The Weird and The Wonderful

hey, I just moved this over to the forum - wasn't paying attention. Charlie Gilley Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759

This is simply the design pattern "Only One Radio Button" exists :laugh: Bruno

:thumbsup: :-D Your time will come, if you let it be right.

Hangouts is the release version of Google Talk - renamed and 2.0. That's all.

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Looks like OP is trying to get odd numbers and two.

It's not a new trend, it's an ongoing current trend :-) Seriously though, it's actually to do with the current state of I.T education (Well at least here in the UK anyway) Put simply, there are way too many "General Purpose Teachers" and not enough "Specialist Teachers" , as a result many teachers that are teaching the next generation (and to be clear here, we are on about 6th form and colleges too), are teaching them from text books. A friend of mine, recently decided that programming was for him after getting inspired watching a community presentation I delivered. So he trotted off to his local community college and signed up for "Computer Programming Essentials" His guide book for the college, stated: "You will learn the fundamentals of software engineering, application design and general software problem solving, enabling you to build high quality software applications for now and the future and providing you with a firm foothold through the gateway of professional software development" All sounds, rather splendid if I do say so my self. We are now, 5 months in on his course, and so far he's learned nothing more than putting together simple desktop applications using Visual Basic .NET He's let me see every assignment he's been set, every bit of homework he's been asked to do and all he's done is learn how to wire VB components together. He's done nothing even remotely near understanding application architecture, good development practices or anything like that. He's not been told what the difference between integers, doubles & reals are, he understands nothing about how computers do maths. All he's been doing is learning how to pull data out of various "Things" , reshape it, then display it in ever changing fancy ways. ---------- Not too long ago, my Niece announced she was doing computing at comprehensive school, she came home with an A+ in computing and I.T, needless to say I was a proud uncle, until I dug into her curriculum and looked at the subjects she'd been getting taught. See attained the A+ because she'd figured out how to do animated sound & graphics on her own using PowerPoint, her teacher then sat her on a virtual pedestal and encouraged the rest of the class to strive to attain these high standards, if they wished to go into the software development & programming industry. ------------- Lastly, a very good friend in India recently explained to me how I.T and software education works out there. There are basically a bunch of private companies, th

Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Marc Clifton wrote: there must be something we can put into the water There is.  Code reviews. Well, we could put the offending developer into the water ... head-first. That would solve the issue. The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.

I dunno. There's another?

:doh: What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Just went through (and am still going through) a perfectly fine application bombing after a thin client OS was updated. I rebuilt it on my system (in the thin-client environment) and it worked fine: put on user's system and it crashed mightily. Considering the unique environment of a development system, there's no question why that cry is heard oft-enough: "I works on my machine". "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Just in case...

SarK0Y wrote: Ingo, did you write asm codes ever??? :laugh: Okay. I talked about higher languages. If you write asm codes, I won't mind if you code another way. :rolleyes: SharePoint Consultant and Developer at acocon Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem I'm the ninth in a row of seven!

Just do your own thing if it's comfortable. What other people say are just opinions.

mc42 wrote: Yes, this is probably a good candidate for the most delayed response ever. It did take me a while to get the context there. Thanks for explaining. It does tickle me that an Imaginary being defaults to Real, while i is definitely not imaginary. Mathematicians would shudder. (Edited for grammar) "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

:laugh: :thumbsup: And unfortunately, that is probably true. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

Eventually they invented the perpetuum mobile. It works in their code already.

Before anyone else points it out - I just checked the standard and XML (unusually) does not allow a space there. "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.