In this case to be able to compile it you'll have to manually cast both objects to a base class, that has a Fly() methods :) While in the example of "? 0 : 0.0" the compiler does implicit casting

I definitely agree on that one!

No offense mate, but that really looked like spam, so most of the people probably ignored it.. )

Definitely :)

I don't know myself.. :) I got that link because I set the main SpreadFirefox page's RSS feed to my reader, so that I know when't the download day.. :) But it's spammed so much that once I got the date and time, I removed it from the reader :laugh:

a. I agree that they screwed up with the e-mail notification. It did have the link though to the main "record" website (the Spread Firefox one), which had the time (10.00 CPD) and a link to a website with times for each part of the world.. ( they posted that on the 16th of June: here[^]) b. Yeah, you didn't.. But that's the west coast of Europe ;) c. Fair enough.. But if they set the start of the download day on midnight CET or GMT, the Americans would have the Download Day started somewhere in the evening of the day. So someone was bound to have it late anyway. If it's not one it's the other :)

David Kentley wrote:

They seem to be begging for a DDOS attack with this publicity stunt.

Hehe, well the got it.. The first hours the website was down, and I wasn't able to do anything. :)

Ahem.... a. If they didn't, then how did I know it starts at 18:00 in London? And yes, I'm not working in Mozilla b. Since when is Europe "the majority of the world"? c. wtf? O_o And btw, they wanted to set a world record. They said the start time according to their offices, to the server location, and probably according to the time in the place that the record will be recorded in. What's with all the bitching anyway. The told you the time - be patient and wait =/

True [dreams about it]

That's so unfair :(

Am I the only one that, after reading the topic, thought the message will be about the web server Cassini? :)

I don't want to argue that MSDN is good.. My point (and you just prove it yourself) that it's not bad.. The search on MSDN is bad, it always was, and I guess that it will be (xcept if they implement it as a google google custom search[^].. But even if you use google, you still read the info on MSDN, right?

Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

2. Heavy (It eats my web browser, gobbling up the available bandwidth like a hungry and greedy demon)

Did you see the latest msdn changes? It might still not be light, but I think that's one of the things that was greatly improved :)

Minute amount of usefulness? Hah! Don't make me laugh! Think about it this way.. What would you do if MSDN wasn't there for you? Google it? And where does info on google come from? Where do the rest of the people take it from? Books? They are also based on MSDN docs.. MSDN IS the official source information about Windows API.. It doesn't matter what form it comes in - VS help or online website.. It still doesn't change the fact that it is the source, the main source at least.. I do admit that they could have made MSDN a huge lot better, but even if it's not perfect, and not as useful as it was sometime before, it doesn't diminish the fact that it is there, and a massive amount of people out there use it.. and for a reason...

You are soooo not right, imo... Taking the information on MSDN, every page would be 2-3k lines long, for the smallest classes.. and like tns of hundreds of lines for big classes.. Why you would never find any info in there! =/ P.S. Your answer just helped prove my point.. Whatever you do, in 99% the customer will not be fully satisfied.. :)

I do agree that if speaking of C++, MSDN is not as useful.. I do get a feeling ( and a strong one for that) that Microsoft tries to eradicate the C++ users, and force them to migrate to C# :)

David Lockwood wrote:

Update: ...come to think of it...it's starting to look a lot like CodeProject ?

Wow, actually, it does look like it! You just can't comment the articles :)

You do have a point.. I'd rather prefer the indigo blue of.. (not the pale-dirty-ish blue they had though).. But we come there for the information, not the design? )

Most of the time, I've tried avoiding visiting the MSDN website, and used the in-built help in the visual studio (Yes, I know it goes to MSDN anyway, and uses the IE engine to do that) just because it didn't have the horrible slow, utterly non-user friendly interface.. I've visited it recently, and I noticed quite a few changes, most for the best.. At least in my opinion.. The search works, and returns feasible results, the interface is simple, but functional.. It just looks more right.. What do you think? MSDN is here :P[^]

Wouldn't it be better if people stopped using there acronyms for no reason at all?