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Erudite_Eric wrote: I was always told it was a way to avoid DLL hell.
That's a really naive point.
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I am new to COM,DCOM,I am a MFC Programmer. Is it wise to study COM,DCOM at this time?
Does microsoft will remove the support for this architecture in near future?
Please help me on this issue as its very important for my career
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adityarao31 wrote: Is it wise to study COM,DCOM at this time?
It will wise at any time. At least to have some insight: COM is fashinating.
adityarao31 wrote: Does microsoft will remove the support for this architecture in near future?
Nope.
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Thank you very much,for giving some of your precious time for replying my question.
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What is .NNet?
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A managed typo.
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Manage this upvote I gave you!
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...Collected!
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COM is rather long in the tooth nowadays, but by no means an outdated technology.
It is one of the most successful and long-lasting mechanisms that allow different programming languages to share objects and functionality - as well as allowing programmatic access to a variety of applications and system resources.
Almost everything you do with the Windows Shell (i.e. not creating Win32 programs but accessing the task bars, folder icons etc etc) uses COM. And as mentioned in a later post Windows 8 will be using it even more - as COM interfaces can be used by C++ apps, Managed Apps etc etc.
It is interesting as well to note the influence of com in managed applications - does the entry point of a C# app look familiar?
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
}
As a hint, STA stands for single thread apartment model...
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krumia wrote: Is COM an 'outdated' technology?
Nope.
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I seem to recall Don Box sitting on stage at Tech-Ed in Barcelona some years ago writing .Net code and saying something along the lines of "What the hell was I thinking for all those years"
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COM is dead?
But ask "where?". COM is dead in user applications.
There used to be tons of classic Asp, VB6.0 & even VC 6++ solutions that made extensive use of COM, DCOM, ActiveX etc.In these places, for example COM is literally dead. If a clients requests for a solution for their business, the application developers would no more need to look out for COM.
So much has evolved in the managed world.
Microsoft took pain to carry all those complex COM on their shoulders. Giving you the option to develop in much simpler tools.
For example, DCOM is replaced by remoting in Dotnet, WCF & so many new frameworks give you much cleaner interface for your distributed apps.
If you look at COM generated marshalling code, it'd look like it's done by a drunk php coder  .
But COM is still there in every other places. For example, UMDF (driver framework, uses COM).
So the idea is this, if you really need COM, it's there.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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http://xkcd.com/1020/[^]
So, why did nobody notice that before?
Orion Nebula? Hah! Lets start a campaign for newer, more accurate names foe astronomical objects!
In fact, lets start with Star Signs: If we rename them as well, we might discourage people from believing that it is anything more than a way to rip-off the credulous...
I'm a "M***er-F***er"! What sign are you? I'm guessing "A****ole" - you look like an "A****ole" to me!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Now, let's not mix up astronomy and astrology. And please don't rename my sign. It's just a cute little sheep and today I will need all its supposed properties when I have a little talk with my bosses 
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When people (usually girls) ask "What's your sign?" I always say "Hump Backed Bridge".
They then say "No, your star sign" and I reply "Orion".
It confuses them, but then anyone who believes in astrology is a moron and deserves to be ridiculed and shown to be moronic.
Astrologers say things like "Pluto casts a long shadow on the days events, so be careful with your personal relationships"
Elephant Off You Sunshines.
Pluto was only discovered in 1930, so has no record in historical astrology, and isn't even a planet any more.
I notice the crooks don't say "Cruithne will make you more attractive, so go on a shag fest"
Tossers.
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Why, thank you! I do believe in birth signs. What I don't believe is that any planets or far stars are responsible for this. If you ask me, it's more a question of biology why people born at a certain time seem to share some properties.
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And what the hell does that have to do with several hundred billion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei located some 650 light years away?
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Far stars are not stationary, but most of the apparent change of position is a result of earth's movement around the sun and repeats every year. Their real movement is almost unnoticable. That made observation of stars and constellations a very practical basis for a calendar, especially if you consider that we have only had more or less reliable clocks for a few hundred years now. Nothing moronic about that.
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if you're saying that birth signs are simply an arbitrary label for a span of time within a year and that, being born at a specific time of year (and, consequently, conceived and 'carried' at a specific time of year) can have an effect on personality then I will concede there is room for debate.
SAD has shown that the seasons (be it temperature, day length, etc) can have an influence on a person's mental state, and perhaps statistical evidence could be found to suggest that this effect on a pregnant mother could influence the personality traits of the unborn foetus or simply that repeatedly having ones birthday on a warm summers day versus a cold, rainy winter might effect the social tendencies of a young child which would then be carried through to adulthood.
However, if you are suggesting there is any direct link between the positioning of planetary bodies at the time of ones birth and their personality ten you might be better served at another site, perhaps googling "unscientific mumbo-jumbo" will find somewhere suitable
Pedis ex oris
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur
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GParkings wrote: if you're saying that birth signs are simply an arbitrary label for a span of
time within a year and that, being born at a specific time of year (and,
consequently, conceived and 'carried' at a specific time of year) can have an
effect on personality then I will concede there is room for debate.
Exactly. And, given that this is so, it's not too unreasonable that this has been put in relation with the astronomical basis of the calendar. Which stars you observe for your calendar is totally arbitary and they have just as much influence on anything as the numbers on your watch.
In a way astronomy and a precise calendar indeed provided the means to foresee the future, at least what the natural cycles of the seasons and all connected circumstances are concerned. From the perspective of ancient astronomers it was not really so dumb to look for more natural cycles which would become predictable once they have been discovered and understood.
GParkings wrote: However, if you are suggesting there is any direct link between the
positioning of planetary bodies at the time of ones birth and their personality
ten you might be better served at another site, perhaps googling "unscientific
mumbo-jumbo" will find somewhere suitable
We indeed know one influence which any mass has on every other mass in the entire universe: Gravity. Unfortunately we will probably never have an accurate enough model of the state of the universe to make any usable predictions from the sum of all those larger or mostly very tiny influences.
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CDP1802 wrote: We indeed know one influence which any mass has on every other mass in the entire universe
Er...two?
Pauli exclusion principle[^]?
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Drat. Observing stars and planets was so nice and easy. Now we have to measure the quantum states of all particles in the universe at exactly the same moment and by the way build a computer that can process all this information fast enough. Can't we just keep the horoscopes in the daily newspaper?
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Dalek Dave wrote: I notice the crooks don't say "Cruithne will make you more attractive, so go on a shag cormorant fest"
FTFY - another one for the CP lingua franca. 
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I'm sure people did notice, they just assigned those stars in a less anatomical way. They're the sword which is in a scabbard on his belt (the three subhorizontal stars), and he's in profile.
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Does the traditional interpretation not show that star as part of the spear held by Orion (the hunter)?
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