Hey, I'm kind of a n00b, can you tell me how to send private messages to members?
thanks
Hey, I'm kind of a n00b, can you tell me how to send private messages to members?
thanks
Way to hijack a thread!
New members are prevented from posting private messages until they reach a certain threshold of posts.
Learn some etiquette and post your messages in the correct forums and in appropriate threads. You won't last very long 'round here, if you don't.
*thread split*
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
For the love of all that is good. The forum desperately needs an auto-filter, that'll block threads posted by new members about things like this, and of course, inform them why.
Don't kid yourself with this response... I'm sure a lot of people picked up on the very obvious joke. There is a thing called deadpan humor where people don't feel the need to use outrageous facial expressions and silly inflections in their voice to get the joke across... you simply discern the humor through the absurdity of the scenario presented in contrast to their historically normal sensibility.
Last edited by SlyMaelstrom; 10-19-2011 at 06:48 AM.
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<jokingly>
I have Scandinavian relatives and I would say their palette for humour is as different from NA as their palette for food. They like pickled fish with hard liquor first thing in the morning, and are slapstick throughout the day. I think they consider deadpan humor morose or introverted; something you take refuge in if you are no good at elaborate practical jokes.
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<seriously>
You could always put an initial form letter in the PM box explaining the issue. A lot of places do that kind of thing; it is no trouble, I think.
</seriously>
Last edited by MK27; 10-19-2011 at 07:30 AM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
For the matter of humour... I have this running gag about the weather where I live. Because I am between a major water falls, and two giant steel smelters, near the shore of a huge lake, the weather patterns here are different than even 30 miles away...
So on a day when it's raining all around us but not here I will start talking very technically about "The Brantford Weather Deflector"... saying how it's working perfectly. Or if it rains the gag turns to "See what happens when you let Microsoft feed it automatic updates, the entire sensor array goes off line" ...
Now all my friends get the gag and several will join in asking ludicrous questions like "Did you ever find that 3 pound block of titanium you needed?" or such...
We have a lot of fun with it.
But... occasionaly someone won't get the joke, takes the whole thing seriously and then gets all upset when they finally get clued into the joke. "It's deadpan humour, they're just carrying on..."
We tend to call these people "Humour impaired" and wonder how anyone could be sucked in by something so obvious...
Really... exactly how humourless have we all become???
So humourless that we report moderators for making jokes via private messaging!Originally Posted by CommonTater
Okay, I admit that I chuckled at CommonTater's joke, but Elysia does have a point in that, especially in a text based medium, humour can be difficult to project and discern. After all, I recall joining a message board where one of the anti-spambot measures was a question concerning the topic of the message board... changing it to a question concerning the rules of the message board would not be too far off, so someone who does not imagine how absurd an entire quiz of such questions would be might take it seriously.
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)