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What's worse than pop-ups?

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  • J JohnJ

    Nitron wrote: popups Popup, what's a popup. I'm now a convert to the great god Mozilla[^]:omg: Before anybody sets fire to my socks and complains about speed, may I suggest they bite the bullet, go the extra mile and install it manually:eek: and try Mozilla Firebird[^] ooof...does it render a page fast:-D Apologies but I'm feeling Belligerent tonight - I've just paid Mr Gates his 3 pounds of flesh to renew my MSDN Pro subscription renewal:suss: (Sorry Chris you don't do it:(( ) Today what do I get, a very big box, filled with air bag things enveloping a medium size nice looking box, that contained a cardboard box that contained an EULA (Bin;) ), a set of CD'S for Visual Studio .NET 2003 (which you have already sent me - twice:~ ), a nice set of posters (for which I need a larger wall space:| ) and finally a card with a 15 digit number on it, that I just have to enter on an MSDN website before being told to check back in 2 days to make sure it worked:wtf: Since I do this each year, probably on Thurday I will find it not registered. After that I just ring a number to take me to Ireland, talk to a person in India, fax my registration card and invoice because they don't have the subscription number on the database, email a nice person in Ireland a couple of times and finally I'm renewed for 12 months:mad: Pass the tranquilizers John Hudson Its all right - I'll tell the therapist it was all your fault, maybe they won't turn the voltage up so high on the ECT machine this time:omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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    peterchen
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    With all your smileys you look like a slashdot kiddlie ;P


    "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
    sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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    • V Vikram A Punathambekar

      JohnJ wrote: A dyslexic CP'er I'm not dyslexic. In fact, we INTPs are excellent at languages* and word play- that's how I found that out. JohnJ wrote: book another appointment with the therapist ROTFLMAO ! :laugh: Nice to meet somebody who shares my brand of humor. * - [shameless plug]I can read, write and speak 4 languages fluently.[/shameless plug]
      Vikram.


      My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

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      Jorgen Sigvardsson
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      Vikram Punathambekar wrote: and word play- that's how I found that out word play is a treat of true geeks.. :-D (don't blame me, a female acquaintance pointed that out to me the other day. about 3 seconds after I cracked a word play joke... But I think she meant it in a good way, cause she's a geek too. :-D) -- I am on fire. Do you need a light?

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        With all your smileys you look like a slashdot kiddlie ;P


        "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
        sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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        Slashdot kiddies have sigs that says "BSD is dying ... BSD is dead." :) -- I am on fire. Do you need a light?

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          Fake popups that use this[^] for a background! X| X| X| - Nitron


          "Those that say a task is impossible shouldn't interrupt the ones who are doing it." - Chinese Proverb

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          Member 96
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          Dental surgery? Actually I was going to type a million things here just to point out what was worse but RSI is worse than pop-up's.;P ------------

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          • P peterchen

            With all your smileys you look like a slashdot kiddlie ;P


            "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
            sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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            Ryan Binns
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            peterchen wrote: With all your smileys you look like a slashdot kiddlie At least he only used each smiley once :)

            Ryan

            "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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              peterchen wrote: With all your smileys you look like a slashdot kiddlie At least he only used each smiley once :)

              Ryan

              "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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              "only once" you wanted to say? :rolleyes:


              "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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                "only once" you wanted to say? :rolleyes:


                "Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
                sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen

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                peterchen wrote: "only once" you wanted to say? Uh, yeah. Isn't that what I said? :confused:

                Ryan

                "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

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                • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                  Vikram Punathambekar wrote: and word play- that's how I found that out word play is a treat of true geeks.. :-D (don't blame me, a female acquaintance pointed that out to me the other day. about 3 seconds after I cracked a word play joke... But I think she meant it in a good way, cause she's a geek too. :-D) -- I am on fire. Do you need a light?

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                  Vikram A Punathambekar
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                  Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: don't blame me What do you mean? I'm a geek, and proud of it. :cool: Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: But I think she meant it in a good way, cause she's a geek too. I'm yet to meet a female geek. :( In the RW, I mean.
                  Vikram.


                  My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

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                  • J JohnJ

                    Vikram Punathambekar wrote: I'm not dyslexic Alright, I surrender... X| Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Nice to meet somebody who shares my brand of humor. Hi Vikram, Yes you are probably right. Although today I am particuarly caustic thanks to Microsoft/Greymatter and CFS (see Profile[^] ) Hopefully I'll be more reasonable tomorrow:~ John Hudson Its all right - I'll tell the therapist it was all your fault, maybe they won't turn the voltage up so high on the ECT machine this time:omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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                    Vikram A Punathambekar
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                    JohnJ wrote: see Profile[^] JohnJ's profile says: I like logical/knotty coding problems to solve and hate anything to do with creeping UK Bureaucracy. Me too. Though it's the Indian bureaucracy that I hate. ;P But I don't get mad or overuse CP emoticons like you do. ;P
                    Vikram.


                    My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

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                    • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                      JohnJ wrote: see Profile[^] JohnJ's profile says: I like logical/knotty coding problems to solve and hate anything to do with creeping UK Bureaucracy. Me too. Though it's the Indian bureaucracy that I hate. ;P But I don't get mad or overuse CP emoticons like you do. ;P
                      Vikram.


                      My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

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                      Vikram Punathambekar wrote: But I don't get mad or overuse CP emoticons like you do. :mad:Mad!!:mad: I don't get mad, although some say I might be mad:suss: I don't overuse CP emoticons either:jig: John Hudson Its all right - I'll tell the therapist it was all your fault, maybe they won't turn the voltage up so high on the ECT machine this time:omg: http://www.rainbow-innov.co.uk[^]

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                      • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                        Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: don't blame me What do you mean? I'm a geek, and proud of it. :cool: Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: But I think she meant it in a good way, cause she's a geek too. I'm yet to meet a female geek. :( In the RW, I mean.
                        Vikram.


                        My soon-to-be-updated site KI klike KDE kand kuse kit, kbut KI kmust kadmit, kstarting kall knames kwith K kis ksilly. KI khope kthey kwill kgive kup kthis kwhole kscheme ksoon kand kcome kup kwith kreal knames. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

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                        woops.. I meant trait, not treat.. :-D I didn't say geek as if it was a bad thing. :) -- I am on fire. Do you need a light?

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