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Rumor · Oct 9, 2007, 03:47 PM

Someone has a fecal fetish.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 03:51 PM

my bad

Laminar · Oct 9, 2007, 03:51 PM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Speaking of which, I haven't seen him around lately.

Things just aren't the same without him...

To the OP: [please] quit asking inane questions and learn to go with the flow a little more, at least in the 'NN Lounge.

I reeeeally hope he didn't get fired, or bored. I honestly don't know what to do all day here at work.

Oh, and I've been wanting to use this picture for the entire thread:

besson3c · Oct 9, 2007, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²

my bad

Ahhh... I see why you think my name is Joe. No, that isn't me. That is a client of mine, although I do use the alias "Joe" sometimes. My real name is besson3c.

starman · Oct 9, 2007, 03:59 PM

That comic's lame.

starman · Oct 9, 2007, 04:01 PM

I spoke to Dakar last week. He's a little burned out.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 04:18 PM

feel better dakar!!

Laminar · Oct 9, 2007, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by starman

I spoke to Dakar last week. He's a little burned out.

On MacNN, work, or life in general?

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2007, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

The average age here is probably at least 15, and the pecking order around here basically revolves around the smartest person here, which I always try to convince everybody, is me.
It works downwards ~~from there.~~ on me, as you can see:

Fixinated.

-t

Doofy · Oct 9, 2007, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by AngelaBaby

Lol. are all new people treated like this?

Yup.

And all the folks who've been here for over a week. It's the NN signature bickering.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 04:52 PM

your boobies are hypnotic.

lets see if this new gal is keen on the white text fun

besson3c · Oct 9, 2007, 05:02 PM

[QUOTE=brassplayersrock²;3501869]your boobies are hypnotic.

If you think those are hypnotic, I should send a picture of mine....

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 05:05 PM

i dont think my monitor is big enough

turtle777 · Oct 9, 2007, 05:05 PM

-t

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 05:11 PM

Laminar · Oct 9, 2007, 05:13 PM

It looks like I broke the picture out early.

Originally Posted by Laminar

shifuimam · Oct 9, 2007, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by turtle777

Woohoo. Catfight.

-t

Meow.

I could also say something about not using valley girl pseudospelling in forum posts, or not needing to link to Apple.com in one's sig (which is too big, btw) since this is, you know, a fricking Apple user/fanboy forum...

...but I won't. I'm just that awesome.

SpaceMonkey · Oct 9, 2007, 06:45 PM

Originally Posted by besson3c

There is a poster named Dakar that always has diarrhea and has over a dozen cats in his house. He also collects My Little Pony.

With all the powers at my disposal, I summon, thee, Dakar. Come forth!!!!

shifuimam · Oct 9, 2007, 06:49 PM

Whatever magic algorithm that image resizer uses is pretty amazing.

I'm surprised at how well it resizes images to various percentages without pixelating them at all - even photoshop's zoom (out) doesn't look that good. A+

Doofy · Oct 9, 2007, 06:59 PM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Whatever magic algorithm that image resizer uses is pretty amazing.

I'm surprised at how well it resizes images to various percentages without pixelating them at all - even photoshop's zoom (out) doesn't look that good. A+

Won't it be just a plain HTML resize, thus meaning that Safari (or whatever browser you're using) is responsible for the rendering?

Just guessin'.

besson3c · Oct 9, 2007, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Won't it be just a plain HTML resize, thus meaning that Safari (or whatever browser you're using) is responsible for the rendering?

Just guessin'.

That'd be my guess too... a regular expression pattern match of document.getElementById('divtag').innerHTML for img tags, followed by reducing these values.

besson3c · Oct 9, 2007, 07:06 PM

So Angela,

Do you like ointment?

SpaceMonkey · Oct 9, 2007, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

MAC = media access control, as in a MAC address on a network adapter.

Mac = Macintosh computer, as in shiny white and/or aluminum stuff manufactured by Apple.

Or, you could look up the difference between the two on Google...

But wouldn't someone who's truly a "nerd" on the inside already know this? AngelaBaby, your street cred is diminishing rapidly.

irunat2am · Oct 9, 2007, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

MAC = media access control, as in a MAC address on a network adapter.

Mac = Macintosh computer, as in shiny white and/or aluminum stuff manufactured by Apple.

Or, you could look up the difference between the two on Google...

It really, truly, does not matter. Everybody knows what people mean based on their sentence or subject matter. You're coming off pretty rude.

Oisín · Oct 9, 2007, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

But wouldn't someone who's truly a "nerd" on the inside already know this? AngelaBaby, your street cred is diminishing rapidly.

Was it ever there?

Oisín · Oct 9, 2007, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by irunat2am

It really, truly, does not matter. Everybody knows what people mean based on their sentence or subject matter. You're coming off pretty rude.

She was answering Angela’s question...

irunat2am · Oct 9, 2007, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Oisín

She was answering Angela’s question...

Her two posts on front page. Forget about it. I was going to edit it before I started an e-debate, but you had replied basically as it was sent. Haha. You're quick today oisin!

- - e r i k - - · Oct 9, 2007, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by starman

No, a girl with links shows up and I think it's spam.

Sig-spammers are increasingly devious these days. You can actually pay people to go on forums and "participate" you know.

shifuimam · 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Won't it be just a plain HTML resize, thus meaning that Safari (or whatever browser you're using) is responsible for the rendering?

Just guessin'.

I don't think so.. I'm using Firefox and using just the width/height attributes of the IMG tag make images look a little funny (at least in my experience), unless the latest update to 1.5 improved IMG display/rendering.

At any rate, it looks nice to me on the forums.

It uses inline CSS instead of the HTML attributes to resize. I lose.

Originally Posted by irunat2am

It really, truly, does not matter.

Technically, it does matter, since they're two different things. It's like any other word that sounds the same but is spelled or written differently...their/they're/there, you're/your, are/our, etc.

Everybody knows what people mean based on their sentence or subject matter.

That doesn't excuse grammatical errors - ever. Saying that it's okay to use "then" instead of "than" because people know what you mean is going to be the demise of the English language.

You're coming off pretty rude.

I was just being honest. Google would clarify such a thing, and the "shiny white/aluminum" bit is just a little sarcasm on my part, since I'm not really an apple fanboy.

And the part about geek girls not liking the blonde sorority girl type who claims to be geeky because she owns a Mac and a fancy cell phone is completely true. The blonde non-geeks make it a lot harder for the rest of us actual geeky females to gain any credibility in the IT world.

That and I was crabby today. Sorry.

Rumor · Oct 9, 2007, 08:26 PM

Hate to resort to this kind of barbaric dispute resolution, but we had to, so here are the results.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Oct 9, 2007, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Hate to resort to this kind of barbaric dispute resolution, but we had to, so here are the results.

Now that was funny.

But I pwn her like nobody's business.

Chuckit · Oct 9, 2007, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Doofy

Won't it be just a plain HTML resize, thus meaning that Safari (or whatever browser you're using) is responsible for the rendering?

It's not HTML, but yeah. The Javascript basically just says "Hey image, you're wider than 480 pixels! Get down, you little hooligan!" Nothing out of the ordinary involved.

Originally Posted by irunat2am

You're coming off pretty rude.

She's Shifuimam. She always comes off as brusque. I thought that was, like, her thing. Like I use extremely grandiloquent language interspersed with the word "like."

Chuckit · Oct 9, 2007, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

Now that was funny.

But I pwn her like nobody's business.

GTFO my Intarwebs, punk.

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 09:53 PM

ftw Google Fight : Make this fight with googleFight chuck VS the world

Laminar · Oct 9, 2007, 09:54 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

GTFO my Intarwebs, punk.

What you talkin' 'bout?

brassplayersrock² · Oct 9, 2007, 09:57 PM

look who's talkin'

theDreamer · Oct 9, 2007, 10:28 PM

Geez, and I thought my welcome thread was a little akward....

Well, welcome to the forums. I have lurked for a few months before I actually made my first post, but have come to enjoy the forums and especially the political forum section.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Oct 9, 2007, 11:01 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

GTFO my Intarwebs, punk.

You cheated and so did alex. I still pwn alex tho.

shifuimam · Oct 9, 2007, 11:26 PM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Hate to resort to this kind of barbaric dispute resolution, but we had to, so here are the results.

Yes, well, if I used a generic username, I'd have lots of results, too.

So much for being unique.

Originally Posted by Chuckit

She's Shifuimam. She always comes off as brusque. I thought that was, like, her thing. Like I use extremely grandiloquent language interspersed with the word "like."

Best quote ever. <3

loki74 · Oct 10, 2007, 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Yes, well, if I used a generic username, I'd have lots of results, too.

So much for being unique.

I dunno, the username "loki" (omitting the 74) yields 10,800,000 well beyond Cats's 2,090,000, and thereby most of the others. However, I'd say that loki without the 74 is still pretty unique as sn's go, as is "C.A.T.S. CEO." Alas, I get pwned by all if I include the 74. lol.

I think the reason you score so low is because because your sn is not composed of words or phrases which are commonly known, (is it made of English words at all?) as opposed to being unique.

To OP: welcome!

Chuckit · Oct 10, 2007, 04:28 AM

Originally Posted by loki74

I dunno, the username "loki" (omitting the 74) yields 10,800,000 well beyond Cats's 2,090,000, and thereby most of the others. However, I'd say that loki without the 74 is still pretty unique as sn's go

I'm not sure a major Norse deity is all that unique. And "cats" without the "CEO" yields a simply obscene number of results.

Cipher13 · 09:10 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

Speaking of which, I haven't seen him around lately.

Things just aren't the same without him...

To the OP: [please] quit asking inane questions and learn to go with the flow a little more, at least in the 'NN Lounge.

Ah, go easy, the benefit of the doubt is always nice. If AngelaBaby is a spammer, then I say props for commitment!

Enjoy your stay here.
Welcome to the slaughterhouse.

EDIT: Well, nevermind, apparently there's a page two.

shifuimam · Oct 10, 2007, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by loki74

I think the reason you score so low is because because your sn is not composed of words or phrases which are commonly known, (is it made of English words at all?) as opposed to being unique.

That's the definition of a unique screen name - one that nobody else has. If it's a word that's in the dictionary, it's not unique.

And, yes, it's based on actual words. But it's unique enough that if you google it, every result is something to do with me. So I'd lose in a googlefight, but I've managed to keep that screenname associated with me exclusively for nearly six years, so I'd say it's a win.

besson3c · Oct 10, 2007, 10:37 AM

I think the ultimate Googlefight nick would be something like "Sex Cats and Dogs"...

brassplayersrock² · Oct 10, 2007, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO

You cheated and so did alex. I still pwn alex tho.

no one owns me whitey
Alex
that was a joke if you couldn't tell

starman · Oct 10, 2007, 11:17 AM

Looks like we scared Angela away

loki74 · Oct 10, 2007, 11:17 AM

yes, I'll admit, my sn is not nearly as unique as some of the ones around here... I suppose I should have said "not generic."

Originally Posted by shifuimam

That's the definition of a unique screen name - one that nobody else has. If it's a word that's in the dictionary, it's not unique.

There are some things not in the dictionary that are most definitely not unique, and would certainly have sh!tloads of hits on a Google search. "asdf," for example...

sek929 · Oct 10, 2007, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by starman

Looks like we scared Angela away

She must've smelled you

In all seriousness, even if she is the type of girl shifuimam describes that's ok. I once made out with a Mac chick by installing a stolen version of M$ Office on her iMac.

So either I was a wicked hot geek, or she was a slut. Yeah, I wonder which one...

starman · Oct 10, 2007, 12:42 PM

I miss college....

sek929 · Oct 10, 2007, 12:45 PM

The sluts miss you too