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    Using Two WAN Connections

    I remember people have asked about doing this before. I was just thumbing through the latest tigerdirect catalog before I tossed it and saw a firewalled router that does this, so I thought I'd toss it out for anyone interested in the idea (i.e., load balancing and/or automatic failover...
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    how does the computer know what country you're in?

    Not reliable - what if the person is using the French version of the browser on a machine in Switzerland. The IP address of the connection can tell the server where you're hooked to the internet (unless the person takes steps to route the connection through one or more machines).
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    End Justifies the Means

    Epsilon - the attempt to reduce a question of this type to a simple equation is interesting, albeit troublesome unless you presume that the end ALWAYS justifies the means or ALWAYS does NOT justify them. In reality, the specific ends (which must by definition include any collateral or...
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    End Justifies the Means

    He didn't ask if inappropriate means could produce undesired ends - that's axiomatic. He asked whether if you got the ends you desired does that by itself justify whatever means you used to realize them. It's the age old Machiavellian question. For example, does catching a serial killer...
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    Reading fixed columns of float data from text file with C#

    Spoken like someone who's never been responsible for millions of dollars of a corporation's money. It's hardly an issue of "lemmings" - it's strategically stupid for a major company to commit to a thinly adopted/niche development platform - the limited pool of people knowledgable in it means...
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    i hate how humans can be so mean to other animals

    You must have a very interesting family tree :)
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    Questions for Visual Studio .NET 1.1 users

    www.refactoring.com also http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/whidbey_csharp_preview.asp
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    What would you do if you had the "holy grail"?

    Too late - It's already been discovered and is being sold to the masses under the name of Wizetrade - just read George's book LOL... :) :) :)
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    WizeTrade

    Wizetrade creator, "Financial wizard" George Thompson?? Wizescam creator, wizard conman seems more like it.
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    Questions for Visual Studio .NET 1.1 users

    Don't believe so - double-clicking the object just creates a stub for you to work from - it's not synchronized code generation. Programmer still has to assume some responsibility.
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    level 2 cache?

    If you're looking at machines with different L2 sizes, then they also have different processor types (since L2 is now integral to the processor dye instead of outboarded). And if you're looking at different processor types, then you've likely got more differences involved than just the L2...
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    Offshore brokers for a tax free life

    First off - an "in depth summary" is an oxymoron Second - I believe the original post said "a no tax state like Nevada" - there are several other states you can choose Do a Google on "Nevada Corporation" and spend 10 minutes reading the results and you'll have your "in depth summary"...
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    Offshore brokers for a tax free life

    Rowen - US citizens are taxed on ALL income, regardless of where it's made (you can net taxes paid abroad - if any). So there's no legal way of "avoiding" taxes by using offshore facilities - only committing tax fraud by failing to report the offshore income and hoping you don't show up...
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    STABLE media player for windows?

    Real is total crap. Windows Media Player 9 has been working flawlessly for me. No ads or any outbound traffic being generated. You might check your option settings though - there are options to try to lookup information and download rights management data that you might have active and...
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    French vs American women

    Probably got the pictures reversed - woman on the right, any of the throng of very large German/Italian/etc. women -- one on the left, one of the thousands of (usually thong bikini clad) babes strolling or rollerblading along Venice Beach or South Beach or damn near any...
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    Database Issue

    Unless you have need to be able to apply relational algebra to the data, a simple and very fast approach is to simply store the data in a series of dynamically extending linked lists using some fairly rudimentary block oriented buffer management and linked list code. It's a commonly used...
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    Java Jar Manifest Problems...

    Didn't think that all JAR files are necessarily executable. Especially if you've downloaded a JAR containing some kind of utility code like a DB engine. I'm not a Java guru (use VB/ASP/C++/C# mainly), but can't a JAR just be a compressed library of JS files - used sometimes to streamline the...
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    Programmers: Database issue

    Memory-based DBs typically operate like write-through caches for those parts that need powerfail resistance. Adds and updates are updated in memory while simultaneously flushed to a disk-based transcript/log file. Upon restart, the DB manager code rebuilds the DB from the disk log and then...
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    Canadian court rules filesharing is legal

    So it's OK to steal someone else's work just because you think it's being sold for too much??? Mercedes prices are ridiculous, they're just ripping people off - maybe everyone should just start stealing them.
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    New PC Specs

    OK, explains a lot. Not exactly "high end" but a decent config for trading (which doesn't actually need "high end" capacity anyway). It's too light on RAM, disk, and video and has a slower FSB and similarly slower RAM to be realistically called "high end" these days. A DVD is also...
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