• (cs)

    Woah, deja vu...

    I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...

  • invincible (unregistered) in reply to Jim Steichen
    Jim Steichen:
    Who decides if it's the "Right Tray"? If the printer is spun 180 degrees on either of two of its major axii, the right tray would be on the left. If you select "No" for right tray, does that make it "Wrong"? Sometimes thinking too much like a computer makes me cross-eyed. Captcha: ewww (How appropriate!)

    Well, on most printers I've seen, you can distinguish between front and back. "Right" would be on the right side when I'm facing the front of the printer, since usually it's very hard to access the trays if you've rotated it 180 degrees.

    It's sort of like if I'm standing opposite someone, his right hand doesn't suddenly become his left hand if he spins around.

  • (cs) in reply to Phlip
    Phlip:
    Woah, deja vu...

    I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...

    I thought that.

  • AnonAndOnAndOn (unregistered) in reply to Phlip
    Phlip:
    Woah, deja vu...

    I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...

    Heh, I thought that also but just figured I'd seen it on a different site.

    I like the printer one though :)

  • nerdierthanu (unregistered) in reply to adamb
    adamb:
    Harvest person records? I didn't know you could do that!

    0x0 resolution? I didn't know you could do that!

  • (cs) in reply to MichaelWojcik
    MichaelWojcik:
    KattMan:
    Regardless of the fact of it's grammatical error...
    I call subtle irony.

    Yeah, so true. As has been pointed out by so many others. Not even I am immune.

  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to KattMan
    KattMan:
    I know, this is one of my personal peeves. People are writing more and more how they speak, and they don't speak properly.
    The one that irritates me most these days is, "The thing is is...". Why does "is" have to be doubled? Or tripled?
  • Sgt. Preston (unregistered) in reply to nerdierthanu
    nerdierthanu:
    0x0 resolution? I didn't know you could do that!
    It's the future of ultrasmall portable communications hardware. The Apple version will be called the iMolecule. Every teenager will be desperate to have one.
  • M (unregistered) in reply to ParkinT

    Supposively and Irregardless. They fight crime.

  • Arioch (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous

    or put all the lables in any visual GUI editor, made them invisible and only making visible one required of each group.

    It is clear that they failed to calculate positions, otherwise they'd just made an artificial mouse lcicks onto them :-)

  • 1timepost (unregistered) in reply to adamb

    HA HA!

    made my evening.

  • blah blah blah (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston

    Because the speaker is thinking of "the thing is" as an idiomatic noun phrase. It's like saying "the situation is". Now replace "the situation" with the idiom and you get a doubled word. It may be stupid but it is perfectly grammatical. And the idiom does carry along it's own definition which could give a very slight difference in meaning.

    You can't stop language change. I predict that 50 years from now 'of' will officially be a variant spelling of 'have'.

    Was this a programming blog?

  • blah blah blah (unregistered) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    KattMan:
    I know, this is one of my personal peeves. People are writing more and more how they speak, and they don't speak properly.
    The one that irritates me most these days is, "The thing is is...". Why does "is" have to be doubled? Or tripled?
    oops. Previous reply was meant to quote this ^^
  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    KattMan:
    Adhominem:
    Dustin:
    apple must of started a food venture.

    iSolyentGreen

    The real WTF is writing "of" instead of "have".

    I know, this is one of my personal peeves. People are writing more and more how they speak, and they don't speak properly.

    I share that peeve along with the 'spoken' abuses: Supposively and Irregardless

    It's an atrocimacy, I tells ya.

  • Anonymous (unregistered)

    I think the Apple one is probably the result of outsourcing to china, as it seems like a literal translation from chinese to english, or engrish. Captcha: doom

  • Justin Wignall (unregistered)

    I too was going to send in "This person record requires harvesting" Apple support basically just said "register a new account", saves them sorting problems out I suppose...

  • (cs) in reply to Sgt. Preston
    Sgt. Preston:
    KattMan:
    I know, this is one of my personal peeves. People are writing more and more how they speak, and they don't speak properly.
    The one that irritates me most these days is, "The thing is is...". Why does "is" have to be doubled? Or tripled?
    Mine is "a whole nother ..." WTF is a "nother"?
  • hognoxious (unregistered) in reply to BrownHornet
    BrownHornet:
    Mine is "a whole nother ..." WTF is a "nother"?
    I don't know, but I see it allot.
  • (cs) in reply to BrownHornet
    BrownHornet:
    Mine is "a whole nother ..." WTF is a "nother"?
    It's another with a whole in it.
  • (cs) in reply to hognoxious
    hognoxious:
    BrownHornet:
    Mine is "a whole nother ..." WTF is a "nother"?
    I don't know, but I see it allot.

    a very lot, in fact

  • Variable (unregistered)

    Huh. Saw that first box today, actually. Sharp MX-3501 printer or similar, IIRC.

    The picture of the printer changes to match the settings you choose, so you can see if your actual unit matches the settings... ;)

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