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At home near Chicago, he has a problem with fans showing up at his house.
Yeah, real soldiers coming home from war have the same problem.
A waste of oxygen.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: has a problem with fans showing up at his house.
I cannot imagine how empty a person's life must be that s/he has nothing better to do than show up as a fan at such a person's house??
The mindless minions blithely roll on.
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I find the responses here to this story more fantastic than the Life-of-Matt !
Reading about Matt, I am just fascinated: I don't perceive any subliminal message with encoded moralizing content in the story; I don't feel I am reading a parable meant to somehow convey a la Horatio Alger that anybody can do/become/have what Matt does/is/has. And, I certainly don't fantasize about the possible stupidity of unknown other people who are, at this moment, planning to be "just like Matt."
I don't judge Matt; I am sure he is a human being, has a soul, has/had parents, has feelings, has a spiritual life, in his own way seeks love. Who knows what ultimate destiny his life moves in a strange orbit around/towards ?
I can imagine, however, such emptiness in a person's life that could compel them to spend one-minute playing "Call of Duty" when they could be ... programming 
And, I am filled with compassion for all those whose lives are empty for whatever reason, particularly for those who have never been able to transform their emptiness into that tasties flavor of emptiness: meaningful suffering.
«The greater the social and cultural distances between people, the more magical the light can spring from their contact» Milan Kundera, "Testaments Trahis"
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Whoa! Space pictures that aren't comet related!
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Hi All,
First a foremost Happy birthday ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) many more my little green friend! on to the apology as a some have said on the page. Your day can't be that bad! I know others have more and better things to winge about. Walt for starters http://www.codeproject.com/Messages/4943224/life-has-a-tited-sen-of-humo.aspx[^]
My Dad can see a bit better now, no one has died I care about, I am breathing unaided, so in truth the week wasn't that bad. Walt if you see this Best of luck  man!
Glenn (a little less depressed today) 
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glennPattonPUB wrote: a little less depressed today
A night on the ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) can do that to a man! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No biggie you can't help it if a few of the other guys got their panties in a bunch.
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I thought all CP pros would be out celebrating today...
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I assume so, I'm just some guy that volunteered to help out with a performance issue many years ago.
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It's impossible to wake up every morning and see the sun shining and the birds singing.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
It's impossible to wake up every morning and see the sun shining and the birds singing. |
Do you live at the bottom of a mineshaft?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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In the old times miners brought birds (no sun though) with them down as they were more sensitive to dangerous gasses.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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No, apparently Mike has moved to Wales!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Thanks! As I have found you can only take a certain amount of do this advise from some one who knows nothing of what you do
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Look, everyone has problems at times. Just because Walt is going through a terrible thing, this does not make your problems any less important or pressing. I have nothing but sympathy for Walt, but that doesn't dilute my sympathy for your situation either.
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Sh*tty things happen to good people at times.
For example I'm having to watch the X Factor.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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What have you done?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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You can't be that evil!
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It's different when it's personal, isn't it? 
Life is better if you cheer up even if everything is the same subjectively.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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glennPattonPUB wrote: My Dad can see a bit better now, no one has died I care about, I am breathing unaided, so in truth the week wasn't that bad.
Glad to hear that. Hope next week is even better.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about building a new RC helicopter.[^]
Now I have most ingredients here:
- one shiny new T-Rex 450
- one shiny new aluminium five blade rotor head
- one AR7200BX receiver with integrated Microbeast flybarless system
- modification to raise the tail rotor is still on the way
- edit: still looking for a fitting retractable landing gear
- the PET parts of the scale body
- a supply of Balsa wood, plywood, epoxy and carbon fiber rods and pipes
- primer, spray paint, masking tape
- a small Airfix kit to show me the details
- custom decals to the right scale are still in work
Today I am going to start outfitting the T-Rex with the new receiver and rotor head, so that I can test it tomorrow. Then, I want to cut out the parts of the body and begin to assemble them.
Here is a video [^] of the origial helicopter. Mostly in the last quarter you can see Number 66 bring back the astronauts of Apollo 13.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Here is my situation. I use Firefox as my principal browser and typically have a gazillion tabs open, as a reminder that the page is something I want to get back to in the future. (OK, not a gazillion, but sometimes in the range of 200 or so!  )
Anyway, as you might imagine, this takes a lot of memory, so when Firefox gets up past 2 GB or so and my system (4 GB) is running low on memory, I simply terminate Firefox and reopen it. The good thing about this is that Firefox (and the add-on SessionManager) opens all those pages back up, but typically only with minimal loading, with the full loading only being done when the tab for that page gets the focus; this of course allows for Firefox to not use so much memory (I guess Scott Meyers would call this "lazy loading".)
So far so good. But sometimes the pages load up enough so that there is an audio stream; there may be a video stream as well, but this only becomes apparent when the tab has the focus. The audio stream however does not require the focus, and streams no matter what the state of the focus is. There seem to be 2 different types of streamers that do this - websites that only do this if it is the principal tab for a browser form, something that can be easily determined as a hover over the Firefox icon in the Windows Start Toolbar (or whatever that toolbar is that Windows 7 puts on one of the 4 sides of the screen) shows a context menu with each Firefox form, listing that principal page (and with YouTube having the play icon in it, making it very easy to locate); and websites that just do it regardless of whether it is the principal tab. Typically these latter websites have some part of the page show a never-ending stream of news stories, or even worse, ads. 
The result is that there is this damn audio stream that I cannot figure out where it is coming from without laboriously going through each tab - something that in and of itself causes the pages to load, thereby introducing the memory size problem! Sure, one solution is to simply turn the volume off, but then I would be captive to not being able to access the sound of other stuff, like music, videos or the internet telephone.
I have figured out that one way to kill this is to simply terminate the Flash thread (which would only be feasible if I were not actually using Flash in a page that I wanted to access at that time.) But as I type there is some page that keeps loading itself about 10 minutes after I even do this termination!
So what I would like is some add-on or app that could tell me that webpage X is currently running Flash; I could then go that page and simply quickly read it and delete it, or perhaps figure out a way to stop whatever stream (usually a video) - or in an extreme case, simply delete it. Surely, someone must have become flustered enough to figure out how to deal with this. Thanks
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