SteveZilla Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings [announcer]And now, with today's muse and weather report, Zeus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings *starts sweeping up all the loose os around here* I guess they're not very Cheeri, are then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings ... Who -- Littlebottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Dear Idiots, "Syntax Error" is never helpful. Never, not even when worded as "The formula you have entered contains an error". It wasn't helpful with Stone Age Fortran in 1974, and it's not helpful in Excel now. Thirty-six F***ING YEARS of software design practice and you still haven't learned this? Go take all 111,000 lines of C source code, inscribe them on granite flagstones one line per stone, and stuff them up your ventral orifice. Love, Cancer And it gets worse when its discovered that it was just a missing semicolon. (ducks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Actually, I've had Excel choke on extra _spaces_, which is (if possible) worse than a missing semicolon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings In this case, it was too many levels of nested parens. It chokes if there's more than 7. Why it won't tell you that's the problem beats the h*** out of me.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Why does a spreadsheet program choke on more than 7 parens in 2010 a.d.? Is it amateur night in software engineering? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Too expensive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Why does a spreadsheet program choke on more than 7 parens in 2010 a.d.? Is it amateur night in software engineering? Either amateur night, or DFUA night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings That's an acronym I've never seen before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings DFUA = Dedicated F***-Up Artist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings *takes notes* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Cancer is wise. I suppose I should be inured to Excel suckitude by now. I remember it couldn't do a simple linear regression plot until, I think, 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Do I want this book or don't I ? That is the question. Do you have the sinking feeling it'll be horrible, the rabid determination that it can't be that bad, or the quiet certainty it'll be good? Also, most books, you really can tell by the cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Do I want this book or don't I ? That is the question. get it..just in case... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Absolutely. Consider the sudden explosion of book covers with scantily/leather clad heroines, often against a dark cityscape, armed with anti-vampire daggers or crossbows. I am unlikely to buy these books, but I admit they are awfully nice to look at. Also, book covers tend to have the author's name on them, making it easy to avoid anything by Donaldson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Also, book covers tend to have the author's name on them, making it easy to avoid anything by Donaldson. or J. K. Rowling, or Stephenie Meyer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Absolutely. Consider the sudden explosion of book covers with scantily/leather clad heroines' date=' often against a dark cityscape, armed with anti-vampire daggers or crossbows. I am unlikely to buy these books, but I admit they are awfully nice to look at.[/quote'] Too bad you can't buy just the cover... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Too bad you can't buy just the cover... Considering the vast number of comic book related sites on the net, you probably don't need to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I know. I just wasn't going to voice it since I knew someone else would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Cancer is wise. I suppose I should be inured to Excel suckitude by now. I remember it couldn't do a simple linear regression plot until, I think, 2000. I remember being initially pleasantly surprised that one version of Excel claimed it could do Fourier transforms. Then I tried it out, it could only accept as inputs even-power-of-2 points, and it couldn't read its own output. That rates an "F" from a junior-level numerical analysis/programming class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Absolutely. Consider the sudden explosion of book covers with scantily/leather clad heroines, often against a dark cityscape, armed with anti-vampire daggers or crossbows. I am unlikely to buy these books, but I admit they are awfully nice to look at. Also, book covers tend to have the author's name on them, making it easy to avoid anything by Donaldson. That cover is telling me "There is no story here. So look: Hot chick who's dangerous!" The first part of that statement is the defining article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings Book cover snobbery! *snicker* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings At least he has a spine to stand up to their cover story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveZilla Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Re: Musings on Random Musings I'm spending way too much time looking at babies with laserbeam eyes. Gone blind from the exposure to lasers, have you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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