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But...

It is extremely boring to build, and frustrating.

2:22 PM

@Cerberus so it most cool stuff that gets built

But it's gone after a few seconds.

but that's what perseverance is for, so you get cool stuff in the end

But it is so transient.

simchona

@Carlo_R If you keep deleting too much, you're going to have a bad time

@Cerberus it's recorded for posterity, and the satisfaction was probably more than all the boredom combined

2:23 PM

Apparently so.

Carlo_R.

@simchona - I'm agree. I'm wait for the train.

@simchona - Thank you for your suggestion. Since Jasper is went out, you are becoming my friend.

@simchona - AFK BBL

so what should i make my password?

something long but easy to remember

applesux

like IHaveAniPadNowYay!

2:27 PM

@MattЭллен Meh. You know what Buddhist monks do? They take a broom and go sweep fallen leaves in a forest. And they don't make YouTube videos of that.

I like putting expletives in my passwords when the site in question is frustrating.

@RegDwightΒВB yeah, but they're smarter than Cerberus

What!?

:D

Love you!

grumbles

2:28 PM

Yes. Sorry to break the news, but... those buddhist monks... are just too smart.

agh! should i use icloud?

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Q: Preposition: For vs to?

Here I want to say that this function just should be applied to the following classes: Conductors, RYSP and Officer. This function just applies for/to Conductors, RYSP and Officers. But once again I am not sure which preposition should I use ?

grammar prepositions

O title, why art thou indescriptive?

"Your iPad is now set up. Your ready to start using the most advanced iOS ever."

roflmao

Your ready?

Oh dear, Apple. Oh dear.

2:31 PM

"Your cave is set up now. Your ready to start using the most advances rocks ever."

I would return for a full refund plus damages.

I'm just kidding.

How is that related to my point?

They used the proper "you're"

If there was one thing to praise in Apple, it was its use of language...

@KitFox "Kidding", yeah, uhuh.

2:32 PM

Anyway. I was going to beatch, and you all keep interfering.

It's shiny!

And mr!

It's new!

@RegDwightΒВB Did you get some water socks?

Not one!

2:32 PM

Oh Kit. First I learned that you say "primmer". Now I hear you are using the most advanced iOS ever. What a sad, sad day. I will have to take down my posters of you, and weep bitter tears.

Show us the posters first!

i canna help it.

Hey can I haz teh poster's?

Are they fiery and furry?

what background should i use?

2:33 PM

Starry night.

They are beautiful and awesome and soaked in bitter tears.

Yeah, right, tears.

look, it's not like i want this, ok?

I would use a rotating background with pretty art and landscapes and architecture.

it's just the way it's gotta be.

2:34 PM

@KitFox I don't see your problem. If you don't want an iPad, just tell them you're Iranian.

hahaha

@KitFox It's alright. At least Cerb has my Apple-hating back.

Always.

My potentially defending the Ipad earlier is unrelated.

Actually I was just reading about the new Asus tablet. It looks pretty sweet.

The Google tablet, on the other hand, doesn't impress me

OMG but can it flip its flipping Flipboard fast enough?

2:36 PM

I still don't see a point in tablets. Just like noöne did only a couple months ago.

Same here.

Although the MS one looks like it might be able to replace a laptop. Then it gets more interesting.

i can touch it

i like touching it

Eww.

Children are watching!

@Cerberus There are already tablets running Windows 7 that can double as notebooks

not right now there aren't

2:37 PM

I demand that Apple come up with iShoes. Them's three, all left, and tied together, but very glossy. Very.

Not to mention the Transformer running Android which can also double as a notebook

@RegDwightΒВB It'll just be a regular shoe, but it only comes in one size, and doesn't have laces because that's too hard to use, and every photo of it has that reflective-surface effect applied.

And you won't be able to change batteries!

man i hate glossy photos

My Asus tablet comes with a wallpaper that is a photo of a tree. But the photo changes depending on the time of day, so that at night it's a night shot of that same tree, etc.

That's cool.

MetaEd

2:40 PM

@KitFox With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one?

Designers who draw pictures of wet floors should be forced to walk on them.

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I'd like it even more if it changed according to the weather.

@MetaEd Yes. Exactly that.

Anyway, I have put aside my technojoy, and I should actually do something today.

The question is, what?

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Q: Preposition: For vs to?

Once again I am not sure which preposition should I use here ? This function just applies for/to Conductors, RYSP and Officers.

grammar prepositions

That's like a deja vu all over again.

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Do they work well? How is the keyboard? Speed?

2:41 PM

Is he going to ask that question for every possible sentence?

►

I presume y'all know this one.

No wait. The sentence is the same, in point of fact.

@Cerberus never used one, because I have no need for such a creature. Presumably they are comparable to netbooks, only with touchscreens

@MrShinyandNew安宇 And do they have the ability to fold the keyboard backwards under the screen?

@KitFox trampolining?

2:44 PM

@Cerberus hurrah! MAD TV brings the joke everyone's been making for years. A sure sign it's dead now.

That video is very old, I believe.

Probably from around the time the Ipad was announced.

Or rumoured.

I don't know.

simchona

@RegDwightΒВB Could it be a Nortonn S account from before?

@Cerberus Still.

@Cerberus Hm, I seem to have misremembered Asus's Windows tablet offering. It's a Windows tablet but you need an external keyboard.

Hmm.

2:46 PM

However: the MS tablet is also just a tablet with an external keyboard.

meaning grammar prepositions word-usage

@simchona no idea. But this is a dupe:

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Q: Word order again?

I have been thinking about word order and its meaning, thus when we have for instance: Planet of the apes or Apes planet Proposal for extra work or Extra work proposal Which is the more usual way of writing the above sentences and when should we use one or another?

Asus Slate

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, as long as a convenient, thin, foldable keyboard exists...

Impossible to search for, but it has been asked a million times by now.

simchona

@RegDwightΒВB Which means you know where the dupe is, you magical dupe-finder

2:46 PM

@Cerberus er, foldable?

I lost my memory in Turkey.

Or at least rotating.

@RegDwigнt amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9-1600MHz-Vengeance-Memory/…

@Cerberus Well, there are many tablet cases that have bluetooth keyboards in them, so you can fold it back out of the way, or just take it out. It's an easy-to-find accessory.

Is or isn't?

Ah.

@Cerberus thanks, but I didn't lose my vengeance.

2:48 PM

As long as those keyboards are compatible and easy to find...

@RegDwightΒВB And you didn't lose Kit.

Nor us Pirates, arrr!

@Cerberus hey, a TWO module Kit... maybe one of the modules doesn't betray you buy talking funny and buying an iPad...

And if one did, we could shove the memory sticks up its slot.

Who the hell comes up with "CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9"? It's so utterly useless.

Or don't Ipads have slots?

Check the MAD TV video again.

2:50 PM

@MrShinyandNew安宇 I didn't buy the iPad!

You stole it???

@KitFox I'm just teasing.

It was given to me by Work. Because they think I can just magically start making "apps for that."

Of course, I didn't disabuse them of the notion.

@KitFox you know what? at least you can use it to verify that your site even works properly on it. That is a bigger problem than you might think.

@RegDwightΒВB Yeah...but CMZ is a company or something I think; 8G is the amount of memory; X3 may mean the kind of DDR (DDR3); 1600 is the clock speed in MHz; and C9 is the latency.

2:52 PM

Mainly because my son will enjoy playing some new games.

@Cerberus C9 means that it's for dogs who spell in Latin.

No wonder you would recommend it.

@KitFox first things first! write an angry birds clone

@MrShinyandNew安宇 Well, my site won't work properly on it because the project lead insisted on using the Google API for the motion charts "party piece."

M2 is probably two modules, and A means @. There, I surprise myself.

Which is, of course, flash-based.

2:53 PM

I feel sick for knowing what the entire name means.

@RegDwightΒВB As in K9?

Arf!

@Cerberus Aye.

Woof!

K-9 is the name of several fictional robotic canines (the name being a pun on that word) in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who, first appearing in 1977. K-9 has also been a central character in three of the series television spin-offs: the unsuccessful K-9 and Company (1981), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011) and K-9 (2009–2010). Although not originally intended to be a recurring character in the series, K-9 was kept in the show following his first appearance because he was expected to be popular with younger audiences. There have been at least f...

He's also in Kongai.

Not a great card, alas.

2:54 PM

I only know K9 with James Belushi.

But he can self destruct!

OK, but I really ought to um...