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It's is a contraction for it is or it has.
http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html

What are we supposed to do with " its' " should everybody suddenly remember it? Maybe you can enlighten us as to what that particular set of symbols represents and its proper usage.

http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html

"And there is absolutely, positively, no such word as its'."

http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html#its

If you were looking for a gender-neutral possessive plural, try " themses' " as in, "Those trucks need new chrome on themses' bumpers." Make sure to pronounce it using the accepted Arkansas affectations and drawl.

See eg http://garyes.stormloader.com/its.html Or ask any elementary school teacher. How does one get to be a fucking editor and not know this?

such as "it's" (it belongs to) becoming its

Since when did "it's" not mean "it is?!" And since when did "its" not mean "[the succeeding thing] belongs to it" or "[the succeeding thing] of it" (i.e., the opposite of your definition)?

When it comes to grammar, it's [it is] a damn shame that you don't understand its subtleties [subtleties of grammar, not grammar of subtleties] nearly as well as you think you do!

(No, I'm not an English major.)

By the way: cite.

According to The Washington Post, Blue Security has closed it is door which

http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top

It's not that hard.

Size isn't the issue; complexity is the issue. The reason a whirlwind won't assemble a 747 out of a junkyard is that a 747 is too complex for natural forces to produce.

The number of particles in the Universe might seem unimaginable, but it is not uncalculable. The number of of particles in the Universe is estimated between 10 raised to the 87th power (10^87).

"If the universe were packed solid with neutrons, there would still be only 10^128 particles, a number larger than a googol but much smaller than a googolplex."

http://www.stormloader.com/ajy/reallife.html

Let's suppose there were 10^100 particles in the Universe, and each particle represented a tiny printing press, printing random characters at the rate of one character a year. If it does this for 20 billion years, then the particles would have printed 20 x 10^109 characters. If we increase the rate to the 10^20 characters per second, then we would have 10^100 * 10^20 * 6 x 10^17 characters, or 6 x 10^137 characters produced. Notice that this is more particles than are believed to exist in the Universe, and more time than the Universe is claimed to have existed (that is, around 14 billion years), all at a frequency greater than would produce x-rays. If the odds of something happening are 1 chance in 10^1000, then you should see there hasn't been enough time in the entire history of the Universe for that event to have happened. It is practically impossible. Indeed, an event with a 1 chance in 10^100 isn't likely ever to happen in the lifetime of the Universe.

There actually is practical application of such a concept. Alan Turing's Halting Problem is based on this principle; namely, there are some problems that a computer cannot solve, because it won't have enough time in the Universe to solve them. Substitute biological evolution for the computer, and you can see why evolutionists hate mathematical analysis of evolutionary theory.

>I've had people tell me that using "it's" instead of "its" (e.g. "that's not one >of it's better qualities") is a typo. Yeah. my finger just randomly slipped all >the way to the other side of the keyboard between "t" and "s" to smack the >apostrophe... And if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

Sorry to rain on your rant parade, but whoever told you that is right, at least in that context. In that phrase, you are using the posessive form, so it should be "its". The way you used it, the sentence could be "that is not one of it is better qualities". The normal rules for possesive grammer are kind of reversed for it's. It's is a contraction of it is. Its is possesive.

I know, it's a huge suprise. You have been living a lie all these years. I know your life will never be the same.

First google result.
http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top

The "It's vs Its" webpage
http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top/

Nope, he was right http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/

It's tempest in a teapot, not a teacup.

(a) the angle between the 2 and the 3 is 1/12*360 degrees but the two is 1/4 of the way between the 2 and the 3 so the final answer is 3/4*1/12*360 or 22.5 degrees. (b) i'm not sure how to answer this (c) i believe it's supposed to also include a 8 gallon jug too. for more info and a solution, visit: http://www.stormloader.com/ajy/waterjug.html

Could be "it has" as well.

No. It's, not its..

I agree, it's high time K5 got it's shit together.

Its, not it's..

The grammar Nazis called. They want that apostrophe back.

http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its.html

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Depends on its usage, moron: http://www.stormloader.com/garyes/its/#top

The total number of particles in the universe is estimated between 10^72 and 10^87. A googol is 13 orders of magnituted higher then that. That means a googol is about 10 trillion times bigger then the numbers of particles in teh universe.
A googolhedron is 10^300 particles so it's 213 orders of magnitutde greater. Even if we raelise the univerese is 100 trillion times smaller then we thought, we're still not even covering a speck of what is needed. Big numbers are stupid that way.
Just some food for thought

No. It's funny how you think you are right when you are in fact painfully wrong.

"It's" is shorthand for "it is". You say "It's John's dog. Its eyes are blue." The possessive -- that's with ss as in "possess," mind you -- you will notice the correct use of a possessive in the second part of the sentence.

Educate yourself

Your post is officially a Poor one. Thank you for trying, better luck next time!

The 959 was produced at just over 200 cars as that was the minimum number required by FISA for homologation in Group B rally category. They were actually sold at a loss to Porsche only so the 959 could be raced. Ironic in that Group B racing was short lived due to some deadly accidents, and the 959 was never used as intended.

Read here for more info.

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."

(Thank you, Douglas Adams.)

In the mid-90s blues guitar legend Robert Johnson was honored with a USPS commemerative stamp. Of course they removed the cigarette dangling from his mouth. Both the original picture and the stamp are on the link above.

Well, can't let you correct someone who is right. Try here, or even better here

so, are you Don Saklad in disguise or what?

>Apple introduced that ejecting floppy drive (3 1/2") back when PCs were still using 5 1/4" 360K floppy disks. Now that PC's have non-ejecting 3 1/2" drives, the Apple move looked strange.

Okay. I think I can take this one on.

LinkTo an Amiga 1000. Notice the 3.5" floppy with eject button in 1985. :-)

>Apple doesn't do any of this OEM crap now.

Agreed, with the occasional exception. But the damage is done.

>Yes, the case isn't an ATX case, but who cares

Anyone who wants to put 24 hard drives in their Mac? Not likely, but you can in the ATX world...

>On the software side they have TCP/IP, and any other "UNIX" protocol.

Yeah, but what's interesting is there was once a time when MacOS didn't come with a PPP stack. And this was well after PCs had free PPP stacks, IIRC.

>There are other computer platforms that have proprietary buses, interfaces, memory and protocols but you don't neccessarily see their users bitching every day about it.

Tis true, but then again, they aren't marketed to end users (or at least they aren't any more). I've never seen a home user with an AS/400 or a system/36. ;)

>the 486sx and 386sx were crude hacks ...Cyrix and other failed Intel CPU clone manufacturers...

Yeah, but they were a choice, not to mention the complete commandset for those processors was always available... Not proprietary or special (except for having forced brain damage).

All I'm trying to say is that Apple's history has hurt them beyond repair. Perhaps a renaming, and complete repackaging would get them back on their feet. I truly think if they were to release OS X for the x86, and _not_ be a bunch of whiners about hardware compatability (I am NOT going to use an OS that requires a special BIOS), they could whip Microsoft.

Apple needs to quit focusing on hardware -- it's so... 80's. Software is where it's at (and has been well before OS X). Just look at the move to software controlled hardware, like DSPs and microcontrollers. Hardware just isn't the profit margin, or the popularity margin it once was.

I might consider getting a Mac for learning purposes, but all I can afford to spend on a learning toy is the super proprietary Macs. Blech. Not to mention I don't like hardware I can't rip apart and put together again in less than a few seconds (I can just imagine having to repair the iLamp iMac -- Help, I'm in hell!).

>The PC world is still apparently scratching their collective heads trying to come up with a decent, universal floppy replacement: CDR, Zip, USB dongle or other flash media, LS120, CDs, etc.

The problem here is that in the PC world, it often seems the pace of hardware development outstripts software development. CDs couldn't boot for far too long, Zip Drives had crappy PC support, USB dongles aren't bad, but USB is just slowly becoming ubiquitous (and the damn things cost too much), LS120 never had good BIOS support (which it needed), etc. etc.

Apple's controlling of the hardware has always ensured the pace of their hardware matched the pace of their software. Which is nice for simplicity (sometimes) but isn't nice on the pocketbook, or ease/speed of repairs.

My bottom line to Jobs is: Put OS X on a normal PC and I might lay down $150 CDN for the first time ever on an OS. 'Till then, no dice. I just can't afford special hardware, and neither can my clients.

The Draka would have run it better. Had history gone another way, Most of Africa would be lush green paradise by now, dotted with First World cities and productive farms. As it is, it's a disaster that's gonna get worse before it gets better.

Well here`s a picture report of a recently held Amiga show in the Netherlandd which shall provide you far more information regarding upcoming Amiga computers. Sincerely, Mike Bouma.

• Debian and Slackware are absent, but its a decent piece.

• "it's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has"
• "its" is a possessive pronoun, meaning "belonging to it"

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The Amiverse looks very exciting, I also found some interesting articles at devicetop.com relating to Tao/Amiga`s new OS:

Motorola`s first mobile phone based on Tao technology,

Review

Tao becomes Sun authorised JVM,

Elate first Heterogenous Multiprocessor OS,

ARM even states: "Because of the patented techniques, the intent JTE runs Java applications extremely quickly, more than 30 times faster than competitor's products."

Classic/NG Amiga article

...that that was in Canadian dollars, which equals approximately $237 american, and 52 pounds sterling.

Har!

JD
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