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Survey of Super Massive Black Holes Completed
eldavojohn writes "NASA has announced the completion of a survey of nearby supermassive black holes. Every galaxy that revolves around a supermassive black hole within 400 light-years of our own galaxy has been cataloged. From the article: 'Called active galactic nuclei, or AGN, these black holes have masses of up to billions of Suns compressed into a region about the size of our solar system. The all-sky census, performed using NASA's Swift satellite over a nine-month period, detected more than 200 nearby AGN.' I'm starting to feel very lucky to have grown up in the Milky Way Galaxy."
While the AC could have made his point in a rather less confrontational way, he *does* have a point. When I see a large block of text like that, my immediate reaction is to move on and read something else instead.
Would you want a brainstorming session to consist of complete sentences Only?
This isn't a brainstorming session. There is nothing at all to be gained (or lost) based on time to posting, and no reason other than inability or lack of respect for your reader to not structure your post well.
English has certain rules, and I am frequently surprised that in a place mainly frequented by techies well used to having to get config files and code syntactically and structurely correct that so many people seem to delight in ignoring them.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
I agree that languange usage should be prescriptive, rather than descriptive. However, language evolves, and those that prefer strict rules usually insist on the ones they learned at a formative stage. This contributes to an unending conflict of whose rules have currency.
/. was such. Your point misconstrues my justification of an enthusiastic poster; he/she was more interested in the content rather than the form. If you don't want to read long blocks of text, so be it.
I used the example of brainstorming in general. I didn't say
I'm not a fan of sloppy construction. However, I don't take the view that I'm being dissed if a poster happens not to *know* the rulz.
Further, since your user# is what it is, you may have not noticed that a good deal of posters here are not necessarily coders anymore, but they like to discuss other relevant topics as well.
Oh, well. I've gone off-topic for too long. (/rant)