested in much technical skill), but installing this seems to have fucked my mouse gestures, and, thus, significantly handicapped my Mozilla usage. I've tried reinstalling it, fucking with the settings, etc., but it still won't work. Specifically, I'm pretty dependant on the left-right and right-left sequences for a quick forward and back. Any suggestions?
I'm sorry, but that's just the greatest curse ever devised. I can't even put into words how brilliant it is.