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Read the article and check the IRS site to verify the facts if you're paranoid.

I thought so.

DeviceName values are not unique.

Who fed you that?

Have you ever done your own tax return? If so you should be pretty conscious of the reduction you enjoy without reading anything. There is nothing in that article you can't...

Trump Tax Brackets: Did Your Tax Rate Change?



You can't reduce taxation and not incur more debt unless you also cut back spending.

The middle and working classes both got tax relief and...

https://youtu.be/37N-2b0Py8g

But I guess when you hate the messenger the message can't be received.

The file looks kind of ludicrous to be JSON at all, just simple tabular data. A tab-delimited file would be simpler, smaller, and much quicker to parse and use.

Because it is so simplistic though...

I guess I think my point was that we can easily bring abuse upon ourselves by taking an overly critical stance against others. Where "others" can be any line in the sand we try to draw between...

With the Baby Boom generation retiring, and for that matter dying off more rapidly by the day, who's culture is left to whiz on? Are will Baby Boom graves remain a viable target for some time to...

The good news is that more average people are taking a peek behind the curtain and questioning that which scuttles in the darkness behind the thin veil.


https://youtu.be/Osji1ChOl2U

This...

Ahh, Cotyar. Badass as James Bond. Gritty as Jason Bourne. Just a man, with a man's courage.

Here's a tribute somebody edited together.

Careful: spoilers.


https://youtu.be/6ajO_Sf4gwE
...

China? China?


https://youtu.be/ttUPUFtC4BU

Well, I guess one of the messages in "The Day The Earth Stood Still" was the difficulty of having even-handed gatekeepers.

Extra-terrestrial societies felt strongly enough about it to turn...

Program counters are pretty fundamental since they are used as the instruction-fetch index. They aren't always simple counters though.

I think it was the IBM 650 that used a magnetic drum as...

Those all sound worthy to me. I'm not opposed to government support and could imagine both cash and kind (food, medical supplies, care). Add in private support through charities to help fill out...

Don't we all want less censorship?

That seems to have done the trick.

Even cutting out icons from a "PNGstrip" or "PNGsheet" with multiple small images stitched together as a large source bitmap seems to produce pretty good results...

Looks fine at 200% DPI as well.

Perhaps somebody can correct me: I think CreateBitmap() produces a DIB (or I guess I really mean DIBSection?), but maybe the result is still a Bitmap that has some...

Whew, that looks good:


Option Explicit

'Form has Picture1, a PictureBox that is borderless and invisible.

Private Const WIN32_NULL As Long = 0
Private Const WIN32_TRUE As Long = 1

Well how tragic!

Using 2 DIBs instead of Bitmaps to get around the double-mag problem does work... however the resulting icon has a 1-pixel fringe of "almost black" around it on outer edges (any...

BTW: Creating an icon via ImageList.ListImages.ExtractIcon() calls works as desired without double-magnifying.

Could be a bug, or something. Perhaps Microsoft missed a test case and so this slipped through.

But when I was playing with it I found another source of anomalous behavior. It was quirky, but in...

But the "trick" is to get Windows to take care of scaling for you and even adjust it for you when the user drags the Form between multiple monitors with different DPI settings.

That trick already...

I'm not sure what WIC brings to the table or where unsupported versions of Windows fit into the picture. They don't even have GDI Scaling as an option for High DPI remediation. The feature didn't...

You have to be careful with light humor. You screw in that bulb that projects a Bozo face on the ceiling and then next thing you know Atticus is running for the door due to his clown phobia.

That's pretty funny.

Chocolate smeared all over your hands and around your mouth yet you claim you didn't get into the candy.

Worse yet, you seem to honestly believe your own spin. I may as...

Huh. I may have just solved the problem for myself by posting that most recent example program.

It works ok even though it uses GDI+ (via WIA 2.0) for loading the PNG. So perhaps using GDI+,...

If you are wondering why anyone would want to do this, there are several reasons.


1.) Using alpha-channel PNG image resources for things like toolbars and buttons which can be a cheap way to...

Friend methods on an early-bound Class instance should be faster than Public methods too. Not enough to support decorating everything you can as Friend, but enough to be useful in rare tight-loop...

Why not just use a non-MDI parent Form, and then combine use of a TabStrip control on it along with instances of one or more UserControls to replace MDI Child Forms?

All of that is well supported...

BTW - Loading an icon via CreateIconFromResourceEx(), or even loading a PNG image, works just fine at various DPI settings under GDI Scaling:


Option Explicit

'Form has Picture1, a PictureBox...

What is the data type of driver.System.ControlMode?

Most likely it is Integer, Long, or maybe Byte? Perhaps even Single or Double? If so, just assign 0 and be done.

If String assign...

That video from Contro TV above ignores a number of issues.

These fall mainly into the answers to the question: "Why now?"

There are at least two major answers why. One is the demographic...

"That's the night that the lights went out in Europe.
That's the night they went back to peat and dung."


https://youtu.be/0l4A6JOuzFQ

If this fits better in the API or Graphics forums, then so be it.

My issue is really related to VB6 programs and the late Windows 10 "GDI Scaling" appcompat feature though.

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We already...

Oh, so this thread belongs someplace like "Other Basic." Got it.

I had assumed payment would be required to operate Twitbots and troll farms. Wasn't that most of the commercial use in the past?

This feels like another pointless discussion, like who wins if Superman and Captain Marvel get in a fight.

Don't be confused by party affiliation. That was the same court that enabled the Flint water crisis, new taxes on pensioners to provide corporate tax relief, seize public parks and turn them over to...

Gushing, uncritical review:


https://youtu.be/3foJ6vPSfF0

This guy should watch the other review above.