You all realize how completely odd this line of humor would seem to someone who was not a nerd.... erm excuse me, a Professional Software Developer?
Bob On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...sure they'd use LiveCode but it's ridiculous to just blindly assume that > they'd have hands! ;-) > Best, > Keith.. > > On 16 Jun 2011, at 19:03, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > >> But when we finally make contact with another intelligent species, will we >> discover that all their cards are right-handed? (It goes with out saying >> that such a species will necessarily be using LiveCode.) If so, then >> importing any of their cards might result in the stack disappearing in a >> flash of high-energy photons.... That problem will be one of the knottiest >> the LC development team has had to tackle. >> >> -- Peter >> >> Peter M. Brigham >> [email protected] >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >> >> >> On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >>> So you think that card creation would be racemic in nature? As many left >>> handed cards as right handed? But surely someone would soon come up with a >>> plugin that ensured an optically pure creation of new cards. Then we would >>> be back to where we are now, purely left handed cards, as it should be. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: >>> >>>> ...a kind of quantum scrolling/fixed duality inherent in cards, so we can >>>> know it's state by inserting an object - Shrödinger's card? >>>> >>>> But then 50% of cards would be created with a scrollbar - unless of >>>> course, these are all non-local, sitting in the anti-stack that can't be >>>> accessed because it's in the >90% of dark code that fills all hard drives. >>>> >>>> That would explain the rumour that Time Machine was originally going to be >>>> called Space-Time Machine, but I'll resist considering why Parallels is >>>> really called that and instead, get some coffee! ;-) >>>> Best, >>>> Keith.. >>>> >>>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 05:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thomas McGrath III wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Although, I suppose if you could group a card then you could scroll a >>>>>> card. >>>>> >>>>> Actually, I believe empty cards do scroll. ;) > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
