I got a second click of death yesterday. It's still alive, but I'm being cautious about saving big files or even using my hard disk unless absolutely necessary. I'm also in the process of ordering a portable 1 TB drive. So the creationist says: Everything must have a designer. God designed everything. I say: Why is God the only exception? Why not make the "designs" (like man) exceptions and make God a creation of man?

So from now I can consider myself as an active member :cool: yep yep yep yepeee!!! Me v0.1 = Passive member Me v0.2 = Active member!!!

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That's disappointing. :( So the creationist says: Everything must have a designer. God designed everything. I say: Why is God the only exception? Why not make the "designs" (like man) exceptions and make God a creation of man?

If I remember correctly, "Code Complete" recommends declaring variables as close to their usage (better locality). But it also recommends using variables for just one purpose... So if you're factoring out common stuff and have little functions/methods that do only one thing, there is good locality regardless of using a consolidated style of variable declarations or not.

Stan Shannon wrote: but that never happened? I never said that, did I? You really are confused. The Klan is responsible for anti-sodomy laws? Where does that come from? Stan Shannon wrote: Your reasoning completely escapes me It should, it's not my reasoning. I have no idea what you are going on about. Just like with the racism stuff. Stan Shannon wrote: But the truth is that compared to the overt abuse of power of former presidents, Bush is a piker. Well, no that's not the truth. Bush is in a class all his own when it comes to illegal behavior. Stan Shannon wrote: he is the first president to authorize water-boarding, but then he is also the first commander in chief to have to deal with thousands of his countrymen being murdered by terrorists How is that relevant? Stan Shannon wrote: Presidents have played fast and loose with the constitution in order to defend the nation against various threats throughout our national history. Again, how is that relevant? Stan Shannon wrote: But if you consider Bush to be an example of fascism Where did you get that idea? I haven't said a thing about Bush. Stan Shannon wrote: but not Woodrow Wilson, then dude, you are seriously brain washed. I wouldn't call you brain-washed, but I would suggest you are seriously deluded if you think Wilson was a fascist. Let's see what a actual historian has to say about Woodrow Wilson[^] I have no doubt that you will prefer to listen to a right-wing pundit with a clear ideological agenda to a historian. I don't think either is/was a fascist. Since you do think Wilson was a facsist then you must also think that Bush is a fascist. Stan Shannon wrote: Oh, and btw, ... is the totalitarian control of the terms of the debate by Marxists. Glad to see you have fully embraced your lunacy. You are now claiming that all totalitarian systems are of the left. Really? So Saudi

The demand for encryption/security also works both ways: security for and against an entity. Here's my interpretation of the current demands: The demand to invade privacy of an entity works hand in hand with security against an entity to give birth to something known as the demand to control others. ROFLOLMFAO

I don't like 'em. Why not pandas? :(( ROFLOLMFAO

Not really. What would you do with the error in this extra layer?? You would probably just handle it the same way as you would for an invalid message anyway - request a resend of the message. So why put the processor through the extra work of generating yet another check value? A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^] Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic      2006, 2007

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's sitting there "almost done". Sounds like most of my pet projects :) WPF - Imagineers Wanted Follow your nose using DoubleAnimationUsingPath

I probably violated another unspoken rule of posting… although it made it to the Code Project "Daily News". Maybe it was a bunch of 1-voters? ROFLOLMFAO

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Thanks. I'll look into it. ROFLOLMFAO

I've never done any gaming programming, so my idea may be way off, but... I assume that the circles are objects that maintain data about themselves. Could you have the circle objects keep track of what ray would intersect them? That way all the calculations would be done at the time of movement, and at the time the gun is fired, all that needs to be done is to check each circle to see if the shot qualifies as a hit. Roy.

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Ri Qen-Sin wrote: Does anyone think this is practical? Is there a more efficient way? Yes: discover where the game stores the "original" CRC and update it too when you change the file :)

Right, and a typeless pointer value in C# is an IntPtr. :) Luc Pattyn [My Articles]

Fixed size windows suck. And modal dialogs

While I agree with what you say I'm not sure if all this DRM will succeed. For many people computers are for surfing the web, pirating stuff and playing games. You may as well try to make an OS which can't display porn pictures. Steve

Yes, I know all the .NET namespaces. There are just some algorithms that aren't implemented. ROFLOLMFAO