I'm a nerd and proud of it. My daughter once got me a button that read "I was cool before uncool was cool." (Actually, before all that I really was cool. But never to my daughter...)
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 06/16/2011 09:43 PM, 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? > > Umm; well, nobody around these parts would admit to being a nerd would they? > > I have yet to become 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
