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Comment: Re:"I am more talented than average." (Score 1) 422

by TheRealMindChild (#46485573) Attached to: Lies Programmers Tell Themselves
Replying to the second part. All functions are members of something in VB. At the very least, they are members of ModuleName. So if you have a module "Frank", that has a function "Cheese", it can be (and is underneath) via "Frank.Cheese()". In terms of the DoCmd object, it is the way VBA communicates/interacts WITH Office. A list of members can be found here. You can also bring up the object browser via F2 when inside the VBA IDE

Comment: Re:"I am more talented than average." (Score 2) 422

by TheRealMindChild (#46485409) Attached to: Lies Programmers Tell Themselves
Of course it is. However, it is like PHP in the sense that non-programmers can wield the magic wand and crank something out that LOOKS like it works, but at the very core is garbage. That has no baring on if the language is capable of being used well.

Now with that said, VB.NET can almost be line for line compatible with C#. They are both .NET languages and can do the exact same things. If you are talking VB classic, that is a whole other beast. While it is/was possible to write good code in it, it was meant to be a dirty ActiveX host with some glue code to make it all work. If you went outside of its intended use, you had some pretty scary abominations forming.

Comment: Re:Buying a Pig in a Poke ... (Score 2) 258

You aren't looking back far enough. The "with-it" trendy people as you call them, mined bitcoins or bought them when they were worth ~$1 or less. If the world comes crashing down and they end up back there, they lost nothing. I believe you are thinking of the people that only cared about bitcoin when it began to have some exchangeable value, where bitcoin was an investment, or a scheme to get rich. These will be the people who suffer. These are the ones who "fell for the scam"

Comment: Re: Skynet? (Score 1) 232

It is one of those theoretical things like being able to predict the number of a psuedo-random number generator. Apparently they "can" eves drop on you computer by listening to the fluctuation of your power supply. But like predicting the next psuedo-random number relies that you know what every single thing is doing, how many processes, what network traffic is incoming, etc, this relies on the fact that they can filter out with absolutely perfect certainty every other electronic device around the computer.

Comment: Re:Cost? (Score 2) 250

by TheRealMindChild (#46450649) Attached to: Sony &amp; Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward
I can buy a 2TB disk which is rewriteable for $69 including the interface.

No, you can't. Spot pricing on pricewatch or google shopping or whatever, the lowest prices are $80 for a drive from a company that will hold your order forever as "pending" because they never had any is stock to begin with. You will pay $100 at least after shipping

Comment: Re:I have no more sympathy for anyone (Score 1) 191

by TheRealMindChild (#46436897) Attached to: The Tangled Tale of Mt. Gox's Missing Millions
They had collector value. Just like old stamps and medieval scrolls have value. You can twist the definition of "value" into anything you want, but you aren't looking as smart as you think you are. The demand of beanie babies far outweighed their supply. When that wasn't true anymore, the value tanked. There is no psychological MBA horseshit here. Like an overpowered Magic The Gathering card, it's value is high, but if you decide to give one away free with a self-addressed, stamped envelope, it will be nothing more than rough toilet paper

Comment: Re:Why aren't we using PNG? (Score 1) 155

by TheRealMindChild (#46422545) Attached to: New Mozilla Encoder Improves JPEG Compression
But you are still talking about LOOKING at that photographic image. If it needs manipulated, you are doing yourself a large disservice by starting out with a JPEG source. Even as something as simple as scaling/zooming will wreak havoc on the outcome. Need to lighten it? Sharpen or blur some lines? AND THEN resave it? No sir. Not good

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