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A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Now you know.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Okay now, how much wind can a wind breaker break if a wind breaker could break wind?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Cornell figured that out in 1996.[^]
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Absolutely fascinating 
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Something less in the novelty realm. Arcane knowledge from the days when I used to fiddle with glassblowing.
As you know (or do now), glass is harder than most metals. Cutting it is done with a carbide edged saw when a cut necessary (normally, you'd break the glass via a moist scratch from tungsten carbide scorer and flick-of-the-wrist). The edge, in either case, can be quite sharp. If no further glass-working is to be done to the edge, it needs to be smoothed. Normally, this is via fire-polishing; a quick dip into a hot flame. When precision is required, the edge is finish ed with a carbide sanding belt (to size) and then smoothed with a belt made of cork.. Cork, more by very localized heating than abrasion, will smooth and polish the edges.
Fire and Ice.
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Definte brown trousers! 
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Well, technically, the whole engine didn't come off, just the front cowling.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Because it wasn't a DC-10. 
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Well, the heading maybe says it all. Why are all the browser logos round and not square? This fact became very apparent to me when they were (accidentally?) posed as the olympic games rings[^].
Any ideas? Considering that most web sites are drawn as frames and that the rest of at least Microsoft's application logos are square-ish, it's rather strange to me.
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That's because the logos of the first browsers looked more like this: Mickeysoft Internet Exploiter.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Awesome response. Love the link to the Terran Empire logo from Star Trek TOS, "Mirror, Mirror". The Javascript quote, also awesome. Kudos. 
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... and they all had roots when the main question asked at the Microsoft interview was "why are manhole covers round?"[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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It's the world, no?
Mosaic's was an S with the world strung on it, IE used a world-shaped e with a ring around it, firefox is a world with a fox around it, etc.
What else are you going to use?
... Unless you're AOL or Maxthon, of course.
And you should exclude Opera. I mean, what other shape can you write an O?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And you should exclude Opera. I mean, what other shape can you write an O?
From the days of 3x5 pixel fonts: A rectangle [^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well, there are many things one could do besides illustrating the world. After all, the Internet is referred to as Cyberspace. You're right about the O of course (apart from that they could have used something else than their initial).
BTW, I'm working on a framework for developing UWP 2D games for novice programmers, using XAML and C#, backed up by Farseer Physics and Physics Helper. I just created a space shooter game with very little effort using this framework. Now I feel inspired to make a Browser Wars version of it, having all these round logos shooting at each other.
(I plan to upload the framework as a project on this site sometime during fall.)
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Yes, that's how I recall it too.
So perhaps it was IE who started the round thing.
I think it's really a bit strange as the logos were very small back then (16*16 pixels I think). Round is really not optimal then.
Actually I just saw that the N was pictured on top of a circle (the world?), so it's them too!
modified 1-Sep-16 10:47am.
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I use the Vivaldi browser occasionally and it's logo is square (with a "V" in it).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Aha!
Maybe it's actually "V for victory, and they are influenced by the (television series V). Back to cyberspace then.
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Well there we go!
Actually, Vivaldi is the successor to Opera. I bet that doesn't count as having a round logo anyway.
Here's an image of the proud Vivaldi team!
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These people gave you a lot of silly hypothesis.
The reason the logos were often round is that they fit better through the round wires.
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*That*... plus I find that round things tend to roll better.
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"The reason the logos were often round is that they fit better through the round wires."
Yeah, had forgotten about the dial-up modems back in the days...
modified 29-Aug-16 10:45am.
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Unless the wire has a kink in it. Then only the ones get through
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