Happy Birthday! Thanks for the great post! I was 5 in 1953, when we got our first telly: a huge Bush with a 9" screen. It was bought so we could watch the Coronation... It exploded a couple of years later (terrible smell of N2O), and the picture collapsed to the size of a postage stamp. No repairing that! :-)

From the Ars Technica comments: I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) | The Nib[^] Two quotes from the comic that struck me: > [William Morris] wanted people to take pleasure in their work rather than "mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil" and, from the final frame: > Questioning and resisting the worst excesses of technology isn't antithetical to progress. If your concept of "progress" doesn't put people at the center of it, is it even progress? In that spirit of questioning: AI is obviously a further iteration of the industrial revolution, with all the disruption that that entails, but is AI really all there is to human intelligence? We shouldn't underestimate ourselves.

Welcome! I've been here since 2006. Got a lot of help with MIDI-related things at the time. Nowadays, like nearly 16,000,000 other members, I mostly just lurk. I check the news feed and the lounge first thing every morning: The news feed is essential reading. The lounge is a friendly place to hear what some experts/insiders are thinking. No surprise that I'm still here! On behalf of all lurkers, many thanks to the CodeProject team for your help over the past decades! Well done!! :cool:

This thread also reminds me of: a) the recent one about comments in code, and coders who forget to update them when the code changes, and b) the long term problem of information rot being faced by ChatGPT etc.

1982 Apple BASIC on an Apple][ with 48k memory. Had a cassette tape recorder for storage and retrieval - no hard disk or floppies.

Maybe, but its very odd. I can only get the local copy of this file[^] to load with its font by following a link from another page. If I try to load the page directly, by opening it in a new tab from the file system or by pasting its link into FF5's URL box, the font doesn't load. This only happens in the local mirror of my website. On the web everything seems okay. Strange... I've decided to develope my pages with another browser for the moment, and give the problem some time to go away. :)

I've got an issue with FF5 not loading custom fonts in locally stored webpages. German Vista Ultimate 64bit...

Todd Smith wrote:

Programming is just the tool.

Amen. You just got my 5. <nitpickBecauseThisIsAnImportantSubject> I'd replace "Find a field of interest where the majority of your learning is related to the field and not the programming tech." by "Be an expert user of the tools, but apply them to a field in which you have both passion and expertees." That means 1) becoming an empassioned expert in the problem domain before learning the tools, and 2) not changing tools unless there's a really good reason to do so. </nitpickBecauseThisIsAnImportantSubject> My passion has always been written music. Best, James

Thanks for the reply, and for bumping it. It would be very useful. all the best, James

Hi, Maybe what I'm suggesting can already be done, but I just have not been able to find out how. If so, sorry - but maybe then the suggestion would be to make the subscription process more obvious. ;) Clicking the Set Options button at the top of the replies just takes me to the top of the article, which seems a bit odd... As an example: I would like to subscribe to the responses to Leslie Sanford's C# MIDI Toolkit, so that I get all new messages sent to me (as if I was getting a reply to something I posted there). Great work you guys do! all the best, James Ingram

That's pretty close to what I think too. For me (as a brain), brains are symbol manipulators which use massive multiprocessing (at the neuron level). Symbols and Time are parts of the (my) brain's strategy for reducing complexity. "Time" is the user thread - otherwise called "conciousness"... ;) James

I tried FontCreator a few months back, and was very happy with it: http://www.high-logic.com/fontcreator.html[^] best, James

John Cardinal wrote:

Personally I wouldn't touch or even look at a line of the original code, I'd just look at the ui and how it works and design something better from scratch.

There's another level below open source too. I'm working alone on a large, private project. Learning a lot all the time. Trying to improve my programming skills etc. But this project is really all about what it does... Things that I've been wanting to be able to do for years, and that are now becoming possible thanks to VS, CP etc. This stage is, of course, a proof of concept. Its quite possible, that once others see it working, they may want to use it too. That's when an open-source (or even commercial) project becomes a possibility. But then "I'd just look at the ui and how it works and design something better from scratch". After all, my programming skills (C++) were rather rusty when I started, and my C# skills (and C# and .NET) are still improving. James Ingram