A large number of international traders accept credit cards, doesn't cost me any extra and I get points on my Sony card for every purchase I make. I am not liable for any fraud/misuse of my card.
So the reason is to ignore huge safety issues (which are patched and patched and patched, instead of doing it right from the beginning, because of the greed of bangs), for comfort?
Hmm... Not my thing. There are places, where comfort is just mis-placed.
And "point systems" is another thing, that I never "got". To me is it like being frauded (is that a word?), because when you calculate it, always costs more in investment, than it saves you in money. Or in other words: It is there, to animate you, to buy more, so you can "save" money. Yeah. Right. How stupid do they think I am??
As for 'reloadable' cards, for me they are slightly more expensive and don't offer me any incentive or attractiveness to use, and are not universally accepted.
Yeah. In Germany, the whole system of the Geldkarte, was an "epic fail", because it could never grow is the places where it would be perfect. Like kiosks, small shops, pharmacies, fast-food restaurants, snack bars, clubs, and similar small payment places. The reason was the expensive device, and no real point in changing to it. There was no reason for a company to invest in the device. Which resulted in no reason for customers to get a card. Of course, in theory, it is nice, to not have to have any paper money and coins anymore. But in reality, it simply does not add that much.
Additionally, you can't transfer money from one card to another just like you could give a friend a bank note. I heard that devices for this existed. But I never saw one in reality, or where you could buy one. And I even searched for them.
It would have to provide all the features of paper money and coins, and a big thing more, to be successful. And I don't see this happening... ever... Sadly.:(
But in reality, if your goods never got sent to you, or are defective... Don't they just simply say that you got them but hide them, and that you destroyed them and now want new ones, and therefore, you will get nothing?
Because from what I know, Credit Card companies want to screw you, wherever they can. I can't imagine that this would be an exception.
So how is it ensured, that you actually get a refund? Even if it is a brand-new Lamborghini (random ultra-expensiv good X) that either never gets delivered, or looses its motor trough the back, on the first drive.
...why anyone would use a payment system, with no safety at all?
What I mean, is that to pay with credit cards, from what I know, you only need the data that is written right on the card. And maybe sign the payment, like you sign any contract...
Is that really how it works? Because if yes, then why in the word does anyone even consider using something like that? I'd rather go back to bartering goods, than something like that.
When I do payments, I either do it with a bag of fixed-value credits. Like real cash in a wallet, or digital cash in a digital wallet (what we in Germany call "Geldkarte"). (Both can be filled/loaded like you fill your wallet, and when it's empty, it is empty. Additionally both are detached from the bank account. Unlike a credit card.)
Or I do it with a secure system that needs what I have, what I know, and who I am. Like a cash card. Or secure online banking with a keycard. (Both use a keyfile, that you decrypt by entering a code into a secured device with its own keyboard [and display], to create a secure channel, to transmit payment instructions, that only result in payment, if the server allows payment for that account at that moment.)
Or is it, because you have not much of a choice?
Please do not see this as a rant (it isn't one), because I really am interested in understanding this.
Well. Shall we calculate the memory needed for that? With my above assumptions, you would need 86,400 kB for the images of the tabs alone. Add the parse tree, the original images embedded in the pages (also uncompressed!), the JS virtual machine... and most of all, maybe more than 3 screens at 1600x1200 (this page here already has much more), and you easily get to your memory usage.
People just think it all comes from magic fairy dust. This stuff needs memory.
HA HA HA HA HAAAAA... The IE8 being a technically better browser... Yeah right. Have you EVER written any code (CSS/JS/DOM) for the Trident engine? Do you even know what the Trident engine is??
I have done "AJAX", years before the name even existed! I know Trident better than the developers who wrote it. Get off my lawn.
And of course, as long as Chrome and IE can't do add-ons, they are not even eligible for comparison against Firefox. Running a stable system, with 70 add-ins hooked deeply inside the browser... that is the art.
Oh, and 100 tabs open, is just fuckin' stupid. And you know it. Do you also have 100 apps open? 100 e-mails? 100 real paper files? 100 projects at the same time? 100 juggling balls? No, because it is stupid. See.
Only people with OCD do shit like this. What they need is a therapy. Not a better browser. But as it comes with the disease, you of course are obsessive and compulsive about keeping your wrong "reality" intact. You would defend it to death. So one might even say, that you prove my point right there.
I think he means the memory management problems, that some people still seem to have, or parrot about without checking if they exist for them. I do not have any memory problems with Firefox.
But then again, I do not use Firefox like a complete idiot, having 30-100 tabs open at the same time, with tons of flash instances included. Yes, it sounds crazy, but people really do this.
I think it borders on having OCD issues. Your brain can usually not handle more than 10 things (max) at the same time. So usually, you would group things. Which can be done by storing window sessions (with TabMix plus) or just simply bookmarking them. One group per folder. Under "Things I want to read later".
But they just dump everything into active memory. The memory needed for 100 raw images alone (remember: they need to be uncompressed!) is staggering. Take a 1600x1200 screen. Now say that every page viewed has on average a size of 3 screen pages. With 24 bit (3 bytes) color, those 100 images take up: (1600 x 1200 x 3) x 3 screens x 100 tabs = 1.728 GB of RAM!! And I still left out the in-memory parse tree, scripts, and embedded flash and images.
I say it out loud: Maybe the browser is just simply not made for this...
and figured hey I'm on slashdot the smart people here will get what I'm saying.
You must be new here...
It's not about smartness. It's about those people here that have nothing better to do than to hang around here all day long, have tons of prejudice and projection, stemming from the self-hatred of not being out there and getting girls, or something like that. It's a very primitive thing. They are very smart on an intellectual level, but emotional and social pre-school children.
It's what comes as a price with concentrating so much on technology. But hey, would you want to get tons of girls, and not know what to input in a shell? See...
And where should I send the money when... oh wait... when will be the decade where you realize that you forgot you were full of shit and would never actually bet on that? ^^
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A large number of international traders accept credit cards, doesn't cost me any extra and I get points on my Sony card for every purchase I make. I am not liable for any fraud/misuse of my card.
So the reason is to ignore huge safety issues (which are patched and patched and patched, instead of doing it right from the beginning, because of the greed of bangs), for comfort?
Hmm... Not my thing. There are places, where comfort is just mis-placed.
And "point systems" is another thing, that I never "got". To me is it like being frauded (is that a word?), because when you calculate it, always costs more in investment, than it saves you in money. Or in other words: It is there, to animate you, to buy more, so you can "save" money. Yeah. Right. How stupid do they think I am??
As for 'reloadable' cards, for me they are slightly more expensive and don't offer me any incentive or attractiveness to use, and are not universally accepted.
Yeah. In Germany, the whole system of the Geldkarte, was an "epic fail", because it could never grow is the places where it would be perfect. Like kiosks, small shops, pharmacies, fast-food restaurants, snack bars, clubs, and similar small payment places. The reason was the expensive device, and no real point in changing to it. There was no reason for a company to invest in the device. Which resulted in no reason for customers to get a card.
Of course, in theory, it is nice, to not have to have any paper money and coins anymore. But in reality, it simply does not add that much.
Additionally, you can't transfer money from one card to another just like you could give a friend a bank note. I heard that devices for this existed. But I never saw one in reality, or where you could buy one. And I even searched for them.
It would have to provide all the features of paper money and coins, and a big thing more, to be successful. And I don't see this happening... ever... Sadly. :(
But in reality, if your goods never got sent to you, or are defective... Don't they just simply say that you got them but hide them, and that you destroyed them and now want new ones, and therefore, you will get nothing?
Because from what I know, Credit Card companies want to screw you, wherever they can. I can't imagine that this would be an exception.
So how is it ensured, that you actually get a refund? Even if it is a brand-new Lamborghini (random ultra-expensiv good X) that either never gets delivered, or looses its motor trough the back, on the first drive.
Is your reaction, what you say nowadays, when your tiny little brain is not able to comprehend such deep thoughts?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA
...why anyone would use a payment system, with no safety at all?
What I mean, is that to pay with credit cards, from what I know, you only need the data that is written right on the card. And maybe sign the payment, like you sign any contract...
Is that really how it works? Because if yes, then why in the word does anyone even consider using something like that?
I'd rather go back to bartering goods, than something like that.
When I do payments, I either do it with a bag of fixed-value credits. Like real cash in a wallet, or digital cash in a digital wallet (what we in Germany call "Geldkarte"). (Both can be filled/loaded like you fill your wallet, and when it's empty, it is empty. Additionally both are detached from the bank account. Unlike a credit card.)
Or I do it with a secure system that needs what I have, what I know, and who I am. Like a cash card. Or secure online banking with a keycard. (Both use a keyfile, that you decrypt by entering a code into a secured device with its own keyboard [and display], to create a secure channel, to transmit payment instructions, that only result in payment, if the server allows payment for that account at that moment.)
Or is it, because you have not much of a choice?
Please do not see this as a rant (it isn't one), because I really am interested in understanding this.
YOU LUCKY BASTARD!
Being so low, I'd rather say it dives.
Dry "humor" is not funny, and never was.
My mom is DEAD, you insensitive clod.
But I can take yours, if you like! :P
Well. Shall we calculate the memory needed for that? With my above assumptions, you would need 86,400 kB for the images of the tabs alone. Add the parse tree, the original images embedded in the pages (also uncompressed!), the JS virtual machine... and most of all, maybe more than 3 screens at 1600x1200 (this page here already has much more), and you easily get to your memory usage.
People just think it all comes from magic fairy dust. This stuff needs memory.
HA HA HA HA HAAAAA... The IE8 being a technically better browser... Yeah right. Have you EVER written any code (CSS/JS/DOM) for the Trident engine? Do you even know what the Trident engine is??
I have done "AJAX", years before the name even existed! I know Trident better than the developers who wrote it.
Get off my lawn.
And of course, as long as Chrome and IE can't do add-ons, they are not even eligible for comparison against Firefox. Running a stable system, with 70 add-ins hooked deeply inside the browser... that is the art.
Oh, and 100 tabs open, is just fuckin' stupid. And you know it. Do you also have 100 apps open? 100 e-mails? 100 real paper files? 100 projects at the same time? 100 juggling balls?
No, because it is stupid. See.
Only people with OCD do shit like this. What they need is a therapy. Not a better browser. But as it comes with the disease, you of course are obsessive and compulsive about keeping your wrong "reality" intact. You would defend it to death.
So one might even say, that you prove my point right there.
You mean your ability to comprehend fails you. Your FAIL. Not mine.
WOOOOSH (scroll down to the end of the checklist)
Oh, and the parent post of my post above IS double negation/negative.
They *ignore* human rights *violations*. ... *violations*.
= They *ignore*
= They do not violate.
Else, they would ignore human rights. Or they would violate them.
Point still stands. BiTCH.
The nice thing about this, is that for Firefox, and probably also Safari, the bugs are already fixed.
So all in all, this was a good thing for us all.
The third exploit was a good thing for botnet owners only. ;)
I'm pretty sure, they ignore human rights, or they violate them. Not both.
Double negation, BiTCH! ^^
I think he means the memory management problems, that some people still seem to have, or parrot about without checking if they exist for them.
I do not have any memory problems with Firefox.
But then again, I do not use Firefox like a complete idiot, having 30-100 tabs open at the same time, with tons of flash instances included.
Yes, it sounds crazy, but people really do this.
I think it borders on having OCD issues. Your brain can usually not handle more than 10 things (max) at the same time. So usually, you would group things. Which can be done by storing window sessions (with TabMix plus) or just simply bookmarking them. One group per folder. Under "Things I want to read later".
But they just dump everything into active memory. The memory needed for 100 raw images alone (remember: they need to be uncompressed!) is staggering. Take a 1600x1200 screen. Now say that every page viewed has on average a size of 3 screen pages. With 24 bit (3 bytes) color, those 100 images take up: (1600 x 1200 x 3) x 3 screens x 100 tabs = 1.728 GB of RAM!!
And I still left out the in-memory parse tree, scripts, and embedded flash and images.
I say it out loud: Maybe the browser is just simply not made for this...
Dumbfounded? I am stunned and blinded!
I think my eyes are trying to protect my heart.
Bah. IE's add-ins are literally killer-apps!
Try to beat that. ^^
Also... it mages me mix up the k and g sometimes...
Did anyone else of you read the title as "Jacking lets you feel the movies"?
I instantly thought of porn at that moment...
Ok, I always instantly thing of porn...
With everything... ;)
This one is obvious: Job change.
10 ! I am
20 ! very
30 GOTO 20
40 ! happy, to never
50 ! ever
60 GOTO 50
70 ! work for someone else again.
80 ! EVER.
Nah. Shell is a feudalist nation. ;)
As you might not know, they have their own military in Africa. And their own money (oil).
I'm just not yet sure, where their land is. ;)
Can't nuke something, that has no land, can you?
Anyone interested in buying an orbital ICBM?
and figured hey I'm on slashdot the smart people here will get what I'm saying.
You must be new here...
It's not about smartness. It's about those people here that have nothing better to do than to hang around here all day long, have tons of prejudice and projection, stemming from the self-hatred of not being out there and getting girls, or something like that. It's a very primitive thing. They are very smart on an intellectual level, but emotional and social pre-school children.
It's what comes as a price with concentrating so much on technology. But hey, would you want to get tons of girls, and not know what to input in a shell? See...
No. It's actually pretty simple.
They prayed the most, because they had the worst conscience.
And now that they die, die fear they must ultimately pay for their sins. :D
My sig is:
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To start Windows, I run K -> Games -> Windows XP!
Sorry. Comes from the germanth Language. Am i on used. Must thou forgive. :D
Allright then. How much?
And where should I send the money when... oh wait... when will be the decade where you realize that you forgot you were full of shit and would never actually bet on that? ^^