Well, I tack a few symbols on, too, but those aren't particularly easy to remember other than through repetition, which kind of blows my argument wide open.
After reading that comment, I don't know why the heck "correct horse battery staple" is somehow supposed to be easier to remember. I use a consistent "leetification" algorithm on my passwords, which is easier for me to remember that four completely random words (initially). Because remembering a horse saying "that's a battery staple" (which in and of itself makes no sense) and some other random person shouting "Correct!" makes so much sense...?
Qwerty is designed to make many common words have letters on alternating sides of the keyboard. This makes it more difficult to infer which word was actually typed, even if you can always tell which side of the keyboard a key press occurred on.
Easy listening: A scientist monitors the reactions of one participant who listens to Marconi Union's song. It claims to be the most relaxing track ever made
It's a song; it doesn't claim anything. Or is there actually a lyric that says "this is the most relaxing track ever"?
Sounds like we would need to set up some kind of legal "early inheritance" then. All those legislators and lawyers have to be good for *something*, right?
I guess the question is whether, if Steve Ballmer is still alive and throwing chairs at J Random Point in the Future, when does the joke stop being topical?
If Microsoft is still in the kind of position it is now in 2106, I think we're going to have more pressing problems than Steve Ballmer. (Also, he'll probably be throwing hammerspace, hovercraft-equipped seating devices.)
4) UI. Who the hell came up with the color picker? Why are commonly used functions buried? Did anyone on the OpenOffice project ever sit down with someone who spends 8 hours a day cranking documents or did they just work off a list of matching features somewhere?
The version of LO I tried (3.2 or 3.3 I think) removed the click-to-apply-current-color functionality of those buttons, instead turning it into a popup. I was surprised and slightly irked. That, and the horrible (in my opinion) way they went about formatting lists that didn't work with OO docs turned me off them pretty fast. I'm just sticking with OO.org 3.2 for now, but then again I'm not a company so YMMV, my $0.02, etc.
Google+ circles are rather one-way. You'd have to "circle" everybody in the "group" to be able to see updates from them, I think? And they'd have to "circle" you back.
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Flue virus. n. the sickness chimney-sweepers get from cleaning too many chimney flues.
...he says as he uses en-dashes.
...says the guy who still fails to mention these things are called "noob tube" and "nuketown."
Optimistic poster is (overly) optimistic.
Mozilla decided Firefox needed some more bing. You know, be getto and all. Gangsta. (Anybody starting to see a pattern of dropped letters here?)
Cthulhu will flay you for your inability to even remotely accurately spell his name.
Yep, I remember that one, but can't seem to find the link. Both here and here have hardly any comments.
You *do* know how loose the definition of pedophile is these days, right?
East Germany
Well, I tack a few symbols on, too, but those aren't particularly easy to remember other than through repetition, which kind of blows my argument wide open.
After reading that comment, I don't know why the heck "correct horse battery staple" is somehow supposed to be easier to remember. I use a consistent "leetification" algorithm on my passwords, which is easier for me to remember that four completely random words (initially). Because remembering a horse saying "that's a battery staple" (which in and of itself makes no sense) and some other random person shouting "Correct!" makes so much sense...?
Qwerty is designed to make many common words have letters on alternating sides of the keyboard. This makes it more difficult to infer which word was actually typed, even if you can always tell which side of the keyboard a key press occurred on.
FTFY. Qwerty
Either that, or a listener is claiming to be a track on an album.
Easy listening: A scientist monitors the reactions of one participant who listens to Marconi Union's song. It claims to be the most relaxing track ever made
It's a song; it doesn't claim anything. Or is there actually a lyric that says "this is the most relaxing track ever"?
Sounds like we would need to set up some kind of legal "early inheritance" then. All those legislators and lawyers have to be good for *something*, right?
I guess the question is whether, if Steve Ballmer is still alive and throwing chairs at J Random Point in the Future, when does the joke stop being topical?
Cryogenic freezing? Maybe somebody could thaw you out every once in awhile for a look around, too.
We've always been at war with Eurasia?
If Microsoft is still in the kind of position it is now in 2106, I think we're going to have more pressing problems than Steve Ballmer. (Also, he'll probably be throwing hammerspace, hovercraft-equipped seating devices.)
"I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice."
"The Longevity Vaccine" kind of sounds like they're developing a cure for longevity, though...
Honestly, when are we going to get pas the stupidity of religion and embrace the fact that you can have sex without making babies?
Birth Control people, it's not a new invention..
Yeah, because religion is the only reason somebody would ever not use birth control.
4) UI. Who the hell came up with the color picker? Why are commonly used functions buried? Did anyone on the OpenOffice project ever sit down with someone who spends 8 hours a day cranking documents or did they just work off a list of matching features somewhere?
The version of LO I tried (3.2 or 3.3 I think) removed the click-to-apply-current-color functionality of those buttons, instead turning it into a popup. I was surprised and slightly irked. That, and the horrible (in my opinion) way they went about formatting lists that didn't work with OO docs turned me off them pretty fast. I'm just sticking with OO.org 3.2 for now, but then again I'm not a company so YMMV, my $0.02, etc.
FTFY
All valid points, but let's be honest—do you really visit "hundreds of sites" on a regular basis? Really?
Google+ circles are rather one-way. You'd have to "circle" everybody in the "group" to be able to see updates from them, I think? And they'd have to "circle" you back.