Posts by EnderX

I'm working on a program designed to draw numeric summary information out of a database. The user can select four criteria via dropdown combo boxes, and the information is displayed in a string grid (TStringGrid component). A second string grid component is used to hold the highest-level division of the four criteria (department); if that was left blank in the dropdown box, then all items of that type that match the other chosen criteria (if any) are displayed. Clicking on one of these items will then begin the numeric runthrough for that item. If only one item is present (specifically chosen from the dropdown originally, or the only thing that meets all criteria), then the program starts the numeric run automatically.

For some reason, when I've got selections in the dropdown boxes, any attempt to shift the focus away from the department string grid appears to empty the dropdown combo boxes; that is, the text in them vanishes, and the item index of the boxes appears to go to zero, as runs afterwards seem to be grabbing all information for the department in question. This does not happen every time, but does happen a large portion of the time. The only connection I can make with that is that it invariably happens after the form has been maximized to fill the screen.

I attempted to modify this behavior by adding in an 'onexit' event for the department grid component. Its purpose was to reset the item indices on …

How certain was he about that?

If "pro" and "con" are opposites, what's the opposite of "progress"?

Exactly how are you defining 'Progress' here? I know of one definition for it, but I know of a derived word which seems to indicate something else.

In a fair world, the natural resources would be shared, equally, as needed. Then you'd see exactly how many people had these abilities you speak of. But when the resources are tightly controlled, only a few can percolate to the top.

Please define 'shared equally'. Obviously, one or more people went to the effort of obtaining those resources; is there any reason they should have done so, unless they expect to be compensated for their efforts before any form of sharing takes place? If not, then why should they bother doing so? Especially as some resources are hazardous to obtain, and impose additional risk upon those who seek to obtain them for use?

What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?

One's a scum-sucking bottom dweller.
The other's a fish.

Yeah...that's why everyone in America is getting fat because they are going here and eating this food.It's all right food but it doesn't make me addicted like some people.Does anyone know a food-addicted person?

I would think everyone would qualify as 'food-addicted'; I don't know many people who can go for very long without eating something.

No, just highly improbable. Remember, if it truly is random, then the patterns with meaning are just as likely to occur (1 chance in ...how many?) as the meaningless patterns.

Or, in other words, a random letter producer is just as likely to throw out joshSCH as aaaaaaa, BodoNeE, pAFdOJS, KUMQUAT, or any other set of seven randomly-cased letters: 1 chance in (52)^7. It's just that some of those combinations will have valid meanings.

Dude..hockey owns.Super cool sport really.I know tons of Canadians that get mad when they lose a game...haha.There's more pride in hockey than there is in college basketball and American Football combined.

Does this apply to the field variant, or only to the somewhat literal ice variant?

Hockey is a good sport.It's all the rage in Canada.;)

What, hockey makes Canadians angry?

Honk me again and I put it in park.

"Hello, McDonalds Corporation? I'd like to complain about that last batch of fuel I ordered from you...it seems my car has been gradually getting bigger ever since I started using it."

Dave, which part are we supposed to laugh about?

My guess would be all of it at once. Although I think this one was my favorite line...
"Your assignment: Underline the number 20."

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And the real trick is finding the question...

"How many ways can I stretch my body out of shape?"

@Sneekula:

From what I understand of the scriptures that refer to Armageddon, America really doesn't play a role in it.

And you'd need a Nukilar shield to keep the killer Nu(s) away, of course.

The abbreviation "LOL" first appeared in print in 1973.

Reference, please? (Actually, I'm hoping to look up the original use.)

No, not necessarily everybody. Simply enough people on the other side that they decide it's a bad investment of manpower and stand down. Problem is, that tends to be higher than many people want to admit to. Despite what some people seem to want to think about real war, it's not a case of "We'll be over there by dawn, men, and victorious by tea!" [Note: That's not a quote; it's a loose paraphrase of a certain mindset.]

And exactly how many stories does it contain?

Please point out said snarky witticisms and thinly-veiled ad hominems; I'm having trouble seeing them in his writing.

From what I've seen, any discussion of any kind of scientific or pseudoscientific material on this board will nearly inevitably lead into a comparison with evolution. This is in addition to instances where the issue is brought up in terms of other beliefs, such as the depiction of Mike Huckabee given recently in the Presidential Poll thread by ZZucker.

I recognize that many people here believe in evolution. So, I would like to make a request of you. If you accept that the principles of evolution as generally taught in schools and universities now are true, would you please list the specific evidence that lead you to believe this?

Thank you,
-EnderX

EnderX, please provide evidence that this is not fake.

Instead of evidence, I offer a bit of advice: Give it an Occam Shave, then you tell me.

What this world really needs is one dust powered vehicle. Hehe, I could power it up in my room.

So, in your hypothetical situation, there would only be one dust-powered vehicle and everyone else would still drive normal vehicles?

Or would only the owner of your one DPV be allowed to drive? (Hmmm...dust kicked up as others walk might give fuel savings...)

This Fox News fake has Karl written all over it. He is working for them now.

Before declaring something is a fake, please provide evidence that this is the case in reality, and not merely in your own opinion.

In China a woman gives birth every 2 seconds.

Poor woman!

I don't know; my best guess is that their (the end users) current systems don't have many serial ports on them. All I know is that I've been asked to look into this by my boss.

Anything else?

its just that Carter and Huckabee carry it too far.

Which, if I recall correctly, was exactly the point the newsliberals were making about Ronald Reagan during that period. Your point?

I'm working on a program designed to be used with a set of third-party barcode scanners. These scanners had been in use for some time before I came along, so I don't think I can get the company to change them.

The scanners in question require a serial cable and Comm port in order to download their data to the system; this is done by a program included with the original setup. (Note: I am assuming this; I do not know it for a fact. I base my assumption on the grounds that the help file for the program specifically mentions three or four different types of scanner, whereas we only use the one, and because I cannot find source code anywhere on our development boxes, merely the .exe file.)

I have been asked to look into the possibility of setting it so that our program can read from a USB port, rather than the Comm ports. Given that I can't modify the third-party code, I'm trying to find a way for a USB port to emulate a Comm port. I've seen a few things since I began tracking it down online, but most of what I've looked at involves creating virtual comm port pairs; I do not feel that this is useful to me (though I could be wrong), as I do not need a pair of connected comm ports; I need a single 'fake' port backing into the USB port.

Does anyone know of a …

The idea was good though! The answers so far were interesting. I would buy a ticket to heaven by giving it all to the Catholic Church.

As AD said, you can't buy your way into heaven. The Roman Church wouldn't be able to guarantee your ticket even if you could; from what I've read, they don't guarantee anybody heaven.

What would I do in a situation where I had a great deal of available worth? (Note: A great deal of 'money' wouldn't necessarily be the same thing; consider the duetschmark between the Wars.)

I'd try one of two things, both of which I ocasionally daydream about.

1) Convert as much as possible to gold or silver (one only) and attempt to set up my own currency, just to see how well it did on the markets.

2) Buy a medium-sized region somewhere and see first-hand whether or not the feudal system could work out in the modern age. Although how I'd get people to agree to join in on that...

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Huckabee seems to be a very nice kind person, one whom I'd love to have as a neighbor. But President -- no. We had one president during my lifetime that was a devout Christian (Carter) and he didn't make a very good president either.

I was under the impression that Ronald Reagan was as well; weren't there newsliberals continually asking him about his stance on 'Nuclear Armageddon'? I'd hardly say he was a bad president...

Does someone have a direct link to the text of the Geneva Convention and/or the GC1, GC2, GC3 and GC4 agreements? Those present (myself included) are bandying the thing around, or referring to others bandying it around, but I'm not certain what it actually states; my own earlier statements were drawn from reading the Wikipedia entry on the Convention. (Or, more precisely, the GC3 and GC4 agreements.)

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The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Who exactly is this 'average' person anyway, and how come they run so many tests on him? No wonder he fell asleep; he must be exhausted!

If the government made the choice what are you going to do about it? They are the elephant, you are the mouse. Are you going to argue who is right?

Interesting choice of metaphor...

From what I've seen here (and I could easily be wrong), then yes, if he thinks the government is in the wrong then BrianSmall will argue it with them.

And remember, legend debits (hardly a 'credit' in this case) the elephant with being scared of the mouse.

Technically, the only thing 'on' my computer desk is a glass plate. It was cut to fit the size of the table (They almost got a perfect fit...), so everything else sits on it.

Currently sitting at Posting Shark.
What I want to know, however, is what kind of shark I'm supposed to be.

Dogfish?
Nurse?
Whale?
Hammerhead?
Land?
Goblin?

A white can't be a terrorist? Remember the Oklahoma bombing? The Unabomber? As I understand, several of the latest batch of Muslim terrorists have been White. They recruit folks like that specifically because of that.

Are you indicating that random white guys are perhaps being bribed to serve Muslim interestes? Or are you perhaps referring to individuals such as Suliyaman Al-Lindh (I know I misspelled that), aka 'John Walker Lindh', who have chosen to throw in with them?

As for laws, Constitution gives authority for the Congress to approve treaties. We are members of the Geneva Convention and have numerous other treaties. Besides which, U.S. laws do apply to actions of U.S. citizens. Why don't you think we murder a couple of guys to get the others to talk? Are you saying we can?

It is my understanding (and if I am wrong please correct me) that the Geneva Convention only applies between those who signed it. Since I'm fairly sure that Al Quaeda isn't a signatory, I don't see that any engagement between them and the United States falls under the convention. Besides, how would you qualify them? The manner in which Al Quaeda and other 'insurgents' acts doesn't seem to fit under the 'Prisoners of War' field of GC3, but as combatants, I'm also fairly sure they don't qualify as GC4 civilians.

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What gives? I thought that old McCain was a Republican? He would be old enough to be one.

1 - Age has nothing to do with political and/or ideological views. It's possible to be a young conservative or an old liberal. At least one old saying I've seen indicates it's not wise, but that's a different story.

I'm not going to get the quote perfectly, but it runs something like this: "Anyone under the age of thirty who isn't a liberal has no heart. Anyone over thirty who isn't a conservative has no brain."

I guess I'm heartless; I haven't yet obtained my third decade of life and I am a proud conservative.

2 - McCain is running as a Republican candidate, but his history in office, especially recently, indicates he's of a more 'liberal' mindset, and 'liberal'ism tends to be associated with the Democrats. And for the record, the quotes are because the stuff that proudly parades around under the name 'liberal' today would seem to be a disgrace to the classical definition of the term...at least as far as I understand the two.

McCain is just too blasted old to be President, if elected the chances are very good that he won't live his 4-year term. He should be in a nursing home with lots of pretty nurses not in the WH.

Please forgive me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression you were yourself rather rich in years, AD. Is this not …

I thought I saw a UFO, but it just turned out to be Superman.

I once saw a UFO sitting in a vat at a fast food place. No telling how long it'd been there, really.

Handle up. Items one at a time in the silverware bins, starting over again when I reach the end. Specialty knives, then steak knives, then butterknives, then forks, then spoons. Enough information for you?

>wouldn't it qualify as libel instead?
Libel is written, slander is spoken. But I'm more inclined to treat a forum discussion as a spoken exchange, thus slander is the correct term in my opinion.

According to wikipedia, the difference is in how long the statement persists. Slander doesn't last very long in 'published' form, libel does. I'd presume anything logged on the web to qualify as libel.

No, it's about the stereotype of who/what a lawyer is.

According to the stereotype, Lawyers:

a) manage to get rich, but without any 'real' effort behind it.

b) are, effectively, forced to be dishonest by their profession.

c) are generally not seen as benefiting their fellow man in the same way that, say, a doctor does.

Assuming the accusation to be true (you're accusing him of committing defamation, not his accusation of you being socialist), wouldn't it qualify as libel instead?

Valentine's day is a waste of money BTW..

Not if you're a Hallmark...

You sure it's not resentment at having to be rescued by the British and Americans, not once but twice in quick succession?

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Which "other mode"? Face to rear, face to feet, rear to rear? :-/

Elbow to kneecap.

I can't say for certain in the here and now. However, I would submit that, in all likelihood, the politics of a party in the 'now' are defined as a progression of their politics in the 'then'. And while Orwell's writings were, as I recall, mostly aimed at British liberalism/socialism, and Stalinist socialism thereby, I submit that there is no longer any great difference between the British version then and the current American version. You are, of course, quite free to claim I am wrong; and if you believe I am wrong then I find it unlikely you would choose to say otherwise. I still stand by what I have observed. Perhaps I am not the most observant of men; still, I cannot claim I have seen anything other than what my own eyes have viewed, nor to have heard anything other than what my own ears have caught.

Pseudo-jewish to my ears; it's a bit like the name 'Ezra', of historical importance to pre-christian judaism, and it has the same kind of multi-sound ring as some of the jewish prophets, but I don't think the name itself is actually jewish. I'm willing to be corrected on that, though.