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That's the bare minimum.
One of the girls there sometimes makes smalltalk.
"It's really busy today." That's just a statement and I have no idea how I should answer that 
I think the whole conversation last week went something like this:
She: "It's really busy today."
Me: "It happens."
She: "Yeah, more busy than usual."
Me: "Strange, with such good weather you'd think people do other things than groceries." (yes, the weather! ultimate (and horrible) smalltalk topic)
She: "The weather isn't that good. Too much wind."
Me: "Alright, then I don't know why it's so busy."
She: "Usually we'd be with three cashiers, but there's only two today."
Me: "Vacation?"
She: "No the third is sick at home."
Me: "Well, good luck with that. Bye."
She: "Bye."
Horrible, just shut up already
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Sander Rossel wrote: I have no idea how I should answer that
Open questions are preferred. See it as gathering specs 
Sander Rossel wrote: Horrible, just shut up already
That doesn't matter, some girls would think that is cute.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The worst they can do is say "yes".
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At least you'll get a second chance to fail 
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It's a numbers game - keep going, after a while it won't bother you if you get a no.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: after a while it won't bother you if you get a no.
Because you're dead inside?
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No, because you get laid a lot and no longer care if one says no. The next one will say yes. 
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Well, I did finally get some ass last night! I grabbed through the toilet paper... 
Wasn't there a post about the dangers of toilet paper here not long ago?
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From the view of a lot of years down the track, you are too focused on the big question, asking her out. As others have suggested, try small talk, anything will do, ask her about something, as long as it is not offensive the subject does not matter. Just like you coding it takes PRACTICE.
The dead inside comment shows you are way too sensitive and have no experience with even talking to the lovely creatures. Instead of having a goal of asking them out, don't have a goal at all, just put yourself in a position where you can talk to them, probably not a check out isle where she is focused on work.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: have no experience with even talking to the lovely creatures
Some of my good friends are really very hot chicks Who, unfortunately, aren't into me for anything more than just friendship
I just don't talk well to strangers, be they girls or guys. Small talk is just the worst. Unless they talk to me first, in that case I'm quite alright (well, sometimes).
Mycroft Holmes wrote: probably not a check out isle where she is focused on work
Yeah, it's just that that's her work and I never see her outside work 
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Don't tell no one, but I'm 44, married + 4, but never ever asked a girl out...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Don't tell no one
My lips are sealed
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I asked out a cashier at the local store.
In the US we also refer to cashiers as checkers and the line we call a checkout line. Early in my marriage I would come home and tell my wife that I was at the store and the girl was "checking me out." She didn't see the humor in the word play. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Sounds like your wife is trying to keep you in check, mate
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Had to look this one up.
Interesting.
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Yeah, but was the balloon on drugs?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Dunno. Is propane banned by the WADA?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I created a new multicasting chat group
but it's work only on my pc
when I connect my pc by other pc's the multicast message is nor goes
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As it says at the top of this page, this is not the place for programming questions.
Please post your question here: http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/ask.aspx[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Your message has just reached 70,000+ of us, here, so I suggest:
You write a clear description of the problem you are having, including:
1. the software (hardware ?) you are using to connect one PC to another: in browser ? each PC has your app, or a client app ?
2. the language and IDE your app is written is
And, post this information as a question on one of the QA forums; be sure and include descriptions of any errors. You might want to post a code sample from the place in the code where you "send" the message.
Please read the posting guidelines on this Forum, and on the QA forum you post on. The Lounge is not for programming questions.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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esamelzain wrote: but it's work only on my pc
Talking to yourself might be a sign of more serious mental illness.
esamelzain wrote: when I connect my pc by other pc's the multicast message is nor goes
A good test of your skills at empathy is being aware of when other people stop listening to you.
Marc
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I wrote a chat application in VB6 many years ago. It worked great.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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... just in case you are new to the 'uncanny valley' meme: [^] ...
I've been watching, and enjoying, the Swedish tv-series "Äkta människor" ("Real Humans", 2012~2014) [^] which I find so much better than the English language re-make "Humans" (2015) [^].
imho, "Humans" is to "Akta" as comic-book is to novel.
The issues of the possible replacement of "binary 'exclusive' humanity" ... you is one, or you ain't ... with some broader trans-species concept of "sentient being," and the subsequent possible recognition of "legal status" similar to person-hood, and "civil rights" ...
... is fascinating to think about, and what I like so much about "Real Humans" is that I find the emotional involvement and relationships of the human characters with their Hubots (robots) ... believable ... and, that's where the strange sensation, indeed a kind of creepiness, does ... arise.
Of course the psychodrama of the tension between our perceptions of non-human and human, life and non-life, embodiment and consciousness, animal and machine, is as "old as the hills," and has been explored forever in literature, and art, as well as "scripture." Consider the movies: "Metropolis," "Blade Runner," "AI," "Her," "Ex Machina," etc.
So, today, I received an e-mail from "Foreign Affairs" linking to this interesting story, "Toward Animal Personhood" (no registration required for this story) [^] : Quote: The law has long classified entities as “things” or “persons.” But “person” has never been synonymous with “human.” Legally, tens of millions of human slaves were once things, while corporations, ships, a Hindu idol, a mosque, the holy books of the Sikh religion, and New Zealand’s Whanganui River have been labeled persons. The distinction is critical: persons have the capacity for legal rights; things don’t. Personhood protects a human’s most fundamental interests. This is why Article 6 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.” Nonhuman animals will continue to suffer until the law recognizes them as persons.
The implications of defining the class of beings we now call "animals" as sentient, and/or "persons under the law," is ... well, all I can say is that in the confusion that results from trying to think about this ... why not insects ? plants ? why not parasites ? amoeba ? ... I hear some sort of strange tune that I suspect comes from the Uncanny Valley.
Oh boy, it just feels so nice to put these thoughts out of my head (I'm sure you don't mind hearing them ... since suffering shared is suffering diluted, and I've been listening to your tsuris for so many years ... and get back to the comforting Platonic abstractions of programming !
But, first I'm going to take the fried-rice veg I just picked-up on the way home, and add a bunch of fresh garlic, and the fiery little red Thai onions, and heat it up after adding a can of tuna cooked Thai green curry kaeng khiao wan style, topped off with a can of good ol' Campbell's cream of mushroom soup (necessary for me to be able to swallow). And, while I enjoy this concoction, I am going to try and forget about that deep thing that Albert E. said:Quote: "A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."
Because ... well, deep thoughts while eating ... you can get indigestion eating in the Uncanny Valley.
While gnoshing, I'm going to watch the dance of the jing-jok (geckos) on the screen outside my window as they catch the insects that come to the light. I find a strange comfort in the ubiquity of geckos in the house, and enjoy their little chirping sounds so much. Later in the night, I might get lucky and hear the surreal sound of a tookay (the awesome super-sized gecko): [^].
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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