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Dear Web Architect,
Directive 595 part 10 is as follows.
As such, please replace all responses with NO or No.
Sincerely,
Chief Architect Gerald
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That "can't release to failure" error isn't AMD-related; it shows up on my system too and I don't have a single AMD component or driver installed. I think it's a Gigabyte thing, actually.
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No,... the translators couldn't translate because they were written in the same different language.
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That arcade photo was taken at Funspot wasn't it? I took a picture of the same thing there but on a different game.
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Oh lisp off and COBOL yourself.
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And yet the description card reads "Standard microwave touch controls", moron.
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Congratulations moron, you got the joke. By the way moron, signatures are usually on a separate line, instead of separated by a comma.
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Public Enum Boolean Yes No
no NO NOOOOOOOO FileNotFound end enum
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The Vicar of Dibley was the first thing I thought of. It used to run here (Seattle WA USA), loved that show.
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The title bar is reasonably clear (though a little odd), then they screwed it up with an overly-long and complicated explanation of what the title means.
Better: Windows Easy Transfer can only transfer files This Easy Transfer file was created on a computer running a different language to this one, so Windows Easy Transfer cannot transfer any settings.
Of course even better would be to say that before even selecting the file, rather than as a dialog partway through the process.
Best would be to use the proper term - COPY! I mean COPY!
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Just some lovely ambiguity with the use of "only" in the English language (which, as we all know, does not use positional syntax a la Latin). Along the lines of Facebook's "X only shares some information with everyone." Perfectly fine grammar, but caused me a triple-take when I first encountered it. What is clearly meant is, "X has chosen to keep this information private."
Now, as to preferences not being transferable between languages, it's easy to imagine situations in which different languages have different preference choices, making preference transfer more of a translation. It might not be such a huge task between languages along the same branch of the family tree such as English and Danish, but could become a nightmare with multi-byte languages (such as I routinely deal with) and right-to-left scripts, etc.
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I bow before your genius, sir.
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[]Microsoft has a devil []put aside []for me []For Me []FOR MEEEEEEE!
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Wow! That's the complete opposite of what I have always considered the sensible opinion. Classic style microwave interfaces are far superior to any others, since they allow you - the user - to control the microwave. You decide the effect and time, and it does what you tell it. With 15 touch buttons, auto defrost and +- control to navigate menus, you'll invariably end up with the microwave buzzing and rotating your food for a couple of minutes, finishing off with an annoying beep instead of a pleasant bell, and the food being barely lukewarm.
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The underlying Registry keys are localized on localized versions of Windows and Windows Applications. There is pretty much no way you could figure out what any given setting should map to since they could come from arbitrary 3rd party applications.
As for the wording, it's possibly not the greatest piece of English ever written, however it is perfectly correct.
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There is nothing wrong with petabyte dialog, The size of harddisk is reasonable, and the size of free space also. The size of source file is bogus, perhaps it can happen if you have hardlinks in source directory, or if network filesystem has reported extraneos info (damn fuckng samba).
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It's much like assuming when they say they are 15 they're really 18, or when they say their 18, they're really 18....
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you are wrong.
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Maybe this is one of those cases when no can also mean yes..
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I have no problems with that at all. Say I want to warm up something for 16 seconds. Put it in the microwave. timer to 5 minutes, close the door, count to sixteen, open the door.
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You mean, you can actually do that???
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More than 20 is a challenge, I think he runs out of fingers and toes.
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Maybe for random access counting. If you're only going sequentially, most competent readers of this site should be able to get up to just over 17 minutes with two hands. The 3rd and 6th bit can be hard to set to 1 when 2/4 and 5/7 are 0, but it works with practice.
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I was thinking the same thing!
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I like the new Ford NULL
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"So which version of, 'No', don't you understand?"
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Gee gee gee gee gee
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Me too, and I found a specific collection of them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InTAt2hI_kg
(and I'm now adding more text to try to make this comment less spammy, for the filter)
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I thought I recognised the Astron Belt thing. Then I realised I took exactly the same photo in September 2011.
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They really need to fix that.