What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

MilesArcher — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 03:50:00 GMT

The folks at 1 Inifinte Loop have too much time on their hands.

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Joe — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 23:19:00 GMT

Mike, Mike, Mike.... The Dogcow's name is Clarus. It _says_ "Moof!" See http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/ for more dogcow lore, including the original Tech Note #31: http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/tn31.html

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Centaur — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:51:00 GMT

What most annoys me in MSN Messenger is the parentheses-smileys, like when you write "y=f(x)" and get the argument transformed into a boy, or a girl, or whatever, I don’t remember. I wonder if web forums were already using graphical emoticons when MSNM was being designed. Many forums have the :some_word: form for non-obvious smileys, this is substantially less ambiguous, although it can cause trouble with C++ namespaces :) Anybody remembers what this one was supposed to mean? :) O C=}%~^~{F~=-

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Frederik Slijkerman — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:16:00 GMT

And how about when you type a bit of C++ code: std::string oops; :s turns into something funny as well.

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

e8johan — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:55:00 GMT

My biggest problem with smilies is that I almost always use them after funny, *ironic* comments. The problem is that I put comments between parenthesesis (how do I spell that? :o)) and then the problem with the closing parenthesis occurs. Of course there is the solution to do a left-handed smiley "(-:", but that makes it harder to read, as the reader usually does not expect such a character combination. As was pointed out earlier too is software that replaces for example ":-)" with a picture. This can screw up code seriously, but also limits the creativity with, for example, noses ":o)", ":^)", ":-)", eyes ":-)", "8-)", ";-)", "|-)", length ":)", ":-)"...

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Robert MacLean — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 09:11:00 GMT

You know you have a problem when you write :) while writing a letter...oh well.

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

phaeron — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:48:00 GMT

I think I remember typing "Windows XP" into an IM program once, and getting the latter part turned into an emoticon.... Speaking of bizarro icons, care to comment on the SULFNBK.EXE icon in Windows 95? :)

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

tekumse — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 08:18:00 GMT

I guess it was time for Festiivus airing of grievances ;-)

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Mike Dunn — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 06:31:00 GMT

Try typing (%) into MSN sometime, you get a pair of handcuffs! (which, depending on the context, might make you appear more of a perv than (?)) ;)

RE: What's with the catcow and dogoldfish?

Andreas Häber — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:13:00 GMT

Yeah.. I usually write (?) in e-mails and such if I'm not quite sure if what I write is true. Would be nice if the nice people at MSN changed (?) to be something more like the question-mark icon in the MessageBox API, and created something like (ASL) for that perv-emoticon :P