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I think it would be fair that we offer translated versions of the rules and guides.

First, I disagree that it would be "fair" to pretend we support other languages. DMs and Sents don't speak them, so how would we arbitrate between a German speaker and a French speaker? A modicum of English (even if it is ungrammatical and misspelled) is a requirement on GS.

Second, even if we limit ourselves to the languages Bioware (half-assedly) supports, this is still a totally impracticable idea. As a professional in the world of Having Text Translated, I have a good idea of the effort required to translate and then maintain the translated versions of everything: it's very, very costly. My God, we can barely spell in English, we have no hope of getting it right in French, Italian, German, or Spanish.

-Throbblefoot

Care to explain the contents of the "water bottle" sitting on the counter there?

Never mind; forget I asked.

-Throbblefoot

Good God, Mo, what resolution are you running? And why are your fonts so damn ugly?

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0.5. Stop sharing CDs illegally with the neighbors.

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I think the third side of the war should be the vendors and camp-followers who make a buck off the whole thing, laughing up their sleeves.


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Four years of Bush has left me worse off than I was when Clinton left office. I find the Bush administrations tactics disturbing, and am concerned about our loss of civil liberties. If it continues in the vein it's been in since 2001, they'll be using the Patriot Act to round up dissenters.

From my perspective, it has to be Kerry.

-Throbblefoot

I see.  Thanks for editing my sig too, I like it better like this.

Glad I could be of service!

-Throbblefoot

I definitely think we should limit sig lengths, though the implementation might not be as simple as that.  I think the most effective limit (if possible) would be a file size limit on images in sigs.  Or how about a 150 pixel height limit?

BTW, this is a particularly egregious example, but many of the sig graphics out there are annoying.

-Throbblefoot

Whats wrong with leg warmers

Bus, did I ever tell you that trolling is nigh as bad as spelling flames and spam?

*chucks a big fluffy dwiffy plush toy at bus*

-Throbblefoot

 

I didn't want to get into this per se, but since 420 is proffering interpretations of my word-hole, I'm going to take the bait (mo's a troll, by the way).

I don't actually agree that only geeks should have access to the web- accessibility is one of its greatest assets!  But I do think that AOL trained a huge set of users with low expectations and lame behaviors that are detrimental to the web.

For instance, AOL has always been shamelessly self-promoting, and has clogged many's the landfill with their CDs. For that alone I would probably hate them. But, the ramification of their self-promotion is that internet users now expect it. If you don't ram your name down everyone's in-box, you're no one.

Another problem I have with AOL is the overly-simplified interface: it's assumes the user is ignorant and wants to remain ignorant. Users can't *learn* anything about what they're actually doing. This leads to ignorant users all over the web who expect that everyone uses AOL and everything should look and work like AOL.

AOL's dreadful history of performance problems and disconnects has trained people to expect crappy internet connections, and I can't abide that. People should expect better than AOL, but because of AOL's proliferation, they don't. (This last applies to Starbucks, Walmart, Microsoft, etc. It may be a fact of the "new economy" but it seems like putting all your eggs into one basket).

Now Mo, I do agree that the commercialization of the web was inevitable, but it didn't necessarily have to be the mass of uneducated users with low expectations and high frustration levels that it often is. And I blame the culture AOL built and propagated for a lot of those expectations.

-Throbblefoot
 

How exactly did AOL ruin the web?

"Now, my story begins in nineteen-dickety-two. We had to say "dickety" 'cause that Kaiser had stolen our word "twenty". I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles..."

-Throbblefoot

Okay, I did a bit more poking around about this, and found that, while is can't *see* any messages in my mesenger, the forum seems to be storing some 60-odd messages I can't access. I'd use the empty folders thing, but one PM I received is so unspeakably foul, I must preserve it.

But something is definitely rotten in the state of PM.

-Throbblefoot

Wow, a WHOLE thread just chock FULL of spam.

I'll just be moving this over there, then.....

-Throbblefoot

Not to mention it says I'm over my space limit when I have a single four-line PM in my inbox, and nothing else in any folder.

-Throbblefoot

Okay kiddies,

Please keep the forum rules in mind, in particular:
This is not a site for warez!

And don't give me anything about "cracks aren't warez." Neither Bioware nor Nathan want you posting NWN cracks. What you do behind closed doors in email is your business, but keep it off the forums.

-Throbblefoot