theeastdevil wrote: 40-59: D 59-69: C 70-79: B 80-100: A You have to keep in mind that at his school, 40 is a passing grade. Try to use small words when explaining the answer.

But without blogs, how would I know what clever things people's cats did?

Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Your app would have to keep the MSN client up and running 24 hours a day to know when other people are on... hmm, that gives me just a germ of an idea, but how about something like this: Create a web service on a dedicated server (maybe at a hosting facility, whatever). It would have a few methods: StartTrackingUser(UserName) GetUserStats(UserName) StopTrackingUser(UserName) When somebody wants to start tracking another user, they call your StartTrackingUser() function which creates an entry in the database and sets up a user for tracking. Then you have a service (or just a thread) running that reads your database and checks all of the users int there every X minutes to see if they are online. It then writes an approraite entry to the DB. (If the user was online but is not off, it can write "userX logged of at..." or visa-versa.) When you want to get the stats back form the server, just call your GetUserStats which compiles the stats (or gets them raw, whatever) from the database. Finally, when you want to stop tracking a person, your app calls StopTrackingUser(). This all depends on finding a hosting service that wil lallow you to run a scheduled task or a service or having a dedicated server at a static IP address.

Steve Mayfield wrote: Dunaway paid $100,000 to Smathers for the updated list, and later sold it to the unnamed spammer for $32,000. Stunning business plan.

That's bullcrap, it has their name on it, if they don't know what's being shipped it's their problem. If you sent out a CD with your software on it, wouldn't you make sure that it had your software and only your software on it? Or would you just hand it over to somebody and say "hey, it's my company's name and reputation, but put whatever you want on it." And it's no different that they are musicians, they are still have a corporate reputation -- don't forget the second word in "Show Business." :mad: