Please use the correct terminology. As the OED says, "USAGE Use savings in the modifying position (savings bank, savings bond) and when referring to money saved in a bank: your savings are fully insured. When speaking of an act of saving, as when one obtains a discount on a purchase, the preferred form is saving."
I used to love reading about real caffeine fiends in my neighborhood (Noe Valley, San Francisco), writing and acting out a soap online. sfblend.com went offline back in '97, but the old episodes appear to be archived at http://kenlaws.tv/sfblend/. (Thanks, google.)
SCOX is down $0.08/share today, after being up several percent most of the day. Considering all the PR they tried yesterday, I'd say that the Anti-SCO-FUD (AntiSCUD) by PJ at GrokLaw, as well as by Slashdot, Forbes (finally!) and other analysts, is starting to work.:-]
I've always wondered why 'or not' is even included *once* in a 'whether' hypothetical. What's wrong with 'seems like the biggest uncertainty is whether 970 PowerMacs will ship.' Says it all. If you want to emphasize the uncertainty, you could say 'will even ship' or 'will ship at all.' The 'or not' is always implied in such a statement.
I remember the good old days when we got our first Sun workstation, running Berkeley Unix on a 68000, and it came with all kinds of free (as in beer) tools, including compilers (no license managers). They were a hardware company then, and they knew it. In my opinion, Sun went downhill when they started emulating DEC, with a proprietary OS (Solaris) and expensive license-managed compilers. Do you think that GNU/Linux on SPARC can perform well enough that Sun will mend its ways?
Right now (12:15 PDT Aug 9) I can't ping
hotmail.com (64.4.53.7) or www.hotmail.com
(64.4.44.7), from my work or home machines
in the SF area. Anyone else observing this?
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Please use the correct terminology. As the OED says, "USAGE Use savings in the modifying position (savings bank, savings bond) and when referring to money saved in a bank: your savings are fully insured. When speaking of an act of saving, as when one obtains a discount on a purchase, the preferred form is saving."
Abcd1234 wrote:
I'm calling bullshit.
There's no way you use both Vi *and* Emacs.
One word: viper. See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/viper.html#Top for details.
I used to love reading about real caffeine fiends in my neighborhood (Noe Valley, San Francisco), writing and acting out a soap online. sfblend.com went offline back in '97, but the old episodes appear to be archived at http://kenlaws.tv/sfblend/. (Thanks, google.)
Remember that the outer part of the first computer mouse (invented at my company back in 1964) was also made of wood.
SCOX is down $0.08/share today, after being up several percent most of the day. Considering all the PR they tried yesterday, I'd say that the Anti-SCO-FUD (AntiSCUD) by PJ at GrokLaw, as well as by Slashdot, Forbes (finally!) and other analysts, is starting to work. :-]
I've always wondered why 'or not' is even included *once* in a 'whether' hypothetical. What's wrong with 'seems like the biggest uncertainty is whether 970 PowerMacs will ship.' Says it all. If you want to emphasize the uncertainty, you could say 'will even ship' or 'will ship at all.' The 'or not' is always implied in such a statement.
Hemos needs a grammar checker.
I remember the good old days when we got our first Sun workstation, running Berkeley Unix on a 68000, and it came with all kinds of free (as in beer) tools, including compilers (no license managers). They were a hardware company then, and they knew it. In my opinion, Sun went downhill when they started emulating DEC, with a proprietary OS (Solaris) and expensive license-managed compilers. Do you think that GNU/Linux on SPARC can perform well enough that Sun will mend its ways?
Right now (12:15 PDT Aug 9) I can't ping
hotmail.com (64.4.53.7) or www.hotmail.com
(64.4.44.7), from my work or home machines
in the SF area. Anyone else observing this?