It sounds like you should be going by yourself instead (seriously). :) -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

pseudonym67 wrote: it's a single stand alone game that is already based on previous work published here There you go, just pick out the parts that are unique and interesting about the new code and write the article about those. Provide a link to the previous articles for anything major that's based on older code. If it's worthy of an article you shouldn't have much trouble picking out some parts that are new and worth writing about. -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

Can we get at least a few words about why to click this and what it is? 'Clicking unknown links' is certainly a recipe for disaster when you're at work. -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

Is a summary of what the link points to asking too much? :P

The original comment apparently needed a smiley: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

The animated kitties in signature files thing sounds pretty good, how do you do that? :) -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

Sounds like the 'shatter' attack (try google), which is a local root exploit caused by bugs in programs that run in a privileged context but expose windows in user space. It's not really a Windows problem, but for some reason it's been getting a hell of a lot of press recently. -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

David Wulff wrote: Britian has the highest percentage of stress releated alcohol consumption in Europe That's pretty interesting! What's the relative population between Britain and the rest of Europe? How did they figure out whether Brits were drinking to unwind from stress or for recreation? David Wulff wrote: And there was I think I was special And what the HELL does this mean? :) -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

No, it was trash. It just had a few neat features that made people get really rabid about it (think Amiga fans). -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

No way, did you see how he used Holyfield? The only question is if the scoring will be fairly done this time. -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

These messages are kind of amusing. What kind of bizarre logic tells you it's OK to post off topic in a group just because the people in the appropriate group didn't immediately do your work for you? -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

Just because MS is well-off doesn't entitle others to enjoy their work for free. Linux stuff is free simply because it's the easiest way to generate and maintain interest for those products. Microsoft doesn't have to, so they don't. It's pretty easy really. -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

I don't think they had many 'extras', if any at all. Unlike in previous Olympics, the medals for this one have the name of the event cast into them, making it difficult to make a few extras for emergencies. Maybe they'll custom order another gold for the Canadians? -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

Actually, one of the main reasons the AK47 is so popular IS because it's so darn easy to produce. The other main reason is that it's amazingly reliable. Both reasons stem from its great design. The problem the Soviets have always had is in quality control; they're excellent designers and researchers (smart enough to design weapons and systems that can be reliably manufactured by their own industry). Heck, even our own stealth aircraft are largely based on Russian research, about a mathematical method for calculating wave reflections off of solid surfaces or somesuch. -- Eric

From the original zdnet article: "The fix is not rocket science," Huger said. "But we weren't working at a breakneck pace to get a patch out, because everyone was working together." This quote perfectly illustrates the major problem with 'information fascism' (great term btw :)). -- Eric Move along, nothing to see here.

That explains it; if you can't modify your own code without breaking it there's no hope for figuring out how to use BC. :) BC's not perfect but its (usually minor) deficiencies are pretty well known (see nice summary of STL template specialization snafu elsewhere in this thread). It's far from being fatally flawed. -- Eric

a) Too bad, you signed it. If you didn't like it there's always another job somewhere. b) Shame on the company if they tried to hoodwink you, but ultimately it's your own fault for not keeping copies of your important documents. Wasn't trying to say that companies don't try to slide one past us every once in a while, just that you need to protect yourself. If you don't understand or feel uneasy about a contract clause, get your own lawyer to explain it to you- no reputable company will give you a 'sign now or never' ultimatum. -- Eric

My understanding is that typically those type of agreements only apply if the code you wrote on your own time is directly related to a field your company is in. The agreements I've seen don't seem intended to steal your personal work, they're to protect the company- otherwise you could take the techniques and knowledge they showed you and produce a competing product. And by the way, the developer has to sign the agreement, so there really isn't much moral high ground to stand on if you claim that companies who do this are Evil- the developer has agreed to accord the company some consideration and protection in exchange for a job. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, anybody who takes this as gospel is more than a little foolish :). Get a real lawyer to look over any agreement that seems questionable before you sign it. -- Eric

Well heck, if it doesn't get instantly answered in the _appropriate_ forum then by all means take your question wherever you feel like asking it. ;P -- Eric

If only it were as easy as remembering to wrap your constants in the _T macro. Actually you need to call API functions to do _anything_ with a multibyte string, including simple iteration through the characters. This leads to a difficult to test mess that is a pain for developers, while providing no real benefit to users (users don't care if you're utf-8 or Unicode as long as you work in their language). Try to keep some perspective. Unicode is easier to write and test code for because it works consistently between (human) languages. Since pretty much all commercial software these days is going to be localized in one way or another, that's a big concern. Going to utf-8 would be a huge step backward- the _miniscule_ amount of memory that it saves is completely overpowered by its disadvantages. I just wish all the MS platforms supported Unicode so I didn't have to switch to multibyte when compiling apps for 9x. ;P -- Eric