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THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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With all the clutter on that page, the joke gets lost.
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Getting into the Festive Spirit early I see Pete.
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Oh yes. I was down in "the smoke" with the family for the weekend. That's enough to kill off any festive goodwill and peace to all.
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You're talking about my home town ....
... and you're absolutely correct!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Being a Brit living in the US for nineteen years now I have found my vocabulary shrinking as I avoid using words most mercans don't understand. For example, "penultimate" seems to be a big problem for just about all mercans.
On the other hand I have expanded my vocabulary with useful new words, such as "Doh!"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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You must be turning into a redneck if you are saying mercans.
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Actually I understand that Rednecks use "merkans"! I was using "mercans" which is clearly quite different and indicates a British origin.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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..those who use thread-safe integer increment code and those who don't.
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There are 100 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I don't care how many types of people there are in the world, but I hate all of them.
Except for you, you're ace you are x
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Now that's gonna be my Skype status..
Thanks!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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THESE PEOPLE REALLY BOTHER ME!! How can they know what you should do without knowing what you want done?!?!
-- C++ FQA Lite
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Google makes billions out of Europe, and pays virtually no tax whatsoever.
So yes, they deserve to either be harassed into paying lawful taxes, or hounded out of the continent altogether.
They wouldn't be missed, but I'll bet they'd miss their (unlawfully) tax-free profits.
"Do no evil" my arse.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd miss Google: have you tried Bing?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I use Search Lotto, for every 25 searches you make they give you a twentieth of a lottery ticket in the next draw.
Last week I had my first win, the 16 pence has already been paid into my bank account.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: Last week I had my first win, the 16 pence has already been paid into my bank account.
That cheered I up!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: That cheered I up!
This must be that traditional English.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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That it are. West Country (the original cowboys).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Beh. They're just search engines; all they do is create minimalistic reports on work that other people have done. I don't know when people started believing that that was more important than the work itself, but it's a mistaken belief.
They're easily replaceable, and would be quickly replaced (by organisations that pay their taxes, and therefore improve the welfare of our children).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Not that easily: how many paper manuals did VS come with last time you bought it? And have you ever tried using the help from within it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: have you ever tried using the help from within it? Back in the day (before it was called "Visual Studio", even), the docs weren't too bad, but they must have hired a bunch of really incompetent technical writers to keep them going (going down the drain, that is).
What am I saying, "must have"? It's bleeding obvious that they hired incompetent technical writers, particularly at the senior levels.
Google doesn't make the content, though -- it doesn't do the work -- it just printfs a report on your screen, giving minimal details of pages that contain the work you need to see.
Any search engine can do that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Any search engine can do that.
Yes, it can. But Google do it very well indeed.
So rather than kick them out of Europe, get the buggers to pay taxes properly, along with Amazon, Starbucks, ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: get the buggers to pay taxes properly, along with Amazon, Starbucks,...
...Dalek Dave
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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