Posted on 04/09/2013 5:27:53 PM PDT by Darksheare
I just spent alot of time posting!
I see that, looks like you hit a small bump.
Pictured: Small Bump
What happened?
Well, someone set up us the bomb?
I'm serious!
Oh, well.. looks like your post got pulled.
Augh! I spent alot of effort on that! How did it happen?!
Couldn't be because you were doing it wrong?
What the, how'd you get that video of m-- uh.. I don't even wear that!
Right Skippy. *cough* Well, since you asked, here's how posts get removed.
First, if it is against TOS it gets seen.
Then it gets marked.
Okay, I have that much.
Then the mods gather:
Pictured, mods gathering.
I don't think that's how it looks, I..
Look, do you want an answer or not?
...Yes?
Right, carrying on.
Then they back their vehicle up to your post.
Whoah! What the heck is that thing?!
It's a machine, that eats other machines.
With this:
I don't see what this has to do with my post vanishing, can you tell me wha-
Watch it question boy! I have a flamethrower!
You want to vanish like your dog did?
What the?! No, not Roozer too!
To be fair, your dog WAS drunk.
What?! Who would even... please don't point that flamethrower at me.
Right, and after they saw your post off the entire forum, they set it on fire.
Wait.. that man. His face, and fire! Oh GOD WHY?!
Oh, HIS post was all about his face, so the mods set it on fire.
After that, they used the ashes to open a gate between our world and theirs, like this:
BLECH! That's horrible!
And those tentacles! GAAAH!
If you think that's bad, you should see what happens when the mods get their hands on a bad thread.
Pictured: Mod hands
Oh look, here comes a mod now.
Looks like they want to ask you about that thread you just posted.
Gaaah! Tell them I'm indisposed!
Pictured: Moderator, dunno which one.
Tell them yourself, they're right behind you.
Wait, don't run away!
We haven't gotten to what happens when they edit your thread title!
This concludes our sordid fictional tale.
If you liked that, we have plenty more in the book "Oh the horrible things you'll summon!" rumored to be written by IamnotaMod
Well, see, Moosie, I’m almost 3000 miles in the opposite direction from Darks than you are, but he’s been affecting my typsos AND my dreams since long about 2002...give or take a year.
There’s a Windows Update thingamajiggie in the Control Panel. Set that to notify you when updates are available. That’s for IE. Firefox has it’s own.
Area effect then?
I’m thinking it’s more IP based.
You know our screen names ,which are logged in our heads as solidly as our real names.
Then the thread reading starts.....the rest is automatic.
Psychic connections.
Ah. Probably I knew that, but my brems are failing.
Thanks!
Hmm.
Sometimes I kow that a certain song is playing on the radio.
Turn on the radio, poof there’s the song.
Now if only I could get that lucky with the lottery...
If so, it means millions of people within a 3000 mile radius of you are making massive typsos without even a clue as to why...but we know...
We KNOW what lurks in NYState....
NY, the center of darkness?
Gotta head out, see everyone later.
See, that happens to me more than it doesn’t, and when I was growing up, a sib and I would begin singing the very same song, in the very same place in the music, at the very same time. Or we would say the same thing at the same time.
Yah. Cosmic forces. Sure.
I have some water rights in the Mojave Desert to sell, too.
Ta!
Tally-ho!
Much like congressional republicans...
ERK!
*tagline*
The W3C create web standards. These standards make sure that in every browser, the website you view will look the same. These standards specify the syntax of each command, where they can be used, what modifiers you can use with them, and so on, so forth. IE has never played well with standards. IE has these quirks that means you can't do specific things that the standards say you can, and every other browser says you can. The IE team has used the fact they have a significant market share to slow down web development by refusing to implement certain languages that would make the web more accessible and better in terms of usefulness.
As a web developer, I end up having to make a site with interactivity and amazing features... and then a second site that works in IE. A dulled down, worse version without any of the HTML5 or CSS3. A site with limited functionality, because that's all IE will do for me.
I hate IE because it makes me take up twice my time to make both a standard and a mediocre version of a site, the mediocre version not even standards compliant by W3C's checker because if I do it right, IE can't display it properly.
SOURCE: FireFox vs. Internet Explorer? on Yahoo! Answers
So, that's the technical end of it.
From a user perspective (and I've been using Firefox since Version 2), it's just a cleaner web browsing experience, and once they introduced Sync -- I'm a "lifer" now.
I have my main desktop box running XP Pro at home, my personal laptop, and my company laptop, and using Sync on the three Firefox installs keeps all of my Bookmarks, Preferences, and open Tabs sync'd up across all three machines. Further, there are options to also sync up Add-ons, Passwords, and browser History.
If I create a new Bookmark using any one of the three computers, that Bookmark will be available on all of them in a matter of moments. Using Sync I can intentionally leave a tab open on my company laptop, go home, sit down at my main desktop, and click "Firefox > History > Tabs From Other Devices" to pull up exactly what I was looking at in my office.
My wife can be browsing at home, see something she wants to discuss, call me, and I can use the same process on my office laptop to pull up the exact web page she's looking at in real time.
I've really found the functionality offered by Firefox to be simply unbeatable, and "simply" is the applicable descriptor, as no aspect of using it requires that the user be a guru.
But how user friendly is it to those of us with impearred brainz?
I can’t seem to find anything to read that I can understand, and I don’t want to download something that will mess me up down the road.
Thank you for that, HKMk23,
Will be looking into Firefox in the next couple of days.
Must procrastinate first. :)
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