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Ummm, ok, this has gone on long enough. I thought nerds were smarter than this.

I think you meant proprietors and not perpetrator even if the second is somewhat fitting.

I think you meant proprietors and not perpetrator even if the second is somewhat fitting.

Um, in the case of 'radius', the stem that is changed is 'ius' to 'ii', not 'us' to 'i'.

According to Dictionary.com:

[Latin v*rus, poison.]

There's a character in place of the '*' that I can't seem to duplicate in the text entry field.

No, it's another one of those jokey foreign language derived plurals that aren't allowed.

There is no way there is a double in the plural of virus, even in latin the plural nominative would probably either be viri, or viruses. In english though it is definitely viruses see what the dictionary has to say

From dictonary.com:

Q. What is the plural of virus?
A. Viruses.
It is not viri, or (which is worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, man, the root the English virile). There is in fact no written attestation of a Latin plural of virus.

If you would like to pursue the subject further, see the excellent article What's the Plural of `Virus'? at Perl.com. If you have some knowledge of linguistics and Latin, you might be interested in the morphological analysis of the word from the Perseus Project.

I'll post AC, since you're commenting on diction, and not substance.

Basically this is the use:

1. A source of opinion; a critic: a political pundit.

So like, someone who is cheering the IM scam on.

Perhaps hegemony is what you're looking for?

LOL.

At first, I thought you were criticizing me for giving the definition of hegemony when "hegeonomy" is the word being discussed (I didn't even notice the difference when I originally posted)...

Then I looked up hegeonomy on dictionary.com and it told me that the word didn't exist, and that I was probably looking for Hegemony.

Perhaps hegemony is what you're looking for?

LOL.

At first, I thought you were criticizing me for giving the definition of hegemony when "hegeonomy" is the word being discussed (I didn't even notice the difference when I originally posted)...

Then I looked up hegeonomy on dictionary.com and it told me that the word didn't exist, and that I was probably looking for Hegemony.

...did you even click the link, or did you just look sternly at it and decide to make an angry post?

Mobile Burn is a site that reviews cell phones and accessories.

Auracomm is the company that makes the product in question.

An idiot is a person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years unable to learn connected speech, such as the nice , pretty complete sentences used in the news item above.

Go away now.

This isn't so far fetched... Remember that Microsoft made a sizeable investment in SCO a little while back. With a server farm the size of Google's, this could cause considerable harm to their operations. Consider what an injuction against Google during litigation might do. If they can't use their servers, they're out of business.

My question is this, tho: Whatever happened to barratry? In particular, what of the laws regarding making threat of litigation and not following through?

I think Google should call their bluff and get this taken care of once and for all. However, the threat of a lawsuit, and even filing one, is not much to get concerned over. Google probably gets threats all of the time (see: Scientology and Xenu).

Now, a verdict, on the other hand....

What's the difference between a Design Pattern and a template?

= 9J =

TAT-14 is owned by a consortium of telcos

He meant literate as in "familiar with literature; literary" (2). But you knew that, right?

neither

\Nei"ther\, conj. not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more co["o]rdinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.

Swiss? Because of CERN? Hardly. CERN is an international project.

I know. But thanks.

Can:

1.c. Used to indicate possession of a specified capability or skill: I can tune the harpsichord as well as play it.

That's the can that got passed here.

uh, unfortunately it is a word
Irregardless

Also Webster's online dictionary gives it an inception date of circa 1912.

So, it looks like quality won't be increasing for the average Joe. Dell will probably keep sending support calls from home users to India until it makes enough "cents" to do otherwise.

I went through their customer support hell a few months ago when I was trying to order some parts for a used Precision Workstation I had bought. After 5 or 6 phone calls to people I couldn't understand, returning the wrong parts that were shipped, ordering the correct parts, getting my credit card refunded, and so forth, I was ready to shoot someone.

As a result, when my father wanted to buy a laptop last week, I steered him away from Dell. They make decent (not great, but decent) laptops, but if he ever had to make a support call on it, I'm sure he would have defenestrated the offending hardware. So I told him to get a HP (again, not the best, but pretty decent for the money).

Chip H.

I am speaking out of my ass, but it could well have been both. Observe the way French and Russian have the exclusively singular "tu" and "tih" while recommending the use of the plural "vous" and "vih" when being excessively polite.

Even if "thou" was nothing more than a colloquialism, my point of it having its own form of verbs that needlessly complicated the elegance of the English language stands.

Also, the transition still gives precedent for what I am advocating even if the leap is larger for the singular "they".:)

niggardly: petty, cheap, etc.

It's a word from the 14th century, but it sounds a little like "nigger", which is a word used to insult african looking people.

Nope, the dictionary says it's just an alternative to demon.

Here's a test for you. Try using the word "niggardly" in a sentence and see how many thin-skinned feebs decide to tar and feather you for being a racist.

People need to get over their accute desire to be offended at every stupid little thing and just get on with life. And governements, of all sizes, need to stop wasting time and taxpayer money on useless, pointless bullshit and work on real problems.

(from Dictionary.com)
A system of government marked by:

-centralization of authority under a dictator (see Iraqi war legislation)

-stringent socioeconomic controls (maybe, maybe not)

-suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship (take a look around)

-typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism (so maybe not totally racist, but ask the next flag-waving Joey Americana whether he's a nationalist or a patriot.. he doesn't even know anymore)

That's why he said near-fascist. And let's not forget that pure fascism is the merger of state and corporate power. Who do you think makes the laws? You or Wal-Mart/Ratheon/Halliburton?

Remember, Liberalism is when A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to D. YOU'RE C !

The Republicans do it this way:
A gets together with B to decide how much money C should give to A and B. NOBODY'S C ! That's how we build a deficit!

Oh, and look up liberal. You might want to say Democrat instead.

Kind of off topic, but I always liked the word cleave. Its two meanings are antonyms (or close to it). Basically cleave means to seperate, or join together.

Many words, like "hacker", have more than one meaning. Just because you don't like one of its meanings doesn't make it wrong.

hacker

gratuitously

Many words, like "hacker", have more than one meaning. Just because you don't like one of its meanings doesn't make it wrong.

hacker

gratuitously

HTML is not a semantic web technology!

Yes it is. It's not a Semantic Web technology though. The Semantic Web (note caps) is a specific project within the W3C. Just because a technology isn't part of this project, it doesn't mean that there are no semantics within it.

i don't know who to blame for the propagation of this usage of the word 'semantic,'

That would be speakers of the English language. You don't seriously think that the W3C invented the word 'semantic', do you? Look it up in a dictionary. In essense, when people talk about "semantic HTML", they mean that instead of <font size="4"><b> Heading </b></font>, which has no meaning, they use something like <h1> Heading </h1>, which means this is a heading.

Answer here.

Basically, it's an official report from a company/government meant to be released to the customers/public.

Why would reveling the source code be harmful? It's just having fun, people!

Your education is not.

And, yeah, I must be imagining all those suicide bombers. They can't do it for free, it's not a good business model!

Very close, and you get points for knowing and using this word.

ignominious

You almost had it, but made the rediculous mistake of substituting the "e" for an "i".

Yes, even the word for Science comes from Latin scindere, to split, or to categorise.

Sorry, science comes "from Latin scientia, from sciens, scient- present participle of scire, to know."

Walmart generally doesn't force companies to do anything. They merely say "we want it at this price and these specs, do it or lose it." Companies produce for Walmart because they want/need the additional business, even if they make marginal profits on it. That and the fact that Walmart lowers prices for everyone. Is it anti-competitive to push sustainable lower prices (for walmart) onto the market place?
antitrust
anticompetitive

Walmart generally doesn't force companies to do anything. They merely say "we want it at this price and these specs, do it or lose it." Companies produce for Walmart because they want/need the additional business, even if they make marginal profits on it. That and the fact that Walmart lowers prices for everyone. Is it anti-competitive to push sustainable lower prices (for walmart) onto the market place?
antitrust
anticompetitive

Ah, a comment about my sig. Fascinating.

If you read my posting history, you'll find that my comments have very little to do with grammar or spelling.

However, just to be obtuse, I expect you'll get even more annoyed if I correct your latest addition. It's case in point.

although Im sure you meant sentiment
sediment was probably more accurate.

although Im sure you meant sentiment
sediment was probably more accurate.

In fact, your "correction" is even more laughably wrong than the "distortions" of the Right.

Gore's role had nothing to do with DARPA. DARPA had the funding and created ARPANet three years before Al Gore was elected to Congress. Gore's bills, while they did provide funding for Internet expansion, did not fund the expansion through DARPA. They funded the NSFNet and NREN, both of which were administered by the NSF, not DARPA.

And what Gore literally said was that "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Now, using this thesaurus as a guide, I'll subtitute just one word with a near-synonym, and we get:

"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in inventing the Internet."

Note that no substitution of synonyms or near-synonyms in Gore's statement expresses the actual truth, which would have been something like:

"During my service in the United States Congress I was one of the foremost advocates for funding the middle stage of Internet development between the DARPA era and the 1994 backbone privatization."

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What amazes me the most about the Left is that it can draw such fine distinctions between "invent" and "create" while ignoring that the claim itself was unambiguoulsy a vast overstatement of the case, yet cannot draw a distinction between "Niger" and "Africa", or "sought to acquire" and "succeeded in acquiring". You'd think it has ideological blinders on . . .

1. 1. Robbery committed at sea.
   2. A similar act of robbery, as the hijacking of an airplane.
2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
3. The operation of an unlicensed, illegal radio or television station.

The American Heritage definition of "pirate" has a similar entry.

The use of the "piracy" nomenclature in the world of intellectual property goes back a hundred years. Additionally, I find it sad that some people think that software piracy is piracy, but music piracy somehow is not. Intellectual property is intellectual property... and piracy is piracy. This is not a "some copyright holders are more equal than others" situation. Musicians deserve protection just as much as coders, poets and painters do.

1. 1. Robbery committed at sea.
   2. A similar act of robbery, as the hijacking of an airplane.
2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.
3. The operation of an unlicensed, illegal radio or television station.

The American Heritage definition of "pirate" has a similar entry.

The use of the "piracy" nomenclature in the world of intellectual property goes back a hundred years. Additionally, I find it sad that some people think that software piracy is piracy, but music piracy somehow is not. Intellectual property is intellectual property... and piracy is piracy. This is not a "some copyright holders are more equal than others" situation. Musicians deserve protection just as much as coders, poets and painters do.

...those who run that system would be LOSers

I thought we became admins so we could avoid being a luser...

fedora ( P ) Pronunciation Key (f-dor, -dr)
n.

A soft felt hat with a fairly low crown creased lengthwise and a brim that can be turned up or down.

That's probably why Cornell's Fedora Project uses a hat as a logo and why Redhat chose Fedora as a project name.

a trilby

By the way, the now-common definition of communism includes what I was referring to.

Socialism would also apply.