What generals generally doReading a McChrystal thread elsewhere, I came across someone quoting a
US general
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
> I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
> during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for
> Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a
> racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and
> especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped
> make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to
> collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central
> American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify
> Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in
> 19021912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American
> sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the
> American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it
> that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I
> might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to
> operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three
> continents.[12]
>
Well, I wish the current generals would admit 1/1000 that much!
--
Igor
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler
>
>> I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and
>> during that period I s...
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> Someone just hit me over 70 times inside 3 minutes on TCP ports over
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I have a problem where perhaps some one could help point me in the right direction.
In Delphi 6 I used a stand alone package to train a neural netowrk,. The trained neural network was stored as a .DEF file.
The standalone software provided a .DLL and Delphi code to call the network and get the prediced values from your sw. (The .DLL was created in 2002 and apparently is 32 bit.)
I have'nt used it for years but am now coming back to it.... I now use Delphi XE on Windows 7 (32 bit)
The old .exe's I had compiled from that time work fine.
However in Delphi XE when I try to compile the code below it seems that the call to the .DLL does'nt work
Does anyone have any suggestions. I apologise for the length of this email.
Kind regards,
Adrian
unit ns2delxe;
{$F+,N+}
interface
type
Pdouble = ^double;
function OpenNet(Path: string; var NetNum, NumInputs,
NumOutputs: smallint): smallint; stdcall;
function FireNet(var NetNum: smallint; InAr, OutAr: Pdouble): smallint; stdcall;
function CloseNet(var NetNum: smallint): smallint; stdcall;
implementation
function OpenNet; external 'NS2-32.DLL';
function FireNet; external 'NS2-32.DLL';
function CloseNet; external 'NS2-32.DLL';
end.
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Build Con.....
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I'm getting this error on my web site a bit to often , and I have no idea why and what it is ,
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