Everyone Hates Javascript, no one here would ever admit to allowing javascript run on their browsers due to the infinite number of security problems it creates... or so says nearly everyone who has posted on this website in the last few years.
We've read this a thousand times in a thousand stories, only fools let javascript operate despite all the incredible things it can do.
BUT... rename it as AJAX... suddenly its all good.
What a bunch of buzzword suckers you all are.
AJAX is nothing new, its just a name for using a certain javascript technique.
Come on, dont make it out like the US Constitution matters in any way.
The rest of the world accepted the death of your constitution when the Patriot Act came into power.
In many parts of the world Judges actually have the power and responsibility to strike down laws that are unconstitutional... and they do it. But not in the 'world's greatest democracy'.
Who cares if AT&T hands over all your communications to the NSA. What the hell does it matter, you gave up your constitution willingly and deserve what comes of it.
Most people avoid Postgres because they are totally ignorant and are going with the popular flow no matter how ugly it is. They've jumped on the MySQL bandwagon with no regard for what they are missing.
Heck do you want ignorance?... I know one dumbass who spent $8000 for SQLServer based on a lie from the Microsoft salesman who told the dumbass that Postgres can not in any way handle Triggers! The fool couldn't be bothered to ask me or even to spend 2 minutes at postgres.org. Then there's other people who think your shop has to have the big name software or else you won't have any credibility with your clients. Hmmm... have smart clients who get from you a cost effective and powerful product at a good price... or have stupid clients who's money passes from you to the Database salesmen, leaving less for you. Which do you prefer?
I haven't seen much about the windows world in this thread... so here's my 2cents.
I am not proficient in Linux. It took me two weeks of spare time to get postgres with the PostGIS spatial engine up and running properly. The pathetic typos in the configuration scripts, the dumbass instructions that contradicted the contents of the files they described... it was a nightmare, no wonder people didnt use it.
Then, about 1.5 years ago, a Windows installer came out for Postgres and PostGIS and it all changed.
Literally 5 minutes later I was adding data to my spatial database and learning how to use the powerful spatial query functions.
Sure MySQL does have some brutally weak spatial abilities, but its a joke compared to what PostGIS can do.
Suddenly Windows users got to make the equivalent of an ArcSDE backend for their UMN MapServer websites, instead of spending $50,000 on ArcIMS with Oracle / ArcSDE. Heck I can build a few such sites for less than what the software costs to use the ESRI / Oracle crap.
The moral of my story and main reason for people avoiding the current, powerful, fast, spatially enabled postgresql is that people are stupid. Disagree?... remember that you are the people.
I've had an account with ING Direct in Canada for about 5 years. Never had a problem, their service has been fine on the rare occasion where I've had to call them.
I do exactly what you suggest, I use my credit union's checking account to move money in and out.
I don't leave any money in the credit union that I expect to need in the next 5 days or so, leaving very little capital for the credit union to make their profits with. You leave all your cash with them to play with, which is a big source of profit for them, and they pay you back by giving you basically zero interest and stealing 20-30 bucks a month from you in fees. To hell with that.
Get the ING Direct debit card, you can link it either to your savings account or to a line of credit to get at your money fast, get the line of credit... at 7.2% it will beat any credit card you have. The only fees you'll pay with the debit card are the network fees the other banks charge, ING doesnt add a charge here.
While your at it, get your Mortgage through ING Direct. Their 5-year fixed rate is 5.1% right now, compared to 6.45% through the big banks, could make $200 a month difference on the payments.
I tried to deposit $6500 cash into my credit union once... they assumed it was stolen or drug money and wouldn't touch it.
Needless to say, they don't get to hold my cash anymore, it all gets the high interest, zero fee treatment at ING Direct.
Whenever your credit union / bank causes you problems, start talking about ING Direct very loudly so the other customers can hear. You'd be amazed at how quickly your insurmountable problems vanish.
What really annoys me about believers in panspermia is that the promoters won't admit that they are simply complicating the puzzle of how life originated on earth.
Why couldn't life start on earth... The fact that we are here is pretty strong evidence.
Do these people have any idea just how huge space is and how unlikely it is that material from another established planetary system with life could have come to earth intact?
It's as rediculous as the Intelligent Design dumbasses... dont understand how something happened, so lets transplant the problem somewhere else.
Tell me panspermia freaks... how did life originate on the unknown distant worlds that supposedly seeded Earth?
Here's some great propoganda that will keep the muslims happy!
DONT BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF THEM FOR NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON!
How about NOT giving yourselves a president with the intentions of invading a country simply to finish his daddy's job, that was willing to make up any lie in order to get the common american sheep to support the idea.
That's a start.
Need an example?... Canada! Recall? those great people who had the balls to stand up to the USA and NOT attack Iraq because they knew Iraq was already fully contained, and that there was no believable evidence of any WMD's at all.
Think the war really was about freedom?... then you are obliged right now to invade zimbabwe and end that dictatorship... oh wait! no oil! no daddy to avenge! funny, freedom doesn't matter anymore now does it?
pssst... AMD stopped producing A64's of the 3500 and lower models a month or so ago. Any you see for sale are the scraps left in the supply chain.... anyone can run a 3000+ easily OC'ed 600mhz to 2400mhz. They had to stop selling them and use that headroom by slapping on the faster model numbers. It was too big of a cheap short cut.
The title we are looking for here for Caspian is Obsessive Compulsive Psychopathic spelling Nazi.
To roughly quote a past post of his... he didn't spend years at boring and repetitive school just to put up with people on slashdot who can't spell.
So, if you want to have some fun, write a post that makes a very good point, but hide a little spelling error in it somewhere. While he is eagerly digesting your entertaining words, he'll hit the mistake, freak out, and totally lose (!! muaahaha !!) the point.
You'll get the fun of totally ruining his day, although be warned, I suspect that in order to feel better he tosses kittens into traffic.
The title we are looking for here for Caspian is Obsessive Compulsive Psychopathic spelling Nazi.
To roughly quote a past post of his... he didn't spend years at boring and repetitive school just to put up with people on slashdot who can't spell.
So, if you want to have some fun, write a post that makes a very good point, but hide a little spelling error in it somewhere. While he is eagerly digesting your entertaining words, he'll hit the mistake, freak out, and totally lose (!! muaahaha !!) the point.
You'll get the fun of totally ruining his day, although be warned, I suspect that in order to feel better he tosses kittens into traffic.
been smoking too much freeweed haven't you Mr. freeweed? There's people out here that live in stratas that won't allow satellite dishes. Some of us also host websites on our Shaw accounts and would rather not switch providers... keeping in mind the bundled discounts of having all the services together.
The cheapo crappo Bell HD receiver you mentioned is $300, not $200, and is comparable to a $400 box from Shaw Both of these use the outdated DVI interface... no point blowing your money on something without HDMI, especially considering many new TV's have HDMI but not DVI, including my new TV.
The HDMI capable box I talked about actually compares with Bell's higher end HD PV box for $600. Although no mention is made by Bell about what kind of interface it uses, not even in the downloadable user guide. Now there's good service. I guess you are supposed to just take it home and hope it will plug into your system. If it isn't HDMI, then Bell simply doesn't have any competition for the Shaw box.
Of course if you take the scams into account (supposed credits that you are forced to spend on programming you may not want), then the Shaw box drops down to around $550.
You may be interested to know that the next format, beyond HDTV is already in production in Japan. With twice the resolution of 1080i, in demonstrations the motion of the videos have made viewers nauseous due to how their brains were fooled by the realism.
Regardless, you won't have to wait 50 years. Mandatory HDTV broadcasting is only a few years away in the USA and Canada... as is DRM enforcement through the HDMI interface.
My TV is ready... but I'm waiting. I'm not paying $800 CDN (Shaw Cable) for an HDMI HDTV digital box, plus the higher subscription fee just to get 10 channels that carry roughly 30% HD content during prime time.
An anonymous coward thinks I'm a fucking idiot apparently because a simple spelling mistake prevented his feeble mind from understanding the point of my post.
Oh wait, nevermind, its just the high and mighty Caspian, Master of English.
Personally If I were him, I'd go see a doctor. I hear there are treatments available today for Tourette's and Obsessive Compulsive disorder.
Getting hung up on tiny details and loosing the point of the overall story is a common symptom suffered by those who are unfortunate enough to be stricken by these diseases.
Like Beta / VHS ?... Beta was better quality and just as usable, although I don't recall how the price compared.
It was purely the corporations that decided on VHS in the end.
Today's format wars have more to do with which DRM method will be employed than anything else, something that the (non-pirating) consumers don't give a damn about.
Actually one generally does pay for open source software, just not always in the same way.
Anyone can sell open source software. Many have business models involving selling and servicing repackaged open source software.
If you aren't paying that way, then you pay by contributing back to the efforts of the developers so that improvements may be made, rather than just leeching off their hard work. If you can code, then you code. If you find bugs, you report them. If you have found innovative ways of using the software or can answer questions posted by other users... then you post the information for all to benefit.
You encourage others to do the same because one day you may need the help, such as when you're such a dumbfuck that you don't know how to format a simple word document.
But I suppose the high and mighty Caspian, master of English, is way above all that.
If you have time to complain like a wanker about the problem in an epic post here, then you have time to learn the software and help with open source documentation to fix the problems for everyone.
But of course the high and mighty Caspian is too good for that. Only he should benefit from such work carried out by others.
If you don't like your shit shoved back into your face, don't toss it around on others here over a simple spelling mistake.
Are you sure that your 'bug' isn't really just your inability to understand how to use the software properly, a lacking not just in the documentation but in your patience to read said documents or to learn how to use the software properly?
Few here would argue that open source documentation or help is in any way better than what comes from the corporations. Most open source leaves you high and dry on how to use even the basic commands, let alone suggestions on why your dumbfuck actions have led to ugly results.
If you feel so strongly about this... oh high and mighty Caspian, master of English... as your wordy post suggests, then the question really is why are you not spending every waking hour of your life contributing to the documentation of open source projects such as OpenOffice?
If you are not helping, then you are part of the problem.
Oh the high and mighty Caspian! What pearls of wisdom you throw at our feet!
Oh to be a self-righteous dumbfuck like you!
I can but dream.... For the record, I believe this may be the first time in nearly 10 years of slashdot that someone has posted the idea that to belong here posters must treat Microsoft / Bill Gates with kid gloves.
Has Microsoft / Bill Gates ever been treated with anything but pure hatred by 99% of the posted stories and ohh about 80% of the messages posted by the readers?
This dumbfuck Caspian is so high on himself he can't even tell the direction of the slant on this blog.
The 'Truth' requires proof, not simply your dumbfuck opinion. Well actually its not even your opinion since you've simply copied the rants of a thousand other linux fanboys into your own post.
But if you want to go on thinking that 'innovation' means that everyone should have to struggle for weeks to figure out how to compile one little bug ridden utility instead of simply downloading it and running it on Windows, or that every line of code someone writes is inherently the property of the world instead of the author... then go ahead. At least it keeps a lot of dumbfucks like you too busy to post here.
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Everyone Hates Javascript, no one here would ever admit to allowing javascript run on their browsers due to the infinite number of security problems it creates ... or so says nearly everyone who has posted on this website in the last few years.
... rename it as AJAX ... suddenly its all good.
We've read this a thousand times in a thousand stories, only fools let javascript operate despite all the incredible things it can do.
BUT
What a bunch of buzzword suckers you all are.
AJAX is nothing new, its just a name for using a certain javascript technique.
Come on, dont make it out like the US Constitution matters in any way.
... and they do it. But not in the 'world's greatest democracy'.
The rest of the world accepted the death of your constitution when the Patriot Act came into power.
In many parts of the world Judges actually have the power and responsibility to strike down laws that are unconstitutional
Who cares if AT&T hands over all your communications to the NSA. What the hell does it matter, you gave up your constitution willingly and deserve what comes of it.
Most people avoid Postgres because they are totally ignorant and are going with the popular flow no matter how ugly it is. They've jumped on the MySQL bandwagon with no regard for what they are missing.
... I know one dumbass who spent $8000 for SQLServer based on a lie from the Microsoft salesman who told the dumbass that Postgres can not in any way handle Triggers! The fool couldn't be bothered to ask me or even to spend 2 minutes at postgres.org. Then there's other people who think your shop has to have the big name software or else you won't have any credibility with your clients. Hmmm ... have smart clients who get from you a cost effective and powerful product at a good price ... or have stupid clients who's money passes from you to the Database salesmen, leaving less for you. Which do you prefer?
... so here's my 2cents.
... it was a nightmare, no wonder people didnt use it.
... remember that you are the people.
Heck do you want ignorance?
I haven't seen much about the windows world in this thread
I am not proficient in Linux. It took me two weeks of spare time to get postgres with the PostGIS spatial engine up and running properly. The pathetic typos in the configuration scripts, the dumbass instructions that contradicted the contents of the files they described
Then, about 1.5 years ago, a Windows installer came out for Postgres and PostGIS and it all changed.
Literally 5 minutes later I was adding data to my spatial database and learning how to use the powerful spatial query functions.
Sure MySQL does have some brutally weak spatial abilities, but its a joke compared to what PostGIS can do.
Suddenly Windows users got to make the equivalent of an ArcSDE backend for their UMN MapServer websites, instead of spending $50,000 on ArcIMS with Oracle / ArcSDE. Heck I can build a few such sites for less than what the software costs to use the ESRI / Oracle crap.
The moral of my story and main reason for people avoiding the current, powerful, fast, spatially enabled postgresql is that people are stupid. Disagree?
I've had an account with ING Direct in Canada for about 5 years. Never had a problem, their service has been fine on the rare occasion where I've had to call them.
... at 7.2% it will beat any credit card you have. The only fees you'll pay with the debit card are the network fees the other banks charge, ING doesnt add a charge here.
I do exactly what you suggest, I use my credit union's checking account to move money in and out.
I don't leave any money in the credit union that I expect to need in the next 5 days or so, leaving very little capital for the credit union to make their profits with. You leave all your cash with them to play with, which is a big source of profit for them, and they pay you back by giving you basically zero interest and stealing 20-30 bucks a month from you in fees. To hell with that.
Get the ING Direct debit card, you can link it either to your savings account or to a line of credit to get at your money fast, get the line of credit
While your at it, get your Mortgage through ING Direct. Their 5-year fixed rate is 5.1% right now, compared to 6.45% through the big banks, could make $200 a month difference on the payments.
I dont care about the referral.
... And they don't always stick to the 10K limit.
... they assumed it was stolen or drug money and wouldn't touch it.
I tried to deposit $6500 cash into my credit union once
Needless to say, they don't get to hold my cash anymore, it all gets the high interest, zero fee treatment at ING Direct.
Whenever your credit union / bank causes you problems, start talking about ING Direct very loudly so the other customers can hear. You'd be amazed at how quickly your insurmountable problems vanish.
What really annoys me about believers in panspermia is that the promoters won't admit that they are simply complicating the puzzle of how life originated on earth.
... The fact that we are here is pretty strong evidence.
... dont understand how something happened, so lets transplant the problem somewhere else.
... how did life originate on the unknown distant worlds that supposedly seeded Earth?
Why couldn't life start on earth
Do these people have any idea just how huge space is and how unlikely it is that material from another established planetary system with life could have come to earth intact?
It's as rediculous as the Intelligent Design dumbasses
Tell me panspermia freaks
Here's some great propoganda that will keep the muslims happy!
... Canada! Recall? those great people who had the balls to stand up to the USA and NOT attack Iraq because they knew Iraq was already fully contained, and that there was no believable evidence of any WMD's at all.
... then you are obliged right now to invade zimbabwe and end that dictatorship ... oh wait! no oil! no daddy to avenge! funny, freedom doesn't matter anymore now does it?
DONT BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF THEM FOR NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON!
How about NOT giving yourselves a president with the intentions of invading a country simply to finish his daddy's job, that was willing to make up any lie in order to get the common american sheep to support the idea.
That's a start.
Need an example?
Think the war really was about freedom?
Huh, so how do you feel?
Canada was right.
Canada saw that there was no justifiable reason to go into Iraq, that there was no believable evidence of WMD's.
Canada had the balls to do the right thing and not support the American Terrorists.
Funny how so many Americans are now with US and against Bush isn't it?
pssst ... AMD stopped producing A64's of the 3500 and lower models a month or so ago. Any you see for sale are the scraps left in the supply chain. ... anyone can run a 3000+ easily OC'ed 600mhz to 2400mhz. They had to stop selling them and use that headroom by slapping on the faster model numbers. It was too big of a cheap short cut.
You seem to have missed the boat (again).
.NET2 and the new version of SQL Server.
Sun and Oracle are simply working together with their own FUD Response to the release of
Get with the game.
Perhaps if you weren't being such a spelling Nazi all the time, you would have noticed that.
The title we are looking for here for Caspian is Obsessive Compulsive Psychopathic spelling Nazi.
... he didn't spend years at boring and repetitive school just to put up with people on slashdot who can't spell.
To roughly quote a past post of his
So, if you want to have some fun, write a post that makes a very good point, but hide a little spelling error in it somewhere. While he is eagerly digesting your entertaining words, he'll hit the mistake, freak out, and totally lose (!! muaahaha !!) the point.
You'll get the fun of totally ruining his day, although be warned, I suspect that in order to feel better he tosses kittens into traffic.
The title we are looking for here for Caspian is Obsessive Compulsive Psychopathic spelling Nazi.
... he didn't spend years at boring and repetitive school just to put up with people on slashdot who can't spell.
To roughly quote a past post of his
So, if you want to have some fun, write a post that makes a very good point, but hide a little spelling error in it somewhere. While he is eagerly digesting your entertaining words, he'll hit the mistake, freak out, and totally lose (!! muaahaha !!) the point.
You'll get the fun of totally ruining his day, although be warned, I suspect that in order to feel better he tosses kittens into traffic.
This answers a lot.
A girlfriend would relive your bizarre need to hastle people on slashdot simply because of a spelling mistake.
But it works both ways, your psychopathic spelling obsession will very likely keep any female well away from you.
I stand corrected, yes its mandatory digital, not mandatory HD.
been smoking too much freeweed haven't you Mr. freeweed? There's people out here that live in stratas that won't allow satellite dishes. Some of us also host websites on our Shaw accounts and would rather not switch providers ... keeping in mind the bundled discounts of having all the services together.
... no point blowing your money on something without HDMI, especially considering many new TV's have HDMI but not DVI, including my new TV.
The cheapo crappo Bell HD receiver you mentioned is $300, not $200, and is comparable to a $400 box from Shaw Both of these use the outdated DVI interface
The HDMI capable box I talked about actually compares with Bell's higher end HD PV box for $600. Although no mention is made by Bell about what kind of interface it uses, not even in the downloadable user guide. Now there's good service. I guess you are supposed to just take it home and hope it will plug into your system. If it isn't HDMI, then Bell simply doesn't have any competition for the Shaw box.
Of course if you take the scams into account (supposed credits that you are forced to spend on programming you may not want), then the Shaw box drops down to around $550.
Ahh yes, the old quantity over quality arguement. Only quantity matters huh.
yes 480 minutes of crappy squiggled video is ohh sooo much better than 90 minutes of clarity.
dumbfuck.
You may be interested to know that the next format, beyond HDTV is already in production in Japan. With twice the resolution of 1080i, in demonstrations the motion of the videos have made viewers nauseous due to how their brains were fooled by the realism.
... as is DRM enforcement through the HDMI interface.
... but I'm waiting. I'm not paying $800 CDN (Shaw Cable) for an HDMI HDTV digital box, plus the higher subscription fee just to get 10 channels that carry roughly 30% HD content during prime time.
Regardless, you won't have to wait 50 years. Mandatory HDTV broadcasting is only a few years away in the USA and Canada
My TV is ready
I love it.
An anonymous coward thinks I'm a fucking idiot apparently because a simple spelling mistake prevented his feeble mind from understanding the point of my post.
Oh wait, nevermind, its just the high and mighty Caspian, Master of English.
Personally If I were him, I'd go see a doctor. I hear there are treatments available today for Tourette's and Obsessive Compulsive disorder.
Getting hung up on tiny details and loosing the point of the overall story is a common symptom suffered by those who are unfortunate enough to be stricken by these diseases.
Caspian, there is hope for you. Be strong!
Like Beta / VHS ? ... Beta was better quality and just as usable, although I don't recall how the price compared.
It was purely the corporations that decided on VHS in the end.
Today's format wars have more to do with which DRM method will be employed than anything else, something that the (non-pirating) consumers don't give a damn about.
All this time i thought that sucking noise was made by the vacuumous wasteland of posts you make to /.
I'm happy to know now that it was really mother nature trying to fill the blackhole void between your ears.
Actually one generally does pay for open source software, just not always in the same way.
... then you post the information for all to benefit.
Anyone can sell open source software. Many have business models involving selling and servicing repackaged open source software.
If you aren't paying that way, then you pay by contributing back to the efforts of the developers so that improvements may be made, rather than just leeching off their hard work. If you can code, then you code. If you find bugs, you report them. If you have found innovative ways of using the software or can answer questions posted by other users
You encourage others to do the same because one day you may need the help, such as when you're such a dumbfuck that you don't know how to format a simple word document.
But I suppose the high and mighty Caspian, master of English, is way above all that.
Dumbfuck leech.
YOU HAVENT GOT THE TIME!?!
what a dumbfuck.
If you have time to complain like a wanker about the problem in an epic post here, then you have time to learn the software and help with open source documentation to fix the problems for everyone.
But of course the high and mighty Caspian is too good for that. Only he should benefit from such work carried out by others.
If you don't like your shit shoved back into your face, don't toss it around on others here over a simple spelling mistake.
wow what a dumbfuck.
Are you sure that your 'bug' isn't really just your inability to understand how to use the software properly, a lacking not just in the documentation but in your patience to read said documents or to learn how to use the software properly?
... oh high and mighty Caspian, master of English ... as your wordy post suggests, then the question really is why are you not spending every waking hour of your life contributing to the documentation of open source projects such as OpenOffice?
Few here would argue that open source documentation or help is in any way better than what comes from the corporations. Most open source leaves you high and dry on how to use even the basic commands, let alone suggestions on why your dumbfuck actions have led to ugly results.
If you feel so strongly about this
If you are not helping, then you are part of the problem.
Oh the high and mighty Caspian! What pearls of wisdom you throw at our feet!
... For the record, I believe this may be the first time in nearly 10 years of slashdot that someone has posted the idea that to belong here posters must treat Microsoft / Bill Gates with kid gloves.
Oh to be a self-righteous dumbfuck like you!
I can but dream.
Has Microsoft / Bill Gates ever been treated with anything but pure hatred by 99% of the posted stories and ohh about 80% of the messages posted by the readers?
This dumbfuck Caspian is so high on himself he can't even tell the direction of the slant on this blog.
The 'Truth' requires proof, not simply your dumbfuck opinion. Well actually its not even your opinion since you've simply copied the rants of a thousand other linux fanboys into your own post.
... then go ahead. At least it keeps a lot of dumbfucks like you too busy to post here.
But if you want to go on thinking that 'innovation' means that everyone should have to struggle for weeks to figure out how to compile one little bug ridden utility instead of simply downloading it and running it on Windows, or that every line of code someone writes is inherently the property of the world instead of the author