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True that. It is just a minor annoyance. Without additional feedback from the down voter, it adds no value to the question or solution and is really a disservice to the CP community.
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Yup, there is. I posted about not too long ago. Every solution in a few Q&A posts was down voted. One reason why down-votes on regular posts don't effect points is that drive-by down-voting became quite an epidemic.
It takes all kinds of people to make a world - but we don't need all of them.
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well it's more of a bugs and sugs discussion but
- there's always been the debate that down votes should require a comment (min 50 chars...)
- and then on that an option to appeal a dv based on the comment (wrong, nasty, off topic, meaningless...)
but then the admins / moderators realised that would mean more work for them (following up on dv protests) so it gets tossed into the "too hard" basket. To cover themselves usually they will respond with "the down voter will eventually get a bad rep and loose rights, or they will just get bored and go away." of course in real life those things seemingly don't seem to happen, but whose to say it's not just new idiots replacing the old ones, there's a whole world of assholes out there.
I'm actually OK with the status quo, I'm OK that the admins/mods don't want more work, (after all they are volunteers), just wish they would be upfront about the real reason they down vote the down-vote-must-comment.
Anyway, as others have said:
don't worry about the down votes (world full of wankers), if it's good enough it'll get kudos [often from the OP - but some of them are jerks too and say nothing],
... you still get that personal satisfaction you [may have] helped someone, and perhaps the next guy too searching on the same question
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Lopatir wrote: min 50 chars
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 It doesn't really help requiring a comment.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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As far as I could tell it was only a couple of downvotes, but it was indeed from the same person. Normally I'd like to see more of a trend before taking action, but this person hasn't been around for long and hasn't posted a single thing, so out they go.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Thank you for the fast response and quick action!
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Change your moniker to Sean the Assassin.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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... really means what it says. I've spent parts of the last three days diagnosing a problem where my app was complaining of an incorrect version reported by one of the services I use to talk to the hardware. This is happening on a 'new' test machine in a lab.
I checked the version of the service installed on the test machine. Correct.
I checked the version of the service included in the installation. Correct.
I checked the code in the build. Correct.
The app and service install correctly on my desk and on a freshly-imaged machine.
[!@#$!$#@!] expletives redacted
This morning I go back to the lab, and as I'm walking down there... What if there's more than one copy of the service .EXE on the machine?
In fact, there are two:
C:\Program Files\...\PgSwService.exe and
C:\Program Files (x86)\...\PgSwService.exe ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing dammit. This supposedly 'new' machine was actually a very old one, with a version of the service from 2013. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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Isn't some of that stuff there for backward compatibility so the (x86) stuff was there even on a new machine?
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There are conventions for which directory you use for an install. 32-bit apps usually go in the "...(x86)" folder. IIRC, the intent was that you could have both 32 and 64-bit versions of applications installed in parallel, and not have them conflict with each other.
Software Zen: delete this;
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RickZeeland wrote: the free to play
but does it cost $$ to actually do well and win?
My experience is that these free to play models, actually require you to make in game purchases to really enjoy/play well/win anything. 
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Haven't played it long enough to say anything sensible about that, but as you can see in the comments on the Steam website some people complain about it. But hey, it's free and if you don't like it, it's not the end of the world 
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Did you ever meet any real generals or heroes. After that you will have no more questions.
Generals are cool. They can't be promoted much further. One of them was really happy because I asked him to show me his Id. It was his first visit and I did not know him, so I had to check before rolling out the carpet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: One of them was really happy because I asked him to show me his Id.
But did he show you his Ego and Super-Ego[^] also?  *
*It had to be done.
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I think he meant lid
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No. After my reception he wanted to be taken to my CO, who was already waiting on hot coals. I guess he showed him all that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I must admit I never even was in the army
All recruits of my year of birth were skipped (such a bad year), but I try to make up for that by playing WWII games ...
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RickZeeland wrote: by playing WWII games ...
Which side?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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The side that pays the most 
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Ahh, a mercenary[^]. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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not sure if my sons ever met generals, but my infantry son had issues with his second battalion commander. It was time for the Lt. Col to move on to his next posting, so he gathered everyone he could find to give them a speech. Here's a couple of hundred soldiers at parade rest in a very hot area of Baghdad (not temperature) having to listen to someone drone on and on all the while thinking, "one well aimed mortar." There are some choice ones out there
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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..Around the same time, Sun Microsystems created Java. There are two aspects to the technology. From the language point of view, Java was designed to be a modern object-oriented language that did away with the complexities of C++ around memory management and bug-prone features like multiple inheritance, unhygienic macros, and so on. The other interpretation, Java as a platform, brought a runtime with a rich library to write enterprise applications that run on various platforms and target various application models both for the client and the Web.
A major downside to the Java strategy at the time was its tight coupling to a single language, making it hard to interoperate with existing code or to reuse existing programming skills in different languages while still targeting the same underlying runtime and libraries. So to make Java programming available on the Windows platform, a product called Visual J++ was created together with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) implementation, a port of the libraries and bridges to the world of Windows in the form of the Windows Foundation Classes (WFC).
1. Anybody really had such a weird task/project at work that required you to code with VJ++?
2. And Windows Foundation classes? Is that MFC?
(For a moment I read it as WCF, I was clueless about the MJ++ bridge to the WCF. haha)
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I remember when it came out, I think it packaged as a separate CD from the main Visual Studio installation discs originally. I never used it though. I thought it was a short lived and killed off only a few versions later?
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Vunic wrote: And Windows Foundation classes? Is that MFC?
Nope: Sue! Sue and be damned! - Wikipedia[^]
So it kinda escaped into being .NET, but probably not a lot left of the original...
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