While I hope to be a little more eloquent than our anonymous friend, he is right, to a point. LEGO-faq
Matthew Miller, mattdm@mattdm.org, added:
The above quote from the catalog is often cited as evidence for "Lego"
as the proper plural, but in fact that is misreading it. Trademark law
in the US at least is easiest if the trademark is used as an
_adjective_. The point they're trying to make is that you should say
"LEGO Bricks", rather than calling the product itself either "Legos"
_or_ "Lego".
In fact, they seem to assume that "LEGOS" is the natural plural, since
that's the only one they bother to correct. So, in formal usage, both
"Lego" and "Legos" are wrong. To me, that means people shouldn't make
such a big deal about it in informal use!
Oh the happy memories of myself (british), another brit and an australian bugging our american boss for hours about the finer points of the plural lego. We never did get to all go for a day out to legoland:(
But the BBC didn't cope. For large parts of the day news.bbc.co.uk was either completely unavailable or loaded so slowly it was useless. sky.com/news lasted out fairly well, and apparently www.ananova.com didn't even blink (I didn't {know,think} of ananova at the time, and now I work for them, oh the irony:) )
If you really want to stay up late, why not just get up later?:) I was up around 2pm yesterday, and I'm still awake now (6:19am), ok, so I'm at work, but hey:P Got another hour here too, before an hours drive home, urgh:(
As for the caffinated drinks we have here in the UK (RedBull, V and the like), I tried some V once when I had to stay up all night to get a train for a 2 hour journey for a 9am job interview, it had squat all noticable effect, and I don't drink coffee! The sms's with the missues had a much more noticable effect:)
Most people who install SP3 aren't going to read the EULA, or know about the automatic updating. Also, automatic updating has been a 'Critical Update' on windowsupdate for sometime now, and been in WinXP from the outset.
When these features gain a critical mass (not long now with win2k having it too), has anyone thought of an alternate possibility? Like pushing security patches invisibly to the majority without having to tell anyone?
If they can't write the software properly in the first place, fix the problems without telling anyone. Nice.
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While I hope to be a little more eloquent than our anonymous friend, he is right, to a point.
:(
LEGO-faq
Matthew Miller, mattdm@mattdm.org, added:
The above quote from the catalog is often cited as evidence for "Lego"
as the proper plural, but in fact that is misreading it. Trademark law
in the US at least is easiest if the trademark is used as an
_adjective_. The point they're trying to make is that you should say
"LEGO Bricks", rather than calling the product itself either "Legos"
_or_ "Lego".
In fact, they seem to assume that "LEGOS" is the natural plural, since
that's the only one they bother to correct. So, in formal usage, both
"Lego" and "Legos" are wrong. To me, that means people shouldn't make
such a big deal about it in informal use!
Oh the happy memories of myself (british), another brit and an australian bugging our american boss for hours about the finer points of the plural lego.
We never did get to all go for a day out to legoland
You might want to add yourself to that list too... Subject: Incresed memory? :)
But the BBC didn't cope. :) )
For large parts of the day news.bbc.co.uk was either completely unavailable or loaded so slowly it was useless.
sky.com/news lasted out fairly well, and apparently www.ananova.com didn't even blink (I didn't {know,think} of ananova at the time, and now I work for them, oh the irony
If you really want to stay up late, why not just get up later? :) :P Got another hour here too, before an hours drive home, urgh :(
:)
I was up around 2pm yesterday, and I'm still awake now (6:19am), ok, so I'm at work, but hey
As for the caffinated drinks we have here in the UK (RedBull, V and the like), I tried some V once when I had to stay up all night to get a train for a 2 hour journey for a 9am job interview, it had squat all noticable effect, and I don't drink coffee! The sms's with the missues had a much more noticable effect
Most people who install SP3 aren't going to read the EULA, or know about the automatic updating.
Also, automatic updating has been a 'Critical Update' on windowsupdate for sometime now, and been in WinXP from the outset.
When these features gain a critical mass (not long now with win2k having it too), has anyone thought of an alternate possibility? Like pushing security patches invisibly to the majority without having to tell anyone?
If they can't write the software properly in the first place, fix the problems without telling anyone. Nice.