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What happened to the Star Wars that I used to knooooow~?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJlbPXZEpRE
Friday, 29-Jun-12 09:21:04 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin That is actually the greatest thing I have ever seen
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:10:07 UTC from web-
@purplephish20 DO WE REALLY NEED TO SEE THEM AGAIN IN £D
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:13:10 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Or even 3D. Sheesh.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:13:35 UTC from web -
@thelastgherkin £D does, however, seem an appropriate term for movies that are only in 3D because that's what they projected will bring in more money.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:14:51 UTC from web-
@bitshift I thought that, but I didn't want to reply to myself again.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:15:22 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin With you I shall share my deepest darkest secret... I quite enjoyed phantom menace... I just hated attack of the clones do much it made me vomit. (literally, when I came out of the cinema when it was on I threw up)
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:16:51 UTC from web-
@purplephish20 I even liked all the new Star Wars movies - but I still appreciate the original triology much more. As a child, I had sort of a crush on Luke :-)
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:19:13 UTC from web -
@purplephish20 I was too young at the time to understand why The Phantom Menace was terrible.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:22:56 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin I know, it was GREAT at the time, basically for the Pitt droid humour and yeah; the darth maul love that all 8 year old boys had. I now know WHY it's terrible...
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:26:24 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin I'm now curious what button the # symbol is on for UK keyboards. I had assumed £ would have just replaced the $ symbol.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:48:07 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel $ was too commonly used on early computers for it to be omitted from non-US layouts, I believe. And it's just to the right of ' (apostrophe), at least on mine. It shares a key with ~.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:50:18 UTC from web-
@bitshift @thelastgherkin Huh, interesting. If # shares a key with ~, now I wonder what key ` is on!
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:54:01 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Top-left key of the main block. (I.e., above Tab, below Esc.)
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:54:58 UTC from web-
@bitshift Huh, so it's in the same place at least. Does it just get its own key then, instead of sharing it with another?
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:55:49 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel It shares it with ¬ and ¦ (via Shift and AltGr, respectively). A useful key for emoticons: ¦3 ¬_¬
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:57:08 UTC from web-
@bitshift Ah, cool. Neither of those are on my keyboard.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:57:48 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Yeah, there's a bunch of odd things on basically every non-US layout I've seen. Some useful, some less so.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:59:10 UTC from web-
@bitshift Well, I'm rather happywith our german layout. We have buttons for üöä but somehow, it doesn't feel like there would be something missing or too complicated to write english...
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:01:03 UTC from web
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@bitshift Don't have an AltGr key either… though I have been contemplating turning the windows key into a Compose key so I can do fancy stuff with .Xcompose
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:58:49 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel My AltGr is almost always re-purposed into Compose anyway, since all the things normally only reached by it have very easy-to-remember compose combos: (€ -> C= , <vowel-acute> -> <vowel>' , ¦ -> !^ as in "take an exclamation mark and pull the gap upwards" - that one's the biggest stretch, but I can remember it well enough).
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:02:38 UTC from web-
@bitshift Perhaps, but since I have the spare windows key anyway might as well use it for something right? And then I can abuse the crap out of AltGr to get more shortcut keys in all of my applications.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:05:37 UTC from web
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@toksyuryel Having a picture is probably easier than describing it. http://www.metalvortex.com/blog/Cherry_10393/2000px-KB_United_Kingdom.svg.png
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:59:29 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Ah-ha, so AltGr is the right alt key… I could probably turn mine into one without too much trouble, since it seems to send a slightly different signal anyway (such that it's just a dead key on the console)
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:01:08 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel Just write 'Gr' on it in correction fluid.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:03:13 UTC from web-
@thelastgherkin Nah, I'll remember what they are and it'll confuse anyone else who tries to use it.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:03:52 UTC from web
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@thelastgherkin Why oh why are the @ and " swapped in that layout… just to be different?
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:08:36 UTC from web-
@toksyuryel That's just where they are. I don't get it either. It's hard moving on to Mac after having leared to touchtype on a PC, because the " gets to be above the ', LIKE IT SHOULD BE
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:10:26 UTC from web -
@toksyuryel No idea. It doesn't make any sense to me the way round it is, though I do still use it the appropriate way round for the keyboard, since it's long-since committed to muscle memory.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 11:10:53 UTC from web
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@bitshift And yeah I can see that. It's pretty heavily used for variable names and in regular expressions.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:55:25 UTC from web
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@toksyuryel # and ~ are just next to the return key on standard keyboards, but on my Mac the # is found with Option + 3.
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:50:51 UTC from web -
@toksyuryel That is, # is there. $ is still on 4. (Also, £ for shift+3 instead of # kinda makes sense as a substitution, given they can both be read as "pound".)
Saturday, 30-Jun-12 10:52:01 UTC from web
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