Maybe they'd be less slashdotted if they hadn't split the article across six teeny-tiny pages just to force people to view more adverts. The ads are about three times the length of the body text!
There isn't even a link for a printable version, so if you want to print the article, you have to waste half a tree.
Perhaps Flexbeta should whack the marketroids over the head with a clue bat?
I wish they'd be liberal about releasing the DVDs in the UK:(
Importing gets really expensive if Customs decide to charge 6% duty and 17.5% VAT on the import, and then the Post Office slaps on an 8 quid charge for dealing with Customs for you (despite the fact that you never even asked them to...)
Well, the Karma had a config option that would let you use it left-handed (rotate screen output 90 degrees, alter stick position accordingly). But then the Karma's essentially square.
Looks like you're boned on this one; I've just RTFM and there's no mention of a similar feature.
Yeah. How much effort does it take to type "please" instead of "pls"? It's THREE EXTRA LETTERS! You're sending an email, not an SMS - there's no character length limit.
It does seem to be management types who do it - I wonder if it's intended to convey a sense of "I'm so important and busy that I don't have TIME to type those three extra letters or reach for the Shift key"?
The classic was the headbutt that was removed from Star Wars Episode 2 in order to get the PG certificate. Can't have the kids seeing headbutts, can we? Removed from the DVD, and the cinematic release as well, IIRC.
And then shown in all its glory in some trailer programme shown on ITV a week after the release. At 3pm on a Saturday, when those same kids are watching.
Given how many people never bother to check water, oil etc until they break down at the side of the road, I really hope these cars will run full diagnostic checks before they let you start them...
Wow. You must go to some different sites to the ones I look at (no, I'm not talking about pr0n, before somebody says it:)
I've seen some hardware review sites with about 8 or 9 ads down the side of the page. All animated, and incredibly distracting.
If those ads were static, and not trying to install tracking cookies, maybe I'd leave them. But when they try to record a trail of where I've been on the net, or when they flash so much that I can't concentrate on the very thing I came to the site for, then in the trash they go.
Ad designers: less is more. Don't flash, shriek, wander about the page, disguise yourselves as system errors, or try and track us. You'll get more people actually seeing the ads - and even if they don't buy something right away, your brand image will be reinforced, which isn't going to happen if they don't see the ad in the first place, or if they block it straight away because you pissed them off.
If you click on the link in the parent post, the help page lets you leave feedback if you click "no" at the bottom. Maybe MS will do something if enough people drop hints there.
(Excuse me. I think a monkey just flew out of my butt.)
Hadn't thought of that, but I would think people could try changing the spelling if they don't find any results. (Then again, given some of the users I've had to support... oh, wait, they don't use Google anyway, they just pick up the phone and complain, don't they?)
Perhaps this is a good reason for having an error code in all the messages - you don't need to worry about the spelling of "colour" when you're googling for "windows error XP30133".
Plus, that's no excuse for making us look at "Favorites" in the menu bar. (Except for the fact I use Firefox, of course:)
I wouldn't accuse MS of translating Windows for the UK while we have to suffer abominations such as "color", "favorites" and "canceled".
Amazing, really - they can find the time to translate Windows to all sorts of different languages, but putting the UK spellings in is somehow too difficult, even though it should only take a day or so.
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Even Windows lets you change and install stuff without having to reboot every time these days...
There isn't even a link for a printable version, so if you want to print the article, you have to waste half a tree.
Perhaps Flexbeta should whack the marketroids over the head with a clue bat?
Go to about:config and set browser.block.target_new_window to true.
Hey! I no longer have acne...
(At least in the UK, there's no requirement to give change - try getting a bus in Edinburgh, for example...)
Increase the size of your gobberwarts...
Importing gets really expensive if Customs decide to charge 6% duty and 17.5% VAT on the import, and then the Post Office slaps on an 8 quid charge for dealing with Customs for you (despite the fact that you never even asked them to...)
Can you say "robots.txt"?
Looks like you're boned on this one; I've just RTFM and there's no mention of a similar feature.
I'm just hoping the Rio Chroma will use Toshibas instead...
Remind me not to shake hands with you after you've been to the toilet...
It does seem to be management types who do it - I wonder if it's intended to convey a sense of "I'm so important and busy that I don't have TIME to type those three extra letters or reach for the Shift key"?
And then shown in all its glory in some trailer programme shown on ITV a week after the release. At 3pm on a Saturday, when those same kids are watching.
Muppets.
Yeah! Now I can punch the monkey for real!
Given how many people never bother to check water, oil etc until they break down at the side of the road, I really hope these cars will run full diagnostic checks before they let you start them...
That would definitely make prolonged Emacs sessions a bit more comfortable...
(I suppose a cokebottle key would be out of the question :)
A frog? In which bidet?
Well, with Adblock, you can set "hide ads" instead of "remove ads".
Wow. You must go to some different sites to the ones I look at (no, I'm not talking about pr0n, before somebody says it :)
I've seen some hardware review sites with about 8 or 9 ads down the side of the page. All animated, and incredibly distracting.
If those ads were static, and not trying to install tracking cookies, maybe I'd leave them. But when they try to record a trail of where I've been on the net, or when they flash so much that I can't concentrate on the very thing I came to the site for, then in the trash they go.
Ad designers: less is more. Don't flash, shriek, wander about the page, disguise yourselves as system errors, or try and track us. You'll get more people actually seeing the ads - and even if they don't buy something right away, your brand image will be reinforced, which isn't going to happen if they don't see the ad in the first place, or if they block it straight away because you pissed them off.
(Excuse me. I think a monkey just flew out of my butt.)
They don't usually check the contents of the key, though - so I just stick "rem " at the start. Job done.
Perhaps this is a good reason for having an error code in all the messages - you don't need to worry about the spelling of "colour" when you're googling for "windows error XP30133".
Plus, that's no excuse for making us look at "Favorites" in the menu bar. (Except for the fact I use Firefox, of course :)
Amazing, really - they can find the time to translate Windows to all sorts of different languages, but putting the UK spellings in is somehow too difficult, even though it should only take a day or so.
Remind me to choose a seat at the back.