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post #91 of 278

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Diallo, if you had simply said, "screw you guys i don't use uppercase, so deal with it," I honestly don't think anyone would have given you a hard time about it. We all have our quirks that we confess. But since you attribute your anti-capital usage to your coding experience (something you are obviously intelligent enough to overcome) while at the same valuing things like proper punctuation, sentence structure, and paragraph structure, your refusal to use uppercase letters strikes us as willful, yet arbitrary. That's just a little bit strange.

You remind me of a guy I tried to help once on the computer. At one point, I told him to right-click on something, and he sharply responded, "I don't right-click."

"Huh? You have to right-click to get the proper menu to come up."

He was insistent. "I don't right-click."

I said, "Well, you can ether right-click, or you can stare at your monitor the rest of the day."

He stared at the monitor the rest of the day.

His refusal to right-click seemed to be so arbitrary, yet so steadfast. I never understood what motivated his choice, and I see your refusal to use uppercase letters as a similar -- though far less self-destructive -- willful, arbitrary choice. I think we're just trying to make sense of it.
post #92 of 278

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he only funny thing is the amount of venom being spewed concerning this issue; stemming from pot shots about education level, having an elitist complex to being a teenager.
Shirley, you can't think I was taking a pot shot at your education level after what I brought up in post #62 about myself.

Sorry, I will stop calling you Shirley (Another Airplane joke)
post #93 of 278

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Originally Posted by Diallo B
apparently the lack of activity on htf is making this thread a hot topic.

I've been thinking about this remark.

Instead, I see the response to this topic as one that shows just how interested (passionate, maybe) people within the HTF community are about the issues of grammar, punctuation and vocabulary.
post #94 of 278

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Originally Posted by BrianW
You remind me of a guy I tried to help once on the computer. At one point, I told him to right-click on something, and he sharply responded, "I don't right-click."

"Huh? You have to right-click to get the proper menu to come up."

He was insistent. "I don't right-click."

I said, "Well, you can ether right-click, or you can stare at your monitor the rest of the day."

He stared at the monitor the rest of the day.

His refusal to right-click seemed to be so arbitrary, yet so steadfast.
You should have told him to turn the mouse upside down and left-click it then, asshole. That's what I would have done. I guess I'd be a poor technical advisor
post #95 of 278

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> "I don't right-click."

He probably doesn't know what the term means.

Years ago I was doing tech support & asked a woman to reboot her PC. She informed me that she "doesn't boot", like I had asked her to snort a line of coke or something.
post #96 of 278

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He probably doesn't know what the term means.
He knew what it meant. When I reached down to do it for him, he covered the right mouse button with his hand to block me. Like I said: weird.
post #97 of 278

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Originally Posted by BrianW
He knew what it meant. When I reached down to do it for him, he covered the right mouse button with his hand to block me. Like I said: weird.


OCD. Probably thought something bad will happen to him, his family or the world in general if he right-clicks. Like Howie Mandel and the string around his wrist.

And yes, it is weird.
post #98 of 278

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I switched to a Mac for the purpose of avoiding right clicks.

And then came the Mighty Mouse (allowing right clicks in Windows apps).
post #99 of 278

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Originally Posted by Lew Crippen
I switched to a Mac for the purpose of avoiding right clicks.

I've been part of many discussions about why people have switched from PCs to Macs. That's the first I've ever heard it was because of "right-clicking!"
post #100 of 278

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I use a pen tablet to avoid right clicking. Theoretically the function is the same but there is no right or left on the pen and there is no click sound. There is a programmable button on the pen, and I set it to "open menu".

So, in my mind, it is not a "right click".
post #101 of 278

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I love right clicks!! You right click on just about anything and a whole menu of options is at your disposal. Whats not to like about right clicking?
post #102 of 278

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Well, I hope you realise that no one knows how many right clicks are available and when they are used up, the world will end.

Just think about that next time you feel the urge to right click.
post #103 of 278

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Originally Posted by Marianne
Well, I hope you realise that no one knows how many right clicks are available and when they are used up, the world will end.

Just think about that next time you feel the urge to right click.
They said the same thing about people who click their pens, and yet still here we are!
post #104 of 278

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Originally Posted by drobbins
I love right clicks!! You right click on just about anything and a whole menu of options is at your disposal. Whats not to like about right clicking?

If you use a left handed mouse, left clicking is where it's at.
post #105 of 278

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The left-handed left-clickers are a splinter group that originated in the right-click group. Even though the fundamental ideas are the same, they just could not coexist in the same group. Too much confusion.
post #106 of 278

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If you use X Window, you're probably also familiar with the middle click.
post #107 of 278

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I've been right clicking every 108 minutes for a few years now. I'm not sure what will happen if I stop, but I fear it will be really really bad.
post #108 of 278

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Originally Posted by KurtEP
I've been right clicking every 108 minutes for a few years now.

And you're not blind yet?!
post #109 of 278

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Originally Posted by Mike Frezon
And you're not blind yet?!

No, but I need glasses.
post #110 of 278
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Originally Posted by KurtEP
I've been right clicking every 108 minutes for a few years now. I'm not sure what will happen if I stop, but I fear it will be really really bad.

clever.
post #111 of 278

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Does anyone know if Salsa absorbs right-clicks?
post #112 of 278

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Originally Posted by Bryan X
Does anyone know if Salsa absorbs right-clicks?
I heard a story about someone who has spilled a bowl of salsa on his mouse, thus rendering the right-click useless. It may just be an urban myth though.
post #113 of 278

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Originally Posted by KurtEP
I've been right clicking every 108 minutes for a few years now. I'm not sure what will happen if I stop, but I fear it will be really really bad.

Clever.






post #114 of 278

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Originally Posted by Marianne
Well, I hope you realise that no one knows how many right clicks are available and when they are used up, the world will end.

Just think about that next time you feel the urge to right click.
On the other hand, we have ample stock of 'I' for some reason.

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post #115 of 278

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I hadn't thought of OCD. I should have, given my experience with it. That would explain a lot.

"Right-click on a Mac, break your mother's back."

I should have told him that right-clicking is okay as long as you do it an even number of times. That would probably have worked for me back when I was captive to OCD. As you all probably know, single action events (like mouse clicks) that lead to the destruction of the Universe usually act as a toggle.
post #116 of 278

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Going back to the OP, how about "broke"?

From a NYT article this morning: "one adviser said the campaign was essentially broke [...]"

The excerpt is from a news article (and a leading, front page story at that), not an editorial or opinion piece. "broke" is awfully informal for that type of story, no?

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post #117 of 278

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Originally Posted by JeremyErwin
If you use X Window, you're probably also familiar with the middle click.

The guy who cut me off in traffic the other day must be an X Window user. He had the nerve to give me a middle click.



Joe
post #118 of 278

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Originally Posted by Holadem
Going back to the OP, how about "broke"?

From a NYT article this morning: "one adviser said the campaign was essentially broke [...]"

The excerpt is from a news article (and a leading, front page story at that), not an editorial or opinion piece. "broke" is awfully informal for that type of story, no?

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I would think "broke" means "out of money and "broken" means " needs fixing" either way it does sound informal. From the little you quoted, I don't know which meaning to use.
post #119 of 278

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Out of money.

Can you imagine a leading news article in the WSJ stating "Bear Stearns is broke"?

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post #120 of 278

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Originally Posted by Holadem
Out of money.

Can you imagine a leading news article in the WSJ stating "Bear Stearns is broke"?

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That's not the only difference between the NYT and the WSJ. One was formerly the worlds premier news outlet but is now mired in ideology and partisanship which has resulted in scandals, unsustantiated headline stories, and subscribers fleeing like rats from a sinking ship . . . and the other is the WSJ.
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