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| Thread ID: 58238 | 2005-05-25 21:26:00 | Nitpickery in the sign-up 'agreement' | Nicky (112) | PC World Chat |
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| 358477 | 2005-05-25 21:26:00 | Well, if you feel the need to inflict an agreement issue on us, it might as well be correctly typed. But there appears It is also a good pl;ace for general technical discussions. So, one wonders if you have read the agreement? |
Nicky (112) | ||
| 358478 | 2005-05-25 21:29:00 | What agreement exactly? And whats your point, with this pointless post? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 358479 | 2005-05-25 21:51:00 | When you register for this system, you are presented with an agreement to read and agree to. Its text contains a mistype. It should not. | Nicky (112) | ||
| 358480 | 2005-05-25 22:04:00 | Oh God. Not another pedant. That's all we need. :cool: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 358481 | 2005-05-25 22:21:00 | Well, if you feel the need to inflict an agreement issue on us, it might as well be correctly typed . But there appears It is also a good pl;ace for general technical discussions . So, one wonders if you have read the agreement? No really . That's a very good point . Glad to see someone takes these things seriously . I was opbviously so lost in the joy of "inlficting an agreement" on people that I forgot to check my typing . Will go and get that fixed . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 358482 | 2005-05-25 22:24:00 | A preson whose nitpicking abrout sproiling and' punchuation shoulkd always check there own's first. | mark c (247) | ||
| 358483 | 2005-05-25 22:38:00 | It's okay, every one can stop panicking, I've fixed it now. Phew, I need a cup of tea and a bit of a lie down now. Oh, and not to be too nit picky, but technically this thread really belonged in PC World Chat, not PressF1, which is where I'm going to move it now. |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 358484 | 2005-05-26 00:56:00 | Surely anyone who has dealt with a computer knows what the real nitpicking pedants are. In my own experience, a month was lost thanks to variables named R4, R3, R2, R1, and RO, not (as I thought) R4, R3, R2, R1, and R0. Only when I was able to run the unmodified routine (having saved space elsewhere) was it possible to compare the functioning of the two versions. A friend was employed over Christmas to fix a slightly misbehaving prog. and the problem turned out to be an I for a 1 (or vice-versa) And globally infamous was the loss of a spacecraft bound for Venus due to the typing of a . for a , (which are also adjacent keys) Details count. |
Nicky (112) | ||
| 358485 | 2005-05-26 05:48:00 | Details count.Yes they do, but so does a sense of perspective. A misplaced semi-colon that does not alter the sense of the text is irritating, and yes, Bruce should be sent to bed with no supper, but it hardly seems important enough to get so steamed up about. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 358486 | 2005-05-26 05:53:00 | Serves you/them right for using FORTRAN and BASIC, Nicky . ;) Real programming languages require declarations . You have to remember that the vast majority of people who use computers don't use compilers . They use mice . Mice don't need to be able to spell . The redundancy in human language means that minor errors such as the one you noticed don't really cause loss of information . You will see much worse . :( Welcome to the forum anyway, Nicky . |
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