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Offline StevePitman

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« on: July 18, 2003, 11:00:49 AM »
refresh...refresh...refresh... refresh...refresh...refresh... refresh...refresh...refresh... refresh...refresh...refresh...

wow! the main page is coming up!...   Nintendo is releasing a...  OOPS! where did the page go??   (it switches to an ad page)...

click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  click on "continue to planet gamecube"....  

wow! the main page is coming up!...

I know you guys want to make some money but congratulations on being more annoying than IGN.

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RE: too many ads!
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2003, 11:50:41 AM »
would you like some cheese with your wine??

just get a copy of Norton Internet Security.  it blocks most pop-ups, and pop-overs.

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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2003, 10:27:49 PM »
Hey um PGC, unless you take up like a terabyte of bandwidth a month or something we could host you on the gamers-syndicate network....
But then again I'll wait for our network to launch and see the servers in action for myself before messing with a great site like PGC....

I still don't get how you can't find a server with at least a little less ads though....oh well, I don't care, the ads never really bothered me, I've become quite a 1337 ad destroying with my awesome mouse aiming and phat-speed clicking the little X to close it ability.....

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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2003, 06:00:46 AM »
lol... I can't believe that there are still people in this world complaining about popups.  Either you really love IE, or you really like to whine.  One or the other.
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« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2003, 07:12:04 AM »
or both

im still using Internal Exploder, it hasn't really given me any greif so i haven't been assed to get moezilla or something

and enigma, sorry to be a bitch, but its 'would you like some cheese to go with that whine' unless you were genuinly offering cheese, and if so mines a wedge of havarti please

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« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2003, 01:41:18 PM »
The only ad I get on the forums in the one that randomly shows up between links, and maybe one pop up on the main page of PGC.  They aren't the bane of the world.
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« Reply #6 on: July 20, 2003, 06:12:02 AM »
The server isn't making the ads, their ad network is. Pop up blockers. Look into them.

Now we need a FLASH ad blocker. Those flash ads on PGC that completely take over the entire screen with very small and hard to find "close" buttons, if they have any at all, should rot in hell.

PGC said a long time ago that that they transfer gigabytes per day. They're probably bigger now. Can your server handle that?
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« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2003, 07:02:55 AM »
Well the reason they have an ad network is because of server costs...we got lucky though when we scored our server, totally free and No ads!  

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« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2003, 05:29:38 PM »
I need to reinstall my program.  Got new stuff, so it got uninstalled.
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2003, 05:35:28 PM »
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Either you really love IE, or you really like to whine.


::shudders:: I can't image the prospect of ANYONE liking Intenet Explorer.
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2003, 07:26:43 PM »
i have it, i use it, only cause so far it hasn't annoyed me to the point of changeing it. i only visit like 3 sites regularly, so i dont spend an eternity searching the web

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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2003, 03:43:34 AM »
I like IE.  And MSN Explorer, though both are basically the same.  I've never had a problem with IE itself, just pages that takeover with popups that refuse to close and I have to do ctrl+alt+delete and shut it down, which closes all IE windows.  Other than that I am happy with IE.
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2003, 05:33:20 AM »
How can you not want to use Internet Explorer?    It's better than Netscape and it's the most compatible browser around.   When I get my cheese I'll share it with you guys.   enigma487 is sending me some.



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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2003, 05:55:26 AM »
I don't want to use IE because it constantly has security holes, it's pathetically slow, eats up my resources like mad, lacks important features, such as tabbed browsing and a built in popup killer, and isn't any more compatable than Mozilla Firebird.

Being better than Netscape doesn't really take much.

And it really doesn't take a lot of work to upgrade your browser.  It's a 6MB download, followed by an unzip, and double clicking an icon.  Whoopie.  That's a lot of work.  If you want a more detailed explanation of why you should switch from IE, read this

I once used IE because I didn't really see much benefit in switching, as the only other browser I had used was Netscape, which was horribly buggy, and horribly slow.  I switched because I had heard that Firebird (Phoenix at the time), was faster, and much less hassle than IE.  I tried it out for a few days.  On the 2nd day, I disabled IE, and made Firebird my default browser.  When I lost my internet access from home, and had to use School computers to access the internet, I was forced to use IE again.  I actually used up 6MBs of my 10MBs of personal space to use Firebird from school because I had grown to hate IE so much.  It was slow, buggy, and didn't have a lot of features I had grown accustomed to using.

Firebird does EVERYTHING that IE does, but does it faster, and adds features to what IE does.

If you are coming here complaining about your browsing experience, and immediately saying that IE is better than anything else without trying the "else", then you are seriously ignorant.  The simple remedy is to try new things.

PS:  forgot to mention that unlike IE, Firebird is updated several times a week, and you are free to use nightly binaries as you wish, to add more features, or to fix the occasional bug.
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« Reply #14 on: July 21, 2003, 06:42:45 AM »
Grey Ninja, I went to the link you provided for Firebird.  The only problem I can see is that I have a Mac and the site says that the Mac version is still not quite pulled together.  Do you have any idea if my switching to Firebird would be beneficial in this situation?  Just thought I'd ask since you really do seem to know alot about this stuff.    

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« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2003, 06:55:17 AM »
Well, try it out and see.    I have personally only used the Linux and Windows versions, but both were excellent, even in the earlier life of the browser.

Firebird is by far the best browser I have ever used though.  I am not sure what other browsers are available on a Mac, but I doubt it's worse.    The Firebird programmers have been bitching about their code for the longest time on all platforms, but we love them all the same.  

At any rate, my official response to your question is to try it and see for yourself.  If you don't like it, it's a trivial exercise to remove it.    I am using the latest Windows build (July 20th), and it's working just fine for me, so try out the latest binary and see if you like it at all.
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« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2003, 09:13:27 AM »
Well, just to illustrate one of the features of Firebird, I have created a website that shows two screenshots of this very thread.  On the top is IE 6.0 under Windows XP.  On the bottom is Mozilla Firebird.  Take a careful look at the bottom screenshot, and you will see something you don't see in the top one.  I took care to log in in both browsers as well.  
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Offline Caliban

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« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2003, 10:04:55 AM »
 Grey Ninja could you tell me what were supposed to see because I can't see any difference other than that the bottom image has a cleaner set of toolbars.

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« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2003, 10:09:20 AM »
The bottom one has a "Quick Reply" option thingie which looks very useful.  That must be why Grey Ninja has such quick replies! HA HA AHA AHAAHA  
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« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2003, 10:10:56 AM »
Heh.  look at the bottom of the page.    And the similarity of the IE and Firebird browsers in interface is one thing that I did want to highlight.  Firebird is completely customizable, so you can make it look like IE, if that's your thing.  (It isn't my thing).  I also have a cleaner Firebird browser, as I never use IE anymore, so there's really no point in customizing it to my liking.

EDIT:  KnowsNothing beat me to it... even without the quick reply tool...
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« Reply #20 on: July 22, 2003, 06:08:21 AM »
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The bottom one has a "Quick Reply" option thingie which looks very useful.

does the quick reply option not work with ie?  i use opera, and it works just fine.  i didn't know i was special.  
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« Reply #21 on: July 22, 2003, 06:11:46 AM »
Nope.  I think it uses some features that IE doesn't have.  IE isn't fully HTML compliant, so that's probably it.  I doubt anyone coded it specifically to NOT work with IE.  
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« Reply #22 on: July 22, 2003, 08:04:40 AM »
Yeah, i have IE and there's no "Quick Reply" option.  But I have broadband so i don't have to ait a long time for the Reply Screen to show up and anyway.
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« Reply #23 on: July 22, 2003, 09:26:39 AM »
I'm using IE, and I've got the Quick Reply. Maybe you guys just don't know what you're looking for?

It's at the TOP of the page, and looks like a red "return" arrow.  Click that, and a window will pop up with a Quick Reply box.  You can then "dock" that window at the bottom of the thread, so it's always there (but only when you're logged in).
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« Reply #24 on: July 22, 2003, 10:13:22 AM »
I guess with Opera (which I'm using right now- tons better than IE but still has occasional problems) and Mozilla the Quick Reply is automatically docked while on IE you have to manually dock it. Just another reason Opera and Mozilla are better.
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