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The first component to allow client-side scripts to issue HTTP requests (XMLHTTP) was originally written by the Outlook Web Access team. It soon became a part of Internet Explorer 5.0. Renamed XmlHttpRequest and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium,[1] it has since become one of the cornerstones of the Ajax technology used to build advanced web applications.

We already knew there were planets orbiting other stars.

... I am the one who took the bait and signed up for the gold membership. Classmate.com emails were already going to my spam folder, but I look that over before I empty it, and their's claimed that I had "2 New Guestbook Entries!" or something like that. At that point I decided to see if anyone I knew had recently added themselves to the list, and sure enough, and old friend had not very long ago.

Suspecting that this person may have left me a guestbook entry, I bought the gold membership, instead of just tracking down his phone number. Upon logging in with my new gold status, I was rewarded by finding two guestbook entries from names I had never heard of and not from my school.

In my defense, I am usually smarter than this. However, the good news was that when I emailed support asking to have any and all of my information removed, they complied without complaint in a timely manner, and even refunded my payment. I was shocked.

The moral here is, if you get caught in a moment of weakness and stupidity like I did, send them an email demanding to have your info removed immediately, and maybe you will get a refund too.

Maybe not *that* nice..

Any idea how many times they resold your email address as live and equipped with a user who can be fooled? You're smarter now (at least, I'd hope) but you have flagged yourself as someone willing to follow through on spam. You do that with the wrong people (that is, the ones that haven't been arrested yet) and you'll earn someone cash by showing you don't just reply, you actually part with money..

I'd hold back on the Songs of Praise for now - remember that it started with them spamming you. That data has to come from somewhere.

The key to Access is keeping what it is in perspective. Too many dopes out there are trying to turn Access into a catch-all solution and it wasn't developed that way. While it is crawling in that direction it's going to be a number of years before it ever bears any real fruit as something more than a low-end fast and dirty database appliance.

There's a reason that it's only part of the MS Office suite and not the MS Office suite in and of itself.

...or software development.

Hello,
I think the discovery was made by the team led by Paul Kalas:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~kalas/index.html

What! Rich Stallman is against something that he didn't personally conceive of and name? I can't believe it! He is usually an open-minded individual, willing to foster and encourage new concepts, and never one for not-invented-here syndrom!

MySpace does the exact same thing but for free. In my opinion Classmates is a scam. I signed up, paid for 3 months, decided I didn't need it & canceled my account. 2 months after the original 3 months were over those fuckers were still billing my account. Even though I a.) didn't sign up for any kind of auto-renewal to start with & b.) canceled my pay account.

Fuck Classmates. I hope a lawyer jumps into their collective asses with both feet.

suck my cock, you homos!

And yet, all I can hear is
"no no you see my song goes dundundundunde ding ding
their song goes dundundundun de ding ding"

At first they create something that is accesible by everyone. Then, when everyone is locked in product, they will do the same thing with Hotmail: sniff web agents and deny acces to everyone running Linux. When this happens, people will start to use fake user agents. After their "switch to Windows" attempt has failed, Microshit will 'evolve' MS Office for Web(TM) with releasing a newer version with 'extended capabilities' that requires the latest IE rendering crap on order to properly view the 'web app'. Then everyone will start installing the latest IE with Wine. When that happens they will release OOXML2(R)(TM)(c) which is a proprietary web format that only works with the latest IE, but hey, if you want an open standard, then why don't you save your documents in OOXML1?/sarcasm.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa.
That's a funny joke.
Oh Microsoft. You're so funny.
Hahahahahaha.
Compatability with non-Vista, non-Internet Explorer user experiences?
Oh jeeze. This ought to be interesting.

which is worse?:

1. man falls asleep at wheel of truck, smashes into bus full of kids, kills 10. feels awful about it

2. man carefully watches bus route for weeks, carefully plotting and calculating exactly when to smash into bus to kill children. he kills 2 children. he feels bad he didn't kill more

#2 is absolutely many times more criminal than #1, even though he killed far less children. because of a magic concept which all legal codes understand: intent

any legal code in the world has a difference of understanding between manslaughter and murder, with the punishment for murder being far worse than manslaughter. the magic difference? intent

do you know what intent is? you apparently do not, it currently does not inform your opinions

if you leave a stack of $20s out, you are thoughtless. you have no intent. therefore, you have committed no crime. meanwhile, if you walk into an open door and take the stack of $20s, you have a clear intent to commit a transgressive act and relieve someone else of something valuable which is not yours. you, and you alone, are culpable for what you have done

the magic concept?

intent

intent underlies all readings of morality in all cultures, for clear and obvious reasons of logical and philosophical coherence on the question of right and wrong

Mean, Median and Mode. In a world of 99 uniform dumbasses and 1 genius, 99% would be below mean intelligence.

Not sure where you get the 50% from.