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Slacker007,
My concerns expressed on this Forum are related to a desire to be genuinely helpful in improving the quality of QA on CP which I perceive as in "dire need" of improving. To me, to see someone of the stature and intellect of Pete O'Hanlon withdraw from QA because of its "ambiance:" is a like a klaxon-horn going off !
On QA itself: do you think being a constructive CP member is not pointing out code that will crash, or is irrelevant to the OP's question.
I can't control your perceptions of my posts, and your judgements, or projections, about my character, but you might ask yourself why you need to pass such judgement.
The criticisms I express are about behavior, and code, not character. My frequent suggestions here ... on this forum ... have been carefully neutral in terms of any comment about any specific person.
And, indeed, I do feel I am being "paid" for being what I consider a pro-active member of CP and taking the risks and heat of saying exactly what I think: I've already been "paid" one-thousand times the value of anything I've contributed to CP by what CP has given to me over ten years !
That was one reason, a sense of "spiritual debt" (and a little guilt), I set out several months ago to dedicate a certain number of hours per week to answering QA questions I felt I could handle as best as I could, and, all-in-all, I am delighted with the experience and it has been so rewarding on many levels I never expected !
I'm sixty-eight years old, I've already seen my name in the about-box of well-known consumer software products, from Adobe, that sold in the milliions of US $, and I've been published by Addison-Wesley.
I am also a formerly licensed psychiatric social worker, who received a post-graduate fellowship at the NIMH for one-year to study and practice group-psychotherapy and psychodrama, and, at one point, was board certified by the American Board of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama as a practitioner. I know something about group dynamics, and the roles people play, and I cannot set aside that knowledge ...
.... even though I "abandoned" that first career in my early forties, after a few years in "academia," to take up programming ... for reasons I can't even claim to explain 
My true passion, at this point in my life, is my own original creative writing, but CP remains, for me, a most wonderful "playground" for the intellect.
I wish you the best, and can only hope your perceptions of my character may change to be more positive.
best, Bill
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." Niels Bohr
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'm sixty-eight years old
Dang, I thought I was the GOM!
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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No hard feelings, Bill.
Just because I take issue with your extremely long winded explanations and lecture like speeches, doesn't mean that I don't value you as a productive member of this site, which I do.
It is only fair to you and no one else that I explain that when I compared you to SA, it was based on your lecture like approach and biased view points (my opinion, see context of my original post). To the best of my knowledge, I made no other comparisons about arrogance or rudeness, in which you are not...at least here on the site. If I gave "that" impression, then I am truly sorry.
I speak my mind, Bill. Anything else is unfathomable.
"the meat from that butcher is just the dogs danglies, absolutely amazing cuts of beef." - DaveAuld (2011)
"No, that is just the earthly manifestation of the Great God Retardon." - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
"It is the celestial scrotum of good luck!" - Nagy Vilmos (2011)
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BillWoodruff wrote:
Or I will limit myself to brief clarifying questions to the OP which, if not responded to in 24 hours, I will then not further waste time.
Are you here for the rep-points or to help people? Do take in consideration that some people don't want to be "helped". If you want point, simply mark every post as an "answer" and tell people what they want to hear.
QED.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
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Eddie,
In the context of this thread, I can't understand the "question" you ask.
In fact, I experience your question: "Are you here for the rep-points or to help people?" as not being a question at all, but a form of some kind of accusation reminiscent of the old trick question: "how long has it been since you stopped beating your wife ?"
I know your opinions are expressed in this post somehow, but I cannot fathom them.
On this thread: I am here to express what I hope are constructive comments, and ideas, and observations, regarding improving CP QA, for the benefit of all members, and I believe this is the appropriate forum on CP to do so.
I am careful to state that everything I write on threads like this is simply my own opinion.
I don't think I've made any mention of rep-points on this thread, and fail to see the "linkage" that, apparently, your mind has created with some "polarized tension of opposite meanings" between "rep-points," and the idea of "helping other people."
respectfully, Bill
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." Niels Bohr
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BillWoodruff wrote: Are you here for the rep-points or to help people?
"Does your mom know you're gay?"
I do love loaded questions.
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BillWoodruff wrote: "how long has it been since you stopped beating your wife ?"
I see your point.
BillWoodruff wrote: respectfully,
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Hi ,
When I try to browse the online Need now coffeeshop sample in the "Store Locator: Help customers find you with Google Maps " article ,the link is taking me to a porn site and it looks like the API's /code is infected with a malware .Can this be fixed please as I would like to implement something similar to the saml;e in my project
Below is the link to the article
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18108/Store-Locator-Help-customers-find-you-with-Google
Thanks
modified 20-Feb-12 17:12pm.
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same here. Also the article itself appears somewhat dated. Google dropped the need for an API key when they deprecated the pre-smartphone/tablet version of their API. They changed a lot of details in how the API works. Most significantly, to run better on an ARM device it does a lot less stuff for you automatically.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I tested the link a few times. There was no porn or malware or problems reported.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
The Code Project
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If I hover my mouse over the rating stars in a Q&A question or solution, the popup does not get completed: it shows a slightly smaller blank window. If I then move the mouse away and back over the stars it gets shown correctly.
Chrome 17.0.963.56
Unrequited desire is character building. OriginalGriff
I'm sitting here giving you a standing ovation - Len Goodman
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Same problem occurs to me as well. Popup box shows the histogram on second mouseover. Using chrome 17.0.963.56 m.
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I was visiting this article http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/34491/Implementing-Audit-Trail-using-Entity-Framework-Pa
And noticed I could hit the rollback functionality and it actually rolled the article back, I doubt I am supposed to do this, I am not (to my knowledge) an editor for your site. IS this a bug? Seems to be a pretty serious one.
Christopher G. Lasater
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The article's restriction on who can edit it is set as "Platinum", which you are.
Use the power wisely.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Why am i allowed to rate my article? I think i can rate multiple times for my article(not tested though but one time is working). I dont think anyone should be allowed to rate thr own article.
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No matter how many times you vote for your article, you only get one score for it. Why should you not be allowed to say that you think your article is good? Surely you wouldn't post something that you thought was worth less than a 5.
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Quote: Surely you wouldn't post something that you thought was worth less than a 5.
Exactly! Everyone thinks there article should be 5ed. But this is not necessarily the case. And a loose article getting 5ed by it's author makes the rating bad.
Off the topic: I could not rate any article I read. The stars doesn't get activated. Is this because I'm new?
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Hi,
I'm a technical blog author, I'd like to have an email notification when my articles are available in CodeProject, in order to format the article and/or upload the source code to the article.
I had recently bad votes just because source code was not available for download, if I had a notification when the article was immediately available this would not have happened.
BTW, I'm having a lot of problems trying to upload the source code (timeouts). Yesterday it took my almost 1 hour to upload a zip file with less than 1MB 
Best regards,
Rui
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We'll add this to the list.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Seems like this article is:
0. Hardly an article.
1. Just direct calls to a library that is not his (most of the files in the source code are library files).
Audio Capture using port Audio[^]
Does this count as plagiarism? Probably not, but it's hardly an article, there's no substance in the code or the writing.
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There are a few options;
1) Vote and rate the article, leave feedback to help the author develop
2) Don't vote, but leave feedback to help the author develop
3) Report
If you suspect that there is plagiarism, then Report and post a message to site bugs with a link to the original that you think is being pagiarised.
In this instance, the author released 4 articles on the same day, all loosly based around the same subject, and none of them really up to the mark. http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=46507[^]
In this case, I have left feedback in each of them, and also suggested he consolidate them into 1 article and flesh it out with discussion and code snippets.
Hopefully, nature will take its course and either the hamsters will intervene, or the voting masses/comments will get the message across.
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Could be added as a Tip/Trick with a "fair title" like: "A Note on using the 'XXX' library facilities for Audio Capture" ?
best, Bill
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard Feynman
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I have tried a couple of times to re-sign up to receive them, but I do not seem to get them any longer. They do not appear to be caught by the company SPAM filter either. Is there something I can do to get them delivered?
I know I can go to the Insider furum, but that is so much less convenient  than getting them delivered to me. 
Thanks!
Don
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