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On-CPU Peltiers From AMD?
Hack Jandy writes "Remember those people who lived on the edge and put peltiers between their CPU and heatsink (or your favorite beverage)? A peltier is a devices that gets cold on one side and warm on the other when an electrical current passes through it. It looks like there is talk that AMD will actually incorporate some of these devices on the CPU according to Xbitlabs. AMD already incorporates some degree of the peltier effect with it's Silicon on Insulator."
Yeah, right.
You really have a girlfriend.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Oh, that's a good attitude. "I can't remember how to use apostrophes in the 10 most common situations, so I'm just going to use it however I feel like. I certainly don't want to learn to use it correctly. I will criticize those who object to my own incorrect and imprecise usage."
I didn't criticize anyone - I just stated how I felt about the spelling of the word its/it's.
ANY language is a set of rules for combining sounds and/or glyphs to communicate meaning. You don't want to follow the rules?
The rules of language are constantly evolving. For instance, the American English convention of putting sentence puncuation inside of quotations is slowly being switched back to the European style, where puncuation goes outside quotations. The European style is clearly superior logically - imagine a programming language designed like the American style:
printf("Hello World)"
It makes no sense.
Furthermore, there is absolutely no problem in understanding. Consider the following sentence:
I put the pen in it's case.
Nobody would read that as:
I put the pen in it is case.
If I am doing technical writing, I use proper grammar. On slashdot, I don't. The purpose in writing is to convey meaning, as you say. I use what I think is the best way to convey meaning. Sometimes, that requires me to violate the "rules" of grammar. I don't feel bad about it at all.
Expect people to misunderstand you and to point out, repeatedly, that you are wrong. It's not their fault, either.
How is it not their fault? Are they obligated to expend their energy to reinforce poorly evolved language constructs? We all make choices, and I choose to write a certain way (or sometimes I am just lazy). If you want to argue about the way I write, that is fine with me. But don't pretend that you have some contractual obligation to compare everything I write with obscure rules, and point out every time I violate them.