I think you live in the DeBeers reality distortion bubble.
The biggest diamond on earth can be made industrially for a few cents.
... with better clarity in any color you choose. GE Superabrasives has an agreement with DeBeers to NOT flood the market with these stones because there's not way to tell them from the ones pulled from the ground by overworked, underpaid mine workers.
Well, a good portion of DNA is now known to fit the description "sequence driven molecular switch arrays." I would say the answer is a resounding 'Yes!'
The follow-on question - after determining which switches to throw for me to grow wings - how long before I go through probate to change my name to Warren Worthington?
Of course, you presume that the gateway is smart enough to route all traffic to the correct device or sub-domain, and that the under-budgeted admin actually knows how to do that.
I've seen a number of small companies with a very active digital presence for which the owner/president also manages the gateway and has the entire company running on a bank of repurposed workstation towers - each providing a specific service. The gateway box at domain.com doesn't provide anything but traffic cop services. The system named 'WWW' provides ONLY the HTTPd service. Likewise separate boxen provide POP, SMTP, etc...
In these cases the domain.com gateway is a bare bones implementation and actually requires the additional information to route requests correctly.
That's entirely the wrong response to too many pledge drives. You're supposed to make a drinking game out of it. Every time [on-air-personality] says [key phrase] you drink.
There are many species without a Y chromosome. Guppies (the aquarium fish) for example. The diff between female and male guppies is X X vs. X null.
Humans are headed in this direction, slowly, because the human Y chromosome is non-recombinant and does not repair itself when errors or mutations occur. Whether that means males are defective or just more efficient is still up for debate.
Except in the Roman legal system in which he was tried before Pilate. I've seen facsimile copies of the documentation. While the Romans are frequently cast as the bad guys in this story they were obsessive records keepers.
Whether you buy into the Christian system or not, the man around whom the story is built did exist.
The records of his appearance before Pilate exist. Records of his appearance before Chiafas are a bit sketchier (if they exist at all) as a result of later events.
The point is that the shepherds would not be "watching their flocks by night" in winter. That particular line indicates spring - when lambs are being born.
Actually, he has it right. Our modern, western notion of a calendar is marred by the fact that the Romans had no concept of zero until the conquest of Spain and the ensuing interaction with the moorish people who lived there. Thus, we start counting dates with 1, not zero. Therefore, the '60's is the decade beginning immediately after the end of year xx60 but a person "in their 60's" has completed 59 years of life and not 10 more.
In our Christian era calendars you do not find a year zero. To our modern, mathematically educated minds that would have been the year before Jesus of Nazareth was 12 months old.
Of course, our calendars, while allegedly based on the birth date of this man Jesus, are flawed by many other issues. Among these are:
1) We don't actually have agreement about the precise year of Jesus' birth. 2) The 25-December customary date is a fabrication. Jesus was most likely born in the spring based on accounts of what was happening at the time. 3) Our calendar system has been changed a few times over the past two millennia.
Given the verb: to be, to run, to go, to accept, etc. a 'split infinitive' is an instance in which a word or phrase (usually adverbial in nature) comes between the marker 'to' and the bare verb form ('accept' in this case).
Your usage was equivalent to: "to [something] accept."
You have split the infinitive ('to accept') with the adverb ('generally').
While this is more a style error than an all out grammatical error it is reasonably simple to avoid.
The split infinitive has been creeping into popular usage and acceptance since the early 19th century (c.e.).
Yes, "practice" is a noun. However, "Accepted" is the past tense form of a verb and for the "generally" modifier to be applied correctly it must follow the verb.
I've been keeping my music in lossless FLAC for years. My family gave my a bunch of crap about this 'cause they don't see the need so I told them to shut up, listen and put their money where their ears are.
I had them each pick one of their favorite tracks and ripped each track to MP3, FLAC, and OGG in front of them. Then I randomized the order and played them as samples A, B, and C. They consistently picked the MP3 as the least desirable sound. There was some back-and-forth on OGG vs FLAC but they all agreed that minimally lossy or completely lossless beat the crap out of lossy MP3.
The classic is a block of select_case logic with no default. The developer is given a static list of current cases for which results are calculable. Yet, they #FAIL to consider that the case list may be not as finite and immutable as presumed. When a new case is presented then code without a default response will fail.
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There... somebody had to say it. I know all you Start Trek loving geeks out there were thinking it. Now go back to your "who'd you rather" debate.
I think you live in the DeBeers reality distortion bubble.
The biggest diamond on earth can be made industrially for a few cents.
... with better clarity in any color you choose. GE Superabrasives has an agreement with DeBeers to NOT flood the market with these stones because there's not way to tell them from the ones pulled from the ground by overworked, underpaid mine workers.
Well, a good portion of DNA is now known to fit the description "sequence driven molecular switch arrays." I would say the answer is a resounding 'Yes!'
The follow-on question - after determining which switches to throw for me to grow wings - how long before I go through probate to change my name to Warren Worthington?
Of course, you presume that the gateway is smart enough to route all traffic to the correct device or sub-domain, and that the under-budgeted admin actually knows how to do that.
I've seen a number of small companies with a very active digital presence for which the owner/president also manages the gateway and has the entire company running on a bank of repurposed workstation towers - each providing a specific service. The gateway box at domain.com doesn't provide anything but traffic cop services. The system named 'WWW' provides ONLY the HTTPd service. Likewise separate boxen provide POP, SMTP, etc...
In these cases the domain.com gateway is a bare bones implementation and actually requires the additional information to route requests correctly.
That's entirely the wrong response to too many pledge drives. You're supposed to make a drinking game out of it. Every time [on-air-personality] says [key phrase] you drink.
ROFLcopters! This is fixed in Excel 2007.
There are 10 kinds of engineers.
Those who understand binary math,
and those who don't.
I continue to find the Windows 7 ads to be stupid. Microsoft bragging about something they should have had in NT4.
My idea was an extension of the function keys to include a 'FU' key. However, now that I think about it Windows 7 is just one big "F U" key.
There are many species without a Y chromosome. Guppies (the aquarium fish) for example. The diff between female and male guppies is X X vs. X null.
Humans are headed in this direction, slowly, because the human Y chromosome is non-recombinant and does not repair itself when errors or mutations occur. Whether that means males are defective or just more efficient is still up for debate.
English... Do you speak it?
Of course not! I speak American... or, at least that's how I spell.
I'd be shouting Boycott the BBC! except then I'd have only the PBS News Hour for anything resembling news I can use..
Except in the Roman legal system in which he was tried before Pilate. I've seen facsimile copies of the documentation. While the Romans are frequently cast as the bad guys in this story they were obsessive records keepers.
Whether you buy into the Christian system or not, the man around whom the story is built did exist.
The records of his appearance before Pilate exist. Records of his appearance before Chiafas are a bit sketchier (if they exist at all) as a result of later events.
The point is that the shepherds would not be "watching their flocks by night" in winter. That particular line indicates spring - when lambs are being born.
Actually, he has it right. Our modern, western notion of a calendar is marred by the fact that the Romans had no concept of zero until the conquest of Spain and the ensuing interaction with the moorish people who lived there. Thus, we start counting dates with 1, not zero. Therefore, the '60's is the decade beginning immediately after the end of year xx60 but a person "in their 60's" has completed 59 years of life and not 10 more.
In our Christian era calendars you do not find a year zero. To our modern, mathematically educated minds that would have been the year before Jesus of Nazareth was 12 months old.
Of course, our calendars, while allegedly based on the birth date of this man Jesus, are flawed by many other issues. Among these are:
1) We don't actually have agreement about the precise year of Jesus' birth.
2) The 25-December customary date is a fabrication. Jesus was most likely born in the spring based on accounts of what was happening at the time.
3) Our calendar system has been changed a few times over the past two millennia.
Is an asteroid the opposite/absence of a steroid?
All I know is I found this nifty chain and when I pull on it I hear a loud noise.
I hope this isn't getting you worked up because I'm having fun pulling on this chain.
Absolutely.
Given the verb: to be, to run, to go, to accept, etc. a 'split infinitive' is an instance in which a word or phrase (usually adverbial in nature) comes between the marker 'to' and the bare verb form ('accept' in this case).
Your usage was equivalent to: "to [something] accept."
You have split the infinitive ('to accept') with the adverb ('generally').
While this is more a style error than an all out grammatical error it is reasonably simple to avoid.
The split infinitive has been creeping into popular usage and acceptance since the early 19th century (c.e.).
Yes, "practice" is a noun. However, "Accepted" is the past tense form of a verb and for the "generally" modifier to be applied correctly it must follow the verb.
The grammar wanker has spoken.
All true. However, it was the original Noah Webster to whom I referred.
In Star Trek terminology... "to boldly go..."
You've placed the verb modifier before the verb.
A more structurally pure format might have been... "One practice which is accepted generally is to ..."
And, yes, I AM a pretentious wanker.
This from the clone who splits infinitives and places a comma where there is no need.
The widespread structural misuse of the English language is one of the reasons we don't use it as a programming language.
2 - Americans just like fucking with the language so they can pretend it's really theirs.
We thank Webster for that every time we spell words like
Yes, it is "merkins." (Put your period on the correct side of the close quote.)
And, for what it's worth, that's all I wear when writing PL/SQL packages.
My cranium nearly exploded while attempting to parse
I've been keeping my music in lossless FLAC for years. My family gave my a bunch of crap about this 'cause they don't see the need so I told them to shut up, listen and put their money where their ears are.
I had them each pick one of their favorite tracks and ripped each track to MP3, FLAC, and OGG in front of them. Then I randomized the order and played them as samples A, B, and C. They consistently picked the MP3 as the least desirable sound. There was some back-and-forth on OGG vs FLAC but they all agreed that minimally lossy or completely lossless beat the crap out of lossy MP3.
The classic is a block of select_case logic with no default. The developer is given a static list of current cases for which results are calculable. Yet, they #FAIL to consider that the case list may be not as finite and immutable as presumed. When a new case is presented then code without a default response will fail.