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

@Raymond.It's even worse than that. They even insist that countries hosting the event change the law (www.guardian.co.uk/.../olympics-2012-branding-police-sponsors) to protect their brand.Just out of...

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Also, the five ringed organisation has tried to make it illegal to even use the date:As well as introducing an additional layer of protection around the word "Olympics", the five-rings symbol and the...

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I really think it's lame to need to use names like "You-know-what" to replace the name of a game when your company is not one of their sponsors.

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re: Psychic debugging: Why your IContextMenu::InvokeCommand doesn't get...

> comments should never be closedSome say so.

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@Paul M. Parks: Sorry. That must have been me. Nobody else owns a Microsoft, so it can't have been anyone else.

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Having been on the losing side of "running up the score" in various sports I wish it was viewed as bad sportsmanship outside the USA (particularly in Under 14s field hockey in Canberra, Australia in...

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re: The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or...

I really dislike when people don't know when to use (and, in this case, when *not* to use) semicolon.

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I refuse to believe it's a coincidence that naming taboos are traditionally associated with dark villains. The Prince of Lies, You-Know-Who, He Who Must Not Be Named, the Five Rings Organization,...

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

The Super Bowl should be an Olympic event.  Come at me, bro.

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re: Psychic debugging: Why your IContextMenu::InvokeCommand doesn't get...

[I tried that once, but when you have over a decade of blog posts, it becomes quite unwieldy because each post becomes a product support thread. "Hey, you wrote a blog post about X in 2004. I'm having...

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re: The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or...

Let's assume that security is not a concern. The client is already in the "inner ring" and trusted. The problem is still valid. Which way is the fastest to copy data from the client to the server? One...

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re: Psychic debugging: Why your IContextMenu::InvokeCommand doesn't get...

Nicolás:> why the WPF Toolkit is using an undocumented version?You clearly haven't read Raymond's article that you referenced.  Best not to start with sarcasm when you *know* you don't know the full...

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re: The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or...

@Danny: I think the No Such Agency streaming Taliban hideouts to the Whitehouse is definitely not a case where "security is not a concern".

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@MattThe agency will respond to a question received from white house in my scenario, not streaming data to it. Read again my scenario

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re: The somewhat misguided question of whether MapViewOfFile or...

So, the agency didn't find Bin Laden for 10+ years due to race conditions in their memory sharing code?

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

@MauritsThat is not really true.  While people obviously refer to any important matchup as "the big game", that is not used as a name for the game in the way it is for Cal-Stanford.  The UW-WSU game is...

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

At least in print, Superb Owl works well for me.

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@Mason WheelerThey lost all their credibility a few years back when they held their games, which are purportedly supposed to symbolize the dignity of mankind and the nobility of the human spirit, in...

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You know, I don't really care that much about football, but I went to a sup...er.. Major Sporting Event Party yesterday and hung out with friends, had some great food and drinks, and had a generally...

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Love it!

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