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No way. That bright shiny new logo is totally new.
And I'm easily bought with bright shiny things.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Pssst. Hey, kid. Want a bright, shiny new quarter? I just need you to take this bag across the street for me...
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I've been using since the Beta and the more I use it the more I like it. Like you say its the little things that make a difference. They seemed to have got their collective acts together on this one, or at least gathered it into one place. 
I also give it a thumbs up and would not go back to XP!
Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi
http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[ ^]
My Site
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Mike Hankey wrote: I also give it a thumbs up and would not go back to XP!
I'd wait a while before I'd say that. It took me 5 days to decide that Vista was the heaped, steaming pile of turds it was, but that was because I was doing my best to be fair.
If the post was helpful, please vote, eh!
Current activities:
Book: Devils by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Project: Hospital Automation, final stage
Learning: Image analysis, LINQ
Now and forever, defiant to the end.
What is Multiple Sclerosis[ ^]?
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Unless the final product is radically different from the RC I'm sold.
Vista was a big pile of dung I didn't even give it the opportunity to PMO.
Mike
"It doesn't matter how big a ranch ya' own, or how many cows ya' brand, the size of your funeral is still gonna depend on the weather." -Harry Truman.
Semper Fi
http://www.hq4thmarinescomm.com[ ^]
My Site
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've been putting up with MacOS asking me for a username and password everytime I so much as sneeze or look funny at it,
lolwut
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've been putting up with MacOS asking me for a username and password everytime I so much as sneeze or look funny at it, so my expectations of what is reasonable have been battered into submission, but compared to MacOS, the Windows 7 UAC is polite and unobtrusive and best of all it's a single click.
Odd. In my normal use of my wife's MBP I never get asked for a username or password.
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I've just come back to Bristol for the weekend to visit my parents for the first time this year to find that they have gone away for the weekend. Typical. Just as well my Dad isn't home to see the cricket score.
Anyway, since my last visit home (Christmas), my parents have got some chickens and I have to say that the eggs that they produce are amazing. The yolk is an unbelievable orange compared to the regular pale shop bought eggs, and they taste a lot better as well. Although the eggs are a bit smaller the taste makes up for this fact. They are also cheaper to keep than to buy eggs each week. Bargain.
They're more interesting than the rabbits which just sit around and bite you all day.
I'm quite tempted to get some chickens when I go back home, but I've got a small courtyard with no open grass for them. That and my [hot] landlord wouldn't allow them. Shame.
If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
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If you're in an area that built up your neighbors would also probably lynch you over the stink...
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up.
The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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Meh, they don't like me playing Machine Head (loudly), they don't like me throwing up in my front garden (only happened once  ). That and they hate one of my other house mates to have actually rang up the police and got him arrested for playing his music loudly (he's a dj), his own fault really. I don't really see what difference having stinky chickens would make.
If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
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Like I said before; once the chicken sh*t got ripe they wouldn't bother calling the cops. They'd kick in your door with rope in hand and blood in their eye.
The European Way of War: Blow your own continent up.
The American Way of War: Go over and help them.
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I'm in that small minority of people that believe in driving an hour out of my way every week to buy food from a farm. Well... actually my wife is and I have been suckered into doing it.
I will also speak for the difference in egg quality. I've been told it has something to do with the chicken's diet being omnivorous as it east bugs/grain/grass instead of the factory farmed chickens which are fed only grain by law.
As far as the eggs being smaller?!? I've actually seen them much bigger and regularly containing multiple yolks.
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I didn't explain that they are Bantam Chickens[^] which are smaller than normal chickens as my parents have a small garden.
If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
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Never mind the eggs - what do the chickens taste like?
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I'm not allowed to eat them 
Possibly having one at Christmas, but they're only small little things.
If at first you don't succeed, you're not Chuck Norris.
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Bantams make bloody good spatchcock.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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What's the best book for someone new to Javascript but old at C++? I'm looking for something that explains the basics of the language briefly, then dives into the funky things that can be done while focusing on doing it right.
JavaScript: The Good Parts [^] looks good, but are there any other's you would recommend?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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The Rhino book is pretty awesome. Mine is years old, however, and I don't know if it's been updated.
Anyway, how have you managed to run a website for the past decade without becoming a Javascript ninja?
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Martin, we have Javascript ninja hamsters for that. Obviously. 
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Ah, the old delegation technique
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martin_hughes wrote: how have you managed to run a website for the past decade without becoming a Javascript ninja
Martin, it's not really that Chris needs to program in Java, because he's the boss, he just hires people to do that for him. The problem is, the last guy Chris hired claimed he excelled at mixing various Java flavors. Chris thought that he was some kind of Java Script Crossplatform Ninja programmer, but the guy actually only meant he could make a good cup of coffee.
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Douglas Troy wrote: but the guy actually only meant he could make a good cup of coffee.
Which, if you ask me, is a better and more useful skill 
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I was going to get all defensive and say "The book's not for me! Honestly!" but then I got bogged down trying to get my Dim statements working in my latest effort at Javascript and it seems I'm stuck with a buggy compiler or something.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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