Is Belgian politics external to the Universe then?
They've stopped the ability of the ruling party to call elections whenever they wish in the UK.
Is Belgian politics external to the Universe then?
They've stopped the ability of the ruling party to call elections whenever they wish in the UK.
@Zylon said:
install an alternative PDF reader like Foxit?
Sumatra is my favourite for Windows - the portable zip version is only a 2.3MB download. You don't get nagged to buy a "premium version" - its a GPLv3 project
@AndyCanfield said:
A yard is a meter, to about plus or minus ten percent. A very useful conversion. Also a liter is a quart.
Here's one for you: Which is heavier? A ton of steel in Boston, or a ton of steel in Bangkok?
The ton of steel in Bangkok is heavier, because it's a metric ton, 1000 kilograms, 2200 pounds. A ton of steel in Boston is only an archaic ton, 2000 pounds.
An Imperial ton is 2240 pounds, not 2000. 1 Cwt. = 112 pounds, 20Cwt = 1 Ton. So there's only -40 pounds difference in fact, ie. it is lighter in Bangkok. Unless there's a USian ton, which would add to the general WTFness of US measurements.
At first I thought the text on the right was "FAIL registration now open"
@Bulb said:
Text = Text
inserts a dash, because it feeds the output of your getter that removes all dashes to your setter that adds dash in correct place. So it obviously adds the dash.
Exactly - its not a simple string assignment, and illustrates the power of class-based programming @Bulb said:
I don't see any WTF except that your idea there is one.:)
@lanzz said:
so it shouldn't be connected to the 'net? ever?
The same goes for Daids box also, surely.
Is it really so hard to type 'sudo' every so often? (and it reminds you that you're doing something with possibly severe consequences)
@mfah said:
Could be because 2005 no longer supports the single-threaded runtime?
Could you expand upon that at all? Any change from 6.0 to 2005 is a good candidate...
I'll try to cobble something together that explains it better- its the kind of app that uses lots of different COM dlls & has fairly lengthy database transactions
I have moved a SQL server app written in VC++6 to VS2005(made up of 44 projects, each one a COM dll) - it all works as it should except for one thing. In the VC6 version there is a dll which does a fair bit of repetitive locking & updating.It runs quickly. When the same code is run under VS2005 there is a ReadOnly ADO SELECT statement on a table which is already locked pessimistically which waits for a LockTimeout before it continues which causes it to run much slower. As far as I can tell this is correct behaviour, however the VC6 version did not wait for the lock to timeout even though it looks like it should. I'm now worried that there may be many more undiscovered locking WTFs in the old code that one could "get away with" in VC6 but now no longer work. I've already encountered other C++ code in the VC6 version which "shouldn't have worked " but did and needed correcting in VS2005.
My question is - does anyone know of reasons why the same version of ADO would behave differently under VC6 to VS2005? or does anyone know if it behaves differently even if you don't know why?
@jakkle said:
My mental condition of choice to label him with is probably Schizophrenia - he has paranoia and no touch with reality.
My preference is for OCD with a dash of Narcissistic Personality Disorder
@bstorer said:
Other equally factual statements:
- You don't have to do anything other than have fun with Ebola. It's already good enough.
- You don't have to do anything other than have fun with do-it-yourself trepanation. It's already good enough.
- You don't have to do anything other than have fun with a large, spiked rod shoved up your ass. It's already good enough.
LOL
I have to use VS2005 to develop in C++ for work. It has the VisualAssistX add-in which adds a lot of syntax highlighting & code completion, refactoring etc. I couldn't stand VS without it - definitely worth a try.
A few minutes ago, after looking at the wikipedia election results I typed "doug pederson" into google - I froze in horror as the words "<font size="-1">Results 1 - 100 of about 19,800 for "doug pederson" " hove into view...</font>
He can't be that famous & he isn't - luckily there's a Green Bay Packers quarterback with the same name - I wonder if the quarterback realises he has a scary namesake. He should watch out, or one day he could wake up in the SwampShack.... (inspires a mental image of the shack in The Evil Dead)
I'd like to take isue with the Brit=drunk thing but I can't really as it is all too often true, however in my (perhaps limited) experience British geeks tend to lean more towards recreational drugs than heavy boozing if they like getting "out the heid "
Which image/site are you referring to? Or has it been removed? Or am I being dumb? (most likely option from experience)
You should go & tell the *chans about SSDS , I'm sure all the /b/ tards would welcome you - you can post screenshots there eg 4chan
(sort of) on the subject of Search, I have to use Windows at work & I found a freeware version of Unix/GNU linux's locate for windows - it seems to work quite well & just like the original its almost instant - the indexing took a minute or two for a couple of disks & network share. Its definitely open source , but I'm not sure of the licence.
I check back every few days to see if this nutter is still gibbering...and he is!
I feel sort of sorry for him,really
Your SpectateSwamp sig made me laugh.
I'm from the UK & on Amazon UK it costs 72 GBP! (~$140)
I didn't know "Tampon" was French for "Buffer", at least I presume that is what it means...
@KattMan said:
Just goes to show you, never and I mean NEVER! admit wrongdoing to our government, even if you think it will help someone. They are far more concerned with finding scapegoats then fixing problems.
Too right! All police organisations just want bodies to put in cells, its what they live for. Who the bodies belong to is immaterial.