"IT WAS 30 lines of javascript and all of the functionality was pre-written, meaning IT WAS JUST AS EASY FOR GMAIL'S PROGRAMMERS."
No. It is not just that easy for GMail's programmers. They had to do it properly. So does Hotmail for that matter. GMail works in IE, Firefox, and Opera on any platform. ActiveX is a Windows-only, IE-only deal. There is a plugin to use ActiveX in Firefox on Windows, but defeats one of the main advantages of using Firefox in the first place. That it does NOT subject you to ActiveX and the malware that comes along with it.
"I DID say at the bottom that to get the same functionality for platforms that don't support activex would actually take some effort"
Claiming that embedding an ActiveX control, is even remotely similar to coding a quality web app like GMail in Javascript is just wrong. The ActiveX control you embedded, was written by someone at Microsoft, probably in C++. That is not an option unless you want to effectively restrict your web app to Windows-IE users, which is a horrible thing as far as the www is concerned. People who advocate doing this should be beaten severely, then yelled at, then beaten again.
"I from-scratch coded a text area with bolding, text coloring, italics, etc, in about 5 minutes."... "I believe it was an activex control"
Thats awesome.. I needed a good laugh today.
You didn't code jack shit if it was an activex control, and it won't work on non-MS platforms or browsers. It's "coders" like you that broke the internet.
<optionname name="shit" description="Sets the ammount of fecal matter (in Kg) sent to the owners of zombied Windows boxes who fill your apache log and you're too lazy to set up a filter and you forgot to install logrotate" min="0" max="1000">1000</optionname>
"Cool, the next time i see you ill beat your ass, sodomize your boyfriend and steal all your money, because after all, you allowed yourself to be a victim."
We're talking about "verbal assault", not physical. One is real, one isn't.
For $4/Kg, I'll be the first to welcome our Columbian overloards. Beats the price of a gram of the other exports from that region, and does basically the same thing.
"Oh I see how it works. Well, thank you for pointing out to me that people who take offense to people being shitheads are the true menaces to society."
No problem.. I think you're still confused about what makes someone a shithead or a menace to society though. Talk is cheap. It's up to you if you want to listen or not. It's up to you if you want to voice your objections. Nobody is doing you any harm by saying that Christians are silly though.
"So when the dorks at school are being made fun of by the jocks, really it's the defenseless nerds who are the real dicks for allowing themselves to get upset."
Exactly.. If you allow yourself to be victimized, you're a victim. No matter who you are, or what you believe there will be people out there who disagree with you and will tell you so. Whether or not you see this as a problem that is in need of a solution or not is your own choosing.
"Incidentally, in my list, over half of the things I mentioned weren't genetic."
It doesn't matter. People get mocked for all sorts of reasons. Religion is one of the more justified ones IMHO. Feel free to be offended if you so desire. I'm offended by your taking offense.
"You say, "We're just mocking you and your silly beliefs." Why not say, "We're just mocking you and your silly [culture/skin color/language/clothing/gender/whatever]"
Religion. Stop pretending like religion is the same thing as genetics. It is not. People get mocked for their choice in music, hairstyles, and whatever else all the time. That's life, deal with it. It's the people who take everything too seriously who are the dicks.
"I'm sick and tired of this blind hatred and bigotry towards religion on slashdot"...
It's not hatred. We're just mocking you and your silly beliefs. If you're right, good for you. If not, the real God is going to be much more upset with you than me.
"Firefox is much more bloated than anything that came out of Netscape before they went free-software back in 1998"
Firefox (without extensions) is pretty much just a browser. Netscape is/was a browser, HTML composer, email client, etc like Mozilla. Firefox is much less bloated than either.
"Do ANY of them have the ability to go through a document, highlighting all the numerical Data? I mean, if it is so obvious a thing to do, why has no-one done it yet?"
Isn't that exactly the kind of thing stylesheets are for? OpenOffice.org has done that for a long time now.
But if you went to the US, you might have a problem with the strong US vs Canadian dollar. And the price of the trip (well, unless you just pick them up when you happen to be out of the country) would probably outweight the taxes.
It's not that bad any more. An $0.82 dollar means basically the savings of not paying sales tax are gone. It was a terrible deal at $0.70, but it's much easier to do by mail than crossing the border.
"How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?""
Here is the law that enforces the levy. It just says "blank audio recording medium". I don't see how a CD is a blank audio recording medium any more than a hard drive is, but let's not tell them that. Before we know it we're paying the levy on RAM too.;)
I agree completely. I don't recall the last time I burned an audio cd, it's been too long. Why should I have to pay royalties to crappy CRTC approved bands as a tax on my data only media? I don't see the harm in applying the levy to MP3 players though, I figure if you're paying the levy you must have a license to copy the material from at least those bands as much as you want.
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"Could someone please explain that one to me?"
It appears to be a reference to a really bad comic book.
"I said clearly that the tech I was talking about MIGHT have been activex, but I can't remember"
Exactly. So you're just talking nonsense. Nobody cares.
"then it must not have been activex"
Great.. You don't even know what you're talking about. I think we're done here. Link to it, or STFU please.
"IT WAS 30 lines of javascript and all of the functionality was pre-written, meaning IT WAS JUST AS EASY FOR GMAIL'S PROGRAMMERS."
No. It is not just that easy for GMail's programmers. They had to do it properly. So does Hotmail for that matter. GMail works in IE, Firefox, and Opera on any platform. ActiveX is a Windows-only, IE-only deal. There is a plugin to use ActiveX in Firefox on Windows, but defeats one of the main advantages of using Firefox in the first place. That it does NOT subject you to ActiveX and the malware that comes along with it.
"I DID say at the bottom that to get the same functionality for platforms that don't support activex would actually take some effort"
Claiming that embedding an ActiveX control, is even remotely similar to coding a quality web app like GMail in Javascript is just wrong. The ActiveX control you embedded, was written by someone at Microsoft, probably in C++. That is not an option unless you want to effectively restrict your web app to Windows-IE users, which is a horrible thing as far as the www is concerned. People who advocate doing this should be beaten severely, then yelled at, then beaten again.
"I from-scratch coded a text area with bolding, text coloring, italics, etc, in about 5 minutes." ... "I believe it was an activex control"
Thats awesome.. I needed a good laugh today.
You didn't code jack shit if it was an activex control, and it won't work on non-MS platforms or browsers. It's "coders" like you that broke the internet.
"How many american resturants serve native American food?"
That's because they killed most of the native Americans down south using biological warfare. Cross the border in to Canada, and you'll find plenty.
"Manitoba is the "Slurpee Capital" of the world for the fifth year in a row (2003)!"
:)
Make that six.
I'd be fine with:
<optionname name="shit" description="Sets the ammount of fecal matter (in Kg) sent to the owners of zombied Windows boxes who fill your apache log and you're too lazy to set up a filter and you forgot to install logrotate" min="0" max="1000">1000</optionname>
He'll be rebooting his IIS box before you mess with your http.conf anyway I bet.
"which is easier to read and edit to you?
(XML)
optionname=shit (apache)"
That's funny.. Slashcode shat on your tags, making "optionname=shit", much more readable. Hahaha
Use "<" in place of the "<", and it won't eat your tags.
"8) an exception to 7. You gotta make room for tunes if you're into coding with background music on."
:)
Thankfully Groove Salad takes up very little room.
"It's the BSD of Linux."
That would be Gentoo probably.. Ports and Portage are very similar.
"especially a small one with less people to catch mistakes (like Wikipedia)."
You think Wikipedia is small? What would you consider a big one??
"Cool, the next time i see you ill beat your ass, sodomize your boyfriend and steal all your money, because after all, you allowed yourself to be a victim."
We're talking about "verbal assault", not physical. One is real, one isn't.
For $4/Kg, I'll be the first to welcome our Columbian overloards. Beats the price of a gram of the other exports from that region, and does basically the same thing.
If you get X configured to use it as an input device it will.
"Oh I see how it works. Well, thank you for pointing out to me that people who take offense to people being shitheads are the true menaces to society."
No problem.. I think you're still confused about what makes someone a shithead or a menace to society though. Talk is cheap. It's up to you if you want to listen or not. It's up to you if you want to voice your objections. Nobody is doing you any harm by saying that Christians are silly though.
"So when the dorks at school are being made fun of by the jocks, really it's the defenseless nerds who are the real dicks for allowing themselves to get upset."
Exactly.. If you allow yourself to be victimized, you're a victim. No matter who you are, or what you believe there will be people out there who disagree with you and will tell you so. Whether or not you see this as a problem that is in need of a solution or not is your own choosing.
"Incidentally, in my list, over half of the things I mentioned weren't genetic."
It doesn't matter. People get mocked for all sorts of reasons. Religion is one of the more justified ones IMHO. Feel free to be offended if you so desire. I'm offended by your taking offense.
"You say, "We're just mocking you and your silly beliefs." Why not say, "We're just mocking you and your silly [culture/skin color/language/clothing/gender/whatever]"
Religion. Stop pretending like religion is the same thing as genetics. It is not. People get mocked for their choice in music, hairstyles, and whatever else all the time. That's life, deal with it. It's the people who take everything too seriously who are the dicks.
"So you think it is ok to mocking people based on how they look or the colour of their skin?"
People aren't born religious. That is programmed in much later.
"People do not "mock" that which they like, respect or are indifferent about."
Sure we do. Especially Christians, they're hilarious. Most are generally good people that I get along with just fine though.
"If you are to live in peace in a pluralistic society, you should tolerate the beliefs of others which differ from your own."
I tolerate them just fine. It's you who can't tolerate my beliefs.
"I'm sick and tired of this blind hatred and bigotry towards religion on slashdot"...
It's not hatred. We're just mocking you and your silly beliefs. If you're right, good for you. If not, the real God is going to be much more upset with you than me.
"You fear what you do not understand."
You don't even understand what you fear.
"Firefox is much more bloated than anything that came out of Netscape before they went free-software back in 1998"
Firefox (without extensions) is pretty much just a browser. Netscape is/was a browser, HTML composer, email client, etc like Mozilla. Firefox is much less bloated than either.
"Do ANY of them have the ability to go through a document, highlighting all the numerical Data? I mean, if it is so obvious a thing to do, why has no-one done it yet?"
Isn't that exactly the kind of thing stylesheets are for? OpenOffice.org has done that for a long time now.
But if you went to the US, you might have a problem with the strong US vs Canadian dollar. And the price of the trip (well, unless you just pick them up when you happen to be out of the country) would probably outweight the taxes.
It's not that bad any more. An $0.82 dollar means basically the savings of not paying sales tax are gone. It was a terrible deal at $0.70, but it's much easier to do by mail than crossing the border.
[U.S.] MAXELL 48X CD-R 100-SPINDLE: $29.99 USD = $36.92 CDN
[CDN ] Maxell 100-Pack 48X 700MB CD-R: $48.71 USD = $59.99 CDN
I couldn't be bothered to do it myself, but it does look to be a bit cheaper.
"How about DAT? minidisc? Those are digital recorders too, are there levies on those?""
;)
Here is the law that enforces the levy. It just says "blank audio recording medium". I don't see how a CD is a blank audio recording medium any more than a hard drive is, but let's not tell them that. Before we know it we're paying the levy on RAM too.
I agree completely. I don't recall the last time I burned an audio cd, it's been too long. Why should I have to pay royalties to crappy CRTC approved bands as a tax on my data only media? I don't see the harm in applying the levy to MP3 players though, I figure if you're paying the levy you must have a license to copy the material from at least those bands as much as you want.