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Sindy is a British fashion doll created by Pedigree Dolls & Toys in 1963. A rival to Barbie, Sindy's wholesome look and range of fashions and accessories made it the best selling toy in the United Kingdom in 1968 and 1970. After Marx Toys' unsuccessful attempt to introduce Sindy in the United States in the late 1970s, Hasbro bought the rights to Sindy and remodelled the doll to look more American. As a result, the doll's popularity declined and Barbie manufacturer Mattel filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement, which was settled when Hasbro agreed to remodel Sindy's face. During the 199...

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@PiersMyers You broke my joke. I spent hours on that

Piers Myers

4:15 PM

similar to Barbie (and Ken)

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;-)

Chacha102

I'm really bored

Piers Myers

@Chacha102 well try to guess what plastic thing @rchern has

Chacha102

Ummm ...

I give up

Still bored..

rchern

that's not how you play 20 questions >_>

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4:18 PM

LOL

Chacha102

@rchern I bet I can find out with only one question. Here it is:

@rchern What is it?

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@Chacha102 Cheater

Piers Myers

@rchern, is it shaped like a rocket?

rchern

no

Piers Myers

is it big or small?

rchern

4:21 PM

that's relative...

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is it bigger than a breadbox?

Piers Myers

what shape is it?

rchern

@TheUnhandledException no

Piers Myers

what colour (color) is it?

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@PiersMyers I thought it was yes/no only? Been too long since I played

Piers Myers

4:23 PM

is it an new laptop?

rchern

i wish!

Piers Myers

does it contain any electronics?

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@PiersMyers Good one!

rchern

no

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That's three right?

Piers Myers

4:24 PM

solid plastic?

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@PiersMyers Another good one

rchern

yes

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@rchern Is it a utensil used for eating?

rchern

no

Piers Myers

is it a cup?

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4:26 PM

Damn, I was thinking it was a spork :-)

rchern

no

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@rchern Is it round?

Piers Myers

@TheUnhandledException you mean a foon?

rchern

A foon? haha

@TheUnhandledException yes

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@PiersMyers No, I mean a spork :-)

Spork

A spork or a foon is a hybrid form of cutlery taking the form of a spoon-like shallow scoop with three or four fork . Spork-like utensils, such as the terrapin fork or ice cream fork, have been manufactured since the late 1800s; patents for spork-like designs date back to at least 1874, and the word "spork" was registered as a trademark in the US and the UK decades later. They are used by fast food restaurants, schools, prisons, the military, and backpackers. The spork is a portmanteau word combining spoon and fork. Similarly, the word foon is a blend of fork and spoon. The word "spork" ...

Piers Myers

4:27 PM

CD or DVD?

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> "Foon" redirects here.

rchern

no

Piers Myers

@TheUnhandledException it was a joke Josh :)

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@rchern Is it a ball?

rchern

I want a fife. Or a knork.

no!

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4:28 PM

@PiersMyers I thought it was a joke until I saw "Foon" redirects here., LOL!

Piers Myers

is it frisbee?

rchern

no

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@rchern is it heavier than a pound or 0.45359237 kg?

rchern

nope, not heavier than a pound

Piers Myers

is it flat?

rchern

4:32 PM

flat like a sheet of paper? no, it has height shrugs

Piers Myers

is it disk shaped?

rchern

disk shaped? you mean circular?

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@rchern is it a mouse?

rchern

no

Piers Myers

I thought it was round

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4:34 PM

@PiersMyers A mouse is half round...

rchern

if it is round isn't it circular? >_<

Piers Myers

round is either spherical (ball) or flat (disk)

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@rchern haha, ok, I see

How many questions do we have left? :-/

@PiersMyers I suspect a pen but don't want to waste any more guesses :-)

since so far I have been way wrong :-)

Piers Myers

@TheUnhandledException a pen is not solid plastic though

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Also wasn't this game to entertain @Chacha102 who now seems to be sleeping? LOL

@PiersMyers Good point, I forgot about the solid plastic

Ah! And it has no electronics. I am sucking at this game, HAHA

rchern

4:37 PM

hmmm, i suppose if you look at it in pieces, you'd see disks not balls (;

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@rchern What the...?

@rchern Is that one of our three hints? Or is that our only clue? :-)

Piers Myers

is it a kinder egg?

can I phone a friend?

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LOL

Well I am off for lunch. @The me with the answer so I can see what it was :-)

Popular Demand

Are you people playing 20 Questions?

mmyers

I guess "Ask the Audience" wouldn't make much sense here.

Piers Myers

4:39 PM

yes

Popular Demand

Slow day, huh?

radp

@PiersMyers Din din din! We have a winner in 1 question!

Piers Myers

I think it may be more than 20 now though

mmyers

No, "Who wants to be a millionaire". rchern is giving away cash prizes.

Right?

Popular Demand

@mmyers If by "cash" you mean "NothingToInstall dollars," perhaps....

radp

4:42 PM

ooooh, you mean rep?

nice, valuable, glittery rep?

Piers Myers

@radp that's an idea, you think there's a black market for SE Rep?

radp

The question isn't whether there is one, the question is how do you get in!

Piers Myers

@rchern - are you going to put us out of our misery and tell us what you have?

radp

She can give us an exclusive account on soon to be released NothingToInstall.com!

balpha

/* This program will only run if the laws of mathematics hold */
if(1 == 0)
{
    fprintf("Oh crap - we are not running in the correct Universe\n");
    exit(17);
}

thedailywtf.com/Articles/…

radp

4:56 PM

btw, the FOSS Ubuntu font has been released today to the Maverick repos, if you're interested

balpha

the ubuntu font is ugly

:)

radp

packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/ttf-ubuntu-font-family

Michael Mrozek

I used to be a TA in college, and I once had somebody submit code that said:
if(cond) {
// do stuff
} else if(!cond) {
// do stuff
} else {
printf("Something's wrong!\n");
}

balpha

well, you never now

Michael Mrozek

I give up; how do you format as code?

balpha

5:07 PM

click "fixed font"

Sathya

// do stuff
} else if(!cond) {
// do stuff
} else {
printf("Something's wrong!\n");
}

balpha

(which will just indent four spaces)

Michael Mrozek

On the chat, not on SO

balpha

yes

Michael Mrozek

Where is this fixed font button?

Sathya

5:08 PM

@MichaelMrozek paste the code / click on fixed font

balpha

@MichaelMrozek only appears when you have multiple lines in your input box

Sathya

@balpha how do you get multiple lines directly in chat box ?

balpha

press
shift
enter

Michael Mrozek

Oh, but the whole message needs to be that way then. I see

I tried indenting all the code lines in my message, but it didn't work because I had the line before it that wasn't indented

balpha

yeah, either the whole message is fixed width, or none of it is

spoulson

5:09 PM

Testing indent

                            Testing...

rchern

haha, sorry...work stuff came up

radp

@Sathya What if //do stuff changes cond? :\

Piers Myers

thought it was back quotes

rchern

@PiersMyers, @TheUnhandledException i have a slinky.

balpha

@radp the else if block will still be skipped

because it's else

Piers Myers

5:10 PM

@rchern ah, would never have guessed that :)

radp

@balpha tsk, you must've skipped the goto hidden in a completely different place pointing there.

balpha

oh, that

Michael Mrozek

can you goto an if body?

radp

well, you can goto into an if body I guess

if(foo){
  bar();
poo:
  egg();
}
//2050 lines down
goto poo;

Cawas

this seems like an active channel! :P

Michael Mrozek

5:14 PM

if(true) {
} else if(false) {
b:
	printf("false\n");
	return 0;
} else {
a:
	printf("true\n");
	goto b;
}

goto a;

I've scared myself -_-

radp

@MichaelMrozek I blame your indentation!

Piers Myers

I have gotophobia

Cawas

sorry if I'm interrupting something, so I'll just redirect whoever might be interested in this topic...

Michael Mrozek

There we go -- a mere 4 edits to get that right :)

Cawas

chat.superuser.com/transcript/message/13614#13614

didn't work o_o

anyway, anyone willing to comment on that area51's "gate" proposal of mine? area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/21859/gate

balpha

5:15 PM

@Cawas not cross-site (yet)

Cawas

@balpha oh

that explains it :D

user151055

5:27 PM

i got +50 points today

user151055

but i dont know why

rchern

which site?

user151055

SO

Michael Mrozek

@fahad stackoverflow.com/reputation

user151055

Whats bonuses?

rchern

5:32 PM

you're the only one who can see your reputation report.

did you get awarded a bounty maybe?

user151055

Its false..

user151055

No

rchern

Just scroll to the bottom and look at today's items I guess.

user151055

-- 2010-09-23 rep +7 = 631
3 3461605 (-1)
3 3792348 (-1)
-- 2010-09-25 rep -2 = 629
3 3804264 (-1)
3 3803143 (-1)
-- 2010-09-27 rep -2 = 627

** total rep 627 :)

days represented 45

rchern

627 matches your rep. so where are you getting 50 from?

Michael Mrozek

5:36 PM

@fahad Well, none of that is close to +50. And it shows your recent downvotes, so you might want to delete it, unless you don't care

user151055

i dont know i just checked my id from my friends computer an hour ago and my repo was 580 something

mmyers

@fahad: I merged an old unregistered account of yours an hour ago.

balpha

and so the mystery is solved

rchern

/blame mmyers

balpha

/praise mmyers !

rchern

5:39 PM

blaming is more fun though ):

balpha

/annotate mmyers

all equivalent :)

rchern

(;

mmyers

Now that that's all settled, @rchern, you made us run through that whole 20 Questions thing earlier and left us hanging anyway.

rchern

co-worker came to talk to me about stuff, had to do work >_<

and i did say the answer

user151055

How do you remmeber it was mine?

rchern

5:42 PM

but feel free to guess (;

radp

@rchern Did you mean... /blame balpha?

rchern

not this time, though that's fun too (;

Joe Philllips

any sharepoint admins around?

user151055

Should everyone know the hardware interaction with C language?

Joe Philllips

@fahad My mother shouldn't

That could really be disastrous!

user151055

5:45 PM

haha

user151055

I mean that a programmer should?

Joe Philllips

Web developers shouldn't. That could be disastrous!

user151055

Or should i move to another language

user151055

I heard that C provides far better hardware control than other languages

Joe Philllips

what hardware do you wish to control?

user151055

5:47 PM

but i was wondering that who uses C today

user151055

Starting from mouse and keyboard to whatever is the end

Joe Philllips

I'm not sure any language can control a mouse or keyboard. That would be fantastic though

having the little mouse moving around the desk

user151055

I mean using mouse in a computer program

Michael Mrozek

He knows

user151055

that int86()

Joe Philllips

5:50 PM

People who write operating systems use C

People who write device drivers often use C

user151055

You mean operating systems are still made on C?

Joe Philllips

Some are

Usually the foundations are ASM/C

user151055

I know basic programming in C

Joe Philllips

If you program on microcontrollers you would probably use C

user151055

like structures,arrays and filing

user151055

5:53 PM

someone asked me an unusual question some days back

Joe Philllips

I'm not really sure where we're going with this conversation

radp

Make sure your programming is better than Pokemon Yellow's.

user151055

he asked me how will i read some thing like 1 2
3 4
5 6...by filing and save it into two ararys

radp

►

user151055

and odd in another

user151055

5:55 PM

even in 1 array

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@rchern AH HA, A slinky!

spoulson

@radp can't watch YT from work. what's the scoop on Pokemon Yellow?

radp

@spoulson Didn't you get the quite descriptive image preview? :)

spoulson

@radp yeah, it reminds me of what can happen when you remove a cart while playing games on various gaming consoles

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@rchern and @PiersMyers I should have guessed that. Good one

radp

5:59 PM

@spoulson Yeah, 'cept it's part of a "glitch" that brings you to the final screen in 1 minute 40 seconds :)

spoulson

@radp Awesome.

radp

tasvideos.org/2771S.html

rchern

@TheUnhandledException, ^__^

i have one at my desk. (:

mmyers

Ah, my new Aeron just arrived at lunch.

job_satisfaction++;

spoulson

I could use one of those

Mine has been hurting my butt lately

Michael Mrozek

6:06 PM

I've never understood the thing with chairs; I know there was the whole CH post about it, but my chair doesn't seem particularly essential

spoulson

My butt is essential. Its comfort is tantamount.

mmyers

Well, it has arms. My old chair doesn't.

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@rchern Helps to keep idle hands busy while thinking of code?

I have a little wooden toy which keeps me busy while I ponder my errs

hard to describe, I'll try and find a link

rchern

@TheUnhandledException exactly

huzzah!

fricking finally hahaha

radp

wee

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6:10 PM

/me cheers for @rchern

rchern

apparently the answer was 123

ChrisF

Congrats - is it bad that I haven't got the Civic Duty badge yet?

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That reminds me to start voting on more meta questions...

@ChrisF Really? I upvote like crazy, I got that one really fast

ChrisF

@TheUnhandledException I'm slow at voting - I guess I'm just reluctant + I hardly ever down-vote

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@ChrisF I hardly ever downvote

unless we're talking MSO... :-)

ChrisF

6:15 PM

I've down voted most on MSO, but even there my ratio is 1460 up to 42 down

On SO it's 1606 up to 8 down ;)

radp

@ChrisF Here, downvote this

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@ChrisF You should have Civic Duty then!

rchern

I'm not a good voter. On SO I have 45+9

radp

-3

Q: How can you stop new users from answering your question?

I have asked several questions and the persons answering have low numbers for the "score." Because they have answered they may have kept those who might have seen an unanswered question and read it. I think because a question has a couple of answers it keeps others from even looking (they like ...

KronoS

hey guys check this out

erkie.github.com

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6:16 PM

^-> HIGHLY RECCOMENDED

ChrisF

I have (and electorate on SO) - I was talking about web apps - sorry for the confusion

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@KronoS 's link will waste all your productive time :-)

@ChrisF Ah, ok

On SO I'm 1850+ / 39-

870+ / 74- on MSO

=o

rchern

I waste more time trying to make designs at cesmes.fi/pallo.swf heh

KronoS

@rchern I'm addicted already

DANG! I can't combine the two

rchern

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6:21 PM

@rchern I knew I shouldn't have checked in here at The Tavern after lunch. There goes my afternoon. pew! pew! pew!!

Michael Mrozek

@KronoS You're several hours too late :)

2 hours ago, by Chacha102

http://erkie.github.com/

spoulson

I got that link yesterday

Pretty awesome

KronoS

i just thought that I'd rehash it :)

mmyers

yesterday, by Chacha102

http://erkie.github.com/

Sathya

1

A: Why are questions off-topic for Super User being migrated from other trilogy sites?

I think you're assuming that members of one community are completely aware of what is in-scope for another community. This will not always be the case. Therefore, I expect that those who migrated the example you gave considered that it feels on-topic for Super User and, not being wholly involved ...

Michael Mrozek

6:26 PM

I suppose I should've known; Chacha102 isn't known for posting things once. Although in this case he was answering a question

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@mmyers Oh, I missed that

@Sathya I just saw that, lol

radp

@Sathya Yay, just the assist I needed!

Sathya

@TheUnhandledException yeah my question on meta.su :P

@radp Eh ?

Fosco

Does everyone get that after-lunch crash?... I was bordering on falling asleep at 1:10, and by 1:40 I was wide awake again.

radp

@Sathya nvm

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6:40 PM

@Fosco Sometimes

You sound like that energy drink commercial @Fosco :-)

Sathya

@Fosco yep

rchern

ok, i think this takes care of wasted time for the day, heh

2

Michael Mrozek

...wow

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►

Cawas

<http://www.vayagif.com/gifs/2010/09/1f9d6b80e79dabd6e81510a044b0404f.gif>

radp

6:43 PM

@Fosco What do you usually have by lunch? Carbohydrates do bring drownsiness.

Cawas

and yet another random image...

<http://www.quenerd.com.br/blog/wp-content/uploads/mortalmao.gif>

Fosco

@radp yeah i had pasta today

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@Cawas those almost killed my browser, LOL

radp

@Fosco Yeah, it does do that.

rchern

lovely, and no way to get rid of those in the chat >_> they look just great over rdc btw

Fosco

6:49 PM

@rchern there's a bookmarklet

javascript:var noimages = function(){$('div.ob-image').each(function (){$(this).hide()});};window.setInterval(noimages, 500);

mmyers

Now that everyone's seen them, mind if I delete them?

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@rchern Or use the "Kick ass" bookmarklet :-)

@mmyers Please do

Fosco

I have that one too..

Michael Mrozek

@TheUnhandledException Oh, that would've been clever. I have a jquery plugin I use to get rid of them :)

It's a bit of a bad sign that we've got like four different hackified ways to get rid of annoying images in chat

rchern

the problem with those is they get rid of everything. i don't necessarily want that.

@mmyers, you rock!

mmyers

6:52 PM

Wow, my CPU graph took a dive.

Sathya

AdblockPlus -> block specific image

rchern

...nor do i want to go in and add a url each time (;

Michael Mrozek

I think there was a chat feature request to easily hide posts. Alternatively, people could just stop posting them. I'm open to either solution

rchern

hehe

mmyers

There, waiwai933 is banned from Meta.

Who wants to be next?

Greg Hewgill

6:56 PM

my hackified way to get rid of images is to use irc. :)

rchern

+1 @GregHewgill

o: waiwai?

Michael Mrozek

@rchern His profile says

> @SOTeam: Yes, I have requested a 1-month ban.

rchern

oy

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