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Replied To a Post in Any way to delete attachments?
It works. I can't believe I didn't notice that when I uploaded it. -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
Well, I'm not so picky that I'd be likely to even notice. I was just wondering about the rule (if there was/were one) while I was reading a news article … -
Created Any way to delete attachments?
I posted a sample project for a user by uploading a zipped project folder. After I made the post I thought of a small change. I could edit the post … -
Replied To a Post in change startup form
Sure thing. See attached vb 2010 project. Note, the Hide and Show are optional. It depends on whether or not you want the main form to be visible. I included … -
Replied To a Post in scale method
To be clear, that's vb.net 2008, not vb.net 8. -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
Here is a mistake I see sporadically. Normally you need consistency between the subject and the verb. For example, you would never write "George and Fred is going to the … -
Replied To a Post in Basic calculator
One of the things you wat to avoid is duplicating code. One of the problems you end up with is having inconsistent code. For example, you process button 6 differently … -
Replied To a Post in Favourite TV show?
Yay. Season 3 of Sherlock is finally out. -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
And for those people who claim to have been dead and were "brought back", if you were brought back then you weren't dead. As far as I am concerned there … -
Replied To a Post in change startup form
You can create a boolean settings variable with a name like FirstTime and set it to True. When your app starts, check the value of FirstTime. If it is true … -
Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?
Just done watching a Bruce Willis flic from 1996, Last Man Standing, which was a remake of the 1964 movie, A Fistful of Dollars, which was a remake of the … -
Replied To a Post in Memorable Quotations
When it comes to serfdom, resistance is feudal. -
Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!
A local columnist, Doug Spiers (a local version of Dave Barry) as part of a list of OUT and IN today listed the following (for American readers please substitute **Congress** … -
Replied To a Post in Happy Pongal
Hard to imagine someone celebrating a harvest festival while I'm looking out my window at three feet of snow but have a great time. I had a look at the … -
Replied To a Post in Windows "Threshhold" a possibility?
Microsoft to reveal Windows 'Threshold' plans in April, says [report](http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57617090-75/microsoft-to-reveal-windows-threshold-plans-in-april-says-report/) -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
If you check the wikipedia article on Piet Hein you will see that the Consolation Grook was actually an allegory for freedon (one glove) and patriotism (the other glove) during … -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
>Where are examples 4 and 5??? Autonumber got me. It's fixed now. -
Replied To a Post in Memorable Quotations
He gave the English translation. Same thing. -
Replied To a Post in Christmas is coming
And only [346 shopping days left](http://www.xmasclock.com/) -
Gave Reputation to mike_2000_17 in Would you like to live for 1000 years?
> That also means all you young folks would never get jobs because there were so many old people still working. If the retirement age was 950, then you would … -
Gave Reputation to sneekula in Would you like to live for 1000 years?
Old folks are just a drag on society. Putting up with them with about 25 years after retirement is generous enough. Making this 925 years would be insane. They are … -
Replied To a Post in Would you like to live for 1000 years?
@sneekula I've been retired since 2008. I saved for my retirement by paying into 1. company pension plan 1. Canada Pension Plan 1. investments/bank accounts 1. RRSP (registered retirement saving … -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
> Technically me can be correct as well : > > The gift was for him and me. > > He and I were given a gift. If you want … -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
Wouldn't it make more sense to spell it "fonetik"? -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
We have one street named McGillivray which for some unfathomable reason people pronounce as muh-gill-ver-ee. -
Edited VB6.0 and SQL Database
sir i am using VB6.0 POS software, i want to know the source code of the software. Regards! Khawar -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
Here in Winnipeg I am always correcting people on street names. With a large French population (St. Boniface) we have many French street names that are horribly mispronounced. Des Meurons … -
Edited My USB keyboard will not work
A few months ago my rabbit chewed the wire. I bought a plug and play usb keyboard and it didn't work. Thinking it was a malfunction of the keyboard I … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
>Defining things as perceptions of them doesn't make any sense. In some cases it does. We consider things like shape, hardness, etc. to be properties of an object. The result … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
Either your perception of probability is incorrect or you are just misstating the problem. The probability of rolling a 6 is not 1 or 0. That is not how probabilities … -
Replied To a Post in Bad Grammar
I've always liked "glid" as a past tense of glide. Why not? Slid is the past tense of slide and they are almost the same word. I also like "gription" … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
[here's one link](https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/d5d3dc850933) -
Replied To a Post in I need a good keylogger software - help
Keyloggers may have legitimate purposes, but mostly they are used for illegal or unethical reasons so I suspect you will get no help here, especially since you have not said … -
Gave Reputation to Ketsuekiame in New Life after Death Theories
Here's something for you deceptikon. Relating to evolution, life and consciousness. What is the purpose of death? Is it an evolutionary trait? If so, why? What is the point of … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
Death doesn't have a point. Things just wear out. Evolution doesn't have a point. Evolution is just a process that occurs (mostly) as a result of random mutations. Life doesn't … -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
From Wikipedia: >Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danish scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning … -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
One of my favourite poets is Piet Hein. Are you familiar with Grooks? -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
A renowned atheist, Isaac Asimov, once said “There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell or eternal boredom in Heaven.” -
Replied To a Post in How to generate thumbnails which preserve the aspect ratio
Nice to hear it works well on a fast PC. I'll have to get me one. Mine is a 2008 Dell Inspiron 1720. Peppy at the time but a little … -
Replied To a Post in How to generate thumbnails which preserve the aspect ratio
What would be the point of doing that? -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
We talk about things we can't prove all the time. If I say "Shawshank Redemption" is the greatest movie of all time there is no way to prove that because … -
Replied To a Post in How to generate thumbnails which preserve the aspect ratio
The problem is that the Windows Explorer browser doesn't do what I want. My photos are in several dozen nested folders and each photo is named as yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm tag … -
Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?
>Did you have to crank the handle too and direct the trumpet-thingy? Nope. we had 'lecticity back then (and not just the kind you got from rubbing the cat) and … -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
"No amount of belief establishes a fact" - James Randi @otengkwaku The good feeling we get (well, at least most of us, I hope) when we do good is a … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
> If you believe evolution then you must also believe that at some time some human's parents were non-human. That's not quite the same thing. If you believe in the … -
Replied To a Post in GET DATA FROM MYSQL TO TEXTBOX
try dr1.Item("perfevalID").Value and if that doesn't work then have a look at the examples [here](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/445801/use-parameterized-queries-to-avoid-sql-injection-attacks). But first make sure that the query actually returns data. If there are no matching … -
Replied To a Post in Windows "Threshhold" a possibility?
When I bought my Dell laptop (2008) it came with Vista (crap) and when Windows 7 (not crap) was released I had to pay for the upgrade. I see the … -
Replied To a Post in Thoughts, Poetry and Much More...
In my opinion (and I stress the word, opinion), there is no heaven or hell except that which we create here on Earth while we are alive. I do not … -
Replied To a Post in New Life after Death Theories
As deciptikon points out, that is an hypothesis rather than a theory. In science, a hyopothesis is formed after making observations to try to explain a phenomenon. A proper hypothesis … -
Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?
Believe it or not, I even listened to Lone Ranger episodes on old 78 records. Although the only thing I can recall about it is that they used (frequently) a …
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