So disable that effect. It is up to you to tweak the interface to your liking, not up to its creators to provide the software in millions slight variations, exactly as everyone and their dog wants it.
You probably do not remember all the outcry when people could not play their (single-player) game for days before servers were overloaded. In some country they even sued Blizzard that they purposefully deployed insufficient server capacity, or something like that. I wouldn't call that "pretty well".
Blizzard doesn't care what you do after the purchase, or whether you keep playing. They already have your money. If anything, many people stopping playing after first few days is better for them - less server load.
Yes, Diablo 3 was a roaring success - it made Blizard loads of money. I'd hazard a guess that this is big part of why EA dared to come up with similar scheme.
I have Firefox set to ask me about new domains trying to push cookies to me, and usually set all of them to "accept for session". That way, advertisers are happy, I am happy (since they pushed their cookies, and no content is denied to me), and when I close the browser, their precious cookies are gone and they can't use them to track me. I only fully accept cookies from sites I trust.
What I would like to see, however, is some sort of compartmentalization of cookie jars. Each site gets its own cookie jar, where all of the 3rd party cookies set when visiting the site go as well. When I go to another site, it gets another cookie jar, and 3rd parties can't see cookies set while on first site. Of course, some cookies could be allowed to be "shared". Does anyone know of something like this?
www.interestingsite.com will only be able to get advertising money from ShadyAds company if they add a shadyads.interesting.com subdomain, and push ShadyAds cookies to users from that subdomain, making them 1st party cookies.
You and I must work for the same big company. How many times have I notified someone about something that is incorrect, and instead of expected reaction "right, it's not supposed to be that way" I got "you're not supposed to know about it".
They could definitely get one of those for you. You could hook it up to your spell checker, and it would hopefully figure out that when you write 'loose', you really mean 'loses'.:)
I'm only familiar with Urban Dead from your list, but it wouldn't work if you were on Mars. Yes, you get 1 move per 30 minutes to spend whenever you see fit, but it's (at least) one HTTP request to server per move, so you would barely be able to spend the moves faster than they regenerate.
I know about the 4.0 fiasco, kubuntu was the prominent distro pushing it despite KDE team's advice, but I thought things have settled since then. At least on Debian, current KDE is awesome.
This Pardus thing looks interesting enough to give it a try in a virtual machine, thanks.
Apologies, my suggestion wasn't intended to be mean or insulting. It's just that posts like yours ("it's bad because I say so, but I won't tell you why") are dime a dozen on slashdot, and they really add little value
I don't really care about how screenshots look like - most of that appearance can be changed to your liking with themes. What I care about is how it handles, how it can be tweaked to my workflow, so that it enables me to do my stuff and gets out of my way.
And that is something each user will have to determine for themselves, since it is very subjective.
Just spread a rumor that dust devil nation is hiding weapons of mass destruction, and mankind will set foot on (heavily bombed by that time) surface of Mars in just a few years.
Nope, no javascript on my slashdot.:) Using the older interface also has the benefit of preventing accidental moderation (you still have to click the Moderate button).
One has to wonder why did you add the last sentence there. It has absolutely no relevance to the topic, and running Ubuntu server does not grant you any bragging rights - anyone and their dog can do that these days.
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Um... Whoosh!
So disable that effect. It is up to you to tweak the interface to your liking, not up to its creators to provide the software in millions slight variations, exactly as everyone and their dog wants it.
You probably do not remember all the outcry when people could not play their (single-player) game for days before servers were overloaded. In some country they even sued Blizzard that they purposefully deployed insufficient server capacity, or something like that. I wouldn't call that "pretty well".
Blizzard doesn't care what you do after the purchase, or whether you keep playing. They already have your money. If anything, many people stopping playing after first few days is better for them - less server load.
Yes, Diablo 3 was a roaring success - it made Blizard loads of money. I'd hazard a guess that this is big part of why EA dared to come up with similar scheme.
I have Firefox set to ask me about new domains trying to push cookies to me, and usually set all of them to "accept for session". That way, advertisers are happy, I am happy (since they pushed their cookies, and no content is denied to me), and when I close the browser, their precious cookies are gone and they can't use them to track me. I only fully accept cookies from sites I trust.
What I would like to see, however, is some sort of compartmentalization of cookie jars. Each site gets its own cookie jar, where all of the 3rd party cookies set when visiting the site go as well. When I go to another site, it gets another cookie jar, and 3rd parties can't see cookies set while on first site. Of course, some cookies could be allowed to be "shared". Does anyone know of something like this?
Meh, should have been "if they add a shadyads.interestingsite.com,".
www.interestingsite.com will only be able to get advertising money from ShadyAds company if they add a shadyads.interesting.com subdomain, and push ShadyAds cookies to users from that subdomain, making them 1st party cookies.
You and I must work for the same big company. How many times have I notified someone about something that is incorrect, and instead of expected reaction "right, it's not supposed to be that way" I got "you're not supposed to know about it".
That's just because Bruce did not have the +10 Manly Beard of Manliness.
They could definitely get one of those for you. You could hook it up to your spell checker, and it would hopefully figure out that when you write 'loose', you really mean 'loses'. :)
Not on their grammar, rather on their understanding of basic words.
What about your down shit, does it creak too? Learn2english please.
DuckDuckGo is reasonably good. I don't think I've used Google search in a god while, save perhaps for image searches.
I'm only familiar with Urban Dead from your list, but it wouldn't work if you were on Mars. Yes, you get 1 move per 30 minutes to spend whenever you see fit, but it's (at least) one HTTP request to server per move, so you would barely be able to spend the moves faster than they regenerate.
I know about the 4.0 fiasco, kubuntu was the prominent distro pushing it despite KDE team's advice, but I thought things have settled since then. At least on Debian, current KDE is awesome.
This Pardus thing looks interesting enough to give it a try in a virtual machine, thanks.
Apologies, my suggestion wasn't intended to be mean or insulting. It's just that posts like yours ("it's bad because I say so, but I won't tell you why") are dime a dozen on slashdot, and they really add little value
Thank you for the follow-up, though.
Um... Whoosh?
You could just mention few most jarring ones. Your post wouldn't look like empty FUD then.
I don't really care about how screenshots look like - most of that appearance can be changed to your liking with themes. What I care about is how it handles, how it can be tweaked to my workflow, so that it enables me to do my stuff and gets out of my way.
And that is something each user will have to determine for themselves, since it is very subjective.
Miy wits only appear dim because I want them to last, instead of burning out, you insensitive clod!
Just spread a rumor that dust devil nation is hiding weapons of mass destruction, and mankind will set foot on (heavily bombed by that time) surface of Mars in just a few years.
Nope, no javascript on my slashdot. :) Using the older interface also has the benefit of preventing accidental moderation (you still have to click the Moderate button).
I stand in awe in front of any decent minecraft world, but this one truly took my breath: http://www.lo-ping.org/2011/05/29/earth-mapped-to-minecraft-to-scale/
One has to wonder why did you add the last sentence there. It has absolutely no relevance to the topic, and running Ubuntu server does not grant you any bragging rights - anyone and their dog can do that these days.
Yes, but you demote Windows from an operating system to a mere application running in a window. Don't tell me that's not an improvement.