Seriously, running and hosting a website is expensive. If you completely removed all adverts from the web then many websites would simply have to close as it is impossible to reliably host something popular without incurring costs.
Ads aren't the only way to financially support a website. Also, $DEITY forbid that a website would cost something to keep online. The horror!
The least you could do (besides an adblocker, assuming you haven't already got one and are whitelisting slashdot) is disable all cookies, enabling exceptions for sites you want.
Discrimination is on the rise, though. First it was the user agent string, then disabling JavaScript, and now they are targeting users who have cookies disabled. Imagine my surprise when earlier this week I tried to read something on TV Tropes but was denied because of my web browser settings: "This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your browser."
You seem to think that they only have a computer around for guests. They offered a Linux through boot CD, hence they didn't want to wipe Windows as they still wanted to use it on that computer.
He wasn't talking about a sane government, but a more sane country. Sure, every country (and government) has its issues, but the USA is so far gone that it's its own kind of insanity. You'd be forgiven for occasionally mistaking it for a third world country.
There are few CRT HDTVs, and they never existed in Europe (where I live). We didn't even get real HD Ready TVs (the ones we got had 748 lines), which sucks when HD consoles mostly output a HD Ready image. Nowadays we have to make do with Full HD TVs which scale 720p to 1080p.
I don't have a HD console yet, but from what I've seen at friends, you're not alone; the graphics also look like plastic to me.
CRT monitors are, except for their size, superior to LCD monitors. The picture would not be of lower quality at all. It would have better colour and true black. Getting tired eyes is not true either, as you can adjust the monitor's refresh rate (something you can't do with LCD monitors which are locked at 60Hz).
But, sure, if you value your real estate that much and need huge monitors, be my guest. Just don't spread lies about CRT monitors.
In the 80s and 90s consoles were pretty much NEVER backwards compatible.
Did you forget about the Sega Mega Drive and the Nintendo Game Boy Color?
If you want things like backwards compatibility, or really compatibility with ANYTHING except the exact same model game console you get a PC game, not a console game!
That comes with a lot of strings attached, though.
I think he means the disc could be used for purchase verification after the game was ported to the new architecture so you wouldn't have to buy it all over again.
The Wii isn't the only example of this, either. The Game Boy Advance used a different, smaller cartridge, yet was still able to accept and play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
That's a shame, because CRT monitors are still superior to LCD monitors. CRT monitors can handle various resolutions without having to scale, and the more expensive ones offer resolutions higher than HD. In several ways, LCD was a step back.
3D is a passing fad generated by the media companies to try and push more units. Consumers haven't picked up on it as they hoped, and the web is unlikely to do so either. The real future is in higher definitions and larger screens.
What you don't realise, though, is that higher definitions and larger screens are fads that caught on that were generated by the media companies to try and push more units.
No, I haven't, because, of this generation of home consoles, I only have a Wii. But I have heard of day 1 updates. That's not the same thing as a registration or activation, though. You aren't forced to download the updates. The game won't even know it if the console isn't connected to the internet.
What are you talking about? Console games don't require a registration or online activation of any kind. Except for online multi-player, of course, but that's another can of worms.
And what, exactly, will get owned? Windows 3.1 doesn't have UPnP, RPC, LSASS or any other network service that has been compromised to execute malware. I know it's a cool thing to accuse older systems of bad network security, but it's not based on any factual basis. What it does seem to be based on is bad local security, which is a completely different concern.
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Ads aren't the only way to financially support a website. Also, $DEITY forbid that a website would cost something to keep online. The horror!
Discrimination is on the rise, though. First it was the user agent string, then disabling JavaScript, and now they are targeting users who have cookies disabled. Imagine my surprise when earlier this week I tried to read something on TV Tropes but was denied because of my web browser settings: "This site requires JavaScript and Cookies to be enabled. Please change your browser settings or upgrade your browser."
You seem to think that they only have a computer around for guests. They offered a Linux through boot CD, hence they didn't want to wipe Windows as they still wanted to use it on that computer.
Because malware doesn't exist for Linux, right? And phishing is impossible as well?
The fact that the question submitter didn't provide reasons for keeping Windows does not mean that (s)he doesn't have any.
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He wasn't talking about a sane government, but a more sane country. Sure, every country (and government) has its issues, but the USA is so far gone that it's its own kind of insanity. You'd be forgiven for occasionally mistaking it for a third world country.
Because not everyone is Zelda.
Dolphins sometimes rape humans.
There are few CRT HDTVs, and they never existed in Europe (where I live). We didn't even get real HD Ready TVs (the ones we got had 748 lines), which sucks when HD consoles mostly output a HD Ready image. Nowadays we have to make do with Full HD TVs which scale 720p to 1080p.
I don't have a HD console yet, but from what I've seen at friends, you're not alone; the graphics also look like plastic to me.
CRT monitors are, except for their size, superior to LCD monitors. The picture would not be of lower quality at all. It would have better colour and true black. Getting tired eyes is not true either, as you can adjust the monitor's refresh rate (something you can't do with LCD monitors which are locked at 60Hz).
But, sure, if you value your real estate that much and need huge monitors, be my guest. Just don't spread lies about CRT monitors.
Did you forget about the Sega Mega Drive and the Nintendo Game Boy Color?
That comes with a lot of strings attached, though.
I think he means the disc could be used for purchase verification after the game was ported to the new architecture so you wouldn't have to buy it all over again.
The Wii isn't the only example of this, either. The Game Boy Advance used a different, smaller cartridge, yet was still able to accept and play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
I can't take someone who is anti-DRM seriously when at the same time they mention buying games on Steam. Steam is DRM!
Please turn in your geek card. CRTs still make fine monitors for computers and video game systems.
That's a shame, because CRT monitors are still superior to LCD monitors. CRT monitors can handle various resolutions without having to scale, and the more expensive ones offer resolutions higher than HD. In several ways, LCD was a step back.
What you don't realise, though, is that higher definitions and larger screens are fads that caught on that were generated by the media companies to try and push more units.
That's understandable (though I think it is really unprofessional), but that doesn't excuse initial page formatting done by JavaScript.
No, I haven't, because, of this generation of home consoles, I only have a Wii. But I have heard of day 1 updates. That's not the same thing as a registration or activation, though. You aren't forced to download the updates. The game won't even know it if the console isn't connected to the internet.
What are you talking about? Console games don't require a registration or online activation of any kind. Except for online multi-player, of course, but that's another can of worms.
And what, exactly, will get owned? Windows 3.1 doesn't have UPnP, RPC, LSASS or any other network service that has been compromised to execute malware. I know it's a cool thing to accuse older systems of bad network security, but it's not based on any factual basis. What it does seem to be based on is bad local security, which is a completely different concern.
I don't like Java either, but don't hate on the JavaScript, please. It's running my MSN client on a Pentium II smoothly!
What are you talking about?
Sure. There are always going to be detractors.
Please, spare us. That article is mostly hot air. There's very little substance to be found.