View Full Version : Vote Paul in the NRSC poll
wolv275
09-04-2007, 11:41 AM
Vote Ron Paul in the NRSC poll
http://www.nrsc.org/survey/?sid=google
blazin_it_alwyz
09-04-2007, 11:45 AM
Being a web designer, I'm curious as to how they could generate that poll image on the fly, near impossible to do that...
Instead of posting a misleading image, they should just show the results on the fly. But I voted for Paul just now.
Shink
09-04-2007, 12:09 PM
What are current numbers? I voted on this months ago and can't vote again, so I just want to know how RP's doing.
nullvalu
09-04-2007, 12:16 PM
Being a web designer, I'm curious as to how they could generate that poll image on the fly, near impossible to do that..
As a web application developer, I can say that type of reporting is actually quite easy with technologies like ASP.NET... It looks like that is what they're using.
catwoman
09-04-2007, 12:16 PM
The "results" that show up appear to be calculated as of July.
nullvalu
09-04-2007, 12:20 PM
The "results" that show up appear to be calculated as of July.
Yeah, you're right tho.. It says results as of July 16th.. crap, over 90 days old and we were in 2nd place then.. The GOP must be soiling their pants..
blazin_it_alwyz
09-04-2007, 12:24 PM
As a web application developer, I can say that type of reporting is actually quite easy with technologies like ASP.NET... It looks like that is what they're using.
Generate a "bitmap" on the fly? You notice it's a bitmap right? I know charts like that can be generated on the fly, but generating a compressed jpeg?
https://secure.donationreport.com/upload/images/nrsc/survey-results.jpg
that's impossible. As you can see, the link above me points to a static image that does not change, but shows static results that have no numbers on them. I think you have it confused with something else.
slantedview
09-04-2007, 12:27 PM
Being a web designer, I'm curious as to how they could generate that poll image on the fly, near impossible to do that....
There are different ways to do it in different languages. Here's a tutorial that covers how to do this sort of thing in PHP:
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/dynamic_image_generation.php
blazin_it_alwyz
09-04-2007, 12:28 PM
A bitmap my friend, a bitmap, look at the link I provided.
Edit**
My bad, a COMPRESSED bitmap. No one would use PHP or ASP.NET to try to generate bar graphs with shadows and bitmap fonts, the anti-aliasing is a giveaway
devil21
09-04-2007, 12:28 PM
The survey is over and the results were exported into a image file. Why do you think Tommy Thompson is still a vote selection??
nullvalu
09-04-2007, 12:32 PM
Generate a "bitmap" on the fly? You notice it's a bitmap right? I know charts like that can be generated on the fly, but generating a compressed jpeg? that's impossible. As you can see, the link above me points to a static image that does not change, but shows static results that have no numbers on them. I think you have it confused with something else.
you're right, it's very likely that this is a static image..
however, ASP.NET has a graphics engine built in and you can generate images dynamically, printing text or drawing shapes, etc.. There are reporting toolkits out there that generates charts like this into images using the ASP.NET graphics engine (called GDI+).
look at this page: http://bbsmates.com/viewuser.aspx?id=16
this is my website. notice the email address is in a generated image.. this is generated on the fly as the page is displayed using ASP.NET GDI+.
blazin_it_alwyz
09-04-2007, 12:46 PM
Yeah
http://bbsmates.com/genimage.aspx?id=16
Although you are right in the aspect that your talking about.
And LOL at generating that so spam bots won't get you :D
nullvalu
09-04-2007, 12:50 PM
Yeah
http://bbsmates.com/genimage.aspx?id=16
Although you are right in the aspect that your talking about.
And LOL at generating that so spam bots won't get you :D
that's exactly the reason.. but the reason it's dynamic is because i have 10,000 registered users and i don't want the spam bots to get them either. :D
JC StyLEE
09-04-2007, 04:22 PM
We're behind. Let's do this people.
Razmear
09-04-2007, 04:54 PM
This poll is a scam just to get donations for the Republican Senate Candidates.
Vote all you want, then expect emails and snail mail to follow asking for cash.
They started the poll over so please vote again :D
Here is a message we got on our Meetup, Post 528:
[14:38:43] <special> i called the nrsc being nice
[14:38:44] <JasonC> inside u say
[14:38:47] <special> i think so
[14:38:55] <special> ok here it is
[14:39:31] <special> i called about them reseting the poll for thompson and
let them know im republican and voted earlier and wanted to know the results
of the poll before the reset
[14:39:38] <special> he explained it was published
[14:39:42] <special> but
[14:40:04] <special> i told him how i thought ron paul had won since that
is who i voted for this time in thier poll as well
[14:40:23] <JasonC> what poll exactly?
[14:40:30] <special> then i talked about what i have been doing in my local
with flyers and explained how republican had become a dirty word
[14:40:45] <special> then told him a few other things he slipped to me that
ron paul placed 2
[14:41:02] <special> so the point is we really need to get everyone to vote
on the new nrsc poll so we can win it this time
[14:41:17] <special> we did dam good though results arent officially
released on the old poll
[14:41:24] <special> the nrsc poll
[14:41:27] <special> thats hugwe
[14:41:29] <special> huge
[14:41:49] <JasonC> i missed this...they reset the poll
[14:42:01] <special> yes just posted on ronpaulforum
[14:42:09] <special> they did so they could include thompson
[14:42:36] <special> so we need to rally every ron paul supporter to vote
again in the reset poll
[14:42:57] <JasonC> and what if they reset again
[14:42:58] <special> and underground let them know we got 2nd and we need
1st but 2nd is dam good but no one wil know but us
[14:43:20] <special> they wont this was one reset and the poll had been
going for months before any reset and u can vote once
[14:43:59] <special> so we did good but it does sned a message its the
national and they heard 2nd place loud and clear inside the nrsc
[14:44:34] <JasonC> it seems crazy to have a poll and disclose the results
of the last one
[14:44:45] <special> they didnt disclose it
[14:44:50] <special> thats the point ,typo
[14:45:06] <special> i just had him tell me ron placed 2nd before the reset
its unpublished
[14:45:24] <special> they arent going to publish the count before the reset
[14:45:42] <special> so now we need to get ronn paul supporters to go vote
again the post is in ron paul forums
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purplechoe
09-09-2007, 02:45 AM
done and bump
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