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'Racetrack' Memory Could Replace Hard Drives?
Galactic_grub writes "An experimental new type of memory that uses nanosecond pulses of electric current to push magnetic regions along a wire could dramatically boost the capacity, speed and reliability of storage devices. Magnetic domains are moved along a wire by pulses of polarized current, and their location is read by fixed sensors arranged along the wire. Previous experiments have been disappointing, but now researchers have found that super-fast pulses of electricity prevent the domains from being obstructed by imperfections in the crystal."
Ah, too bad. 'their' is plural, so it'd be 'their locations'. It's okay, though, since the original summary had the same problem. To have 'their location' read, they'd all have to be in exactly the same place... And that'd be pointless in this situation. So 'their locations are read'.
I'm going to completely ignore the lack of a capital letter and period on that last sentence.
I'm terribly annoyed by the constant inability of people to use the correct word, too, but in the end, none of us are perfect. I've started to convert from grammar-nazi to grammar-prejudiced instead. It's quite useful to be able to judge a person's intelligence by the format of their text. Saves me a lot of headaches, I can tell you.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
I will stop their now before I make a simple grammatical error myself, perhaps?
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
Grammar nazis usually post because they believe people would like to learn from their mistakes, so as not to look stupid in the future. Who wants to continually make a mistake that should have been corrected by the most basic education? The grammar nazi is a bit of an idealist.
As they become more cynical (or is that 'more experienced'?), they realise that most of these idiots who don't bother to learn English once are not going to bother to try and improve themselves afterward either. In fact, they take a perverse pride in looking like a fool. Thus the grammar nazi 'graduates' to grammar prejudice, dismissing the opinions of fools directly - the very situation their original idealism was trying to help prevent.
I believe the "Grammar Prejudiced" are actually the Grammar Nazis to whom you refer (please don't correct me if that's an incorrect usage of "whom"; it's a stupid word). The G.Nazis were once teachers who realized the students didn't want to learn.
The extreme have become so extreme that their former extremism is seen to be perfectly normal. Or at least less @$$hole-ish.