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trønderen wrote: A great argument for any arbitrary limitation (when you don't have any other good justification).
I am old but not old enough to have worked on some of the very first OSes which then lead to the PC OSes.
I do know that PC/MS-DOS did not allow spaces in names.
I also know that using spaces in command lines (Unix, linux, MS/PC-DOS, early windows) either did not support spaces in arguments at all or required special handling. From that it follows that the possibility exists that file/directory names with spaces would not have been ideal.
trønderen wrote: No, forbidding spaces "must" not be a restriction
I didn't say that.
trønderen wrote: to make the programming easier for themselves.
No idea what your life is like but in my life I work for businesses. And the goal is to produce applications that meet many of the needs and desires of customers. But only when it is cost effective to do so. So even if one customer wants something specific unless they are willing to pay for exactly that (and that almost never happens) and unless it does not unduly impact the maintenance (ongoing cost) and other customers they do not get it.
I have seen not indication that that has not been true for far longer than 30 years.
trønderen wrote: I am really happy that the DOS/Windows file system designers made that deliberate design decision.
Just so you know Microsoft bought (licensed) an operating system when IBM approached them initially for their BASIC language to meet the requested needs of IBM. So certainly not Microsoft's fault.
trønderen wrote: Will you accept that the Asians have the same attitude towards Latin script in file names? You won't even accept my Norwegian file names and URLs, is that so?
That has nothing to do with what I said. Seems like you are even trying to denigrate me.
I have created and supported applications that are used all over the world. In Japan. In Korea. In Europe. Not sure about Norway but certainly in France, Germany, Italy and Finland. Even in Russian although I don't think we actually did an install there.
trønderen wrote: We cannot provide the user with what (s)he wants/needs, because it would reduce our chances of winning the performance race.
Another statement that makes me wonder if you work in business or academics.
Businesses do not exist to meet the needs/desires of customers. They exist to make money. Companies that don't make money do not survive. Every addition, even if it is a need/desire of customer(s) costs money. Both to implement it and to maintain it.
Yes performance is important. It is something that customers always complain about (when complex applications are involved). And it is something that marketing and sales promotes all the time.
trønderen wrote: Not too many years ago, every single language for which a written form was defined could fit all their characters into a single UTF-16 code.
See prior comment. I have written and supported applications that run all over the world. I have led initiatives to make large applications multi-lingual.
So yes I am quite familiar with both what Unicode allows and what it costs to implement, support and maintain.
trønderen wrote: So you will not prepare for porting your application to other cultures
You apparently did not understand what I was referring to.
In large applications there will be character data that is internal to the application. It will never be exposed to users.
It has nothing to do with multi-language support.
There are two other types of character data.
1. Application data which is exposed to customers. Such as a column header on a report. Or a user error message. This is the category where localization of language support is needed and in its easiest form.
2. Customer entered data. Such as a the name of a street or a user comment. This is the category where the concept of localization of language becomes tenuous because something that is entered in France can only be displayed as is in Japan.
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Prefix tables with "tbl" and your code be happy.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Q. What do you call a bear with no teeth?
A. A gummy bear.
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Q. What does a 400lb bear eat?
A. Anything it wants.
I'll just grab my coat and see myself out.
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Should've went with gummy bears.
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Yeah, but it was already taken.
I could have went with;
Out in north west US they have grizzly bears, which are a very ferocious beast so they make all the hikers wear small bells around their necks to scare the bears away.
You know how you can tell a black bear from a grizzly?
Grizzly poop has little bells in it.
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No no.... he eats gummy bears.
Ah well, I've got nothing.
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They do the same in Japan except the explanation is so you let the bears know you are approaching, a startled bear apparently is rather dangerous.
Thankfully Oz only had drop bears.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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A couple of old ones
Even if a bear wears socks and shoes he still has bear feet.
A bear walks into a bar and says,
“Give me a whiskey and ................cola.”
“Why the big pause?” asks the bartender. The bear shrugged.
“I’m not sure; I was born with them.”
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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What do you call a dog with no legs?
It doesn’t matter - it’s not going to come anyways!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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I keep finding methods that seem outdated and/or don't have all the functionality I need.
I'm using vb.net in VS 2017. The webcam is a Logitech Brio.
I need the ability to take still photos, and acquire video. In both cases data from another source will be overlaid in the image, as it is recorded.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Links to examples/demos would be great too.
thanks!
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Wrong place to ask: see the sentence above that ends in red. Then try here: Ask a Question[^]
But ... tell us what you tried, exactly - and what happened when you did. That way, we don't waste our time or your time giving you "solutions" you have already rejected ...
And see here: Asking questions is a skill[^]
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Turn it on.
Face camera.
Was it really that hard?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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If you're going to ask a programming question here, you need to use a thinly veiled disguise as something else. Perhaps, asking for opinions first or saying tabs are better than spaces.
Jeremy Falcon
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Apparently, you can ask programming questions now in the Lounge. No one seems to care anymore, one way or another.
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I gave you an up vote just to negate the down vote. Let the chaos ensue... muwahahahahaha.
Jeremy Falcon
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thumbs down is still +8 rep points. So, I can only win at this rate.
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The thing is that a non-programmer sees a problem in the use of some digital stuff.
He isn't programming it, but we programmers see it as something that can be soved through programming.
So we yell at him, even though he is not a programmer at all.
Sometimes, I think 'The Lounge' is a misnomer. The primary purpose and function of the forum is to discuss word puzzles and puns. Anything else is secondary, only marginally accepted.
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The occasional haiku is also acceptable.
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FreedMalloc reply,
missed an opportunity,
to be eloquent.
Mentioning Haiku,
should require syllables,
correctly counted.
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I have to agree. I thought that I should have made the response a Haiku right after I posted it but I couldn't come up with one.
But, I do salute your response to me!
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Agreed. It's a fine balance for sure.
Jeremy Falcon
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Hint: the photos and videos wind up in a folder.
"Overlaying" is a post production process; even if it's milliseconds; or frame by frame.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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just take a photo on your mobile and send it via email
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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