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@SonicTheHedgehog look, you are wasting electricity by using the Internet to explain in minute detail how why and when you don't waste electricity to people you don't even know.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Reg You are wasting electricity too, by using your point.

RegDwight АΑA

@SonicTheHedgehog I am not using my point. And I run on electricity. Stupid hedgehog.

KitFox

9:24 PM

A friend was recently describing to me how hot it gets inside of a nuclear submarine when they run a fire drill.

Cerberus

Your life is a waste of electricity and so much more.

KitFox

"Hotter than two dogs f-cking in a wool sock."

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Reg I run so fast that I can generate electricity too, stupid owl.

KitFox

I thought that was extremely funny.

Cerberus

Hawt.

RegDwight АΑA

9:24 PM

@KitFox his socks must be huge, or his dogs tiny.

Cerberus

Well.

RegDwight АΑA

@SonicTheHedgehog you only run so fast on electricity.

KitFox

@RegDwightАΑA Huge socks.

Hot dogs.

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Reg Lets see you run fast enough to be able to even generate a joule.

Robusto

@KitFox The Authentic™ version has two rats, not two dogs, doing the deed.

RegDwight АΑA

9:26 PM

@SonicTheHedgehog Let's see you run fast enough to be able to even spell out apostrophes.

KitFox

@Robusto Sailors, man, what do you expect?

Sonic The Hedgehog

@Reg "Apostrophes". There.

RegDwight АΑA

Sorry, I wasn't looking.

Robusto

@KitFox The difference is, dogs don't desert a sinking ship. At least not in clichés.

KitFox

I would have said sheep. Two sheep in a wool sock. Now that's hot.

Robusto

9:27 PM

@KitFox I think we should keep you away from our farm animals.

KitFox

You haven't any farm animals.

RegDwight АΑA

Working on it.

KitFox

Love me some Shaun the Sheep.

RegDwight АΑA

Now will you wait.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA Nah, now you're just knit-picking.

KitFox

9:28 PM

My little son likes Timmy Time better.

RegDwight АΑA

Timmeh!

KitFox

giggle

Cripple fight!

I am the most awfulest person ever.

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA I see what you did there.

Robusto

@KitFox Don't flatter yourself.

Cerberus

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/…

RegDwight АΑA

9:29 PM

@Mitch and it took you less (@Kit) than ten minutes.

Cerberus

Apple is despicable.

A monopolist of the worst kind, stifling innovation.

Sonic The Hedgehog

Agreed.

Cerberus

Needed to say that now.

Robusto

@Cerberus Yes, but so is Microsoft and Facebook and ... well, you just go on from there.

Mitch

@simchona yeah, I get that pit of the stomach feeling with him. and suspension helps with that.

Gigili

9:30 PM

I was bored to tears, so I decided to find a complex solution to a simple problem.

Cerberus

@Robusto They have never been such egregious patent trolls and competition-stiflers as Appel has become.

RegDwight АΑA

@KitFox now that was uncalled for.

KitFox

I was just kidding.

Cerberus

Jobs was the worst of the worst.

RegDwight АΑA

But I was going to resume watching London 2012 anyway.

Robusto

9:32 PM

@Cerberus Well, not exactly true, but I agree that Apple is horrible and must be stopped.

Cerberus

Good.

Mitch

@KitFox sliperrier than two eels effing in a bucket of snot

Cerberus

I am not at all against the anti-trust cases against Microsoft btw.

Robusto

They believed they could patent the term "app store" ... FFS.

Cerberus

They do some evil things too, like their "secure boot" rootkit of evil.

@Robusto Like that.

Robusto

9:33 PM

@Cerberus Remember Sony and their "surprise" rootkit?

Cerberus

It is the law that is broken, mainly, letting Apple do this.

@Robusto Oh, yes.

That was evil too.

Mitch

@RegDwightАΑA you were typing slowly so I matched that.

Cerberus

But this may cripple Samsung if the couple of random people in the jury are in a bad mood.

That will have a major chilling effect on innovation and competition.

Robusto

@Cerberus The idea that you can patent rounded corners on a device is — ahem — patently absurd.

Cerberus

Patently indeed.

Mitch

9:35 PM

@KitFox I wasn't in time to read that, so I thought you were being clever.

Cerberus

All because the law is extremely unreliable (you never know what to expect with patents).

Robusto

I mean, that means my toaster would have to pay royalties to Apple.

Cerberus

Have you read the Techdirt article I linked to?

It is hilarious.

Gigili

Speaking of which, I got rid of the $#$%%^# iPhone thingy @Cerb.

Cerberus

@Gigili Well done! You father?

Gigili

9:37 PM

Uhum.

Cerberus

6 hours ago, by Cerberus

> Apple's Argument: Samsung Could Have Made Its Phone Large, Thick, Bumpy, Sharp-Edged & Hexagonal

@Gigili Now what phone are you going to buy?

Robusto

@Cerberus I've been following the case.

Cerberus

This article is really funny, the quotations from the case are.

> Apple's lawyers have suggested some "alternatives" in how Samsung could have designed its devices: “front surfaces that are not rectangular, not flat, and without rounded corners; display screens that are more square than rectangular or not rectangular at all, display screens that are not centered on the front surface of the phone...”

Luke

That is absurd.

Vitaly

workshop.chromeexperiments.com/projects/armsglobe

Cerberus

9:39 PM

I want a square phone, with a bulging screen at the back of the device (no screen at the front, obviously, since Apple was company that invested ten years of design labour into the first Front Screen).

With razor-sharp corners, of course.

Luke

A phone needs the functionality of fitting your pocket...

Robusto

@Cerberus I like the photo caption that says: "2010: Steve Jobs introduces the iPad. The world pisses itself like an excited dog." That wasn't you in the audience, I take it?

Mitch

@Cerberus the photoshop at the bottom is great. Prior-art? Star Trek.

Cerberus

@Robusto I was excited as in disgusted.

@Mitch Yup! By the way, have your tried the Tricorder application on Android?

Gigili

@Cerberus GN, if I don't change my mind again!

Cerberus

9:43 PM

@Mitch code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder

Gigili

I sent Apple a message to shut the hell up and stop stealing and being mean or else.

user19161

@Gigili You should get jPhone instead if iPhone.

Cerberus

Apparently, the Enemy of the People (the copyright laywers) have removed the Tricorder from the Play Store several times.

So you have to download it there ^.

@Gigili Yay! Buy it!

@Gigili Very good!

makeuseof.com/tag/…

Luke

Any Canadians here? The US soccer team just beat them.

Cerberus

They fled in shame, tails between their legs.

user19161

9:47 PM

I just beat some eggs.

user19161

I have been casting many delete votes recently. All closed questions which are not exact duplicates easing the search should be deleted in principle.

Luke

@Cerberus careful what you say...

user19161

@Luke This chat often goes more crazy than that, not to worry.

Cerberus

@Luke They're not here, now, are they?

user19161

@Cerberus Mahnax will be so pissed...

Luke

9:53 PM

To true...

Check this out google.com.au

It took me a while, but I've got the hang of it.

Cerberus

@JasperLoy Somehow I think he couldn't care less.

@Luke Nothing happens when I click the play button...

Luke

@Cerberus Try clicking it again after the tool-tip appears.

Gigili

Oh, that reminds me...

Cerberus

No tooltip.

Gigili

I had a terrible nightmare the other night. I was so hungry and wanted to eat, but the spoon was too big.

Luke

9:59 PM

@Cerberus Only two for ten. I need more practice...

You have to wait a while. Try hitting the arrow keys.

user19161

@Gigili Then eat without the spoon.

Luke

@Gigili LOLROF Now I have Gatorade on my keyboard. Thanks a lot

Cerberus

@Gigili Next time, you can eat your Nexus.

user19161

@Luke You can wash it in the dishwasher according to jsbangs.

Cerberus

@Luke Nothing happens.

Luke

10:04 PM

@JasperLoy I don't trust my dishwasher with my keyboard. Last time it ruined my brand new iPhone...

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Vitaly

@Cerberus: You'll love this: dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/…

user19161

@Luke Really? I don't think phones are meant to be put in there.

Luke

What about keyboards?

user19161

jsbangs really did do it, I am not lying.

Luke

Do you have sources?

user19161

10:06 PM

You can ask him yourself now.

Luke

@JSBձոգչ Did you or did you not put your keyboard in the dishwasher?

Cerberus

@Vitaly Haha.

Toolbars are the silliest thing.

Who doesn't want maximum space for displaying the actual web page?

ΜετάEd

"I was visiting my son and daughter-in-law last night when I asked if I could borrow a newspaper.
--- This is the 21st century, old man --- he said.
--- We don't waste money on newspapers. Here, you can borrow my iPad.
I can tell you, that bloody fly never knew what hit it."

Vitaly

@Cerberus You only say that because noöne has developed a toolbar for the notification area yet.

Luke

@Cerberus Did you get a little tooltip cloud with a picture of arrow keys?

Cerberus

10:09 PM

@ΜετάEd Heh, I know that one.

@Vitaly Those tiny icons don't take up much space.

ΜετάEd

Oops, gotta ride the forklift. afk

Cerberus

@Luke Nope.

Bye.

Luke

Hmm bye

Cerberus

That was to Ed.

Luke

That's what @name things are for.

Gigili

10:11 PM

@Luke Hey, you were supposed to cry in sympathy...

Luke

Sorry, you just made my day

And ruined my keyboard

ΜετάEd

back.

Luke

So what was the forklift all about?

ΜετάEd

Missed yet another chance to put a hole in a tote.

@Luke I work late and sometimes I'm the only one left who can load a truck.

Luke

Supper calls. I've gotta go.

Gigili

10:22 PM

And I am off to bed. Gute night.

Cerberus

Sorry, I'm sloppy with the @name thing.

Luke

11:11 PM

I didn't miss much

user19161

11:30 PM

@Gigili Good night.

Robusto

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A: Using 'she' with neuter noun

She refers to love. "It" can't be used as a gender-neutral 3rd person pronoun because "it" cannot refer to an abstract concept except in a handful of special situations.