The plural attributive construction is well established as standard, and has been on the rise for the past 70 to 80 odd years. It's standard everywhere, but is somewhat more common in British English than American English. If the OP were interested, they could read about this topic in A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk et al 1985), where it is covered starting on page 1333, although somehow I doubt they're interested.
Speed reading is a fairly popular bit of pseudoscience. There's no evidence that people can actually read at superhuman speeds while retaining comprehension. At best, you can skim. Sure, skimming can be useful, but don't call it "speed reading".
Since eidetic memory doesn't exist, this isn't currently an issue. You might consider taking this up with the Cyborg Rights Council in a few decades, though.
The influence of l'Académie française is vastly overstated. Like all other natural languages, French came about naturally rather than by design. In no real sense do they control or design the French language.
I still think of my iPhone as a toy computer. That doesn't mean I don't use it or like it, but it still feels extremely limited compared to a desktop computer (which I think of as a "real computer").
Do you think the freshman Congressman from California's Twelfth deserved to sit on HUAC, and how did that impact his future relationship with J. Edgar?
It's hard to imagine anyone who's actually used Siri thinking that question could get a useful answer. Siri can't understand even far more basic English. It's not much more advanced than Dr. Sbaitso.
The solution is simple. The NSA should continue to spend the lion's share of its effort on attacking the United States' own citizens. It's not an act of war if you're attacking yourself!
Although we can't actually observe what goes on inside the majority of people's heads, we can observe usage through corpora and the like, and it does seem that most people agree that the verb google means specifically "to search using Google". But it's also clear that not everyone uses the verb this way—it's generic for some speakers, and this is true regardless of what any court decides.
For over a decade, there's been a simplified search page similar to Google's at http://search.yahoo.com/. Of course, there's no reason to use Yahoo! Search anymore, but they did listen back then. (I was working there at the time, so I have a decent but probably imperfect memory of the timeline.)
True in California. Landlords can't just decide to issue 24 hours notice and enter an apartment because they want to, no matter what the rental agreement says. That said, I've never had a rental agreement or a landlord that respected the law.
Can someone explain the enigmatic "It's not Onion"? Is it like "I can't believe it's not bacon"? Is it an ungrammatical reference to The Onion? (And if so, what's it doing in this summary?)
For every site I use regularly, I have a one- or two-letter shortcut. When I want to use Slashdot, I hit ^L to focus the URL bar, type the letters sd, and then hit enter.
If I wanted to use Slashdot with HTTPS (which I don't), I would simply change the URL associated with that shortcut to say https instead. It would be zero extra letters for me.
That, and you'd have gotten something like 1fps playing doom in 1280x1024 in true color back then, and you'd probably be using all your video memory, so you'd get to watch each frame as it was rendered.
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The plural attributive construction is well established as standard, and has been on the rise for the past 70 to 80 odd years. It's standard everywhere, but is somewhat more common in British English than American English. If the OP were interested, they could read about this topic in A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (Quirk et al 1985), where it is covered starting on page 1333, although somehow I doubt they're interested.
Holy shit, this garbage gets modded +4 insightful? I know Slashdot is pretty low quality, but come on.
Guess I'd better set my expectations even lower.
Speed reading is a fairly popular bit of pseudoscience. There's no evidence that people can actually read at superhuman speeds while retaining comprehension. At best, you can skim. Sure, skimming can be useful, but don't call it "speed reading".
Since eidetic memory doesn't exist, this isn't currently an issue. You might consider taking this up with the Cyborg Rights Council in a few decades, though.
Why would I hate myself?
You don't seem to have read my post. I do like my iPhone.
I set Siri to male. Why not? I like it better that way. Doesn't have anything to do with The Patriarchy, just the sound of the voice.
The influence of l'Académie française is vastly overstated. Like all other natural languages, French came about naturally rather than by design. In no real sense do they control or design the French language.
I still think of my iPhone as a toy computer. That doesn't mean I don't use it or like it, but it still feels extremely limited compared to a desktop computer (which I think of as a "real computer").
It's hard to imagine anyone who's actually used Siri thinking that question could get a useful answer. Siri can't understand even far more basic English. It's not much more advanced than Dr. Sbaitso.
Or possibly a Faraday cage.
The solution is simple. The NSA should continue to spend the lion's share of its effort on attacking the United States' own citizens. It's not an act of war if you're attacking yourself!
Although we can't actually observe what goes on inside the majority of people's heads, we can observe usage through corpora and the like, and it does seem that most people agree that the verb google means specifically "to search using Google". But it's also clear that not everyone uses the verb this way—it's generic for some speakers, and this is true regardless of what any court decides.
For over a decade, there's been a simplified search page similar to Google's at http://search.yahoo.com/. Of course, there's no reason to use Yahoo! Search anymore, but they did listen back then. (I was working there at the time, so I have a decent but probably imperfect memory of the timeline.)
I wonder why they don't switch to date-based version numbers. It would make it a lot easier to keep track of versions again.
The LTS releases are more or less like that, too.
But why? What's wrong with charging devices this way?
True in California. Landlords can't just decide to issue 24 hours notice and enter an apartment because they want to, no matter what the rental agreement says. That said, I've never had a rental agreement or a landlord that respected the law.
Can someone explain the enigmatic "It's not Onion"? Is it like "I can't believe it's not bacon"? Is it an ungrammatical reference to The Onion? (And if so, what's it doing in this summary?)
I'm sure that'll help a lot, given that all pedestrians come equipped with headlights.
For every site I use regularly, I have a one- or two-letter shortcut. When I want to use Slashdot, I hit ^L to focus the URL bar, type the letters sd, and then hit enter.
If I wanted to use Slashdot with HTTPS (which I don't), I would simply change the URL associated with that shortcut to say https instead. It would be zero extra letters for me.
It's been pushed out to mid-July 2015, though XP will presumably survive even that . . .
Bought? Interesting. I thought they were valueless on arrival because so many people got them for free.
That, and you'd have gotten something like 1fps playing doom in 1280x1024 in true color back then, and you'd probably be using all your video memory, so you'd get to watch each frame as it was rendered.
Exactly what someone who runs a secret email service would want us to think!