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Jack Rabbit wrote:
Yet, you posted a question on the subject, which is a blatant contridiction of your statement.
so be it,
wheather you like it or not, i got the answer and i am happy. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
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Jack Rabbit wrote:
After reading the poll of the week...
How about a new forum on source/version control discussions/issues?
A retooling of the 'VS.NET IDE issues' forum may be a good idea. Making a more generic "Development Environments" forum would probably cover your needs
Michael
But you know when the truth is told,
That you can get what you want or you can just get old,
Your're going to kick off before you even get halfway through.
When will you realise... Vienna waits for you? - "The Stranger," Billy Joel
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I would think this by itself would eliminate most (not all) of the programming questions if the first ever post by someone was met with a warning page as the red bit at the top is easily overlooked.
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if (user.posts == 0) <br />
displayPage(special_warning_page_about_non_programming_questions);<br />
else<br />
displayPage(normalPostPage);<br />
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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But a lot of first posters post in the appropriate programming forum and then post the same thing in the lounge.
Glano perictu com sahni delorin!
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How about if anyone's first post results in an entire page dedicated to telling them that programming posts should never be done in the Lounge?
I really don't visit the forums enough to care, but enough ppl seemed so concerned that I thought I would post this as a possible means of *reducing* (not eliminating) the issue.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Hey Terry. I read you were in the service and have to ask you a waaay off-topic question. My old man was in the Army (communications) and taught me the value of a meal called SOS. I'm just curious if today's Army ppl know what that is? 
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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I dont think its a big deal.. ppl just vote it down and move on, or point to the correct forum.
you are taking it too personally.
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Tom Archer wrote:
Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
Is this book available in India yet ? Can't buy from Amazon, costs too much for me.
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Mr.Prakash wrote:
Can't buy from Amazon, costs too much for me.
I can't certainly understand that. I've got several friends in India that say the same thing 
I'll definitely check this out on Monday and drop you a line and let you know.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Tom Archer wrote:
I can't certainly understand that
its basically simple mathematics,
1$ = 47Re(Indian)
34.99$ = 1644.5Re
34$ may be average price in States, but in India, around 600Re is the average price for most of the books. you see I would be spending more money if I buy from amazon while i could get the same book printed locally for approx 600-700Rs.
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I was in a hurry and mistyped that. I meant "can".
Having been born and raised in Europe with family in the US, I'm always sensitive to currency conversion issues. In fact, when I worked for Holiday On Ice, I helped to design and implement a specific forumula to "smooth" out the flucuations in currency so that our skaters (who were from all around the world) could depend on a consistent income without worrying about these flucuations.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Buying books online is pretty much out for most Asian countries due to the high shipping costs(Around 7USD + 5USD per item). That's like paying 30% more for the book, so I just usually do my shooping offline. 
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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Yeah. I know. I mistyped. I meant "I *can* understand that.".
Luckily I've never lived anywhere where the rate and cost-of-living (COL) was that differnent from any other country with which I had financial ties. PR doesn't count because they use USD, but when I lived in Amsterdam the rate was 2.5, which turned my paltry (by US standards) 20k USD salary into 50k G. In the mid-80's, the COL for Amsterdam and making 50k G meant I could go a couple of months without even cashing my cheque and be ok.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Don't know about India, but I've seen the book in bookstores here, And I would think India gets tech books faster than Malaysia. 
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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humm, I could not find the book last time when i checked the book stores here.
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Maybe they're sold out. Does you book store provide any book tracking services?
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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Nick Seng wrote:
book tracking services
They dont have a book catalog either,
There is one book store, where i could probably find it, if it is available in India, But its so far away from my house.
psst: we are doing something which we are supposed to do in the lounge not in this forum
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But someone looking for quick response will still ignore the warning.
Never comment ur code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand !!!
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However, then the person would have no excuse. When you click "new post" and get this entire page dedicated to stating "Don't post programming questions in the Lounge", you can't state that you didn't see it.
Besides, warnings are like locks on your front door. They're there to keep the honest people out. The real criminals are doing to do whatever it takes to get what they want - rules be damned.
As I said, this won't work for everyone, but it would be a two line code change and dramatically cut down on the number of posts that so many people deem undesirable in the Lounge.
Cheers,
Tom Archer
"Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - William Blake
* Inside C# -Second Edition
* Visual C++.NET Bible
* Extending MFC Applications with the .NET Framework
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Tom Archer wrote:
Besides, warnings are like locks on your front door. They're there to keep the honest people out. The real criminals are doing to do whatever it takes to get what they want - rules be damned.
Agreed. Hope your works. But it might end up being one more small lock on the door.
Currently, Lounge is the only forum where user needs to be signed in to make posts. This check atleast eliminates annonymous posts.
Never comment ur code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand !!!
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You of all people should know that this will be about 5% effective.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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But sometimes you do have double standards,
You dont like programming questions in the lounge, but you personally answer questions that could go into sys-admin forum, I know its "not" a programming question but then it does not belong to lounge, just like programming question do not belong to the lounge.
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Hello,
yesterday I've just posted a programming question in the Lounge  .
And I'd like to give you my opinion, maybe can be useful, who knows!
The reason why I posted my message in the Lounge is that I found in the main page of the web site the frame containing some Lounge messages and I said to myself: "Ahh, that's what I'm looking for, let's go"...
From my point of view, you'll have much less message if you, for example, put at the place of the Lounge frame a Message board frame. The probability that a new comer wants to ask a programming question is much more higher then someone who wants to put a new topic in the Lounge.
Bye guys, and thanx to exist (hope to give you back some help!)
Fabio
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