Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 21st, 2009 |
| Replies: 22 Views: 1,181 Makes sense. Let's use this attitude elsewhere in life. Gee, stopping for that red light ahead is just an arbitrary rule some committee came up with. Going through the light in and of itself won't... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 15th, 2008 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 678 I didn't know there was free source code to telephone directory management etc. Where did you hear of this free code? Maybe you should start there... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 29th, 2008 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 554 sms 2 me tht u hv a prblm. snc we no u so well, we sgst cndl mkg. its mch ezr thn cptr |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,540 I think that's the main one for C/C++, although I do believe there are one or two other triggers. I don't think it matters too much though, it's very rare for someone to use {} in ordinary text, and... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,540 What would be used to decide that there's code? The only script I've seen is for C/C++ and looks for {, which means if your post includes a brace but no code, you have to put code tags somewhere... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge May 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 2,113 I suppose you could, but up until now most (all?) fonts have not been created using AI. It's just not necessary. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Apr 20th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,278 After a month, don't you think we've moved on? :-O Sheesh! Learn to look at the time posted... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 27th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 12,211 Really? How long have you worked in robotics? Isn't there new development going on with new robots and therefore new code? Don't you have to write new code every time you change the work a robot... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 16th, 2007 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 14,169 And no wonder many US companies contract a lot of work there... :confused: |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,278 This is a public forum. Anyone is free to post whatever he wants as long as the reply doesn't violate any of the forum rules. If you don't like something, you are free to move on.[/QUOTE] Agreed. ... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,381 Not really. You just have to move every value from memory into registers to work on, then back to memory when dealing with variables. You'll end up writing more lines of code to do simple things,... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 14th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 18,078 NO.
They need to grow up.
I've been programming probably longer than you've been alive, long before C, C++, and VB even existed. For doing GUI programming, VB is quite good. You can build... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 13th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 18,078 Why do people that don't know what they are talking about insist on saying it anyway?
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm
http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/lawlis/n.htm... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 25 Views: 14,169 Contact your local library or unemployment office. They have books that outline salary ranges for most if not all professions. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 18,078 Really? Basic, Cobol, and ForTran are still around. And C++ is only 30-40 years younger. So don't bet on it... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 12th, 2007 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 2,381 Not to mention Bliss and a host of other languages... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 11th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 18,078 Nor is C#. Both C# and CLI are internationally standardized. It's not Microsoft's fault that nobody has yet written an implementation that rivals .NET and Visual C#, is it? ;)[/QUOTE]
If M$ has no... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 11th, 2007 |
| Replies: 39 Views: 18,078 If you don't want to be bogged down with M$, go with C or C++. They are more general and not 'controlled' by M$ |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Feb 3rd, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,265 I think it's a throwback from the old typesetting days. when the ' and " were slanted slightly, or they looked like a dot with a tail like in books. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 30th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,234 That makes sense. The only way to do that as far as I know is by hand. As I said, there is no text in an image so you will have to eyeball the headlines and type them in. Even an OCR program won't... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,234 I really have no idea how you plan to "associate files with the keywords in the image" unless you mean connecting text file to an image somehow. Maybe you need to explain in detail what you are... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 3,462 Programmer's axiom: Man does not live by Jolt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolt_Cola) alone! :mrgreen: |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 29th, 2007 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 2,234 It isn't. There is no text in an image. It's just part of the image.
You can try an OCR (optical character reader) program that can read an image (non-compressed, usually). The best one I found... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 28th, 2007 |
| Replies: 8 Views: 3,462 Don't forget the Twinkies! :mrgreen: |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 2nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,964 Depends on what you want to do. Do you want to do film as a career? Or computers? Or both? Either case, yes, get a degree.
Maybe get a degree in film animation and special effects. Get... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jan 2nd, 2007 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,896 Probably hit save then realized he was in edit mode. See? The EDIT button position even bites Ancient Dragon! Need I say more? ;) |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 22nd, 2006 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 5,693 Sure there is! I use their products all the time -- and complain loudly when I do!!!
If it wasn't for M$, us power users would still be able to do things instead of trying to get around security... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 12th, 2006 |
| Replies: 21 Views: 5,494 I'd recommend RPG II as the last languave you want to learn! :twisted: At least assembly is useful. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 11th, 2006 |
| Replies: 21 Views: 5,494 That's because DevC opens a window to run the program, runs it, and when the program ends, closes the window. Change your code to this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("This is... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 10th, 2006 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 1,396 I would look into some night courses initially -- intro to programming, intro to C/C++. If you like it then, look into an associate's degree. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Dec 3rd, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 1,547 I agree, it doesn't really matter on an individual basis.
The thing to keep in mind is the other functions in the system. How do they order similar function params. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 30th, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 3,025 Yes, and I explained that to may4life. He seemed to understand, then ignored me.
As JoeProgrammer suggests Key word -- example! I go as far as to say that example does not even have to solve... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 3,025 Interesting. That's at least 3 that think your analysis does not help new programmers. What is it you understand that seasoned professionals (at least one of which has experience as a teacher) are... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 24th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 4,664 Aren't the masters of Messenger at Microsoft? They could help you better than people who haven't developed anything like it... ;) |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 5,008 For a while there, I thought this was going to go the way of the bunsen burner when a statement is twisted to illogical extremes
1. Hmmm. So you're in this for the love of it? Money's not an... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Nov 4th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,317 I use VEdit (vedit.com). It can handle many languages, and if it doesn't handle yours, someone in the VEdit community will be able to whip one together. It's a very powerful and flexible editing... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 14,391 Why learn a 3rd party package when you know VB? I'd have to learn GTK+, wxWidgets, or Python. I already know VB. Hence my choice. ;) |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 28th, 2006 |
| Replies: 67 Views: 14,391 Heck, C is better than C++ for reports...
I disagree with the dissing of VB. Yes it's fairly simple to learn. Yes it's not as powerful as C++. But it does an excellent job (mostly) of easily... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 25th, 2006 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 2,799 Excellent!!!
If I may humbly suggest a few visual suggestions, though:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
char* Word[]= { "Alpha ", "Bravo ", "Charlie ", "Delta ", "Echo ",
... |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 27th, 2006 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 1,944 I don't think it's that much different here. C/C++, PHP, and unfortunately MS (is my bias peeking through?) are strong. |