<blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">TheArchitectmc∞ wrote:</div>Not even any spelling errors.</blockquote> I see a few errors. Two missing words, one spelling error, one missing comma, a missing hyphen (I'd let that one slide, maybe CP ate it or there is a difference in norms between where I was taught and where you were). As far as why the tip got low marks, I don't know. It seems decent enough, but maybe it feels more like just presenting facts than really giving a "tip". To me a tip would be more of a unique way of doing something than just regurgitating something you read somewhere. I'm not sure how anyone else would rate it though, so take that for what it's worth.

Do us all a favor... don't write children's books. :)

I knew someone most have filled in the OP by now. We have a client who thinks of himself, yes, HIMSELF, as "PITA Boy". Apparently he isn't as bad as he was before I started here because I almost never think he's hard to deal with.

Speaking of kid sisters, your signature looks like a direct quote from mine. I'm going to print it off and show it to her. AWESOME! :)

I have a liter of Mountain Dew a day, starting at 6am. When that runs out I'm too lazy to go to the store and get more so I drink water until I go home after which time I may drink another liter of it or Dr. Pepper or maybe something else. I find that the caffeine has very little effect on me. If I don't drink it for a week I feel the same as any other day so I'm not worried about being addicted or any of that.

What did I give you, four ways of getting the answer? That's just how my mind works. Between development and technical support, it's easy to put yourself into the mindset of finding alternative options to arrive at the intended goals. So for the intended goal of determining what the hammer icon means you have 1) alt text pop-up, 2) picture properties offering the alt text (I think some browsers give it there), 3) picture name when you try to save the picture, 4) the alt text in the image tag if you view the page source (a little much for something so unimportant in this case, but if you really wanted to know, it'd work as a last resort). You just have to look for the options.

In that case, you can probably (don't have Firefox, so I can't verify) right-click the file and go to properties to see the alt-text, or view the page source and find the <img src=... alt=, or just try to save the image (in this case) and the image name would have told you. :-D

I'm not certain if you wanted someone to put that description into a more end-user-friendly description or if you were looking for someone to expand it to completely encapsulate the rest of what it does. I found myself a bit lost in your description of the process above, but I'll try a stab at the executive summary "dumbification": "Develop a mechanism to easily allow the addition of new export formats to the user interface." Part of that is derived from comments you made later in the string, so I hope I managed to fully tackle the issue at hand. If not, well, glean from it what you can and make the rest up :-D.

I find that it varies. Some times when I code I need the music to keep from overhearing other noises in the office or to keep from being bored. However I usually don't actively listen to it, once I do then I focus more on that than my code. If the coding is pretty repetitive stuff then you don't need to concentrate as much so you listen more closely to the music. I usually start the day listening to music and then when I find it lowering my productivity I turn it off until I find the office noises doing the same, then I turn it back on. I don't listen to instrumental stuff, maybe if I did then I'd listen all day, but that gets too boring for me. Might give it a try though. I have a feeling if I listened to a Bach or something of the sort I'd pay that even more attention than the songs I've heard hundreds of times because classical music usually has some sort of a story to it and if you don't listen to it, you get lost and wonder what's going on (purely assumption since, as I stated, I don't listen to it).

If you hover your mouse over the images (at least in my browser, chrome) it will pop-up with what they are, the hammer gives "Site Builder". Edit - Oops, I started to reply before his response was there, but was distracted by work (how dare they!?). Oh well, like he said, lol.

Glad you took the lesson as I intended instead of the offense I didn't. :-D That is an interesting system I guess. Thanks for sharing. Of course, now they'll raise prices for everything so those who pay for things get charged extra to pay for the people who don't. Kind of like the more honest you are, the more you suffer. LOL

Vautour wrote:

which then gets tranfered to collecting societies (I hope that's the correct word).

I think instead of societies you wanted agencies. It's hard to be sure though since you didn't exactly say what they do with it or how that works. I assume they use that pool to reimburse the copyright holders, etc. Not trying to offend, just offering some translation help (hopefully).

I'm not going to address everything, but I see a common thread (although admittedly I only read through the first five or ten responses). That is, "the more concise and easy to read the question is, the easier it is for me to answer". To that end, perhaps it would help to have a method of posting a rephrase of the OP's question. That would allow someone who is able to decipher the question, but unable to answer it, to put it into terms that the rest of us could understand more readily and cut down on the work required to answer.

That is really neat. I never worry about the width though, usually the first (80/96/132/500/however many characters fit on your screen) give me enough of an idea of what's going on with that line that I don't need the rest of it unless I am sure there is something wrong with it and need to debug that particular line. Like you, when I print VS2008 wraps the text that's too wide. Maybe it would be just as well for anyone concerned to turn on the word wrap in the IDE which in VS2008 can be done at Tools -> Options, under Text Editor, All Languages, General under the Settings section.

Shog9 wrote:

Heck, you could download the source and modify the updater to prompt you if you really want...

Last I knew, that wasn't quite true. Granted, it has been a while, but all you could get was the Chromium code which is where Chrome came from, but Chrome has had a lot of changes since then. Chrome's code could be fully available now though I guess.

Shog9 wrote:

so who knows how many users are doing the same...

I would guess more are doing the same than not. Like you, I hate that my computer can restart without my explicit permission. I leave my computer on 24/7 so that any attempts to contact me are waiting for me whenever I show up to unlock my computer. I was out of the office on Friday and when I came back in on Monday I found an instant message that had been sent just a little while after I'd left for the day on Thursday. It wasn't life-changing, but if it had been and if my computer had rebooted itself over the weekend it could have caused some trouble. Partially, I would say it's also a trust thing. With Chrome I know that it'll do its update without adversely affecting my system. With Microsoft, too many experiences say you can't be so sure.

Well in that case, if eleventyfour would have to be A4 as A would be the eleventh digit and four would be the fourth. Or do I need to convert the base ten number 114 to base 25, which would be 4D? Don't worry, I am not offended that I've misunderstood for it is through misunderstanding that we learn how not to understand and thus how to understand. (Ok, that's slightly akin to a quote from the invention of the light bulb about learning lots of ways not to make a light bulb, but it fits.)

SK Genius wrote:

But you can have negative zero as well!

Fine then, it's the first negative even number as well.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

Henry Minute wrote: eleventyfour I'd love to know how to render that in digits!

Well... Let's see... if seventy is 70 then eleventy would be 110. If we count in Hexadecimal, "eleventy" would be 6E, so eleventyfour would be 72. And of course we have to use something with a higher base than ten, so I think hexadecimal would be the proper choice given that it is so widely used already, but I would not cry foul if you wanted to use a system with a base of eleven... or eleventy I guess. :-D

<blockquote class="FQ"><div class="FQA">Henry Minute wrote:</div>So you were even useless as a guinea pig!</blockquote> I guess that makes up for calling him fat...