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FCC Head Wants New Wireless Devices Unlocked
[TheBORG] writes with news that FCC chairman Kevin Martin wants 700-MHz wireless devices and services to be unlocked. Spectrum auctions for the 700-MHz airwaves, being opened up for fixed and mobile broadband, are scheduled for early next year. "The proposed rules would apply only to the spectrum being auctioned, not the rest of the wireless business, which still makes most of its revenue from voice calls. But Martin's proposal, if adopted by the FCC, could reverberate through a U.S. wireless industry that has tightly controlled access to devices and services... Like most devices sold in the USA, the iPhone ... allows only features and applications that Apple and AT&T provide and works only with an AT&T contract. The FCC chairman said he has grown increasingly concerned that the current practices 'hamper innovations' dreamed up by outside developers. One example:... 'Internationally, Wi-Fi handsets have been available for some time,' Martin noted. 'But they are just beginning to roll out here.'"
What happened to the FCC? This decision would actually benefit the country! The FCC is supposed to be spending all its budget on forcing Christian fundamentalist values on everyone! What went wrong?
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
Kevin Martin actually isn't that great of a guy.
In the phrase, "Too much of a good thing", 'much' is functioning as a noun; this is why 'of' is needed to glue together the nouns 'much' and 'thing'.
In almost all other phrases similar to this, 'much' is the only word after the 'too' that functions as a noun; other words are all adjectives. eg. "Too loud a noise", "Too small a quantity", "That great a guy". Adjectives directly describe a noun (eg. 'loud noise', 'small quantity', 'big problem'), and DO NOT NEED the preposition 'of' to glue them with their noun! Incidentally, even 'much' can be used as an adjective, when it is describing an abstract noun: "Too much rain".
Therefore, your phrase,
"That great of a guy"
should have read,
"That great a guy".
The 'of' is totally redundant and incorrect. Please do not ever use it UNLESS you are using the word 'much' with a non-abstract noun and need 'of' to glue them together.
== Jez ==
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I'm stunned by your abuse of the english language combined with your low user number. Let me guess, blunt force trauma some time in the last 5 years?
"What fucking planet do you live on?"
I live on the planet where assigning positions to people when they haven't taken them on themselves is know as "the straw man" fallacy. You just used it. You happen to live here too.
As to your points, you did nothing to refute me. I stated support for not one of the positions you attempted to foist on me, so why do you think you said anything of value here? Government runs things badly. There is no disagreement, so fabricating an argument to use against me was your only shot, and it failed. You know I'm right, that's why you avoided my point and went straight to fallacy.
I guess the answer to my original question is "You're very fucking stupid".