(Well, not any more, and not that I knew much to begin with – just what little I absorbed in my high school and college classes.)
But geez Louise, What’s up with my Opera banner ads these days? They used to be in English. The last few days they’ve been in German. Today, I’m even seeing Japanese kanji.
(Yeah, I know I could just register and get rid of the ads, but I’m cheap/broke and they don’t really bother me that much.)
In other M and P news, these new slippers I just bought today are mighty toasty on my tootsies!
Yeaqh, I’ve been getting come-ons for Vodafone mobile service and subscriptions to online gaming sites in German for the last couple of days. Before that it was the Portugese newspapers and webhosting.
O’course, I can tell what they say, so they’re more annoying to me than to those who don’t actually speak German and Portugese, but it’s such a good browser that I’m willing to put up with it.
You’re getting free foreign language immersion with your web browser? What a deal!
At least, some small portion of the internet that doesn’t assume that everyone in the world speaks English.
SpoilerVirgin, I was expecting this to be a bitch about productions without supertitling, too.
That being said whenever I use sponsored software, I’m always careful to represent myself as the least targeted demographic.
Yes, I’m a 90-year-old woman in Zimbabwe with no interests or hobbies and an income of less than $5,000 per annum. Go ahead. Sell me stuff.
I love Opera. Especially for The Straight Dope. The joy, the first time I realized I could open all the threads I wanted to see in the background, inside my browser, in normal sized windows, instead of in a dozen different poorly multi-threaded instances of Explorer, and Opera would discreetly let me know when each page was finished loading. Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! And then there’s that nice thing it does when a request times out – how nice to not have to remember to paste your post into another application to avoid the chance of losing it.
Opera rocks.
Scarlett, what version are you using? (Just, um, idle curiousity.)
I have Opera 6. I switched to Opera and Eudora (from the evil Microsoft equivalents) in April, at the same time that my nice computer guy installed Win2K on my 2-computer home network. I have been eminently pleased with both of them, and amazingly unencumbered by the ads.
Good to know I’m not the only one who’s gone international. (Did anyone else catch the banner ad for some “ANIT-SPAM” program? Mr. S saw it, but it was corrected by the time he was able to show it to me.)
I’m running Opera 6.03 on Linux and I love the foreign ads. Seeing German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Japanese is interesting, and it’s less distracting than the English ones. Little German Santas dragging trees across the banner section just puts me in a festive mood.
And, BTW, the ads have actually proven useful: I got information about http://www.cdt.org/ through a banner ad, which politely opened in a new browser pane when I clicked it. Opera does so many things right it’s amazing.
Oh, and switching browsers now is certainly advisable if you don’t use a non-Explorer browser already. A security hole in MSIE (Microsoft Internet Explorer) can format your hard drive if you simply look at a page with offending content. Microsoft, not surprisingly, does not see this as a big problem. :rolleyes:
