Xiangyang Liu wrote: The work you have been doing is just easy stuff, now they have to get started on more complicated tasks. They do know it is not, and the fact that even the folks they hire to help me are amazed at what has been done. I know the common perception is that management doesn't care, and for the most part they cannot. However, I have gone from one place of work that was exactly how you mentioned. These now managers are the best in the business, in my humble opinion. Xiangyang Liu wrote: think any manager will prefer 5 mediocre developers than a single person who thinks he is a super-star. Actually, I don't know why no one else has done what I do. It makes no sense. Nothing I have ever done was anything more than common sense and a tiny bit of knowledge of how a graphics card works. Work is desperate to copy the knowledge so they don't loose it, but I don't know how. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

with 3.7 developers: Almost always, development happens on the trunk. This way, integration is fast (and not breaking the build is everyones responsibility). Before a release, there is a "slowdown period", where only changes with local effect, bug fixes etc. are allowed on the trunk. Major changes would affect the release schedule. Basic "in house field testing" coems from the trunk, when things go really slow, it is branched. Branches are long-term bug fixed, but customers are encouraged to upgrade to new versions. Developer specific branches are created during the slowdown-period for major changes that DON'T go into the pending release, or if a major component's implementation needs to be replaced while to many people depend on that component. I encourage to keep developer branches short (<~1 month) before they are merge back into the trunk, but with varying success. We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP My first real C# project | Linkify!|FoldWithUs! | sighist

David Patrick wrote: What do you guys recommend ? No reason to dual boot. And you can do any thing in windows 2003 that you can in windows xp. My question is do you have a valid licence for windows 2003? If not do not install it... John

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Michael Martin wrote: Wrong, fresh cream or mock cream are by far the b Damn, am I tired. I was tossing up if I should say cream and jam, or cream and berries when I typed that. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

Thanks for the link :-)

I noticed the sale yesterday and immediately pounced on it and got a nice system for about $760 (a 600M). A couple hours I ordered a second laptop (an 1150) and if I get it sold for the right price, will hopefully lower the cost of the first machine by another $200-300. I've never seen laptops reduced like that. Jim QTExtender - The OFFICIAL addon for QuoteTracker.

I bet you'll be looking for the women in brass bikinis ;P The tigress is here :-D

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We just got ours from Vlane and asked the same question. Apparently they go around to .coms that are going broke and ask if they have any unregistered MSDN subscriptions. Then they buy them and turn around and sell them. Pretty cool huh? And no, Microsoft doesn't have a problem with that. Hey, what can I say? I'm a chick magnet...a babe conductor...a logarithm for the ladies. -Strong Bad from HomeStarRunner.com Essential Tips for Web Developers

5 minutes ;P

yea... those advertisements aren't too bad. I use email at oceanfree.net and oxygen.ie At both site after you click to enter your mail box it bring up a one page advertisement and then redirects you after about 3-4 seconds to the mail box. A lot better than annoying banner ads:confused: "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - General George S. Patton Jr.

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STL was not designed for inheritance. This may have changed, but last I checked destructors weren't virtual, for example, and some key information in some classes, like string, is private, making it difficult to implement certain behaviors in the inherited classes. Also, while generally fast, STL is missing some common place protections, or at least asserts in debug mode. The STL string class is completely lame. The collections classes, however, are generally nice, even if a little obscure. (Having a "common" interface may sound nice in theory but sometimes it's just plain annoying and cumbersome.) Personally, I don't like the STL interface. However I work with a guy who really likes it, so I suppose it's a matter of personal taste. (Even my co-worker has conceded, however, that the documentation of STL leaves much to be desired and many implementations, especially the Dinkumware VC6 version, are very obscure and difficult to debug.)