Nieminen Mika wrote in message <36b1a665.0@news.povray.org>...
>  Evidently you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
>  Firstly, you have the typical attitude of a windows nerd.
>  If you say to a windows nerd "a command line shell is very handy" what he
>actually reads is "GUIs suck, the command line is much better than any GUI
>in everything and everyone should get rid of all graphic interfaces and use
>only text-based command line interpreters".
>  If you say to a windows nerd "you should also take into consideration
>text-based html browsers when you make a html web page" what he actually
>reads is "you have to include only text in your pages, no pictures, no
>frames, not even colors, no any other thing but only text".
>  If you say to windows nerd "UNIX is a very good operating system" they
>only see an antisocial geek sitting in a dark corner using a VT100-type
>text terminal typing cryptical commands and using programs from the early
>60's (everything in text mode, of course).
>  An of course, if you say to a windows nerd "stop sending HTML to the
news"
>what they read is "stop using netscape".
>  As a typical windows nerd, you even talked about mIRC as if it was the
>only IRC-client out there.
>  As a typical windows nerd, you confuse program development with standards
>development. You think that if program X (for windows, of course) has a new
>feature, that's the new standard and everyone should change to that.
>  As a typical windows nerd, you suppose that people who is not using the
>same programs as you are not using the latest versions and state-of-art
>programs.
>  As a typical windows nerd, you are completely unable to understand that
>the only thing you have to do to stop sending html is to uncheck one option
>in netscape and that this will not affect news reading in any way.
>  As a typical windows nerd you suppose that everyone can and like to use
>netscape as a news reader. It's true that almost everybody can use it, but
>it isn't true that everyobdy likes it.
>  Netscape takes a lot of resources (it really is a memory and cpu hog), it
>takes a very long time to start an its news reader is in some aspects very
>limited. Some people want to control in a more precise way what articles
>they want to read and in which way.
>  "Upgrading", as you call it, from an efficient real news reader to
>netscape would make life a pain to those people. They will loose lots of
>features they were using. It would actually be a downgrade.
>  The fact that you can send html documents to the news with netscape
doesn't
>make it a standard. If I started to send eg. tex-documents or postscript
>documents, who would read that? The fact that you can do something doesn't
>mean that everyone is doing the same thing and even less that it's a
>standard.
>
>  And all the problem is that one checkbox which these windows nerds are
>completely unable to uncheck.
>  Luckily enough those windows nerds constitute a very little percent of
>the net users (at least here).
>
>: PS: I posted this in plain text format for a reason.. so you wouldn't
skip
>: it just because it's html.
>
>  Why should you send anything in html here? I can't think of any reason.
>  Ah... But windows nerds don't need reasons.
>
>--
>main(i){char*_="BdsyFBThhHFBThhHFRz]NFTITQF|DJIFHQhhF";while(i=
>*_++)for(;i>1;printf("%s",i-70?i&1?"[]":" ":(i=0,"\n")),i/=2);} /*-
Warp. -*/

Other than the fact that letting us know you're running *nix, your point is?
My post was a rant mainly pointed at americans (who are for the most part
spoon-fed, pompous, egotistical idiot. I really should have stated than. I
don't know about you, but I'm looking at typical day in this group 65% flame
(15 out of 23 threads). That was the basis of my rant.. I'm being called
"ignorant" and "don't know what I'm talking about" because I left out three
little words.."in the US". Well, I should have said that. But don't you get
it? This Ng's for the discussion of POV, not blasting some newbie because
(s)he doesn't know how to change his(her) Windoze reader from one format to
another. That's for Usenet.. No, I don't see this much angst on there..
My post was for ppl in the US.. for you Europeans, (and Aussie's) some of
you are acting like us spoiled americans (well.. we're not all spoiled,
there are a few decent americans somewhere) but this post wasn't meant for
you
Maybe there should be a povray.angst.angst.angst group, eh?

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Lue Ebra
"BitchX: The choice of a GNU generation" - Panasync

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