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19 hours ago, JohnAskew wrote

Hostess is seeking permission from Drain to pay bonuses to key managers while closing operations that will leave most of its 18,500 workers unemployed.

Loot and scoot.

I do not follow. The allegation is that the private equity firm that owns hostess wants to give money to key employees out of some honor amoung thieves loyalty arrangement? Why not just accept the obvious. The owners need key people ( programmers? ) to stay with the company despite knowing they will be unemployed at a certain time in the near future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAHzErPdiD8

a Julie Larson video from 2008 demoing touch on a PC.  My immediate question is why has she not been able to get touch accepted on the desktop for 4 years now?  Why expect it to be something people want now?

What has Julie Green done that qualifies her for such a high position in the company?  I do not think Office is very good at all. It is certainly brutal as a programming platform.  At least Sinofsky appeared to have advanced the windows OS with WinRT and siloing of apps.  Anders should run the company.

38 minutes ago, Maddus Mattus wrote

When we clean this mess up here in the EU, the spotlight will be on the US. You guys will have to go over this fiscal cliff, my concern is if Obama is up for the task or will he kick the can down the road. At least with Romney you would have had someone with some economic sense at the wheel.

I think the EU has a better political structure than the US. In the EU financially responsible countries can firewall themselves off from the reckless countries. It is Germany choice whether it wants to loan more money to Greece, Italy and Spain. In the US the feds control the central bank and also have a multil trillion $ annual budget. I do not think the EU has taxing and spending authority.

4 hours ago, BitFlipper wrote

Wow, are there actually people that think Faux News isn't heavily biased towards the right? Either you haven't actually watched it or you have a defective view of what "balanced" is.

I don't think it is so much being biased towards the right. The problem I see is it presents only 1 version of conservatism.  For example, I have always voted republican but was reluctant to vote for Romney. I saw him as too much for an assertive US military and too much involvement in the Mideast.  On the tax debate Fox will provide no voice to conservatives who want a balanced budget ahead of anything else. Raise taxes. If the economy tanks then conservatives have a great argument for lowering taxes and spending. If it does not, then we have to change the laws of economics.

12 minutes ago, Dr Herbie wrote

Plus, you can already declare a class in code and have it bound in the design-time editor -- so it must be able to backtrack the binding to a class ... ?

I am not sure how this works. I can tell the design time editor what is bound to the XAML?

12 minutes ago, Harlequin wrote

I thought Xaml had binding breakpoints in VS2012...

that is run time.  I am ok with tracking down my binding errors. What I need help with is when in the XAML editor I would like to see the bindings that will be available to me when the code runs.

Would be very useful if I could see the linkage between the binding of individual properties and what is bound to the data context.  For example, I need to be able to position the cursor at a binding of a Text property of a TextBox and press F12 to see the class/property the binding relates to.

Sure, the specific bindings are not known until run time. And can vary even then. But the majority of the time bindngs from XAML will not change. Possibly if run time info could be captured. "The last time the app was run, the XAML of a specific window class had its data context bound to a specific object type".  Then the editor could access the historical info about the running of a window class to see the type an individual binding is likely binding to.

9 hours ago, Proton2 wrote

Resources in Canada belong to the provinces and not to the federal government. The federal government does not get its revenue from resources. It gets its revenue from:

I can't see a government passing on taxing the sale of the natural resources of the country. Royalties, special tax rates on the companies, property taxes.  Austrailia is another country that does not appear to have a big industrial private sector yet is still wealthy.  Just my opinion. I don't have any facts.

I have two persistent bugs in VS2012

if the startup project is config manager platform "any cpu", when starting in debug mode I get a "remote endpoint was unreachable" error. I get that error sometimes.  The fix is to change the platform from the any cpu default to x86.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsdebug/thread/562ddee9-ec87-48a0-aefb-3201f1ed7ddb

This one started recently. Maybe it is something I am doing. When I CTRL-TAB to see the open files in a project I see the same file opened multiple times.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/899a6fab-3c0e-4e3a-8d7a-56b1a2d9accd