They can only say 4-6 months because the vaccines have not been approved for much longer and there is not yet "proof" that they protect longer. It does not mean that they don't protect for longer, just that they can't know for sure. And like anything biological, it will differ vastly from person to person. Some (a small minority) won't have any protection, some will have an immunity for much longer, and some will be in between. Even if the protection decreases after 6 months, you might still be better protected than with no vaccine at all. Unfortunately, when something is that new, it limits what we actually know (and it goes for this disease at least as much as for the vaccines for it).

Yes, Amazon do suck in any way they can with the firestick as well. I find the search absolutely appalling. And in the main page, it does show the recently viewed (Amazon Prime) shows. That looks like a great shortcut. Except that it does not work. I still have to go through the Amazon Prime app to be able to view the shows. So it ends up being clutter and frustration. I just ordered a Roku. Hopefully it will be better. :)

Instead of a button that copies the text to the clipboard, why not put it straight into a file (open the save as dialog if you want them to chose the file name/location) and ask them to copy that file to a computer with Internet and email it to you. In any case, if the computer does not have Internet access, it is what they have to do: create a file and copy it to another computer (USB stick?), so why not do the first part for them.

Of course, life is not fair. But that is (or should be) one of the purpose of the governments and institutions (at least those that claim to be democratic and serve the people): to make it more fair, to give a better prospect to those who are dealt a bad hand to start with and to avoid those with power to abuse it (too much). Obviously, they are very regularly failing at that, even in the country where they kind of have that purpose. Apple have obviously (with some help from the Irish System/Governments) abused loopholes and tax laws from different countries to pay a ridiculously low amount of taxes. Making people pay retroactively is always going to cause some kind of moral dilemma. When the "offender" was doing something legal (or not illegal) but obviously immoral (and they knew it), may be we should still make them pay. It is not the same as changing the rate when you have not tried to abuse the system by actively finding loopholes. That "could" encourage more people/companies to act in a more moral way. Or not (looking at human nature).

Yes, it runs to your door but you don't have a cable per ISP. If you can change ISP freely, without them having having to add new wiring, then the cable does not really belong to whatever ISP you are currently with. So they can't have 100% claim over it, and because of that, they should not be allowed to do just what they want with it. If we have to start changing ISP to access some websites, that is going to be hell for us, even though we are already paying for the access. And in any case, totally free market tend to go wrong in most cases, because of greed or whatever other human defects… So a certain level of regulation seems necessary. We just have to find how much regulation is reasonble, and how much starts to be too much like communism (or whatever opposite of free market you may think of)…

I understand what your point of view is, but still don't agree. After thinking about it, a lot of massacres were done/supported by civilians having weapons. So when things turn bad, having guns all around may not protect you but may make the mess much worse. Or not. Depends of what is turning bad, who is trying to turn against who. That being said, it looks too much like a flame war that is not worth pursuing. Even the nazis have been brought up already. It is clear from your tone that you won't change your mind, and I can tell you that it won't change mine either. ;)

And in ancient Egypt, they used to have slaves. Medieval ages, or the holocaust were a different era, and to a certain extent, even Serbia is, at least a different context. Most were country that lived under some type of dictatorship (religious or other). And in this case, yes, civilians may have the use for guns. Though a lot of the massacres would not have happened, or not to the same extent if some of the civilians did not have guns to massacre the others. Certainly the massacres in Serbia are a recent thing, but they are not, and were even less a few yaers ago anything like a democracy as we have them in Europe and the US. At least by not having guns in Europe (I talk a about western Europe, the EU mostly) we have to sort our problem in other way than by using guns, most of the time. :) Not everything is perfect in our society, but we still don't need gun in the possession of most civilians; and we are not less free for it.

I don't think he was talking about accidental death. The difference is that in one case (cars, poisonning) it is mostly accidental death. In the other case (fire arms), it is mostly intentional death. One of the problem with the US is that there are so many fire arms around anyway, that removing them won't especially solve the problem of some people going to kill each other. Not for years at best. So I am not sure it makes sense anyway. But mostly, not having fire arms works as well, as is the case in most Europe. You might like them, but civilians don't need to have them. And we don't feel less free (or more) because of that. :) Freedom must have limits anyway, you know, things like don't kill or steal or forget to pay your taxes...

Learning Dvorak (or almost Dvorak) was easy. What was not and took some time was to be really fluent with it. And by some time, I would say a few month. But I never stopped entirely to use my old keyboard as well (so may be there was some confusion). One of the reasons I am happy with my new keyboard is that I am very regularly typing in French, and there are a whole lot of characters that would be difficult to access, or almost impossible. Now, I know them perfectly, and even better because I never purchased a new keyboard. So it is almost Dvorak because it is the French version of it (bépo), but same principle. I do find that I can still type very fast on a French keyboard, with a few more typos and backspaces than before. I am probably still a bit faster than with the Dvorak. But I miss some characters, and find it a bit more tiring for my hands when I really do a lot of typing. As for the fact that keyboards usually are not Dvorak, there is a small open source app that I have on my USB key that easily allows me to convert the keyboard strikes to Dvorak. And I can still easily enough use other keyboards if needed. I am happy enough with it, but I am not sure I would recommand it for someone using it everyday. Unless Dvorak keyboards start being systematically taught to the young, I don't think we are anywhere close to a switch from QWERTY (or AZERTY in my case).

There are different types of maths. Some are (or become) very natural with practice. Programming require a fair bit of logic, which is one type of math. Also, if programming seems natural to me (unlike a lot of things in math) it is not to every body. And even complex math can seem natural to a few people. I don't feel programming has much to do with math, but may be it does, much more than I thought.

Thanks, I will have a look at that.

Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot to mention that the C++ app is still running in VC6, and unfortunately there is no plan to migrate it yet. So C++/CLI is out of the picture, though I had a look at it. Such a shame...

I have the need to build a client-server system. It will all be working on an intranet, distributed on multiple PCs. One will be a server application, hosted on a PC, that will manage the data. The second will be a client application. It will be used to read and modify the data. This application already exists, for the most, and is a C++ application. It is huge so it cannot be done from scratch again. I have seen that I can expose a COM interface from .Net, so I will probably do a library that will be used as an interface between my old C++ app and the .Net architecture. I also need the server to be able to send notifications to the client applications when some changes occurs, so I need a subscription mechanism. I am relatively new to .Net so I am not sure what the best technology is. I have looked at WCF, but it does not seem ideal for the subscription/notification part. Am I wrong? What else is there that could be better?

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One thing is that I think you'd better use the MoveWindow function instead of the SetWindowPos function in that case. Have you checked the the coordinate don't reach something like a bottom higher than a top... Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns. - Carl Gundlach