ORM's provide functinality using code that you (or your dev team) didn't have to write nor (directly) maintain. For that, they have thier benefit IMHO. ORM's are not the answer for all situations, but to call a technology/framwork 'crap' shows that he is not objective.

... awesome.

yup ... works great.

HA! Thanks.

Check out Microsoft's 'free' Windows Live Essentials - Movie Maker. Simple, fast, transistions and video clip start/end points. I've tried a few higher end products too ... but for doing simple editing, seems to work great.

We've been using MikoGo ... free version works pretty good. http://www.mikogo.com/[^]

.... thanks, good advice.

... yes they are hard to miss. I guess that's the point. I say, just don't shop at Walmart ... don't even walk in the door. I know it's easier to say then do - our lives are busy, money is tight, it's soooo convenient. If enough of us choose to shop at our local stores, they would stay in business. Like I said, you (the coummunity) cannot complain about thier small towns being overrun by Walmart ... because 'you are shopping at walmart'. But truth is most of what is sold at WalMart is 'crap', not beacuase of where it's made, but simply because it's made as cheap as possible, so they can undercut. I think that will be WalMarts downfall.

You cannot 'complain' about wal mart ... if you 'shop' at wal mart. It makes you belive that 'your dollar goes farther, becuase they have lower prices'. Problems is, we just spend all our money on more stuff, that we probably don't need. Business will react to consumer demand - if we demand quality, they will provide it. We wanted cheap .... we got it!