New Testingstan

so bing's autocomplete reads my mind. the bold is what they suggested as i was typing:

why don't humans have fur?

did george washington really turn down an offer to be king?


how did it know that's what i wanted?????? twice in one day

Well... that thumbtack makes me think the candy bar isn't all that big. And therefore not titanic.

A tack on Titan

Attack on Titan

adr wrote:Aye, and I think the tng uniforms were just the best of the bunch too, though the tos movie ones are major competition. Simple yet elegant I say.

TMP or TWOK+?

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:Man speak of Trek uniforms

I think the Abrams versions are just killer

Like they're just TOS in ultra high fidelity but it works really well

I like the silver insignia. Looks sharper than the gold-ish of TOS.

twok+. i luv those too

I am disappointed by the explanation.

'Soup and IB got it.

I needed explanation myself because I didn't know these things were called "tack" in English

I've only ever heard them called 'drawing pins'
might be different for the colonials
anyway I actually didn't get the pun, I just saw the word Titan

MSDN pwnage

Splash screens

Don't use splash screens for branding. Avoid using splash screens because they may cause users to associate your program with poor performance. Use them only to give feedback and reduce the perception of time for programs that have unusually long load times.

Don't use animated splash screens. Users often assume that the animated splash screen is the reason for a long load time. Too often, that assumption is correct.

"Too often, that assumption is correct."

amen


BTW it is interesting how much of these style guide things criticize Windows itself

it's like "don't <windows XP screenshot>". "better <Windows Vista screenshot>"

while many of them are doctored to specifically illustrate the bad idea, a few of them are totally what windows itself used to do

oh hai guys i'm spending my saturday night reading microsoft documentation

i guess i'm a DEDICATED PROFESSIONAL devoted to ONGOING EDUCATION

errr it isn't actually for work. i'm just doing it cuz i can

lol?

adr wrote:twok+. i luv those too

The TWOK uniforms are the greatest.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Nerd culture is terrible and so I have no sympathy for anyone who's bothered by the term being used derisively.

IB, check the hypocrisy please.

RogueIce wrote:

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:Man speak of Trek uniforms

I think the Abrams versions are just killer

Like they're just TOS in ultra high fidelity but it works really well

I like the silver insignia. Looks sharper than the gold-ish of TOS.

I actually have to disagree, and it's because at high-resolution you can see all those numerous little Starfleet arrowheads making up the pattern. It looks good from a distance but up close I seriously wonder why any organisation would design a uniform like that, since it's nothing more than purely aesthetic. (and IMO it's the bad kind of aesthetic)

And out of universe, it just seems way too self-referential. Like the uniform is saying really loudly 'We're a STAR TREK uniform.'

I do agree with the silver though, for the badge and rank insignia on the cuffs.

I didn't know that, actually. I just saw them as some texture they put on there to make them more "future" or something. But I got a close-up look after you mentioned it on GIS, and you're right. It looks pretty dumb.

Or maybe they were just mocking the USMC and USN for embedding their logos into their uniforms.

But probably not.

Questor wrote:

Infinity Biscuit wrote:Nerd culture is terrible and so I have no sympathy for anyone who's bothered by the term being used derisively.

IB, check the hypocrisy please.

If you're talking about my social justice stances, I think you'll find I see 0 equivalence between being a nerd and being, like, gay or black or anything like that, and the same should be for everyone else :L

On a related note I actually do take issue with the "fatty" term since, regardless of how much its use applies to body weight, that sort of stuff is irrelevant to how language works, and fat shaming is a problem that hurts a lot of people and is found to increase obesity and other stuff.

Infinity Biscuit wrote:On a related note I actually do take issue with the "fatty" term since, regardless of how much its use applies to body weight, that sort of stuff is irrelevant to how language works, and fat shaming is a problem that hurts a lot of people and is found to increase obesity and other stuff.

Yeah, even Stark doesn't use it that much anymore, and I kinda regret the times I invoked it or paraphrased it.

Infinity Biscuit wrote: If you're talking about my social justice stances, I think you'll find I see 0 equivalence between being a nerd and being, like, gay or black or anything like that, and the same should be for everyone else :L

This is something I never understood. I've seen people on the net and IRL try to equate being made fun of for being a nerd with being insulted for being black or gay or Jewish or whatever, but in my mind there's an inherent difference between the two because of the element of choice. You chose to be a Trekkie or a Brony or whatever because there was something about whatever it is you like that appealed to you.

Nobody chooses to be Jewish, to be Black, to be Gay, etc. The two aren't even remotely the same. I remember an IRL friend talking about someone he knew in the "furry" community referring to a CSI episode that made fun of them as "our 9-11."

what. the. fuck.

Obviously any mockery can be hurtful if you take it far enough, but you have to take it much farther about something like being a Science Fiction fan than you do over an inherent trait like race, gender, or sexuality before it becomes hurtful.

Mind you this can vary from person to person. Some people, and i've seen them at cons and stuff, take so much of their own identity from their "fandom," that they really will react to a joke about it like you've just made a comment about their race or gender.

God damn, SB, SDN and even the motherfucking STO forums have shit themselves and died all at once.

SDN and SB are working for me.

Darksi4190 wrote:SDN and SB are working for me.

SDN was down, but now it's back. As for SB...

Well if I wait for five minutes or so it loads. And then looks like this:



I suppose you could call that "working" if you wanted to.

Wacky waving arm inflatable tube man, eh?

Also, Rye posted up this link on facebook. Kickstarted my Monday. Art.

timmy wrote:Also, Rye posted up this link on facebook. Kickstarted my Monday. Art.

Um.





Ok?

Thank you for sharing that