...
send(girl,"Flowers");
send(girl,"Chocolates");
send(girl,"Money");
send(girl,"Heart");
if ( recv(girl)==cold_shoulder )
goto hell;
...

:hell
switch ( girl2 = new Girl() ) {
...

I have had numerous co-workers who are software developers, and a lot of them make the comment or ask the question: "Do you really need to know math to do this stuff?" Well, I cannot answer that because they are my co-workers and I need to get along with them since personality is part of the performance rating. If I were to answer that question honestly (albeit with a bit of viciousness), I would say, "It is not required if you (they) are to produce anything which impresses me, because up to this point, you (they) apparently have not. I am guessing that lack of mathmatical prowess has some influence on this situation which would be a dilemma to me but apparently is unimportant to you." Back when I was young and stupid, and openly arrogant and cruel, I believed I could get by by smoking the competition. The good thing is I learned over time this was a bad behavior, driven by some personal issue unrelated to the recipient of this attack. So now, I'm just old and stupid. Big improvement...

I gave up on SETI a long time ago. Why look out in the universe? The aliens are here. Just go to any club that plays trance music and see for yourself.

command line freak! I'm raising my fist in the air, like I'm holding onto something that's invisible there. But based on this guy's questions, I don't think he's ready for BSD. That's like throwing him in the deep end of the pool to teach him to swim, and throwing a few pirannas in there along with him to motivate.

I don't know what kind of user you are, but I am a command line freak, of sorts. Although ubuntu does not drive users to the shell aka command prompt, I like the fact that so many tools are made in their raw form (gui-less) and available via apt-get install on ubuntu. You an almost assume they are there, and do an apt-get install [keyword] to find the tool you are looking for, whether it be video file conversion, audio file conversion, or even wifi "tools" Also, I know some of the tools are available on Windows, but they usually aren't the latest releases, and they run slower on Windows. The difference is so much so, that I have resorted to taking my new laptop, wiping the OS, installing ubuntu, then running Windows 7 inside a VM. I recently had to reload my last ubuntu laptop as a Windows PC as a gift. I have since been struggling to do things in Windows and find it very dissatisfying, to a point where I am tempted to buy a new laptop and load ubuntu on it. If you like to fiddle and take control of things to a point where the gui does not satisfy, ubuntu or any linux OS gives you that power. If you want to play minesweeper or solitaire without having to run Windows in a VM, then stick to Windows OS. I do consulting and I have never found a client whom I felt compelled to suggest they run ubuntu, or any linux OS, for that matter. I am busy enough as it is, and I know those free phone calls will kill me as they struggle with linux. I just tell them to be careful tell them, "Do not click on anything that says it can fix the problem, assume it's a hoax, unless you want me to come in and fix it - for a price, of course. Save your money by closing the window and don't even acknowle the question on your screen." I did have a ubuntu PC which got a virus on it, but I was extremely careless to a point where I ran just about anything just to try it and see, something I would never do on a Windows box. Eventually the system became pretty much unresponsive and was running tasks I had not installed. At that point I loaded the latest ubuntu again and it hummed along fine. I am a LITTLE more careful now on ubuntu, and have not had any problems. Well, until I gave away the ubuntu PC as a Windows one, of course.

We are not professionals, by definition, only Dr's are, MD, PhD. I used to fiddle with code for fun, my dad bought an Atari 400 for the family. I fiddled with the Basic ROM cartridge that came with it. All throughout school it was mostly a spare time plaything, Basic on TRS-80 and Apple II, IIc, and IIe. It wasn't until I met a boss who saw my potential and assigned one of his programmers to talk to me and see if I have any interest in going into programming as a future. At that point I was doing a little bit of Ashton-Tate dBase and Clipper. They sent me to my first Pascal class and the rest is history. I guess that means I'm history... ;) I had a great teacher who focused on concept, he was like a Shaolin master or Pat Morita type. He hammered us with the concept of the language being irrelevant, it's the algorithms that count. I dabbled in a lot of languages, but I'm primarily C++. I love OOP combined with the power to create and destroy "new" and "delete" ooh, awesome. My first few C# programs were rejected by the compiler due to my obsessive cleanup habits from C++. It took me a while to be sloppy and let C# do a lot of the work. You should try BFP for fun. That language is like tying your hands up and bobbing for apples. It's fun and frustrating. Aloha...

ChrisElston wrote:

Can I have a new forum just for me please.

It's already there. Just search for "yellow pacifier" or "the red thumb". - Sucker! ;P

I'm goin in with a portable soldering iron, a spool of 60/40, side cutters, a solder sucker, and a probe. who is nancy? you mean like "nancy and sluggo?"

Chris Maunder wrote:

Though VBScript is still the Prince of Languages...

Hey, who let that nutjob in here? Also, we don't allow profanity like VBSh** in the forum. Watch your "Language"...

swmiller wrote:

You young'uns got it soft. Back in my day I had to write an entire database product using only 0s.

Yeah! I heard of that product. you called it freebase. I think instead of the product getting off the ground you must have, swmiller... Also, what a coincidence that your source codes indicate the number of people who used your database product. Not even you yourself found it useful! A sign over your office entrance that says "Yup, only 0 sold so far". "Whatever you be puffin on that got you thinkin that you supaman..."

yup, that worked! looks like I have a lot to learn... Thanks for teaching...

I guess this could be considered a tip as well as a possible question. I've found that if I have a table with the first row having a colspan value, i.e. header for the table, then deleting the last remaining row below the colspan row deletes the colspan row too. Check it out - paste the following into an .html, add a few rows, then delete a few rows.

<html>
<head><title>JS Dynamic Table Test</title>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function AddRow() {
var a_misctext = ["Gary","Mary","Larry","Harry","June","Marge","Lisa","Tina","Rika","Susan"];
tbl = document.getElementById('DataArea');
lastrow = tbl.rows.length;
workrow = tbl.insertRow(lastrow);
workrow.insertCell(0);
workrow.cells[0].innerHTML = "<nobr>"+a_misctext[Math.floor(Math.random()*10.0)]+"</nobr>";
workrow.insertCell(1);
workrow.cells[1].innerHTML = "<input type=\"button\" value=\"x\" onClick=\"PopRow(this.parentNode.parentNode.rowIndex);\">";

return false;

}

function PopRow(x) {
document.getElementById('DataArea').deleteRow(x);
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<table id=DataArea cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<tbody>
<tr><td colspan="2">My Stuff   <input type="button" value=" Add " onClick="AddRow();"></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

I "fixed" it by turning the colspan row into 2 separate columns: <tr><td>My Stuff</td><td><input type="button" value=" Add " onClick="AddRow();"></td></tr> Any idea why the table would collapse when deleting the last row?

1. okay, now that's the first time I saw the !! being used. I'm not sure in what version that was introduced. 2) I tried it and it only works in a batch file, not from the command prompt, but that's a minor setback, still amazing. 3) I would do it with a slight twist: echo:@echo off>myrename.bat echo:setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION>>myrename.bat echo:for /L %%f in (1,1,100) do (>>myrename.bat echo:(set i=00%%f)>>myrename.bat echo:(set i=!i:~-3!)>>myrename.bat echo:rename L%%f.txt L!i!.txt>>myrename.bat echo:)>>myrename.bat echo:endlocal>>myrename.bat Thanks for the !i! thing...! Sincerely, G

FYI, I would do it like this (from the command prompt, not from a batch file): for %f in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do rename L%f.txt L00%f.txt for %f in (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do for %g in (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9) do rename L%f%g.txt L0%f%g.txt that would work to rename the 1-99 files. The 100 file is already in that format. Sincerely G

High Five!

daveauld wrote:

That will really good test for Intel's nanotechnology then.

I cannot sit idly by and watch the world go the hell in a handbasket at the hands of these self taught millions who comprise the new generation, what is it, generation Y? I say call it Generation Why? Why in the world are they doing it this way? Why would a well known cardinal rule end up being an urban legend? - the "goto" This is not good. I would recommend posting a copy of your code to this discussion board so we can confirm that the placement of the words form the shape of the antichrist. God help us all.

Pretty fast, about 70WPM, always finding someone who types faster, or maybe just louder, than me. Typing games, Math Blaster, Typing Master, Typing Tutor, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (recommended, less than $10 at best buy). Typing class was mandatory in the 8th grade. To pass you had to accurately type a letter using the selectric and manual typewriters. I use pretty much all my fingers, but my right pinky gets stuck sometimes from punching brick walls too many times. Of course I don't punch brick walls anymore. It's been weeks! I'm intrigued by the Dvorak. Thanks for the other posters who brought it up. My post is basically an accurate answer to your question. Boring, but accurate.

Hmm.. Did you mean Your rant or mine? Doznt matter...

I think you should try SarcasmDetection 2.0 and rescan my post...

Okay, now. I was ALMOST able to stomach your comment about .NET/SQL being similar, especially to a point where MarkInUK should not have much problem moving to PHP/MySQL. REALLY now... I mean REALLY. Saying they are similar is like saying "Dog" is similar to "Blue". Come on now...