April 15, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Grant Fritchey (4/15/2009)
Actually sounded like some of the deconstructionist stuff I used to have to read in film school. Lots of words, doesn't say much.
[font="Verdana"]Mmm. "Indisputable validity... I don't know why it's indisputable, but it is!" The old "take my word for it" argument, except he even manages to back out of that!
So yes, I think you might be on to something. Perhaps there's been a down turn in the movie review business, and now they are turning to technical writing? Whether or not it's true is anyone's guess. So let's just take it as indisputable!
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April 15, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Bob, did you notice? We should hit 3500 posts soon!
I'm not going to get all excited again until we are approaching 5K 🙂
I've been trying to do more answering and less blabbering. :Whistling:
I wonder when this thread will have more posts than me?
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April 16, 2009 at 12:06 am
So tired... Answered ... so many ... posts... must get... sleep. then answer... more posts... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
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April 16, 2009 at 12:14 am
RBarryYoung (4/16/2009)
So tired... Answered ... so many ... posts... must get... sleep. then answer... more posts... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Hey get some rest Barry! Like the first part of your article, this is the calm before the storm.
Great article btw. Make it look easy, draw the punters in all wide-eyed...
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April 16, 2009 at 6:39 am
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GSquared (4/15/2009)
I posted a simplified explanation of each. Hopefully it's neither too simplified nor not simplified enough. Hard to judge that sometimes in these cases.[font="Verdana"]I didn't want to confuse issues by asking "aren't there some ANSI standards around character sets and collations?"[/font]
If I'm not mistaken, ASCII and Unicode are both ANSI standards, but I didn't want to add that level of complexity to the explanation.
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April 16, 2009 at 6:48 am
I wonder if you guys feel asleep with your faces resting on the keyboard....
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April 16, 2009 at 6:49 am
If I'm not mistaken, ASCII and Unicode are both ANSI standards, but I didn't want to add that level of complexity to the explanation.
EBCDIC !!!
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April 16, 2009 at 6:54 am
IIRC, ASCII was originally a separate standards organization (probably sponsored by the federal government) , that was later subsumed by ANSI. It may very well have been the first computer standard that ANSI took over. I beleive the ANSI pre-existed that event by quite some time as it was involved in a lot of other materials, manufacturing and engineering standards.
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April 16, 2009 at 7:04 am
Hey Barry, I can't keep up with the comments on your article anymore. If it keeps up is might catch "The Thread".
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April 16, 2009 at 7:06 am
Barry, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It was a standard promulgated by the American Standards Association, which was a predecessor organization to ANSI.
See Wikipedia.
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April 16, 2009 at 7:48 am
Jack Corbett (4/16/2009)
Hey Barry, I can't keep up with the comments on your article anymore. If it keeps up is might catch "The Thread".
Nooooooooooooooooooooo, not two threads!
April 16, 2009 at 7:54 am
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Jack Corbett (4/16/2009)
Hey Barry, I can't keep up with the comments on your article anymore. If it keeps up is might catch "The Thread".Nooooooooooooooooooooo, not two threads!
Multi-threaded water cooler?
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April 16, 2009 at 8:00 am
This is like following a chain of B-Movie horror films...
First there was.... "The Thread".
Then came the "The Son of Thread".
Future Titles
The Other Thread
Revenge of The Thread
Return of the Son of Thread
Return of the Revenge of the Son of Thread
The Incredible Two-Threaded Monster
Godzilla vs. Thread-ra
The Silence of the Threads
Abbott and Costello Meet The Thread
Threadhead Chicks Gone Wild
300 Spartans and a Thread
Batman... the Dark Thread
Remember: In a thread... no one can hear you scream.
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April 16, 2009 at 8:00 am
All I know is, if the THREAD starts to approach 5000 posts, I'm going to hunt it down & kill it before it passes me.
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April 16, 2009 at 8:03 am
Jack Corbett (4/16/2009)
Hey Barry, I can't keep up with the comments on your article anymore. If it keeps up is might catch "The Thread".
219 posts on Barry's article thread currently. That's sort of a light snack for The Thread.
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