...sure they'd use LiveCode but it's ridiculous to just blindly assume that they'd have hands! ;-) Best, Keith..
On 16 Jun 2011, at 19:03, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > But when we finally make contact with another intelligent species, will we > discover that all their cards are right-handed? (It goes with out saying that > such a species will necessarily be using LiveCode.) If so, then importing any > of their cards might result in the stack disappearing in a flash of > high-energy photons.... That problem will be one of the knottiest the LC > development team has had to tackle. > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > [email protected] > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> So you think that card creation would be racemic in nature? As many left >> handed cards as right handed? But surely someone would soon come up with a >> plugin that ensured an optically pure creation of new cards. Then we would >> be back to where we are now, purely left handed cards, as it should be. >> >> Bob >> >> On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:08 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: >> >>> ...a kind of quantum scrolling/fixed duality inherent in cards, so we can >>> know it's state by inserting an object - Shrödinger's card? >>> >>> But then 50% of cards would be created with a scrollbar - unless of course, >>> these are all non-local, sitting in the anti-stack that can't be accessed >>> because it's in the >90% of dark code that fills all hard drives. >>> >>> That would explain the rumour that Time Machine was originally going to be >>> called Space-Time Machine, but I'll resist considering why Parallels is >>> really called that and instead, get some coffee! ;-) >>> Best, >>> Keith.. >>> >>> On 16 Jun 2011, at 05:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>> >>>> Thomas McGrath III wrote: >>>> >>>>> Although, I suppose if you could group a card then you could scroll a >>>>> card. >>>> >>>> Actually, I believe empty cards do scroll. ;) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
