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Keith Barrow wrote: The OP had to paste the question several times to get around it.
He really only had to post it once. The original question is over 30 chars.
Keith Barrow wrote: Do the benefits of the limits outweigh the costs?
I'd say so. We want to encourage descriptive questions. 30 characters is a pretty low margin - though there may be some rare, legitimate cases.
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Thiru Thirunavukarasu wrote: there may be some rare, legitimate cases
In which case, they can just add something like "thanks in advance".
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Need Porsche. Thanks in advance.
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yes, it fits.
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No it wasn't! The question was edited from:
what is [Serilizable]
== 21 Characters.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter.
Pete o'Hanlon: If it wasn't insulting tools, I'd say you were dumber than a bag of spanners.
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Same guy is posting similar questions in the Silverlight forum under different aliases).
Help!!
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http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?fid=1159&tid=3413521[^]
The post by "RogelioP / BASIC-Pascal-C-Logo Spoken Here" with his three line name has the posty type icon a full line below the subject. At first glance it looks like there's a subjectless post immediately below his.
Edit: FF3.5.3
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Now I know why John Simmons post subject looks different.
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I know this stuff comes from sponsors, and there m ight be a bit of politics involved, but...
I appreciate the software, but I really have no use for most of it. (Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly gonna download it. )
My employer doesn't use any of it (in fact, I've never had an employer that used any of it), and it feels kinda strange to include (or consider including) the DDLs in CP articles. In other words, there's no real incentive to actually use any of it.
What are the chances of getting Microsoft to provide things like a MSDN subscription (the $1199 one), the Expression Pro subscription, Windows 7 Ultimate, Visual Studio, Expression Suite, MS Office, or something like that?
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Thanks for brining this topic up. I almost forgot about mentioning it. When i won the Best ASP.NET article competition some time back, i got licences of few thrid party controls for an year. It was of no use to me and got wasted. Those controls were not used in my projects and i had hardly downloaded all.
I am sure CP must had recieved such response earlier too. It's just that including something more generic might be more useful and encouraging.
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We'll certainly ask, but we can only offer what is offered. We're not trying to push any of the prizes and there are no hidden agendas with them. They are simply offers from companies kind enough to donate the product as a chance to say thank you.
When we have the resources we do try and hold comps with special prizes (eg laptops, Zunes, copies of Win7 etc) but they take a little more persuasion (or just cold hard cash).
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Maybe we need a CPBay so you can trade prizes with other members, or swap them for a CP mug, some rep points, or something.
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Or the ability to redeem prizes for reputation points. 
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I am fine with CodeProject MUG/T-Shirt too!
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BTDTGTTS
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You been to CP office?! 
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Luc Pattyn wrote: BTDTGTTS
When i glanced at your post, for some reason, i saw "Large Mammories", must have been the proximity of the B G TT S, strange 
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For a moment there I was worried this forum was straying too far above the belt. Thank you for resetting the status. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Assuming a head-up position, I detect some anatomic confusion here.
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You were not the only one, I also had to look twice.
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Two problems with that. First the prizes would just show up again next month since they're mostly donations, not stuff Chris has bought.
Second, publicly sending a message that the prize is worthless (even if it is to the contest winner) might annoy the companies that donate prizes whichsince at least some of them also advertise here, probably isn't a good thing.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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I didn't say they were worthless. I simply said that I don't have much of a use for them *personally*. I also said I would certainly download them. Because they're mine now.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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I agree with John.
I always love the books from Apress though. The T-Shirt is cool too.
BTW, congrats on this months win John.
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Having Collapse button breaks the text flow in the article and is not really useful when there are only a few lines in the PRE block.
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