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NEWS FLASH: If there is a setting the user can change, a program can change it too, and there's nothing you can do about it. Nothing. Whatsoever.

Film at eleven.

Beer28 wrote:

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=gates&fname=william&search=Search+by+Name
Saw this today while looking up people from my old neighbourhood in NYS. I'm not surprised.

Big business loves GW.

And Kerry.
http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/industries.asp?Cycle=All
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.asp

object88 wrote:

Is this a glitch or am I doing something wrong?

I create a .NET ToolBar, and dock it on the right or left of some control.  I fill it up with ToolBarButtons, some of which are seperators.  Where there are seperators, there is a vertical line to the right of the icon, and one below.  Although, this does not happen if the last button before a seperator is a dropdown button.

When the toolbar is docked on the top, I only get one seperator, as expected.

I haven't played with this much, so there is quite likely something I've missed.  Thanks for any advice!

This actually seems to be a bug in the standard comctl toolbar control. I've seen this in my VB6 apps as well.

thechris wrote:

it is a bug in firefox (and others) as the browser should not crash if there is bad html.  not render or odd rendering of bad html is ok, but to crash is a different issue.  further reasearch needs to be done to see if there are any security holes that can come about as a result.

as for IE displaying bad html, well, the only problem is that the bad html becomes a de-facto standard and in effect MS can overwrite any free standard.

IMO if any single organization should be responsible for standards, it should be neither a governmental nor commercial organization. 

Moz and Firefox have had plenty of HTML/rendering related crash bugs for as long as I've been using them. Moz still crashes on a regular basis for me when encountering wacky pages. I distinctly remember filing a bug that was one of the reasons that Pipelining is now off by default in Mozilla/Firefox. When visiting certain pages, the pipelining code went nuts and filled the page with random unicode garbage, and often crashed the browser entirely (in a different location each time, no less). I'm not aware of them ever fixing the issue, they just turned off the feature.

IE doesn't crash as often for me, but I need my tabs.

This is one thing that really bugs me about C#. In VB6 I could do this:
Dim blah as SomeObject
For Each blah in SomeCollection
 blah.foo
Next blah
And it would iterate through all the SomeObjects in SomeCollection, and ignore everything else.
In C# it errors out.

Congrats to all the winners!

I have to say, though, it kind of offends me that in the J# category an obscenely simple application won an XBox and year subscription to Live, while the winner in the C# category (along with many of the other entries) was obviously the result of far more effort. Doesn't mean the J# entry isn't any good, but it does seem kind of unfair.

This is just a clever way to get our passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, and DNA sequences, isn't it?!?!?!?! YOUR TRICKS ARE USELESS!

jamie wrote:

It should work out - if they get all dvds and cds to use winmedia 10 formats ( like dvds all have which they didnt even show at the launch)

I'd actually prefer a WMA based DVD format, at least to the existing ones. I hate having to pay $40 per machine for crappy, single-threaded player software just to legally watch the DVDs I own. There's at least VideoLAN, but that's of questionable legality and isn't nearly as polished as WMP or PowerDVD.

Theora or something would be nicer, but I'm not living in a fantasy world

For CDs, eh. The current format works pretty well. It's not like they're going to put MORE than 70 minutes of music on a CD. As it is, a lot of music CDs aren't even full when you buy them.

I don't buy CDs very often anymore, though, so it's not a big deal. AllOfMP3 and similar services make it pretty easy to buy music in the format I want without hassle.

To find an internship at Microsoft

For fun, mostly. It's also nice to have a place to talk with fellow developers... when I run into a really weird problem with VC++ or VC# there's usually someone here who knows about it (though it does take FOREVER to get a response sometimes).

Well, the contest winners are probably going to be announced sometime today, but here's my guesses at who the winners will be:

For C#, it's pretty tough to say, but I think Adaeria Today, Desklets and MovieScrape all look like pretty solid applications! Can't really say for sure, since I haven't tried them, but they're all based on good concepts and seem to be well thought-out.

For VB.net, it looks like a toss-up between BitTorrent Parser and CallerPC. CallerPC looks pretty simplistic, but I think it's a nice idea, and I don't remember ever seeing it done before. BitTorrent Parser looks like a cool app, but I'm not sure how well it really works, since I've never heard of the 'torrentbits framework'.

For VC++, I think it's pretty clear that Voxygen is going to win. Voxel rendering isn't exactly trivial, and from the screenshot it appears to run at a pretty respectable speed.

For J#, it's probably either going to be ChatApp or TChat. Hard to say without trying either of them.

In the Visual Web Developer category, I think Enemy Territory Server Query Web Service is probably going to win. It seems like a nice implementation of a non-trivial concept, and definitely would be useful if it works as advertised.

And then for the SQL Server category, who knows? I'm not sure there were even any entries that used SQL Server.

So, then, what do you guys think? Hopefully you've taken a look at most of the entries already, so let's exchange some feedback on each other's entries and try and guess who the winners are!