The Old New Thing

January 23, 2004 - The Old New Thing

German, the language of love?

January 23, 2004 Jan 23, 2004 01/23/04
Raymond Chen
Love lures French kids to German: Come and learn German - a language of love! Hundreds of advertisements in France this week will promote the unusual message to try to woo teenagers to a language they often consider difficult and ugly. "Language is the key to understand a partner, his culture, working manners and lifestyle," [...

The white flash

January 23, 2004 Jan 23, 2004 01/23/04
Raymond Chen
If you had a program that didn't process messages for a while, but it needed to be painted for whatever reason (say, somebody uncovered it), Windows would eventually lose patience with you and paint your window white. Or at least, that's what people would claim. Actually, Windows is painting your window with your class background brush. Since...