Why is he a parasite? Why should incompetence of this magnitude be allowed, considering it's not exactly difficult? I just see it as an "incompetence tax"!
While the system exists, it might as well be used to do some good, and not just enforce "digital rights denial".
In fact, their license seems to forbids the use of any HTTP user agent to "acquire" some of their pages. Beware, by browsing their site you are risking to get sued
Yes, I see this idiocy a lot. My ISP T&C if taken literally, forbids web browsing as well. It's clear to me that nobody actually understands HTTP or HTML at all.
So, here's a deep link into these fuckwit's site: Refund. And another: Cancel
Does every avenue have to be available to every person, no matter what the disability?
Yes, when it's designed for maximum accessability in the first place and is only fucked up by idiots. I applaud this and any similar actions, as it is a kind of "fuckwit tax" on incompetent ex-dotcommers who like "Flash" and other similar crap.
what right do you have to tell me to modify my product for another customer
Because if you knew what the fuck you were doing WRT HTML, it would work for disabled people with zero effort. But since you don't, and are too stupid to learn better, it's now a "big deal".
Why can we not accept that there are things that we cannot do
Because this is *not* true of a competently designed web site! The trouble is, we've been overrun by fucking morons who want to use "Javascript" and "Flash", learned HTML around 1998, think this "interweb" is terribly exciting, and think they are "computing/IT professionals".
Kill 'em all I say. Or maybe I'll just be satisfied with watching them go back to whatever burger-flipping job they had *before* the dotcom boom. They should be forced to wear badges at McDonalds, saying something like, "2 years ago, I was trying to tell you how to do your job despite having no education", so I know to mock them appropriately.
Here's your free clue - HTML documents are *supposed* to be presentation independent. If you can't understand that, you shouldn't be allowed near a web site. The end.
Just because you can't properly administrate an operating system that is built to be easy-to-use
Does that imply you need an "easy-to-use" system? Maybe you should get that degree, and understand this computing stuff instead? Start with operating system design, please.
And Windows *isn't* "easy-to-use" if you need to do more than, say, playing solitaire. But I'm guessing you're just a sysadmin of some kind or other.
I'm sure w2k is solid for those with low standards and little education ie. used to rebooting every day, and crashes every other day, and who need "clippy the paper clip" in order to surf the interweb and practice their l33t h4X0r skillz, but I run FreeBSD so my standards are somewhat higher.
No chance of that. The "[ObXXXX ref]" joke is as tired as "1. 2. 3. ??? 4. Profit!", and "Imagine of Beowolf cluster of..." stuff.
As far as your time is concerned, I really couldn't care less about the time of an AC on *Slashdot*, or anyone on/. for that matter. If you're busy, you shouldn't be reading *comments* on the stories, and maybe you shouldn't be going to/. at all. Read at a higher threshold, or something, for Christ's sakes. It's not rocket science.
I bought a GC because I was sick of the same 3 games (Quake, Command and Conquer, and Diablo) under different names with tiny differences on the PC, and the GC was recommended to me by another long-time gamer as having *real* new games. You know, games that are *different*, as distinct as chess is from poker. I remember when *every* game was actually a different game, not the same damned thing with different/more detailed/faster graphics.
I didn't expect to be so impressed with the graphical output, but I was. It's great. Nintendo should be hyping this up a bit more!
What a fucking breakthough! What insight! And, as an added bonus, you get the overhead of creating the XML at the sender, and parsing it at the receiver. Huzzah! The brilliance knows no bounds!
Yes, I know about the "array of bytes" type, but this is just laughable. You now have all the endian/packing problems of sockets, so if you use this type, SOAP has gained you exactly nothing and you might as well have used raw sockets. And I'm not even going to *ask* what happens if you want to send an array of floats efficiently...
It's no suprise that SOAP is from the same geniuses that brought you the joke that was DCOM (which has been swept under the carpet I notice). Perhaps I should send these people some of the standard distributed computing texts for xmas, it's clear they don't have clue one about the topic.
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And they produced great games for the C64!
Staff of Karnath. Entombed. Ah, that takes me back.
Quit dissing the Xbox. It actually is pretty cool, even if it is from Microsoft
If I wanted to buy a bunch of cheap off-the-shelf PC components and put them into a big ugly box, I would just do that myself.
(on paper technical specs are one thing, but it's another thing to use those abilities effectively. Xbox games don't look much better than their PS2 equivalents, and Rogue Squadron II for the GC is enough to stop people in their tracks... and then there's RE (also GC). Yes I have a GC and a PS2, and as far as I can tell, there must be an awfully high API overhead for Xbox graphics, as the results don't reflect the specs at all)
Vader: "A substantial reward will be offered to the one who captures the spammers. You are free to use any means necessary, but I want them alive...[Stops at MAPS]... no blackholing!"
It's a lot easier to sneak into your neighbor's house and loot thier safe than to spend months stringing along foreigners with no guarantee of reward
I think you're right. Good thinking!
This also means that I am going to reply to this spam, as the thought of causing other spammers to be robbed, beaten, or even removed from the gene pool entirely is far too amusing and satisfying to pass up.
But is sending emails and surfing going to teach structured programming, functional decomposition, and so on?
As for impressed... I think most kids would still be pretty impressed when they write their first "draw a square" function, and then do the exercise where you call that in a loop, rotating the "turtle" a little each time - and create a pattern that would have taken forever to do with drag/click. It's a cheesy example, but suddenly the power of the computer as an extensible tool rather than a fancy networked typewriter becomes clear. At least that was my observation from when we all did Logo as kids, and I hear the same story from parents now.
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Why is he a parasite? Why should incompetence of this magnitude be allowed, considering it's not exactly difficult? I just see it as an "incompetence tax"!
While the system exists, it might as well be used to do some good, and not just enforce "digital rights denial".
It amazing me at the lack of professionalism in the web developer community
Yes!! Hooray, a sensible non whining/"I don't want to read books" person!
It's *not* rocket science, is it? You just need a modicum of cluefulness.
In fact, their license seems to forbids the use of any HTTP user agent to "acquire" some of their pages. Beware, by browsing their site you are risking to get sued
Yes, I see this idiocy a lot. My ISP T&C if taken literally, forbids web browsing as well. It's clear to me that nobody actually understands HTTP or HTML at all.
So, here's a deep link into these fuckwit's site: Refund. And another: Cancel
So sue me.
No, because if you were competent you website would be accessible by default. Idiot. Back to McDonalds for you!
Does every avenue have to be available to every person, no matter what the disability?
Yes, when it's designed for maximum accessability in the first place and is only fucked up by idiots. I applaud this and any similar actions, as it is a kind of "fuckwit tax" on incompetent ex-dotcommers who like "Flash" and other similar crap.
what right do you have to tell me to modify my product for another customer
Because if you knew what the fuck you were doing WRT HTML, it would work for disabled people with zero effort. But since you don't, and are too stupid to learn better, it's now a "big deal".
So many clueless people, so little time.
Why can we not accept that there are things that we cannot do
Because this is *not* true of a competently designed web site! The trouble is, we've been overrun by fucking morons who want to use "Javascript" and "Flash", learned HTML around 1998, think this "interweb" is terribly exciting, and think they are "computing/IT professionals".
Kill 'em all I say. Or maybe I'll just be satisfied with watching them go back to whatever burger-flipping job they had *before* the dotcom boom. They should be forced to wear badges at McDonalds, saying something like, "2 years ago, I was trying to tell you how to do your job despite having no education", so I know to mock them appropriately.
Here's your free clue - HTML documents are *supposed* to be presentation independent. If you can't understand that, you shouldn't be allowed near a web site. The end.
Just because you can't properly administrate an operating system that is built to be easy-to-use
Does that imply you need an "easy-to-use" system? Maybe you should get that degree, and understand this computing stuff instead? Start with operating system design, please.
And Windows *isn't* "easy-to-use" if you need to do more than, say, playing solitaire. But I'm guessing you're just a sysadmin of some kind or other.
A predictable response from an idiot. Next you'll be blaming "the drivers". Where to the Windows weenies get these standard phrases to shit back?
I don't run Linux, you stupid monkey.
I'm sure w2k is solid for those with low standards and little education ie. used to rebooting every day, and crashes every other day, and who need "clippy the paper clip" in order to surf the interweb and practice their l33t h4X0r skillz, but I run FreeBSD so my standards are somewhat higher.
2K is "solid"? So I'm just imagining the BSOD yesterday. I see.
This was already fixed long ago, you half-wit!
No chance of that. The "[ObXXXX ref]" joke is as tired as "1. 2. 3. ??? 4. Profit!", and "Imagine of Beowolf cluster of ..." stuff.
/. for that matter. If you're busy, you shouldn't be reading *comments* on the stories, and maybe you shouldn't be going to /. at all. Read at a higher threshold, or something, for Christ's sakes. It's not rocket science.
As far as your time is concerned, I really couldn't care less about the time of an AC on *Slashdot*, or anyone on
I agree, that might well be the case.
I bought a GC because I was sick of the same 3 games (Quake, Command and Conquer, and Diablo) under different names with tiny differences on the PC, and the GC was recommended to me by another long-time gamer as having *real* new games. You know, games that are *different*, as distinct as chess is from poker. I remember when *every* game was actually a different game, not the same damned thing with different/more detailed/faster graphics.
I didn't expect to be so impressed with the graphical output, but I was. It's great. Nintendo should be hyping this up a bit more!
So that you can make your broadband connection perform like a dialup, as SOAP is an XML protocol.
Just imagine, instead of sending your images/mp3s/whatever as a stream of bytes, you can send something like:
<int> 56 </int> <int> 42 </int> <int> 35 </int>
What a fucking breakthough! What insight! And, as an added bonus, you get the overhead of creating the XML at the sender, and parsing it at the receiver. Huzzah! The brilliance knows no bounds!
Yes, I know about the "array of bytes" type, but this is just laughable. You now have all the endian/packing problems of sockets, so if you use this type, SOAP has gained you exactly nothing and you might as well have used raw sockets. And I'm not even going to *ask* what happens if you want to send an array of floats efficiently
It's no suprise that SOAP is from the same geniuses that brought you the joke that was DCOM (which has been swept under the carpet I notice). Perhaps I should send these people some of the standard distributed computing texts for xmas, it's clear they don't have clue one about the topic.
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And they produced great games for the C64!
Staff of Karnath. Entombed. Ah, that takes me back.
Quit dissing the Xbox. It actually is pretty cool, even if it is from Microsoft
... and then there's RE (also GC). Yes I have a GC and a PS2, and as far as I can tell, there must be an awfully high API overhead for Xbox graphics, as the results don't reflect the specs at all)
If I wanted to buy a bunch of cheap off-the-shelf PC components and put them into a big ugly box, I would just do that myself.
(on paper technical specs are one thing, but it's another thing to use those abilities effectively. Xbox games don't look much better than their PS2 equivalents, and Rogue Squadron II for the GC is enough to stop people in their tracks
Piett: "We don't need that scum!"
...[Stops at MAPS] ... no blackholing!"
Officer: "Yes, sir."
Vader: "A substantial reward will be offered to the one who captures the spammers. You are free to use any means necessary, but I want them alive
MAPS: "As you wish."
The Romans? In that case, the lesson is "become a Christian society, and promptly collapse".
Or have we been reading Xtian revisionist history off the back of a pamphlet again?
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It's a lot easier to sneak into your neighbor's house and loot thier safe than to spend months stringing along foreigners with no guarantee of reward
I think you're right. Good thinking!
This also means that I am going to reply to this spam, as the thought of causing other spammers to be robbed, beaten, or even removed from the gene pool entirely is far too amusing and satisfying to pass up.
That's nothing! I had to walk uphill to school - both ways!
But is sending emails and surfing going to teach structured programming, functional decomposition, and so on?
... I think most kids would still be pretty impressed when they write their first "draw a square" function, and then do the exercise where you call that in a loop, rotating the "turtle" a little each time - and create a pattern that would have taken forever to do with drag/click. It's a cheesy example, but suddenly the power of the computer as an extensible tool rather than a fancy networked typewriter becomes clear. At least that was my observation from when we all did Logo as kids, and I hear the same story from parents now.
As for impressed
Yes - engraved on the moon with a giant laser! Programmed in Perl, of course.
Sadly, The Tick would show up to save the day, and he'd only get as far as "l33".
zeppelins full of hot chicks
Or a hovercraft full of eels?