No one is "hijacking" anything. Gamers are people who spend time playing games, generally video games. If you look at the total population of such, there are significantly more adult women than teenage boys. It's just a fact. If you feel the need to feel "special" and come up with another term, go for it.
thinking about it some more, why on earth did Thunderbird not simply give you a configuration screen, with a "try to auto-configure" button? Rather than dumping you into a 5 minute epic fail process automatically?
At the time I used it, there wasn't a way to switch off auto-config, at least not an obvious way. You had to wait till it was displaying approximately the right configuration and then interrupt it, because if it got to the end, it left you in a screen where you could not complete the configuration. Whoever developed it clearly had way too much time on his hands, because it is so much simpler to just let the user type in the few pieces of information required. If it wanted to "suggest" some values, that would be fine, but this was totally borked.
And yes, it was quite literally horrible. I suspect most users would have either given up, or spent hours hunting for an answer. The attitude that produced that experience is exactly why users end up with proprietary software.
It was a political decision that was reversed by politicians. The original decision wasn't some shining beacon of light and the reversal wasn't the triumph of the Dark Lord. The original decision was made to cater to the audience of the party in power, and no doubt the reversal was the same.
My experience with Thunderbird horrific. Haven't used it in years, but when I did it was excruciating. Even simple things like setting up the connection to servers was painful. Thunderbird tried to do some crappy auto-configuration and unless I interrupted it at exactly the right point, it left me in a screen where I could NOT enter the server configuration. Physically wasn't possible. One of my happiest days was when I got off that steaming turd.
As an Apple fan boy, even I don't own an iPad. I just don't see a need for any tablet in my life, my iPhone is enough. For mobile computing I have an IBM T40 and T41 with Linux installed with Open Office. My desktop PCs are Mac Minis with MS Office installed.
Same here. I have tried to convince myself to pull the trigger on buying a tablet of some form, and I just can't see the use. Maybe if I traveled a lot I'd get one for games & movies on a plane, but otherwise, I'm rarely out of reach of a laptop or desktop, and my ITouch does the job when I'm traveling. A co-worker who is an apple fanboy raved about his IPad, and then I didn't see it for a while. I finally asked him about it and he said he had stopped using it. Which kind of says it all.
Really? you aren't really comparing the USA to Russia, are you? Russia? Where running against Putin puts you in jail indefinitely? Where being gay is illegal?
Uh, yes, when Hamas fires rockets into Israel (which I think you can safely consider an act of war) Israel does "re-enter" Gaza. I suppose you'd be happy if those darned Jews just took it as victims, like the good old days. Sorry, those days are over.
Genocide? Really? When Hamas stores and fires missiles from civilian centers, what is Israel supposed to do? Politely ask Hamas to step away from their human shields.
I don't know who said this but it sums the situation up quite clearly: "Israel uses missiles to protect its civilians. Hamas uses civilians to protect its missiles".
The problem with this sort of hysteria is that it makes people forget how horrible true fascism is. It conflates looking for illegal downloaders with rounding up and slaughtering millions of people. Can we save the rhetoric for when we need it?
That's the point. AMD is putting a lot more into the GPU on chip so if what you want is graphics and you don't care so much about CPU, they are a good deal. Why buy more CPU than you need and get crap graphics?
And if it wasn't for the current "security paranoia", periodically the guy next to you would be traveling terrorist class with Kalashnikov and grenades in his carry-on. Deal with it.
I'm not disagreeing that having the families with small children board first makes sense, but what I see nowadays is that it seems like half the plane is either in business class or a member of the "gold star club". By the time all of them board, the lounge is half empty.
Yes. Not to mention the guy with his daughter who had THREE oversized bags that he stuffed into the overhead, almost completely filling an entire section.
It's also a common practice in the USA. Every time I fly before the "general boarding" starts, there is an announcement that "families with small children or anyone who needs extra time to board is free to board now".
The tactile experience of actually holding a book in your hand, being able to flip the pages, is far better than anything offered by current electronic devices. Sure, the various e-readers are convenient, but convenience isn't everything. Book printing and book reading aren't disappearing anytime soon. In fact, I'm seeing more small bookstores pop up as people realize the limitations of the online experience and go back to browsing.
I don't have a smart phone, and I don't give a shit whether you have one or not. At some point I'll probably get one, but I don't need one right now. So why should I shell out extra bucks for one? I might as well take a couple of 20s out of my wallet each month and set them on fire.
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Hey, those guys are stealing our stolen money!
No, I was just responding to your angry post. But nice try :)
No one is "hijacking" anything. Gamers are people who spend time playing games, generally video games. If you look at the total population of such, there are significantly more adult women than teenage boys. It's just a fact. If you feel the need to feel "special" and come up with another term, go for it.
thinking about it some more, why on earth did Thunderbird not simply give you a configuration screen, with a "try to auto-configure" button? Rather than dumping you into a 5 minute epic fail process automatically?
At the time I used it, there wasn't a way to switch off auto-config, at least not an obvious way. You had to wait till it was displaying approximately the right configuration and then interrupt it, because if it got to the end, it left you in a screen where you could not complete the configuration. Whoever developed it clearly had way too much time on his hands, because it is so much simpler to just let the user type in the few pieces of information required. If it wanted to "suggest" some values, that would be fine, but this was totally borked.
And yes, it was quite literally horrible. I suspect most users would have either given up, or spent hours hunting for an answer. The attitude that produced that experience is exactly why users end up with proprietary software.
It was a political decision that was reversed by politicians. The original decision wasn't some shining beacon of light and the reversal wasn't the triumph of the Dark Lord. The original decision was made to cater to the audience of the party in power, and no doubt the reversal was the same.
My experience with Thunderbird horrific. Haven't used it in years, but when I did it was excruciating. Even simple things like setting up the connection to servers was painful. Thunderbird tried to do some crappy auto-configuration and unless I interrupted it at exactly the right point, it left me in a screen where I could NOT enter the server configuration. Physically wasn't possible. One of my happiest days was when I got off that steaming turd.
where's my "insightful" mod points when I need them :(
As an Apple fan boy, even I don't own an iPad. I just don't see a need for any tablet in my life, my iPhone is enough. For mobile computing I have an IBM T40 and T41 with Linux installed with Open Office. My desktop PCs are Mac Minis with MS Office installed.
Same here. I have tried to convince myself to pull the trigger on buying a tablet of some form, and I just can't see the use. Maybe if I traveled a lot I'd get one for games & movies on a plane, but otherwise, I'm rarely out of reach of a laptop or desktop, and my ITouch does the job when I'm traveling. A co-worker who is an apple fanboy raved about his IPad, and then I didn't see it for a while. I finally asked him about it and he said he had stopped using it. Which kind of says it all.
Really? you aren't really comparing the USA to Russia, are you? Russia? Where running against Putin puts you in jail indefinitely? Where being gay is illegal?
Ah yes, Slashdot... welcome to the herd.
Uh, yes, when Hamas fires rockets into Israel (which I think you can safely consider an act of war) Israel does "re-enter" Gaza. I suppose you'd be happy if those darned Jews just took it as victims, like the good old days. Sorry, those days are over.
Genocide? Really? When Hamas stores and fires missiles from civilian centers, what is Israel supposed to do? Politely ask Hamas to step away from their human shields.
I don't know who said this but it sums the situation up quite clearly: "Israel uses missiles to protect its civilians. Hamas uses civilians to protect its missiles".
The problem with this sort of hysteria is that it makes people forget how horrible true fascism is. It conflates looking for illegal downloaders with rounding up and slaughtering millions of people. Can we save the rhetoric for when we need it?
That's the point. AMD is putting a lot more into the GPU on chip so if what you want is graphics and you don't care so much about CPU, they are a good deal. Why buy more CPU than you need and get crap graphics?
Good lord. You don't think that an airport has a right to make sure you aren't going to hijack a plane and fly it into a building? Really?
Your right to swing your arms ends when you connect with my nose.
And if it wasn't for the current "security paranoia", periodically the guy next to you would be traveling terrorist class with Kalashnikov and grenades in his carry-on. Deal with it.
I'm not disagreeing that having the families with small children board first makes sense, but what I see nowadays is that it seems like half the plane is either in business class or a member of the "gold star club". By the time all of them board, the lounge is half empty.
Yes. Not to mention the guy with his daughter who had THREE oversized bags that he stuffed into the overhead, almost completely filling an entire section.
It's also a common practice in the USA. Every time I fly before the "general boarding" starts, there is an announcement that "families with small children or anyone who needs extra time to board is free to board now".
USA evil blah blah blah.
didn't take look for Windows hate to hijack this thread.
The tactile experience of actually holding a book in your hand, being able to flip the pages, is far better than anything offered by current electronic devices. Sure, the various e-readers are convenient, but convenience isn't everything. Book printing and book reading aren't disappearing anytime soon. In fact, I'm seeing more small bookstores pop up as people realize the limitations of the online experience and go back to browsing.
I don't see anything in the rest of your post that supports the idea that the reading is about to become a lost art practiced by only a few.
Your comment reminds me of the saying "God heals, and the doctor sends the bill".
Yes, modern medicine is great, but after a while you realize that doctors are shooting in the dark half the time.
I don't have a smart phone, and I don't give a shit whether you have one or not. At some point I'll probably get one, but I don't need one right now. So why should I shell out extra bucks for one? I might as well take a couple of 20s out of my wallet each month and set them on fire.