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It seems like a waste of bandwidth to me. If you want to know a person's location, just ask him or her. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck
Jon Sagara wrote: It seems like a waste of bandwidth to me Probably less bandwidth just having a small image of the flag than having to post three messages asking someone where they are from. Plus, instant gratification. If we have to ask, we have to wait. Also I am not going to ask every single person I am slightly interested in where they come from. If I have to ask then I will probably not bother. Why bother knowing at all? Because it is interesting enough. Either way lets not argue this, not that important. So where are you from, Jon Sagara? *Paul waits... and waits.. and waits.*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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I found a link (using Google, of course) to a free collection of National Flags Icons[^] I'd like to submit myself for putting in some time with Photoshop to make a collection of small GIF images from these icons if this suggestion comes to be included in CP (heck, I might just make them to use on my website :-D). I'll also post this in the Suggestions Forum ... but if you could pass this along to whoever might find this as useful to including this as a feature ... Thanks in advance, Wally Atkins
dfu23 wrote: but if you could pass this along to whoever might find this as useful to including this as a feature ... I just live here, don't work here :) Plus Chris, the head honcho (some say God but he can't tell me how come nothing rhymes with Orange so I don't believe that), reads the forums, especially the Suggestions forum. If he likes the idea it goes on his list, but his list is very long, we are demanding. What I recommend you do is this: Put one of those flags you found* into your sig, like I did with mine. Also have somewhere in your bio or on your personal message board how to put the image into a sig. The more people see it and like it the more they will do it, and next thing you know it's Woodstock, free love mixing with mud and you are Chevre to the masses of flag wavers. Lots of good ideas float about but remember Chris has given us quite a bit of freedom and the slack to implement many of them. So go do it, we are developers after all. If it is a hit then it may become an official CP feature and voila, you get famous and can retire to the Cuba and have Castro as your neigbour. * If they are not copyrighted or anything... if they are, draw your own flag! :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Weiye Chen wrote: Nice too... but don't u feel that with that "flag" thing, it actually makes us less closed, or feel "not whole". Sorry, i don't know how to express it better... You mean by categorising everyone into their respective countries you fear we will loose the commonality of being Code Project members. Not divided by country, race or age*. I am not sure in the long term if your fears would be realised. But most of the regulars know what countries they and others come from. Chris, CG, MichaelM and many others, Aussies. Meg, Lauren, Leppie, Simon and I, South Africans. Karl the Frrrrrrrrench man. And so on. I like the country bond. I can always be assured of Lauren or Meg or Simon understanding where I am coming from as we come from the same culture. But we share a bond with CG and Stan and John Simmons through CP. Judging by your name you must be oriental, probably Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Stereotypes and some bias comes in because of that, but you are a CPian. I like to know from which country people come, helps to know what approach to take with them. * Though we are sometimes just as bad as we divide based on programming language
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul, what is perverted about eating a whole chicken ? ;P The tigress is here :-D
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It seems like a waste of bandwidth to me. If you want to know a person's location, just ask him or her. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck
All I'm talking about is something that is comparable in size to the user icons that is on left of everyone's name in their posts (approx. 166 bytes) Please don't rage against this ... I'm just trying to make a point: How about the waste of bandwidth with allowing signatures? People can include basically anything they want within this space and it's included on every post they make. Not that this is a bad thing - I enjoy seeing the creativity that others have in making their signatures - but it definitely adds a significant amount to the size of the forums. Anything feature you decide that would be nice to add to a website adds to its size and therefore will affect the bandwidth it takes to shell the content out to all of the visitors. It's a judgement call on the owners/creators of the web site on whether it is worth adding or not. I think is ... you disagree ... and that's cool. ;)
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Paul, what is perverted about eating a whole chicken ? ;P The tigress is here :-D
Maybe he's "into" turkeys instead...:laugh: ;) Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk
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Jon Sagara wrote: It seems like a waste of bandwidth to me Probably less bandwidth just having a small image of the flag than having to post three messages asking someone where they are from. Plus, instant gratification. If we have to ask, we have to wait. Also I am not going to ask every single person I am slightly interested in where they come from. If I have to ask then I will probably not bother. Why bother knowing at all? Because it is interesting enough. Either way lets not argue this, not that important. So where are you from, Jon Sagara? *Paul waits... and waits.. and waits.*
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: *Paul waits... and waits.. and waits.* *Jon doesn't get email notification of reply... has to manually check Lounge for replies* ;P Paul Watson wrote: Either way lets not argue this, not that important. Bravo! So much trivial sh*t gets argued on these boards. It is truly astounding. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck
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All I'm talking about is something that is comparable in size to the user icons that is on left of everyone's name in their posts (approx. 166 bytes) Please don't rage against this ... I'm just trying to make a point: How about the waste of bandwidth with allowing signatures? People can include basically anything they want within this space and it's included on every post they make. Not that this is a bad thing - I enjoy seeing the creativity that others have in making their signatures - but it definitely adds a significant amount to the size of the forums. Anything feature you decide that would be nice to add to a website adds to its size and therefore will affect the bandwidth it takes to shell the content out to all of the visitors. It's a judgement call on the owners/creators of the web site on whether it is worth adding or not. I think is ... you disagree ... and that's cool. ;)
dfu23 wrote: I think is ... you disagree ... and that's cool. It's more of a usability issue to me. Do you know how cluttered and ugly the screen will look with all of those different flags next to people's names? But like you said... it's not for us to decide. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck
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Weiye Chen wrote: Nice too... but don't u feel that with that "flag" thing, it actually makes us less closed, or feel "not whole". Sorry, i don't know how to express it better... You mean by categorising everyone into their respective countries you fear we will loose the commonality of being Code Project members. Not divided by country, race or age*. I am not sure in the long term if your fears would be realised. But most of the regulars know what countries they and others come from. Chris, CG, MichaelM and many others, Aussies. Meg, Lauren, Leppie, Simon and I, South Africans. Karl the Frrrrrrrrench man. And so on. I like the country bond. I can always be assured of Lauren or Meg or Simon understanding where I am coming from as we come from the same culture. But we share a bond with CG and Stan and John Simmons through CP. Judging by your name you must be oriental, probably Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Stereotypes and some bias comes in because of that, but you are a CPian. I like to know from which country people come, helps to know what approach to take with them. * Though we are sometimes just as bad as we divide based on programming language
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: I like to know from which country people come, helps to know what approach to take with them. Hmmm, and just what approach would you take with the likes of me, eh? :-D Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Paul Watson wrote: *Paul waits... and waits.. and waits.* *Jon doesn't get email notification of reply... has to manually check Lounge for replies* ;P Paul Watson wrote: Either way lets not argue this, not that important. Bravo! So much trivial sh*t gets argued on these boards. It is truly astounding. Jon Sagara Hi! I'm Melanoma, Moley Russell's wart. -- Uncle Buck
And notice how deftly Jon avoids the original question. 10 points for style and grace. :-) Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Paul Watson wrote: I like to know from which country people come, helps to know what approach to take with them. Hmmm, and just what approach would you take with the likes of me, eh? :-D Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
Christopher Duncan wrote: Hmmm, and just what approach would you take with the likes of me, eh? Being American I would look for a prized possesion of yours that I can coo and compliment, so stroking your ego into heights of blindness, blindness to my underhanded undermining of your beliefs. In your case, I now have two things. A rat.... damn, wrong word. I mean the Chihuahahahahwahahahwaha and the Corvette. ;) You have been quite of late Mr. Duncan :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Paul, what is perverted about eating a whole chicken ? ;P The tigress is here :-D
Trollslayer wrote: what is perverted about eating a whole chicken ? Eating or eating?
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Christopher Duncan wrote: Hmmm, and just what approach would you take with the likes of me, eh? Being American I would look for a prized possesion of yours that I can coo and compliment, so stroking your ego into heights of blindness, blindness to my underhanded undermining of your beliefs. In your case, I now have two things. A rat.... damn, wrong word. I mean the Chihuahahahahwahahahwaha and the Corvette. ;) You have been quite of late Mr. Duncan :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: In your case, I now have two things. A rat.... damn, wrong word. I mean the Chihuahahahahwahahahwaha and the Corvette. Actually, the Corvette belongs to the Chihuahua, but we don't like to talk about that. Paul Watson wrote: You have been quite of late Mr. Duncan Sometimes life pounces on you without fair warning. I'm checking the Geneva Convention to see what rules apply here. Among other adventures, I'm starting work on my next book. I sure hope they're telling the truth about being able to catch up on your sleep once you're dead... Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
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Paul Watson wrote: In your case, I now have two things. A rat.... damn, wrong word. I mean the Chihuahahahahwahahahwaha and the Corvette. Actually, the Corvette belongs to the Chihuahua, but we don't like to talk about that. Paul Watson wrote: You have been quite of late Mr. Duncan Sometimes life pounces on you without fair warning. I'm checking the Geneva Convention to see what rules apply here. Among other adventures, I'm starting work on my next book. I sure hope they're telling the truth about being able to catch up on your sleep once you're dead... Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)
Christopher Duncan wrote: but we don't like to talk about that :laugh: :rolleyes: Maybe I should get a Chihuahua* for a taste of the married life. ;) * cut and pasted of course Christopher Duncan wrote: I sure hope they're telling the truth about being able to catch up on your sleep once you're dead... Hmmm. Maybe that is why they always close dead peoples eyes before burying them. No good lying their in your coffin staring up at the roof and trying to get to sleep. Christopher Duncan wrote: Among other adventures, I'm starting work on my next book Awesome, another controversial one or are you going a bit more mainstream? :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
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Christopher Duncan wrote: but we don't like to talk about that :laugh: :rolleyes: Maybe I should get a Chihuahua* for a taste of the married life. ;) * cut and pasted of course Christopher Duncan wrote: I sure hope they're telling the truth about being able to catch up on your sleep once you're dead... Hmmm. Maybe that is why they always close dead peoples eyes before burying them. No good lying their in your coffin staring up at the roof and trying to get to sleep. Christopher Duncan wrote: Among other adventures, I'm starting work on my next book Awesome, another controversial one or are you going a bit more mainstream? :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaRoger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!
Paul Watson wrote: Maybe I should get a Chihuahua* for a taste of the married life. Not going anywhere near that one. :suss: Paul Watson wrote: Awesome, another controversial one or are you going a bit more mainstream? Mainstream? Me??? Never! It'll be the sort of thing you'd expect from me, and this time it will not only be for programmers but for the corporate world in general, regardless of industry. Cubicle dwellers of the world, unite! Chistopher Duncan Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)