Posts made by Zylon
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RE: Cleaning up after EEs
Without the explanation, most of us wouldn't have even known to Google "VHDL".
So I'll put this in terms even you can understand-- Go fuck yourself.
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RE: DPI, image size, cameras, websites, argh?
@ender said:
I never heard of PATA until after SATA appeared - before it was just IDE and SCSI.
PATA is a most likely a retronym, like "manual transmission" when automatic transmissions were introduced.
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RE: Cleaning up after EEs
@Sutherlands said:
That was the joke!
And he was explaining it, because most of us here aren't EE's. So his post was more useful than yours.
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RE: Scorm, or self immolation
If they just want to use SCORM to facilitate communication with the LMS, you'll be fine.
If they want to use SCORM sequencing and navigation... kill yourself now.
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RE: DPI, image size, cameras, websites, argh?
@smxlong said:
It is a continuing source of befuddlement that laypersons insist on using the term "resolution" to mean "the width and height of something in pixels." When we in the field want to refer to that, we say "the width and height of something in pixels."
6/10
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RE: Toshiba doesn't like my search terms
@blakeyrat said:
If my post would be funnier by my pretending I don't understand X (where X is "GREP" or whatever), then I pretend I don't understand X.
What a delightfully convenient metaphorical get-out-of-jail-free card. Genius!
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RE: Toshiba doesn't like my search terms
@blakeyrat said:
Considering in the last month, I've had to explain to posters on this very board what an API contract is, and also why a web browser should have a JavaScript debugger-- I'm starting to think "drooling morons" is generous for programmers.
According to Google, there are all of maybe five relevant instances of the phrase "API contract" on the entire internet. So maybe it's you who is the drooling moron.
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RE: Representative line
@ekolis said:
I think you meant "all people"... or maybe "all people, but especially politicians", or "everyone who is not already on death row"...
I'm pretty sure he didn't mean the incoherent mess you just posted.
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RE: Mystery poster on thedailyWTF
@C-Octothorpe said:
Fix what?
A vivid demonstration that simply because you CAN do something, rarely does it mean you SHOULD.
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RE: DPI, image size, cameras, websites, argh?
@ekolis said:
You should have made it more DPI... by reducing the physical size of the image (in inches) while maintaining the number of pixels! That'll teach them... :D
Uh, that's exactly what he did.
What he should have done was scale the image way down while at the same time setting the DPI really high.
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RE: HTML5/JavaScript! The future of cross-platform development!
@lettucemode said:
For example, going to maps.google.com on my Android brings up a Java applet, not the webpage.
Not on my phone it doesn't. Going to maps.google.com pops up a dialog asking if I want to complete the action using the web browser or the Maps app. The mobile Maps site appears to be straight HTML.
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RE: HTML5/JavaScript! The future of cross-platform development!
@blakeyrat said:
Why do people write replies that are nothing but rephrasing exactly what I just said?
Because you write in such an obnoxious manner that many people learn to ignore your posts.
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RE: Calling show() actually hides
@Zemm said:
Never mind, tweaked my google search and found a skit by Abbott and Costello.
What rock have you been living under that you've never in your life heard the "Who's on First" sketch?
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RE: Music for Generations
@crypti said:
More than 26,660 years (293,557,963 hours) of music is what I call "Music for Generations".
So the point of this post is that you're not very good at naming things?
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RE: HTML5/JavaScript! The future of cross-platform development!
What you're attempting would be more accurately described as DHTML, not HTML5.
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RE: Reboot mandatory, not optional
@frits said:
@erikal said:
Who coined the term "dickweed" and under which circumstances was it done?
This link may prove useful. It looks like it first came into usage in 1984 and was made popular by Master's Bill and Ted during some sort of adventure.Master's WHAT?
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RE: Quick! Someone explain to me how CSS is awesome and great and The Real WTF is me!
A little too obvious, Bridget. You're not going to hook anyone that way.
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RE: Quick! Someone explain to me how CSS is awesome and great and The Real WTF is me!
@Cassidy said:
Sorry, I wanted to refer to them as a collection of style components. Class probably wasn't a good term to use. My bad!
That wasn't why I argh'd. It was because you're using a dippy made-up taxonomy for HTML tags, thus adding even more confusion to an already-confused thread. Knock it off. <strong> <em> etc aren't "style components", they're "semantic markup". -
RE: Quick! Someone explain to me how CSS is awesome and great and The Real WTF is me!
@Cassidy said:
I feel the point of <strong> is that it's a style class/group, rather than a style element/component.
Argh, stop saying that. The correct terminology (or "big words" as Andy would say) is that <strong> is a semantic tag, while <b> <i> etc are presentational.
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RE: The inexorable march of progress
@Zecc said:
No, he didn't.@Thuktun said:
Those metaphorical horses have already been led to the water
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RE: Representative line
@C-Octothorpe said:
@dhromed said:
:3
Your smiley looks like boobies, and that makes me happy.Apparently you haven't seen real boobies in a very, very long time.
PROTIP: The nipples go on the dangly parts, not above them.
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RE: Overheard at Work
Overheard too many times on the internet-- "The Atari 2600 was a 4-bit system."
SIGH.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@MiffTheFox said:
Except that the poster child system for "content creation"- the Apple Macintosh- is as we speak phasing out mice for a touchpad.
Holy mother of god you're dumb. First, Apple isn't phasing out mice. Second, as has been explained many times to you, in increasingly smaller, simpler words, touchpads are inherently inferior to mice for performing precision work. Serious content creators will never give them up.@TheCPUWizard said:
I have been using Voice for quite some time and find it quite effective for "arbitrary thoughts", I also know some (Reasonably well established) authors who also use voice.
And what do you use for correction of the inevitable errors that voice transcription induces? Oh yeah-- keyboards. And god help trying to perform editing via a voice interface. -
RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@serguey123 said:
As I said before what bother me is that attitude of avoiding change at all costs, for fuck sake get over it already, a keyboard and a mice are far from perfect, maybe, just maybe there is something better out there.
For the task of translating arbitrary thoughts into words on a screen, a full-size, full-stroke, physical keyboard is literally the best solution there is, and will continue to be so until brain-computer interfaces are perfected. All non-keyboard text input technologies put all their energies into attempting to compensate for the fact that they're not a keyboard.As for mice, for precise control they're unassailable. Touch input, while useful in certain specific ways, is inherently precision-limited by the clunky human finger, on touchscreens presents the disadvantage of your hand obscuring what you're doing, and requires physically moving your hand across the entire display surface, which with tablet-sized and larger displays requires significantly more physical effort than using a mouse. Mice are such a simple, fundamental concept -- mapping the motion of your hand directly to motion input -- that any alternative must almost necessarily be more complex and/or labor-intensive.
Airheaded futurists (like you, apparently) are a profoundly irritating affliction on the tech industry. Always more interested in the lastest Shiny New Thing than Getting Shit Done. Hence, for example, the wave of cool-but-useless 3D gesture interfaces after Minority Report came out.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@serguey123 said:
Perhaps in 3 years (that is the expected lifecycle of win 8) touchscreens will be commonplace and normal pc dinosaurs.
I see you haven't been paying much attention to the detailed explanations of why that can never happen.
Long story short: Touchscreens for content consumption, M+K for content creation (and decent games).
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@serguey123 said:
I mean, almost every Windows OS lets you revert to a certain degree to the previous interface
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RE: Stupid Hiring Manager
@Weng said:
Maybe my memory is off, but I'm pretty sure writable DVD standards hadn't been solidified in the Win2k era. DVD itself was still young. Hell, I'm pretty sure that in that era, *CD* burners were still exotic and expensive.
Oh please. The first Windows 95 system I built had a CD burner in it, and it wasn't particularly expensive.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@PJH said:
What keyboard? Isn't the whole point of a touchscreen to get rid of the keyboard?
The point of a touchscreen is to provide a "good enough" substitute for a mouse and keyboard so that you can deliver a compact mobile device.Once you're sitting at a desk, with plenty of room for the aforementioned superior input devices, the arguments in favor of a touch screen are tenuous at best.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@locallunatic said:
Why the hell would you set up a touch screen in the same manner as a display only screen? Wouldn't it make more sense to orient it at an angle and height like that of a drafting table?
Congratulations, now you have a tilted desk that dumps everything onto the floor, and you have to reach over/around the keyboard to touch the screen.
Or perhaps you meant putting only the monitor down at desk height, angled up. Now you're in violation of correct ergonomic monitor placement, which should place the top of the monitor at eye level. And you're back to having to lift your arm to reach over the keyboard.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@serguey123 said:
FTFY
No, you just made it dumb and wrong and fixed nothing.
Are you sitting in front of a desktop computer right now? Try holding your arm up and lightly resting a finger on the center of your monitor. Now hold it there for, say, a minute. Now imagine doing that [b]all day[/b].
Touch computing works fine for handheld devices, where operating them takes little more than wrist movement. For the desktop though, it's an ergonomic trainwreck.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@MiffTheFox said:
I never said any genres were going away-- just that PC games would become more like those for Android and iOS rather then those for Xbox and PlayStation.
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RE: Just another day at Bethesda
@MiffTheFox said:
Keyboard? In a few years nearly every PC game will be solely touchscreen controlled anyways.
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RE: The Horror of the Mover
@Rootbeer said:
@mott555 said:
Wrong meaning of the phrase "looks like", genius. He literally meant it looks like what it is, not that he's guessing that it's a bash script.Looks ugly, but it also looks like a bash script and I've never seen a bash script that wasn't ugly.
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RE: More Adobe WTF
@dhromed said:
Word drops cleartype for anything above a certain size, in favour of shitty greyscale semi-hinted antialias. AAAAAAAAAAAH.
More properly stated, Word drops shitty color-fringed ClearType for anything above a certain size, in favor of crisp, clean greyscale antialiasing.
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RE: Three levels deep
@frits said:
Trolling exists and I don't even care if I respond to it.
That's because you're an idiot. But we already knew that.
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RE: Three levels deep
@frits said:
You have been trolled. You have lost.@Lorne Kates said:
Recursion is too academic, and isn't used in the real world.
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RE: Technical knowledege fail
@DeLos said:
Reminds me of the first time I heard someone refer to a .gif file as a Jiff and not the Giff I had always used.
Choosy programmers choose GIF.
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RE: Short but insane Adobe WTF
@blakeyrat said:
Unless I actually NEED one of Adobe's bullshit PDF features (like running JS in the PDF or whatever), now I just view PDFs by either dragging them into Chrome (which has a non-WTF PDF reader and, as a full-featured web browser, is much smaller and less annoying than Adobe's PDF Reader), or email them to myself and let some Google magic translate them into HTML.
Not smart enough to permanently associate PDFs with Chrome, eh? Or to add Chrome to your SendTo folder? Or to install an alternative PDF reader like Foxit?
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RE: The most complicated captcha, ever. Maybe.
This is what happens when Python coders write CAPTCHAs.
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RE: Customer service needs some refactoring
@Mason Wheeler said:
Yup. My personal favorite is when I'm on the phone with
VerizonFrontier and they ask for my phone number. That evokes a special tone of sarcasm and contempt from me that I usually reserve only for politicians and iDiots. "You mean to tell me that you're the phone company and you do not have Caller ID?"Because people ONLY ever call customer support from their home phone. Dingbat.
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RE: Liferay? More like deathray ...
@QJo said:
As an R&D exercise, no, don't laugh, we've been trying to set up Liferay as a WSRP producer and SharePoint as a WSRP consumer.
I'm going to assume that this gibberish is something about World of Warcraft.
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RE: Please find the developer
@DaveK said:
"Please do not press this button again."
The beautiful shiny button. The jolly candy-like button!
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RE: Don't test, it gets in the way of code coverage
@dohpaz42 said:
I have a gel mouse wrist wrest on my mousepad, and I have it turned around so that my wrist doesn't wrest on it...
So you're saying that you've wrested the rest from your wrists.
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RE: 126k lines of code...in one file
Here we have the man who [i]quotes a troll in his signature[/i] (thereby giving the troll exactly the attention it wants), pretending to be either a) not a troll himself, or b) not stupid. Either one is a rich vein of irony.
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RE: 126k lines of code...in one file
@cconroy said:
@Watson said:
It's truly an impressive piece of work. Slivers (an extremely inappropriate username, but there you go) is obviously highly skilled and shows great dedication.
...to trolling?He's no C-Octothorpe, that's for sure.