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5! Ok, 6 ;) Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

It at least brings his ignorant stereotypes up to date tho Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

An intelligent person doesn't waste his time typing out the same thing over and over, instead he points others to a comprehensive source. Invisible Empire: A New World Order Defined (High Quality 2:14:01)[^] Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] The Truthbox[^]

I know the tip is a sloppy one. It was probably a bad choice of example on my part. The exact bug you point out is a severe one, and can happen on a wide variety of platforms, even single-process ones. I do not think that really affects my argument though. The issue for me is not the quality of one particular tip, it is the nature of the criticism leveled at it. No one posted a response to the tip explaining its bug(s), or why it does not work well in a multiprocessing environment. The response was (paraphrasing) "this is garbage because it doesn't have command line arguments." And I am sure an equal number of people looked at the tip and asked "where's the GUI?" In my original post I wanted to use someone else's tip, to make my point more objective. But perhaps one of my own tips[^] is a better example. In the tip, I provided a signature-compatible GDI+ replacement for GDI's StretchBlt() function, which adds anti-aliasing. There are a variety of potential issues with what I posted: it is not particularly fast, a full rewrite might be better than simply dropping in a replacement function, etc. I expected criticism on these points. However, the nature of the actual criticism I got was a bit unexpected. Someone posted a response with the subject line "Just use Bitblt of GDI in WM_PAINT, resize at other." In other words, the suggestion is to draw the image at its native resolution in WM_PAINT and then resize it using other (unspecified) means. You can read my response to this post at the tip itself, but in short I do not see where WM_PAINT necessarily enters the discussion... this is a classic example of the anti-pattern I pointed out. Of course, relying on some other unspecified magic to do the actual work of resizing the image (the whole point of StretchBlt()) is not valid, either. To summarize: when I post code, I am not necessarily suggesting an architecture. In criticizing my code, be brutal; point out bugs, potential optimizations, etc. But please do not place my code into some assumed architectural context without a valid reason.

lol that explains everything.

So, scirentific fact proved by fear. Like GW. Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

Or a small goose. ;) Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

Darn right.

So, searchin IMDB for 'penis' eh? Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

RichardM1 wrote: My point was that Bob seems so spiteful towards the US that he would rather be a slave than say a good thing about the US. I would rather be a slave than say a good thing about the US? Yeah, right. :rolleyes: Do I think that Europe 'needed' the USA to come in and 'clear up its mess'? No. Why? Because the European tribes have spent centuries alternately massacring each other and clearing up the mess. We were quite good at it. RichardM1 wrote: The only things I resent about Britain are attitudes like this Goes with being a world power. You think the British and French were loved? Rise above it. Bob Emmett CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.

Christian Graus wrote: They both look like blokes to me..... Yeah well Claudia Schiffer was not your normal German woman. I wonder if you offered to upgrade the computer or the woman which one he'd take?

Nagy Vilmos wrote: A story about guys sticking rodents up the jacksies and think it's only probably NSFW. Because when I last saw it (a decade or more ago) it was in plain text, so unless you have very pedantic web filters, it's probably alright to read it at work... but anything you search on now might have pretty pictures to go with it, which, of course, would render it NSFW... rofl... I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! If you like cars, check out the Booger Mobile blog | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!

From my experience most people are either too apathetic, or dependent on others for an opinion to be independents. I would like to see a few more independents in Congress though, too. That's called seagull management (or sometimes pigeon management)... Fly in, flap your arms and squawk a lot, crap all over everything and fly out again... by _Damian S_

JHizzle wrote: Ok, it would cause a shortage in paper towels. For the drool. Yes, drool. You're doing it wrong. If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.

There's a reason the average American is looked at like an idiot. They generally believe crap like this. I move we toss CSS into a real cesspit and see if he still compares places people live to one.

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CaptainSeeSharp wrote: and let the market free except for regulating it with laws, which isn't really a free market. CaptainSeeSharp wrote: After the correction we would see a new age of prosperity. For the companies. They'd send all their labor to 3rd world nations, begin collusion schemes to make sure that they wouldn't have to lower prices and continue to make the rich richer. CaptainSeeSharp wrote: Government and central banks are the root cause of the current financial collapse, Funny, I thought that was because the governments allowed the banks to use the capital of their clients to make investments. With insured money to use for investments, there was no risk whatsoever on the bank's parts and so they made HORRIBLE investments expecting to make a ton if they panned out and the governments to pay if they failed. Of course if the government isn't insuring the banks then the moment a bank executive decides to have some fun and embezzles a ton of money then there are a bunch of burned people. But hey, that can't be right, that means a free market attempted to cheat. They'd never try to cheat. If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.

Fisticuffs wrote: formal scientific education whatsoever ANd what do you mean by formal? College? In that case you are wrong, but thats not important. What is is that a climatologist is not qualified to have a paper discussing the abilityof organisms to withstand heat. And in fact he is wrong anyway. Sudanese natives can withstand temperatures well over 95`F for a very long time. Llke all day. For days after day after day. In fact it gets to about 120`F there in the summer. Mind you, not that I am an expert. Morality is indistinguishable from social proscription

Christian Graus wrote: to get in the way of progress in my state Ah, so you're a "progressive". Just what serves for progress down under? Finishing wiping out the local flora and fauna? Paving your island continent? The wonderful thing about the Darwin Awards is that everyone wins, especially the members of the audience.

Ironically, you believe this due to the weakness of your mind. Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.