It's also got animated GIFs, Comic Sans MS, and barely renders in Firefox, indicating a high fucking-bitch-doesn't-know-how-to-administer-a-web site factor.
but that's a (nevertheless important) legal detail, not a reason to dismiss her entire attitude that the Internet Archive had no right to copy her site
I don't think it was that detail that people used to dismiss her attitude. I think it was the absence of a fucking robots.txt.
Yeah, "upgrading". We'd better be sarcastic here, because 98 was just TOTALLY stable, fast, and was just FAR more usable than XP. Oh wait.
Huh? What foot? XP has no feet!
He was talking about Gnome, I think saying that the GGP wouldn't even need to use "the time spent teaching Vista/Office07" to teach Gnome, since it's easy.
One version had "options" under "file", andother had it under "Edit"...
What, are you telling me that every version of KDE from 1.0 to 3.5 and Gnome from 1.0 to 2.18 have had every single option in the exact same place? Or Konqueror, Nautilus, Firefox, and Opera for that matter? Of course IE sucks, but come up with something better than "they changed where a menu option is".
If you constantly bitch about how (for example) XP sucks, how the hell would Microsoft ever improve it without changing something? Yes, they've changed things around in Vista. But guess what? It's more intuitively organized and if you have half a brain and actually read what's on the screen, it's not hard to find anything at all! Or god forbid, use the new search feature, which actually rocks (not that anyone on Slashdot would know, because they don't use something before bashing it).
Borrow some poor soul's DVD who actually paid for it, and use it free for 4 (or now 12 I suppose) months. Then sarcastically bash it, and you might have a good argument based on reality.
And before flaming me as a Microsoft fanboy (because obviously I am if I have anything positive to say about them) realize that I use Slackware as much as I use XP (and I don't use Vista because game performance isn't yet up to par with XP, and that's ATI and Nvidia's problem.)
I'm not for Google just being able to allow all that content to be online while they just sit there making money. I do, however, think that Viacom should approach this the way NBC did and strike a deal with YouTube.
I started watching SNL again solely because I saw some of it on YouTube (on NBC's official channel). I saw some of Viacom's clips on YouTube before they were taken down, and guess what? I wouldn't have ever seen them without YouTube. All YouTube did was help them. The only wrongdoing here is that the clips were probably low quality, and that only Google was making money off it.
If Viacom provided the content at a higher quality and shared the ad revenue from their clips with Google, everyone would be happy! But no, they have to sue for a billion dollars (arbitrarily, I might add) and burn any bridges they had with Google. Then they'll be forced to go somewhere else with their content, and get less exposure than they would on YouTube.
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Haha, yes, I would recommend that. You just might believe you're getting a 20% commission on a $25 million sum the prince of Nigeria needs transferred to the US;-) Oh wait, you said phishing...
Oh I definitely agree that text ads are unobtrusive, and that those fucking green-underlined-mouse-over-tooltip ads are really annoying.
And yeah, Gmail rocks (perfect in my book) and I don't support the notion of universities migrating to Windows Live (if anywhere, Universities are where you'll find Linux and Mac users who don't want to dual-boot or VMware Windows just to have more than the Hotmail interface).
I think he was talking about whether your outgoing emails have a line at the bottom that's an ad for Gmail, in which case, no, Gmail doesn't have that. Now, the web interface has Google text ads (but even if those bother you, does anyone worry about ads anymore? Adblock Plus for Firefox or built-in content blocking for Opera!)
Try ntfs-3g. Full read/write support, and it just came out of beta to production status. More than decent, I've been using it without any problems for a while:-)
Listen. That's the sound of me hating the fucking Simpsons because they haven't been funny for years, and thus not knowing it was a Simpsons joke. I guess that just makes it worse than if it was a Slashdot joke.
I was actually about to buy a data plan, as I have a Razr on a T-Mobile plan and I wanted to run such apps. I guess I'll unlock my phone and switch providers.
I stopped reading when he started bitching about finding how to change the resolution. Either start typing in the start menu search (you'd probably find it after "re", and no, the search is not in-your-face like the woman in the story), or you actually can still right click the desktop in Vista to get to those options (God forbid Microsoft actually changes anything to be more intuitively organized and you actually READ what's on your screen to find where it is). And yes, Vista tells you exactly what resolution you're in. I will admit UAC is annoying, but it's easily turned off, for those of us who aren't dumb enough to run britneyspearsnaked.vbs.
That being said, I enjoy when my games perform well (Nvidia's Vista drivers aren't yet up to snuff, especially not in OpenGL), so XP is back on my Windows partition. I do recommend anyone with a nice machine that doesn't play many games try Vista, it's much better than Slashdot makes it out to be (borrow a friend's Vista disc, you get a free 120 day trial).
Yeah, that's annoying... unless you have a Gigabyte motherboard! Then you can just do it from within Windows.. SO CONVENIENT. The XP SATA driver thing was also annoying, before I got my Gigabyte that makes the OS see the SATA drives as IDE. Gigabyte has allowed me to say goodbye to floppies forever!
I watched those on peekvid this week to catch up on this season before this week's episode. I wouldn't have watched 24 now and for the rest of the season or seen all their advertisements on Monday if I hadn't been able to catch up...
Understandable, but just know that I've only read about 5 books in the past couple years, and that was one of them (I do most of my reading on the internet). At least, it intrigued me enough to warrant a pretty much straight read-through:-)
Good points, I'd also like to point out that ArenaNet does the same thing with Guild Wars.
To the grandparent: MMOs are designed to keep as many people as possible playing as long as possible, not to lock people out because they don't have the latest and greatest. MMOs won't be the games to "force" the switch, if any.
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It's also got animated GIFs, Comic Sans MS, and barely renders in Firefox, indicating a high fucking-bitch-doesn't-know-how-to-administer-a-web site factor.
Yeah, "upgrading". We'd better be sarcastic here, because 98 was just TOTALLY stable, fast, and was just FAR more usable than XP. Oh wait.
He was talking about Gnome, I think saying that the GGP wouldn't even need to use "the time spent teaching Vista/Office07" to teach Gnome, since it's easy.
What, are you telling me that every version of KDE from 1.0 to 3.5 and Gnome from 1.0 to 2.18 have had every single option in the exact same place? Or Konqueror, Nautilus, Firefox, and Opera for that matter? Of course IE sucks, but come up with something better than "they changed where a menu option is".
If you constantly bitch about how (for example) XP sucks, how the hell would Microsoft ever improve it without changing something? Yes, they've changed things around in Vista. But guess what? It's more intuitively organized and if you have half a brain and actually read what's on the screen, it's not hard to find anything at all! Or god forbid, use the new search feature, which actually rocks (not that anyone on Slashdot would know, because they don't use something before bashing it).
Borrow some poor soul's DVD who actually paid for it, and use it free for 4 (or now 12 I suppose) months. Then sarcastically bash it, and you might have a good argument based on reality.
And before flaming me as a Microsoft fanboy (because obviously I am if I have anything positive to say about them) realize that I use Slackware as much as I use XP (and I don't use Vista because game performance isn't yet up to par with XP, and that's ATI and Nvidia's problem.)
I guess there is a reason to also read Digg...
I'm not for Google just being able to allow all that content to be online while they just sit there making money. I do, however, think that Viacom should approach this the way NBC did and strike a deal with YouTube.
I started watching SNL again solely because I saw some of it on YouTube (on NBC's official channel). I saw some of Viacom's clips on YouTube before they were taken down, and guess what? I wouldn't have ever seen them without YouTube. All YouTube did was help them. The only wrongdoing here is that the clips were probably low quality, and that only Google was making money off it.
If Viacom provided the content at a higher quality and shared the ad revenue from their clips with Google, everyone would be happy! But no, they have to sue for a billion dollars (arbitrarily, I might add) and burn any bridges they had with Google. Then they'll be forced to go somewhere else with their content, and get less exposure than they would on YouTube.
More like a problem starting.
Hey. HEY. Some of us enjoy poop.
And on top of all that, KDE is more configurable!
Jesus Christ (haha), ANOTHER religious debate on the internet. *Gesture left*
I'd say Oblivion comes pretty damn close to the "true" definition.
Or furniture porn...
Probably an NTFS 'problem', if you're used to ext3/reiser performance...
Haha, yes, I would recommend that. You just might believe you're getting a 20% commission on a $25 million sum the prince of Nigeria needs transferred to the US ;-) Oh wait, you said phishing...
It wasn't intended to be funny (and nor is the "think of the children" joke funny), it was intended to point out that you took the joke seriously.
And yeah, Gmail rocks (perfect in my book) and I don't support the notion of universities migrating to Windows Live (if anywhere, Universities are where you'll find Linux and Mac users who don't want to dual-boot or VMware Windows just to have more than the Hotmail interface).
I think he was talking about whether your outgoing emails have a line at the bottom that's an ad for Gmail, in which case, no, Gmail doesn't have that. Now, the web interface has Google text ads (but even if those bother you, does anyone worry about ads anymore? Adblock Plus for Firefox or built-in content blocking for Opera!)
Try ntfs-3g. Full read/write support, and it just came out of beta to production status. More than decent, I've been using it without any problems for a while :-)
Listen. That's the sound of me hating the fucking Simpsons because they haven't been funny for years, and thus not knowing it was a Simpsons joke. I guess that just makes it worse than if it was a Slashdot joke.
That's the sound of one of the more recent overused (and not funny) Slashdot inside jokes flying over your head.
I was actually about to buy a data plan, as I have a Razr on a T-Mobile plan and I wanted to run such apps. I guess I'll unlock my phone and switch providers.
I stopped reading when he started bitching about finding how to change the resolution. Either start typing in the start menu search (you'd probably find it after "re", and no, the search is not in-your-face like the woman in the story), or you actually can still right click the desktop in Vista to get to those options (God forbid Microsoft actually changes anything to be more intuitively organized and you actually READ what's on your screen to find where it is). And yes, Vista tells you exactly what resolution you're in. I will admit UAC is annoying, but it's easily turned off, for those of us who aren't dumb enough to run britneyspearsnaked.vbs.
That being said, I enjoy when my games perform well (Nvidia's Vista drivers aren't yet up to snuff, especially not in OpenGL), so XP is back on my Windows partition. I do recommend anyone with a nice machine that doesn't play many games try Vista, it's much better than Slashdot makes it out to be (borrow a friend's Vista disc, you get a free 120 day trial).
Yeah, that's annoying... unless you have a Gigabyte motherboard! Then you can just do it from within Windows.. SO CONVENIENT. The XP SATA driver thing was also annoying, before I got my Gigabyte that makes the OS see the SATA drives as IDE. Gigabyte has allowed me to say goodbye to floppies forever!
I watched those on peekvid this week to catch up on this season before this week's episode. I wouldn't have watched 24 now and for the rest of the season or seen all their advertisements on Monday if I hadn't been able to catch up...
Understandable, but just know that I've only read about 5 books in the past couple years, and that was one of them (I do most of my reading on the internet). At least, it intrigued me enough to warrant a pretty much straight read-through :-)
To the grandparent: MMOs are designed to keep as many people as possible playing as long as possible, not to lock people out because they don't have the latest and greatest. MMOs won't be the games to "force" the switch, if any.