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@dlymand2 said in 20,000 words: Very good post It is very interesting!

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That's weird, since the preview release runs on my crappy old celeron 300 w/ 128Mb without any problems whatsoever. cheers, Chris Maunde

I thought of that too, but threw it out when I thought "hey...now THAT would undermine Windows position in the PC platform market. Therefore, I would expect the focus to be on using Linux for servers rather than as desktops. It would make sense from that angle since Linux sucks as a desktop environment today, but is very strong as a server platform

Hey Jason, :mad: This is your boss and guess what? You're fired! And your wife, she's here giving me a great back rub... ;) Good luck to ya! ;p

For what it's worth, my experience with the MS streaming products was a total zero. I am sure they can probably work correctly, but setting them up is nearly impossible. We need to Webcast audio only for our church. No ammount of effort could make the MS products (MS Encoder and MS streaming server) work. We finally gave up and moved to RealAudio, which worked with few problems. I would rather had the MS stuff, but their docs are all PR and no meat. Just my 2 cents... Ed Dixo

I use my own version of the function which is based on an old SDK sample (non-MFC) since the applications I used it with had to work on older platforms (Win 3.x and 95). Works quite well. Pick up the archive at: http://www.devstuff.com/ftp/code/TransBlt.zip BTW, there is almost no error checking in this version but it can be added without much hassle. Let me know if it works for you.

From what I can tell, the project's .NCB file becomes corrupt. Closing the project and deleting the .NCB and then reopening the project (which rebuilds the .NCB) usually will bring back the auto-complete feature. I have read other postings that indicate that the .NCB and .CLW both need to be deleted, but I personaaly have never run into a case where I had to delete the .CLW to get auto-complete bac

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Abizern Point granted. Of all the billions spent on hundreds of thousands of web sites, Amazon did manage to build a bit of a brand in the online book business... but I don't think it is sustainable. Amazon was first, has plowed through hundreds of millions in losses, and got the benfit of huge prolonged journalistic exposure. But now Amazon is into everything and they are squandering their book "brand." But my point is that the web is not the medium to build a "brand." If "Survivor" proved nothing else it proved the incredible fascination and drawing power of "personality." Survivor the "brand" is not worth anything, if the second round has no "personality" to engage us it will be a big wash out. To stick to my point, I think that web advertising dollars spent to establish a personality would probably work better than trying to establish brand equity. And because I want to "interact" when I am on the web, I think that web advertsing will really start to pay off when the ad is dynamically generated on the fly and specifically targeted to me... with all of my quirks, preferences, interests, and temptations. That gives me an incentive to "interact with it," which is what the web is all about. I think people that are trying to bring "rich media" to the web, in order to mimic TV advertising, had better go back and read McLuhan again... that's not what this medium is all about. John

That is hilarious

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Well, the good news is that "soon" this foolish will be over. The patent is due to expire on either 10-Dec-2002 (17 years from granting) or 20-Jun-2003 (20 from filing) (depending on which rule is in effect) http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='4,558,302'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302

Yah Fremont rules! Except it gets boring once you've ridden all the rides at Great America and Marine World. But then that's when you take bart to SF (X-Games!):) The only other thing that's bad about Fremont is that it's getting too crowded

David, My own views are just as highly biased and ill-informed . :-o And I welcome any form of debate or feedback . As Its a www.Net type Application, I can upgrade the adds as often as I wish, And due to the nature of the software it's "{ Auto-geographically aware }", So I can distinguish between a user in Toronto and a user in Vancouver, etc. If it were not for these factors I wouldn't consider it. Hey and as I ain't based in the USA I don't have nightmares about the DOJ, Like a lot of American developers do. :-) But >>>2. Ask users to register. Get their email addresses and >>>develop some kind of meaningful and valuable newsletter. >>>Email sponsorships are much more valuable than banner >>>ads anyway, and you don't suffer the same problems as >>>you do with "bannerware" You application obviously >>>solves some problem, and you can likely come up with a >>>weekly or monthly newsletter that speaks to that problem. is a darn good Idea, Myabe , if its possible for us to eliminate the Banner Adds for those Users Who have registered for the e-mail news letter. Eg. Select your prefered form of exploitation :-) Regardz Colin

Looking at the big picture , i'd say columbus is a beautiful calm and peaceful place , but if you're an engineer by profession and would love be amongst the teachheads , columbus is definitely not the place to be in . If you've worked long enough to decide that it's time to golf and rest in peace , columbus is definitely the place . Most of the folks out here groom a pot belly , gain a few pounds , gossip more , work less and that's what IT life in columbus is all about . In the valley , you'd never encounter these attributes as people are too busy keeping themselves alive . As I mentioned there is something in the air that is so insipring in the valley that you are driven to work and have fun too . I a lot of ways i miss the valley but sometimes columbus seems good too , but you ought to step up your proiorities and decide on what you are aiming to achieve

I think Paul Allen is last low on the right