That is typical bloody-mindedness that I hate to see in people that are at home with their broadband and nice computers. Running OS'es that they brag about and really not knowing what it's like to live in a village with 1000 residents.
I use AOL. I have no other choice. I like to use the internet for as many hours as I wish, without being kicked off. Hell, if my area was broadband enabled, then I'd use it. It's not, so I'm buggered.
I use AOL because it doesn't have a maximum length of time I can use if you [unlike freeserve and BT], it doesn't kick you off every 2 hours, and it's actually not bad once you get a tool that minimises the aol browser to the taskbar.
Think of the little people for a change please.
but then that relies on me knowing someone else's AIMID to be able to talk to them. I get people I don't know contacting me a lot of the time, and being able to see who I authorise to see me means that I can block the persistent offenders.
Some boring days I like talking to the randoms!
In Japan everyone uses Yahoo. They do the main broadband service out there, and people stand in the train stations handing out modems.
WIth yahoo having a.co.jp address, it makes it a lot more friendly, and it was only my american friends that converted about two of them to AIM.
I don't like aim. It's about it caught up with the other programmes by allowing you to appear invisible.
I also don't like the way it doesn't have a setting so that unauthorised people can't see your online status. At the moment, anyone can add my name, and see that i'm online. I've had problems with people I've blocked, and not being able to see if they're online or not, they hvae created another account, and added me there.
If AIM really wants to cash in on MSN doing this, then they should update their software to what the average user would want from it.
Japanese Manga is not just the actual manga that makes it popular, but the fact that it's from Japan gives it instant 'cool' status, and means it's better than some american/english nerd knocking it out, but it's a Japanese nerd.
The stories I have read are alright, and due to the complete head on approach that Japan takes when it deals with things, issues such as rape, child porn and violence are all in the more risque manga. Actually, when it comes to violent crimes like these, Japan is at the bottom of the pile for these crimes.
So yeah, I don't know how much of it is due to the automatic karma that being Japanese gives anything, or how much of it is due to the head on approach it takes. It hasn't made me read it to be honest, and I'm out here in this land, but it seems to be a winning formula!
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That is typical bloody-mindedness that I hate to see in people that are at home with their broadband and nice computers. Running OS'es that they brag about and really not knowing what it's like to live in a village with 1000 residents. I use AOL. I have no other choice. I like to use the internet for as many hours as I wish, without being kicked off. Hell, if my area was broadband enabled, then I'd use it. It's not, so I'm buggered. I use AOL because it doesn't have a maximum length of time I can use if you [unlike freeserve and BT], it doesn't kick you off every 2 hours, and it's actually not bad once you get a tool that minimises the aol browser to the taskbar. Think of the little people for a change please.
but then that relies on me knowing someone else's AIMID to be able to talk to them. I get people I don't know contacting me a lot of the time, and being able to see who I authorise to see me means that I can block the persistent offenders. Some boring days I like talking to the randoms!
In Japan everyone uses Yahoo. They do the main broadband service out there, and people stand in the train stations handing out modems. WIth yahoo having a .co.jp address, it makes it a lot more friendly, and it was only my american friends that converted about two of them to AIM.
I don't like aim. It's about it caught up with the other programmes by allowing you to appear invisible.
I also don't like the way it doesn't have a setting so that unauthorised people can't see your online status. At the moment, anyone can add my name, and see that i'm online. I've had problems with people I've blocked, and not being able to see if they're online or not, they hvae created another account, and added me there.
If AIM really wants to cash in on MSN doing this, then they should update their software to what the average user would want from it.
Japanese Manga is not just the actual manga that makes it popular, but the fact that it's from Japan gives it instant 'cool' status, and means it's better than some american/english nerd knocking it out, but it's a Japanese nerd.
The stories I have read are alright, and due to the complete head on approach that Japan takes when it deals with things, issues such as rape, child porn and violence are all in the more risque manga. Actually, when it comes to violent crimes like these, Japan is at the bottom of the pile for these crimes.
So yeah, I don't know how much of it is due to the automatic karma that being Japanese gives anything, or how much of it is due to the head on approach it takes. It hasn't made me read it to be honest, and I'm out here in this land, but it seems to be a winning formula!
actually, I know all the words. The whistling is the next part!!