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Thanks everyone, you successfully recovered my trick, I was able to update it and it is now pending for approval. Cheers, T.

My experience with both object oriented programming and design patterns mirrors yours, and probably nearly every one of our colleagues who started in the 1970's. Along those same lines, I was once asked to fix a program that had been written by a brand new graduate, so new that the ink wasn't dry on his Computer Science diploma. It was modularized, as was the fashion of the day, in the extreme. If even a single statement appeared in two or more places in the program, it was implemented as a function. After studying it for a few hours, I scrapped the entire program, and rewrote it from scratch. With a total expenditure of about two days, I had a completely rewritten, tested replacement for the program. While it was modular, it wasn't slavishly so; there were places here and there where the same statement appeared in two or more places. So what? In the grand scheme of things, that might have made toe object code a hundred bytes bigger, which didn't matter, even then, when we measured programs' memory consumption in kilobytes. David A. Gray Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting

Tomaž Štih wrote: I thought They didn't. DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani

The radiation will take care of the genetic engineering :)

Tomaž Štih wrote: Only they combine useful programs in hope that they'll become even more useful. Ha! Not twenty years ago, they didn't, and nor do they have to now. (Some of us old buggers have been in the game a while, you know) I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

To get the type of information you mention, I think you'll have to use the MonitorInfo API call 'GetMonitorInfo, and examine the state of the 'MONITORINFO or MONITORINFOEX structures it returns: [^]. This may be useful: [^]. «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

Tomaž Štih wrote: how do YOU handle ORM I don't, and judging by this thread and others, I think you'll find that most developers with significant experience with code and databases don't use them. It seems to be the development equivalent of wearing pants around your knees -- the practitioners seems to think it's cool, but to everyone else you're just causing yourself trouble, effort, and embarrassment with no benefits. You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

No worries, I've done it myself ...

Stan Shannon wrote: What's Paul have to be paranoid about? Well, there are those rumors about his actually being dead. "I buried Paul." BW If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright

Are the German people not free men? (Sorry, could not read the article as I cannot speack German) My mom told me once that "while we all don't speak the same language, everyone in the world undestands an asskicking"

Tomaž Štih wrote: They are replaced by capitalist covenants. Look at the mediterranean coast, and see how anarchic building destroyed the landscape. Tomaž Štih wrote: Houston is a nice example of that. Yeah, I'm sure the average income in Houston can be compared to the one in Czech republic. Tomaž Štih wrote: People tend to keep the standard they are used too (if you had toilet you tend to build toilet in your new home), I they can put sewer directly to the next instead of paying for an septic tank, what option will they choose? Tomaž Štih wrote: People tend to invest more when they have legal coverage for what they do. So the need of a building permit. Oh Terre de détresse Où nous devons sans cesse Piocher Piocher Fold with us! ¤ flickr

Robert Rohde wrote: What is your problem? You are relating everything you read from germany to some left/socialist conspiracy. I think the answer is in your question :-D Tiefe Wasser sind nicht still Fold with us! ¤ flickr

It was a time when it was a 'conscription army', and the concept was that victory belonged to the big battalions...so discipline was more important than initiative. Totally out of date nowadays. And you know, with French people, you never insist to much on discipline :-D The great error of nearly all studies of war has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics - Simone Weil Fold with us! ¤ flickr

Nice to know Europe is not full of socialists.

Tomaž Štih wrote: Here's a hint.[^] When Mr Revels mentions "the sixteenth-century kings of France, [...] inviting Italian artists to their courts", does he realize it is public intervention, and that's because there was a State's will that 'Renaissance' could happen in France? Also, Mr Revel forgets to say that if painters of the 19th century had worked for commercial ambitions, there would be no Van Gogh, Modigliani or Cézanne. The writer is dishonest when he claims that "cultural exception" means nationalistic protectionism. "Cultural exception" means that artworks can't be measured by the so-called Laws of the Market only: Art is not a product by essence. Tomaž Štih wrote: totalitarian European governments spent billions via government sponsored public media :laugh::laugh::laugh: Tomaž Štih wrote: but the main argument for subventioning was always that people are dumb and that hochkultur can't be commercial - many times emphasizing "American barbarians" as an example of society without any culture. What happens when there is no public funding: Despite the success of Kruh in mleko and No Man's Land, as well as earlier films such as Janez Burger's V leru (Idle Running, 1999) and Damjan Kozole's Porno film (2000), only one film was produced in its entirety by the national Film Fund last year because of insufficient funding, both from the state and also from other sources. A new Law on Cinematography is currently being drafted and should be passed at the end of 2002. But according to Emeršič, it is already being influenced by commercial interests. She is not hopeful that it will do anything but harm Slovene cinema. [^] Let's the rules of the market apply, and in five years there's no more slovenian production. What a success! Tomaž Štih wrote: the main argument for subventioning was always that people are dumb and that hochkultur can't be commercial You are arguing that quantity equals quality: It is saying that reality shows are the finest work ever. Waoh. I hope future generations won't consider "Survivor" as the artistic climax of the 21st century.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Classical liberalism is gaining ground in Europe. In Germany the FDP had a huge increase in votes and was voted third largest party. The trouble is that neosocialist extremists have gained power too and this is a threat to democracy and peace. It is good to know that in Germany not even totalitarian media control via public television system worked for the left. It is bad that people who would not be fulled anymore divided to two groups - moderate liberal reformists on one side and die hard militant extremists, supporting their sacred public television and neosocialist agenda to the grave on the other. Germany itself is a country divided, positions are quite similar to the cold war and the left is benefiting from decades of communist brainstorming on the east. There is still a clear boundary between free world and neosocialist quagimire; Berlin wall still stands in minds of people - and I don't mean people like me. Here's the result of "are you for more personal responsibility" poll: http://www.stern.de/politik/perspektivedeutschland/index.html?id=523002&p=4&nv=ct_cb&eid=501574[^] Here are the voters of the extreme neosocialist Linke. Click on the Linkspartei on the right to get the voters: http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,5532,11922,00.html[^] Tomaz

And the death toll among the elderly plumeted in the autumn. Wonder why? The heat just accelerated the decline of those destined to die in the next few months. That was all, this was no disaster, no one is to blame. Nunc est bibendum!

Tomaž Štih wrote: Today some incompetent marxist fool will write a lie such as that evacuations are not reponsibility of the minimal goverment and tomorrow the same marxist will demand subventions for culture because "Katrina proved the necessity of goverment intervention". The "minimal government" is surely not a well-defined concept. In the context of some particular individual's writing it may be, but there is no authoritative source that defines the concept. That being the case, the issue of "lying" about it really doesn't arise --- unless the person alleging some property of the "minimal government" does so in the context of a named body of thought. John Carson "The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has survived for centuries wihout smileys. Only the new crop of modern computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not Clearly Labelled as such." Ray Shea

This was discussed in some detail on Slashdot, where it was pointed out that the police are allowed to commandeer supplies and vehicles to carry out their duties of protecting the populace and property. When rescue helicopters have already been shot at, the police are probably helping by reducing the availablility of guns to looters, and by loading food into SUVs, they could have been doing so to take that food to people who need it. They could also have been taking money from safes and ATMs to prevent looters from getting it. Eyewitness reports even a few minutes after the event are notoriously unreliable, and when people are scared, hungry, tired and confused, they will (even unwittingly) have a distorted recollection of what's going on. I'm not saying that no police at all are looting, but that we shouldn't jump to conclusions here. On a personal note, I think it's a disgrace how long the evacuation process is taking in the world's single superpower, and my thoughts go out to those affected.:rose: I bet they can't wait for Dubya to turn up, everything will be just A-OK once he takes command.