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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: To my mind, it just means their developers are douchebags.
Exactly, I used the term "penguin droppings" for a reason.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I've been using Qt Creator for the last several months on an after-hours project for a friend of mine. They follow Windows conventions in some places and arbitrarily go orthogonal in others, with no discernible justification.
Software Zen: delete this;
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<a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/53529/56-delightful-victorian-slang-terms-you-should-be-using">56 Delightful Victorian Slang Terms You Should Be Using[</a><a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/53529/56-delightful-victorian-slang-terms-you-should-be-using" target="_blank" title="New Window">^</a>]
And of course many of them could be used for various Lounge members: arf’arf’an’arf, half-rats, and powdering hair.
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#5 seems particularly suited to the Lounge! 
"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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Thanks, Kent, that's fascinating lingo.
If you like etymology and odd words, I think you'd really enjoy Michael Quinion's "World Wide Words:" [^].
He sends out an e-mail newsletter (free, of course) you can subscribe to a few times a month; his "finds" and analysis are remarkable.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Completely agree on "World Wide Words" - it's one of the reasons I look forward to Saturday[1], getting the new words and terms.
[1] Apart from the obvious reasons.
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TTFN - Kent
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You could have recumbentibused my socks off- what a great resource.
Interestinger and interestinger!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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The WWW site can be fun, but it's annoying the way that the chap promotes his favourite ideas, and ignores others -- especially when he's obviously wrong.
<quick trip to the landing page, to look for an example>
"Old Bill"
The declaration: He claims that the term was used for the police because of a character (a soldier) in a politically-topical cartoon that stopped being published thirty years before the term came into use
The annoyance: How many politically-topical cartoons stopped being published in the 1980s, and how many of their characters are likely to be used to create new idioms today? But it's the story he likes, so it, and only it, is reported as an option.
The facts: Cockney rhyming slang for the police in the 1940s and 1950s (the time when "Old Bill" came into use) was "bill and coo", which, following the standard usage of rhyming slang, was often preceded by the word "old", and then reduced to "old" + the first word.
That kind of blinkered English-can-only-be-how-I-like-it arrogance always p1sses me off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Bill, that's a nice link you gave. Very informative.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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#35[^]
Software Zen: delete this;
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So I stuck it in a holder and shoved it in the laptop, and none of the photos on the card can be read. None. At all.
Other SD cards work OK in the laptop. Is it just the card that got shipped with the phone?
Its a PITA.
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is it a sdxc in a non sdxc slot or something?
I've never had an issue with a card like that, after a few samsung phones.
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mikepwilson wrote: is it a sdxc in a non sdxc slot
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There's a newer sdhc card with the same form factor but a higher max capacity, sdxc. I was wondering if you had an sdxc card and the laptop slot didn't take the more recent spec.
The card should say right on it if it's an xc.
Just a guess. I give it 20% likelihood.
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Works fine from my Samsung ACE.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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The card or the phone? 
(I'm a happy owner of a Samsung phone)
Veni, vidi, vici.
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So install Total Commander on the phone, and copy them over WiFi.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The difference (very simplified) between SD, SDHC and SDXC is the address space.
SD works up to 4 GB, SDHC up to 32 GB and SDXC up to 2TB
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Three questions....
1) Anyone play this game?[^]? It used to be playable on GameSpy, but it's been discontinued there. Anyone interested in playing?
2) What would it take to set up a server to host games?
3) I have thought about re-writing it, just for my personal use. I know I can write the code, but I'm clueless about how to do the UI/graphics? What's involved in this?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Kevin,
I often play A&A on www.GamesByEmail.com. (Not sure how it compares to other sites, as it is the only site on which I've played the game). The games on this site are unrushed - maybe get in a couple of moves at home in the evening, and more on the weekend. The games can take several days to several weeks to complete.
If you want to play a game in a single session, you'd best try other sites (googling revealed lots of sites complete with rankings).
Care for a game? Just go to GamesByEmail, start a game, and send me an invite. If you know any other players - invite them too. I find the 3 or 4 player games to be the most entertaining.
Graham
modified 6-Nov-13 15:46pm.
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How does that work? You get an email? Can you explain?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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You give your e-mail address to start a game, and either invite others directly to join (by entering the invitees e-mail address) or leaving the game open for anyone to join.
You can view the game anytime while it is in play, and you receive a notification e-mail when it is your turn.
Lots of games on the site - a wonderful place to waste time. I highly recommend it.
Graham
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I should point out that other players DO NOT see your e-mail address. They only see whatever name you enter for that game.
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I see.
That sounds like the older version of A&A. The version I posted in the link doesn't have turns. Everyone plays at once.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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