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Mysterious repeats from the Insider News are Leslies, says the CP regulars.
This space for rent
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Well I'm regular so it doesn't count. 
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Legendary Comic Don Rickles Dies at 90[^]
![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) 
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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The news to me is that he was still alive.
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I recall one of his comments that I still use now and then:
"Half my friends have hemorrhoids; the other half are perfect assholes."
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Last time I checked, I needed 136 years to catch up to OG's then-current score.
I am now down to 72 years to catch up to his current score. Woo-hoo! 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'll just wait for the signed 32-bit integer that holds his points to overflow, and send him back to the bottom of the list. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'm just waiting to see if the Notifications counter overflows at 65535 - not far now, it's on 54719!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Richard Deeming wrote: and send him back to the bottom of the list.
Enjoy it while it lasts. He'll lap us in no time. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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72 years! That's about as long as it would take to find a CP user by MemberID clicking on the "Next" control on the bottom of the "Who is who" page ... assuming you lived that long.
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Pro Tip: If you go paging down the Who's Who, you get a url like www.codeproject.com/script/Membership/Profiles.aspx?ml_ob=Reputation&mgtid=-1&mgm=False&pgnum=3 Just edit the number on the end. Last time I looked I was on page 20-some.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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RedDk wrote: assuming you lived that long
I'm immortal... so far.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
modified 7-Apr-17 3:09am.
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The member you're looking for might be on page 43 when you load page 42, but by the time you've looked through page 42 and clicked "next" for page 43, they might have moved up to page 42.
So you'll get to the end of the list without seeing them, and have to start again.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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completely unrelated...
you should see how many unread message notifications he has - over 50K I think.
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54724 - but they all arrive as emails anyway, so the notifications are a waste of time and space. Except to see where they roll over, of course!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I replaced my cheapo Android smart phone (Galaxy Core Prime) with a newer cheapo Android smart phone (Alcatel OneTouch Flint).
Previous one had Adnroid 4.4.4 and this one has Marshmallow (6.x?) on it.
Now the buttons at the bottom are no longer exactly a part of the screen.
You can see an image of the device at: alcatel flint[^]
Shouldn't matter, right?
Cold Weather / Glove Test
It is cold here in this part of country today and I put my touch-enabled gloves on.
Home, Back, Task List Buttons
The gloves work perfectly well anywhere on the screen of the device but they will not work on the extended part of the screen/device where the home, back, task list buttons are.
I never would've suspected that. And, it is annoying.
It is slightly interesting too, from a physics / materials standpoint. But mostly, it is annoying.
Can anyone here explain this? I'm interested. Less conductive material? Material requires more surface touchpoints? ??
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To answer your question we first would need to know how exactly this particular touch surface works. Not all require physical contact, for example if it is capacitive or inductive. It may also be resistive, optical or acoustic, but I doubt that the last two are used here.
No matter which flavor we have here, it's probably safe to assume that not all areas are equally sensitive. Your gloves dampen whatever it is the surface works with too much to work ove the entire area.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: capacitive or inductive. It may also be resistive
Interesting. I know that the newer screens use capacitive and older ones used that resistive type of tech. So this one is most likely capacitive but of course I'm not sure about it beyond that.
I did very little reading on it and it seems that as you said it may be that if not enough surface area is touched then the device (or software?) may ignore it deciding that it isn't a true touch.
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It can be even more complicated. Your finger probably is one half of the capacitor. The electric field between your finger and the capacitors under the glass probably causes them to charge or discharge and thus we have tiny currents in that capacitor network that can be measured. For example towards the sides the capacitor 'plates' opposite your fingers is smaller, making the total capacity smaller and the touch panel less sensitive there.
Then your glove comes into play. We are talking about very small capacities here and it also gets less when the distance between your finger and the matrix under the glass is increased by the thickness of the fabric of the glove. Ahh, the dielectric properties of any material between the 'plates' of a capacitor also have influence on the capacity.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Me? Nah.
My selfie stick can fly and the day when I mistake a phone for a Tamagotchi will hopefully never come.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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These gloves[^] might work.
Maybe.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Creepy. Those fingers look like the Frankenstein monsters. Makes me want to buy them... NOT!
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Why is it that most network admins are so in love with IE/edge browsers? Every place I have ever worked the network admin was against using chrome as the default browser. Just wondering if anyone out there knew why this is? Because I can't figure out why.
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