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@JM "Locally they're faster than TCP/IP"They both run equally fast on the same machine. Connecting to localhost doesn't put packets on the network donchaknow. ...I think something that is worth...

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re: The annual sporting event involving a football that dare not speak its...

A more extreme use of the "excessive delay of game" tactic in American football which I have seen used, and which led directly to the Seahawks' defeat in their most recent playoff game:The game is...

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Regarding the other Event That Must Not Be Named, (the one with the five rings to rule them all,) does anyone even care anymore? They lost all their credibility a few years back when they held their...

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> the phrase big game can also refer to the annual match between Stanford University and the University of California at BerkeleyTo be a little more generic: in American college football, the phrase...

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@rich well the first step is not to be elitist snob and dismiss other peoples enjoyment of something that you refuse to understand. After that it becomes a matter of applying the same decision making...

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@Raymond:I know what protocol versions are for, but it seems that my sarcasm has gone unnoticed.I'm trying to find good documentation in order to see if I should use 0.9 or 1.0. I would like to know...

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The restrictions imposed by the event with the rings are excessive and shouldn't be tolerated in any free country. Apparently businesses in the UK that helped construct things to do with the event...

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@Julian: Huh.  Sounds like they learned a thing or two from all that time they spent doing business with the Chinese government. :P

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@Maurits:  I consider "big game" to be more akin to a rivalry game.  Granted many of these are between physically close schools, but there are some good distance rivalries as well (the most obvious...

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I haven't followed them since I don't know them.I started reading the documentation. According to it, Version starts from 0.9. After reading that, the first thing it came to my mind was: what if there...

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@Myria: Nicely put! In fact, *are* there non-development uses for WriteProcessMemory? I can't think of any.

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@Ken Hagan: Let's say that you want to spawn a child process of your same .exe and only want to give it one of your handles.  One solution, though not the best, is to spawn a copy of yourself with...

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One can hardly mention wasting time in sporting events without talking about baseball. This is a game where the ball is usually in play for less than a second at a time, the games last for hours, and...

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@Nicolás.Ferreira: WPF Toolkit is known to be broken. It declared itself to be 1.0 and wrote corrupted records due to an encoding bug. The fact that it declared itself to be 1.0 with no documentation...

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And this is why you shouldn't close comment threads so soon.[That the topic was discussed just a few weeks ago appears to be coincidence. Or are you saying that comments should never be closed? -Raymond]

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I really enjoyed the narrative describing game-delay rules in American-rules football. Thanks for that.However, as far as the "don't allow mention by name" part, I am nearly certain that it is...

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I was once the network administrator for the private elementary school my daughters attended. My favorite phone calls always began, "My Microsoft crashed." Psychic powers, activate!

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"The five-rings organization is particularly hated out here..."Sure. I remember when they harassed the local sporting goods chain out of existence. Man, that made me so mad.But at least that was a...

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> I tend to not bother to make my services work without admin privilegesPlease tell me you're not involved with writing any software I may buy.

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@Steve Wolf: Or maybe Raymond can add tag "Psychic Debugging" as new tag for this blog.

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