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Traffic lights. 
Need I say more? If you have never driven there then this is meaningless to you.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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We have them too over here in Holland 
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Your (Dutch) problem is the bikes...thousands of the elephants'ers....working against any moving cars. I visited Hengelo and Enschade a few times...bikes everywhere. Demons on 2 wheels.
Ken
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Cycle lanes are dangerous. You turn right off a road, and some clown on a bike is coming up your inside at 20 mph! And YOU have to give way!
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Even worse as a pedestrian (who might or might not have been on the ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ) Cyclists assume they do not have to obey traffic laws
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glennPattonWork wrote: Cyclists assume they do not have to obey traffic laws
Just like so many motorists these days.
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Quote: Enschade
That's an appropriate name for Enschede I think (means something like En-damaged) haha 
And I agree, bikers are rats on wheels !
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I have a rough time pronouncing it, never mind spelling it. Nice town though. Lots of decent Pubs, with good food, and Grolsch is a decent beer. People were pretty friendly and worked through our language barrier, making for a pleasant work trip.
Ken
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They're needed because every bad driver in the world comes here to Florida with the idea that all of a sudden they can drive.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Why do they take so elephanting long to change??? Life is too sort...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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They take so long to change because if they didn't the old people would sit through them.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Hahahahahaha - I believe that! Made a long weekend seem like we spent it waiting for lights to change!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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You ought to be down here when it rains, wrecks everywhere.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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California is worse if you ask me.
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No way - was pleased to get back to a normal place with normal traffic lights after 3 days in krazy Florida.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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You want to really confuse 'em, change it for a roundabout... 
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In Italy (we drive on the right side, you are from UK so you drive on the wrong - in facts the contrary of right is wrong) for some years roundabouts were to be traversed CLOCKWISE - which meant invading the opposite lane to access a roundabout.
Then the traffic laws changed to the intelligent way, roundabouts are to be traversed COUNTERCLOCKWISE so everybody stays on its own lane.
All right and good except that for 20 years elderly drivers took the roudabouts in the old ways and frontal collisions in roundabouts skyrocketed. Roundabouts have been the most dangerous road features in Italy for years and they still are in remote places where 90 years old drivers are common.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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OMG, I just booked a fly-drive vacation in Sicily 
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Tips for driving in Italy:
1) At intersections, when you're clear to go, GO FOR FLOCK'S SAKE!! We aren't patient, at all;
2) Careful in roundabouts to the smartaxes who will enter even when you're already inside;
3) Careful in roundabouts to the smartaxes who will accelerate from 100 meters away to enter the nanosecond before you do;
4) Careful in roundabouts to the smartaxes don't know how to drive and will flank you from either side, or stop their car inside the roundabout and then shift to the rear gear because they missed their exit;
5) Pedestrians can and will jump out of nowhere with or without pedestrian crossings;
6) Don't honk if not absolutely necessary and you aren't ready to fight for dear life.
Bonus: cyclists without mandatory lights and mandatory reflective jackets are the norm. Especially when it's dark. Even worse if they are 80+ years old and can't go straight even on a ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing rail.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I was there 18 years ago. The drivers make Israeli drivers look good.
Never again!
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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According to some braniac, if you open an imagefile and edit it you are not permitted to save it as the file is locked.
That's an hour of headbanging I'm not getting back in a hurry!
veni bibi saltavi
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If you mean in code, then yeah - in .NET at least that has been the case since V1.0: Image.FromFile Method (String) (System.Drawing)[^]
Quote: The file remains locked until the Image is disposed.
Simplest solution:
public static Image GetImage(string path)
{
using (Image im = Image.FromFile(path))
{
return new Bitmap(im);
}
}
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That's the solution I reached in the end.
But f'me, it's pretty damned stupid. If they're going to lock i, why not let you programatically open the image for r/w?
veni bibi saltavi
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This is Microsoft we are talking about, and a boring bit of code.
They probably got the office junior to write it, and he got the code from SO... 
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