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raddevus wrote: Abraham Maslow said: "The only happy people I know are those who are working well at something they consider important."
Getting paid helps.
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Getting paid well helps more... 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Getting paid well helps more..
Sometimes that's what makes it even MORE important. 
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wizardzz wrote: Getting paid helps.
Sometimes that what makes it important.
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The only happy people I know should have been locked away for the safety of the public years ago! I'm determined to have happiness declared a mental illness before I go to my rest! Save the world; drown an optimist!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Save the world; drown an optimist!
SO - YOU THINK SOMETHING COULD ACTUALLY SAVE THE WORLD? And that anyone would even want to?
You just put yourself at the head of the optimist list.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You manipulated the inverse of quote a little bit (and wrongly so):
It should be "All the miserable people I know are that way because they are working badly on something they consider important or they have jobs which they consider unimportant."
It doesn't state anything about not working.
Are all people that are retired considered to be unhappy?
Otherwise I like it.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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That's a good point, but I wasn't thinking about people who don't have a job.
I was thinking more along the lines of someone who really isn't working on anything they themselves consider important but still have the ability to do so.
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Aah, yes... Now I get it. Yes, that is very painful. To that I'll add that: Doing work that I know is pointless also causes extreme unhappiness.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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R. Erasmus wrote: Doing work that I know is pointless also causes extreme unhappiness.
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This idea is false. I'm retired, not working on a damn thing, and am very happy.
OTOH, I think I was happiest when I had my sci-tech advisor job in Iraq, because I was able to do it well, and considered that it might save a soldier, which I believed to be very worthwhile, so yeah, if you must work, then yeah, the premise is true.
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I don't know? I think Wally is very happy and he is doing nothing important actually nothing at all. He is very good at doing nothing at all.
Dilbert linkage of course. Clickity[^]
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Wally is a great hero to many. 
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I find that when I'm feeling unhappy, it's virtually always because I'm not living up to my own standards and responsibilities.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Were this actually true, weekends and vacations would suck....
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Isn't it interesting how everyone interprets the word "work"?
Fred: What are you _working_ on?
Sam: I'm overhauling my '73 Mustang.
Fred: Is anyone paying you?
Sam: No.
Fred: Sounds like you're playing around to me.
Sam: Hmmm....
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Hi All,
Currently I am in the process of using VS 2005 for a project with no problems. But as an aside I thought I would try a later version of VS to see if it can be upgraded with out problems. So I go to download VS latest express, and find 2015 Community edition. Not an Express doesn't appear to be limited. Is this really what I think it is (full & free)? I take it M$ are spying on you some how?  Or are they giving the Keys to Kingdom away (I feel the need to listen to the Spin Doctors!)
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Pretty much yes - it's the full version, and it's free.
There are terms and conditions though - mostly related to the size of your company - and you should read them carefully: MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO COMMUNITY 2015[^] though there is a syummary at the bottom of here: Free Dev Tools - Visual Studio Community 2015[^]
Be aware that if you upgrade a project to VS2015, you won't be able to open it again in VS2005. I would recommend good, solid backups before I started experimentation. If you are using VS2005 on original period hardware, you may find 2015 far, far too sluggish to use...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you are using VS2005 on original period hardware, you may find 2015 far, far too sluggish to use...
You may find that regardless of system and hardware... 
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I haven't migrated to 2015 yet - I only moved to 2013 last year - and I have found that my new SSD makes it really usable! Load time is about 6 or 7 seconds from click to "ready to code" instead of a couple of minutes, and compilation seems faster as well. I suspect that MS developers all have nice fat pipes, and nice big SSD's...and don't give a rat's ass about anyone else. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My biggest issue going from 10 to 15 on my work laptop is that 10 was small enough I could normally run 2 instances and have enough headroom for the rest of my software and mandatory corporate bloat in 8gb of ram. 15's big enough that having 2 copies running will generally start swap chugging when I switch to whatever major application I used least recently. On days when the bloatware is feeling particularly hungry (I've occasionally seen both MsMpEng and the servicehost running updates bloat to >1gb each at the same time and squat there for hours) I've had it happen with only one instance of 15 running.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Bearing in mind, the opening time, the fact that I am pretty much used to the 2005/08 interface and the speed I will not upgrade the project. It's just a relay card that I was looking at using came with an example using Vis C# 2010 so I thought to upgrade itand just use it for reference.
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The interface is pretty much the same (in the case of 2013, once you get rid of the Goth look, and the SHOUTY menu). But the later versions of C# and .NET do include some pretty useful stuff, that wasn't in 2005.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: once you get rid of the Goth look
How?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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