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Aaron Eldreth wrote:
Some things just aren't meant to happen
Like water running up hill. Except that there is a strange geological phenomena on the west coast of Scotland at a place called the Electric Brae[^] where water, balls, wheels, vehicles etc. do run up hill.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Like water running up hill.
Exactly. Or like making a C++ developer learn Vb. 
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Except that ...
I think that there are exceptions to everyting. Except the ban on G-mail invites in the lounge. 
Aaron Eldreth
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Aaron Eldreth wrote:
I think that there are exceptions to everyting.
It is the exception that proves the rule.
From the C.A.M. department of Education: And before anyone says: How can an exception "prove" a rule? If it an exception it should disprove the rule. I would like to point out that the word prove comes from Latin and the direct translation back to English is "to test".
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
It is the exception that proves the rule.
You are correct as usual Colin.
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Aaron Eldreth
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That's what the soap in the box is for. For cleaning up the mess afterwards.
"You're obviously a superstar." - Christian Graus about me - 12 Feb '03
"Obviously ??? You're definitely a superstar!!!" mYkel - 21 Jun '04
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But it makes it rather hard to find the dirty jokes and other crud you don't want your kid sister to read. 
Searching the web without Google is like straining sewage with your teeth.
Userfriendly, 2003/06/07
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Whilst I have no problem with people using large and colourful signatures.
It would be nice if we had an option whether or not we saw the signatures whilst reading posts. I find a lot of signatures distract my eye away from the content of the post. It would be nice to have the option to browse the forums without seeing signatures
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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I'm guessing the signature becomes part of the message once it has been posted. If you post a message, change your sig, you'll see that your message before the sig change, will not have changed. The CPU cycles needed to find and hide signatures, are probably better spent elsewhere.
I guess one could argue that messages and sigs should be normalized, but that would still "waste" a lot of CPU cycles spent better elsewhere.
Just my 2 bits.
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Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
I'm guessing the signature becomes part of the message once it has been posted. If you post a message, change your sig, you'll see that your message before the sig change, will not have changed. The CPU cycles needed to find and hide signatures, are probably better spent elsewhere.
I didn't know if they were stored as two seperate columns in the database or not. Or if they were displayed by a specific css class.
It seemed a more reasonable request than asking for html tags beyond anchor to be disabled in sigs. Most people probably don't care one way or another but I find large sigs and ones with images/colour to be annoying but then again I'm a dinosaur who tries to keep to the old usenet rules 
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Michael P Butler wrote:
I'm a dinosaur who tries to keep to the old usenet rules
No, u are not.  Some signatures are really soooo big and colored and ugly. I've never used usenet (too young), but I don't like this *art* as well. Fortunately, there are not blinking sigs. Please do not disable italic, underline, etc.! yeah, I use them 
best regards,
David
Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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hi,
i would like to recive all forum submission(doubts) messages in my inbox. no matter it is answer or new post.
Now what we are getting is the answer for our own post. i want all post and answers in my inbox.
And can able to choose which technology that i want in my inbox (eg. C# Submisions only )
Note: Like Microsoft Discussion.
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I've been recently much involved in Boost, and I've got the hunch that many people do not approach this library repository for fear it is too complex and lack of adequate support, both tutorials and online forums.
My sugestion is that a new message board is set up devoted to Boost, and also an article subsection, much as it is done now for STL. I've probed for interest in the lounge a couple of days ago, and although people didn't get mad about it, I think some of us can still provide support by answering entry-level questions there (I certainly volunteer to do so.)
If the subsection is created, it'd be fine if some of the articles related to Boost get moved here. There must be around ten or so articles suited for inclusion right now.
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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Me think that if Chris create a boost discussion board, everyone else will want to have discussion boards for their own prefered technology.
Maximilien Lincourt
Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
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This is a valid point, that's why I'm trying to poll for general interest. That said, Boost aspires to be a general purpose library repository along the lines of the C++ std library and the STL. In this regard, its place is a little different than someone's preferred technology --everyone being serious about C++ (or C++/CLI, for that matter) will get acquainted with Boost in the following years, or that's what I think at least.
Thank you,
Joaquín M López Muñoz
Telefónica, Investigación y Desarrollo
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This is pretty much the case. I get requests for DirectX,
OpenGL, CAD - you name it.
I'm working on a way to allow us to have boards on as many topics we wish without the splintering problems that typically arise when this is done.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm working on a way to allow us to have boards on as many topics we wish without the splintering problems that typically arise when this is done.
Don't forget to patent that solution when you find. It's like the holy grail of web-forums. 
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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If you are going to change things at some point in time, I think a small rearrangement of forums should be considered.
ATL, WTL and STL for instance, should be separated. The only thing STL has in common with ATL and WTL is the T(emplates) and CComEnumOnSTLImpl et al. Perhaps you should consider removing STL from that holy trio and pair it with boost (which is more related to STL and STL to ATL/WTL).
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I'm working on a way to allow us to have boards on as many topics we wish without the splintering problems that typically arise when this is done.
Sweet. Perhaps something like child boards whose threads also appear in the parent? Or an ultra-fast-ultra-flexible forum search? Or super-intelligent cyborg slaves assigned to work for each user while the users themselves are served cool drinks by a fleet of monkey-butlers?
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan...
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Dude. The Monkey Butlers are patent pending. Back off.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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I agree with all of the above.
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I get requests for DirectX, OpenGL, CAD....
... GMail invites ... 
There's an idea, make a GMail forum and once the invites dry up, the forum can morph into one for Boost! Yeah! [calls over his shoulder] Hey Bianca, I have a job for you!
*cracks knuckles* Wow this sysadmin stuff is easy! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Even though it is technically wrong, Boost could be added to the WTL/STL/ATL board.
Tim Smith
I'm going to patent thought. I have yet to see any prior art.
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Almost what I was thinking. How about removing STL from the trio, to pair it with boost in a new forum? After all, STL has very little in common with ATL and WTL. ComEnumOnSTLImpl and the fact that they all use templates are the only relations I can think of. 
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Excatly what I was thinking. (Have you been mind-reading again, Jörgen??)
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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