Well, I would prefer straight quotes (minute symbol) over ’, which only exists (or should exist) in a windows character set. The UTF value for the apostrophe is 8217, and that's what they should be using.
Although, using ' is way better than having the actual ASCII-coded value of 146, but it still seemed a bit odd.
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Of course, in they way they are most often [mis]used, affect is a verb and effect is a noun.
No, I think it says something about you :). Remember, this is slashdot.
Wow! It's vapourware and it still wins!
Whatever it is, it seems to be working.
That's hardly news.
You just don't have the right to know you're using it until months later..
Link please?
Hmm, there must've been a mistake. A copy and paste error, perhaps? Anyway, here's the link everyone's really looking for.
It's okay.. I have excellent karma.. I can handle it.. *aaarggh*
This is before bow 'n' arrows, back in a time when lasers were the weapon of choice.
I don't remember seeing this much complaining when slashdot posted article about Spamalot. Maybe I just have a bad memory though.
What if we get stuck to a nearby asteroid with high metal concentrations? I guess the key is to latch onto one that's going the same place you are...
If only computer programmers were the ones that drafted laws..
In Soviet Russia software patents you!
Apparently he wasn't bitten by a radioactive water spider.
That made it even more confusing for those of us that didn't know it was a video game :P
Well, I would prefer straight quotes (minute symbol) over ’, which only exists (or should exist) in a windows character set. The UTF value for the apostrophe is 8217, and that's what they should be using.
Although, using ' is way better than having the actual ASCII-coded value of 146, but it still seemed a bit odd.
’? On apple.com? On the Safari page? *cringe*
What do they use to make their webpages, Frontpage?
Make sure you read the whole title. It's quite misleading otherwise.
Don't they mean a rip-once only DVD?
In PDF format, no less!
I won't mod you down, but I probably would have if you had said "digg".
Well, that's cutting it pretty close, but okay.
Not a member, but I am a CS major at the U of R :). Never thought I would see this thread on slashdot.
I'm going to be so pissed off when I'm proven right on this.
No, you'll be dead.
How much more standard can you get than Visual Basic?