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Right-click "My Computer" > Properties > Advanced > Performance > Settings > Visual Effects

I experience the flicker on my 7900 GS, but only when I'm using dual monitors.    If I'm outputting to only one of the screens the flicker isn't present.

Congratulations, littleguru!   Now maybe you'll have time to log into Xbox Live and accept my friend request (I'm DotNetPro.)

try using "getdate()" as the value instead

odujosh wrote:



And Typo of the year goes to:

 

"(AV, Date, Affiliation, 

   "VALUES (@AV, @Affiliation, @Date, @OwnerLast,



My consulting bill will be in the mail. 200 dollars an hour sound good? I round up hope thats not a problem:P

Your field order in your insert doesnt match your parameter order. Also I would recommend stored procs.

sp_TableName_Insert
sp_TableName_Update
sp_TableName_Delete
sp_TableName_Select1

Good spot.

Awesome, I wish I could pay taxes on an end-of-year bonus.    After a buyout and merger with our biggest competitor this year, our new CEO announced that no EOY bonus / no Christmas bonus  is now a part of "company culture."     This is the first time I have not received a Christmas bonus in 14 years.

• Apple is primarily a hardware company.
• Apple writes software to spur hardware sales.
• Apple focuses on design of the UI elements so that it makes up for the software's shortcomings.
• Apple fans like the Macintosh because of the UI elements.
• Apple owns a minute percentage of the desktop market. 
• Apple has been revived by its iPod product line.
• Apple was in trouble in the mid-to-late 90's.
• Apple would still be in trouble without iPod and a turnabout that happend in 1997.
• Apple will not have an answer to Windows until its focus is on software, gaming, developers, and business.
• Apple knows it can't build a strong-enough business platform so they are focused on entertainment.
• Apple has conceded its fight against Windows, why can't its users?

Macintosh users feel they must validate their preferred product by comparing it to the most widely used and successful product in its field. 

Unfortunately, for them, validation is already provided in the form of sales.   Why waste time trying to qualify the Macintosh when the most important metric trumps your argument?

plink, plink

I am quite bored with fiction.   To me, the most intense and thought provoking material is written for education, not entertainment.   


plink, plink.        

littleguru wrote:

After trying it in a little console application this are the results with 10,000,000 iterations.

string.Concat: 00:00:01.7713710
StringBuilder: 00:00:03.2878755

DateTime start = DateTime.Now;
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
    string s1 = "Hello";
    string s2 = ", ";
    string s3 = "World";
    string s4 = "!";

    string s = string.Concat(s1, s2, s3, s4);
}

DateTime end = DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine(end - start);
start = DateTime.Now;
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
    string s = null;
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    sb.Append("Hello");
    sb.Append(", ");
    sb.Append("World");
    sb.Append("!");
    s = sb.ToString();
}
end = DateTime.Now;
Console.WriteLine(end - start);

Console.ReadLine();

To make the test fair we should remove the bold line, declare s on the same line as its initialization, and then rerun it (or you could, instead, set s to null in the first loop also.) 

string s = sb.ToString();


EDIT:  StringBuilder beat out the Concat on my Vista RTM machine, but it's reversed on my XP box.

My Top 5 Predictions for 2007:


5.  Due to poor infrastructure, a mass employee exodus, and an inability to sell on the market, Tucows will file for bankruptcy and sell its assets on eBay.  
 
4.   Microsoft will begin an ad campaign to counter Apple's Mac vs. PC ads.

3.  Tucows shares plummet as news of doom and gloom circulate on developer forums.

2.  Zune kills Dell's DJ Ditty and nips at iPod's heels.

1.   RedHat will acquire the rights to Java.   It already owns JBoss and will leverage the JBoss platform to create J3EE.   J3EE will be created with lofty goals.   RH will even come up with a replacement for JMX.   Falling short of expectations, J3EE will ultimately be the nail in Java's coffin.