I bet they contracted that sight out to open source developers. <-- think about that. Who "accidentally" allowed the answers to show at the bottom. They probably guessed that the executive who paid them would never take the time to scroll all the way down. I'm thinking they guessed right.

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It's because, as anyone who is someone knows, that's where their keeping the aliens from the Roswell crash in crio-freeze. Since that's for real, then it makes sense to embelish other alien stories around it.

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Data Dynamics ActiveReports -- Hands down. I've used it on two big projects. Have used Crystal, and SSRS as well. Crystal is expensive and hard to depoly. "Hard" probably is an understatement. Everything seems fine in staging, but go to deploy into production and watch you app explode for no apparent reason. If your report writers already know Crystal, they can make the transistion to Active Reports in about a day. It's very similar in the designer. Have fun.

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Ah! So there is light at the end of the tunnel? Please elaborate. I mean, it sounds like, I should be flaming Web Forms. Yeah that's what I hate. Web Forms? WTF were they thinking? I think Andy really made a good point too. BTW, guys, don't get me wrong. I no noob. I've been building web sites (mostly Intranet application) since CGI was written in either C/C++ or Perl. And I have an opinion. I hate everything about postback. And I hate the the stupid "Server Controls". Aren't they merely rendering objects. Seriously? Writing HTML with CSS and some nice JavaScript was elegant. ASP elegant. ASP.Net yuck. Maybe if I had started with ASP.Net I wouldn't be longing for the good-old-days.

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Yea, I know, it's been, what, seven years since ASP.Net came out? But I still hate it. I can't for the life of me figure out what they were thinking. My guess is that someone at microsoft said in a design meeting: "Wouldn't it be wierd if you could build ASP apps just like Windows Forms? You know with a wysiwyg designer all of those event thingies and stuff. And it would be really cool if I never had to write JavaScript again." And so it went that some team of twenty guys, who never once wrote a web application, set off to make ASP [.Net] just like Windows Forms. I hate it -- I hate it -- I hate it. I want my JavaScript and DOM back! :):-D:laugh:;);P:^):(:sigh::doh::((:zzz::->:-O:rolleyes::omg::wtf::mad::confused::~ :| X| :suss::cool::rose: The above is the range of emotions I go through in a typical day of writing ASP.Net web apps.

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The other thing about my Samsung DLP is that dispite being 50", I can carry it all by myself. I weighs in at about 40 lb. M-i-l could carry it.

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Samsung DLP is my choice. That is rear projection, but is HD. Might as well get HD so when you are forced to watch TV at mother-in-law's house at least you can enjoy it ;-) I have both a Samsung DLP (50") and Sony LCD rear projection (60"). Both are awesome while watching HD. LCD is not so good on SD broadcast [cable]. Samsung is available at Costco/Sam's Club, cant remember which. I got my [out-of-the-box/floor-model] Samsung at Circuit City for $1800 + 1/2 off the 5 year warrantee. Dispite being a floor-model I had no problems at all, and beleive this to have been an awesome deal. Perhaps this type of deal would serve m-i-l as well?

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Yes. If you truely have trouble sleeping as do I, use it. It seems to loose effectivness, though, when using it regularly so stop for a while once you are on a normal schedule again. Take it at least an hour before you want to sleep. And definately use the sublingual kind. It seems to work better, especially if you've eaten a large meal which will effect your ability to metabolize the swallowed kind. Valerian is decent as well. I've used both at the same time and zonked-out very quickly. -- modified at 16:40 Saturday 2nd December, 2006

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I just took some melatonin and......

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Exactly. Forget the lock -- buy a Glock.

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