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OK, HTML/CSS/JS isn't 100% consistent either, but still, a
<b>tag is a<b>tag is a<b>tag, no matter the browser.Admin
b { font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; }
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…OK, have a Like just for the sheer cheek :stuck_out_tongue:
Maybe I should have used a BBCode example instead…
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still vulnerable to CSS
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No more than cooked Markdown :stuck_out_tongue:
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Only an issue if you don't access all web services using RESTFUL APIs with curl!
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I prefer the "Phone support!" one better actually.
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Somewhere there is a skeleton, in a room, undiscovered for years, covered in dust and cobwebs, holding a phone receiver to where its ear would have been. He was the very last person to call for Initech Personal Computer support.
He was put on hold so they could do a quick meeting with the manager. But the quick meeting turned out to be in the building across the square...and as soon as the last (former) employee was out, they locked the door on his heels;and posted a sign that the company was "bank-bustered" and for back wages call "Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe" (with apologies to Jake Vest).
So no one ever got back to the poor caller for Initech Personal Computer support.
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I've been using *italics* or _italics_ since the AIM days. I've also used "# Header" a bunch too. > as a blockquote character is something anybody who has ever used text-only email already does. Making boldface be double italics may be a bit annoying, but it makes a vague sense. * * * for a horizontal rule comes straight from the way books are often typeset.
I literally had notes that were in something very close to Markdown syntax before there was a Markdown syntax.
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*foo* and _foo_ aren't italics, they're <em>phasis. Similarly, **foo** and __foo__ aren't bold, they're <strong>er emphasis.
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FTFY
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(1) I don't understand why we call them desktop machines when we usually put them on the floor under the desk. And for that matter why we call them laptop machines when they are majoritarily used on top of desks... Maybe this is like the "portable" televisions you used to see in the US back in the CRT days. A 30-inch CRT TV is "portable" if it has a handle on top... (The 21 inch Iiyama CRT monitor I installed on a work PC in 1995 weighed something like 70 pounds and took two people to install if you wanted to avoid workplace injuries when picking it up...)
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For those who are truly curious, think about http://thedailywtf.com/articles/CompuMart-Support,-Part-1-Windows-96%C2%BD--More
And the pink ("salmon-coloured"?) posting style advice box can fucking fuck the fuck off.
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Once you've gone to the effort of supporting
\nand\r\n, you might as well support\ras well; the effort is about the same.Admin
Don't make fun of this awful shit you inflicted on us. Fuck you.
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I think the transcript may have set a record for typos in a single :wtf:
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What did you use for bold or underline, then?
99.5% of people have never typeset a book, I have no idea why you would assume the general public would know that.
EDIT: also good quoting there, thanks Discourse.
Ok? You get a cookie? Meanwhile, I had never seen anything like this before, it was like it was beamed down from aliens.
Oh hey, now try to justify why it doesn't make en-dashes or ellipses. Is that a convention when typesetting books? Because I usually see en-dashes and ellipses in books.
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I'm glad to see my skills as an editor did not go unnoticed or unrewarded.
:laughing:
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Sure, but how many of those typos did you HEAR?
Also: Discourse doesn't quote smiley. Fucking Discourse.
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None, whatever the audio is hosted on is blocked by my work. It took me some time to realise there actually was audio and not just an article written in the style of a script for some unfathomable reason.
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The direct downloads of the .mp3 are hosted on thedailywtf.com, for your convenience: http://thedailywtf.com/images/remy/Radio%20WTF%20-%20Quantity%20of%20Service%20(192k).mp3
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I prefer SciTE.
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Your skills might, however, have gone uninclused.
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Thanks. I was going from vague memory. I've never had to deal with Mac line endings personally.
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I had a laptop some years back that had a warning not to use it on your lap, because the bottom got so hot (INB4 :giggity:; the bottom of the computer) that it could potentially cause burns. The hot air blowing out the ventilation openings was useful for keeping your :fa_coffee: warm, though.
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Oh, it was awful when they used to have fans that blew the air out the bottom instead of out the side.
Though, they still don't have it quite right... it's always on the left-hand side, because when it's working hard it can be quite uncomfortable to have your hand in the stream of hot air.
For instance, if you're left-handed...
I didn't notice until three months ago, because I used the trackpad, but I spilled tea on it and underestimated how long it would take to dry out, and fatally shorted it. Now I'm in danger of first-degree burns if I play FTL for more than 20 minutes.
(And the person in the shop I took it to could only find one supplier for (what he's sure is) the trackpad for my computer, and they twice sent a trackpad that was clearly wrong (the same one, hence why I suspect he had got a wrong part number), so he's given up. I would like to look for the part myself but I know b*gger-all about hardware and can't work out what to search for or how to know if any of the results are the right thing, so I'm stuck with a broken trackpad until I next replace my laptop.)
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As I heard it[citation not available], way back in the Windows 2.x days, Microsoft lost the source code for the 16-bit Windows Write that preceded WordPad. So they kept on patching the required-version bytes in write.exe's NE header so that it would run correctly on successive versions of 16-bit Windows. Then they wanted to barf Windows 95 all over our computers(1), and having a mangled 16-bit antique just wouldn't do, so they had to build a new word subprocessor from scratch.
Instead, they built WordPad.
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Not quite, you actually need to copy it into both
%windir%\notepad.exeand%windir%\system32\notepad.exe. Why are there two copies of notepad?Admin
This is now kind of an anachronism. But it goes back to the day when even a modest computer was two rack-mount cabinets side-by-side that weighed about 800 pounds. Naturally, these sat on the floor. (My mental vision is of the HP-3000 Series II.)
So when PC's came out, they were designated "desktop" because you could, actually, put them on a desk. Though not everyone did, even then.
Not everyone came up through that environment. I've seen * * * for books, yes, but all that other markdown was invented for use on the web, and you'd be surprised how few people these days have used it. That's due to a combination of WYSIWYG editors and practice outside of books. YELLING and *emphasis* and _underline_ were all invented by netizens for communication in environments that didn't support the more traditional means.
I doubt if one-in-ten of my office associates would be aware of all of these practices, and even I (who've been hanging around the web in some form for 30 years now) sometimes still have trouble understanding or acquiring these things.
Take _: Until yesterday, I hadn't found the FAQ that let me know how to escape it here in this environment.
Sometimes it's hard for us, living within our respective expertise, to understand that others don't hold that same expertise. But you should try.
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A voice of reason. On TDWTF. :wtf: WTF do you think you're doing? You're not allowed to be reasonable here!
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Someone has to play straight man for the trolls.
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In the land of the unreasonable, the reasonable are unreasonable.
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Agreed! Flagged for inappropriate!
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Is there a badge for that?
If there isn't, maybe there should be one: "Reasonable on TDWTF". It would only have to be given to a few people.
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Special snowflake may apply.
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Warning: Truly special snowflakes may be subjected to cryogenic storage.
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That was the very next post I read (the other one where you said that) and had this strange "voodoo" feeling again.
I rest my case, Your Honour!
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Ummm...I'm sorry I was reasonable.
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That's a very reasonable thing to say.
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I guess I'm just a hopeless case.
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And I also remember when purpose-designed tower cases (not all meant to be used on the floor, by the way - if the floppy and CD drives are at the bottom of the tower, it is meant to be on the desk, duh) started to become available, at which point there were desktop and tower cases (desktop == horizontal, tower == vertical).
And the point about tower-mode on early PCs is well-taken: the PC/AT had an optional tower-mounting kit available, and IBM's attention to detail was such that the instructions for mounting the machine in the tower kit included a step where you rotated the PC/AT badge in its housing so the lettering was still upright.
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What is your left hand doing on the left of the laptop? My complaint with the fan blowing out the left side is that is where my USB ports and video adapter is and it gets pretty hot. (I'm left handed but use my right hand for the mouse as well as other tools that are ergonomically made for the right hand).
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If you train yourself to use the touchpad properly, you keep your hands on top of the machine, not at the side. :smiley: :trolleybus:
And the vent on my machine is at the rear…
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I don't recall seeing any ergo mice, which are not symmetrical, that are made for left-handers; I certainly didn't when I was shopping for a new mouse recently (at $discount_consumer_electronics_store, so the lack of specialty items was not surprising).
However, I use the symmetry of mice to my advantage. I'm fairly ambidextrous, and to minimize the discomfort of my (usually) mild RSI, I freely alternate mouse usage between my hands. I don't swap mouse buttons; that would get really confusing.
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Impossible!
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