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In the case of money, you almost always want to deal with an atomic value of 1 cent, and you dont care about fractions of cents, but you DO care about losing a penny here or there. In such cases you should use an integer variable that holds the number of cents in the amount. (1 dollar stores as 100). That lets you work with exact integer arithmetic.-mouser (August 16, 2008, 10:13 AM)
). The question someone raised about how often confiscation actually occurs really is relevant (to me at least). If this is one of those theoretical rules that they put in place for really unusual cases where they suspect your laptop is a bomb and it never really happens then that's one thing.. but if this is one of those rules that border guards use when they get in a bad mood that's something else entirely.Regardless of how it starts out, it will end up being both. Face it, as long as Guard X can justify their actions to (Chronically preoccupied) "Boss" Y ... You'll never see that device again...-mouser (August 04, 2008, 05:14 PM)
(hehe) The problem with that manner of construct is it only works well if you're sitting around a coffee table ... in the "Real World" when you're standing in line with an "Average Paycheck" suddenly paying some clown $300 dollars to change a light bulb sounds ... well ... a bit high (now doesn't it).Skimp (avoid really); Paying people for anything I can do myself; Home, Auto, or Appliance repairs. My dad taught me years ago to be (mostly) self sufficient e.g. I can fix damn near anything so I'm not shelling out $$$ to keep my stuff working.Disagree. I think you're better off using that time to do what you do best. If you can earn more in that time, it'll pay for the worker (in economic circles this is known as the law of comparatitive advantage http://en.wikipedia....omparative_advantage)-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2008, 12:52 PM)-CWuestefeld (August 02, 2008, 06:08 PM)
This one I'll give you, because you are 100% correct. My truck was designed for high octane fuel...however when the monthly gas bill heads for the $200 mark concessions have to be made. This is why I pulled the old girl (my scoot) outa mothballs. I had tried altering my driving habits (in the truck) to conserve gas only to find I spent most of the time pissing myself off. On the bike, not only can I go back to traveling at a "brisk pace"... but I find over all I'm much calmer (as it's good to be home...).Side note: I skimp on gas and only get regular for my (truck) Dodge Dakota which has a 5.9 (360ci) engine (avg 10mpg). But I splurge on (my baby) 1987 Harley Davidson FLHTP and get premium only. The scoot will go from 0 to 60 in under 4 sec... & still gets 50+ mpg ...Ya just gota love her...-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2008, 12:52 PM)
If your truck uses regular 87-octane, then by all means use that. Using high-octane fuel in an engine that doesn't require it is absolutely a waste of money. However, if your car (like mine) wants high-octane, you'll get better performance (including better gas mileage) if you use it. You can generally use a lower-octane fuel because the engine management system will sense the early detonation that the low-octane allows, but it handles it by inhibiting any timing advance, which lowers the efficiency of the engine. Of course it depends on the numbers of your specific situation, but you're likely not saving any money this way.
...I'd just like to take a moment to clairify that I was not masturbating in any of the search engine test results mentioned (in my post) above ... and it is/will only be the search engine that I intend to play with...It looks like they have investment and marketing power. We can determine this by seeing amount of hype created around its name and superior skills.True - but they'll need huge amounts of money and time now to overcome this sort of joke/opinion - http://www.theregist.../08/01/cuil_apology/-kartal (July 29, 2008, 11:46 PM)-Dormouse (August 02, 2008, 11:59 AM)
I got an 80 as well (though i didnt get the ruby one wrong, deliberately or otherwise).Being that I've never been good at history, that may explain my getting a 40. *Shrug* ...That and I'm (completely self taught) not formally educated.
It should be noted this is more of a historical quiz with a few stupid questions thrown in for good measure.-mouser (July 29, 2008, 07:03 PM)
missing log entries - cached copies? caching proxy inbetweenLOL - Oh the time I spent on that road ... Problem being The Email sent had to do a series of requests to the server in order to get through (and those were never found). Not to mention that I'm using CDOSYS to drop the (from) site mail directly into the Exchange pickup folder. ...And all the pages in question are set for no cacheing due to their containing dynamic content (Product catagories/pricing/etc.) pulled from a db.-f0dder (July 25, 2008, 08:22 PM)
Unlocker, truly one of my favorites and it works on x64.It works for you?-Stoic Joker (July 25, 2008, 02:16 PM)Does unlocker work on Windows XP 64 or Vista 64? Not yet, I am working on it.I tried it some time ago, and it didn't work on my system (vista 64). Would it be that it was updated and now works? That'd be great-from unlocker's webpage-jgpaiva (July 25, 2008, 02:31 PM)
Nice that you've been able to reproduce - it's such a bizz when you can't, or it's only possible intermittently. So, I guess the trick is to make a request with IE, another with working-FF, and a third with faulting-FF, and then check the server logs. At least that's what I'd do, but I'm no web developer, mind youMe either man, I'm a Network/Server Admin and I prefer to work in C++ on system utilities...I only do the website stuff with a gun to my head.-f0dder (July 25, 2008, 05:43 PM)
A tool I have not used recently, but which I think would also help is the free utility Unlocker which can be found here: http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/Unlocker, truly one of my favorites and it works on x64.-cchian (July 25, 2008, 01:43 PM)
Also, if you get the "device busy, cannot unmount" error, try using the handle tool from sysinternals - it will often show you which program is the sinner. Doesn't always work though, which puzzles me; I'd really like to know what has the device locked in those situations.I've had a Command Prompt do that to me a few times, if it's open on that drive letter with nothing running for awhile.-f0dder (April 13, 2007, 04:43 PM)
