In my day, if we wanted to digitize notes, we had to cache them on this "paper" thing, then carry them uphill ten miles to the nearest "desktop" with "internet access".
Because our laptop batteries only lasted 8 seconds. Just long enough to get past the BIOS screen.
And they weighed 100 pounds. Without the battery.
You needed to rent a forklift if you wanted to take the 8 second battery anywhere with you.
Yeah, it's only 15 points though. You can always upvote the better answer and give them 10. And you can keep track of users who do that a lot by their "Sportsmanship" badges =)
I should really be writing this as an answer, since you don't have a real one at all yet :P
@wizlog Oh, I'm with you now. I would just report it using the contact form if it's not following the trademark guidelines (which, from your description, sounds like it's in clear violation).
Wasn't sure it'd make sense to post it as a question... (what would you be asking...) Just to make sure, I'd be reporting it under the "other" category, right?
hey guys, if one of you can spare a moment, i got serially upvoted on ask ubuntu and the serial upvote reversal script removed 90 rep instead of the 85 rep. is this okay?
i am guessing it reversed 5 rep for a vote on community wiki post for which i obviously didn't derive any rep from. can one of you look into this? xD
Beating the hoverboard challenge in 1:35. It's a gold trophy, said to be the hardest skill point in the game. I'm having more trouble with this Twisty McMarx thing :-/
@PopularDemand everything has pros and cons, and regarding bad it just a false rumors, peoples having personal problems and they bringing here, I knew! and as you think that I was trolling here, then I apologized, was facing bugs though this is only the place where I can sort out but now I feel I was wrong, well, don't wanna discuss more else I will get suspend again without any genuine reason as I was before.
Earlier yesterday, someone serially upvoted me on Ask Ubuntu. That doesn't bother me as much as I know the votes would be reversed in a matter of time.
But, however I noticed a possible bug in the serial upvoting reversal script. From my understanding, it checks for the number of fraud votes an...
@moot - According to Wordepress, someone from Canada was viewing my notes yesterday. One Canadian, one Swiss, and a bunch of Americans. I think I know who the Canadian is...
(I like seeing where in the world my readers and app users are from. Worldwide reach in the digital age amazes me.)
Okay, I know I was harsh here, but I think I kept it to a justifiable, civil level. Still, I'd like y'all's opinions on whether I was out of line, and should have approached it differently as casper suggests:
@PopularDemand As for repeating a mistake, yeah, I did. It happens. The bigger shame is not fixing it, which is being done now. If you have issue over your expectations of a Stack Overflow moderator and my failure to meet them, don't take a shot in the comments, make a meta post about it. — casperOne9 mins ago
@casperOne PopularDemand should not be posting a meta post and making a big deal about it. He is telling you in a more close knit circle of the issue instead of calling you out in public meta. — amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A5 mins ago
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Sorry. I'm not saying you're a bad person or anything. We just seem to have different ideas about how Stack Exchange should work.
@PopularDemand I think you were civil and constructive; it was your Meta post after all, a constructive comment with your thoughts on how it was handled is perfectly acceptable in my book. He probably just reacted that way out of (understandable) embarrassment due to making the same mistake very publicly.
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA I can't think of one canonical example, but I figure I probably downvote you on MSO roughly five times for every time I upvote you.
The only thing at all that I could see wrong with it is that Anna Lear had already sort of covered that ground. But, like I said, it was your question - your opinion is relevant.
@PopularDemand I think you were spot on with what you meant, although I guess the closer on your comment caused the delivery to be a bit more pointed than was strictly necessary. But ultimately this scenario shouldn't have occurred for you to comment on in the first place, so...
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Huh, that is weird. Not the closure per se; Nick chose to write an official answer to that one, so I think it's the right "master" post. But the score discrepancy is... notable.
The other post ended up being a bit more casual about it to the point where I guess people realised "Oh, this could happen in normal circumstances" and considered it a problem.
The CAPTCHA frequency has been reduced?! Dangit, balpha! Don't you see what you've done? Now people will never stop asking you for more little changes!
Just reminds me of the parenting tip I learned in Psych 101: if you're going to buy a candy bar for your kid to make him stop whining in public, you should cave early. Otherwise he'll learn that persistence pays when throwing tantrums.
@balpha While you're at it, I'm gonna need you to move some things a few pixels, capitalize a letter, remove an 's', and secretly slip in an exception for me into the per-site meta rate limiter and edit vandalism limiter. You know, all little, innocent changes.
This question is corresponding to the edit by Eliah Kagan to my answer to
Is it possible to have a small indicator showing that updates are available (red for security updates) instead of having the update manager pop up?
The issue is while the software centre icon was visible in the edit ...
This was basically what we were talking about in chat the other day. While I certainly trust you more than myself, I don't immediately see what new edge cases would be created by applying the nested brackets pattern that the anchor regexes already use. The way things are now, even the  some text [link][ref] case breaks. — Tim StoneAug 2 at 9:11
My memory is a confusing thing. I can't remember what I'm supposed to be doing sometimes, but for generally obscure things I remember them quite well. :P
That future sounds terrible. What if my right foot wants to P2P my liver? I'll need to set up a LAN, that's what. And then when my router crashes, I'll walk funny. NO THANK YOU.
Earlier yesterday, someone serially upvoted me on Ask Ubuntu. That doesn't bother me as much as I know the votes would be reversed in a matter of time.
But, however I noticed a possible bug in the serial upvoting reversal script. From my understanding, it checks for the number of fraud votes an...
This question is corresponding to the edit by Eliah Kagan to my answer to
Is it possible to have a small indicator showing that updates are available (red for security updates) instead of having the update manager pop up?
The issue is while the software centre icon was visible in the edit ...
