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OK this may not be what this area is intended for. But allow me to banter. Please. After all there is some programming behind.
I have this stupid Timex alarm clock that I have no idea how to setup. I go to Timex site. And search for "clock" I get the following message
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We're sorry, but your search for "clock" returned 0 results.
Want to keep looking? Please enter another product name or keyword in the search box below
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The whole site sucks, it will not allow you to search two words, "alarm clock". Then again if it did not find any products that matched "clock", I wonder.....Never mind.
It is possible that I am too tired to figure this out. Cooked all day and have two teenage boys. 'Nough said.
yalcin
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In the red menu bar thingy, there is a "more products" link. Click it and one of the options is clocks. And of course, that link doesn't give any useful info.
But at the bottom of the page, there is a link for manuals: http://assets.timex.com/manuals/?timexBrand=core[^]
Maybe one of those will help.
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LOL! This is a good one!
Those things give me headaches. Whenever I'm visiting at my father's place, I have to unset an alarm on one of those. Otherwise it will wake me up at 6 am.
I never got the hang of it. And my father insists that I leave the alarm on because he sometimes forgets to set it (when I'm not there). So if I do learn how to unset I'll have to set it back when I leave.
Every time I go visiting, I have to ask him to set it and unset it for me and it ends up in all kinds of jokes about me being a programmer and not being able to use a simple alarm clock.
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What are people like this thinking ?
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/BP.asp?msg=1954841#xx1954841xx[^]
The short version - he says 'This is an easy assignment, but I can't program, so please write it for me.'. He actually says 'I don't need help, I need a fully running program'.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Sadly, he's managed to delete his post already. Maybe we should think about just removing the ability to delete posts entirely. These people are taking away our opportunities to "educate" the masses about how to post and, more importantly, how not to post!
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: taking away our opportunities to "educate" the masses
I have always maintained this. Whenever I read about a deleted post or article, I want to go an laugh at the tool educate others on how not to post.
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It's not deleted. After the page will not load click the 'Go' button in I.E. and the page loads. I think that's a Hall of Shame one for CodeProject.
Bubba(Freddie L Richard)
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Oh it's deleted. It should be the first post at the top of the article forum. Christian's reply is hanging in answer to a post that is no longer there.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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I thought he was talking about the link in his message. When you click it, it first returns page not found, click go and it loads. ie.7 by the way.
Freddie L Richard
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I'm still trying to make sense of this[^] post. I'm not sure what it has to do with the article.
/ravi
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I think his profile[^] explains everything.
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy) "Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)
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He's also been referring to you on the poll forum. Two threads both subjected Ravi (or containing the word Ravi)
A fan?
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: A fan?
That is a disturbing thought.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: That is a disturbing thought.
Yeah, she (optimistic gender projection) might turn into a stalker.
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I really have to get 1-800-CALL-RAVI.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I'm still trying to make sense of this[^] post.
I see what you mean. I cannot make any sense of that post.
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WTF?[^]
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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I think it's a communication issue here. The original poster seems to be researching ways to break captcha (hopefully for non-malicious purposes). Some people have already done some research into that area. Example : http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mori/research/gimpy/[^]
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I know it can be done. There are implementations of CAPTCHA that are far weaker than others.
I just don't help people try to break something that other people use to secure their sites with. If he can type "CAPTCHA OCR" into Google, he'll get far more useful information, but he has to do that himself.
The fact that he's asking for help at such a general level tells me that he knows nothing of OCR in the first place, let alone how to even start an advanced implementation of OCR that can crack one of these things.
Plus, from what I've seen around the web on the subject, the implementation of his OCR would have to be pretty nearly custom made to defeat the features of the CAPTCHA type he's looking at. Things like lines throught the text, characters offset from each other, wavy text, different colors, overlapping characters, background blends, ..., would all have to be handled on a case-by-case basis. You could implement some analysis functionality for some of these things, but there's no way for the code to be absolutely sure of what it's dealing with without some outside help.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Ah okay. I had assumed that you posted it in the Hall of Shame because of how he couldn't properly understand your replies to him. But now, I am confused. What's Hall-of-Shame-ish about that thread? It seems to be a newbie attempting to do something he has no clue about - much like those first time C++ programmers trying to write an advanced TCP server as their first project
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: It seems to be a newbie attempting to do something he has no clue about - much like those first time C++ programmers trying to write an advanced TCP server as their first project
Time was, a person starting out on a project where they possessed no knowledge of the area in question would... you know, go to a library and research it. Now we have The Internet, and i've gotta say, researching things like this has become a much easier task... yet, time and time again, we see people asking the most basic questions, questions that would be answered in minutes by a quick search on Google. I tend to assume then, that they've already used Google, and simply couldn't comprehend any of the answers. Being the humble sort of person that i am, i realize that my answer would likely do no better, and prudently withhold it.
What strikes me as odd about this particular post though, is that he seems to understand roughly what he'll need to do: prior to his question, he lists three steps required to perform the task (i've no idea if they're accurate or not, but it's a start...) So given that, i don't understand why he doesn't (say) look for a noise reduction algorithm, an OCR library, a string-handling tutorial for whatever language he plans to work in, etc. Again, all of these things are just about as common as the tumbleweeds piling up around my neighborhood.
Donno whether that really qualifies it as a WTF though; it seems to be closer to the norm here some days.
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It appears that everybody is under the impression that I approve of the documentation. You probably also blame Ken Burns for supporting slavery.
--Raymond Chen on MSDN
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: More like a "what was he thinking?"
There's a new forum idea
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I think we already have it. It's called VB.NET Forum...
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Shog9 wrote: it seems to be closer to the norm here some days
yup.
in a way it's nice to know that it's not just the stereotypical lazy American kid who wants everything handed to him without having to spark any neurons beyond those required to pout and say "me want!" - there are spoiled lazy kids everywhere!
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