If I wanted to use Helvetica for every single new formatting palate, I would tell you. Since I change my font to Times New Roman for typing, why would you make a freaking list with numbers in Helvetica. And Tables, and Charts as well. If I choose a freaking font, let me use it instead of sticking me with your gay choice.
Also, If I make a list, allow me to freaking edit the format of the list instead of putting the "3. " as an object of which I cannot change without selecting the whole thing.
WHERE'S MY FUCKING PACKAGE YOU AMAZON SHIPPING MOTHERFUCKERS???
Oh, and while I'm at it:
Dear Apple:
You suck mightily for not designing the Mini to be able to power ADC your own ADC monitors. You also suck mightily for making the goddamned adapter for the mini to power the monitors a) $90 and b) AS BIG AS THE FUCKING MINI!!
Ok, to explain a little, I have no problem with people using text/chat speak if I am being texted/chatted too. I don't even mind it all that much if one of my friends uses it in an email, but what I do have a problem with is:
1.) People who use it in actual writing, or in message boards such as this one. I shouldn't have to perform a search to figure out what the 5 letter acronym you're using means. I shouldn't have to know at all. Just write out your freaking words unless it is a private conversation such as a chat.
2.) people who while using text speak, do it poorly. If you're going to take a shortcut to do something, at least do it right. Example: the 'x' can be used to replace a 'cks' or 'ks' or anything that has an ending that sound like that. Fine. Whatever. I have no problem with that. Now, people who use the 'x' to replace something like a 'ck', 'k', or a 'c'. People who say things like 'you sux' or 'you rox' are complete morons who don't know how to conjugate basic second person verbs. 'that sux' is acceptable, but 'you sux' is not. Get it, morons?
"Steep learning curve." Yes, a steep hill is hard to climb. But a steep learning curve means that you learn something quickly, not slowly. A flat learning curve means something is hard to learn.
"Steep learning curve." Yes, a steep hill is hard to climb. But a steep learning curve means that you learn something quickly, not slowly. A flat learning curve means something is hard to learn.
Just try to imagine that someone put time on the vertical axis, and knowledge gained on the horizontal axis.
And besides, who's to say what direction gravity pulls in an abstract Cartesian coordinate space?
Viagra-popping boomer assholes think that by owning a Harley you are now "cool" or a "bad-ass." You're not bad-ass... you're a trendy, middle-aged, overweight, fad-following prick who often just can't wait to show off your "bad-ass biker attitude." Too bad that your bike is usually trailered behind your Escalade, and people who *really* are bikers- and everyone else- are laughing their asses off at you and your "biker mama" (empty-nester former soccer mom) who have the cutest little matching black leather everything.
I bet that most of you were never cool enough in the 60s and 70s to be included, and you have added this pathetic attempt at "hardass" to your repertoire of laughable midlife crisis-management.
You've watched one too many episodes of American Chopper and think that you can get in one last gasp of acceptance and "cool" before Social Security checks and AARP memberships start rolling in. Let it go, crew... no one is impressed with your $20k bike, accessorized to the hilt, or the pair of obvious saps that are mounted on it.
Getting in a group filled with other stock brokers, orthodontists, lawyers, and doctors and riding around on your trailered bikes does not make you cool. It proves that you are still, after all these years, trying to convince people that you are something that we all know you are not.
Actually I hate every single wannabe "hardass", whether it's the faux biker, the gun-nut, the war-loving armchair general, the psychotic president, the gang member, the abortion clinic bomber... you name it.
But Jay Leno and his ilk are pretty harmless.
Well, I doubt Jay Leno acts like most of the people I am referring to. Alas, I do agree with you on the "wannabe hardass" thing... the world has a deficit of real men, and they've been replaced by millions of faux-bravado, chest thumping weenies that are all bark. And occasionally bite with an armored tank column.
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I do not know where you got it in your heads that an MLA citation looks like this:
"blah blah blah"(soandso 341).
It should look like this:
"blah blah blah" (soandso 341).
PUT THAT FUCKING SPACE BACK IN THERE.
Thank you.
Also, If I make a list, allow me to freaking edit the format of the list instead of putting the "3. " as an object of which I cannot change without selecting the whole thing.
Oh, and while I'm at it:
Dear Apple:
You suck mightily for not designing the Mini to be able to power ADC your own ADC monitors. You also suck mightily for making the goddamned adapter for the mini to power the monitors a) $90 and b) AS BIG AS THE FUCKING MINI!!
I've got a 17 ADC LCD in the closet for the exact same reason.
Send that adapter back.
Nick
Jesus, just spend $150 and get a new monitor. The tube in the older Apple monitor is probably dimmer already.
I've got a 17 ADC LCD in the closet for the exact same reason.
Send that adapter back.
Nick
It's a 20" apple cinema display. lcd.
It's a 20" apple cinema display. lcd.
I meant backlight.
Nick
1.) People who use it in actual writing, or in message boards such as this one. I shouldn't have to perform a search to figure out what the 5 letter acronym you're using means. I shouldn't have to know at all. Just write out your freaking words unless it is a private conversation such as a chat.
2.) people who while using text speak, do it poorly. If you're going to take a shortcut to do something, at least do it right. Example: the 'x' can be used to replace a 'cks' or 'ks' or anything that has an ending that sound like that. Fine. Whatever. I have no problem with that. Now, people who use the 'x' to replace something like a 'ck', 'k', or a 'c'. People who say things like 'you sux' or 'you rox' are complete morons who don't know how to conjugate basic second person verbs. 'that sux' is acceptable, but 'you sux' is not. Get it, morons?
110 km/h??? WTF?!?! Do you know how slow that feels after 80 mph on I-15 in Montana???
"Steep learning curve." Yes, a steep hill is hard to climb. But a steep learning curve means that you learn something quickly, not slowly. A flat learning curve means something is hard to learn.
Just try to imagine that someone put time on the vertical axis, and knowledge gained on the horizontal axis.
And besides, who's to say what direction gravity pulls in an abstract Cartesian coordinate space?
Dear Students...PUT THAT FUCKING SPACE BACK IN THERE.
Oh, God. This makes me think of all of the conflicting styles for code formatting used by software engineers.
And while I know that my preferences are pretty much arbitrary, it still really, really bugs me when I see code that's formatted the "wrong" way.
For instance...
if (x == 2)...
while (stillConnected)...
for (int i = 0; i < 10; ++i)...
Dammit, there's a space between "if", "while", "for" and the following paren!
if(x == 2)
...looks stupid! But there is NO space in a function call like...
y = Math.sin(x);
Can't you see that...
y = Math.sin (x);
...is all wrong? Spacing for control loops and function calls is different! Don't you idiots understand that!?
(Five minutes later, after regaining consciousness following an apoplectic fit...)
Thank you for listening. Now, don't get me started about where the curly braces go...
I bet that most of you were never cool enough in the 60s and 70s to be included, and you have added this pathetic attempt at "hardass" to your repertoire of laughable midlife crisis-management.
You've watched one too many episodes of American Chopper and think that you can get in one last gasp of acceptance and "cool" before Social Security checks and AARP memberships start rolling in. Let it go, crew... no one is impressed with your $20k bike, accessorized to the hilt, or the pair of obvious saps that are mounted on it.
Getting in a group filled with other stock brokers, orthodontists, lawyers, and doctors and riding around on your trailered bikes does not make you cool. It proves that you are still, after all these years, trying to convince people that you are something that we all know you are not.
These yuppie biker pricks can kiss my ass.
Actually I hate every single wannabe "hardass", whether it's the faux biker, the gun-nut, the war-loving armchair general, the psychotic president, the gang member, the abortion clinic bomber... you name it.
But Jay Leno and his ilk are pretty harmless.
Well, I doubt Jay Leno acts like most of the people I am referring to. Alas, I do agree with you on the "wannabe hardass" thing... the world has a deficit of real men, and they've been replaced by millions of faux-bravado, chest thumping weenies that are all bark. And occasionally bite with an armored tank column.
I prefer people who fight with diplomacy and coerce with brains rather than brawn.
That is always preferable as a first choice.