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Why don't you look it up on Dictionary.com or a search engine?

(Why do people insist on asking questions, when it's easier to figure it out for themselves?)

To get the full 1930s effect, just imagine a Bakelite Mac, à la Art Deco telephones.

I never heard it called "saluting" before

Well then maybe you should have looked it up before posting!

"To honor formally and ceremoniously"

Microsoft will keep their mits in every big deal in the tech industry.

Hmm. I'm surprised this article wasn't from the loking-in-the-crystal-bal dept.

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"Well, all virii (I'm pretty sure that's the correct plural of "virus" "

Nope. Taken from www.dictionary.com:

virus (vrs)
n. pl. viruses

The word virii doesn't (legally) exist :)

Similarly, whether you decide to use the right spelling does not depend on the weather. Speaking on slashdot is a privilege, not inherently a right. Bad spelling is adequate for previews, but not final submissions.

Similarly, whether you decide to use the right spelling does not depend on the weather. Speaking on slashdot is a privilege, not inherently a right. Bad spelling is adequate for previews, but not final submissions.

shill (shl) Slang n. One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle. v. shilled, shilling, shills v. intr. To act as a shill. v. tr. To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise). To lure (a person) into a swindle. Link

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=ext ernality : 2.b: An incidental condition that may affect a course of action: Åur economic system treats environmental degradation as an externality, a cost that does not enter into the conventional arithmetic that determines how we use our resources¦(Barry Commoner).
See also:

http://cee.org.au/economic-issues/Gambling.html: "Externalities An externality is said to occur when the consumption or production of a good by one person affects the welfare of another. Pollution is a common policy-relevant example, but there are many others."
Saying that "economics has proved that the market is perfect" is like saying F=ma. It's a first-semester textbook approximation that's not blatantly wrong, but it's not precisely right, and when you apply it to issues on a global scale, the error is huge.

Hmm, my italian friends explained it a bit differently (or I remember wrong...), but actually this fills in the gap of how the nomination and symbol traveled to england.

I was going ask if there has, at some point some where in history, been equivalence with one pound currency and one pound of some matter, but I then did the reseach my self and found that livre was "A money of account formerly used in France and originally worth a pound of silver".

err - no.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it

It says abolish, which means a hugely different thing from overthrow.

Overthrow is definately NOT abolish.

err - no.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it

It says abolish, which means a hugely different thing from overthrow.

Overthrow is definately NOT abolish.

If you are interested in this topic, I suggest that you look into malingering. Detection of deception has been well-researched in cognitive psychology. I actually spent a few years working in a laboratory where people we researching this topic.

One of the coolest things I read about was a study where people would be hooked up so that event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were detected for malingering. In effect, your brain gives you away. For example, if you saw a video with some information and then you were asked about it, your brain does a little "hop" which can be detected with ERPs. It didn't matter how well you lied or how convincing you were, you would be detected. Supposedly, the methods works extremely well. However, you can't expect people to accept this. Would you like to have an electrode cap put on your head?

(Ah, you have to love science.)

By the way, you might want to check out these resources:

The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology

Forensic Psychology and Forensic Psychiatry

Polygraph Law Resource Page

If you are a happy employee does that make you 'gruntled'?

Gruntle is a real word meaning what you would expect. The usage rate is vanishingly small though.

I do. It means "Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles", but I think the definintion people need to understand is "Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs", which is actually what is happening, isn't it? I for one would have expected to see a "Powered by VIM" button or whatever it says rather than an emacs logo.

Both the above definitions are cut and pasted from dictionary.com before you follow up.

'sueing' is spelled suing.

Peter Singer is one of the only philosophers I know willing to accept the absurd conclusions he reaches.

I've read a great deal of his writing, most of it has significant logical flaws, but his most important conclusions seem, in my opinion, justified.

Before you say something bad about him, read one of his books, with an eye toward the same sort of "absurd conclusions" (e.g., it's okay to kill a newborn, because it doesn't have a personality)

there are as many positive odd numbers (which are all whole numbers) as all positive and negative whole numbers and fractions of two whole numbers combined. This is absurd, but any mathematician will tell you its a fact.

It's CLEP.

terrorist
n. One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.

terrorism
n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

" And "celphone" has one L; look it up."

Well...I had no need to look it up. I happen to know that a cellphone is the same thing as a cellular telephone. I felt safe in assuming that the shortened version would be cellphone and not celphone...but because you told me to, I looked it up.
Like what I found?

Oh, and Google found about 196,000 results for cellphone, but it only found about 14,200 results for celphone

I was surprised by the number of links to celphone, but I ascribe many of them to misspellings. True, some were to non-English language sites, but I don't think this is what you were trying to say.

" And "celphone" has one L; look it up."

Well...I had no need to look it up. I happen to know that a cellphone is the same thing as a cellular telephone. I felt safe in assuming that the shortened version would be cellphone and not celphone...but because you told me to, I looked it up.
Like what I found?

Oh, and Google found about 196,000 results for cellphone, but it only found about 14,200 results for celphone

I was surprised by the number of links to celphone, but I ascribe many of them to misspellings. True, some were to non-English language sites, but I don't think this is what you were trying to say.

sharing : v. shared, sharing, shares

1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns. [emphasis mine]

Please stop spouting nonsense now. Your "definitions" are just as bogus as those of anyone else who tries to relate physical and intellectual concepts to further their own, generally flawed, arguments.

sharing : v. shared, sharing, shares

1. To divide and parcel out in shares; apportion.
2. To participate in, use, enjoy, or experience jointly or in turns. [emphasis mine]

Please stop spouting nonsense now. Your "definitions" are just as bogus as those of anyone else who tries to relate physical and intellectual concepts to further their own, generally flawed, arguments.

Wow. 10MB/day is about what you get out of a 1200 baud modem. I understand perfectly well that you don't want bandwidth hogs, but this sort of capped transfer rate is positively antediluvian.

kilometre

Way to go, "moron"!

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly....

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Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

unbounded quantity is most certainly an oxymoron.

definition of quantity

see?

on the same note, infinity is not a quantity. unbounded, sure, by definition. but its a concept, not a quantity.

unbounded sequence works.

virii = nonword

use "viruses". please, for the love of god.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=vir us

>>doctor-what-about-my-gamboling-addiction

>And your lack of grammar skills.

In short, "doctor-what-about-my-game-playing-addiction." It said exactly what it was meant to say. Don't blame them because you missed the clever play on the traditional phrase.

Scroll down:
Obsolete

Thanks,
I think that was the painting I was thinking of. I confused teoma.com by searching for a pre-raphaelite painting of Venus.
BTW, According to Dictionary.com clam-shells have the genus name Venus, or Veneridae.

precludes means "eliminates" or "greatly lessens the possibility of"

Gee, thanx for the correction. Except he didn't says "precludes". He said "preludes".

Exiting an industry preludes price increase

preludes event or action preceding a more important one.

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Or eons, you idiot :P

viruses.
viruses
viruses

Poster has intentionally misspelled "inputting" in an attempt to provoke flames.

mispelt? Is that a joke? It is not a word. I am no English major, but I don't think this is correct.

It is a word. However, it's misspelt, presumably as a joke.

You obviously have a web browser, because you posted that comment. How hard would it have been to look it up before posting?

Have a day,

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let us not forget that Tolkien hated allegory in all its forms. He has repeated stated that while inspiration comes in many forms, he never meant LoTR to parallel the bible, nuclear arms race, or any of the dozens of theories that people with degrees love to speculate on.

You would also appear to be lacking any sort of a sense of humor. http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=sar casm

(snip dictinoary lookup of "edit")

I don't see anything about editors opinionizing.

Bankruptcy

Spelling police.. sounding off.

JOhn

that's because they are seperate words that already MEAN possesive. its is NOT a seperate word from it, it just has an affix stuck on. and in case you hadn't noticed, it's the ONLY word where the possesive affix "can't" have the appostraphe.

No dick cheese, "its" IS a separate word that means possesive, that's the whole fucking point! It is exactly the same as "his" and "hers" which is why I made the comparison. The pronoun is "he", and the possessive form of that pronoun is "his". The pronoun is "she", and the possessive form of that pronoun is "hers". The pronoun is "it", the possessive form of that pronoun is "its". But for some reason you and a million other lemmings insist on putting an apostrophe in the middle of it. "its" and "it's" are are two different words and they mean entirely different things!

There is a very simple rule to follow: If you ever consider using "it's" in a sentence, replace "it's" with "it is" or "it has". If the sentence still makes sense, then "it's" is correct.
Example: "I have a cat. It's brown." Now for the test: "I have a cat. It is brown." That makes sense, so "it's" is OK.
Now for another: "I have a cat. It's paws are dirty." And the test: "I have a cat. It is paws are dirty." Doesn't make sense does it, so "it's" cannot be used.

Make sure you do your research before bashing someone about the correctness of something that is easily verified. It's as simple as going to Dictionary.com:
Usage Note: Its is the possessive form of the pronoun it and is correctly written without an apostrophe. It should not be confused with the contraction it's (for it is or it has), which should always have an apostrophe.

If it's too hard a concept for you to grasp that maybe it should work just like every other word out there, and make things easier for us, then I fully expect yopu to be using whom wherever it is called for, as well as quite using conjunctions in written speech, as those are equally "incorrect".

The difficulting in grasping is with you and the other morons that can't understand that "its" and "it's" DO work just like every other word out there! By "easier for us" you mean "let us use whichever one we feel like typing, in whatever context and have it not be wrong." "Who" and "whom" is another elementary difference that should be easily understandable, as well as the relationship between "I" and "me". And contractions gained acceptance in the 1500s, and are easily recognized and understandable by everyone (when used correctly), so they ARE 'correct'.

The answer is not to allow every dipshit that doesn't want to learn the basic fundamentals of the most common words of his language to "change the rules" of that language to a dummer version. You would just keep dumbing down other words, but since there isn't any logic behind it, everyone won't be able to follow it equally. So you'll end up with the speech that 14 year old web site hackers currently use as "official English" while other equally corrupted versions are also "official English", and you start getting dialects within a language that other people can't understand, and prevent people from communicating with each other.

Yes, languages change. Yes, add new words to the language to describe a technology or idea that has not existed before. Yes, if an existing word's definition has been universally been altered to something significantly different from its old meaning, add that new meaning to the dictionary. But do NOT throw out the rules of grammar; that is not progress.

I'm sorry, but Guardent are only one single company. However, the employees of Guardent is all individuals.

The use of plural verbs with collective nouns when talking about the actions of the whole group ranks right up there with using the word virii as the most pretentious grammatical annoyance one can find. It's not a matter of national importance or anything, just a pet peeve.

-B

A serif font just means that the ends of lines in a letter are visually emphasised with a line. For most browsers, just look at this f and see how the top curve leans out and drops a bulge at the end. The base has feet. Look at this w and see how each of the 3 turns along the highest point are shaped so it's clear that that's the end of the line (going in that direction).

Sans-serif simply means without this emphasis.

A good serif font, on paper, has long been known to allow people to read quicker (times roman isn't a good example).

However, on screen, a sans-serif font will out perform a serif font by about 20%. Because of the relatively limited resolution of all CRT monitors (and most LCD) the serif emphasis at the end of lines are rendered blocky and the readibility is less than sans-serif.

Just to get an idea of the poor resolution of most monitors consider that a crappy HP deskjet 600 can do 600 DPI - whereas your screen would be lucky to pull 120.

Use of copyright to restrict redistribution is actually immoral, unethical, and illegitimate. It is a result of brainwashing by monopolists and corporate interests and it violates everyone's rights. Copyrights and patents hamper technological progress by making a naturally abundant resource scarce. Many, from communists to right wing libertarians, are trying to abolish intellectual property myths.

You're too late. grok is allready in the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. If they have it, I would assume that the OED does too.

What does patriotism have to do with this?
Jingoistic: Extreme nationalism characterized especially by a belligerent foreign policy; chauvinistic patriotism.

...my point is moreso that it's apparently such a big deal...

Look here.