Well, probably not the billionaires... ;P John "You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek.

The other evening I encountered a Flash pop-up that did a blinds disolve when it was finished - but it was still active, just transparent. When I tried to click on the hyperlink I could see (that was actually behind the transparent Flash pop-up window), I kept being directed to the ad site. :mad: Steve

It's okay to be afraid of Remoting at first, but once you get the hang of it it's great! There you can use a BinaryFormatter which does improve performance (even just serializing/deserializing, not to mention the bandwidth required). Microsoft MVP, Visual C# My Articles

In that case I find Reflector to be enough, although I hate the amount of bugs (that the lobster of an author just wont fix) it has. top secret AdvancedTextBox

Heath Stewart wrote: Finally, speaking of RSS did you ever see my reply about changing the blog RSS titles to use the member name somewhere instead of a generic title that applies to all feeds? Yep - this is on the TODO. cheers, Chris Maunder

way too simple You bring up an interesting point. I'm thinking that change is inevitable-- if a couple years from now there are over a million Gold members, it'll be time for a change, or maybe sooner. Statuses could always be branched into new metals, I guess. I think that there should probably be status accrued by virtue of helping people (in which case you'd probably have Plutonium status). If someone is helped, they could grant their helper some kind of points that would feed into their status. Then articles could count a certain amount of the same type of points, also; this could even depend on their popularity. I think it's already good that messages count towards status, but I think that maybe helpful messages on help boards should count more than average. Or maybe high-ranked messages of any type could count more, but that'd be a lot of computation, and messages can always be voted up or down, and you wouldn't want a constantly fluctuating number. Regards, Jeff Varszegi EEEP!  An Extensible Expression Evaluation Package

I saw a few minutes of it, but it seemed sort of slow. Glano perictu com sahni delorin!

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Jeff Varszegi wrote: Thanks a lot. I was sorta hoping to kick off a lounge discussion about the spam problem, but I guess nobody wants to play. I'll now sink back into well-deserved obscurity... Seriously, though, thanks. Personally, I don't think there is a lot we can do with the spam problem, without making it more difficult for genuine users. Forcing people to register to post questions, whilst personally I think it would be a good idea, it's not hard to create a brand new account everytime you want to spam. It just takes a little more time. The best thing we can do is report spam messages to the webmasters and let them deal with them. Michael CP Blog [^]

I use Zone Alarm - ICF was too difficult to use. Like finding out how :confused: The tigress is here :-D

Okay, I agree. My suggestion is withdrawn. Only the people who really care about and know the site come over here, and that's probably best. Regards, Jeff Varszegi

Jeff Varszegi wrote: I always call it like I see it. now you know why i get 1s many times... i have had my share of 5s too :-) mostly in VC++ forum :-) God is Real, unless declared Integer.

I agree. Actually, if a multi-page version were offered, I'd probably recommend more prominence for the "Print version" link on the left sidebar. Regards, Jeff Varszegi

That's really, really sad. The phrase "get a life" springs to mind... Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In

Heath Stewart wrote: Most modern players have such association managers built right in and also have options to maintain those associations if they are "lost". Winamp has had this since the beginning and WMP, Real, and QT all have it now. Whichever one gets installed last and used last will win. Technically speaking, yes. Unfortunately, those are not useable from the user standpoint. It's obvious that everyone clicks ok at this point. Something you have also forgotten to mention is that pretty much any media related software (not only players of course, this also includes net downloaders, P2P software, cd burners, ...) that you install tries to redefine that, including the little cd burner you installed last week. I am not talking about you here, only referring to a scenario where, OH MY, someone installs a non-Microsoft software. If you are not convinced yet of how bad the situation is these days... Heath Stewart wrote: I - and many other developers - think it's a great way of writing component-based software - pretty much the whole point of COM. Why re-write something so non-trivial every time you need such a component. This one truely sucks. In addition, you completely missed the point, answering on technicalities although this post is about monopoly related bundling strategies. I have nothing against component software of course. But when it comes to a point that the only way for a player app to work reliably on Windows is to assume the windows media player is installed, I think it falls short in many ways. First and foremost, it means you are ready to take all the bugs for you. Let's get it clear, bugs related to media players, especially with the myriad of player versions out there, are by the thousands. Does it play nice when all you need is say a video renderer or a MP3 player. Take the video renderer, why not rely on DirectShow instead? It's bundled on the OS since Windows 98 and cannot be removed. Of course, a better scenario is to link against a third party .lib/.dll that will allow your software to manage more flexible scenarios (cross-platform for instance, especially when it comes to media related software). Heath Stewart wrote: There aren't many good HTML rendering libs out there, and the WebBrowser control is easy to embed, extend, and manipulate. Ever try doing that with Gecko? One word, htmllite.dll. If you don't know about this one, lookup codeproject. The irony with htmllite.dll is