Karl Sanford wrote: I made last night: That is very cool! Thank you for your hard work and sharing! Marc Testers Wanted! Latest Article: User Authentication on Ruby on Rails - the definitive how to My Blog

Hm, disappointing.

Given this asteroid has a 1 in 1000 chance of impacting Earth before 2120[^], with the force of 100 nuclear bombs, and, there is no now known technology that could, hypothetically, deflect its path if not used before 2060: Well, I'd can think of two very appropriate "godly" names for this ugly[^] critter: here are clues for each name: 1. from Greek theogony: shares a syllable with a musical God who is not all-human, in form. clue 2: a common (and dangerous) household cleaner (don't inhale). 2. from Indic/Vedic theogony: the number 22. second clue: some think he's in the top ten. best, Bill "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images." Niels Bohr

Hi Chris, I agree that "atbennet" is doing no damage here, but the alleged case of VeeraC85[^] inflating "authority reputation" by simply posting copied, or linked-to, work by others, as reported by "SoMad" above, and posting on QA answers over a year old, if it's being done frequently, and that is the only type of contribution to QA that VeeraC85 is making: I do think that is a serious violation of CP's standards, and should be dealt with. best, Bill "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." Kurt Vonnegut

Folks, almost nobody wants to pay the costs + margin for mobile smart hardware (phone or tablet) anymore, the exception being the iPad fanatics. It all must be subsidized somehow. Either with the mobile carrier (phones) or with the app store, or with both. It's much easier to pull $500 out of someone's pocket $1 at a time over a couple of years than to do it all at once. The days of paying several hundred up front for technology that is obsolete in a couple of years is gone by. Microsoft has figured that out, and it's most likely why they're looking at a $199 price point for the Surface tablet. They'll sell like hotcakes. And they'll hope to make it up with all those wonderful $0.99 apps out there that millions of customers will pay for.

I just never bothered to changing the name given to me by CodeProject. I have used my actual name on some sites only to find that I'm not allowed that name because someone else has exactly the same name as me! They tell me that I'm already on the system when it is the first time I've been on the site. Nowadays, I just don't bother: I'll use whatever name they give me. It is useful to have your real name if people spell it correctly. Some employers actually do internet searches on your name to find out what you're up to in your spare time. I've actually been asked at an interview about an article I wrote for CodeGuru in 2002.

somebody get a hair dryer... we can fix this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_ice_cap#Mars[^] Be The Noise

IBM has obtained a patent on an algorithm (and related software) to optimally assign toilets on aircraft. Fortunately, good sense prevailed and IBM announced that they will not be enforcing the patent; not that we know of any airline using the algorithm!

Which nation will have the distinction of introducing sheep-shagging as an Olympic sport? Wales? New Zealand? Scotland? :laugh:

You know that the green in traffic lights actually has got a lot of blue in it as well. Fo r the colour blind.

Jeoshua wrote: Honestly I'd like to see more of this. Here you go: http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx[^] Also, not open source, but some other ways you could get code from Microsoft to address some of the issues you've explained: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/default.aspx[^] http://referencesource.microsoft.com/[^] Be The Noise

HP True64 Unix on Alpha chips for the control computer. I've no idea what, if any, form of embedded computing is in the backend hardware. Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Roger Wright wrote: programmers who felt there was no need to read the manual? Manual? What manual? There was a Manual? :wtf: Build your own survey - http://www.factile.net

Um, why don't you write your own home page and keep the primary source on your local machine, like the rest of us? I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

My mistake, I need a translator to go from euphemism -> Queens English -> American English. The problem is the first step. The second I can bumble my way through well enough most of the time.

Thanks Chris, looks great! :D It's an OO world. public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{ public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); } }

Karl Sanford wrote: and consummation I think you'll find the right spelling is: Consommé[^] ;P "For fifty bucks I'd put my face in their soup and blow." - George Costanza CP article: SmartPager - a Flickr-style pager control with go-to-page popup layer.