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  1. Re:Here's the report (sans attachments) on Digital Cameras Change War Photo-Journalism · · Score: 1

    Studies show that after about 200 or so days in combat troops fall into a zombie like state, not really caring what happens next.
    Which studies are these?

    The sad part is those 6 young soldiers will stand trail as scapegoats for the whole incident
    Nothing sad about it, they were in the wrong and should be punished for that. They should also be punished for the damage they have caused to the image of the coalition.

  2. Re:Very simple possibility on Free Software Tracking a Stolen Computer? · · Score: 1

    gah!

  3. Re:For British readers... on Websites For The Frugal? · · Score: 1

    CD-Wow is a great site and they are recommended by virgin.net. I have been using them since they started a few years back, you get your cd/dvd's individually through the post from Hong Kong.

    I usually find they are far cheaper than other online sites.

  4. Use Ghost on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    I use ghost but if I had to install from scratch. Zonealarm Norton Systemworks (including ghost) Partition Magic Visual Studio 6 Visual Studio .NET Sql Server 2000 Office XP developer Crystal Advanced Developer 10 Crystal Enterprise 10 Winamp

  5. Re:stick it out a few more years, save up and plan on Appreciating Your Stressful IT Job? · · Score: 1

    If you want to make money you should be using the infinitely superior ASP.NET with Sql Server. Of course these have the added benefit of running on a real OS like NT, 2000 or XP.

  6. Re:Shopping Season OVER??? on Christmas Gifts for Geeks · · Score: 1

    sand in your vagina?

  7. Keep the tapes. on Online Backup vs. Tape Backup? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if you go with an online service you should do some form of local backup. What happens if you lose your connection? This sort of service is perhaps best treated as an offsite backup.

  8. Re:Jokes on Coworkers on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    Prank that Stifferly Stifferson with a Tire Iron baby!

  9. Re:We need new technology... on More on the Orbital Space Plane · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the crew wouldn't have died, they might have been able to stay on the ISS until the Russians sent up a capsule?
    As for the Shuttle, well I agree that there wouldn't be much they could do to repair it.

  10. Re:Mousetrap on Light Bulb Replacements · · Score: 1

    If you have mice and the cats aint catching them, stop feeding the cats...

  11. Re:Excellent! on Bluetooth Headset Roundup · · Score: 2, Informative
  12. Re:Why on Stash Your Hard Drive In The Attic · · Score: 1

    No it isn't you wanky yanky.

  13. Re:Rules for turning that Orange badge Blue. LISTE on Microsoft Caste System · · Score: 1

    You Sir, are an arsehole!

  14. Dual caching on SSE3 Technology In Intel Prescott · · Score: 1

    But will it have dual Jag caches? Is it egg resistant and how many ppm (pies per minute) will it consume?

  15. Re:You answer your own question... on Improving Company Morale? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Second, when the layoffs actually happened, she held a meeting with the survivors to tell us about it so we didn't hear it through the grape vine.

    I can see how that works

    "Can everyone who still works here come to my office for a meeting?"
    "Where are you going Skyshadow?"

  16. Re:Pyramids not built by slave labour on Making a House That Will Last for Centuries? · · Score: 1

    Small beer was the very low alcohol beer that everyone drank instead of water.

  17. Re:Great for kids? on Build Your Own Sherman Tank · · Score: 1

    On one hand a great little motorised tank and on the other an empty can. Which is more fun?

    You can stop beung a dickhead now.

  18. I question the wisdom of naming this chip on Intel To Redesign PC With "Grantsdale" Chip · · Score: 1

    Mr Grantsdale!

  19. Calm down! on Psychologist Consoles Data Loss Victims · · Score: 1

    Tech support needs a cuddle after this.

  20. Re:Rocket jumping! on Battlefield Medkits Improve · · Score: 1

    How about deflating them as they land to cushion them.

  21. Consortium rules on Banana to be Sequenced · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1: You do not talk about consortium.

  22. Re:VB has one of those debuggers on How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity what do you get with this?

    Dim myArray(4) As Integer
    MsgBox("After Dim " & LBound(myArray) & Chr(32) & UBound(myArray))


    Running the above code I get "After Dim 0 4".
    This excerpt from "VB.NET in a nutshell" confirms that arrays are 0 to N containing N+1 elements.

    This is what it says in VB.NET help.

    Array Bound Changes in Visual Basic

    Visual Basic .NET updates the declaration of array bounds to provide interoperability with arrays in other programming languages.

    Visual Basic 6.0

    In Visual Basic 6.0, the default lower bound of every dimension of an array is 0. You can change this to 1 with the Option Base statement. You can also override the default lower bound in individual array declarations.
    If you leave the default at 0, the number of elements in the array is equal to the upper bound plus one. The following declaration reserves 21 elements for the array Weight:

    Dim Weight(20) As Single

    Visual Basic .NET

    In Visual Basic .NET, the lower bound of every array dimension is 0, and you cannot declare it to be otherwise. The Option Base statement is not supported. The number you specify for each dimension in the declaration is the upper bound, and the initial element count is equal to the upper bound plus one. The declaration in the preceding example reserves 21 elements for Weight, with subscripts 0 through 20.

  23. Re:VB has one of those debuggers on How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? · · Score: 1

    I use Visual Studio Enterprise and have not upgraded recently.
    I used the following code with no errors and both msgbox's reporting "0 4 4". Perhaps you have an old beta version?

    Dim myArray(4) As Integer

    myArray(0) = 0
    myArray(1) = 1
    myArray(2) = 2
    myArray(3) = 3
    myArray(4) = 4

    MsgBox("After Dim " & LBound(myArray) & Chr(32) & UBound(myArray) & Chr(32) & myArray(4))

    ReDim myArray(4)

    myArray(0) = 0
    myArray(1) = 1
    myArray(2) = 2
    myArray(3) = 3
    myArray(4) = 4

    MsgBox("After ReDim " & LBound(myArray) & Chr(32) & UBound(myArray) & Chr(32) & myArray(4))

  24. Re:VB has one of those debuggers on How Would You Improve Today's Debugging Tools? · · Score: 1

    Just tried that (in VB.NET) and it gives a 5 element array (0 to 4) each time. I checked both with assignment to each element and the bounds functions (lbound & ubound).

    So it looks like you owe VB.NET an apology young man!

  25. Re:School on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1

    larger than sovereign European states

    How? in area? So what.