05-06-2008
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 Ancora Imparo      Sponsor | Re: Aah the joys of Vista I dont think its a direct swap Laurie, more like the place you pasted the text didnt have the apostrophe reference at all, so it just put a ?. I have seen it before, on XP. ---------------- Jay-qu ::Hypography Moderator of.. Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics, Astronomy & Cosmology, Space and Technology & gadgets Forums Einstein said that if quantum mechanics is right, then the world is crazy. Well, Einstein was right. The world is crazy. -Daniel Greenberger Physics Guides - Physics Resources and help | |
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05-06-2008
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 Explaining | Re: Aah the joys of Vista Quote:
 .---------------- Corollary to the Peter Principle: Once you have promoted all of your competents to their highest level of incompetence you must change your management philosophy from top down to bottom up, because the staff at the bottom are the only competent ones in your entire organisation. | ||
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05-06-2008
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| Ancora Imparo Sponsor | Re: Aah the joys of Vista How was it a failure (to them) they made millions of dollars I am sure. ---------------- Jay-qu ::Hypography Moderator of.. Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics, Astronomy & Cosmology, Space and Technology & gadgets Forums Einstein said that if quantum mechanics is right, then the world is crazy. Well, Einstein was right. The world is crazy. -Daniel Greenberger Physics Guides - Physics Resources and help | |
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05-07-2008
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 Resident USSRian      | Re: Aah the joys of Vista Jay, firstly, i agree that microsoft would never admit, even the most blatant of all failures, that they failed. It did make them money, but anyone and everyone is complaining about their horriffic OS, and just about nobody on the corporate level wants to convert to it, and that is generally what constitutes a failure in the IT world. Laurie, i never experienced that in any of my nix-based oses... it ocould be some symbol in the font that is an "extended" sybol, and an older version of the font just does not understand what that symbol is.....? ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?"  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.  | |
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| Explaining | Re: Aah the joys of Vista Quote:
An apostrophe is not usually an extended character (CHR(39) in ASCII) because they appear in the second half of the character set. BTW, ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ---------------- Corollary to the Peter Principle: Once you have promoted all of your competents to their highest level of incompetence you must change your management philosophy from top down to bottom up, because the staff at the bottom are the only competent ones in your entire organisation. | ||
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05-08-2008
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| Resident USSRian | Re: Aah the joys of Vista The problem may lay in the character set used by notepad. Although they look similar, microsoft has changed notepad since XP. And there are signifficant changes, partly why the new notepad requires .net 2.0 etc. I beleive that the new notepad actually changes straight apostrophes (and quotes) with curly ones (because they look better) Problem is the curly ones are totally not the same character, and the browser, which is ascii compliant does not know how to interpret the curly apostrophe (its not in the ascii char set) and puts a question mark there for "I dunno wth this character is". Same thing with that application... ---------------- And remember that great question that Pierre-Simon Laplace and Sir Isaac Newton, Andrei Markov and David Hilbert, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and Edmund Halley did not come to ask throughout all of their dedication and work: "Who the hell is IMing me?" This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. | |
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