The Back Room

David Wulff wrote: TOTD: Doubleclicking a personalised menu will remove the personalisation. Are you sure it won't remove my personality? The Romulans are... beyond arrogant. 202.The justification of profit is profit.

David Wulff wrote: Do you know your CPian ID no.? Not a clue. I had to mouseover the My Articles link to see mine. 14040, reminds me of a baud rate :rolleyes: Then again it takes me at least a month to memorise my own phone number when it changes, never mind other peoples. :) Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa

Chris Maunder wrote: or are there just a lot of really, really stupid spammers? Nope, really, really stupid people more like it. That scam is quite succesful, and when you are onto a good thing why stop? Apparently they have about a hundred cases of this a year, that means 100 daft people bought the scam. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa

leppie wrote: I measure him 7mm..... :rolleyes: :wtf: ;P Regards, Brian Dela :-)

100% Secular humanist and Unitarian universalist. Whatever that means. :) What's more disturbing is that I got 93% Liberal Quaker and 57% Mormon. 84% Theravada Buddhism, but that doesn't really bother me. Buddhists have most of the time a sound view of the world. The Romulans are... beyond arrogant. 202.The justification of profit is profit.

I've not heard it - very apt!:-) Old malted hops and yeasts never die, they just slowly stupify...

Jason-- I'm not an American, but I agree with you all the way. Since when does an American President have to apologize for acting in the interest of America? America's problem is not that it is belligerent, but that it has bent over backwards to try and accomodate the wishes and interests of its friends and allies. People have short memories. It is ridiculous to assert in song that America was somehow "invading" Grenada or Panama. The people of Grenada were deliriously happy that American soldiers removed that particular menace. When people bitch about the aggressive, belligerent nature of America, they ought to think about things more realistically. America is so belligerent that its northern neighbour, full of valuable natural resources (including a huge amount of oil), has pretty much unilaterally disarmed itself, so great is its fear of America. Two, the first thing a foreign regime in a skirmish with America does is to move its miltary installations into civilian areas. Why? Because it knows that Americans value innocent life and will take great pains not to unnecessarily harm it. If you were in a fight with Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein and their like, would you move your military targets into civilian areas? Not %$%$# likely! Given the military power of the U.S... and given the deadly nature of the assualt they endured... they have shown absolutely incredible restraint so far. I can't blame the world for wanting to promote multilaterism... what is that except a wish to control a power that is 50 times greater than your own. And because Americans are by nature friendly, cooperative, and peace loving... they go along with it, even though the UN is total mess. But make no mistake... GWB will act according to American interests... and if that means invading Iraq (which I don't think it will)... then that is what he will do. Western Europeans are the worst. How soon they forget. They should wake up every morning and thank God that it was the U.S. who liberated them in WWII and not the USSR. What other power in history sent its soldiers thousands of miles away to die by the tens of thousands on foreign soil, only to defeat the enemy, then go home... go home... restoring the freedom of those people. It wasn't the UN that won WWII... it was the Americans and the Brits (with a little help from Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the rest of the minor players involved). America is a great nation... and its people are among the most generous on earth. Long live America!! JM

Paul Riley wrote: don't think for a minute that Jason was intending to be racist, I just saw some irony in him saying in one thread Dear Lord, that was a joke!! Jason Henderson start page articles "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill

He's speaking in "ebonics" - I think he's trying too hard to cross some imaginateous racial boundary in an effort to garnerate votes in an upcomingly policticalarity electionism. Hey, while we're on the subject of Linux, how about setting up a Linux message board "for Windows programmers that are slowly making the jump to Linux development"? :) ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends

Oh yeah. Definitely. Sure...:~ Your bullshit is so effusive I can smell it across oceans... You impress no-one. You are a world-class sleazeball; an incomparable jerk. No-one is fooled by your idiotic attempts to slant votes. -A. N. Onymous on Bill SerGio

i woke up from napping last night when i heard my best friend and his wife knock on the door.. my roomate opened the door and told them that i was asleep and they left. i jumped out of my bed, opened my bedroom door, hollered my friend's name, and headed to the front door.. i passed my roomate and asked if they'd left.. he said 'who?'.. the weirdest thing was that i wasnt sleeping.. i was just laying there.. or at least i thought.. almost like i was dreaming of just laying there and hearing them.. -dz

PJ Arends wrote: Like I said, some times I just miss the obvious. (or did I just do it again?) I'm cnfused now :confused: Regards, Brian Dela :-)

Megan Forbes wrote: CP'ers The semi-official term is actually CPian. Just wanted to let you know...:-D Your bullshit is so effusive I can smell it across oceans... You impress no-one. You are a world-class sleazeball; an incomparable jerk. No-one is fooled by your idiotic attempts to slant votes. -A. N. Onymous on Bill SerGio

Let's not forget one of the best lines of the entire movie!: "Quit thinking Prague Police and start thinking Playstation. Blow sh*t up!" I love that one...

The blue sURL should IMHO only belong to the CFoo:: scope. But I'm sure VC6 chains the parameter scope as well, thus initializing the parameter again with itself. :) Semantically, there is no point in initializing an argument - it's already been initialized! How the hell could it else be passed to the constructor? I'm no C++ commitee member, but I'm 100% positive that this is yet another C++-bug in VC6. If you were another man, I would kill you where you stand! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! They must pay for what they've done!

Speaking of COBOL... I can remember the days of desk checking COBOL code from listings. We'd spend hours drooling over hundreds of printouts, just to make a handful of changes. Then submit the changes and schedule a test. And the next day, we would be back at it again, with all new listings and trying to figure out what went wrong. :-D The boxes of paper we went through, just to add a new tax percentage to a table somewhere. And this was way before the days of recycling anything. Chris

Cool ! I'm watching all the videos :~ Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9

If your monitor has a DVI input, get a card that has a DVI output. From what I've read and heard, the quality is far better, because the video signal doesn't have to go from digital to analog (at the video card) and then analog back to digital (at the monitor). Cards that have DVI output are pretty cheap nowadays, I would assume. About a year ago I paid $100 USD for a GeForce2-based card that had DVI out.

Paul Watson wrote: Read this post to see what I mean Hmm... I prefer bare feet... ;P ;P ;P ;P :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter :jig: I've gone sending to outer space, to find another race :jig: