Posts by quintoncoert

Yes, it is. A prayer doesn't require a sacrifice. The last sacrifice required by Christianity was called in ~2k years ago.

i think that the point is that in both cases, praying and sacrificing, the guy hope that a god would intervene where someone else might prefer a good clutch and brake specialist or electronics technician.

Whoever the dudes in the south (basra) are

i think that most in the south are shiite. i am not sure though. i am going to check. but if most of the people in the south said just that then america did open up a can of worms. lets hope that they can close it again.

but as i said. why are the iraqi people killing each other just because of religious differences of opinion? the prophet died hundreds of years ago.

I know people who have served there. The iraqis themseleves think it was better under sadamm

yes but who thinks so and why.

is it the minority in the central regions?(sunnis i think). because under their leader, sadam, they ruled iraq and commited all kinds of atrocities on the kurds and the other moslem brand(shiite i think)

if it is the shiite and the kurds who think that then america has opened up a can of worms and it is going to be interesting to see how they are going to close it!

why do they think that. do they think that the slow, silent but persistent persecution of the dictator is preferable to a civil war?

if that is so then it is only up to themselves. nobody said that they should kill each other.

look carefully and you will see that mostly they target each other. far more civilians rather than american or brittish troops get hit by suicide bombers.

i think that it is pretty stupid to kill the guy next door just because you could not agree who the prophet's heir should be.

hi.

i am looking for a free web hosting service. i did search daniweb archives for people who asked similar questions but some of the sites mentioned seem to no longer work while others are just plain unsuitable.

i am planning on developing a website which keeps track of Daniweb chess players results in a round robin tournament. it should make allowance for the following.

it should be free. like in really and totally free. i dont care about how many adds the owners would like to place just as long as it is free.

it should support some type of database. preferably ms access. but if that is not possible then some other database which i can download for free. if all else fail then i can store the tables in a file but can one put a file on a web hosting server and then access it?(sorry if this question seem silly but i am new to web development.)

it should also support javascript and php. the javascript is to make the screens interactive and the php to access the database. these are not cast in stone and i can adapt to other technologies. i just need a way to interact with data stored on the server and a way to make the screens come alive.

Hard to tell. I like individual songs more than specifc artists.

but i shall go with
Runaway horses by Belinda Carlisle

@ ezzeral

fade to black as in the rolling stones?
"...i see a raptor and i see it all in black..."?

OK i too like that. then we have three (or four if some one wants to add one more event) events a year or whatever period we decide on.

one is the elimination type tournament we already had. the other is the ranking table ladder system as to what sk8ndestroy wanted. and the last one is the round robin tournament.

now about the ladder system. let me see if i have this right. correct me if i am wrong.

we go to yahoo. we create our own game room. we each create one new yahoo id with DW as a prefix. then we play one another as we please.

in the mean time i shall start to work on something for the round robin tournament. i am reasonably sure that i will come up with something good.

but hosting is going to be a real problem so i am going to have to impose on someone to help out with that. or i am going to think. perhaps i can find a way which makes hosting not compulsory.

can you guys recomend a couple of books which deals with the classical data structures and algorithms in C sharp please?

@ sk8ndestroy

you apear to be right about the amount of points lost and won. but it is still not very clear. there still seems to be something convoluted about the points awarding system.

nevertheless i concede the point. i spoke too soon. but that still leaves the problem of those who might want to dodge stronger players. i still think a round robin tournament where everyone plays everyone twice with yahoo's points system is best.

I've explained like five times why that doesn't work. That's more a measure of how many games you've played than of how good you are. You need to lose points when you lose the game and yahoo's system is the most appropriate one.

really? how can it be a reflection of how many games you play if everyone plays the same number of games?

and why is losing points so important? if you lose a game and get no points you will still be forced down the log by those who win and draw games. those who draw will be in the middle and those who win will be at the top. what more can be required?

but if losing points is so important then why not do the round robin with yahoo point system. that way serunsen gets his wish. i get mine in that no one can dodge or ask his buddy for help. you get your wishes, the losing of points plus no "reflection of how many games you have played". and nichito has suggested this already so he will probably agree.

I just want everybody to have the exact same chance. That is why i want every one to play everyone else twice. to play white is an advantage. black first have to equalize the position before he can attack. by plaing everyone as both colours things are one hundred percent fair.

@ sk8ndestroy

the only problem with your system is that it is going to be easy for people to abuse it by forming clicks.

if a group of people decides to team up and then they only play one another and nobody else then they are going to benefit. This will mean that the more games they play against one another the higher their rankings are going to be.

This is because yahoo's reward for winning far outweights it punishment for losing. The amount of points one gets for winning far exceeds the amount of points one drops when one loses.

This will favour any group of people when they form clicks. By playing one another many times over in their click they build up one another's points.

Sure they may agree to play the others now and then but even if they lose it wont matter since they can always go back and rebuild their ranking after a loss to someone outside their team.

That is why I am in favour of force and limit. You just have to play everyone. And you can only play any one person twice.

This way people will be discouraged from teaming up as it they would not gain as much from just two games against each other as they would from say a hundred games.

The whole problem is the way yahoo punish and reward defeat and victory. Your idea would have been good …

>And like with radical Islam, the fact that the decent majority doesn't speak out against the excesses (in fact often seems to defend them through special interest groups) does nothing to soften that image.

they dont speak out because for them it would be akin to betrayal. it is like some kind of brotherhood.

i have this one moslem friend. her cousin is a reasonably good small business person. but the easiest way for you to get a job from him is to be family. that means brother or cousin or something like that. otherwise you still have a decent chance if you happened to be married into the family.

you see it is not that the majority wants to be silent. it is that the majority see them as brothers. this does not mean that the majority agrees. it does not nescesarily mean that the majority disagrees either. what it means is that they tend(in my somewhat limited experience with them) to believe in standing together and not publically speak out against each other.

of course they are still human and their societies are subject to the same pressures that can fracture our societies. but you are not going to fracture them easily by saying: "see? look what your brother did. it is wrong." this is because "brother" tends to have a higher order of precedence than "wrong".

so the fact that they dont speak out has more to do with culture and believes …

On yahoo, you can easily look at statistics of games completed, games won and games lost. We will all post on here the games played and the results. This way it would be very easy to see if someone played anyone outside of Daniweb. And by the way I don't like the 3 for win 1 for draw 0 for loss thing because that ranking system really only ranks how many games you've played rather than how good you are. And loopholes can be made like finding a buddy and continuously drawing. Or saying, you win this one and let me win the next and that way they both get three points. It's a bad system. And with yahoo's ranking system points earned or lost is due to your opponent's and your current rank, which I think is very fair.

> finding a buddy and drawing.

that is exactly why i want us to use that system. remember. i also proposed that everyone play everyone else only twice. once as white and once as black. if you agree to draw both games against your buddy you come out with two points while if you had won you would have came out with six.

even if you look at both then the two draws would get them only a four when taken together but when they had won it would be a total for six points.

this would discourage draws. everyone knows that both people lose more than …

i would like to know if windows xp can work with windowss CE over a TCP network.

if i have a client server program and i put the client portion on the windows XP or 2000 or vista machine and i put the server portion on the CE machine then am i going to have a poblem?

is the client server software going to work and is the the two operating systems going to co-operate?

i would like to ask a few questions about windows CE and the compact framework and how it interacts with normal C# and the normal dot net framework.

i have an embedded computer which has windows CE and the compact framework on it. this compact framework sounds if it only holds a portion of the normal dot net framework.

what if i need to add a class library, which had been developed by third party, to the compact framework? i need to develop a computer program for this embedded computer but i need this third party component for it. can i add it to the compact framework just as i would add it to the ordinary dot net framework?

also how would this compact framework interact with the normal framework on a windows XP computer? if i develop a client server program and i put the server portion on the CE embedded computer which has compact framework and the client portion on an XP computer with the normal framework would the client server programs work fine or would they give problems because one is compact and the other is normal framework?

and lastly if i write the programs on the XP computer with normal framework then would ibe able to tranfer it to the compact framework and compile it or would i get problems? i do of course expect problems if i include classes which is not in the compact framework but i mean other type …

your english is very unclear. i do not understand you.

if i guess correctly. you have one word. and in that word you have to find another.

the best that i can think of is if you put the first word in a character array. and then you loop through the array. when you find the first letter of the word you are searching for you check to see if the next letter in the first word is equal to the next letter in the word you are looking for. and so on. if you find all the letter like that then you have the word. but if you dont find all the letters all, the one after the other, then only part of the word is there.

reply as to whether this is clear or not. and if this is not what you are looking for then please repeat yourself more clearly.

these are not ordinary keyboards. they are special pupose keyboards. i do not think that they work directly with the operating system because special software listen to events they raise on the com ports.

the computers they work with still have their normal keyboards. they are just added to the computer. and as i said. they raise events which special software listens for.

not exactly. the keyboards are rs 232 keyboards. they both connect to this device on two of its serial ports and two more ports are cconnected to computers without computers.

this device is an embedded computer which can be programmed(windows CE). can i write a computer program(most likely in C) wich would receive the input on one of its ports and output it again on one of its other ports which can then serve as input for one of the computers.

hi. i would like to ask if the following operation is possible.

imagin a device which has a number of rs 232 ports. in this case we shall take four. then imagin that you have two keyboards and two computers connected to these ports.

now is it possible to write a program in C( or c++ if possible ) in which input from one keyboard connected to one port can be redirected to another port so that it can be directed to a selected computer and serve there as keyboard input?

i have written some rough pseudo code. would you guys mind taking a look at it and say if it possible or not?

start pseudocode

create four variables / most likely pointers
link each of them to one port on the device
 
while (true)
{
    wait for input to apear in one of the variables
 
    write that input onto another variable so that it can go to a second port and to a computer
 
}

not married.

only twice have i met females whom i would have been willing to marry. one is a girl i met in high school. the other is the athletic blond i told you guys about in "booty or brains" thread.

my current girl friend seems cool but i have not known her for long so we shall have to wait to see.

i dont know how far you have gotten with this but i have been thinking about it since yesterday.

after having read the link posted by ancient dragon i think that i might have some way but it is crude and i cannot guarentee that i would actually succeed. also i would need a lot of time. but it is a really interesting project and i would like to work on it too. perhaps we can work on it seperately and continuously compare notes.

to begin with i want to ask you a few questions.

is the plane a flat surface? if it is a curved surface then i would be lost since my mathematics only extend to geometry on a two dimensional plane.

then there are the lines themselves

are the lines known at compile time or are they supplied at run time.

also are they straight lines or curves(quadratic equations) . (i.e. y = mx + c or y = ax2 + bx + c ).

also if these equations is of a order higher than quadratic then i would have some difficulty working with them. even if i could work with them i would have difficulty translating a line of this type into an algebraic equation of this type.

also does the lines have an interval. i mean do these lines have an end and a beginning?

i am glad for her. and i am glad that this disapearing act is normal for her. for a moment i was really worried.

so we shall look forward to her return. pity about the chess though. i guess this makes me champion. or at least until she returns!

@ enderx

- conservationist and preservationist

i have no idea what the difference is. i did not even know that we could be divided up like that.

let me see if i deduce correctly. preservationists wants to maintain the old way of doing things because they believe that progress harms the earth. conservationists just wants people to stop harming the earth if there is no need to.

if that is so then it closely relate to the terms light green and dark green. i think that in that regard i would be light green.

i do not see humans as evil or above or seperate from nature or anything like that. remember that in another thread i actually defended the humans from those who said that they are evil and nothing else. i said that mostly humans would be good except if they are driven to evil by the absence of choice. of course you get the exceptions.

in my opinion the humans are just a bit primitive but things have been improving for several decades now. all they need is time. but i suppose that that is another topic.

as to why i defend them. i honestly see little difference between light green and dark green. but i do have a problem with the fool who says: "no GM crops in africa" or "no nuclear power in africa". they have absolutely no idea what the scale of the problems are.

so …

i dont even know what a bentley ottmann algorithm is. sorry for wasting your time. perhaps you should post this in the computer science and software development forum.

@ sulley's boo
>i didn't like your last comment much

who are you talking about? me or lasher or josch. if you are talking about me then i can only say that i am speaking the truth.

an ecosystem is an area where living and non-living things co-exists. in fact that is what ecology is. it is a study of an organism where he occurs naturally and it studies his interaction with both the living and non living element of his environment.

when an organism no longer fits in with either living or non elements he dies because he cannot find food, shelter or sexual partners.

let me give you an example. up to 2.4 billion years ago most life forms on earth used no oxygen. so when green algae and bacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen they all died.

one can still find some of those primitive life forms on earth today. they are usualy very deep under the earth's ocean where they live from the heat of the earth's mantle or core or something(sorry. not sure just now.) and where there is no oxygen. as soon as they are brought to the surface where oxygen is abundent, they die.

i think that i am talking nonsense so perhaps i should keep my mouth shut.

all i can see is if you can somehow convert the lines to linear equations and then set them equal to each other and compute the point where they meet.

but dont listen to me. it is just that that would have been the only solution that i would have been able to come up with.

@ josch

you know that i am atheist but i am going to have to say that i cant see churhes making much money. of course you get the odd thief but that is human nature. no. i would rather say that their chief flaw is that they are severly misguided but then again they say the same for us.

@ those who dont see the peer pressure

pretend that you are not religious and you would see just how many hundreds come marching up to you with the phrase: "sinner! repent! or you will burn in hell."

i sometimes jokingly repeat these exact same words in the exact same tone but instead of "sinner repent" i say "believe as i believe!" which more or less is the same thing.

@ lasher

of course we dont know the exact hour minute or day that the earth was created but we do know that it was about 4.5 billion years ago.

and while we are on the topic allow me to correct some mistakes. or perhaps i am mistaken. in that case feel free to correct me.

the unverse is between 15 and 20 billion years old. the sun is about 5 billion years old and will burn for 5 billion more. modern life, since the cambrian explosion, is about 590 million years old and humans between 40 000 and 2 million depending on what species you classify as human. i only classify …

i have always thought that this one is quite profound. it was written by carl sandberg.

choose. the single clenched fist lifted and ready. or open asking hand held out and waiting. choose for we meet by the one or the other.

@ jwentig

i cannot speak for other environmentalists. i can only speak for myself.

i am not against building hospitals, roads or anything which counts as development. but i do have a problem with the needless destruction and of earth and its ecosystems or its lifeforms especially if it goes hand in hand with an obstinate refusal to except responsibility for it.

it may surprise you to know that one reason that i want the earth to live is that the human race is going to die with the planet if the planet dies. in addition to that i am actually more for nuclear power than for coal powered stations. and you dont have to tell me that we dont, at this moment, have the technology to turn everything to solar energy or wind energy or wave energy or something like that. but if we would have had it then i would have had a problem with nuclear power.

also i am all for developing africa but here you
have to consider choice.

both the san of south africa and the massai are being driven from their grounds under the ostensibility of "modern development". i have seen with my own eyes a massai warrior who have walked from his home in central africa to the parliament of south africa almost 5000 km away in an effort to make the rest of the world see the plight of his people.

just as we cannot …

@ josch and christina

i am not gay. trust me on that. all i am saying is that i have for a handfull of seconds experienced what it might be like for same sex people.

i mean. it is not as if i actually started some deep soul searching or anything after that. i just fought it on the spot and that was it. i merely recited it because of what hbk said.

considering that seeing two gay men kiss on tv is enough to make want to gag. but watching two women is cool though. but only if they are sexy.

Quinto said she died? Hmm..

hey josch. i said no such thing. i thought she had died when you guys started joking like that. please dont misquote me deliberately. is there not a consensus of trouble when she returns?(see chess thread). i too cannot be blamed! (also for once)

it is just that i thought that dani would know more than any of us how it is with narue. so when she started to endorse the thread i just thought that narue must have contacted her and said that she no longer wants to be moderator. since i thought that that is what had actually happened i merely presumed that she was fine. that is why i said that if she is fine then that is OK for me.

but what on earth is the truth? any of you who know. where is narue and is she OK?

@ lasher

i am not an animal rights activist as such except for the fact that i am an environmentalist. mother nature has a way of killing off entire species so that the process of life itself can be perpetuated.( for example the end of the dinosaurs but even bigger than that the great Oxygen catastrophe. look it up.). so if mother nature see it worthwhile then that is it.

but you are right about us and the need to do something about people dying of starvation. and believe me i wish that i could. especially since i actually am a child of africa.

@ enderx

my browser does not want to open that page but if what you say is true then i take back most of what i have said.

but i have to say that lasher said that it is called toad golf for obvious reasons. i immediately conjured a picture of a bunch of bullies heading for the golf course with a few crates of beer and laughing as they drive the long shot and cheering after very good putting. so i appologise to lasher for what i have said. but he should express himself more clearly. the first rule of writting is to make sure that the person reading understands exactly what you want him to understand.

the only thing which i do not take back is the one about the slavery thing. of course this no longer applies to lasher but i am now merely answering you.

in the eyes of slave trader a slave was worth as little as a frog.

for example. the brittish later outlawed slavery. so when a slave ship captain had noticed a british frigate or other patrol ship he would often dump the slaves overboard. they were weighted too so that the evidence can sink faster. that is part of what i meant about compassion.

the other thing(for me personally the main thing) is hopelessness. i have seen many horses pulling carts. and when you look into the horse's eyes you can often see the fear …

Yup, thats the point.. Most of the intellectuals know there is no god..

i could not have put it any better myself. it gives new meaning to my old school's saying... "knowledge illuminates."

same is true for the brain washing part.

what is really sad though is the fact that many of these brainwashers actually believe that they are doing the ones being brainwashed a favour!

if narue had said that she does not want to be moderator then i can only asume that she is fine. and for me that is enough.

for a few weeks i was really worried about her. i honestly thought that she had died when the guys started joking in that direction. i was really sad.

you have my vote too to have her stay as moderator but i honestly do not know if it would help. i mean is a million signitures going to be enough to get her to stay? she apears to be a bit recalcitrant.

i have nothing against you killing them. i just told you that i kill pests myself if they invade my garden. what i want to know is why do you play golf with them. do you honestly want to tell me that there is no way that you can kill them quickly? i cant even see how it is effective to kill them by playing golf with them. if you set out with a determine campaign of killing of a pest then you would kill far more in a smaller amount of time than you would by enjoying a nice game of golf.

as far as standing up for people who have sex with animals. what on earth in my post gave you that idea? sure kill the man. in fact throw the pig into a crocodile pool. i dont understand why the animal has to die too but if your religion demands it then sure kill the animal too. what i am against is you using that verse as a justification for torturing animals.

one can kill without being cruel. in fact a vet once killed a dog i had and he killed the dog out of kindness. that is to say that had the dog been left alive he would have died eventually anyway(of his wounds) but while he was waiting to die he experienced more pain than i can even begin to imagine.

yes i am saying that people who play toad golf should …

this might seem a bit strange since it is being posted three days after but i could not get here sooner. that is the only problem with geek's lounge. you miss a day and the world moves on.

about you liking or not liking other women and you attributing it to hormones. here is something interesting.

recently a survey was done. here is what it was about.

some men were found to be married to some of the world's most beautifull women. and when these women were quetion they all gave a somewhat similar answer.

they all describe being attracted to these men because of physical attributes(in some cases non physical) which can only be described as decidedly female. for example some mentioned a delicate bone structure or slim beautifull hands and fingers while others described the facial features in what can only be through the eyes of a man. (i.e. sharp clear cut features, small but not weak chin etc.) you must understand that these men still had to be attractive as men but these women were attracted to them because of certain female characteristics.

i suppose you did not really attack josch but you were a bit disaproving. i just would have thought it interesting that you were going at him if it would have turned out that you do not even like men!

one more thing. i had been attracted to another man once. i walked into his store and for a minute i lost complete control …

i dont know who i am addressing now and i honestly dont care.

i came to within an inch of being an eco-terrorist myself so you you will have to indulge me for having a bit of sympathy for these people.

and just what the hell is up with toad golf? what pathetic s.o sorry b. came up with that? sure kill the frogs if they are a problem. i am not saying dont kill them if they are in fact a problem. i know that i kill animals all the time. i kill snails and a whole lot of insects if they invade my garden to the extend that they become a problem. but it is people like you who support playing golf with a living and breathing organism that gives humanity such a bad name.

if i could have one wish then it would be for dinosaurs to return for... lets say a day and who knows. perhaps you could be invited for a game of tag.

i have told you before and i am telling you again that it is an act of cowardice to attack something if you are secure in the knowledge that you cant be struck back.

all of those monsters who played toad golf should be transported back to 1943. who knows. perhaps hitler can accomodate them into a gass chamber or something and forever remove them from the human gene pool.

as far as quoting from …

i am reasonably skilled at writting english and i would write some stuff if you would except my writting.

please be more specific on where or how to contact you. it is almost impossible to understand your contact details.

also i might be skilled at writting but i know nothing of what you are talking about. so am i going to have to do the research as well? if it is voluntary then that is asking for a bit much.

about the ladder system

if there is anyway that you know that i can help say so and shall help. if you suspect that i can help say so and i shall make an effort.

@ josh and serunson

true this is not a tourny so that wont work. but we would have to have some form of organization. else two bad players can play and draw each other every single hour pushing their own rating up while they avoid the stronger players.

i would suggest something like they have in the european soccer leages. with everyone playing each other twice. once as white and once as black. then we give three points for win, zero for lose and one for draw. we keep the tally and so we always know one another's rank.

we adapt it so that anyone can join at any time but of course we post a time frame as well. no one is allowed to join in the last month or so of the timeframe since he will have to play every one else in that short period of time.

or else we do cycles. a new cycle starts every four months. anyone can join at any time. in the short run late joiners who cant finish all of their games will cause the rankings to be a bit erratic but in the long run things aught to smooth out. anyone who dont finish all of his games in …

@ midimagic

you say that spending actually prolonged the depression.

i do not know about that. i admit that my knowledge is wanting. i will have to go find out and then i shall get back to you(pity you did not post a link :-)). but i do know that recovery of the american economy started before 1942. also i did point out that the war was more of a problem for the american economy than a help. but that was a problem because of the production limitations. there was not enough productive resources to both produce for the war and lavishly supply civilians with consumer goods.

by the way. i looked for stats for the american economy which goes back a couple of decades. but i could not find any. not even on the internet. so if anyone can point me in a direction i would appreciate it. (i took out an economics textbook which had stats on the US economy from a library but that was in another town.)

germany

true they did steal the jewish property but in an economic sense that does not lead to any economic growth. only to a transfer of ownership. look at what is happening in the zimbabwean economy right now. there too it started out with a large scale transfer of ownership (i.e. stealing the white owned farms) but it did not lead to economic growth. that is because it cannot. as for debasing the currency …

i would say start a new tournament in order not to wait for narue to show up. but when she does show up i want to play her. until then i shall be willing to be provisional champion. narue is better than me and unless she left daniweb or died she should have the chance to defend herself. remember. she is the only unbeaten person in the tournament.

actually josch's idea is better. hold tournaments twice a year and leader system for the rest. but we shall have to think out how we are going to do the ladder system.

in cricket tests, which is to long to hold world cups for, the rules are simple. teams are placed in a group and are obliged to play each other so many times during such a period.

that way the teams can decide for themselves when they play as long as they play all their alloted opponents during the specified time.

But they didn't really create lasting jobs. They used slave labor in the prison camps to generate the money to hire others.

not all. i dont know how far your statement was true. it was certainly true during the war.

but even before the war started hitler set out on campaigns of public works. for example many unemployed were set to work with the clearing of forests.

germany's economy was under severe strain because of the treaty of versailes. inflation was a nightmare(strange during a depression.) but the public works was the one thing the national socialists did right that the rest of europe did not follow.

many people believe that government spending to ease a recession does at least as much harm as it does good. they say the same for taxation when the economy overstrain itself.

but this is a controversial issue. it is certainly not a good idea to resort to it for each and every minor problem. if i had been the minister of finance of any country i would only employ it during a real and serious recession. but i dont know if i would tax or spend less in order to ease inflation. there i simply dont know enough. i mean. would the higher inflation not increase the economy's ability to produce? (i.e. shift the long run aggregate supply curve to the right)

would it be one? the others are met. they could have been met there or even if they were met along the way nothig says that they are going with?

@ enderx

i am sorry but you will have to be more specific. what exactly did the government do to make the recession worse? unless the government set out on a large campaign of public works then you are only proving our point which is that the great depression could have been less severe had the american government created jobs on a large scale by public works.

also i do not understand what you mean by "on paper" and precisely what is paper earnings.

you are also contradicting yourself. how can recovery begin when unemployment skyrocket? should it not be the other way around? that unemployment decreased or at the least leveled off when the recovery began?

and by the way. that is a common misconception. recovery began (although was not there completely yet) actually before america became actively involved with the war. check statstics which shows GDP and unemployment rate of america.

if anything the war put a strain on the american economy. by the time the war ened you could sell american consumers almost anything because they have been deprived of consumer goods.

and had the depression really ended with the start of the war then it would only strengthen my case since now government had been creating jobs by engaging industry to produce for the war effort.

as it was the war actually only finished off the great depression but then overstrained the american economy.

just a quick thought. if frmNew is modal and you then hide it is it still modal? because if frmNew remains modal after being hidden you wont be able to use any other form.

if possible you will at least have to unmake its modalarity before hiding it and loading the new one.

btw. it is not a good idea to load and hide many forms. this all remains in memory and slows your pc down.

just a rough guess. cant you just say the following for the very first item added to the combobox?

combobox.additem " Select "

you execute this command in the load event procedure of the form. before you add anything else to the combobox.

>Why do they make computers harder to use and program than they need to be? Here >are some >examples:

>- Why do most spreadsheets and programming languages do trigonometric functions >:in radians, >when most people use degrees?

Because these things have been designed by geniuses for geniuses. I guess it is a classical case of if you are not with us then you must be against us!

>- Why do most of the C-based languages (including Java, JavaScript, and Perl) have >two different >syntax forms to call functions with, depending on which function you want?

Same as the above

>- Why does Microsoft change the name of everything from what others called it before >(a >"directory" suddenly became a "folder", and a "procedure" became a "method").

To facilitate stealing. Let me give a practical example. If you make a programming called java which runs byte-code on virtual machine then I cant just steal it from you and sell it as it is? No at the very least I have to change its name. so java becomes C#, byte-code become IL, and Java virtual machine becomes CLR. The functioning does not have to differ just as long as the name is different. Now you cant take me to court so easily.

>- In the 1980s, kids all over were programming computers. With the change to >Windows, this >suddenly stopped, as Microsoft made programming a lot harder to do. >Why?

Who knows …

@ midimagic

lasting or non lasting jobs are not the point. the point is that if an economy is in recession then goverment spending is the most effective way of ending that reccesion.

consumers do not spend much money during a reccesion. that is the whole crux of a reccesion. because consumers stop buying the demad for goods and services falls. this leads to unemployment. because the now unemployed people does not have as much money to buy other sectors of the economy dont sell much either and this leads to further job losses.

these things actually happened in history. the best example is the great american deppresion of around the 1930 years.

the same thing happend around the same time in europe. only hitler' national socialists actually provided jobs and germany got pulled out of reccesion before almost all other europian countries.

guys we are hijacking nichito's thread again. perhaps we should create a new thread in which to discuss this topic. the same goes for homosexuality. there is a new thread already for that. it is the "lets talk about it...." thread.

it happens to everyone. that is the misery of programming

I've heard about it but have never seen it played. It appears to be a simple form of American Football, minus all the body protection. Ouch!

haha. hilarious! i would say that american football is the simplified form. i also believa that ours is tougher! we cant tackle the other guy without the ball but then again we do not use body armour.

@ josch

yes they have.

america is an interesting country. rugby does not make as much money as soccer or your american sports so you guys are probably not that interested in it.

in new zealand it is a national sports and in south africa and australia it is as good as a national sport.

but if america really wants to it can probably create a competent team in less than a decade.