Commodore BASIC was bloody horrible even by the standards of the 1980s, but it was my first programming language & I still have a soft spot for it somewhere. I was only a kid though, and my programs were simplistic and crap.
I did this with my C64 when I was around 8. I remember going through the BASIC tutorials in the manual (when home computers came with programming manuals). Later, I would go down to the library and take out books like "Write Your Own Adventure Programs for Your Microcomputer" and "Write Your Own Fantasy Games for Your Microcomputer".
I also had a subscription to Commodore magazine. Still have them in a box somewhere.
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly" "thy micturations are to me" "As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee" "Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes" "And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles" "Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
Perhaps you might want to take your job seriously and actually give a sh.t! What's the point in having to deal with you Special Olympics rejects when we should just go straight to Appeals? While you idiots sit around in bathtubs farting and picking your noses, you should know that there are people out here who actually give a sh.t about their careers, their work, and their dreams.
I think it's appropriate that he's speaking in the third person.
I hope that commercials don't support this feature. But of course they will...
Dad: Hey kids, wanna go to McDonald's for dinner? Kid (to brother/sister): See, TOLD you that PVR'ing McDonald's commercials was a good idea... --- Dude (to Other Dude): Whoa, my pizza tastes like LOBSTER now! Other Dude (to first Dude): Eww, now it tastes like cat food! --- Kid: Mom!! Sparky keeps trying to eat the TV! Mom: I told you not to watch TV while the dog's in the house! ---
"There was this one time I thought my house was haunted. Every night at midnight, the lights would start to flicker randomly. Sometimes they would dim or even turn off in the room I was in. When I went to the basement, the lights went really bright and exploded! I eventually got an exorcist to come in, and he turned out to be an exorcist-slash-sysadmin. Turns out that my firewall went down and someone hacked my lights and security system."
"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reason." -- Douglas Adams
Dolphins probably think we're the dumb ones because we don't understand anything they say.
Given their track record, I'm surprised that the hard drive sector isn't already spinning out of control. If I were in charge, I'd have their heads on a platter.
"The X-Pire program should be available in late January and will cost 2 euros (£1.68) a month. Those who stop paying will not see their images suddenly become viewable, he said, instead they will just not be able to put expiration dates on new images."
I'm sorry, but people who don't even care about their privacy enough to post risque pictures and make them available to the world are not likely to want to pay 2 euros a month to give them an expiry date. In fact, anyone who wants to view the images has to go and download the plugin first. Know what happens in that case? People don't bother and no one sees the pics.
Partyman: Did you see the pics I posted from the party the other night? Friendface: I saw the gallery, but the pictures are all blank. It said something about requiring a plugin. Partyman, Yeah, you need to download the X-Pire plugin to see them. Friendface: Why? Partyman: I want my pictures to automatically expire after a few months so that they don't stay up too long. Friendface: Why don't you just remove them later? Partyman: Too lazy. I'd rather pay someone else to do it. Friendface: You had to pay? Partyman: Sure, it's 2 euro a month. So are you gonna download the plugin? Friendface: Nah, too lazy. I'll pay someone else to look at them.
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It was right in front of their eyes the whole time!
Commodore BASIC was bloody horrible even by the standards of the 1980s, but it was my first programming language & I still have a soft spot for it somewhere. I was only a kid though, and my programs were simplistic and crap.
I did this with my C64 when I was around 8. I remember going through the BASIC tutorials in the manual (when home computers came with programming manuals). Later, I would go down to the library and take out books like "Write Your Own Adventure Programs for Your Microcomputer" and "Write Your Own Fantasy Games for Your Microcomputer".
I also had a subscription to Commodore magazine. Still have them in a box somewhere.
Yes. It's obviously a flying car.
Star Trek Into Darkness => Kirk Dates Nonstarters
I don't think you'd get very far on America's Got Talent with a tiny violin.
And here's the rest:
"Oh freddled gruntbuggly"
"thy micturations are to me"
"As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee"
"Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes"
"And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles"
"Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"
Buy more monitors. Maybe you can get a 6-pack.
Not POTatoes? Oh wait, that's already taken.
From the letter itself:
Perhaps you might want to take your job seriously and actually give a sh.t! What's the point in having to deal with you Special Olympics rejects when we should just go straight to Appeals? While you idiots sit around in bathtubs farting and picking your noses, you should know that there are people out here who actually give a sh.t about their careers, their work, and their dreams.
I think it's appropriate that he's speaking in the third person.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
FTFY
"...and warns the wearer when anything gets too close."
Does it do so by turning the wearer's sunglasses completely black?
New on the menu: Lobster-fed Lobster with a Fish Stock Reduction Sauce.
If the building being burned down is included in what you call "working itself out", then yes.
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Modded funny, but you're absolutely right. Maybe it should be titled:
"Coder" Doesn't Know How to Change Preferences
Emphasis on "preferences". Yellow comments on a white background? Really? This is MORE readable?
How about a dog? Or a dog with bees in its mouth so when it barks it shoots bees at you?
I hope that commercials don't support this feature. But of course they will...
Dad: Hey kids, wanna go to McDonald's for dinner?
Kid (to brother/sister): See, TOLD you that PVR'ing McDonald's commercials was a good idea...
---
Dude (to Other Dude): Whoa, my pizza tastes like LOBSTER now!
Other Dude (to first Dude): Eww, now it tastes like cat food!
---
Kid: Mom!! Sparky keeps trying to eat the TV!
Mom: I told you not to watch TV while the dog's in the house!
---
Spock vaporizes stone.
Heard sometime in the future:
"There was this one time I thought my house was haunted. Every night at midnight, the lights would start to flicker randomly. Sometimes they would dim or even turn off in the room I was in. When I went to the basement, the lights went really bright and exploded! I eventually got an exorcist to come in, and he turned out to be an exorcist-slash-sysadmin. Turns out that my firewall went down and someone hacked my lights and security system."
Exorcist/Sysadmin -- Job of the Future
"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars and so on... while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man... for precisely the same reason." -- Douglas Adams
Dolphins probably think we're the dumb ones because we don't understand anything they say.
Given their track record, I'm surprised that the hard drive sector isn't already spinning out of control. If I were in charge, I'd have their heads on a platter.
From TFA:
"The X-Pire program should be available in late January and will cost 2 euros (£1.68) a month. Those who stop paying will not see their images suddenly become viewable, he said, instead they will just not be able to put expiration dates on new images."
I'm sorry, but people who don't even care about their privacy enough to post risque pictures and make them available to the world are not likely to want to pay 2 euros a month to give them an expiry date. In fact, anyone who wants to view the images has to go and download the plugin first. Know what happens in that case? People don't bother and no one sees the pics.
Partyman: Did you see the pics I posted from the party the other night?
Friendface: I saw the gallery, but the pictures are all blank. It said something about requiring a plugin.
Partyman, Yeah, you need to download the X-Pire plugin to see them.
Friendface: Why?
Partyman: I want my pictures to automatically expire after a few months so that they don't stay up too long.
Friendface: Why don't you just remove them later?
Partyman: Too lazy. I'd rather pay someone else to do it.
Friendface: You had to pay?
Partyman: Sure, it's 2 euro a month. So are you gonna download the plugin?
Friendface: Nah, too lazy. I'll pay someone else to look at them.
So you're saying that it's better not to see color?
Looking it up...
Brake fluid + Everclear = "Stop, Drop and Puke"
Single-malt + drain cleaner (or carpet cleaner for a more "authentic" taste) = "Scotchgard"
Wow, this app is amazing!
New headline: "PG&E Charged With Assault"