Ah now I remember why I block ads, its sites like these http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9428&feedId=online-news_rss20
I just can't stand motion on a page (non ad included) when I'm reading it. I'm not about to block things on an individual basis, so one animated ad, and the entire ad server goes into my block list.
I don't use the filter sets however so companies that produce decent ads still get through (i.e. google ads).
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RE: Curious -- who blocks Ads, and Why?
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Viewing topics in which you have participated
Is there any way in this forums software to view all the topics in which you have participated that have had new posts since you last read them?
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RE: C# verses VB.Net
The main reason I prefer C# over VB.Net is it is so much easier to find automated tools that will work with C#, and many others will only output in C#. Seems a lot of the open source community doesn't really care for VB.Net.
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RE: Rapid Protoyping Documentation
One easy way in word of making a large document like that is to create several smaller documents (one for each chapter) then import them all as linked sub documents in a master document.
The bigest trouble I've found with word is it's standard way of working leaves you worrying about the typesetting when you should be working on the content first (normal view and outline mode) followed by the typesetting (print preview). Using this with proper styles set up (create styles during the content based upon logical items then stylise their look later).
Lastly an export to PDF can make viewing the final document easier as it seems to handle on demand loading of only portions of the document much better, it also handles viewing inside a browser much better than word.
But then that's just how I handle any documentation. I did like latex as that was very logical but no co-worker would understand it, the same goes with html. -
RE: Create Database Production;
Personaly I just write the DDL sql to migrate the database to the next version by hand. This I do with the development version as I go through it so it's not too much trouble. All this is checked into an working update folder with in the source control and when a new version is ready the working folder is renamed to reflect which version it upgrades from and to.
As I write the DDL by hand there is no chance to forget to copy it from enterprise manager and when I'm done all the change scripts are sat there.
As a side note, I looked at that Ruby thing and I couldn't see how that migrate thing was any different to having two scripts,
Up:
alter table posts add author_name varchar(50) null;
--now at this point we could leave null to mean anonymous (ie the value is unknown) but in keeping with the demo
update posts set author_name = 'Anonymous';
Down:
alter table posts drop column author_name
So how is this vastly different or any more complex than the Ruby system? -
RE: Curious -- who blocks Ads, and Why?
@tufty said:
Not that this will benefit the average userExcept maybe a user like me who has a computer that would be capable of playing HD and a monitor with a resolution high enough to play it but some one has deemed that it should not play it. I don't want to pay another 800 pounds or what ever a 24" HD tft for a PC will cost just so they can encrypt the data to the monitor. If I was going to copy it then at some point I could find a way regardless of what they do, so in the end they are just persuading me to stop buying their media because I don't want to buy a new HD gfx card, mobo, processor, TFT, ram and any thing else they decree one could copy the data from.
And to the original question:
I tend to block all flash (ads or not) as I often browse with many sites open and this slows my pc down.
The other ads I block is all popups / popunders as I don't like my desktop swampped with windows.
Any thing animated gets blocked as I don't like things moving around when I'm trying to read, this includes non-ad animated gifs (especialy in forums).
The last type of ad I block are the ones I often see on news sites where the ad is in-line with the text leaving the text at around 5 words per line as at this point I can no longer read the text.
The point to note is if the ad pisses me of when trying to read what the content I avoid that product out of spite anyway as its to me it's like those people who stand in the street handing out leaflets or harrasing you to see if you've recently had an accident at work.
Ads I don't mind are of the kind I see on this site where they are fairly unobtrusive and site happily just out the way. Their success is increased if they are targeted at the audience such as sqlservercentral.com often have ads for Sql Server products that I sometimes follow because they seem like they may have a useful product for me. I often won't buy the product right away but will make a note of it for if the problem the product solves should ever arrise as then I know where to look (which is why I think sales based don't reliably work as I make most purchases up to 6 months after I see the ad).
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RE: Career in programming?
Don't plan on being a games writer, as so many people around me at college seemed to expect to become :)
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RE: Wtf about TheDailyWTF
Or alternativly let the forum track what you've read? and when you're done mark the forum as read for the posts you wern't interested in. It has the watch function (notify) so the only function it really misses is an ignore flag for threads you arn't interested in so they don't show up as unread. Although I personaly prefer my news reader to sort by the date of the last post to the thread (except watched threads that have unread posts, these should always be displayed at the top, unfortunatly I havn't found a newsreader that does this).
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RE: Easy question for a c# newb
For serialization you might be able to have the default constructor private (serialization is a special case as it uses reflection to find the constructor, which can locate and call private constructors).
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RE: Inexplicable problem in a very simple piece of code
And with floating point comparisons why do frameworks (for me, .Net and Java) not remember to include a simple comparison function in their framework? Would save having to write it everytime you use a new language and it's a function that is needed anytime you want to compare floats, it's hardly a huge function. At least if it exists people browsing the framework documentation might find it by chance and educate themselves about this aspect of floats.