[quote user="_gaffer"]I get the impression they're running full tilt at the tablet/phone market that OS X and Android are eating up, and they've forgotten that a fuckton of people out there still just want an easy way to jam numbers into excel, send email, and make powerpoint presentations to bore their coworkers ...

Gotta love those banks that require a computer with Java, so they can run security audit software from the web on your computer and verify that it won't run any random code from the web.

[quote user="Ben L."]Does the software eat anything above the hundred millions for "safety"?[/quote] The softwre probably truncates the number, because the underlying data storage is a numeric(9,2) field, and when you get data that is obviously wrong the right thing to do - as EVERYBODY knows  - is to torture it untill it ...

[quote user="blakeyrat"]This company has millions in revenue, thousands of employees, and owns dozen of studios that do web design: [/quote]  I like it that the only "link" that I want to click on that flash application leads to a 404. Those "Click here" instructions are also cute. Maybe we could standardize ...

 Try resizing your browser window. That takes an entire new level of stupidity.

[quote user="lucas"]Not quite. There is a whole load of functions that won't work with ntext field that will work with a nvarchar (mind you this is on SQL Server).[/quote]  In Postgres they are exactly the same (except that text has no limit). Also, there is no nvarchar stupidity there, just text, char and varchar. ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]or they [politicians] are negligent on a scale that will make them the greatest mass murderers in history[/quote]  Do I really need to read the other option, or can I go with the default assumptions for those people?

[quote user="morbiuswilters"] Nobody said "bug free". It's just significantly less buggy and shitty.[/quote]  Guess that's exactly why everybody is abandonning everything else, but shitty FOSS. [quote user="morbiuswilters"]Is your argument actually that FOSS sucks faster?[/quote] Yes, if you are ok ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]he's talking about how retarded the idea is that you should have to fucking write your own patches for the software you use[/quote]  And the alternative is? Spending those hours at the support line until the other side acknowleges the bug and mark it wontfix (the MS way)? Spending those hours ...

[quote user="morbiuswilters"][quote user="mikeTheLiar"]Mind = blown. Fucking hell. Why didn't I know about that a year ago?[/quote] Don't get too excited, sometimes it mysteriously caches shit. So ctrl-shift-R is still your friend. Honestly, though, who needs to clear cache in development? Why are your ...