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    #32
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    well if thaed doesn't like it it most certainly gets my vote!

    I don't think it's any handier or anything but it just satisfies the nerd in me who takes great delight in organising all his books by size/name and author :)


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    #33
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Watch out, Mordeth. Pedantry may be infectious. (Naturally – aside from ignoring "A" and "The" in titles, I follow the Unicode Collation Algorithm when ordering my DVDs. So "(The) 13th Warrior" precedes "(A) Beautiful Mind", and "π" follows "What Lies Beneath" because the Greek script follows the Latin script.... ;)

    Ahem.

    Regarding the reordering. Job well done. I am delighted. Makes everything much easier to find. Thank you very much.


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    #34
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    LOL. This screwed me up because the IrelandOffline forums are usually right at the bottom of the dropdown on the search page, which I use quite a lot. Prefer it this way though, it's more intuitive.

    adam


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    #35
    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    The new order is nice :P
    Boards has grown a lot over the last couple of years, so navigating it had become increasingly difficult.
    The new dropdowns bring some form of order to what had become a form of chaos

    Just my 2c :)

    Blog | Tweets



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    #36
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Well, I feel vindicated. :) "Yoda helps bring order to chaos." Next people will be saying euros and cents....

    One assumes, DeVore, that your reverse alphabetical order in the announcement "Buddhists, Blacknights and Bikes" was intentionally ironic.


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    #37
    Lukin Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 494 ✭✭Lukin Black


    The new layout is great. The layout is a lot more logical, not just because it's alphabetic, but the new sub-divisions.


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    #38
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    I forgot to mention that the other way was worse for iCab users also and this way becomes faster to find fora to move an unwanted thread to. But no-one uses iCab as far as I know!
    Originally posted by Yoda
    One assumes, DeVore, that your reverse alphabetical order in the announcement "Buddhists, Blacknights and Bikes" was intentionally ironic.
    Would that be because of "Zen and the art of..." or am I reading different humour?


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    #39
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,404 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Yoda
    Pedantry may be infections.
    Perhaps you mean "Infectious"?


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    #40
    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Originally posted by Victor
    Perhaps you mean "Infectious"?
    If he did, apparently it is:)

    I hate the new layout.

    In a few days I'll get used to it. Next week I'll like it. A month after that I'll wonder why it wasn't always so.

    Some nice ordering there Cloud. Makes sense. Sci/Tech is a lot more ordered than before.

    Fank oo kindly then.


    of course now I'm thinking Education should be a subfolder of Community:D


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    #41
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Originally posted by Yoda
    Well, I feel vindicated. :) "Yoda helps bring order to chaos." Next people will be saying euros and cents....


    I'm glad you feel vindicated however this change has been in the pipe since the science forum started to sprout sprogs. Stick around, you'll find out how much effect badgering us has on any issue. :)


    One assumes, DeVore, that your reverse alphabetical order in the announcement "Buddhists, Blacknights and Bikes" was intentionally ironic.

    No. Its much simpler then that.

    I couldnt have cared less.

    DeV.


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    #42
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    It's still funny.


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    #43
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Originally posted by Yoda
    It's still funny.

    You might have taken away his vindication, DeVore, but YOU'LL NEVER TAKE HIS AMUSEMENT!


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    #44
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Eh? The alphabet is arguably one of the greatest inventions of humankind. Indeed, boards.ie would not exist at all had we not our alphabet. And our alphabet has an order, which all, or most, of you learned long long ago.


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    #45
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    You forgot a full stop or do you always just stop in the middle of your


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    #46
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Yoda rational certainly is.


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    #47
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Heh heh Eksor, Yoda rational normally tries to be though sometimes Yoda too much Wolf Blass Chardonnay partaken has....


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    #48
    Cloud
    Registered Users Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭Cloud


    Makes more sense to me, I'm another happy organiser (books, cds, dvds, comics, all alphabeticised). But more importantly, for new users it will be easier (the old ones can still be taught new tricks, believe me, I've taught them many :)).


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    #49
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    Alphabetical order is such a whimsical thing though. As a wannabe mathematician, I care deeply about numerical order and request that the forums be ordered by their forumid.

    Are the forumids not Natural numbers? Are the Natural numbers not well ordered? Do all non-empty subsets of them not have a least member? This well ordering principle is vital and underlies many proofs and techniques in Mathematics (see strong induction).

    The Natural numbers are arguably one of the greatest inventions of humankind. Without them, boards.ie wouldn't even exist!

    Why does nobody give a bollix? I DEMAND THAT YOU ALL GIVE A BOLLIX ABOUT THIS OR I'LL POST INCESSANTLY ABOUT IT UNTIL YOUR EYES BLEED!


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    #50
    Cloud
    Registered Users Posts: 5,049 ✭✭✭Cloud


    ecksor, I think this is best discussed in your new Math forum.

    J.
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    #51
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    or indeed anywhere very very far away.

    DeV.


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    #52
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    Originally posted by Yoda
    Well, I feel vindicated. :) "Yoda helps bring order to chaos." Next people will be saying euros and cents....

    Actually, the term for european coinage is cent (no "s")...seeing as we are placing such stock in letters.
    Originally posted by DeVore
    I'm glad you feel vindicated however this change has been in the pipe since the science forum started to sprout sprogs. Stick around, you'll find out how much effect badgering us has on any issue.

    Am I to take this as encouragment :)


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    #53
    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Actually, the "official" form without the -s is supposed to be used only on the banknotes and in official EU and Irish legislation. In all other contexts the normal forms cents and euros are recommended. Unfortunately, RTÉ wasn't informed this by the government and so they perpetuate a silly mess that makes all the other English speakers in the world think we're bozos.

    Please do not continue this thread here. You can pointers to relevant documentation confirming my assertion on my webon my website and on the boards discussion here


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    #54
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    Originally posted by sykeirl
    Actually, the official term for european coinage is
    Sykeirl please edit that first bit out or this thread will make me cry. Yoda's patronage of plural cents bears so much verbiage it has borne a gathering card. Please for all our sakes.... don't go there!

    -ed- gah Yoda beat me to it.
    Sykeirl - YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO FORGET THIS EVER HAPPENED! Edit it and we'll not say a word.

    edited post again to look down upon ecksor.


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    #55
    ecksor
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 10,501 Mod ✭✭✭✭ecksor


    All the euro in the world wouldn't make some people edit their post or change their mind.

    (omg, did he mean schizophrenic people in a many worlded universe with a high postcount??)


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    #56
    GuanYin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,552 ✭✭✭✭GuanYin


    I take it I have wandered into some weird boards.ie dimension.

    Damn my attempts at pedantism
    :(


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    #57
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    *mashes head on keyboard*

    ya had to do it didnt you, you HAD to go and start him off again....


    DeV.


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    #58
    Crash
    Registered Users Posts: 11,196 ✭✭✭✭Crash


    Ever see that scene in scanners where your mans head explodes?

    Well, look up :D


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