FWIW, Visual Studio's C++ analysis is so bad, I keep it turned off. (Yes, it can find errors, but the number of false positives makes it pretty much worthless.)

I'm not sure we're even allowed (by Internet Law) to have a reasonable discussion about audio encoding bitrates, but we'll give it a go :) Yes, these days I use Mac hardware for most of my (home) tasks. I've ended up using the built in iTunes encoders - starting several years ago, it really ramped up its quality (that's according to what I read) and the extra steps of using Lame just wasn't worth it (since I use iTunes to organize my music now). I started encoding my CDs into MP3s in the mid 90's, and those encoders have long been eclipsed in quality. Some may sneer at the use of the iTunes encoder, but since I used it to compare the enocodes to lossless versions (which it can also do), I guess all of my previous statements should be qualified with "the iTunes encoder results" vs. lossless, which was what was easiest for my uses (since I could just click "Create MP3 Version" in iTunes and as long as I had my settings setup right, it would create what I wanted). My gut feel is that these days you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between encoders, but I haven't tested that. All audio, when encoded using lossy compression, will be very noticeably different when measured on lab equipment - an oscilloscope would be enough to show it, a frequency domain analyzer (which several scopes of course have) makes the differences even more obvious. Though you get into issues of synchronization and whatnot that makes it a pain to ensure you do it right. But there will be differences. I've done all of this, because I have the equipment available and it looked like I was doing work. Human hearing, however, isn't as sensitive as a scope (I don't think I'm saying anything you don't know). The real breakthrough when MP3's caught on, and what I hadn't realized was even possible before then, was its use of the characteristics of human hearing, and knowing what info it could discard without being noticed by anyone but dolphins (and possibly bats). At 128k, AAC (and other encoding methods) are noticeably better than MP3 but as you increase bitrate the differences lessen. I settled on VBR 160k MP3 because MP3's are just more universally playable than AAC (even though I have apple devices, I don't want to be tied to AAC). I did my big self test mostly because I used to have fairly high bitrates, including many lossless out of paranoia, but limited space on my phone, and I simply wanted more music with me all the time, and I found VBR 160k as the sweet spot that - overall - saved tons of space (except for some albu

I have the old, old iPad and the old iPad. I'm so last month... cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

"Googling" is not a word...Binging is a word and it has nothing to do with Bing. ;) "the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011) "No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011) "It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)

BarrRobot wrote: djdanlib wrote: how will anyone be able to tell something ever sounded good anyway? They can't. I read recently that many young people actually think compressed MP3 sounds more 'correct' than the original. [I wish I could provide a quote - I know not whether this came from hearsay or proper research, but it seems credible]. They do. [edit: I meant to say "they do think that way"] The thing is, that's what they've always heard, so they expect it to sound that way. If you grew up on vinyls, which honestly had plenty of their own imperfections, you probably prefer that sound to the "cold, digital sound of a CD" right? It comes down to what the customers want and they want to cram a million songs into their cell phones so they can irritate everyone at the bus stop. That started with the good ol' days of Napster and RealPlayer, etc, where you'd rip CDs at the lowest possible bitrate so you could (a) encode mp3s faster because systems were sloooow and (b) share mp3s faster over dialup. No joke, people still rip at 112 Kbps and expect me to play it. I've had people come up to me at a DJ gig and request a song off their iPod. I'll be in the middle of the booking process, and have them look disdainfully at me for not wanting them to email me their Limewire-downloaded mp3s to play at their wedding. Sorry, I always build a PA system with sufficient fidelity to notice the artifacts, and I believe in proper licensing and royalties, and... rant rant rant...

i find it quite usefull, if i've got lots of windows and i want to consentrate on one

if you accept that most browsers use some css3 you can add more than the media type in media declarations like media="only screen and (min-width: 480px)" with this you can have a selection of style sheets for different screen sizes, allowing it to render right on most screen sizes without needing to redirect

I can see plenty of reposts being in the pipeline then. Software Kinetics Wear a hard hat it's under construction Metro RSS

Isn't that called "beer"?

"Finally I understand the feelings of the Few... Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend, we were are equal in the end" Brilliant lyrics "... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute  "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave

I had a cat. If you are out and she did the job in a litter box and then latter wants to do again.. for sure cat will find some better place than dirty litter box... try second litter box.

Are you talking about the new Origami interface marketed as the Ribbon? Man I just love that thing. My days used to be so boring before the Origami. Now each attempt to perform some action is a challenge., kind of like a game. Just the other day I had to solve 2 riddles before Origami would let me use the ‘Auditing’ Toolbar in Excel. Man this thing makes work feel more like, hard work. Granted it has hurt productivity but it helped IT sell management on justifying the upgrade since they had this fancy looking new interface to show (we managed to avoid demonstrating it ). I hate the Ribbon interface fiasco and I call it a fiasco not soo much because it’s a change I did not like (nor many other users around the world) but because of how Microsoft has handled it from first delivery till now. At every step of the process Micro$oft has actively denied there was anything more than a few unhappy users who would eventually convert and be happy with the Ribbon. I am more of a database man then OOP or other programming techniques but I did learn a few things in school taking OOP classes and that was the idea that you need to avoid tightly coupled objects in your program/code and it looks to me like Micro$oft has done the complete opposite of that with this Ribbon by making it a fixed/unchangeable part of software. If the interface was not tightly coupled to the functions it calls then you would think it would be an option so that all users would be able to choose which they like best, the Ribbon or the classic Menu/Tool bars. The Ribbon change wasn’t like other interface changes (i.e. Windows 3.1 to Windows 9x) where some were unhappy but most found it an improvement. Even now Micro$oft is pushing the darn thing down to Explorer for Windows 8 despite the large outcry of angst against this. Micro$oft couldn’t just make the existing program better they had to visually change it and enough to help justify the costs to purchase the new version.

I'm glad you got it sorted. Just out of curiosity: could it be that you logged on with Safari many moons ago, then hadn't used it for a long time, then only just recently used it again? cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

I call it Objectionable C

I'd disagree... I have fairly big projects, you need a pretty decent computer for most big projects... and firmware, well let's just say if you've ever done it, I don't need to explain myself.

It sounds to me you just want us to give you our blessing and give you the final push throwing you to the Lion. Not me. I don't like Apple because they are building an empire on people's weaknesses. I know I shouldn't expect fairness in this world. but when I look at what software Apple creates and what IBM or Microsoft create and then I am told Apple's market value is bigger ... that's sad. Even though sometimes I feel some sort of boredom (you call it fatigue) my thoughs and wishes are not going to programming on another platform but towards freedom: like at least a year of having to do nothing but what I please. Then I would probably yearn for programming. And I mean Windows, .Net, because that's what I know best and I am far from finished exploring everything on this platform. But this is me and even without our approval you go "girl" and pump some new blood in the Matrix. I wish you success! (no sarcasm). Cheers. giuchici

In Chrome, I just type an address or search term into the address bar - it gets sorted out and gone to or searched for as appropriate. [edit] Or, I highlight the term and right click - "search Google for ..." is an option which opens a new tab with the results. [/edit] Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."

[brakes screeching] "Users can request an independent review before any of the "mitigation measures" are put into place, but that will cost them $35." So....I transfer a bunch of MP3s or FLVs of my own stuff and they'll charge me $35 if I want to convince them that I'm not violating anyone's copyright?* Where's the foad smiley? *Not farfetched. I've already received crap from BMI about my sites in the past, demanding money. I told them not to worry about it, that I'd given myself permission to publish my stuff. At least that was free + $0.42. It always itches for the first week or so. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

Speaking of annoyances with VS2010.....is it just me, or does the "MATCH WHOLE WORD" checkbox on the Find and Replace window keep getting checked for everybody? Don't know if it is some hotkey I just accidentally hit every now and then that turns it on or a bug. All I know is that several times a day (but definitely not EVERY time) when I do a Find for something that I know is in this source file - it's not found. And I look over at the Find and Replace window and sure enough, that little bugger is checked again.

David Kentley wrote: I'd rather PC's go back to 4:3 displays, just big ass ones. Widescreen has never made sense there to me. Just about everything I do is vertical. And last year when I shopped for a laptop it was nearly impossible to find one that had a higher vertical resolution than the laptop I had for 7 years. Same here. For all the progress in screens over the years why does it cost more today for a 1200px tall monitor than it did 11 years ago? Cheapest LCD on Newegg today is $780, I paid $200 for a 17" CRT in august of 2000. And AFAIK crApple is the only laptop maker still using 16:10 screens in new models. :(( 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18