Yes, in speech I don't mind at all, and often say it in the "quick" form myself. But writing it? You're not saying could of, you're saying could have - with a different pronounciation. In writing it is "could have", no matter how you say it.
The words have totally different meanings, and "of" just does not fit inside the sentence - I'm no linguist either and wouldn't know a plus quam perfectum from a hammer, but this practice makes a sentence without meaning, leading people to stop and parse the implied meaning, thus losing concentration (ok, for a millisecond).
Off on a tangent - sorry. I'll stop now, knowing the language is in constant evolution and the tendencies not changeable by silly, wailing persons like myself.
OT, but I'm wondering what goes through your head when you write "how could they of developed this if"
Really, I want to know. I know "could have" can sound like "could of" but how do you not see the error when it's written? Granted, I don't know if this language is your mother tongue, but the words "of" and "have" are pretty basic English Please don't be mad, I'm trying to understand why this is such a common mistake:)
OT and non-anonymous. Like I care about Slashdot karma anyway.
I think my brother owns the single machine that worked perfectly with ME, and on which installing anything else was a stupid thing to do. ME on that machine was, believe it or not, rock solid.
However I'm convinced installing ME again would make it even worse. Things like that happen only once, if ever.
Weird, doesn't do it for me. I get the page in the explorer window. Perhaps you've enabled the "launch each folder window as a separate process" thingy?
I concur. Nintendo's manuals for SNES games were pretty; I used to read them on the bus home after buying the game. I always wondered why PC games didn't have the same quality manuals.
Although I haven't seen this new version of PotO, opera houses have/lots/ of little details like chandeliers with many tiny tiny bulbs/crystals, meticulous decorations etc. Makes for good HD picture demos.
You're right, the chats might still be stored on their servers somewhere... just flagged as hidden. I thought about that before starting to use the service, but came to the conclusion that I don't care. Mostly because 1) US paranoia-legislations and assramming-acts do not apply here, thank FSM, and 2) Norwegian laws regarding information extraction by police/etc from service providers are reasonably strict, i.e. they need to have a case. Also, 3) Should I ever want to discuss something illegal I would either use GPG through email or encrypted IM anyway.
However, you always have the possibility of going "off the record" which prevents chats from being saved. It's right there in the preferences and well explained.
However the JSF would be able to replace not only their Tornados but also their Harriers. When you already have VTOL-capable planes on your aircraft carrier, why downgrade?
I work for a Swedish software development company, and we have no issues with PirateBay and similar sites. Our software is used basically by three categories of people - academic researchers, students and industry. Only the latter can afford it anyway and they generally don't get their stuff from warez sites. The other two, especially students can't afford it anyway, so there is no loss of profit if they use 'illegal' copies of our software. On the contrary, they get to know our product so when they start working there's a good chance that they'll buy software they are used to working with.
If that's your company's official opinion, and not only yours, congratulations! It's the first time I've heard of a company holding this view. Most people are law-abiding - when they can afford it.
Most people I know that run businesses use warezed copies of new versions of $favourite_software, and buy it if they feel the need to use it instead of their current (bought) version. While trying the warezed copy, they also make sure no commercial works are created with it - it's purely "in-house" testing.
Granted, many softwares have a two-week "pre-activation" test period after you bought it (like WinXP), but try and get your money back if you decide you don't want it. It's meant to be a grace period for phone/fax registrations, not evaluation. And no true eval copies exist.
On a more serious note, why the fuck do all Swedish people always have such good English?
Perhaps it's because they learn English as a second language quite early in school? This is the norm in Scandinavia; I started in fourth grade (in Norway) but it could be third these days.
Also, we do get lots of TV and music from the US, Great Britain and Canada. Kids are fed English since day 0. I know I learned English watching The DJ Kat Show on Sky back in the day, and already had a decent oral knowledge of the language before learning it in school. I would think this is the case with most European kids nowadays.
Has there already been precedence for shutting down servers like The Pirate Bay? For now, it seems, hosting and transmitting (catalogues of?) information isn't getting slammed.
In Sweden there seems to be precedence for allowing things like they do; in some of the replies TPB have sent out to various legal threats they refer to a court case in 1996 regarding bulletin board systems.
Thus, in Sweden merely hosting pointers to information about a subject (or file, in this case) is not illegal. The users actually seeding the files and downloading them are the law-breakers.
Should I be arrested for telling you which book to get from the library to learn how to make drugs, or should you be arrested after you get the book and actually make/use/sell said drugs?
Nice job invoking Godwin's law so soon... The sad thing is, I feel the same way. It'll be interesting to see how the political climate in the US is in ten years - after W's third or fourth term.
Oh, he can't sit that long, you say? Well, we'll see.
It's probably just an attempt to put the public at ease, making them not think about it. "Hey, someone from MS said there'll be no backdoors. And he bet his life on it!"
Of course, some hacker will discover th[is|ese] backdoor[s] sooner or later if they exist. Which they will do. I'm certain.
I know. As a longtime user of the K750i (twin sister of the W800), I would never switch that for an iPod Shuffle. Granted, with only a 64 MB card included (512 in the W800) you have the added expense of buying a one- or two-gig memory stick. However, you can have several and switch them at your whim.
And the 2 MP auto-focus camera is the best I've seen in a cellphone (of that generation, at least, I hear more phones have this now) and decent enough for my uses considering my camera before that was a 1.3 MP Olympus.
To me, at least, it's the perfect travel companion, combining the three things I most often want to bring when traveling in one convenient, sexy package.
No, I'm not planted here by SonyEricsson to virally market for them - nor do I have any other affiliation with them. Just in case you wondered.
Pardon me for possibly sounding ignorant, but has not the POTUS opportunity to veto such bills? I'm not a US citizen but I thought that's how it works - he just almost never does so because of political ramifications and games.
I would also think that the electronics in airplanes (at least newer ones) were sufficiently shielded from RF interference.
There's a conspiracy (I'm really kidding here, but think about it) - Airlines are busy coming up with ways of using your cell phone on the airplane. Possibly through an in-plane base station handling WLAN and GSM. For a fee, of course.
Funny, I turned on my cell (ooh, dangerous) mid-flight to check the time. Of course, this completely freaked out the person beside me, who had a fear of flying. I mean, she was completely devastated, you could see her trembling. Gentleman as I am, I immediately turned off my phone and (not at all) sincerely apologised.
If this study has any validity, my incessant ranting about the non-dangers of cellphones aboard airplanes was unfounded and stupid.
However I was very annoyed and wanted to ask her who she thought was flying the plane, and who she thought would land it when we approached.
Where'd you get the $10 fee for paying invoices in a bank from? DNB NOR charges me $4. But hey, expensive nonetheless.
Another good number to show off would be the percentage of people using cellphones. Even old farts (70+) resistive to new tech use them nowadays. There are more phones than people; removing the ones with more than one subscription (work phones etc) brings us very close to 100% cellphone penetration. I know one single person not using one - my grandmother.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Spam the front page with blatantly fake stories.
2. Insert real news items inbetween.
Watch as the one fake, but cunningly plausible april fools' story gets crammed in the mix.
OMG!!!! PONIES!!!1!!?!X#
Yes, in speech I don't mind at all, and often say it in the "quick" form myself. But writing it? You're not saying could of, you're saying could have - with a different pronounciation. In writing it is "could have", no matter how you say it.
The words have totally different meanings, and "of" just does not fit inside the sentence - I'm no linguist either and wouldn't know a plus quam perfectum from a hammer, but this practice makes a sentence without meaning, leading people to stop and parse the implied meaning, thus losing concentration (ok, for a millisecond).
Off on a tangent - sorry. I'll stop now, knowing the language is in constant evolution and the tendencies not changeable by silly, wailing persons like myself.
Civil war.
OT, but I'm wondering what goes through your head when you write "how could they of developed this if"
Really, I want to know. I know "could have" can sound like "could of" but how do you not see the error when it's written? Granted, I don't know if this language is your mother tongue, but the words "of" and "have" are pretty basic English Please don't be mad, I'm trying to understand why this is such a common mistake :)
OT and non-anonymous. Like I care about Slashdot karma anyway.
No, it was a fresh ME (Norwegian) install on a Siemens Nixdorf P4 1.5GHz (Asus motherboard if I remember correctly.)
I think my brother owns the single machine that worked perfectly with ME, and on which installing anything else was a stupid thing to do. ME on that machine was, believe it or not, rock solid.
However I'm convinced installing ME again would make it even worse. Things like that happen only once, if ever.
Weird, doesn't do it for me. I get the page in the explorer window. Perhaps you've enabled the "launch each folder window as a separate process" thingy?
I concur. Nintendo's manuals for SNES games were pretty; I used to read them on the bus home after buying the game. I always wondered why PC games didn't have the same quality manuals.
Although I haven't seen this new version of PotO, opera houses have /lots/ of little details like chandeliers with many tiny tiny bulbs/crystals, meticulous decorations etc. Makes for good HD picture demos.
You're right, the chats might still be stored on their servers somewhere... just flagged as hidden. I thought about that before starting to use the service, but came to the conclusion that I don't care. Mostly because
1) US paranoia-legislations and assramming-acts do not apply here, thank FSM, and
2) Norwegian laws regarding information extraction by police/etc from service providers are reasonably strict, i.e. they need to have a case. Also,
3) Should I ever want to discuss something illegal I would either use GPG through email or encrypted IM anyway.
However, you always have the possibility of going "off the record" which prevents chats from being saved. It's right there in the preferences and well explained.
However the JSF would be able to replace not only their Tornados but also their Harriers. When you already have VTOL-capable planes on your aircraft carrier, why downgrade?
If that's your company's official opinion, and not only yours, congratulations! It's the first time I've heard of a company holding this view. Most people are law-abiding - when they can afford it.
Most people I know that run businesses use warezed copies of new versions of $favourite_software, and buy it if they feel the need to use it instead of their current (bought) version. While trying the warezed copy, they also make sure no commercial works are created with it - it's purely "in-house" testing.
Granted, many softwares have a two-week "pre-activation" test period after you bought it (like WinXP), but try and get your money back if you decide you don't want it. It's meant to be a grace period for phone/fax registrations, not evaluation. And no true eval copies exist.
Perhaps it's because they learn English as a second language quite early in school? This is the norm in Scandinavia; I started in fourth grade (in Norway) but it could be third these days.
Also, we do get lots of TV and music from the US, Great Britain and Canada. Kids are fed English since day 0. I know I learned English watching The DJ Kat Show on Sky back in the day, and already had a decent oral knowledge of the language before learning it in school. I would think this is the case with most European kids nowadays.
In Sweden there seems to be precedence for allowing things like they do; in some of the replies TPB have sent out to various legal threats they refer to a court case in 1996 regarding bulletin board systems.
Thus, in Sweden merely hosting pointers to information about a subject (or file, in this case) is not illegal. The users actually seeding the files and downloading them are the law-breakers.
Should I be arrested for telling you which book to get from the library to learn how to make drugs, or should you be arrested after you get the book and actually make/use/sell said drugs?
Nice job invoking Godwin's law so soon... The sad thing is, I feel the same way. It'll be interesting to see how the political climate in the US is in ten years - after W's third or fourth term.
Oh, he can't sit that long, you say? Well, we'll see.
It's probably just an attempt to put the public at ease, making them not think about it. "Hey, someone from MS said there'll be no backdoors. And he bet his life on it!"
Of course, some hacker will discover th[is|ese] backdoor[s] sooner or later if they exist. Which they will do. I'm certain.
I know. As a longtime user of the K750i (twin sister of the W800), I would never switch that for an iPod Shuffle. Granted, with only a 64 MB card included (512 in the W800) you have the added expense of buying a one- or two-gig memory stick. However, you can have several and switch them at your whim.
And the 2 MP auto-focus camera is the best I've seen in a cellphone (of that generation, at least, I hear more phones have this now) and decent enough for my uses considering my camera before that was a 1.3 MP Olympus.
To me, at least, it's the perfect travel companion, combining the three things I most often want to bring when traveling in one convenient, sexy package.
No, I'm not planted here by SonyEricsson to virally market for them - nor do I have any other affiliation with them. Just in case you wondered.
Pardon me for possibly sounding ignorant, but has not the POTUS opportunity to veto such bills? I'm not a US citizen but I thought that's how it works - he just almost never does so because of political ramifications and games.
I might be wrong here, of course.
...or use > and < :)
Faraday cage.
I would also think that the electronics in airplanes (at least newer ones) were sufficiently shielded from RF interference.
There's a conspiracy (I'm really kidding here, but think about it) - Airlines are busy coming up with ways of using your cell phone on the airplane. Possibly through an in-plane base station handling WLAN and GSM. For a fee, of course.
Funny, I turned on my cell (ooh, dangerous) mid-flight to check the time. Of course, this completely freaked out the person beside me, who had a fear of flying. I mean, she was completely devastated, you could see her trembling. Gentleman as I am, I immediately turned off my phone and (not at all) sincerely apologised.
If this study has any validity, my incessant ranting about the non-dangers of cellphones aboard airplanes was unfounded and stupid.
However I was very annoyed and wanted to ask her who she thought was flying the plane, and who she thought would land it when we approached.
Worst. Correction. Ever.
There is no 'e' at the end of 'silicon' unless you're talking about tits or window sealant.
an e, not a e.
Wow. It feels good being a grammar fascist, perhaps I should do it more. Or maybe not. -.-
Strange, I actually use torrent sites to _find_ obscure films etc that I can't find anywhere else.
And DC is good for finding obscure or old (or both) music not available on CD or vinyl (unless you want to pay big $ for a collector's item).
Where'd you get the $10 fee for paying invoices in a bank from? DNB NOR charges me $4. But hey, expensive nonetheless.
Another good number to show off would be the percentage of people using cellphones. Even old farts (70+) resistive to new tech use them nowadays. There are more phones than people; removing the ones with more than one subscription (work phones etc) brings us very close to 100% cellphone penetration. I know one single person not using one - my grandmother.