Bewitched - Cest La Vie..... not sure if bewitched made it to the states, but they were a girl band from Ireland, and extremely cheesy... at the time I was a hardened goth type.... I would have been burnt alive had my friends found out! ;) For those who are yet to know the horror.... Behold: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M1_muIb3dvU[^]

I use Adblock Plus firefox plugin for most of my browsing... not sure if they have an IE one or not, but well worth installing. NoScript is also a decent addon too. When I find a site that doesn't go overboard with the ad's and that I find useful, it gets unblocked from adblock, thereby supporting sites I like, and ignoring the badly designed and greedy ones. :D

I think it depends on the keyboard, my macbook pro keyboard is awesome - the wireless keyboard I use on the macmini is disgusting and exactly how he describes it, My First Keyboard. Also - home and end are very annoying, they don't exist on my macbook, but I think fn+left/right work just as well. Also, took me like 20 minutes to find the # key (alt+3). Now I do the shortcuts by instinct it is starting to become as quick to code using this keyboard layout than a normal UK keyboard, but it takes a good few weeks. They dont have the £, @. ", ~, \ keys in the right place either, even though this is meant to be a UK keyboard. Sigh... it just works, providing you are an American teenager who doesn't program or use anything other than ilife. Biggest gripe at the minute - if I use VMware Fusion in fullscreen mode then all the other windows in other Space's lose the ability to minimise via the min yellow icon, and yet, they happily do it with a cmd+m or double clicking the window. Still - there is something scarily nice about using my macbook, it's the smallest and powerful notebook I've ever owned, but then again, it's also the most expensive.... still, I'm happy enough.

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

You're still pissed off about that tea party thing, aren't ya...

It's still too painful to talk about...

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Well ya see, a good number of us Americans don't go in for that "new world order" crap. I'll learn Chinese when you're diggin' egg-foo-yung outa my anal pore.

Shocking use of delicious egg-foo-yung... good day sir! ;P

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

0. Please find someone that speaks fairly good English to help you with your article. I'm not at all interested in reading an article that includes a high number of punctuation errors, transposed words, incorrect words, and any number of other syntactic errors. I realize English is a difficult language to master, but this is an "English spoken here" website, and you would do well to conform to that standard.

And by English I assume you mean the butchered form known as American. Makes me giggle you posted in American English (realise doesn't have a 'z' in).

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

For all you VB programmers out there that are confused by my item numbering scheme, real languages (like C/C++) index lists and arrays starting at 0, so I figured I would extend that tradition to textual lists as well.

Tut tut - after lecturing a big group of people who have English as a second language about conforming to English standards, you go out of your way and break from traditional bullet point numbering to upset another group of developers, just based on their language of choice. Can't wait to see how you cope when Chinese becomes the main language of choice on the internet in a few years - hope you have alot of Chinese friends to help you edit your articles! ;)

you is crazy!! lol... nah, soy has improved ALOT the last few years, I prefer my unsweetened soya milk now than normal milk, which I could never have said 5 years ago! :) Thanks for the tip! :)

Or get a laptop... worked for me! :) I have IBS so when I'm ill I get some of my best coding done in there... true story! lol

I did not know that, you learn something new every day, even if we are lazy sods! :)

I would have thought you would want to keep this. in there for other programmers, I sometimes remove mine but only for myself! :) If you ever try and use Reflector to view a project, it normally has the "this." before every function... not sure if it for optimisation or what... and to be honest I'm too lazy to find out... but hey, thats what this thread is all about isnt it! :)

Bruce... because every time Mel tries to be hard he gets a perm... seriously... look at braveheart or lethal weapons... its frightening! Bruce would just improvise and swing mel by his hair until he died from it! :)

Me too... don't think I've seen rice-dream in the UK... may have to start importing... I loved my icecream.. just not the after-affects! :)

Guilty as charged.... :) I use SharpDevelop alot at work, and I been using the "this." trick for a while... it's just so much easier than scrolling up, finding the name, scrolling down, type the full var name. It also saves a couple of extra keypresses by pressing return/tab when it hits the right option! :)

You want to get a Wii with an Xbox 360 too (probably ends up same price as a PS3 anyway!)... it's my setup, reason why is: - 360 has great online play, Xbox Live is amazing when playing fps games like GoW, CoD3 and Halo 3 - 360 has more serious games like BioShock, Call of Duty, Gotham Racing than the Wii - Wii is more a party type console with WiiSports/WarioWare type games, which is very fun with lots of friends in your house but no real online play to speak of. You can still play the console on single player nights with games like Zelda, Trauma Center and others. - For the Wii don't expect anything more powerfull than a PS2 game in terms of graphics, especially with ports (they seem to port over the ps2 version, probably because it wouldn't support a 360/PS3 port)... classic examples of this was Spiderman 3 or Transformers - great games on the 360, but not so good on the Wii in comparison. - The Wii controller adds a new dimension to alot of games, and the more the experiment with it the better it is getting. This is something you wont get on either the 360 or the PS3 (even tho they stole the idea of a motion sensor after scrapping their boomerang pad!). Oh - it has to be said that Achievement Points on the 360 actually make gaming a little more interesting too, with mates trying to out-do each other with achievement points (you get about 1000 per game available, with achievements for different things, like maybe 15 points for "get a triple kill" in Halo 3 or "terminal velocity - fall 30000ft" in Portal (a game in The Orange Box). Hopefully Nintendo will start putting on extra "channels" on the Wii, so we will have more than weather, wiimii's and a web browser in the main menus.

S Smerk wrote:

here is sit, so broken hearted tried to sh*t but only farted

It's like you can see into my heart and feel my pain! :)

I almost believed you until you said you hadn't upgraded to the latest iPod Nano needlessly, regardless of any lack of improvements or worse design! :) If it is true.... then have a virtual slap from me for buying the iPhone too! lol *slap*

lol - a Pom, with a French name, and a Mac user who is ashamed of it.... we have now entered the Twilight Zone *cue the "dooo do dooo do" music*

I'm so gonna have nightmares tonight! lol... and to think I was considering getting a macbook in defiance of Vista! lol

Yup, me too - that's why I'm still developing in Windows! :)

Good in theory - bad in practise... then you just get the beginners posting with an introduction of "I posted this in beginners, but I thought you guys might be able to answer better". I think the thing that bugged me the most is when you post replies in articles to reply to other peoples problems and help them out - then you get private messages from people with dumb questions saying "you seem to know what you're talking about, can you help me with...".

My education was fine and I only finished university a few years ago! :) Don't buy into the media's perception of our education!! To the original poster - you're fine, and so are they. You just both enjoy different styles, if it works for the company and not for yourself then maybe you should think of joining a company that is a little more structured. If the system is obviously weak because of the coding, then you should speak up and change things.