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The Internet is a great source of information. Sometimes.
But you know what I hate? You do a Google search for something like
"program X crashes when I try to do Y", and you get a thousand hits, all
of which are different web interfaces to the exact same newsgroup post
from a guy using a different version of the software, who got no useful
replies to his question.
Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
Worse still, a few of these sites show you the question and say "sign up
for only $X/month to find out what the solution to this program is".
And then there are the ones that say "you searched for 'program X
crashes when I try to do Y'. CLICK HERE to fix your PC!"
Occasionally you'll get an MS knowledge base article which actually
tells you how to fix the damned problem. But don't hold your breath.
(Especially if what you're using isn't the newest, shiniest version of
their product.)
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> The Internet is a great source of information. Sometimes.
>
> But you know what I hate? You do a Google search for something like
> "program X crashes when I try to do Y", and you get a thousand hits, all
> of which are different web interfaces to the exact same newsgroup post
> from a guy using a different version of the software, who got no useful
> replies to his question.
>
> Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
>
> Worse still, a few of these sites show you the question and say "sign up
> for only $X/month to find out what the solution to this program is".
>
> And then there are the ones that say "you searched for 'program X
> crashes when I try to do Y'. CLICK HERE to fix your PC!"
>
> Occasionally you'll get an MS knowledge base article which actually
> tells you how to fix the damned problem. But don't hold your breath.
> (Especially if what you're using isn't the newest, shiniest version of
> their product.)
Or the fact that the nature of the problem makes the microsoft KB
article unuseable.
By the way, anybody know how to repair the windows fonts folder that
stopped to works as intended? I can't install new fonts and the folder
acts just like a regular folder. On Win XP.
Alain
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Invisible escreveu:
> The Internet is a great source of information. Sometimes.
>
> But you know what I hate? You do a Google search for something like
> "program X crashes when I try to do Y", and you get a thousand hits, all
> of which are different web interfaces to the exact same newsgroup post
> from a guy using a different version of the software, who got no useful
> replies to his question.
>
> Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
true.
--
a game sig: http://tinyurl.com/d3rxz9
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
Not really related, but it reminded me of file sharing services.
There are free file sharing services out there (in other words, if you
want to share a file with people but don't have any online server account
of your own where you could put it, these services provide a way to simply
put the file in their server for others to download). However, the vast
majority (if not all) of them are completely crippled with adverts, nag
screens and artificial delays, unless you pay for the service, and these
services often require cookies, javascripts, referrers and whatnot to be
enabled in the browser.
Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share small files
with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there are
*video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally terabytes
of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts, artificial
delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so on. And the
only thing they require from the browser is support for flash.
--
- Warp
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On 06/04/2011 06:42 PM, Warp wrote:
> there are
> *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally terabytes
> of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts, artificial
> delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so on. And the
> only thing they require from the browser is support for flash.
That's... a very valid point, actually. Hmm, yes. Although certainly
YouTube is becoming fairly obnoxious with its advertising. I'm told
other similar services exist though.
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On 6-4-2011 19:42, Warp wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Worse, all these web interfaces are 10% content and 90% adverts.
>
> Not really related, but it reminded me of file sharing services.
>
> There are free file sharing services out there (in other words, if you
> want to share a file with people but don't have any online server account
> of your own where you could put it, these services provide a way to simply
> put the file in their server for others to download). However, the vast
> majority (if not all) of them are completely crippled with adverts, nag
> screens and artificial delays, unless you pay for the service, and these
> services often require cookies, javascripts, referrers and whatnot to be
> enabled in the browser.
>
> Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share small files
> with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there are
> *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally terabytes
> of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts, artificial
> delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so on. And the
> only thing they require from the browser is support for flash.
>
Steganography is the solution. ;)
--
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per
citizen per day.
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 11:57:54 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> But you know what I hate? You do a Google search for something like
> "program X crashes when I try to do Y", and you get a thousand hits, all
> of which are different web interfaces to the exact same newsgroup post
> from a guy using a different version of the software, who got no useful
> replies to his question.
Yep, and often times refining the search terms from a 'natural language'
formation of the question (which doesn't work so well with Google) to a
keyword search doesn't remove that one person's request in 15,000
different places (often times one question on one mailing list that's
archived in multiple places around the 'net, I've observed).
Jim
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:42:12 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share small
> files
> with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there are
> *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally
> terabytes of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts,
> artificial delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so
> on. And the only thing they require from the browser is support for
> flash.
Adblock pro is a wonderful thing.
Jim
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:42:12 -0400, Warp wrote:
> > Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share small
> > files
> > with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there are
> > *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally
> > terabytes of data completely for free, with no nagging screens, adverts,
> > artificial delays, which you can freely embed wherever you want, and so
> > on. And the only thing they require from the browser is support for
> > flash.
> Adblock pro is a wonderful thing.
It doesn't help with the nag screens, delays and browser feature
requirements.
--
- Warp
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:34:23 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:42:12 -0400, Warp wrote:
>
>> > Why I find this extremely odd? Because often people just share
>> > small files
>> > with these services (such as zipped log files or whatever) and there
>> > are *video* sharing sites out there which are distributing literally
>> > terabytes of data completely for free, with no nagging screens,
>> > adverts, artificial delays, which you can freely embed wherever you
>> > want, and so on. And the only thing they require from the browser is
>> > support for flash.
>
>> Adblock pro is a wonderful thing.
>
> It doesn't help with the nag screens, delays and browser feature
> requirements.
I've never really noticed anything like this on mine, but it is called
"Adblock" and not "nagdelaybrowserfeaturerequirementblock". ;)
Jim
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