Resident Answers and Computer Manual Syndrome

.... and that would be a good thing.

When do we get to talk about computer manuals?

I liked having the source code for the Atari 800 in "De Re Atari".

Oh crap, let me dig the box out of my closet that my computer came in. Shoot, they didn't send me a freaking manual, whats up with that. Only a little piece of paper on how to install the battery. I'll give you mine if you give me yours.

Time to pull the plug, lights out, please ban me.

::kiss::

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the computer manuals part of the topic too.

I miss the days of referring to the complete commented code for the entire ROM built in to the Commodore 64 and using it to create assembly language stuff I could compile with LADS rather than programming it in BASIC. I just haven't gotten the hang of this whole world of Windows and the Mac for writing programs. Luckily there's LSL or I wouldn't be doing any programming at all anymore.

That's just . . . unbelievably geeky.

Look at me, I'm white and nerdy.

..... Riding off down the sidewalks of SL on my SLegway

Awwwwwww . . .

You could get an Android device and whatever one writes programs for it with and try some Simple programs.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/07/programming-made-simple.html

I enjoyed writing my own windowing code and playing with line drawing algorithms and such. Much easier to understand that Windows calls with Hungarianish notation and 15 parameters each of which have camelcase names 30 characters long.

I would do anything to please Scylla

i once ran a dial up bulletin board system on a Commodore 64, powered by the power board stripped from an ADDS data terminal because the original one died, and logged onto it locally from a second ADDS so i could see how it displayed on 80 column screens because the 64 only had 40 columns. well it had an 80 column mode if i recall but it wasn't supported by my BBS software. even pulled in Fidonet and Usenet feeds on it.

while i'm here, and i have only even been looking at and posting on these forums for about a week, why does every thread posted by Jig get polarized into 'why i like Jig' and 'why i don't like Jig' and pretty much completely lose the point of her post? i love the questions she asks and if the forums do indeed get closed i hope i find her asking them somewhere else. i've actually been trying to catch her online so i can hopefully meet her face to face, though i have some doubts i could type fast enough to keep up.

I don't recall treating you to my Mantovani record collection!?

Well, Eternus....it's a fascinating process, although becoming predictable and mundane. Sit for a spell....and I'll run through it with you. 69.5% of the threads started by the OP, are disguised as a thought provoking question, that are started immediately following another thread that was disguised as a thought provoking question, that did not go well, to her satisfaction. You can only have provoking thoughts, if they apply to her standards, btw.

Now.....the irony in this thread....is that it started as a suggestion that bullying is killing the thought provoking threads, started here....and there is a ploy for sympathy between the lines. Or was it blatant? Your call. Now, this bullying concept was a wee bit out of line, and set off a few nerves, as it was applied to responses in another thread, that were simply responses that OP did not care for.

Getting back to the irony......after several suggestions were made....the insults were hurled, yet again from OP.....and you would have to know the character Pep, to understand the degree of the insults....(a story for another day)....and the cry for sympathy and understanding turned into this:



.....which seems to be a contrary thought to the original plea....(and they often are).....since the OP is now calling everyone out using insulting behavior that was disdainfully addressed in the original post topic. At this point, one either becomes infuriated, or they simply realize how bizarre and silly the whole process is....(yet again)....and they laugh their ass off.....at which point the thread results in comical relief and silliness.....which is one of the points made in the original post (more irony)....that is unacceptable to the OP.....

......so you can expect a new thread shortly.....addressing this, with a plea for sympathy. Are you following?

neither are bad in small doses...windows API doesn't seem to understand brevity or small doses though....REALLY bad is reverse polish notation math... it may be easy to parse, however, it's anything but, to build complex statements.

Very well said

It wasn't the Mantovani. It was the Peter Allen. *Hello!*

Not plea for sympathy from this av. Nothing to apologize for and no need to apologize to you or anyone else.

Far more concerned with how we can deal with real problems of providing help to Haitian communities in real and frankly couldnt give a toss about peopel who pretend heartache and insult over comments in a forum of this nature.

If you have ever been offended by me, suck it up and grow up. Look to the real news and thank Christ Almighty you are not in a foodline in Port au Prince but instead snuggled down next to your computer.

Apologize? Tush!

Seems to me that you are the one that needs to cool your jets, suck it up and grow up from your OP. You don't have a clue what any of us are thankful for.

Can you understand English, Kira? Youre sitting at a computer somewhere in the world probably able to watch teh news sometime in the day and you are not out there in a food line or seeking medical aid in a shattered community. That is what I am talking about. So there but for the grace of god go I - and you.
I'll say it again. Thank whatever god you believe in that you are not there, hoping for some relief and aid to get through another day.

and, what makes you think that I don't every single day of my life, thank God for being alive. Do I remember you saying that you don't believe in God.....

Oh right. My apologies for that minor lapse. I'm normally quite the gentleman when I entertain.

I flatlined twice in real. Both times it was just a vacuum nothing void of sans everything. Nothing. Nada. Zero at the bone. Zippo. O.

Maybe that was hell. who knows eh? God knows I done enough for the fire next time.

unless of course the person pretending heartache and insult is you, yes it's been noted

Wel when peopel have called my personality a few names (even in this thread) I was once sensitive to forum comments, but now I simply let it act liek water off a duck's back as I do in real. Couldnt give a monkey's toss what you think of me nowadays.

Not cool at all, to exploit the people of Haiti in your attention seeking quest.

Then you should really refrain from using His name in your comments. You are not the only person that has had a near death experience in here. That experience is not needed to believe, just look out the window or in the mirror but then I am sure you won't get that.

You said if people don't like the way that you form your questions they should give you some suggestions. "They have", it floats over the top of your head.

You seem to think that your words don't sting anyone, but have no problem pointing out those that do you.

You have insulted:

Older people

People that like to dance

Men in general

People with talent that make SL a better place to be, even yours

People that won't get with it and have more sex

People with minimal posts

People with morals

God

The English language

Dogs

You wonder where the negative comments come from. I think it is quite clear.