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She'll also hear comments about how awful plaid pants look on anyone.
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That's terrible. But very funny all the same! 
/ravi
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I think I can hear the pixels.
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Someone complaining in QA that the Barcode generation software he included in his website generates an image, when he wanted just the text... 
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Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Jut tell him to print lots of 'I's and 'l' s
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Is it like having a wife? I wanted beer not broccoli.
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No, a different one - but I don't want the guy ridiculed or I would have posted a link.
I was just "I don't believe anyone can be this stupid"... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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And you don't think that he can read The Lounge posts and make the connection? 
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Johnny J. wrote: nd you don't think that he can read The Lounge posts and make the connection?
FTFY! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I imagine he either does not know anything about the Lounge or would not be interested in perusing it - when you're thick there are many mysteries in the world.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Probably nothing to do with it but it reminds me of having to use barcodes in a job back in the early 90s. We used a VBX to generate the barcode and it was a difficult thing to use (for one, when printed out it came out at pixel resolution rather than print resolution and readers had a hard time with).
On another assignment, they just used a barcode font which was genius. You barcode would indeed just be text.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That can actually be a valid request. I've worked with solutions previously where instead of a generated image we just used the text and applied a barcode font to it ( like http://www.dafont.com/code-128.font[^]). It's actually much better for printing (less problems with stretching/skewing) and with @font-face widely supported nowadays for the web also.
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Sorry to disappoint you but you will only have seen everything when you finally stop seeing, unless of course, hell freezes over.
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http://xkcd.com/1348/[^]
Read the mouse-over: So would I![^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Hey, OG - OT I know, but you were born the same year as I. Fascinating,.
We were never bored! When we wanted to find something out we went round to Mrs Lakin's house and used her encyclopaedia.
And we didn't watch daytime TV because THERE WASN"T ANY ON!
and even had there been, it would have been in black and white.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: And we didn't watch daytime TV because THERE WASN"T ANY ON!
In my case it was because for the early part of my youth, we didn't have a TV!
IIRC, it was 1969 and the moon landing that prompted a set to arrive.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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We actually had a TV quite early on (My dad had the first set in his street when he was a lad). Set it up for the cup final, with a sheet of glass in front painted green at the bottom, so it looked like colour 
God, the moon landing. That was SO exciting! for a 10 year old. I remember our headmaster was really into it so the school had the TV on in the gym/dining room whenever there was anything happening, and he didn't really mind too much if you missed a lesson or two to watch!
I had to go to bed when they actually landed - my dad promised to wake me whatever time it happened, ran upstairs when it was imminent, but couldn't wake me! Didn't want to miss it himself so just lugged me downstairs, where I slept through until pretty much the 'one small step for crackle-buzz' moment, when Dad finally jabbed me hard enough to wake up.
it was such an emotional moment for me. Makes me so angry when people plop on about it being faked!
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Mum and Dad let us stay up for it: a very rare treat! 20:17 UTC, which was twenty-past-nine in local (British Summer) time, and three hours past our bedtime!
Not sure I slept at all that night...incredible experience.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Went to grand parents to watch the landing in color. Well at least on a color TV as the feed was black and white.
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Corporal Agarn wrote: Went to grand parents to watch the landing in color.
Same. My grandfather bought a colour TV to watch the landings, and we were glued to it the whole time, for that and Apollo 13 as well. The TV had one of the first wireless remotes, two largish paddles, one to rotate the channel and the other for on/off. State of the art!
Ken
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