Line numbers never went away from BASIC, they just aren't required any more. I'm not sure if VB.Net supports line numbers, but VB6 does. It is actually pretty useful for debugging with the ELN function, which returns the line number the error occured on. There are tools out for VB6 that automatically add and maintain your line numbering for you just for the purpose of debugging.
And yes, I do use Visual Basic when I need a quick GUI/database app.
I have a P4 2Ghz, with 17" monitor, laser printer, router, Cisco ATA and scanner that is up and running 24/7, and out monthly power bill is around $20. That is here in Southern California, where our electricity bills are ridiculously high too. That $20 power bill also takes into account that we use a lot of lights, and usually have the tv going.
This leads me to ask, why spend a bunch of money on a notebook or shuttle case to use as a server? If you're on a tight budget, won't one of those cost you a lot more than a regular PC would use in power?
Luckily, in California it is illegal to issue a speeding ticket based on how long it took you to get between two points, so they wouldn't have been able to issue me a ticket anyways. If they did, I could fight it and easily win.
Their system has made some mistakes though, and issued me four tickets that were totally unjustified. When I got married, I added my wife's car to my account on their website. About a month later, I got a toll violation notice. I called, told them what happened, and added the car again, and was told not to worry. About 4 months later, I got 3 more tickets for toll violations, and a fine of over $1,000 for being a repeat violator. Again, I called them, and added the car with them over the phone, and was told that the original toll due would be subtracted from my account, and the violations would be removed. About a year later, I got another nasty letter saying that they were about to garnish my wages. I'm still fighting them over it.
I'm tired of the super-surveilance-society we are turning into. Now, they are going to give financial incentives to be monitored (cheaper tolls if you pay tolls electronically).
The Orange County Toll Roads already do this. I'm pretty sure the toll is cheaper because they don't have to maintain the toll booths when you use the FasTrak, but it could still easily be used for monitoring. I got my statement from them about a year ago, and it showed I went between two of the toll booths that are about 6 miles apart in just over 2 minutes. Obviously, I wasn't going 180mph, but it would be easy for them to try and use that against you.
Actually, this makes sense. How much money would he have been out if he had attempted to fight the lawsuit, and didn't pass his finals because of that? I'm pretty sure that Resalier (sp?) costs at least $12k/semester. Plus he would have been out a whole bunch of time that he spent working on passing those classes. He would have also had lawyer fees, and the time it takes to fight the lawsuit.
So actually, the "Oh I don't have time or money right now to go to court over something I'll win...here's $12k, I have to go study. Thank you" makes perfect sense if you think about it. The RIAA realized that, and is probably one of the main reasons they chose to go after someone at a large university, instead of someone who was at a local community college with much less to lose by fighting.
Right next to where it classiffied your site there is a button saying "Review Site". Clcik on that and there is an option to tell them why the site should be unblocked, or noto labled as Porn. Doesn't seem to hard to me...
Say there have been 100 space shuttle flights (That's just a wild guess). Out of those 100, two of those have blown up. That means that on average, 1 out of every 50 flights will blow up and kill everyone on board.
Would you get in a car if you knew that statistically, you had a 1 in 50 chance of the car blowing up and killing you? I guarantee that you'd be walking or riding a bike instead.
I do think that space flight is worth the risk though, and given the chance I would fly up on the very next shuttle flight.
He confirmed that it was his intention for the Nova capsule to be launched on a 3,050-metre (10,000-ft) shake-down mission by a cluster of commercially available rocket motors all strapped together.
Estes stock is going to shoot through the roof with this news! Pun intended:)
My experience with our diaper genie absolutely sucked. After trying to use it for a few months, we finally just threw the thing away.
With the newborn diapers, we were having to push the diaper all the way into the opening to get it to catch on the little "arms" inside so that we could twist and seal the diaper. It was nasty. You don't want to get stuck doing that. It was also just a real hassle to use.
My recommendation is to skip the Diaper Genie, and go with something else. After we threw ours away, we bought a diaper pail from Walmart for half the cost of the Diaper Genie. It takes regular trash bags, and is MUCH easier to use. It also doesn't smell or let any odors escape.
One more thing... You need to baby proof your computer!
You won't need to do this before they are crawling, but you should so you don't have to worry about it later.
Make sure all of the cables behind/under your desk are out of baby's reach or secured. Little boys in particular are fascinated by cables, and they will pull on them and chew on them. You don't want our infant pulling the power cable out of the back of your computer and then chewing on it.
If your computer is somewhere that your baby can get to the front of it, either move it or buy a case with a locking door over the buttons and drive bays. My son LOVES pressing buttons. He especially likes the power and reset buttons while you are working. The CD Drive open buttons are also one of his favorite buttons to push. He will push them and try to play with the CD tray. If you have an expensive burner, he can and will quickly destroy it. He can also hurt himself on it if it closes while his hands are in it.
This is a good point. My wife stays at home, and I work. She wouldn't be able to make enough money to cover the cost of child care, her wardrobe, commuting, etc...
I know a lot of people can't afford to do this, but most of us in the geek community are making a decent enough salary to raise a family on. We've had to make some sacrifices for her to stay home (Like living in an apartment instead of buying a home, tight budget, etc...), but we still have enough money to enjoy life, and most importantly, our son is being raised by my wife instead of some stranger.
Buy her a nice glifing rocker chair for those nigths she will be up feeding the baby. Also, get her some sort of a Tivo type thing for when she is up feeding him in the middle of the night and there is nothing on tv.
If you make a comment to Huggies on their website (Good or bad comment), they will send you a coupon for a free pack of diapers. Also, you will start getting tons of crap in your mail. Look through it, there ar some good coupons in there. We were getting a free coupon each month for Carnation formula from a magazine we had gotten signed up for.
Finally, formula smells bad. For the first several months of their life, your baby's formula will smell worse than their crap. Trust me on this one. The faintest whiff of formula just turns my stomache now.
Most of all, just have fun! Enjoy your baby the first few days when all he does is sleep (It won't last long!). Make sure your wife gets plenty of rest, she'll need it the first several months.
I'm not sure I would want to ride on anything that is on tracks made from PVC pipe. It does look fun though.
On a side note, his web page seems to be holding up surprisingly well considering it is hosted on a Road Runner account, and has a 2MB video on the front page.
Several years ago, I was getting a cavity filled. The dentist started drilling, but I could feel them drilling, so I told him and he gave me a second shot of novacain (Or whatever it is they use). After the second shot, my whole jaw went numb for about a day, but after I got the feeling back everywhere else, I still had a numb spot about 2 inches in diameter on my chin. It lasted for about eight months before I finally got feeling back. So don't worry too much about it lasting over 6 months. Just when I thought I was never going to get feeling back in that part of my chin, I got it back.
Silence is required as this PC is being used in my dorm room, and it's hard to sleep next to a whining PC.
Ok, you know you're a nerd when you can't sleep because of your power supply fan, and you try to design a new external power supply instead of just turning the computer off at night. Haha, this poor guy is going to be a virgin for life.
.net is a server side technology, and theoretically you should be able to view a.net page on any browser. Of course, there are tons of stories about.net pages not rendering right in non-MS browsers....
I'm astonished that this is the sort of thing trained astronauts are doing out there on their expensive vacations.
If you had read the article, you would have known that this wasn't one of NASA's experiments. He did this in his free time on a Saturday morning, all on his own.
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Line numbers never went away from BASIC, they just aren't required any more. I'm not sure if VB.Net supports line numbers, but VB6 does. It is actually pretty useful for debugging with the ELN function, which returns the line number the error occured on. There are tools out for VB6 that automatically add and maintain your line numbering for you just for the purpose of debugging.
And yes, I do use Visual Basic when I need a quick GUI/database app.
Yeah, I'm glad this thing finally came to a climax.
I have a P4 2Ghz, with 17" monitor, laser printer, router, Cisco ATA and scanner that is up and running 24/7, and out monthly power bill is around $20. That is here in Southern California, where our electricity bills are ridiculously high too. That $20 power bill also takes into account that we use a lot of lights, and usually have the tv going.
This leads me to ask, why spend a bunch of money on a notebook or shuttle case to use as a server? If you're on a tight budget, won't one of those cost you a lot more than a regular PC would use in power?
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provide an infrastructure that makes it extremely unattractive to drive one.
Los Angeles already has this infrastructure in place. It's called the 405, 110, 101, 710, 5, 91, etc...
Luckily, in California it is illegal to issue a speeding ticket based on how long it took you to get between two points, so they wouldn't have been able to issue me a ticket anyways. If they did, I could fight it and easily win.
Their system has made some mistakes though, and issued me four tickets that were totally unjustified. When I got married, I added my wife's car to my account on their website. About a month later, I got a toll violation notice. I called, told them what happened, and added the car again, and was told not to worry. About 4 months later, I got 3 more tickets for toll violations, and a fine of over $1,000 for being a repeat violator. Again, I called them, and added the car with them over the phone, and was told that the original toll due would be subtracted from my account, and the violations would be removed. About a year later, I got another nasty letter saying that they were about to garnish my wages. I'm still fighting them over it.
I'm tired of the super-surveilance-society we are turning into. Now, they are going to give financial incentives to be monitored (cheaper tolls if you pay tolls electronically).
The Orange County Toll Roads already do this. I'm pretty sure the toll is cheaper because they don't have to maintain the toll booths when you use the FasTrak, but it could still easily be used for monitoring. I got my statement from them about a year ago, and it showed I went between two of the toll booths that are about 6 miles apart in just over 2 minutes. Obviously, I wasn't going 180mph, but it would be easy for them to try and use that against you.
Actually, this makes sense. How much money would he have been out if he had attempted to fight the lawsuit, and didn't pass his finals because of that? I'm pretty sure that Resalier (sp?) costs at least $12k/semester. Plus he would have been out a whole bunch of time that he spent working on passing those classes. He would have also had lawyer fees, and the time it takes to fight the lawsuit.
So actually, the "Oh I don't have time or money right now to go to court over something I'll win...here's $12k, I have to go study. Thank you" makes perfect sense if you think about it. The RIAA realized that, and is probably one of the main reasons they chose to go after someone at a large university, instead of someone who was at a local community college with much less to lose by fighting.
That would be Mystery Lodge. It is fairly old now, but still a good show.
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http://www.themeparkinsider.com/parks/detail.cfm?
Pen, paper & flashlight.
Seriously though.. You track around the sewers for fun? You seriously need a new hobby.
I tried this with Phoenix, and even with all of the Javascript disabled, it STILL opens a big ol' fat window on my screen, full page size.
It covers the Start bar (Windows XP), but I still have the control box to close the stupid thing at least.
Also, I have my user.js file set to keep windows from opening in a new window, but that didn't stop the ad from opening in it's own window.
Try it yourself here http://www.unicast.com/gallery/index.asp#
Right next to where it classiffied your site there is a button saying "Review Site". Clcik on that and there is an option to tell them why the site should be unblocked, or noto labled as Porn. Doesn't seem to hard to me...
Haven't you people ever played Donkey.Net??? Nothing like driving your car arouns a small 3D area trying to run down donkeys.
Say there have been 100 space shuttle flights (That's just a wild guess). Out of those 100, two of those have blown up. That means that on average, 1 out of every 50 flights will blow up and kill everyone on board.
Would you get in a car if you knew that statistically, you had a 1 in 50 chance of the car blowing up and killing you? I guarantee that you'd be walking or riding a bike instead.
I do think that space flight is worth the risk though, and given the chance I would fly up on the very next shuttle flight.
He confirmed that it was his intention for the Nova capsule to be launched on a 3,050-metre (10,000-ft) shake-down mission by a cluster of commercially available rocket motors all strapped together.
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Estes stock is going to shoot through the roof with this news! Pun intended
My experience with our diaper genie absolutely sucked. After trying to use it for a few months, we finally just threw the thing away.
With the newborn diapers, we were having to push the diaper all the way into the opening to get it to catch on the little "arms" inside so that we could twist and seal the diaper. It was nasty. You don't want to get stuck doing that. It was also just a real hassle to use.
My recommendation is to skip the Diaper Genie, and go with something else. After we threw ours away, we bought a diaper pail from Walmart for half the cost of the Diaper Genie. It takes regular trash bags, and is MUCH easier to use. It also doesn't smell or let any odors escape.
In my opinion, the Diaper Genie is WAY overrated.
One more thing... You need to baby proof your computer!
You won't need to do this before they are crawling, but you should so you don't have to worry about it later.
Make sure all of the cables behind/under your desk are out of baby's reach or secured. Little boys in particular are fascinated by cables, and they will pull on them and chew on them. You don't want our infant pulling the power cable out of the back of your computer and then chewing on it.
If your computer is somewhere that your baby can get to the front of it, either move it or buy a case with a locking door over the buttons and drive bays. My son LOVES pressing buttons. He especially likes the power and reset buttons while you are working. The CD Drive open buttons are also one of his favorite buttons to push. He will push them and try to play with the CD tray. If you have an expensive burner, he can and will quickly destroy it. He can also hurt himself on it if it closes while his hands are in it.
This is a good point. My wife stays at home, and I work. She wouldn't be able to make enough money to cover the cost of child care, her wardrobe, commuting, etc...
I know a lot of people can't afford to do this, but most of us in the geek community are making a decent enough salary to raise a family on. We've had to make some sacrifices for her to stay home (Like living in an apartment instead of buying a home, tight budget, etc...), but we still have enough money to enjoy life, and most importantly, our son is being raised by my wife instead of some stranger.
Buy her a nice glifing rocker chair for those nigths she will be up feeding the baby. Also, get her some sort of a Tivo type thing for when she is up feeding him in the middle of the night and there is nothing on tv.
If you make a comment to Huggies on their website (Good or bad comment), they will send you a coupon for a free pack of diapers. Also, you will start getting tons of crap in your mail. Look through it, there ar some good coupons in there. We were getting a free coupon each month for Carnation formula from a magazine we had gotten signed up for.
Finally, formula smells bad. For the first several months of their life, your baby's formula will smell worse than their crap. Trust me on this one. The faintest whiff of formula just turns my stomache now.
Most of all, just have fun! Enjoy your baby the first few days when all he does is sleep (It won't last long!). Make sure your wife gets plenty of rest, she'll need it the first several months.
Enjoy your baby!
Chris - Father of a 9 month old boy
This needs to be submitted to Engrish.com.
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The quote in question can be found at http://www.gamepark.co.kr/tmp_english/GP32/func.a
It definately looks like a super happy mega game playing type device to me.
The track is built from 2" PVC pipe
I'm not sure I would want to ride on anything that is on tracks made from PVC pipe. It does look fun though.
On a side note, his web page seems to be holding up surprisingly well considering it is hosted on a Road Runner account, and has a 2MB video on the front page.
Several years ago, I was getting a cavity filled. The dentist started drilling, but I could feel them drilling, so I told him and he gave me a second shot of novacain (Or whatever it is they use). After the second shot, my whole jaw went numb for about a day, but after I got the feeling back everywhere else, I still had a numb spot about 2 inches in diameter on my chin. It lasted for about eight months before I finally got feeling back. So don't worry too much about it lasting over 6 months. Just when I thought I was never going to get feeling back in that part of my chin, I got it back.
Silence is required as this PC is being used in my dorm room, and it's hard to sleep next to a whining PC.
Ok, you know you're a nerd when you can't sleep because of your power supply fan, and you try to design a new external power supply instead of just turning the computer off at night. Haha, this poor guy is going to be a virgin for life.
.net is a server side technology, and theoretically you should be able to view a .net page on any browser. Of course, there are tons of stories about .net pages not rendering right in non-MS browsers....
I'm astonished that this is the sort of thing trained astronauts are doing out there on their expensive vacations.
If you had read the article, you would have known that this wasn't one of NASA's experiments. He did this in his free time on a Saturday morning, all on his own.