[SOC] ATTN: Scientists and pretenders

Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:37:56 -0800

My browser, Opera, has the option to turn all those backgrounds off with a 
simple click.  Many is the time I have had to resort to that button simply 
to read what the person wanted to say without looking at their yucky 
graphics.  I haven't used IE in about five years so I am unfamiliar with 
its use.  Just try Opera for a while and you'll find a whole new 
experience in Web browsing.  It is much, much faster too.  While doing a 
web search I simply use Google and open all of the first ten sites or so 
in a different panel.  While I am searching they are loading in the 
background.  Since Opera only has one program open for all of my fifty 
windows or so it runs very much faster and in a smaller amount of memory.  
Those silly backgrounds go away with a simple click.
    73,
       Kevin.   KD5ONS


On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:08:19 -0500, W1EOF <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't think I'd find the layout of the web pages very good for passing
> along as part of a project anyway. I'd copy and paste the information 
> into a
> Word (or word processor of choice) file so that the information is 
> formatted
> just the way I like it.
>
> What REALLY gets me Ian is the pages with color choices and/or graphic
> backgrounds that make the text unreadable. I look at it and say to myself
> "Did this person actually review this page, and say to themselves that it
> looks good?" If this is what you are referring to, I'm very sympathetic.
> Stick with university and government websites (U.S. has tons of info 
> online,
> and much of it aimed at students).
>
> 73,
>
> Mark W1EOF
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
>> Behalf Of Ian C. Purdie
>> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:56 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [SOC] ATTN: Scientists and pretenders
>>
>>
>> W1EOF wrote:
>>
>> > Ian - I'm not sure what the problem is. I typed in your search
>> request into
>> > Google just as you gave it (including quotes) and I got a bunch of 
>> pages
>> > that had information on... Hurricanes and Typhoons. Tell us a
>> little more
>> > about exactly the type of information you are looking for and
>> maybe we can
>> > assist you.
>>
>> No shortage of information Mark. Pick anyone of the first page of
>> your search.
>>
>> Print them out... Everyone of them. See what you get, want to
>> submit them to
>> your year 5 teacher?
>>
>> Why oh why, is there this obsession with backgrounds?
>>
>> Ian
>>
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