It's not so much blatent disregard of standards as believing that IE is the standard. Most people, if you point out that Mozilla or Opera or any other browser does not display a page properly, will ask what's wrong with the browser. After all, the browser that came with the system shows it just fine!
What I'd really like to know is why Microsoft even bothers to spend money on advertising for their OSs. Seriously... they have a monopoly in the desktop market that they've effectively leveraged to ensure that it stays that way for the foreseeable future. So long as all the applications that Joe Everyman needs to run, as well as all the games his kids want to play, are Windows only, what are the odds that he's going to switch to any other OS?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this (that I've seen, anyway). Arrow's Paradox says that the voting system will always be flawed; perfection, just like in every other aspect of life, is unachievable. However, it amazes me that we still refuse, as a country, to examine changing the way in which winners of elections are determined. If 60% of the country is split between two candidates of similar ideological location, it is plain silly that the third candidate wins.
You think it's hard to play with a dial up connection? Try sattilite sometime (*dodge*, *dodge*, *fire*... 3 seconds pass... "Wow, I missed... imagine that!").
I'd really like to see a decent AI for games like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. The henchman have roughly the IQ of a very dumb dog. On more than one occasion, I've had a henchman walk directly into a fireball on the basis that an opponent was nearby. Mmm... toasty.
If I understood the essay correctly, the negative reputation would actually come from arbitor's comments rather than random people on the Internet. The random people would just be giving access to those comments.
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I'll be happier when CN decides to run a "Hentai week" featuring the best of cartoon pr0n.
It's not so much blatent disregard of standards as believing that IE is the standard. Most people, if you point out that Mozilla or Opera or any other browser does not display a page properly, will ask what's wrong with the browser. After all, the browser that came with the system shows it just fine!
What I'd really like to know is why Microsoft even bothers to spend money on advertising for their OSs. Seriously... they have a monopoly in the desktop market that they've effectively leveraged to ensure that it stays that way for the foreseeable future. So long as all the applications that Joe Everyman needs to run, as well as all the games his kids want to play, are Windows only, what are the odds that he's going to switch to any other OS?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this (that I've seen, anyway). Arrow's Paradox says that the voting system will always be flawed; perfection, just like in every other aspect of life, is unachievable. However, it amazes me that we still refuse, as a country, to examine changing the way in which winners of elections are determined. If 60% of the country is split between two candidates of similar ideological location, it is plain silly that the third candidate wins.
You think it's hard to play with a dial up connection? Try sattilite sometime (*dodge*, *dodge*, *fire*... 3 seconds pass... "Wow, I missed... imagine that!").
I'd really like to see a decent AI for games like Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights. The henchman have roughly the IQ of a very dumb dog. On more than one occasion, I've had a henchman walk directly into a fireball on the basis that an opponent was nearby. Mmm... toasty.
If I understood the essay correctly, the negative reputation would actually come from arbitor's comments rather than random people on the Internet. The random people would just be giving access to those comments.