Survey posted 2004-08-22 03:30 by Morgan.

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w00t! is spelled wrong...

I chose 1337 5p34k.

Here's a new one:

"This comment will soon be deleted."

For irony, don't delete this...

No, no, this is our random survey :-D We're allowed to post weird comments and not have them be deleted... but just this once ;-) (or at least, that was the impression I was given by the first comment)

fr0st p0st!
no wait...

l457 p057!

Any one can say "|457 |>057", it's just only true until the next person posts... ;)

So, I guess the fr0st p0st declarers can all say "FR057/L457 P057!!!!!!" :)

Just thought of something...why don't we use monospaced font in here?! I WANT ASCII ART!!!

Because for everything else it is ugly.

so the obvious solution is, nothing else allowed. Everything has to be ascii art!

Ahh, I love monospaced fonts. I don't think they're ugly! :'( Are you insulting my favorite types of fonts? You wanna fight? Hehe...

Fixedsys is cool... and that new one, Lucidia Console, or something. How the heck do they come up with the names of these fonts, anyway? I mean, come on! "Times New Roman"???? "Arial"??? "Courier New"????? "Verdana"???? Okay, you see my point :)

I really like Courier New...

I like Lucida Console (not sure if that's spelled right) too. Courier New is okay but getting boring to me now. Fixedsys is okay but annoying since it's not scalable (ie., not a TrueType font).

I used to sometimes have the problem of some websites using non-scalable (Microsoft) fonts (MS Serif, Fixedsys, etc.) on their web pages. I frequently increase the size of fonts in my browser to make them easier to read, and having non-scalable fonts keeps that from working right.

Fortunately, on non-Windows systems, those fonts will probably just be substituded for scalable fonts.

I use Fixedsys in notepad. I think it looks the best there.

Then do this!

XXX      XXXX   XXXX  XXXXX
    X            X        X       X
    X         XX        X       X
    X            X        X     X
XXXXX  XXXX   XXXX      X

That came out pretty nicely...

lol

ph33r m13 1337 45k13 4r7 5k1LlzZ!!!!!!!!!

x x x x xxxxxx |
x x x x x x x x |
xxxx x x x x x |
x x x x x O

crap.

I stole the .css file and tried it out in wordpad and everything...

Hmmm... but did you use %A0? (alt+160)

i can't do alt+160 i get 'á'. i have to use alt+0160 to get ' '. which is what caused burntfuse's confusing i am guessing.

Shizzle, that's what I meant. I type the zero without even thinking about it; it's so automatic...

Oh well, you knew what I meant. :)

Let's see if this works...

xááááxáááxááááááxááxxxxxxáá|
xáxáxááxááxááxááxááááxáááááá|
xxxxáááxááxááxááxááááxáááááá|
áxáxáááááxááááááxááááááxááááááO

Agghhhhh!!!!

Me.1337=FALSE

What was is supposed to say?

It seems to say that the 'leet' property of object 'ME' is false.

In other words, the person is saying about himself that he is 'not leet'. Whatever that means. I think it is a self-deprecating remark of some sort.

Maybe he means that Windows ME is not 1337. That is quite true.

I mean, what was his ASCII message supposed to say?

I believe it was supposed to be "w00t!"

Yeah, but variables can't begin with a number, so something like this might work...

Me.set1337(false);
Me.is1337=false;

One uses a method, one directly accesses the variable. I think the second is easier to do and is more efficient, but it's considered "good programming practice" to leave your variables private in Java and use a method (first way).

Gahh... AP Computer Science always comes back to haunt you, doesn't it? ;-)

You're right, I should have done "Me.is1337=false".

I got it working on my computer, but no matter how many spaces I put in, it still says that there are words >40 chars when I try to post it. :-( *hugs computer for comfort*

Add a space to the end of each line. If that doesn't work (it usually fixes the problem), then you might have to add a line of spaces down the middle of the ASCII art, which USUALLY doesn't ruin the picture too much, amazingly enough.

If you view the source, you can actually see what he meant to say because notepad is monospaced by default (unless you're a loser and you change it)

And then there was this:

[The text of this article has been removed by a news editor due to violation of
the acceptable use policy.]

I got that every once in a while and had NO idea why

Same here. They were completely on-topic, and I think that this board is professional enough to not have to use it. See URL for one that needs this.

Ahh, we all did at one time or another. Well, most of us. They could have been mistakes... *shrugs*

hehe...search the "user comments" for "violation"...lots of em happened

Yeah, I remember that one. Isn't it "comment", not "article"?

I thought the same thing too, but I found it with "article" in the archives a few times. Comment makes more sense, anyway... heh