> difficult to dump a piece of data to the disk without converting it into text first

Sounds like you need to add some pickle

I won't use VB.NET because it would destroy my VB6 knowledge to use something almost, but not entirely, completely different.

Nope, the default is machine code, p-code is an option.

Older VBs compiled to bytecode (p-code) by default, but the compiler for VB6 produces proper executables. p-code is a selectable compile time option (along with some optimizations and the ability to disable some checks).

What it does do it LINK to a runtime. Most of the datatypes are in there, the arrays are bounds checked, etc. The performance of VB datatypes are responsible for most of it's reputation as slow - in particular it's string handling (it lacks an inbuilt StringBuilder type).

If you're aware of it's limitations, you can do some good stuff with it. It's ideal for small (or even large) GUI apps, with a few libraries to replace some it's more egregious emissions you'd even call it professional.

What it's not is modern, object-oriented, possible to get documentation on the web (easily - the best source of documentation is the last MSDN Library disk set that contained it's docs).

The main thing you have to do is...

* Turn on indexing service
* Configure it to index unknown file types
* Turn it off again (presuming you have it off)

Now the basic file search will look in files with extensions it doesn't grok when searching for text. Insane that this option isn't in the advanced search panel.

That's version 11.2

Yes, they've fixed the bugs in it. But it's not the mainstream version, which is 16.

There are plenty of sites that already depend on newer versions of Flash. Try running Card Hunter on Linux : you'll need Chrom(e|ium) with it's bundled Flash for that to work, and that's just over three minor versions (it requires 11.5)

So for given use cases, Flash already stopped working in Firefox for Linux. Supporting PPAPI probably is the only way it will work again.

But personally, I'd vote for "Long Gone". Why bother with Flash when you can do stuff like this directly in a modern browser?

Until the temperature goes up enough for all those frozen methane clathrates at the bottom of the ocean to destabilise... or some idiots go looking to disturb them for fun and profit. Oh, they are already.

Then, whoof! Up it goes.

The requirements in those fields don't change.

"Drop the bomb on the target" is a problem defined by the laws of physics. I've seen artillery pieces with old brass analog computers that still work perfectly.

"Make a system that automates the processing of the asinine new rules for Job Seekers Allowance" is a moving target.

Depends what the requirements are.

Usually, this sort of thing happens because requirements are changing faster than the old system can be maintained to keep up.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is to help automate the swingeing series of "sanctions" that are carried out to remove the benefits from job seekers in this country.

Things like suspending their payments for...

* Being late for an appointment at the job centre (by approx 2 minutes).... because they were attending a job interview
* Not attending a job interview
* Applying for 6 jobs one week, and 3 jobs the next, and not realising that the directive to apply for 4 jobs a week is not met by an *average*
* Applying for jobs on Monday and Friday, then being sanctioned because the accounting is done Tuesday and the count of jobs on Monday wasn't high enough

This is South Africa.

The "delays" are more likely to do with the fact that Uber have failed to grease the right palms.

Indeed ; combine it with a cargo trailer and you have a sale : I have a small 2-door car that's a little snug when loaded with three people and their Christmas luggage. That Christmas trip is one of the few occasions I drive it more than 130 miles in a day. I'd happily rent a range-extending trailer with some cargo space in it for those occasions.

As a post above points out, the hydrogen supply isn't up to it.

The main supply of hydrogen today is ... yes, you guessed it, fossil fuels. Electrolytic production of hydrogren doesn't even come close. And it's ridiculously inefficient compared to battery electric vehicles.

The only useful thing that hydrogen has going for it is a fast fill time. On every other metric, it sucks balls - range, complexity, safety, price of storage equipment, price of equipment to convert it into useful work, energy efficiency.

This is a play by the fossil fuel industry aimed at either preserving some market for them or delaying the adoption of electric vehicles, they don't care which.

This one is a King amongst toasters

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dualit...

You're the second person to make this mistake in the thread.

"Danielle". Not "Daniel."

ie, a woman.

Interesting bias. A professor of engineering has to be a man, right?

And to a system not directly mounted as user accessible files, or they'll encrypt your backups too.

So you want a network storage server specifically configured to only permit create and append, but not delete.