Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: you have me beat.... I have a mear 48" Plasma I am setting up two of them for Half Life 2 and CS:SOURCE. I WISH! They're for a presentation. I have found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002\MODES\1600,1200\mode1="30-96,50-160,+,+" Should I fiddle in here, I wonder...? :eek:

[just to follow on from your comments] If money is the prime concern (which it is in a public company) they you're right. Maybe the original PeopleSoft builders can't move on. Hard to let go of you life's work. Bare facts - money talks, ...

!:laugh:

I'm trying to hook a 50-inch LG Plasma screen up to my PC. The problem is the aspect ratio on the widescreen plasma is not available in my display control panel. So all circles are flattened top-to-bottom. How can I correct this? Can I create an .inf to configure the display and install it as a new monitor? Surely some CPian out there is cruising with a plasma chiasma? Help!:)

As consumers, the only defence would be to boycott products that abuse us with unwanted/excessive advertising. I would rather send a nice two-finger salute to bullish advertisers and dollar-hungry media content providers, than allow them to pin me down while forcing consumerist b# down my throat. We DO NOT HAVE TO SUBMIT! We CAN AND WILL PUNISH ABUSERS. WE ARE THE CONSUMER, and PRODUCT B DOES EXIST! (We hope). :mad:

That's a relief. I was worried about you. Still, I must restart my de-gullibilizing procedures again. Have to keep tabs on it, you know. Often think I would loose to an XT at a Turing test.

Congratulations! When last has clear sighted, strong individual taken such an admirable position, regardless of financial repercussions? I AM impressed. Somehow I do not see an American firm taking similar action! Comments?

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: It sounds just like color, right? To those of us with an English/colonial accent, the phonetic difference between the pronunciation of the first and second 'o' makes it distasteful to spell the word 'color'. I suppose if you put on a Mexican accent it sounds the way the Yanks spell it. koll 'orr (ole!) kul'uhr is more like it's spoken. Still far removed from the linguo-aerobic French. Just to mix things up... I use American spelling. Otherwise my coding is inconsistent with the .NET framework and other APIs. Talk about selling out! ;P

http://www.half-life.com/[^]

What do you mean by Business Rule Management? If you are looking for rules-based AI processing and are prepared to get your hands dirty, check out CLIPS Expert System http://www.ghg.net/clips/CLIPS.html[^] Developed by NASA, now in the public domain JESS Java Expert System Shell http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov/jess/[^] Happy inferencing Paul.

Clickety please!

Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Well, speaking Lisp, I would have several comments... I think we're missing the point here. Where does Lisp come from? In the sixties, poor old computer programmers were programming on punch cards! Along comes the latest in compiler technology, a new language concept, based on Church's Lambda Calculus. The revolutionary concept was the 'pointer', or reference type. Never before had this appeared in a compiled language. For this reason, Lisp had to wait until the late seventies/early eighties before general hardware caught up to the point that the true power of Lisp could be utilized. Before this time, the demands on memory and performace were just too great for the average computer. Even in the eighties, with the explosion of expert systems (AI), many of which are based on the Lisp syntax/ideas, specialized hardware was built to run Lisp at top speed. It was expensive, but fortunes were made (and lost) in the Lisp machine market. Compared to Lisp, with its origins right back at the start, C and C++ are babies. Javea, and C# are even newer, building on the lessons of the last 40 years (yes, Lisp is this old). That Lisp still has a role to play at all is a tribute to a language based on pure mathematics, with much power, subtlety, and grace. Do yourself a favor. Get to know a little Lisp, and appreciate a part of history.

We got this in English at high school, didn't we?

A new open source post... Successful corporations know its about the bottom line. And nothing else. And that bottom line depends heavily on market share, and asset value. Power in the marketplace. Assets equate to ownership; of intellectual property (IP), including patents; a business with good cash flow; future revenue prospects; etc. Microsoft as the leading software giant is very good at running a successful business, with some involvement in Software. Some? Sure, this _is_ what Microsoft offers to its clients. But the business makes its real money above and beyond this simple level. Assets. Value. IP. Patents. Investments. Investors. That's the actual business. Open source ideals challenge many of these business tenets. Big players such as Microsoft stand to lose billions in investments, when the percieved value of the IP, patents, etc. are challenged. 'Open Source' is being used by competitors as a line of attack against businesses that accrue value in these ways. The threat is real and considerable. This is why mega-corp players call Open Source 'undemocratic'. The pro-OS Novell President recently stated that it is no longer acceptable for companies to charge high prices for software. The software is simply a means to an end (helping the client business operate more effectively) and not the end in itself. The services should address the business end, using software. I personally enjoy this line of reasoning. But I am aware that it is a blow to the conventional, market-oriented model that bolsters the mega-corporations. 'Open Source' will survive the coming IT winter. Because its not about making bucks from the IT. However, those that charge premium rates for suportive services (such as word processors, calendars, email) will find themselves priced out of the market. Because these things are now trivial to produce. Dime a dozen. Hundred million developers will do that to an industry.

Code128 is capable of rendering ASCII control characters. I would recommend one such as BEL (Ctrl+g, 0x8, beeps), BS (Ctrl+h,causes backspace) or the like. These characters are available only in character set A. So your barcode would have to begin with code 103, [START A] to select this character set. Like this: STARTA: 103 BEL: 71 CHECKSUM: [calculated according to checksum] STOP The full spec, in simple terms, can be found here: http://www.barcodeisland.com/code128.phtml[^]

You got a paypal/visa account? I owe you 15 years in royalties!

Roger Wright wrote: The problem reported was a dll not found Correct. but in this case the dll is part of the .NET framework, and does not follow the conventional rules. It's equivalent to having COM missing. One must install the framework, which upgrades the windows subsystem to a new level wrt advances OS features like side-by-side versioning, prefetching, etc.

Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million across the world infected with HIV This is a quote from the article. I have trouble believing these figures. 1 in 4 South Africans is supposedly HIV positive. That's just short of 15 million. Kenya is losing people faster than they can grow them. Many parts of rural Africa are populated by children and a sprinkling of adults - eveyone else is dead. Those figures are bull. One day, when the dust clears, it will become apparent that hundreds of millions of people were infected with HIV at this time. Many do not know they have it. Many will not get sick anytime soon, but will infect others. Many will learn to live with HIV as a chronic ilness. Economies will groan and break under the burden of an ailing populace. Hey look, I am not trying to sew fear. I am a pragmatic realist, and anticipate a revelation to support the needles of information prickling my fingers as I scan the ether, the pages, the news. It just doesn't add up. Here in South Africa, the official position is that Garlic and vitamin C will fix you up just fine. AIDS is a phantom illness like depression and fibromyalgia, CFS (All valid, in my book). Eat a balanced diet, you'll be fine. Or visit a shaman. (That's the official recommendation!) But they also tell of the hospitals not knowing what to do with the bodies, you see there's no splace left in the morgues. This week the news is that KwaZulu-Natal Health department (a province with low income, high HIV rate) spent only 20% of its budget this past year. You see, it's hard to spend money on something that your superiors (right to the man at the top) refuse to acknowledge as a real disease. Watch this space...:sigh:

Paul, see my response to the original post.

Boys, Girls, gather round and listen to the master. You are correct, Brit-san. The DPI is irrelevant for the web design, and is used to determine the image density/size on a different rendering surface, e.g. printer, fax, screen, all at different resolutions - since the image will be a different size on each surface. So why does the unknown Samurai insist that his wise master requires 72 dots per inch? There is a reason - an ancient and revered one. In typesetting, you are aware of a unit called the 'point'? We specify font sizes in this unit, no? Well, a point is 1/72 of an inch. Yes, this is a device independent unit; it has an actual physical dimension, regardless of the DPI of the rendering surface. It is 72 dots per inch. For finer detail, we use twips - a twentieth of a point (tw'p), which is 1440 DPI. So, 72-DPI is point-resolution and represents the scales of a character grid. But this does not mean that you should use this DPI-setting for your raster images, Brit-san. No, your reasoning is correct. Now students, your assignment is to meditate on the actions of the unknown Samurai who spoke from partial knowledge, meditate on the response of Brit-san, who also with partial knowledge resisted the memes of the unknown Samurai, and then tell me, please, which is the better position. :confused: