I'm not suggesting that we make it a requirement - that way madness lies. I only observe that people who vote without a knowledge of economics aren't capable of making an informed choice. Competence has never been a requirement of political franchise here, nor should it be - who sets the standard? I propose that we fill that intellectual void by emphasizing knowledge more and that we provide it earlier! Of course, changing the educational system will require a vote, with predictable results...:( "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom

hkulten wrote: Eclipse 2.0 is a good one ! I completely agree. Although Eclipse is written in Java, it uses SWT GUI components, which are much faster than Swing. Sun's IDE is slow and error-prone. Cheers

Trying to find differences in two images? Trying to determine if two images are of the same thing? Trying to determine if two images are of the same scene? What sort of comparison?

Ravish wrote: Currently we are using ADO to access the sql server and update the local access db (using batch update). It takes about 10-15 minutes for the whole operation. Is there a faster way to do this ? We have a requirement to move records from SQL to access based on certain filter criteria . As Michael suggest, use DTS. It will work (with filtering and all sorts of other options) but you won't have any fun. DTS is painful IMO. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Colin Davies wrote: ...can you imagine a John Simmons stalker !

Joaquín M López Muñoz wrote: code bloat resulting from massive inlining Although I'll point out that inline is a suggestion to the compiler, not a command. If you inline stupidly, the compiler will ignore you. Christian I have come to clean zee pooollll. - Michael Martin Dec 30, 2001 Picture the daffodil. And while you do that, I'll be over here going through your stuff.

The procedure differs depending on your compiler. There are several good .html docs in the /doc subdirectory of your STLPort directory. For example to build the STLPort for Visual C++ 6, you would go to a command prompt, run VCVARS32.bat to register the build evnironment variables, then run nmake /f vc6.mak clean all and watch it compile (takes a few minutes) In order to use it, you would need to set it in your include search path BEFORE any other paths which would contain another STL implementation.

Excuse me, it wasn't my intention to seem agressive (maybe it's my poor english, I'm a native portuguese speaker). Again, I disagree: I've seen tons of people having problems with .o and .so files on Linux. Search for glibc on the web and you'll see what I mean. Crivo Automated Credit Assessment

1. You can use OpenGL for 2D graphics, although it's not really meant for that. It's probably better to use that than use straight GDI. 2. It depends on your target OS. If you have any Windows NT 4.0 users, forget Direct3D, becuase AFAIK, it is not supported on NT. 9X, 2000, and beyond, though, I believe are OK. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

That depende on how much you trust your fellow developers to test/handle a return code. Exceptions cannot be ignored usually. Al When a man goes on a date he wonders if he is going to get lucky. A woman already knows - Frederick Ryder

If you prefer a small set of keywords, you should check out the following: http://koeln.ccc.de/projekte/brainfuck/index-e.html The URL might be mangled by the filter on this site, but I'm sure you can fix that ;)

I'm assuming that by VM you actually mean JVM, the Java Virtual Machine. Well, these two are quite similar - both provide unified data type system, garbage collection, intermediate language etc. However, there also differences - you can find lots of relevant info at Developmentor's DOTNET listserv. Have a look at this thread: http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0109A&L=DOTNET&D=0&P=58122 Tomasz Sowinski -- http://www.shooltz.com

You are right about IE5.0 - museum piece, but cannot move to IE 6.0. Our users are still in stone age.

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I'm currently in mission in tunisia (witch is not extrem). i always check the country security before accepting such a job. Gilles Dassac NeverSo France gilles@neverso.com

Correct. Stephen Kellett -- C++/Java/Win NT/Unix variants Memory leaks/corruptions/performance/system problems. UK based. Problems with RSI/WRULD? Contact me for advice.

Ok, I found it (and I remembered to look it up. I must be younger than I think ;P ) The functions are GetProcessTimes and GetThreadTimes. look them up in MSDN.

The pascal (stdcall) calling convention is not obsolete in Win32. Most of the Win32 API uses it. Is has various macros to describe it such as WINAPI, CALLBACK, APIPRIVATE, PASCAL, and IMAGEAPI. It is used for two reasons : first so that multiple programming languages can be supported and second because M$ claims that it is slightly more efficient. :rolleyes: Whatever. You are right that the callee fixes the stack. This is done by adding the number of bytes that were pushed back to ESP. BTW: I actually do have something that resembles a life but I have spent lots of time reading .cod listings. :)

Apparently the standard .lib import libraries don't work with GCC, that's why you need the import libs in win32api.

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