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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 1

GSquared (1/3/2011)
WayneS (1/3/2011)
GSquared (1/3/2011)
Well, except from personal friends (including those already conquered by The Thread), or my wife. Those I answer.
Gus, are you implying that your wife isn't your friend????? 😉 :Whistling:
Friend??
Nah. What we have goes WAY beyond that.
(Whew! Dodged that bullet!) :w00t:

LOL!

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Kit G SSCrazy Points: 2888 More actions · Answer 2

GSquared (1/3/2011)
WayneS (1/3/2011)
GSquared (1/3/2011)
Well, except from personal friends (including those already conquered by The Thread), or my wife. Those I answer.
Gus, are you implying that your wife isn't your friend????? 😉 :Whistling:
Friend??
Nah. What we have goes WAY beyond that.
(Whew! Dodged that bullet!) :w00t:

Just wait until you get home...

-- Kit

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 3

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
Happy New Year! Gods, New Years is a mixed blessing for me. It's also my birthday. This last one was a biggie to me. 35 years old. I expected to be somewhere else at this point in my life. *cracks knuckles* I'z got wurkz ta due.

Happy birthday

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jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 4

Gail, looks like Kinect is getting closer to something useful. We yakked about this a LONG time ago....

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/12/kinect-hack-world-of-warcraft/[/url]

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/01/kinect-designers-to-debut-motion-controller-for-pcs.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

We bought one a few months ago, if I ever get a free moment I'd love to play with this stuff, but doubt that'll happen.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Interesting.

I haven't got a kinect yet (too many other things on the hardware shopping list), but if it becomes possible to use it for PC games it's going to move way up the priority list

Gail Shaw
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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135369 More actions · Answer 6

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
For anyone following the earlier infringment discussion, some sleuthing around SSC finally revealed the blog owner. A brief PM conversation seems to have dealed with that issue.

Good job !

Happy New Year! Gods, New Years is a mixed blessing for me. It's also my birthday. This last one was a biggie to me. 35 years old. I expected to be somewhere else at this point in my life. *cracks knuckles* I'z got wurkz ta due.

at 35 years Cognac is excellent !

Happy birthday.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 7

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
For anyone following the earlier infringment discussion, some sleuthing around SSC finally revealed the blog owner. A brief PM conversation seems to have dealed with that issue.
Happy New Year! Gods, New Years is a mixed blessing for me. It's also my birthday. This last one was a biggie to me. 35 years old. I expected to be somewhere else at this point in my life. *cracks knuckles* I'z got wurkz ta due.

Heh... what mixed blessing is that and what are the alternatives? 😀 Any day spent on this side of the dirt is a good one for me.

Happy Birthday and Happy New Year!

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 8

Brandie Tarvin (1/3/2011)
Quick question for those on LinkedIn. I just received a message over the past two days (two messages actually) asking for advice on performance tuning tools. The messages are so generic that I'm trying to figure out if I know this person or not.
When I google the name, I get all sorts of strange hits. I can't log into LI at the moment to check the profile.
Has anyone else received messages from a Swathi V?

Not at all sure but I believe it may be a fishing tool from someone hoping you'll forget to uncheck the box that allows the receipient to see your email address.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004363 More actions · Answer 9

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
Jack Corbett (1/3/2011)
Glad you found out the owner and go the issue solved.
Happy New Year and Birthday to you as well. I just wish I was 35 again so I could get to where I want to be by 40! Oh wait, first you have to know where you want to be.:w00t:
Heheh, I feel you on that. However, I figured out where I want to be. It's just incredibly ambitious, so I'm loathe to mention it until I'm solidly on my way. My objective is one year, but it will probably take two or three. At some point, I'm going to get lazy and life's going to get in the way a few times.
Oh, and regarding the president bit, I've actually mentally daydreamed about that off and on. Unfortunately I don't think anyone wants to actually vote for the 'End of sunshine party'.
"What's your party's stand, Mr. Nominee?" "I want the American People to stop bending over and letting the politicians blow sunshine up their ***."

Sounds like a winner to me! "Craig for President". What the heck... it can't be any worse than we have right now. I just heard rumor that if we cut the government in half, it would only be back down to 2002 levels.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 10

Jeff Moden (1/3/2011)
Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
Jack Corbett (1/3/2011)
Glad you found out the owner and go the issue solved.
Happy New Year and Birthday to you as well. I just wish I was 35 again so I could get to where I want to be by 40! Oh wait, first you have to know where you want to be.:w00t:
Heheh, I feel you on that. However, I figured out where I want to be. It's just incredibly ambitious, so I'm loathe to mention it until I'm solidly on my way. My objective is one year, but it will probably take two or three. At some point, I'm going to get lazy and life's going to get in the way a few times.
Oh, and regarding the president bit, I've actually mentally daydreamed about that off and on. Unfortunately I don't think anyone wants to actually vote for the 'End of sunshine party'.
"What's your party's stand, Mr. Nominee?" "I want the American People to stop bending over and letting the politicians blow sunshine up their ***."
Sounds like a winner to me! "Craig for President". What the heck... it can't be any worse than we have right now. I just heard rumor that if we cut the government in half, it would only be back down to 2002 levels.

I've toyed with the idea a few times in my mind. I even have a Chief of Staff already selected.

First thing we need to do is throw out all the professional politicians and elect real people (read that as ordinary people, middle class citizens, not the rich and elite who think they know better) to fill their spots. That, of course, will take six years.

Second, get rid of the lobbyists. The only people that should really matter are the citizens that elect their representatives. From there I'll have to leave things open, don't want to give away what I would do from there (yet).

Evil Kraig F SSC Guru Points: 100851 More actions · Answer 11

Lynn Pettis (1/3/2011)
I've toyed with the idea a few times in my mind. I even have a Chief of Staff already selected.

Chief of Staff: Howard Stern in a Donald Duck costume at all public functions.

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Can you think of any BETTER way to make the American People actually listen to an entire presidential press conference, instead of just whatever sound bites are fed to them?

And thanks all for the birthday wishes.

Jeff: The alternative comes from when I was younger and I'd get the birth-mas presents. Nowadays, everyone parties on my birthday... it's just not my party and I usually get to bring my own cake. 😉

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 12

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
Lynn Pettis (1/3/2011)
I've toyed with the idea a few times in my mind. I even have a Chief of Staff already selected.
Chief of Staff: Howard Stern in a Donald Duck costume at all public functions.
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Can you think of any BETTER way to make the American People actually listen to an entire presidential press conference, instead of just whatever sound bites are fed to them?
And thanks all for the birthday wishes.
Jeff: The alternative comes from when I was younger and I'd get the birth-mas presents. Nowadays, everyone parties on my birthday... it's just not my party and I usually get to bring my own cake. 😉

No, he might be Press Secretary. My Chief of Staff is someone who would help keep me focused on what needed to be done, not making sure the people heard what I said instead of 30 second sound bites.

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 13

Jeff Moden (1/3/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (1/3/2011)
Quick question for those on LinkedIn. I just received a message over the past two days (two messages actually) asking for advice on performance tuning tools. The messages are so generic that I'm trying to figure out if I know this person or not.
When I google the name, I get all sorts of strange hits. I can't log into LI at the moment to check the profile.
Has anyone else received messages from a Swathi V?
Not at all sure but I believe it may be a fishing tool from someone hoping you'll forget to uncheck the box that allows the receipient to see your email address.

I was thinking the same thing.

Spammers are discovering LinkedIn. If you do reply, uncheck that checkbox!

It's also a pity how some of the more useful LinkedIn groups are being filled with useless spam "discussions".

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 14

Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
For anyone following the earlier infringment discussion, some sleuthing around SSC finally revealed the blog owner. A brief PM conversation seems to have dealed with that issue.
Happy New Year! Gods, New Years is a mixed blessing for me. It's also my birthday. This last one was a biggie to me. 35 years old. I expected to be somewhere else at this point in my life. *cracks knuckles* I'z got wurkz ta due.

Well done Craig. Wonder how Dave B got on with his? IIRC they were more extreme and obvious plagiarism.

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Dave Ballantyne SSC-Dedicated Points: 33667 More actions · Answer 15

Chris Morris-439714 (1/4/2011)
Craig Farrell (1/3/2011)
For anyone following the earlier infringment discussion, some sleuthing around SSC finally revealed the blog owner. A brief PM conversation seems to have dealed with that issue.
Happy New Year! Gods, New Years is a mixed blessing for me. It's also my birthday. This last one was a biggie to me. 35 years old. I expected to be somewhere else at this point in my life. *cracks knuckles* I'z got wurkz ta due.
Well done Craig. Wonder how Dave B got on with his? IIRC they were more extreme and obvious plagiarism.

No joy on either front, both still there

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