Exactly. I do the exact same thing you do (FlashBlock, disable animations), and its good enough for me. I expect that free websites are going to have ads, everyone has to make a living, right? But when the ads are flashing 4 different colours at 20 fps, that makes it difficult to read an article. See there's only so much annoyance I will put up with to get the content I want.
It's stupid to blame the adblocking programmes for this. They assume that if there was no way to stop flash, popups, animations, they people would just put up with it. That's where they're wrong. If reading a site is too difficult because of ads, I'm going to stop reading that site.
I remember reading somewhere that advertising is a prisoner's dilemma. If no one advertised, everyone is better off (they all save the money). But if one company in an industry advertises, and no one else does, they will get a big increase in business. But if everyone advertises, no one loses customers, but they all lose a little bit because they have to pay for the ads.
So you don't advertise to get customers, you advertise so you don't lose them to your competition. Your competition advertises so they don't lose their customers to you.
So he is right, it is a big waste of money, but its one of those quirks of the free market.
why do they need a manifesto? Can't they live and let live? I'm not forcing them to like scifi that has FTL, aliens and all that, so why do they need to force their boring sci-fi on me?
And how would mundane scifi be any different from just regular fiction? Everyone would have to be living on earth, there would be no aliens, no ray guns, no light sabers, no Jedi powers, and no space fighters. There would be absolutely nothing in the story that doesn't already exist today.
It is the year 3000 and the world is exactly the same as it was in 2005. We can't even have fusion power in the year 3000 because we aren't 100% sure that a discovery might be made in 2006 that makes fusion infeasible.
60 years ago people thought it was impossible for an airplane to go faster than the speed of sound. 100 years ago didn't even think about whether a plane could go faster than the speed of sound because that was so far beyond them, they couln't even contemplate it. 200 years ago no one knew the speed of light existed. But in the year 2005 science is finally complete, we don't need to do anymore research. Everything that is impossible now will remain impossible until the end of time.
Oh well, this is simply just a way for a group sci-fi nerds to feel more hardcore than the rest of the sci-fi nerd.
Yeah I wish they could get some money together and hire a writer (maybe the author of the darthside blog?). They have good special effects (yeah not perfect, but you can tell what's going on), and the costumes and lighting look good, they just need a good story. And some better actors would be nice.
Still it was work the 20 minutes of my time to watch this movie.
Wow then I guess saving private ryan, apocalypse now, Aliens, full metal jacket and pretty much every other war movie out there needs better military advisors cuz they're full of whiney soldiers too. "You know there's something wrong when soldiers STOP complaining."
Yeah probably going into a combat situation they should be more serious, but guess what? its not a serious film, dude.
Why don't they just make up new characters but have it set in the SW universe. yeah the occasional cameo of chewie or the droids, would be fine. And of course Jimmy Smits as bail organa would be great, and probably neccessary since I figure he would be the major player in the rebellion.
But do we really need to know how Jabba met that pale dude with that snake thing on his head? Or am I the only one that found the appearance of the original series character so tacked on?
Hey, I'm sure they won't be doing anything with WINE for at least a couple of years after the intel mac comes out. It would be pretty pointless to put a lot of development time into something the majority of your customers can't use (since most Mac users will still be using PPC). But it is an option for them down the road whn people want to switch, but can't because of legacy apps that are windows only.
As someone pointed out before, once Macs are using intel, they will be able to run WINE. If Apple puts a few developers to making WINE better, it could be significant. At the very least it will make porting stuff to Mac a lot easier.
Hey thanks. Someday I intend to own every comic where Batman fight Superman.
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Yup. And in the Hush series Poison Ivy took over Superman's mind and Batman had to use the kryptonite. That was actually an excellent comic (Batman #612), but then I always enjoy seeing Batman slap around Superman.
Batman: He [superman] is the best at what he does.
Catwoman: That's open to debate
Batman: I said he's the best at what he does, not at what I do.
I did look outside, all of the smaller businesses are gone, there is only walmart now. Why? because walmart can demand that their suppliers charge their competitors mare than they charge them. The suppliers give walmart what they what because walmart has the power to put them out of business.
Big businesses are not more efficient than small business, they are more powerful. They can force other companies to screw over their competitors.
And that's what these mergers are about, giving these big corporations more power. It's got very little to do with efficiency.
Sorry I have been using GIMP for a while and I have used it just a few weeks ago (v 2.2). It's a little better, but its still not that good. Why can't it give us the option (it doesn't even have to be the default) to have it in MDI mode, ie one single window. For bonus point they could do a tabbed interface like mozilla has for when you have multiple files open. The problem ith it now is if you are opening and closing a lot of files, you have a bunch of stuff in the taskbar and its hard to know which is the one you want. futhermore, if you want to go back to the desktop you have to minimise 12 different windows to get there. If you use mulitple desktops you can just go to another desktop, but then when you open the file it will be on a different desktop from the one where the tools are at. So you have to right-click, send to desktop 1 or whatever. Why do I have to waste my time fighting with the UI of and image editor?
except they aren't supporting the navigation mode features. So things like viewing a folder as an image collection is gone, now you need to open it in a separate eog window. Little by little navigation mode is going away.
Since when does efficiency have anything to do with it?
most of these mergers are about putting up barriers to entry to keep more efficient companies out of the marketplace. If you have a big enough marketshare with exclusive deals with the suppliers, you don't need to be efficient.
I suppose you're right, but why doesn't the polish of the for-pay distros carrying over to the free distros? Isn't the GPL supposed to make that happen?
That the new installer forces you to format your drive? I can understand it wanting you to format one partition for the root filesystem, but you have to wipe your entire partition table or you can't get past the partition dialog.
There is a huge gap between the developers and users and that is the problem. The developers are "too important" to listen to the concerns of users. They have too much pride. They have their idea of how things should be done and are insulted if anyone suggests a different way. How long has the GIMP had a crappy user interface? Why does GNOME have this spatial paradigm as opposed to the more popular navigation paradigm? Why so I have to totally reformat my hard drive to install debian or ubuntu? Why are dialogs to big to fit on a 800x600 screen?
These things are very obvious problems, at least to the users. But the developers have convinced themselves that these aren't problems so they just move on to adding new features and forget about these small issues. But its the details that are important to the users. I don't care if gnome supports SVG graphics or whatever, but I do want to be able to get my photos off my digital camera easily. I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard?
This is the major flaw with open source software. Most of the developers are volunteering their time so they care about what interests them. Thats fine, no one should tell them what they should be spending their own time doing. But until Open Source "grows up" and starts listening to its users it will never be popular and shouldn't expect to be.
Well right now I have a dual boot system with Linux and Windows. I use Linux for web browsing, email, development. I use Windows for games.
If I got a intel Mac, I could dual boot to windows for games and do everything else on OSX. I could put linux on there too, but OSX gives me all of the tools and software I normally run on linux, but I don't have to put up wit the stupid UI choices that OSS developers make.
Ahh, but you have to add in the price for WinXP. Then people will compare based on how much OSX is worth to them. Plus it will be an apple, not a bege box (ie, it will be a mini, or some other shape that appeals to people).
Also Apple's costs will be reduced greatly by switching to intel.
Some geeks are persecuted. But they are the geeks like in that SNL skit about the computer guy. You know the type the ones that feel al high and mighty because they know computers and think everyone else is stupid because they don't. Then people ostracise them and they think they are being persecuted.
But really its just assholes getting their just desserts.
I'm like you, I know a bit about computers but I don't treat other people if the don't. I'm patient with them (just as I'd hope they'd be patient with me if I asked them about a subjest I didn't know about), and they are grateful for the help I give. Big surprise, people who are nice don't get persecuted.
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It's stupid to blame the adblocking programmes for this. They assume that if there was no way to stop flash, popups, animations, they people would just put up with it. That's where they're wrong. If reading a site is too difficult because of ads, I'm going to stop reading that site.
So you don't advertise to get customers, you advertise so you don't lose them to your competition. Your competition advertises so they don't lose their customers to you.
So he is right, it is a big waste of money, but its one of those quirks of the free market.
Thank you. I knew there was something wrong in his definition, you just saved me the time to look it up myself.
INTOXICATE! INTOXICATE!
IHBT. IHL. IFI.
And how would mundane scifi be any different from just regular fiction? Everyone would have to be living on earth, there would be no aliens, no ray guns, no light sabers, no Jedi powers, and no space fighters. There would be absolutely nothing in the story that doesn't already exist today.
It is the year 3000 and the world is exactly the same as it was in 2005. We can't even have fusion power in the year 3000 because we aren't 100% sure that a discovery might be made in 2006 that makes fusion infeasible.
60 years ago people thought it was impossible for an airplane to go faster than the speed of sound. 100 years ago didn't even think about whether a plane could go faster than the speed of sound because that was so far beyond them, they couln't even contemplate it. 200 years ago no one knew the speed of light existed. But in the year 2005 science is finally complete, we don't need to do anymore research. Everything that is impossible now will remain impossible until the end of time.
Oh well, this is simply just a way for a group sci-fi nerds to feel more hardcore than the rest of the sci-fi nerd.
Still it was work the 20 minutes of my time to watch this movie.
Yeah probably going into a combat situation they should be more serious, but guess what? its not a serious film, dude.
But do we really need to know how Jabba met that pale dude with that snake thing on his head? Or am I the only one that found the appearance of the original series character so tacked on?
Hey, I'm sure they won't be doing anything with WINE for at least a couple of years after the intel mac comes out. It would be pretty pointless to put a lot of development time into something the majority of your customers can't use (since most Mac users will still be using PPC). But it is an option for them down the road whn people want to switch, but can't because of legacy apps that are windows only.
As someone pointed out before, once Macs are using intel, they will be able to run WINE. If Apple puts a few developers to making WINE better, it could be significant. At the very least it will make porting stuff to Mac a lot easier.
Yup. Superman's powers are obvious. But Batman is power is that he's so damned paranoid.
Hey thanks. Someday I intend to own every comic where Batman fight Superman.
Batman: He [superman] is the best at what he does.
Catwoman: That's open to debate
Batman: I said he's the best at what he does, not at what I do.
Big businesses are not more efficient than small business, they are more powerful. They can force other companies to screw over their competitors.
And that's what these mergers are about, giving these big corporations more power. It's got very little to do with efficiency.
Sorry I have been using GIMP for a while and I have used it just a few weeks ago (v 2.2). It's a little better, but its still not that good. Why can't it give us the option (it doesn't even have to be the default) to have it in MDI mode, ie one single window. For bonus point they could do a tabbed interface like mozilla has for when you have multiple files open. The problem ith it now is if you are opening and closing a lot of files, you have a bunch of stuff in the taskbar and its hard to know which is the one you want. futhermore, if you want to go back to the desktop you have to minimise 12 different windows to get there. If you use mulitple desktops you can just go to another desktop, but then when you open the file it will be on a different desktop from the one where the tools are at. So you have to right-click, send to desktop 1 or whatever. Why do I have to waste my time fighting with the UI of and image editor?
except they aren't supporting the navigation mode features. So things like viewing a folder as an image collection is gone, now you need to open it in a separate eog window. Little by little navigation mode is going away.
most of these mergers are about putting up barriers to entry to keep more efficient companies out of the marketplace. If you have a big enough marketshare with exclusive deals with the suppliers, you don't need to be efficient.
I suppose you're right, but why doesn't the polish of the for-pay distros carrying over to the free distros? Isn't the GPL supposed to make that happen?
That the new installer forces you to format your drive? I can understand it wanting you to format one partition for the root filesystem, but you have to wipe your entire partition table or you can't get past the partition dialog.
These things are very obvious problems, at least to the users. But the developers have convinced themselves that these aren't problems so they just move on to adding new features and forget about these small issues. But its the details that are important to the users. I don't care if gnome supports SVG graphics or whatever, but I do want to be able to get my photos off my digital camera easily. I want to scan in something and print a copy. Why is that so hard?
This is the major flaw with open source software. Most of the developers are volunteering their time so they care about what interests them. Thats fine, no one should tell them what they should be spending their own time doing. But until Open Source "grows up" and starts listening to its users it will never be popular and shouldn't expect to be.
If I got a intel Mac, I could dual boot to windows for games and do everything else on OSX. I could put linux on there too, but OSX gives me all of the tools and software I normally run on linux, but I don't have to put up wit the stupid UI choices that OSS developers make.
Also Apple's costs will be reduced greatly by switching to intel.
But really its just assholes getting their just desserts.
I'm like you, I know a bit about computers but I don't treat other people if the don't. I'm patient with them (just as I'd hope they'd be patient with me if I asked them about a subjest I didn't know about), and they are grateful for the help I give. Big surprise, people who are nice don't get persecuted.
Ironically if you pirate it you'd get the corporate edition which has no product activation at all.