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| Thread ID: 52953 | 2005-01-03 13:12:00 | Respecting other peoples choices | MMM (5660) | PC World Chat |
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| 310285 | 2005-01-03 21:57:00 | calm down and relax. Great advice! ;) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 310286 | 2005-01-03 22:04:00 | Hi Folks. (not even those with a gross non sequitur as their signature) What did I miss? :confused: |
Scouse (83) | ||
| 310287 | 2005-01-03 22:14:00 | MMM.......in answer to your orginal question....... most users don't even know the existance of alernative browsers so they do tend to get pushed quite hard. as far as firefox goes....its just a hot favorite at the mooment. opera is far better of course ;) but everyone pushes his/her favorite wether its right or wrong. human nature for ya. actually i do have to agree in part....there seems to be a lot of users here giving advice that <insert fav browser> will fix their problem when in fact it has nothing to do with it and they don't offer any reasons why an alterative browser would "fix" or even help with their problem. so yes there is a lot of unneeded brand name pushing........ a little trick they learnt from MS ;) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 310288 | 2005-01-03 22:14:00 | Hi Folks. (not even those with a gross non sequitur as their signature) What did I miss? :confused: Someone that doesn't grasp the English languge. :D |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 310289 | 2005-01-03 22:16:00 | Hi Folks. (not even those with a gross non sequitur as their signature) What did I miss? :confused: The unicorn I hope. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 310290 | 2005-01-03 22:20:00 | I would imagine it refers to the patron saint of good manners........ | Metla (12) | ||
| 310291 | 2005-01-03 22:26:00 | Oh. You mean that guy/gal who has helped me a couple of times and regularly offered good advice? Thanks. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 310292 | 2005-01-03 22:39:00 | The title of this thread is "Respecting other peoples choices" and nobody has to justify why they prefer a particular software choice to you or anybody else Greg. I have no intention of justifying my choices to you or anybody else, and I don't give a rats behind what you or anybody else prefers. The situation is quite different if a member asks for advice, guidance or recommendations when choosing software and then you can let your experience or prejudices hang out. Just because this is PF1 Chat doesn't mean that you or any other person posting belittling or offensive replies (not even those with a gross non sequitur as their signature) can simply ignore good manners and respect for the views of others. Cheers Billy 8-{) Here here to that!... especially the last paragraph. Seems to be a lot of 'belittling' going on in this forum by a few. I just put it down to immaturity and the fact that they are 'anonimous'. I wouldn't have a bar of it in the real world and I think most others wouldn't either. And yes... I'll probably get flamed by a certain 'member' for posting this :D |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 310293 | 2005-01-03 22:43:00 | Or i could point out Shortcircuit that your post contained nothing but a serve against others on the forum. Of course, Its different for people like you isn't it? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 310294 | 2005-01-04 00:33:00 | MMM, I think a lot of the FF pushing is to do with people justifying their choices in some way as opposed to just having jumped on to a bandwagon because it's the g33k/1337 thing to do . Of course there are many things that are, IMO, better about FF than IE but, the main reasons, and I make no bones about it, that I would advise someone to use FF or Opera or Mozilla, is: Security . There's no doubt about it, although simply using another browser is not a total panacea . I don't like M$ or their tactics or some of their crappy software . Although, much of their software is excellent and/or nigh on unavoidable . I like giving people advice, especially advice that fits in to my own personal view of the world, why the heck not . They don't have to take it, if it's wrong advice there's plenty here to give alternative views (as you have done) . I don't adhere to the notion that this forum, or the net, is a democracy or somewhere where contentious issues should not be discussed or your viewpoint made abundantly clear (being a tosser/ranter/troll doesn't necessarily fit with this) Terry, my view on your tolerence of the sites that break standards is, that it is apathetic . But then, I think that my vote counts as much as the next persons, unless I choose not to excercise it, then it's worth diddly sqwat . |
Murray P (44) | ||
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