" @DrPockets000: It's not all personal preference. Web designers have always had trouble with IE because of Microsoft being unable to make it standards compliant. Newer versions of IE are much better though, but I think a lot of designers would prefer it if nobody used IE. "
Is it deisgners or is it really developers? Don't they have personal preferences too? There is an obvious requirement to design for IE, since it is the most popular browser on the internet. Internet Explorer works fine if your PC works and is configured and protected correctly - unless you have an irrational hatred for "Micro$oft", that is. I find browsers like Chrome and Firefox have their own set of perculiarities, or lack of IE features. As much as you may not like it, you are not all designers, so how can you speak for them all?
@DrPockets000 said:
"For anti-security, I only trust AVG. There is a free version. Also, I recommend you stop using Explorer. It's an absolutely dreadful browser and I've all but confirmed that it was the source of my crash last year. "
As already mentioned before in this thread, how will they browse their files if they stop using explorer?
I'd suggest the first step for the OP is defragmentation, since if explorerer hangs, it might be trying to seek a lost file fragment/cluster/allocation unit.
"Thermodynamics can go fuck itself. Evolution itself breaks it's precious second law, those 'laws' need to be updated. "
How does evolution break the Second Law of Themodynamics?
I can't let all this smack-talking go unchallenged against these precious laws. What has Thermodynamics ever done to you? Are you still annoyed from an old kettle-scold?
I've had a few careers at 43: I started in IT support, went into technical planning, (firm and staff) got outsourced, started project managing clients, managed web developments, joined an online agency, did some contracting, then finally got fed up and left the industry!
I started a teaching career with a years "traiining" (working at 75% time and duty of a fully paid teacher) for an utter pittance (comparatively!). I also had to endure one day a week of some of the wooliest, ill-thought out lectures and seminars. I Joined an academically "good" school after that year, then got promoted, but got overwhelmed with awful conditions, mindless repetition, meaningless government, council and other interventions and intiiatives, crazy amounts of time needed to do a decent job, but mainly the culture of indifference, mediocrety, aversion to change, mindless repetition, unionisation and other teachers (but especially head teachers).
I should also say that I started my IT career at 27, after leaving uni as a "mature student". Before that, I'd had plently of other jobs and a couple of careers too. The teaching decision was an awful one. I wanted to do a job that seemed more meaningful than delivering websites to suits, but the joys of helping people learn are off-set massively by the realities of the job - at least in the UK - to me.
Right now though, I'm going back to my first love, and the reason I ended up having to become a mature student, rather than doing A levels - playing music. And I'm loving it! So my current advice is: Only ever do what will make you personally happy. You can always slip a bit of freelance IT generalising in your local area if you get stuck, so you'll always have that to fall back on. Good luck in your brave choice. Change is good.
"I know this is nitpicking, but the title should be Too many Games...."
I know that this is nitpicking too, but I too will say it anyway, since its really bugging me.... sorry!:
The title could have been "To Many Games" too, yet still have been correct. It makes perfect sense to me that way, since the OP was addressing many games in their post (as if in a toast).
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