...that's exactly what the brain in the vat next to me on the shelf was saying just the other day...well, I say 'me'...
On 16 Jun 2011, at 19:43, Bob Sneidar wrote: > You all realize how completely odd this line of humor would seem to someone > who was not a nerd.... erm excuse me, a Professional Software Developer? > > Bob > > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > >> ...sure they'd use LiveCode but it's ridiculous to just blindly assume that >> they'd have hands! ;-) >> Best, >> Keith.. >> >> On 16 Jun 2011, at 19:03, Peter Brigham MD wrote: >> >>> But when we finally make contact with another intelligent species, will we >>> discover that all their cards are right-handed? (It goes with out saying >>> that such a species will necessarily be using LiveCode.) If so, then >>> importing any of their cards might result in the stack disappearing in a >>> flash of high-energy photons.... That problem will be one of the knottiest >>> the LC development team has had to tackle. >>> >>> -- Peter >>> >>> Peter M. Brigham >>> pmb...@gmail.com >>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >>> >>> >>> On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >>> >>>> So you think that card creation would be racemic in nature? As many left >>>> handed cards as right handed? But surely someone would soon come up with a >>>> plugin that ensured an optically pure creation of new cards. Then we would >>>> be back to where we are now, purely left handed cards, as it should be. >>>> >>>> Bob >>>> >>>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: >>>> >>>>> ...a kind of quantum scrolling/fixed duality inherent in cards, so we can >>>>> know it's state by inserting an object - Shrödinger's card? >>>>> >>>>> But then 50% of cards would be created with a scrollbar - unless of >>>>> course, these are all non-local, sitting in the anti-stack that can't be >>>>> accessed because it's in the >90% of dark code that fills all hard >>>>> drives. >>>>> >>>>> That would explain the rumour that Time Machine was originally going to >>>>> be called Space-Time Machine, but I'll resist considering why Parallels >>>>> is really called that and instead, get some coffee! ;-) >>>>> Best, >>>>> Keith.. >>>>> >>>>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 05:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thomas McGrath III wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Although, I suppose if you could group a card then you could scroll a >>>>>>> card. >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, I believe empty cards do scroll. ;) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
