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The title is essentially my question. I have heard the weapon called that before, but i am curious as to both the why, and as to the origin of this term and the concept of the weapon.
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A Scythe is a 2d4 damage weapon.
A brutal weapon asks you to reroll damage dice that are equal or lower in number to the weapon's brutal rating.
So a Brutal 3 Scythe automatically deals 8 damage on a hit. (As each d4 is rerolled until a 4 appears)
Make it Vorpal (L30 enchantment)
And your Brutal 3 Vorpal Scythe does infinite damage on every hit.
So every hit is an auto kill (barring any defensive funkyness) and so is a weapon worth of being weilded by Death
Alternately, it may be a reference to the weapon carried by the protagonist of the computer game, Dante's Inferno.

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The 6 Most WTF Special Edition Comics Ever Released
#1. Super-Dictionary
Oh yes.
Oh boy. Ooohhh boy. Oh man. Sorry. We're just so, so excited that we get to share the Super Dictionary with you. Oh boy.
The Super Dictionary is a full length dictionary released by Warner Educational Services in 1978 that was chock full of ridiculous situations, inappropriate innuendos and full on racism. If any kid ever actually learned anything from this book, we can't imagine what it could have been other than awful.
Ah, the ghost of Internet memes past.
But in the interest of continued learning we have gone through the entire dictionary and discovered that even though there are no lessons or logic anywhere in sight, there certainly are recurring themes. Like the fact that:
Robin is Useless
Batman wanted Robin's death to look like an accident. Which is why he gave the keys to a prepubescent boy. He wanted his sidekick to die so he put him behind the wheel of a dangerous, experimental car. 'Experimental' means the car had no brakes.
No one in the Bat-Family likes to mention the day that the first Robin died in a terrible rubber car accident because Batman foolishly trusted him with the keys. In fairness to Robin, he's fucking twelve years old.
Sure Robin, whatever you say. It's the ball. It has absolutely nothing to do with you sticking your leg out and standing on your toes whenever you shoot.
We are going to talk like this. We have been talking like this all day. Our families are talking about locking us up.
"Well, it's a good thing you're a god damned superhero, then, isn't it? Just get the hell up, Robin."
We love that Batman doesn't even assume for a second that one of his many villains attacked Robin. He knows without a single doubt that Robin somehow hurt himself again and needs help getting home alone. "Did you trip over your own feet when you accidentally bit your tongue, Robin? Did you wet yourself when it happened? Is that- Yes? Okay, I'll have Alfred tuck you into bed while I go out and fight the mafia; you've had a big day already."
Joker's face here is more unsettling than anything Heath Ledger could ever hope to do.
"I don't actually understand how the super villain/super hero dichotomy works; will you please let me go and then let me arrest you?"
Green Characters Are Complete Wusses
There are only two green characters in the DC universe, Green Arrow and Green Lantern, but surprisingly enough their color choice isn't their only similarity. They also both suffer from intense emotional disturbances set off by basically nothing at all.
Green Lantern, the magic, semi-omnipotent superhero in charge of protecting the entire Earth has ordered that boy not to pick that flower. Well, there's gotta be a good reason. Why? It's evil, it's rare, it's got a thorn, what? Turns out he can't pick it because that's Green Lantern's flower, that's why, and he is enjoying the shit out of it!
"Fuck you, kid!"
But Green Lantern doesn't JUST steal flowers from white-eyed children with no explanation...
"Look at your eyes, you- Jesus, Hal, you're wasted."
... he's also a huge baby. Or drunk, or exhausted, or something. He's going to start crying if someone doesn't get him into a bed soon, is our point.
Really? He said "go back to the other toads in the pond?" Because it certainly looked like he said "AAAAHHHH! AAAAHHHH GET OFF ME! You may be on one of the other superheroes, but not me. Will you get off me?"
And then Green Arrow murdered the child. He committed murder and is now a murderer.
It's almost as if Green Arrow and Green Lantern are having a competition about who can have the biggest over-reaction to the most insignificant thing.
It's Been a Tough Time for Super-villains
When picturing a traditional super-villain scheme, most of us think of big plots like blotting out the sun or blowing up the Pentagon or carving your name into the moon. But what the Super-Dictionary shows us is that sometimes super villains can just be downright petty.
Like the Penguin here, sure he can afford to pay for that shovel, it would probably even be less of a hassle if he did. But it's the principles of super-villainy that are important here and those principles clearly state that super-villains don't pay for shit. Ever. Case closed.
What are you even going to do with that, Joker? This cannot be the most efficient way to get groceries.
The Penguin desperately needs a hobby. He needs something to occupy his time. Maybe if The Penguin had a hobby or some friends, he wouldn't be such an asshole.
"Some will be apple. The apple will BURN YOU, BATMAN."
Super-villainy rule #4: always explain your schemes in as much detail as humanly possible to your arch-nemesis.
In the process of sourcing, cropping and resizing this, we still haven't figured this out.
Was that what Luthor was always after? Painting Superman? Where's the entry where Luthor draws a dick on his face?
Superman and Lois Lane are Batshit Insane
Lois and Superman have always had a complicated relationship but the Super-Dictionary reveals to us some surprising facts about their personal lives and how incredibly unhealthy and abusive their relationship really was.
Many boxes contain a woman's head. This is what we have learned. This is why Se7en was so underwhelming.
We don't know if this is a punishment or part of some weird, sexual role play these two are into, but we don't like it. Perry White doesn't seem to, either, while Clark just glares at her with an expression that screams "No! You keep that on. You wear it until you learn."
"Sure, Superman, we figured it was something like that, but remember you're a superhero and people are dying everywhere all the time." Also, we have to point out that one of the distinguishing factors of a teaspoon is that, of the major measuring spoons, (tea and table), it is the smaller of the two. When you're trying to teach children what words and objects are, describing a teaspoon as "giant" is just irresponsible dictionary work.
Oh domestic violence, you scamp.
What kind of arrangement is this? Lois will only tell Superman where he's going after he decides how he wants to get there? And she'll beat him if he doesn't tell her? We don't even know how she benefits from that plan. What did Superman do that made Lois so crazy?
"That is why we are standing in her room, staring."
Oh, OK, sure, yeah, that'd do it.
Suddenly, Snakehands!
There is no way that this is the clearest way to teach children what "strange" is. No. No way.
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Whether because of their consumption of hip-hop, sagging or their so-called addiction to television programs like Basketball Wives, contemporary Black youth are often chastised for squandering the political and social gains bequeathed them by the Civil Rights generation. A new study suggest though, that contrary to popular belief, Black youth are on the cutting edge of new forms of participatory politics that may have the capacity to broaden their impact on traditional political practices.
Black political scientist Cathy Cohen (University of Chicago) and Joseph Kahne of Mills College are the lead researchers in the new report, "Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action" in which a team of researchers surveyed nearly 3,000 youth between the ages of 15-25 about their use of social media and their engagement in participatory politics. The report is part of Youth and Participatory Politics project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
The authors describe participatory politics as "acts that are interactive, peer-based, not guided by deference to elites or formal institutions, and meant to address issues of public concern." Though participatory politics are not solely defined by forms of social media and digital technology, the authors note that social media allows youth to access and mobilize large networks, to "amplify" issues of concern to them, particularly with regards to news coverage, and to remix political content to fit the taste and consumption habits of younger audiences.
In the most traditional sense, social media is premised on the animating of social and political networks. The Greensboro Sit-In of February 1, 1960 and the subsequent "viral" explosion of sit-ins as a political strategy throughout the 1960s is a great example of how such networks can work. However, contemporary social media is unmatched in the speed in which those networks can be energized and in its ability to counter "official" narratives.
The recent shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman is only the latest illustration of the ways that social media can literally raise a nation of hood-wearing citizens to consciousness. Despite criticisms that social media represents a form of "armchair activism" that can not replace traditional on-the-ground organizing, the Trayvon Martin case set in motion a series of political activities that not only raised awareness about the social profiling of men and boys of color, but also the increasing popularity of "Shoot First" laws (aka "Stand Your Ground") around the country.
Because of the widespread awareness of the circumstances of Martin's shooting, the organization Color of Change mobilized via on-line petitions—a 19th century form of protest introduced to the digital era—to press major corporations to withdraw their support of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the entity largely responsible for pushing "Shoot First" laws (and also, voter suppression laws) to state legislators. Months after Martin's death, twenty companies had agreed to break ties with ALEC, including McDonald's and Wal-Mart. As Cohen and Kahne note, "A turn to new media is not a turn away from offline activity. Rather, it is essential to recognize and highlight the integration of these domains in the lives of young people."
Many of the most visible forms on social media activism in recent years have involved the lives of Black youth.
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It is not lost on some, that many of the most visible forms on social media activism in recent years have involved the lives of Black youth, from the Jena 6, the police shooting death of Oscar Grant, and Martin's killing (though one would be hard pressed to think of similar mobilizations around issues dealing with Black women and girls). Yet, the popular belief is that Black and Latino/a youth primarily engage new media largely for entertainment and daily communication purposes.
Twitter, for example, often becomes the host site for the communal viewing of reality television shows such as Love and Hip-Hop and Basketball Wives, and though the series are intensely problematic—a Change.org petition to boycott Basketball Wives has generated over 30, 000 signatures—the communal viewing aspect often offers young viewers the opportunity to engage others about what is acceptable, and far too often, "respectable" behavior among Black women and girls.
Yet Cohen and Kahne challenge our thinking about the impact of the uses of social media by Black youth, arguing instead that their ever developing and increasingly sophisticated uses of social media—which social media providers often seek to mimic—serves as a training ground for using social media in political contexts.
The authors readily admit that Black youth are more likely than their racial peers to engage in "friendship driven activity" like sharing links, updating statuses and using sites like Twitter as a form of instant messaging, but are also more likely to offer assistance to those within their networks (an example of fictive kin), create their own media (often in response to their misrepresentation in mainstream media), and speak back to existing media, like the various reality TV offerings found on Viacom's VH-1 network. As Cohen and Kahne write, "young people's repeated participation in these


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Sheriff Boston Hensley says the Home Sweet Home consignment store on North Dixie Highway in Bonnieville was robbed Thursday.
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What is the source for the prohibition against Nivul Peh (using foul language)? Is it Biblical? Rabbinic? "Asmachta" (based on a principle derived from the Torah but ultimately not considered a Biblical mandate, ie., not a Mitzvah)? And based on the answer to the above, how severe is the prohibition (when can it be overridden, what, if anything, is the penalty, etc.)?
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As @GershonGold pointed out, the Talmud (Shabbos 33a) derives from here that nivul peh is a very bad thing. It would seem strange that a Prophet would be decrying a certain behavior, especially in such terms, if it only went against a decree of the rabbinic courts, and not something defined as wrong by God himself. If we can't find an allusion to the wrongfulness of nivul peh in the Torah (i.e. the Pentateuch) then we should look harder. From textual context alone I don't think it makes sense to equate this with lighting Chanuka candles or muktza.
One suggestion: The Rambam understands the concept of refining ones character to be included in והלכת בדרכיו - the obligation to walk in the ways of God. I'd assume this could fall under that.
Yerushalmi Terumoth (ch. 1):
ולא יראה בך ערות דבר (דברים כג): ערות דיבור זה - ניבול - פה
Also, see Mesilat Yesharim (ch. 11) about the severity of this sin, where he brings this and other sources.
שבת לג ע"א says that due to the sin of Nivul Peh many Tzaros and bad Gezeiros happen and young people pass away. So I guess it is Rabbinic in nature.


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6 WWI Fighter Pilots Whose Balls Deserve Their Own Monument
We usually think of fighter pilots as kick ass cowboys of the sky, living out our video game fantasies and handing out bitchin' nicknames all day long. But today's fighter pilots have nothing on the first of their kind -- the guys who appeared in the first world war when airplanes themselves were new and experimental.
That is, instead of being surrounded by huge, sturdy metal planes with state-of-the-art avionics, these guys sat in rickety frames of plywood wrapped in flammable fabric, next to large tanks of highly combustible fuel. Then they took to the skies and tried to kill each other.
So let's take a moment to salute...
#6. Sir David Grahame Donald
Right off the bat, you're going to call bullshit on this story. We weren't there, all we can say is that the pilot himself spent 55 years insisting it was true.
Sir Grahame Donald started out like a lot of RAF pilots: young, brave and parachute-less. Which is often a problem when you're flying a machine held together by twine and good intentions. The official reason why the Allied forces didn't issue parachutes to pilots was not that they hadn't been invented yet, because they totally had, but that they feared pilots would abandon their planes as soon as they were hit rather than try to save them.
"It's not that the planes are worth more than your life, but...well, they are."
So with that in mind, Donald was 6,000 feet in the air when he discovered that his safety belt wasn't of the highest quality. Specifically, he discovered this tiny fact as he was hanging upside down in the middle of a looping maneuver and the belt snapped. Donald fell nearly 2,000 feet before BAM!
... He landed on the top wing of his own goddamned airplane, which had continued on its loop without him.
Which is not a situation they teach you how to handle in pilot school. Probably. None of us are pilots.
Grahame Donald was now frantically holding on to the edge of the wing, trying to stop himself from slipping into a whirling propeller while his plane hurtled toward the ground at 140 mph. His first attempt to reach his joystick sent the plane into a violent spin that nearly flung him off. Finally, he was able to hook the stick with his foot and bring the plane back under control, eventually slipping back into the cockpit with a whole 800 feet to spare. In a later interview, the pilot took the whole experience in stride:
"The first 2,000 feet passed very quickly and terra firma looked damnably 'firma'. As I fell I began to hear my faithful little Camel somewhere nearby. Suddenly I fell back onto her."
Artist's representation.
You know what? The man is a knight, and we're taking his word for it. Even though we haven't even been able to replicate that stunt in the Grand Theft Auto universe.
#5. Billy Bishop
It took Billy Bishop less than two weeks in the Air Force to qualify as an ace (awarded for five or more enemy planes shot down), and he quickly gained a reputation as a fierce killing machine, knocking Germans out of the sky on such a regular basis that they nicknamed him Hell's Handmaiden. Now would be a good time to pause and contemplate exactly how much of a badass you have to be when Germans consider you scary.
It is clinically impossible to not look badass from the cockpit of a fighter plane.
Bishop's favorite method of attack was to play air chicken with his opponent. Air chicken is just like regular chicken, the difference being that instead of two small-town farm boys driving at each other in their daddies' tractors, it was two planes heading toward each other at a combined speed of nearly 300 mph. While pouring machine gun fire into each other's aircraft. And instead of getting branded "chicken," the loser died in a cascading hellish fireball.
See, here's Bishop without the plane. Way less badass.
After one jaunt, Bishop's mechanic counted over 200 bullet holes in his plane. And considering that his plane was just under 20 feet in length, that averages out to about 10 bullets per foot. That Bishop used this method not just once but in an estimated 100 confrontations is a testament to his sheer ballsiness.
Not to mention the fact that he got through the war without so much as a scratch, which seems to point to some sort of pact with Satan. Especially since Bishop ended the war with a mind-boggling total of 72 victories.
Which is 71 aircraft more than anyone at Cracked has managed to bring down. Apparently there's a reason they ask you to turn your cell phone off.
#4. Charles Nungesser
Frenchman Charles Nungesser was a character straight out of a Hemingway novel. Before the war he was an amateur boxer, race car driver and pilot. During the war he managed to score 45 victories between drinking and banging everything he could get his hands on in Paris. He even found time to regularly nail the legendary spy Mata Hari (well aware of her activities, he cheerfully fed her bullshit stories that she dutifully reported back to her German controllers).
She was hypnotized by his glittering chest.
His list of war time injuries reads like a recitation of everything that could go wrong on a body, ever, including but not limited to a skull fracture, a brain concussion, fractures of the upper and lower jaw, dislocation of both knees, bullet wounds in the mouth and ear AND SO ON.
So one day a German plane came flying low over Nungesser's airfield and challenged him to single combat at a specific time and place the next day. Despite his friends' attempts to point out the whole Germans + War = Dicks equation to him, Nungesser was unable to resist the challenge and duly set off to meet the enemy.
Note the skull and crossbones wearing a steak-hat and twirling canes.
It turned out his friends were right. The moment Nungesser reached the designated rendezvous, six German fighter planes came swooping out of the clouds in a coordinated attack.
Nungesser responded to this shocking turn of events by blowing one of the German planes out of the sky. Then another.
Getting cocky works.
At this point, with the odds whittled down to a much more reasonable 4-1, he broke off the engagement, presumably to run home and pick up more bullets. The remaining four Germans, no doubt in a state of shock and feeling like right dicks, simply watched him go.
A badass to the very end, Nungesser survived the war only to disappear mysteriously, presumably lost at sea as he attempted to fly from France to America just two weeks before Charles Lindbergh accomplished the feat traveling in the opposite direction.
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We want to know what you think about Healthier School Lunches. Be sure to vote in our poll.
School lunch, most children dread having to eat what's put on their plate but not this group.
"It's pretty good everyday," says 5th grader Brody Barnett.
"It was good," says 3rd grader Jayvia Carter.
"They're good," says another 5th grader.
But not only are these colorful lunches good for the taste buds, they are more nutritious.
Students are given more healthy options, making it mandatory for students to choose a vegetable and a fruit which these students also love.
"I like it because I do better, in school and I'm healthy," says 3rd grader Jayvia Carter.
"Because their healthy foods, so you can be strong and run faster," says 4th grader Jennifer May.
Not only that, but students say that a healthy meal will help them perform better in the classroom.
"With me I loving reading so, it helps me just stay focused and read a lot," says 5th grader Brody Barnett.
And school nutritionist Marie Payne says that is exactly the goal of a more nutritious meal.
"The purpose of this is, is to make sure students receive their fruits and vegetables everyday," says Marie Payne.
Along with these healthy meal options is a chance for students to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
"They'll be able to fight off different diseases, preventable disease like diabetes, heart disease, and a lot of that is going to be attributed to overweight and obesity," says Marie Payne.
A problem that school systems in the wiregrass the nation want to change about our children.
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FORT HOOD (October 19, 2012)--Friday marked the opening of Hood Stadium on post at Fort Hood.
The multi-million dollar complex will host its first high school football game Friday night between and Harker Heights and Shoemaker high schools.
The new Hood Stadium seats 5,500 in its bleacher section on the west side of the field.
Killeen ISD officials said Leo Buckley Stadium in Killeen seats 6,600 people, but said they are confident that there won't be a problem with seating at Hood Stadium.
Fort Hood Director of Public Works Brian Dosa said officials chose to put all the seating on one side of the field so that fans could have a better view from a higher perspective and the press box could also be in a better location.
KISD Superintendent Robert Muller said the district does want to continue the partnership with Fort Hood and could consider working to get additional seating on the other side of the field.
While the football field was completed, crews are still working on four softball fields and a stage for entertainment events.
There is a parking lot with 1,000 spaces, and overflow parking has been made available in the nearby Clear Creek Exchange and Community Events Center parking lots.
Those attending Friday's football game between Harker Heights and Shoemaker high schools will need to follow Fort Hood procedures.
Spectators driving privately owned vehicles will need to enter through the Clear Creek Gate and have official identification.
An adult may vouch for anyone younger than 18.
All non-privately-owned vehicles should enter through the Clarke Road Gate and will also need proper identification.
Concealed handguns are not allowed on post and spectators will only be allowed to drive to and from the game site.
Drivers will not be allowed to drop off at the stadium, only at the Fort Hood Commissary on Clear Creek Road, a Fort Hood spokesperson said.
A KISD school bus will offer transportation to and from the game at the commissary parking lot every 15 minutes before, during and after the game.
The game is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Hood Stadium.


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Beer28 wrote:VB is nice for people starting out. I started programming windows on VB5, though I had done programming on other systems before that.
If it weren't for VB, I wouldn't be able to code C/C++ on linux with the intel compiler today. Thanks VB.
Manip, I hate to say this, but I could not disagree with you more.
I started programming in GW-BASIC. I worked my way up via QuickBASIC 2.0, QuickBASIC 4.5, Visual Basic 3.0, 4.0 (both 16 and 32-bit editions), 5.0, 6.0, .Net 2002 and now 2003 (and partly 2005). I have worked professionally (i.e. for a job) with VB6 and VB.NET.
I think VB.NET is the greatest thing to happen to VB ever. Making VB truly object oriented was utter genious. I find that using the Object Oriented paradigm I can do what I need to do much faster and more reliably than in VB6. I haven't used VB6 anymore for years now, and I say good riddance.
For one thing you mention that certain things don't work anymore (Left() etc.) but that's simply not true. Those things all still work. I can still do Trim(somestring) or go the .Net way and do somestring.Trim(). I can do MsgBox("hello") or MessageBox.Show("hello"). I can do Val(somestring) or Convert.ToInt32(somestring). I can do vbCrLf or ControlChars.CrLf. All those global functions that VB6 used are still there, in the Microsoft.VisualBasic assembly.
You say Thing.NetFunction() is the C++ way. It's not. The people who invented C++ did not invent OO.
Thing.NetFunction() is the OO way of doing things, and Object Orientation is simply a better way of doing things. If NetFunction is an operation on Thing's class, it makes more sense to have it as a member than as a global function.
And you can still call Win32 functions in VB.NET. In fact, the new Declare syntax is richer, and with <DllImport> you have even more control over what happens. With the Marshal class you can manipulate pointers and handles and all kinds of things in ways that are near impossible to do in VB6.
And many, many more things that took serious API hacking in VB6 are just plain possible in VB.NET. For instance overriding a forms WindowProc, which in VB6 isn't possible without some really wacky stuff, and in VB.NET takes overriding the base classes WndProc.
What if you want to extend an existing control in VB6? It leads to unnatural solutions because VB6 has no inheritance.
To make a list like yours:
VB.NET: Whenever I do anything where I have the freedom of choosing the environment myself, it's always VB.NET. Whether its a quick 10 line program I need or a large multi-component application.
C#: I only use it to do really wacky InterOp stuff. Marshal is nice, but not very readable, so in some cases I prefer unsafe code. In this case 99% of the time the C# code will be in an assembly that I call from VB.NET.
Managed C++: Only when Declaring all the functions and structs I need for InterOp becomes more work than the rest of the program. Also called from VB.NET code.
C++: I used to use it quite extensively, but nowadays I only use it when the make me at Uni and for non-Windows development. I still think, from a language design perspective, this is the most interesting language I know.
Java: use it sometimes, but not real often.
VBScript: can't remember the last time I used it.
JScript: client-side HTML scripts.
VB6: Don't use it anymore.
I'd go so far as saying that VB.NET is freedom, and that VB6 only allows you to do what Microsoft wants you to do.
If you claim otherwise, I dare you to write a Console Application in VB6.
Sven Groot wrote:If you claim otherwise, I dare you to write a Console Application in VB6.
I know writing console apps in VB6 can be done, just not without some serious weird stuff. That was my point.
I'm not bashing VB6 per se, as said I spent years with it being my #1 programming environment. It's just that, imho, it pales next to VB.NET.
And I actually like VB syntax. Especially the fact that it doesn't use curly braces. Not that I have anything against curly braces, I just like End If better. But hey, I'm just weird like that.
My very first program ever:
10 PRINT "Yesterday I didn't know what a program was."
20 PRINT "Today I'm a programmer."
Why does it always have to be a man thing to get distracted by appearences and why don't women make comments on how Scoble's warm voice make them weak in the knees?
Keep on the good work.
Everything the VB writes in managed code is in VB. This includes the following Whidbey features:
* The project designer (that cool thing that puts your property pages in the main window)
* The settings and resource editors
* All the property pages for managed languages
* ClickOnce support in Visual Studio
VB rules!
What I loved about vb6 was that it was easy to get stuff put together to do easy things. What I hated hated HATED was having to do anything to do with the API. it screamed "HACK" to me because you were going outside of the bounds of what VB could do. It
required encyclopaedic knowledge of the API, or hours searching for the right thing - neither of which appealed to me.
Now VB.NET does away with that I am a happy man. Not only that but I am a better programmer as I now use real OO methods, patterns & practices.
I think the danger of people moving from vb6 to vb.net is that it is almost too easy to carry on doing things in the same way you always did. I would encourage anyone moving from Vb6 to .net to take some time to learn the differences, rather than take the easier route and learn the similarities.
I had the same problem, until one day I was messing around with the settings in WMP and discovered that my bandwidth wasn't set correctly. Fixed that, and the buffering has been smooth ever since.mikestu wrote:For the love of God, someone please upgrade this server. You see about five seconds of video, then it has to stop and buffer more content....then you get another five seconds, etc. I'm on a corporate LAN that has a pretty fast connection too. I guess I'll have to just always download the videos instead... so much for the great Windows Media 9...geez...
class MyString
string _myString;
public MyString(string myString)
_myString = myString;
public static implicit operator string(MyString s)
return s.ToString();
public override string ToString()
return _myString;
class Class1
static void Main(string[] args)
MyString s = new MyString("Hello World");
Hooah! Im lovin you style WayneBWayneB wrote:"VB is for beginners...yada, yada, yada."
Tell you what. Show me your C/C++/MFC/ATL/WTL code for even a simple data-entry form and I'll show you why VB isn't for beginners.
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Lane Carver Weldon, 8, of Loganville, Ga., passed away suddenly on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Funeral Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in the Loganville Chapel of Tim Stewart Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Corinth Memorial Gardens.
Lane was born on January 8, 2005 to Shawn Patrick Weldon and Kellie Jean Agren Weldon. He was a second grade student at Bay Creek Elementary School, and loved being outdoors. Lane loved fishing, hunting, shooting, chasing squirrels and playing sports.
In addition to his parents, Lane is survived by his sister: Jordan Weldon; Brother: Brodey Weldon; Sister: Paisley Weldon, all of Loganville, Ga.; Grandparents: Tom & Lu Ann Weldon, Amarillo, Texas; Robert & Christina Agren, Orange Beach, Ala.; Great Grandparents: Pat Weldon, Amarillo, Texas; Norma Jean Johnson, Donnellson, Iowa; Virginia Hickok and Curt Whitehall, New Windsor; Many Family and Friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Weldon Family, c/o Tim Stewart Funeral Home, P.O. Box 65, Loganville, GA 30052.
The Family received friends from 5 - 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at the Tim Stewart Funeral Home, 670 Tom Brewer Road, Loganville, Georgia 30052. 770-466- 1544. Please sign the online guest registry at www.stewartfh.com
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