Uh, no, they're not. BP is a British limited liability corporation, with stock sold on both the London and New York stock exchanges. Their 2009 annual report states that they made a profit of over $16.5 billion last year.
If the link shows as empty-box characters on the ICANN page, then your computer doesn't have Arabic support installed for the operating system. That might be what's causing the trouble, rather than Droid.
Really. The third definition fits nicely--"as if through a siphon". The pipe will not technically be a siphon tube, but the oil will flow through it in a similar manner.
Not really. A profit has to be measured against the amount of capital it took to generate it. If your profit is only 0.5% of your capital, you have to ask why you are putting in hard work and risking your capital (all business involves some risk) when you could just sell it all, buy Treasuries, and make more money work- and risk-free.
Really? I thought it was " Jobs' " was the correct possessive (example) of anything ending in "s".
[facepalm] How do people get through elementary school without learning this? That form is correct only for *plurals* ending in "s". The possessive of Jobs is indeed Jobs's. The possessive of lawyers is lawyers'. An exception is made for words ending in a "z" sound, as that is rather hard to pronounce.
You don't need any decryption or code-breaking to get a quite valuable piece of information from a transmission--namely, that there's a guy with a transmitter, and he's right exactly >here.
The problem is, if you're doing a long string of calculations--say a loop that repeats calculations thousands of times with the outcome of the last calculation becoming the input for the next (approximating integrals often does this) then the rounding errors can accumulate if you're not paying attention to how the floating point works.
Name one other profession or trade or area of expertise where expert advice is so routinely ignored for such trivial reasons.
All of them.
It doesn't happen with doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics or insurance agents./blockquote.
You might want to talk with some doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics or insurance agents. They'll tell you differently. It might happen a little more often to IT professionals, but, trust me, it does happen everywhere.
Or I could ignore my doctor's hypothetical advice. Since I am paying/hiring him, I can think of him as my "servant" and insist that he never tell me anything I don't want to hear, especially those things that would suggest I should change my lifestyle or otherwise adapt to something new. I can freely ignore any such advice and take the attitude of "what does he care, he got paid." I could do that, but ignoring the sound advice of an expert in his field who is trying to look out for you is generally unwise.
But not uncommon. Talk to any doctor and you'll get an earful about patients who refused to follow prescribed treatments because they didn't want to, or insisted on a suboptimal (or useless) treatment because that's what they read about on the web, and expected the doctor to make it all work, because that's what he's paid to do.
His point is that instead of using a Latin form that is nonexistent, and wouldn't look like that even if it DID exist, you can use a perfectly good English (as in English, the language you're actually speaking) form that works, is correct, and doesn't make you look like a moron.
Only if you flunked Latin. "Virii" is not the plural of "virus" however you slice it--in fact, it's even more complicated than it looks as "virus" is in fact *not* a second-declension noun in spite of the "-us" ending. Stick with "viruses" and you won't look like a moron trying to look sophisticated.
"Yeah, they started calling him that after he tried to cure his last cancer patient with the power of laughter. Turned out chemotherapy would've been a better choice."
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Uh, no, they're not. BP is a British limited liability corporation, with stock sold on both the London and New York stock exchanges. Their 2009 annual report states that they made a profit of over $16.5 billion last year.
If the link shows as empty-box characters on the ICANN page, then your computer doesn't have Arabic support installed for the operating system. That might be what's causing the trouble, rather than Droid.
I was going to make that joke myself, but he beat me to it.
Really. The third definition fits nicely--"as if through a siphon". The pipe will not technically be a siphon tube, but the oil will flow through it in a similar manner.
Not really. A profit has to be measured against the amount of capital it took to generate it. If your profit is only 0.5% of your capital, you have to ask why you are putting in hard work and risking your capital (all business involves some risk) when you could just sell it all, buy Treasuries, and make more money work- and risk-free.
[facepalm] How do people get through elementary school without learning this? That form is correct only for *plurals* ending in "s". The possessive of Jobs is indeed Jobs's. The possessive of lawyers is lawyers'. An exception is made for words ending in a "z" sound, as that is rather hard to pronounce.
A fourth fix would be to rent a PO box of appropriate size and have your DVDs mailed there.
You don't need any decryption or code-breaking to get a quite valuable piece of information from a transmission--namely, that there's a guy with a transmitter, and he's right exactly >here.
The problem is, if you're doing a long string of calculations--say a loop that repeats calculations thousands of times with the outcome of the last calculation becoming the input for the next (approximating integrals often does this) then the rounding errors can accumulate if you're not paying attention to how the floating point works.
Whatever can you mean? How could you not love "Dances with Smurfs"?
"...that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of BOOM HEADSHOT!"
Remember, you're not only legislating choice, you're also ensuring that a dirt-poor Chinese will be unemployed! Double score!
Exactly. Remember folks, legally forcing the "right" choice is great thing--for people other than your enlightened self, of course.
To get rid of a zombie, you have to terminate the parent. So, how do we kill Microsoft?
All of them.
But not uncommon. Talk to any doctor and you'll get an earful about patients who refused to follow prescribed treatments because they didn't want to, or insisted on a suboptimal (or useless) treatment because that's what they read about on the web, and expected the doctor to make it all work, because that's what he's paid to do.
"Only the Sith deal in absolutes"
Which is, incidentally, an absolute. Lucas never did have much of a sense for irony.
His point is that instead of using a Latin form that is nonexistent, and wouldn't look like that even if it DID exist, you can use a perfectly good English (as in English, the language you're actually speaking) form that works, is correct, and doesn't make you look like a moron.
Only if you flunked Latin. "Virii" is not the plural of "virus" however you slice it--in fact, it's even more complicated than it looks as "virus" is in fact *not* a second-declension noun in spite of the "-us" ending. Stick with "viruses" and you won't look like a moron trying to look sophisticated.
Or it gets the hose again...
I find that this works wonders. Or, if you're not as hands-on, you may want this instead.
"Dr. Patch Fiasco?"
"Yeah, they started calling him that after he tried to cure his last cancer patient with the power of laughter. Turned out chemotherapy would've been a better choice."
Can we at least get a nod to Larry Niven, whom they stole the idea from?
That is so ridiculously untrue that I am left almost speechless. 90% of the people who buy a new PC buy new Windows along with it.
That's not a market. It's an installed base. There may be a handful of people out there interested in buying new OS/2. No more.