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gecko is just miles better at dealing with badly written pages however.

witness the fact that you CANNOT read Bob the Angry Flower with khtml.

Until minor things like that are fixed, lots of people (inc me) are going to prefer the (slower) gecko.

ITS ITS ITS ITS ITS! NOT IT'S! AAAAAAAAGH! http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

How many of you, when reading this, started drooling and pounding on the table, screaming "I want one! On my car! I've been good, Santa! I WANT! I'll never get stuck in traffic again, and if I do, at least it'll be fun!"

A Humvee (or better yet, a giant winged robot that can fly on Mars!) with a battlefield laser! Fuck this traffic jam, d00dz! Check out my ride! I rule!

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

-Kevin

Might as well cite Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots here.

Clever idea, good story, I especially liked the inventive use of the apostrophe.

"up to four xbox's"

Let bob the angry flower tell it:
http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

"The Elements of Style" is a good book, no doubt; but it lacks the panache of Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrope, You Idiots

Thank reader mblumber for this review of Scott Adams's God's Debris, newly republished in hardcover after starting out life a few years ago as an e-book. For those who've never seen Adam's serious side, this is an interesting introduction. I like reading books that make me think, but not in the same way that I think when I'm at work or doing homework. When reading for pleasure, I want something that at first glance is so strange it's absurd, but at closer examination makes a tremendous amount of sense. That depth is the essence of Scott Adams' God's Debris, A Thought Experiment.

No discussion about apostrophes is complete without this.

Don't be sorry. Putting an apostrophe in a third-person verb is a particularly dismal error, and deserves to be mocked without mercy.

PS. help for idiots.

MS-DOS -> Windows :
Single-process text -> interacting-multi-process gui

Pretty big leap of paradigm, that one. I figure the only way we'll get that kind of leap again is to introduce robots. Instead of clicking on a cell, inputting a number, and having the computer use a formula in another cell to complete a calculation, you'd tell the robot "Take care of that payroll spreadsheet I've been meaning to do".

"Oh, and while you're at it, call over a few of your buddies and take over the world for me?" *PiewPiew! (lasers)*
Yay Robots!

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

The shameful misuse of the apostrophe is being fought by others as well.

Bob must be ... um ... more irate!

The shameful misuse of the apostrophe is being fought by others as well.

Bob must be ... um ... more irate!

The shameful misuse of the apostrophe is being fought by others as well.

Bob must be ... um ... more irate!

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

Here's a useful guide for those who don't.

Now we know what The Evil Business Guy Made Of Butter used for a PDA!

This quote from everyone's mate Bob says it all.

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

I refer them to this handy guide: Bob The Angry Flower's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

Hopefully that'll clear things right up.

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I enjoyed TMCM a lot, especially the comic book series .. I also enjoyed Bob the Angry Flower. There are some very good comics online that I'm sure I would never have known about were it not for the Internet (comics are not very big in the country I live, most people here have a direct mental association between "comics" and "young children".)

I would like to introduce to you, Dr. Gravity

Apparently I need to re-read Bob's Quick guide to the apostrophe, you idiots.

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Spread it around.

HTH.

Guns don't kill people. JAVA kill's people!

Your creative use of the apostrophe kills people. Let Bob set you straight.

Bob the Angry Flower.

Hint folks... He's not a pansy.

--Fesh

Anything else you could have robots do would be nowhere near as cool as having them fight. Need proof?

Bob the Angry Flower - The Inner Light
Check it out.

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Dr. Fun, Goats, Bob the Angry Flower and Too Much Coffee Man.

This public service announcement was brought to you by the letter 3 and the number e.

-c.
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I think you'd better have a look at this, pal.

http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

Apostrophes are certainly NOT used for plaurals in any way, shape or form! I think I know who needs a slap in the face...

Bob the angry flower: plural's

(yeah I know plural's is wrong, but that's the name of the strip, okay?)
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http://www.angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

How about this TRAM stored on the disk drive, and have the OS simply tell it the dependency DAG? It can perform its own write reordering (probably more efficiently since it knows where the disk head really is and all the specifics about its geometry) and then finish off the queue when first getting power after a power loss.

But with OS being an acronym, it's safe to say "OS's" with the term "operating system's" being correct. Sorry to give you the sytactical smackdown.

Please see Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots :)

Gfunk

Stephen Notley did a fun little cartoon on this subject a while back...

Up!

Call me crazy, but I was under the impression that the Christian God passed judgement on everybody--otherwise, how do you determine who gets into Heaven, The Ultimate Playground? Mind you, I learned all this from a pretty dated source, so there could be an updated version that I haven't read yet or something. Of course, if you want to go pointing fingers at organizations bent on shackling freedoms...

But to your point. I'll assume that you're a fairly religious type of person, and you firmly believe that you'll be getting into heaven in due time. Why, then, does it matter one bit to you what us hopelessly lost souls do with our earthly time and money? You're gonna get into HEAVEN, man! Who cares if we drop a few bucks on rocket ships? What does it matter how earthly governments run their affairs? You're still gonna win out over us all!

(I know, I know, I shouldn't have...but look at the poor thing--he looks so hungry!)

I'd like to take this moment to remind you all that you shouldn't look at the sun during an eclipse either. Play safe, kids!

Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots

--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy

--Fesh
"Citizens have rights. Consumers only have wallets." - gilroy

I seem to recall a Bob the Angry Flower cartoon about this...

Ah! Here it is.

Interesting how the personal choppers designed by a fictional sociopathic flower and a aerospace company with help from NASA seem to look very similar to one another.

I seem to recall a Bob the Angry Flower cartoon about this...

Ah! Here it is.

Interesting how the personal choppers designed by a fictional sociopathic flower and a aerospace company with help from NASA seem to look very similar to one another.

See this Bob the Angry Flower cartoon for the definitive method of winning Nobel prizes in physics.

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The other serious mistake the author makes is somehow equating Linux as a GUI, then the GUI is xfree86. Ironically, X Windows is one of the oldest GUI's in existance, and the author is trying to make the point that it is too "new" to be mature and compete.

1. Somebody really should call Red Hat and tell them to fix the title of their software package.
   • As it reads now, it is "Red Hat Linux".
   • Apparently, it should read, "Red Hat Linux (Now With Xwindows!)"(I could have said 'bundled', but...)
   But really, the man was using "Linux" in the sense that the vast majority of people think of "Linux" as: Linux with the usual bells and whistles attached. I'd be beyond surprised if the author didn't realize that Xwindows is, in fact, not technically a part of Linux. It's OK to refer to a Linux distro as "Linux".
2. Xwindows is certainly one of the oldest GUIs on the market. It's also one of the crappiest out there, too. How long did it take to get anti-aliased fonts in Xwindows again? Why hasn't Xwindows, one of the longest-lived GUIs still in use today, far eclipsed the younger entries of the group? Can you think of a _single_ major modern GUI that doesn't surpass Xwindows?
3. As fun as it may be, declaring the author of this article "Ignorant" has somewhat of a backwards effect. Whatever nits one has to pick with the message itself, it's a pretty well-written piece, and raises a fair number of valid points. Counterpoints titled "Ignorant" consisting of a line-by-line flame based on personal opinion and single-example-as-general-rule logic tend to make the attacker look worse than his or her intended target...

No. This is wrong. "It's" is always short for "it is". To show possession, the correct pronoun to use is "its".

For more correct apostrophe usage, see Bob's Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots (yes, that's the real title).

every time you correct a grammatical error a hamster dies.

Ha ha ha ha! Die, hamsters, die!!!
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The real meaning of the GNU GPL:

My workaround for this is that my Toshiba laptop (which I do pretty much everything on) has a trackpoint. Thusly you can do much of what is necesicary with the mouse without taking your hands off the keyboard.

Unfortunately, this still isn't as good as a regular mouse for most because a trackpoint can easily be rather difficult to use. You really need to practice with the sensitivity of the thing to see what setting's right for you, and what works for you doesn't necessicarily work for others.

(Incidentally, this is another reason why I'm still using Windows. I know how to change mouse sensitivity with it - just look in the Control Panel, do some browsing for mice, look for something about mouse sensitivity. I've heard that there's something similar somewhere in some GNU/Linux distributions that you can hack with, but I don't want to hack in that case, I want to get it working)

(completely off-topic probable flamebait: Please check your apostrophes. It's a small thing, but it annoys me to no end. :) )

-Jo Hunter

I've never understood this fascination with going to Alpha Centauri. There's not likely to be much there (ob Bob the Angry Flower). Just 'cos it's nearby doesn't strike me as a particularly good reason.

I mean, I live in Seattle, but you don't catch me going to Redmond, and that's not far. ;)

Your point is nice, but your punctuation really sucks.