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I just noticed a new customer has emailed me a scanned image of a spreadsheet (where he has printed and then written on the document) of a set of numbers (only about 300 total) needed for a one-time setup. I had asked for the spreadsheet to use for an import, something we do all the time and could have been done in 5 minutes...and this is what I get! Some users, I get a bad feeling about right off the bat, and this is one of them. It was confirmed in the first minute of conversation when he corrected my enunciation of the word 'elementary'...his version (the correct one) is to stress the 'tar' syllable. Then he apologized for correcting me, and gave me a lesson about how Northerners are more abrupt by nature. I pretended to sound interested and made sure to adjust my dialect and personality to match his. Oh well, during the time that I have been complaining about it, I could be halfway through manually entering the values into a spreadsheet! Just thought others might find amusing...probably not. Rant over. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Just stick it back through a scanner and OCR and turn it back to a spreadsheet! 
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That is somewhat like the "just delete it" response to spam. 
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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How?
I thought it more like "The fly" where it goes back through the teleporter to undo the badness and get back what went in at the start. 
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And it doesn't matter how much you wash yourself afterwards, you still feel dirty.
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kmoorevs wrote: he corrected my enunciation of the word 'elementary'...his version (the correct
one) is to stress the 'tar' syllable
You should reply that actually the correct pronunciation, and spelling, of 'elementarie' is to stress all syllables equally as it is a Norman French word.
I hate English language pedants, the langue is too messed up to get pedantic about.
Just today someone told me you cant have 'hung' a man, he has to be 'hanged', because he read it in a dictionary. Complete bollocks. Its a weak/strong verb difference, that's all, like learnt/learned, wove/weaved etc.
You CAN split the infinitive and you can say 'john and me'. 
Anyway, rant over.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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What's perhaps most confusing about the English language is that there are two major ones. English and American.
There's 'color' and there's 'colour', there's 'center' and there's 'centre' etc.
I used to write 'color' and 'centre', now I know better than to put them in the same text
What I understand from a friend who studies English is that it's a language that is constructed of exceptions.
I wouldn't know them, I always thought English had very little grammar, or at least you don't really have to know about it to do it right.
And maybe I'm not doing it right at all 
Try German or French... Now those are horrible languages.
In German, for example, you have to know if a word is 'male', 'female' or 'neutral', der, das oder die. Dependent on the word and who you are talking about you use 'dem' or 'den' (and then there's a few more I think) and you can write 'sie' or 'Sie' (the capital gives it a different meaning)... 
And I understood it's still easy compared to the Slavonic languages, such as Czech where the 'your', 'his', 'her' part is included in the word. So 'his bike' and 'her bike' would both be one word that's spelled differently (something like 'biko' for 'his bike' or 'biku' for 'her bike' (for the record, that was gibberish))
Of course that's what they all say about Dutch too 
Do you know that (ancient) South Park song where Cartman sings about Kyle's mom who he thinks is a bitch? He sings it in different (gibberish) languages and the last language he sings is (supposed to be) Dutch. I always though it was Russian until I actually saw the episode. Apparently we talk like a records that played backwards And apparently I think that's how Russian sounds
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: Of course that's what they all say about Dutch too
You're from the Netherlands, you don't speak Dutch
Sander Rossel wrote: there's 'center' and there's 'centre' etc
I always thought there to be a different meaning to those two words:
center being the center of a object and centre being a place, guess I was wrong
modified 31-May-14 19:24pm.
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Tom Deketelaere wrote: You're from the Netherlands, you don't speak Dutch
I speak Netherlandish? Nah, I speak Dutch 
Tom Deketelaere wrote: I always thought there to be a different meaning to those two words:
center being the center of a object and centre being a place, guess I was wrong
I told you it was confusing. By complete coincidence this was just posted on 9gag[^] 
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Sander Rossel wrote: What's perhaps most confusing about the English language is that there are two
major ones. English and American.
THey are the same language with a few intentional spelling changes, but otherwise identical compared to the variability of English within England.
What is odd is Indian English, that has truly developed some odd words.
Sander Rossel wrote: Try German or French... Now those are horrible languages.
German is a nightmare, French, non, c'est facile. En fait je le trouve tres simple.
Dutch is pretty simple too, but what differentiates these from English is that there is no central govt body, or any body, that manages the language, that dictates its spelling, or its use. Instead English is defined by its use, thus there are truly no rules, and it will, as it has done, evolve to fit people needs with a freedom other languages can only envy. And that, coupled with its fundamental simplicity, is in part why it is so popular.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: French, non, c'est facile. En fait je le trouve tres simple.
Non?
I learned English as a second language by playing games and watching tv and I think I'm doing quite alright, so I guess it can't be that difficult
Unless you really get into the language (like study it), but that goes for any language I guess.
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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Munchies_Matt wrote: the langue is too messed up to get pedantic about.
Yes, and the spelling is a bitch.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Haha! That was actually spelt in the French way, 'langue' unintentionally!
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Quote: You CAN split the infinitive and you can say 'john and me'.
Perhaps so, but should you?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Yes, you can since they so called 'rules' were invented by pedants in the last few hundred years and have no bearing at all on the fundamental roots of the language. In French, one of the roots of English, you can say 'john et moi'. In Dutch, a simplified Germanic language not unlike old English, you say 'Jan aan Ik' so take your pick, they are both arguably correct.
And the split infinitive rule is just crap, ad back to the original post, the so called expert, the one proposing the centralized BBC/Queens English pronunciation is ignorant of the fact that that way of speaking actually IS a regional accent, known as East Midlands, which is the accent and speech of Chaucer and the power/university center of England which explains why it came to dominate.
If you consider Old English, the true pronunciation is with a West Country accent since that IS the Wessex accent which is the Saxon home land (Alfred the Great etc).
Anyway, so English is a mess, so lets not worry about silly rules.
"The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s." climate-models-go-cold
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Munchies_Matt wrote: you can say 'john and me'
But only when it's correct!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You should re-correct him: the correct pronunciation is, of course, eller-ment-tree, my dear Watson. At least, that's how it is pronounced by people that speak the Queen's English which, as we all know, is correct English and not the abomination that Yanks speak.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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kmoorevs wrote: he corrected my enunciation of the word 'elementary'...his version (the correct one) is to stress the 'tar' syllable
Hwuh?
If I heard someone pronouncing it like that, I'd immediately assume that they were not a native-English speaker.
Or a fartarsey idiot.
Probably the latter.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm a northerner and what? Elementary doesn't have a stress on 'tar', if anything it's on 'ment' but it's pretty neutral when I say it. And yes, emailing a scan of a spreadsheet is pure idiocy.
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I find it quite amusing that scouting around various forums and reading the messages from various individuals and reading statements like
-$3000 Fail
-GPU prices are just getting silly
-Who is going to pay that for a card
-How can it be that expensive when it performs worse than a 7xx etc.
It is clear that they just do not understand what this card can actually do, beyond just making pretty graphics for gaming.
Hell, if they think that is expensive, then they clearly have never heard of the Tesla series of GPUs! Titan Z is 2500UKP, Tesla cards can be around 4000UKP.
I was just watching some of the real time physics demos from this puppy, and it is without doubt absolutely amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY-5ijpkkB8[^]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XISqvBVyASo[^]
Before you ask. No, I am not buying one.......I'll stick with my GTX690 for the time being!
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All I can say is that they did unspeakable things to me.
Taking a break from window installation, tired and ready to be done.
Here today gone to Maui...
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That's right, blame the mimes. They won't talk.
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Their mime, their own business.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Here today gone to Maui...
Really?
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
The console is a black place [taken from Q&A]
How to ask a question
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I wish
Here today gone to Maui...
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