- Delete or give a more derogatory name, per above reasons - David Gerard 13:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Microsoft already has a patch in the works to help users overcome this issue. Whenever the user types a '*' in a formula, an animated sprite of Charles Babbage's head will pop up. It will show this bubble caption:
"It looks like you're trying to multiply two numbers. I can help show you how to use the Method of Finite Differences to find a good approximation of your answer using only addition and subtraction. Would you like me to bring up a wizard so that we can get started on finding an appropriate power series?"
- Slashdot poster on
Excel 2007 bug (type in
=850*77.1into a cell and it gives you 100,000)
In December 1997 Alan Ramsey, who has an unrivalled memory for the peccadilloes of politicians, wrote that Menzies had called Calwell "a piece of scum" and that I had called Billy McMahon "a runt". I sent him a fax:
| “ | I used the word for an aspiring Prime Minister, not a Prime Minister (Abiding Interests, page 23). It was apt but cruel. A person as tall as I should not have used it. Never in the House did I use the word which comes to mind. The nearest I came to doing so was when Sir Winton Turnbull, a member of the cavalleria rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides. | ” |
- Gough Whitlam, That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour, Order In The House Debate, Sydney Town Hall. May 24th, 2000.
"Study finds bereaved suffer less after euthanasia"
- Well, they would, wouldn't they?
- Headline:
"Study finds bereaved suffer less after euthanasia". ABC online. July 25th, 2003.
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"THE worst is feared for one of the Gold Coast's star attractions, Kanook the polar bear. Sea World broke the news yesterday that the theme park's 20-year-old resident is suffering kidney failure and unlikely to survive to the end of the year... Her condition is expected to get progessively worse and if her quality of life diminishes significantly vetinarians might have to be put down."
- A little harsh on the vetinarians, if I might say.
- "Polar Bear Dying". Animals.
Courier Mail. April 20th, 2004.
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"We have also been making excellent use of sniffer drugs and we'll continue to use them frequently and without warning."
- Awesome.
- Falconer, Rebecca (July 29th, 2005).
"Man seized with E-tabs". Centralian Advocate.
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"Croc takes man fishing in park"
- Afterwards buys him spot of tea.
- Headline: Cole, Malcolm (August 17th, 2005).
"Croc takes man fishing in park". The Advertiser.
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<DeadMansHand> haha, last night, me and pete went out to celebrate his engagement and got hugely drunk
<DeadMansHand> we got this great idea to bury eachother in the sand close to the water and see who would chicken out first
<DeadMansHand> took about a half hour, but the water got up to my face so i freaked and got out
<DeadMansHand> i looked around for pete and he must've chickened out before me and stumbled home or something heh
<DeadMansHand> What'd he say when he woke up this morning?
<Thirteen-> uhh.. he hasn't come home yet.. i thought he was staying with you?
<DeadMansHand> holy fuck.
<DeadMansHand> i fucking hope im wrong about what im thinking right now
<DeadMansHand> im fucking going back to the beach to make sure
<DeadMansHand> if he gets home, call me, i don't want to be worrying about this
<Thirteen-> will do. you better hope he's not still buried, you'll be in deep shit.
quit: (DeadMansHand)
<Tyran> wtf? pete came home last night you fuck. Ken's going to be worrying about this shit all day
<Thirteen-> haha yea, but it will be fun while it lasts
join: (PeteRepeat) (bob@3F8C4655.11D1C8C.18637D35.IP)
<PeteRepeat> fucking ken
<PeteRepeat> ken... that fucker buried me in the sand last night, i ran off about 5 minutes to it, left him there to be an idiot
<quiqsilver> pete, ken didn't come back last night, i thought he was with you.
<PeteRepeat> oh fuck.
<PeteRepeat> if ken shows up, make sure he doesn't know that im at the beach digging for his body. i don't want him to think i care or anything.
quit: (PeteRepeat)
<Thirteen-> rofl. Those 2 are going to get a huge surprise when they meet at the beach.
<Tyran> i can't beleive how perfect their timing was
- My favourite ever Bash.org quote.
From Talk:Btrieve:
- Can't we just replace the entire article with the observation "Pervasive.SQL is like SQL Server except retarded"?.
Vice Chairman Shelby. What you'd be doing really, in a sense, is utilizing the latest technology to take advantage of any weapon deficiencies you might have.
Mr. Cash. That's exactly it — Napster for spies.
- U.S. Senator Richard C. Shelby during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing, asking about a proposed National Virtual Translation Center.
Academics who need prestige and authorial credit for their professional lives are still going to find it difficult to use participation in the Nupedia (or, now, the Citizendium) on our CVs. Even in fields where collaboration is the norm, scholars need to be able to demonstrate intellectual leadership rather than mere participation. A listing as first author is far more valuable than second or third. And second or third author in a traditional venue is infinitely preferable to professional academics to membership in a relatively undifferentiated list of contributors to an on-line encyclopedia to which amateurs contribute. The most prestigious journals, presses, and encyclopaedias all enforce far higher standards of selectivity than the mere evidence of an earned Ph.D. suggested by Nupedia and or "eligibility" for "a tenure track job" preferred by the Citizendium.
- Daniel Paul O'Donnell of the
University of Lethbridge (May 2007).
If I were "You": How Academics Can Stop Worrying and Learn to Love "the Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit".
The Heroic Age.
- While academic research is invaluable, I think that the above speaks volumes as to the attitude of many of its more arrogant practitioners. So much for generosity and for research merely for the good of humanity!
Given that a number of people have poked fun at Wikipedia itself for cultivating a dry, bland style of writing, the reader may wonder just how bad legal prose really is if judges are resorting to Wikipedia references to add color.
- Michael Snow (29 January, 2007). " Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate". The Wikipedia Signpost. ( Revision 104340238)
You say WP:RS applies through WP:V, but the you use signpost for WP:N, signpost definitely fails WP:RS. Anyhow already said more than I intended so I'll shut up now.
Less a harridan than a poorly sketched caricature of a hardian, [ Germaine Greer] would be easy to dismiss as some unwashed and wretched bag lady who had somehow stumbled on the opinion pages of The Guardian, were it not for the fact that this feral hag does actually speak for a signficant minority. (ouch!)
- John Birmingham (September 7th, 2006). "Greer's feral attack reflects elist conceit", The Australian, page 12.
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: who wants to have a go at fixing Opus Dei?
zocky: ta_bu_shi_da_yu, you mean NPOV an article about a shady organization involved in world-domination power struggle?
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: don't you just love it when you spot a fairly major error in an important bit of legislation that affects people in the most powerful nation in the world?
Submarine: ta_bu_shi_da_yu, I have lower ambitions, such as spotting stupidities in legislation in pointless west european countries.
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: Submarine, shooting low there huh?
Dottore: ah, one of my recent pet project is getting ztats of the outputs of certain montecarlo programs I have written, calculated and analyzed via an AWK script :)
Sasquatch: Dottore: speak... english...
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: I do trust Jimbo and the board, but at the end of the day if that gets implemented it will be a massive change
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: of course I have concerns!
+ Kawaii_Neko pets the concerned ta_bu_shi_da_yu
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu purrs
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu suddenly turns and inserts his claws into Kawaii_Neko!
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: ROWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: pfffffffff
+ smoddy takes ta_bu_shi_da_yu to be neutered
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu urinates on smoddy's carpet
elian: kids, behave ;-)
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu goes back to behaving
- Delete or give a more derogatory name, per above reasons - David Gerard 13:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Microsoft already has a patch in the works to help users overcome this issue. Whenever the user types a '*' in a formula, an animated sprite of Charles Babbage's head will pop up. It will show this bubble caption:
"It looks like you're trying to multiply two numbers. I can help show you how to use the Method of Finite Differences to find a good approximation of your answer using only addition and subtraction. Would you like me to bring up a wizard so that we can get started on finding an appropriate power series?"
- Slashdot poster on
Excel 2007 bug (type in
=850*77.1into a cell and it gives you 100,000)
In December 1997 Alan Ramsey, who has an unrivalled memory for the peccadilloes of politicians, wrote that Menzies had called Calwell "a piece of scum" and that I had called Billy McMahon "a runt". I sent him a fax:
| “ | I used the word for an aspiring Prime Minister, not a Prime Minister (Abiding Interests, page 23). It was apt but cruel. A person as tall as I should not have used it. Never in the House did I use the word which comes to mind. The nearest I came to doing so was when Sir Winton Turnbull, a member of the cavalleria rusticana, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides. | ” |
- Gough Whitlam, That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour, Order In The House Debate, Sydney Town Hall. May 24th, 2000.
"Study finds bereaved suffer less after euthanasia"
- Well, they would, wouldn't they?
- Headline:
"Study finds bereaved suffer less after euthanasia". ABC online. July 25th, 2003.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help)
"THE worst is feared for one of the Gold Coast's star attractions, Kanook the polar bear. Sea World broke the news yesterday that the theme park's 20-year-old resident is suffering kidney failure and unlikely to survive to the end of the year... Her condition is expected to get progessively worse and if her quality of life diminishes significantly vetinarians might have to be put down."
- A little harsh on the vetinarians, if I might say.
- "Polar Bear Dying". Animals.
Courier Mail. April 20th, 2004.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help)
"We have also been making excellent use of sniffer drugs and we'll continue to use them frequently and without warning."
- Awesome.
- Falconer, Rebecca (July 29th, 2005).
"Man seized with E-tabs". Centralian Advocate.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help)
"Croc takes man fishing in park"
- Afterwards buys him spot of tea.
- Headline: Cole, Malcolm (August 17th, 2005).
"Croc takes man fishing in park". The Advertiser.
{{ cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=( help)
<DeadMansHand> haha, last night, me and pete went out to celebrate his engagement and got hugely drunk
<DeadMansHand> we got this great idea to bury eachother in the sand close to the water and see who would chicken out first
<DeadMansHand> took about a half hour, but the water got up to my face so i freaked and got out
<DeadMansHand> i looked around for pete and he must've chickened out before me and stumbled home or something heh
<DeadMansHand> What'd he say when he woke up this morning?
<Thirteen-> uhh.. he hasn't come home yet.. i thought he was staying with you?
<DeadMansHand> holy fuck.
<DeadMansHand> i fucking hope im wrong about what im thinking right now
<DeadMansHand> im fucking going back to the beach to make sure
<DeadMansHand> if he gets home, call me, i don't want to be worrying about this
<Thirteen-> will do. you better hope he's not still buried, you'll be in deep shit.
quit: (DeadMansHand)
<Tyran> wtf? pete came home last night you fuck. Ken's going to be worrying about this shit all day
<Thirteen-> haha yea, but it will be fun while it lasts
join: (PeteRepeat) (bob@3F8C4655.11D1C8C.18637D35.IP)
<PeteRepeat> fucking ken
<PeteRepeat> ken... that fucker buried me in the sand last night, i ran off about 5 minutes to it, left him there to be an idiot
<quiqsilver> pete, ken didn't come back last night, i thought he was with you.
<PeteRepeat> oh fuck.
<PeteRepeat> if ken shows up, make sure he doesn't know that im at the beach digging for his body. i don't want him to think i care or anything.
quit: (PeteRepeat)
<Thirteen-> rofl. Those 2 are going to get a huge surprise when they meet at the beach.
<Tyran> i can't beleive how perfect their timing was
- My favourite ever Bash.org quote.
From Talk:Btrieve:
- Can't we just replace the entire article with the observation "Pervasive.SQL is like SQL Server except retarded"?.
Vice Chairman Shelby. What you'd be doing really, in a sense, is utilizing the latest technology to take advantage of any weapon deficiencies you might have.
Mr. Cash. That's exactly it — Napster for spies.
- U.S. Senator Richard C. Shelby during a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing, asking about a proposed National Virtual Translation Center.
Academics who need prestige and authorial credit for their professional lives are still going to find it difficult to use participation in the Nupedia (or, now, the Citizendium) on our CVs. Even in fields where collaboration is the norm, scholars need to be able to demonstrate intellectual leadership rather than mere participation. A listing as first author is far more valuable than second or third. And second or third author in a traditional venue is infinitely preferable to professional academics to membership in a relatively undifferentiated list of contributors to an on-line encyclopedia to which amateurs contribute. The most prestigious journals, presses, and encyclopaedias all enforce far higher standards of selectivity than the mere evidence of an earned Ph.D. suggested by Nupedia and or "eligibility" for "a tenure track job" preferred by the Citizendium.
- Daniel Paul O'Donnell of the
University of Lethbridge (May 2007).
If I were "You": How Academics Can Stop Worrying and Learn to Love "the Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit".
The Heroic Age.
- While academic research is invaluable, I think that the above speaks volumes as to the attitude of many of its more arrogant practitioners. So much for generosity and for research merely for the good of humanity!
Given that a number of people have poked fun at Wikipedia itself for cultivating a dry, bland style of writing, the reader may wonder just how bad legal prose really is if judges are resorting to Wikipedia references to add color.
- Michael Snow (29 January, 2007). " Court decisions citing Wikipedia proliferate". The Wikipedia Signpost. ( Revision 104340238)
You say WP:RS applies through WP:V, but the you use signpost for WP:N, signpost definitely fails WP:RS. Anyhow already said more than I intended so I'll shut up now.
Less a harridan than a poorly sketched caricature of a hardian, [ Germaine Greer] would be easy to dismiss as some unwashed and wretched bag lady who had somehow stumbled on the opinion pages of The Guardian, were it not for the fact that this feral hag does actually speak for a signficant minority. (ouch!)
- John Birmingham (September 7th, 2006). "Greer's feral attack reflects elist conceit", The Australian, page 12.
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: who wants to have a go at fixing Opus Dei?
zocky: ta_bu_shi_da_yu, you mean NPOV an article about a shady organization involved in world-domination power struggle?
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: don't you just love it when you spot a fairly major error in an important bit of legislation that affects people in the most powerful nation in the world?
Submarine: ta_bu_shi_da_yu, I have lower ambitions, such as spotting stupidities in legislation in pointless west european countries.
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: Submarine, shooting low there huh?
Dottore: ah, one of my recent pet project is getting ztats of the outputs of certain montecarlo programs I have written, calculated and analyzed via an AWK script :)
Sasquatch: Dottore: speak... english...
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: I do trust Jimbo and the board, but at the end of the day if that gets implemented it will be a massive change
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: of course I have concerns!
+ Kawaii_Neko pets the concerned ta_bu_shi_da_yu
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu purrs
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu suddenly turns and inserts his claws into Kawaii_Neko!
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: ROWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: pfffffffff
+ smoddy takes ta_bu_shi_da_yu to be neutered
ta_bu_shi_da_yu: ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu urinates on smoddy's carpet
elian: kids, behave ;-)
+ ta_bu_shi_da_yu goes back to behaving