look, in battlestar galactica, everyone comes from the 'lords of cobol'. in fact, their origin planet is 'cobol'. and that is where octagonal paper comes from, so there are never any dog ears.

clearly the cobolians were very intelligent. and the designers of the original tv series were very intelligent as well to have created them.

i think that if you could put to use the COBOL language, which was developed based on that show, much as modern space systems were inspired by the nasa workers who watched 'star trek' as kids, then it could really help your development efforts.

COBOL is a wonderful language designed with 'human readable'
instructions. this reduces development time over old
languages like the ones you are probably using, which require
too-complicated constructs and lots of gobbldygook that
results in 'spaghetti code'.

for more on these ideas, visit your local library, in the QA76 section.

if you need help implementing COBOL in your company, feel
free to shoot me an email. I do consulting at very reasonable
rates.

To hell with that, I want it in brainf*ck.

You mean brainfrack.

Touché.

It's spelled Kobol in BSG, btw.

It's spelled touché in real life, btw.

Errr... I fail to see a difference...

You typed T o u c h .

I typed T o u c h é.

No, I typed it with the accented e. Methinks your browser isn't displaying it properly?

How come I can see Celkan's accent but not Tyrdium's?

hmmm, I see both accents.

EDIT

Interesting, when viewed as source Tyrdium's appears as follows

; <td class=messageText4
; colspan=2>Touché.</td>

and Celkan's appears as:

; <td class=messageText4
; colspan=2>It's spelled touch-&-eacute; in real life, btw.</td>

Apparently without the &-eacute; from celkan's it doesn't display properly on all browsers??

(and i have to add the - marks to keep it from changing it as well :P )

Ah. I blame Windows being stupid about internationalization. Dammit, I want a Mac...

Back on off-topic, let's mercilessly shred ananzi's haphazard (at best) argument to shreds. It is what this forum is all about.

Shall we?

but if we're off topic in off topic arent's we allready on topic?

this could get confusing fast.

Confusing is good, that means it makes sense. Stuff that doesn't does when you haven't slept in almost 38 hours. Of course, it works in the reverse... stuff that does, doesn't. :(

...umm

**k-thlerwp**

( ^- my brain just exploded :o )

Ya see, if you use Windows with the character map or whatever it puts in a literal version of that character. Example: é. This is incorrect, since anything outside the standard ASCII character set needs to be a character entity in HTML. Example: é. This is why any post that was written in MS Word and copy-pasted into the forum looks like shit on a lot of the browsers. Word puts in its fancy quotation marks which don't map to anythin in many character sets. On linux, it depends on what your LOCALE is set to.

I like how Linux works even when Microsoft screws something up, with its non-standards-compliant software.

Yay Linux/Firefox!

It doesn't always work in Linux. Weirdly enough, it doesn't work when LOCALE is UTF-8.

how dare you criticize linux. it is the all knowing all powerful greatest OS. the greatest OS has spoken. it perfectly works and fixes windo0ze u shall bow down to stallman and kiss linus feet,