I don't like to do this, but
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http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/217262/Code-for-Zooming-an-image[^] Hi, I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom. Can you please help me by providing code for that The Indian ARMY is outsourcing to people who have no idea how to do basic tasks, and post about them on our forums ?
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.
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http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/217262/Code-for-Zooming-an-image[^] Hi, I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom. Can you please help me by providing code for that The Indian ARMY is outsourcing to people who have no idea how to do basic tasks, and post about them on our forums ?
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.
;P it's late. i need more coffee.
"Incorrectly attributing quotes to revered historical figures is the work of fools and gerrymanderers; but hey, that's the internet for you." -- Thomas Jefferson
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;P it's late. i need more coffee.
"Incorrectly attributing quotes to revered historical figures is the work of fools and gerrymanderers; but hey, that's the internet for you." -- Thomas Jefferson
Honestly, I see a lot of stupid questions in QA, from people who plainly have no idea how to type, let alone program. But, I try not to post them here anymore, because I think it's rude. But, the Indian ARMY is hiring people who have no idea how to program ? Seriously ? If you read the link, he wants to zoom an image endlessly without losing detail. I've tried to give him a clear answer, but the fact that he's writing for the ARMY is something I couldn't let by without commenting on it.
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.
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Honestly, I see a lot of stupid questions in QA, from people who plainly have no idea how to type, let alone program. But, I try not to post them here anymore, because I think it's rude. But, the Indian ARMY is hiring people who have no idea how to program ? Seriously ? If you read the link, he wants to zoom an image endlessly without losing detail. I've tried to give him a clear answer, but the fact that he's writing for the ARMY is something I couldn't let by without commenting on it.
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.
Christian Graus wrote:
Honestly, I see a lot of stupid questions in QA
and they are not just restricted to that area either :P i didn't 1 vote you. but i am going to brew a fresh cup of coffee. it's 11:20 here :zzz:
"Incorrectly attributing quotes to revered historical figures is the work of fools and gerrymanderers; but hey, that's the internet for you." -- Thomas Jefferson
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http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/217262/Code-for-Zooming-an-image[^] Hi, I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom. Can you please help me by providing code for that The Indian ARMY is outsourcing to people who have no idea how to do basic tasks, and post about them on our forums ?
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.
Don't know who's lost his sense of WTF, but univote compensated.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Don't know who's lost his sense of WTF, but univote compensated.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
Oh, it's obvious. This time of day, QA is flooded with stupid questions because, while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian. They are on right now, that's why the QA is warming up with easily googled questions. It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
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.
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http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/217262/Code-for-Zooming-an-image[^] Hi, I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom. Can you please help me by providing code for that The Indian ARMY is outsourcing to people who have no idea how to do basic tasks, and post about them on our forums ?
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.
Hard to respond, as maps come in at least half a dozen different popular formats - and that's not including raster formats. Also, do they want just a pretty picture, or do they need to preserve WGS coordinate data? If the OP is really dealing with proper digital maps, on the basis of this query I would suggest buying a third-party tool to do it for them.
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Hard to respond, as maps come in at least half a dozen different popular formats - and that's not including raster formats. Also, do they want just a pretty picture, or do they need to preserve WGS coordinate data? If the OP is really dealing with proper digital maps, on the basis of this query I would suggest buying a third-party tool to do it for them.
I think the other reply is on to something, I don't think he knows what his requirement is, but that at the core, google or bing maps will give him what he's hoping for, and that he's not really trying to zoom images he has on hand at all.
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.
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Hard to respond, as maps come in at least half a dozen different popular formats - and that's not including raster formats. Also, do they want just a pretty picture, or do they need to preserve WGS coordinate data? If the OP is really dealing with proper digital maps, on the basis of this query I would suggest buying a third-party tool to do it for them.
Chris C-B wrote:
do they need to preserve WGS coordinate data?
ahhh! having ESRI nightmares. :P
"Incorrectly attributing quotes to revered historical figures is the work of fools and gerrymanderers; but hey, that's the internet for you." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Don't know who's lost his sense of WTF, but univote compensated.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
That'd be me. Christian says himself that what he's doing is rude. He deserves a one from me and many more. Calling people out here like this is akin to snickering behind their back. That's great if you're 10 and haven't learned that it's rude. He knows it is and even says so himself. If he wants to comment about it, he could man-up and do it in the QA itself. I say all this with the best of intentions - I like Christian, I just think he should pay attention to himself and not do this kind of thing. Cheers, Drew.
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Oh, it's obvious. This time of day, QA is flooded with stupid questions because, while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian. They are on right now, that's why the QA is warming up with easily googled questions. It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
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.
Christian Graus wrote:
It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
No, it was me. And your assumptions are all wrong. You can check my comment below to see why I down-voted you. You can also read your own comments; when you decide what you're doing is rude and say things like "I don't like to do this, but" it's a pretty good indication that you probably should be down-voted. Cheers, Drew.
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That'd be me. Christian says himself that what he's doing is rude. He deserves a one from me and many more. Calling people out here like this is akin to snickering behind their back. That's great if you're 10 and haven't learned that it's rude. He knows it is and even says so himself. If he wants to comment about it, he could man-up and do it in the QA itself. I say all this with the best of intentions - I like Christian, I just think he should pay attention to himself and not do this kind of thing. Cheers, Drew.
Drew, I want to remind you of a couple of things. 1 - this guy has posted two questions that, between them, show he has no clue what he is doing 2 - I answer questions like that ALL THE TIME, but this guy works for the Indian ARMY 3 - the Indian Army has nukes. You don't feel like that's concerning ? what if the guy writing the code to control where they go and when, is posting in QA, too ?
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.
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Drew, I want to remind you of a couple of things. 1 - this guy has posted two questions that, between them, show he has no clue what he is doing 2 - I answer questions like that ALL THE TIME, but this guy works for the Indian ARMY 3 - the Indian Army has nukes. You don't feel like that's concerning ? what if the guy writing the code to control where they go and when, is posting in QA, too ?
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.
Wow, that's quite the slippery slope you've built there. He's a random guy on a message board who says something that could mean anything. He could just as well be an intern in the cafeteria that's working on a small program that lets them zoom into a map that shows where the lettuce comes from. In fact I'd venture a guess that there's a lot more software written for the Indian Army for mundane things like that than for missile control systems. Cheers, Drew.
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http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/217262/Code-for-Zooming-an-image[^] Hi, I'm Rudra, I'm working on Project for the Client Indian Army. I need to develope a form which loads India map and various buttons on it. Out of that 1 is zoom. Can you please help me by providing code for that The Indian ARMY is outsourcing to people who have no idea how to do basic tasks, and post about them on our forums ?
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.
Does anyone know how to put these little pointy metal things into this long black thing that goes bang?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow, that's quite the slippery slope you've built there. He's a random guy on a message board who says something that could mean anything. He could just as well be an intern in the cafeteria that's working on a small program that lets them zoom into a map that shows where the lettuce comes from. In fact I'd venture a guess that there's a lot more software written for the Indian Army for mundane things like that than for missile control systems. Cheers, Drew.
Yes, you're right. I assume they are quite happy to have incompetent people ask basic questions and announce to the world that they work for the Indian Army. There's nothing unusual about that at all.
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.
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Oh, it's obvious. This time of day, QA is flooded with stupid questions because, while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian. They are on right now, that's why the QA is warming up with easily googled questions. It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
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.
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Oh, it's obvious. This time of day, QA is flooded with stupid questions because, while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian. They are on right now, that's why the QA is warming up with easily googled questions. It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
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.
Take 5. Its the old adge of paying peanuts and getting monkeys rather than anything unique to India. My first experience of Indian talent was when a company I worked for went hiring there to 'cut costs' and the results were gobsmacking lunacy - I have never before or since seen standards set so low and then failing to reach them. The next two outfits on the other hand hired people on their ability and their integration into our operations was seamless. They are some of the finest IT professionals I have ever worked with.
Ger
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Does anyone know how to put these little pointy metal things into this long black thing that goes bang?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
That one liner deserves far more prominence!
Ger
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Oh, it's obvious. This time of day, QA is flooded with stupid questions because, while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian. They are on right now, that's why the QA is warming up with easily googled questions. It's also why a comment like mine will be flooded with reflex 1 votes. From people who know they are as stupid as the guy in question, and ones who CAN program, and are super sensitive at the thought that I'm being racist, because the QA makes them feel embarrassed.
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.
Christian Graus wrote:
while not all stupid programmers are Indian, and not all Indian programmers are stupid, the bulk of the stupid programmers here, ARE Indian
I'd go further, I'd say that the geographic area starts in the Middle East and arcs all the way to through Iran/Pakistan into India. The problem is endemic and not a question of race, but culture. People tend to get their jobs here through who they know rather than what they know. This is compounded with cultural awe induced by qualifications: they'd rather employ a useless PhD than a red-hot unqualified programmer. The education system here is very much by wrote (PhDs here are just 5-year BScs), and cheating is well-known to be rife. At all the Universities I attended as a student, exams were silent, and if we'd been caught as much as whispering, we'd have been thrown out of the university. To contrast, I caught one student looking at another's source code and he went to the head of the faculty to complain I'd thrown him out of this one exam. And don't get me started on plagarism: this is where the send codez pls attitude is embedded: the problems given are generally basic and the answers are generally copied (assuming they bother to do any work at all) so when most of them are faced with something more novel than iterating a list they fold. That's not to say there aren't good programmers (or students!) here, but the average is low and the dingbats highly visible as they need to ask the questions.
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Chris C-B wrote:
do they need to preserve WGS coordinate data?
ahhh! having ESRI nightmares. :P
"Incorrectly attributing quotes to revered historical figures is the work of fools and gerrymanderers; but hey, that's the internet for you." -- Thomas Jefferson
keyboard warrior wrote:
ahhh! having ESRI nightmares. :P
Aaarrrggghhh, working with it right now!!!
You can flame me whichever way you want and I wouldn't care a bit. But if you group me with some idiots, I'll turn into your worst nightmare.