Is WHY people decide to block ads in the first place.
No site that goes belly up because they no longer receive money from their advertisers will receive any pity from me if they:
Used horrible, intrusive, animated advertisements that absolutely -ruin- my enjoyment of their site.
Had advertisements for fake products from fake companies
Had advertisements that have absolutely no bearing on their audience (I don't want to hear about car insurance on a tech site, ok?)
Forced me to click through an advertisement to reach their page.
The simple fact is, advertisement on the internet tends to be so incredibly obnoxious that I instinctively avoid brands advertised in such a manner. They dug their own graves, I don't think many users minded the simple advertisement banner at the top or bottom of a page. When they became popups, we all started hating them, flash overlays, we hated them more etc. etc.
I can't understand that a company could possibly believe they can ANNOY us into buying their product.
.. commercials for phonesex lines are passing along my TV happily, each one accompanied by a cheesy jingle and footage of young girls undressing all the way. yes. all the way.
...sometimes living in the netherlands isn't so bad really:)
...please don't spend any time thinking about how you could do anything that might lead to a DECENT candidate for presidency being available next around.
In fact, just forget to vote alltogether, not like your vote counts, right?;)
I'm not an atheist btw. though I might come across as such at times. My irritation stems from people that feel the need to turn everything into a religious debate, there's places for those, slashdot isn't one of them.
I'm with me fellow deviantart(ist) here. having a handicap myself, unless the intent behind a joke is to be cruel and mean, instead of making people smile and laugh, it's a bad thing, otherwise I encourage people to make jokes about -my- disability, because in a sense it puts THEM at ease with it.
we just need a +x religious zealot mod option, so that those posts can be filtered out of sight by people who don't give a rat's ass if god exists or not.
"Or, for a couple hundred bucks, it will run on a console, right?"
So true... BUT, playing an FPS with a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard has traditionally been a royal pain in the arse, I think the only one that ever managed to have a decent means of controlling it has been Metroid Prime...
This is probably why it says "256 mb ram" in the little system requirements box on winws XP's store packaging. I know where you're coming from though, my laptop has only 128 megs yet shipped with XP anyways ~.~
I read wired (though lately not in print, because I'm starving) and a british magazine called Computer Arts (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/) because I'm a graphic artist, and there's really nothing in holland that can compete with this beauty. And when my budget allows for it, the Dungeon and Dragon monthlies. cause I'm a geek like that.
you obviously have no grasp what-so-ever of Art and what goes into making it, your increasingly juvenile and idiotic replies to your more balanced and eloquent peers clearly marks you as someone replete with bullshit, that hopes SAYING THINGS LOUDER and more often will make your hollow statements true in some way Keep at it, and you too can be president some day! (with the support of God, obviously) Take hike bub;)
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No site that goes belly up because they no longer receive money from their advertisers will receive any pity from me if they:
Used horrible, intrusive, animated advertisements that absolutely -ruin- my enjoyment of their site.
Had advertisements for fake products from fake companies
Had advertisements that have absolutely no bearing on their audience (I don't want to hear about car insurance on a tech site, ok?)
Forced me to click through an advertisement to reach their page.
The simple fact is, advertisement on the internet tends to be so incredibly obnoxious that I instinctively avoid brands advertised in such a manner. They dug their own graves, I don't think many users minded the simple advertisement banner at the top or bottom of a page. When they became popups, we all started hating them, flash overlays, we hated them more etc. etc.
I can't understand that a company could possibly believe they can ANNOY us into buying their product.
But maybe that's just me.
yes.
all the way.
...sometimes living in the netherlands isn't so bad really :)
...But then I'm, just euro-trash, and probably won't be laughing for long anyways.
In fact, just forget to vote alltogether, not like your vote counts, right? ;)
It does support wi-fi and bluetooth, just not out of the box.
not to mention that it has a 4GB HDD. Which totally rocks.
Like maybe the War against your incredibly retarded governmental system (and the people hiding in it leeching your hard-earned dollars)
I mean seriously... this is just nuts.
But... we won't do that. because we're all good, law-abiding netizens. that never even so much as copy music. right? ^_-
surely I'm not the only one...
You won't actually have to control the orcs, the mere sight of them on your screen will initiate instant lag-death for people with lesser video cards.
Fair is fair afterall.
I'm not an atheist btw. though I might come across as such at times. My irritation stems from people that feel the need to turn everything into a religious debate, there's places for those, slashdot isn't one of them.
My right hand got tangled in the umbilical cord and as a result is severely mangled and doesn't really resemble a hand at all.
Just call me "lefty" like everyone else ;)
I'm with me fellow deviantart(ist) here. having a handicap myself, unless the intent behind a joke is to be cruel and mean, instead of making people smile and laugh, it's a bad thing, otherwise I encourage people to make jokes about -my- disability, because in a sense it puts THEM at ease with it.
we just need a +x religious zealot mod option, so that those posts can be filtered out of sight by people who don't give a rat's ass if god exists or not.
jesus... you actually went and 0wned me! XD so right, 8 mile walk. cause people suck. (and so did a certain movie)
of course, that 4mpg difference can mean you -don't- have to walk 4 miles, in a worst case scenario ;)
So true... BUT, playing an FPS with a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard has traditionally been a royal pain in the arse, I think the only one that ever managed to have a decent means of controlling it has been Metroid Prime...
This is probably why it says "256 mb ram" in the little system requirements box on winws XP's store packaging. I know where you're coming from though, my laptop has only 128 megs yet shipped with XP anyways ~.~
Try compressing a 3000x4500 pixel photoshop file with 38 layers into a jpeg, and see what happens.
I read wired (though lately not in print, because I'm starving) and a british magazine called Computer Arts (http://www.computerarts.co.uk/) because I'm a graphic artist, and there's really nothing in holland that can compete with this beauty.
And when my budget allows for it, the Dungeon and Dragon monthlies. cause I'm a geek like that.
you obviously have no grasp what-so-ever of Art and what goes into making it, your increasingly juvenile and idiotic replies to your more balanced and eloquent peers clearly marks you as someone replete with bullshit, that hopes SAYING THINGS LOUDER and more often will make your hollow statements true in some way ;)
Keep at it, and you too can be president some day! (with the support of God, obviously)
Take hike bub
I have diplomatic treaties with the pizza crusts, and bob, the tentacle thing that evolved in my fridge and passes me my beers.
yeah, but by now I'm utterly immune to those. Also, nobody but me gets to touch my keyboard to begin with.
Great. more reasons never to leave my desk. so many nasty little bugs out there ;)
YASBR.
(Yet Another Stupid Book Review)