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Palash Mondal_ wrote: Respect other people's way of thinking. What if they're stupid? Or creepy? Or just assholes?
Jeremy Falcon
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2 X 4 = 8 and 2 to the 3rd power = 8. I have 2 dogs with 4 legs each and that makes 8, I just eat lunch.
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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Tried it once. Didn't like it!
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In my experience so far, almost every time someone posts something like this, they're from India. Is this a cultural thing? Do you guys say these things to each other a lot? Do you actually believe in this?
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If someone tries to calculate 6 + 2 by shifting beads on a wire when a calculator is available, I might have something to say about their methods.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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If someone needs beads on a wire or a calculator to calculate 6 + 2, I might have something to say about their education.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Since I did an intensive search for RFID related hardware, 80% of the ads in CP points to the site I most visited during the search...
So Google! I already bought the hardware from that very same site! Stop!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Care to share what exactly you were looking for (use case) ?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Thanks for the information!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I just peeked and now hope you're still well within budget!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It's only for a prototype (and the budget is - in theory - endless)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: and the budget is - in theory - endless)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
That sounds promising!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Yup. Same thing I saw regularly before my content blocker obliterated most of them. They either frantically push something I already bought (often including from the vendor I bought it from), decided not to buy, or was only researching for someone else and had no intention to ever buy. I can only thing of 1 or 2 times when the ads were for something I was researching but hadn't decided to buy yet. Oddly enough, none of the vendors who were stalking me in ads got the sale.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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And that, my friend, is the scam that is "big data".
You buy a hat, you'll get nothing but hat ads. But marketers insist they need to spy on you in order to "give you relevant ads you actually want to see". Don't buy into that lie, they're still clueless.
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If Microsoft stopped making browsers, developers would spend less time and electricity trying to make their web apps / sites work in IE when they work perfectly fine in all the other browsers.
IE 11 / Edge included. What a joke.
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Or ... developers could stop making web apps/sites, turn off their computers and go and do something that doesn't require electricity at all instead! It's not like we haven't got enough to be going on with, now is it?
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Shut down Facebook at night.
Heck, no, on second thought, that means even more people will do that during the day instead.
Shut it down permanently?
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I am seeing more and more websites asking for an adblock removal, and more and more articles on programming forums about blocking adblockers. This seems to take the same path as the tank vs. rocket where the former gets layers of shielding added while the latter gets multiple perforating charges added.
But why do websites need blocker of adblocks ?
People do not click on online ads, so adblocks do not prevent revenue because people do not go there first place anyway.
And once the ad placement has been paid by a company, why should the website care about whether the user disables them on his side ? Do ad-buying companies really request ads to be effectively displayed, no matter what program the user runs ? This is a lost battle...
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Rage wrote: People do not click on online ads, so adblocks do not prevent revenue because people do not go there first place anyway. I get revenue from ads on my website, people do click on the ads.
I have to do this because people are not willing to pay for or donate for the software despite the hundreds of thousands of downloads against my software(so the software can't be completely crap).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: I get revenue from ads on my website, people do click on the ads Unless it is blocked; which I keep doing. Not just from a security-point, as it is serving all kind of outdated flash and silverlight, also to limit the cost of my communications.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I think you have a completely valid argument here.
I don't care for ads, but I don't mind them either.
The only time I even mind ads is when they:
1) automatically start playing a video -- annoying and resource intensive
2) automatically start playing audio -- annoying
3) force me to click something to close them so I can read the content -- intrusive and slows me down
The ads at codeproject are okay, because they just display something and leave me alone.
It's a fair trade for the free content.
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I just now realized that I never noticed that CP has ads. I look at the site at home (with AdBlock) and at work (no AdBlock), and have never once noticed a difference in the site. Maybe CP is the one of the very few that know how to do ads correctly.
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At a personal level your post makes me happy because I try very, VERY hard to strike the right balance between advertising and experience. I hate annoying ads, and in fact we're a signee to the Acceptable Ads Manifesto (not that you'd know: they really need to update their site). However, software devs need to get the word out so that (a) they can earn a crust, and (b) they can make other software devs aware that what they are trying to write is already available.
So your post means "yay! I'm not annoying anyway", but it also means our ad sales team are crying into their coffees.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It took me awhile to find where they were, since I spend so much time in the middle of the page. The only ads I really find annoying are the ones that scroll with the page, play sound automatically, or even break the website.
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