I am interested in purchasing your magical alarm clock. If possible, please let me know how much you would let it go for. I look forward to hearing from you.
Ask any kid who has a Lego product what the pieces are called, and he will say "Lego's". Not "lego bricks", not "lego blocks". Frankly, kids don't really care about the correct usage of a term.
*Heh, decides not to get pedantic over "Lego's" (Lego is?) vs Legos* (Muahahaha - fear my grammar nazism)
Maybe it's just 'cause I don't live in the US, but seriously when I was a kid, none of us called them legos (IIRC). Perhaps it's just another of your weird Americanisms:P When refering to them in plural it was still lego. For example:
"When I was a kid I had lots of lego", not "lots of legos."
or
"When I was a kid I played with lego a lot", not "I played with legos a lot."
See, you don't even have to say the blocks or the s. It's actually shorter not to. And for this story they could have said "space lego". I don't really care what kids call it, but we here at Slashdot (though we're all kids at heart) are mostly adults, I would think, so how about getting it right, hmm?
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Here. I must say I'm particularly excited about the ability of this device to "impress the laay-deees"... uhh.. yeah.
oh, and there's a video here, though without any impressed "laay-deees.":(
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Troll? WTH? Take a look at this quote from lego.com:
If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs".
from here. "Legos" makes no sense, dangit. How and why did people even start saying "legos"? The blocks/parts aren't legos! They're called LEGO blocks or blocks of LEGO or LEGO bricks or LEGO pieces... See, there's so many damn choices, why do people insist on legos? Gah! When I wuz a kid we knew what to call LEGO.
My feeling is that all of SCO's recent claims/demands/etc are nothing more than a huge publicity stunt. They seem to be specifically targetting the biggest names they can think of, just to get their name out there. Any publicity is good publicity and all that. *Sigh* And it seems to be working too.
Seamus and Murphy were walking in the woods when they came across a sign saying, "Tree Fellers wanted". So Murphy said, "Ye know, it's a damn shame Paddy isn't here. We could have gotten that job."
I know thats like compairing apples to oranges but i like oranges better anyway.
Wait, wait, wait... Are you saying that Windows 2000 is like apples and XP is like oranges?.. or is gnome the apples and kde the oranges?.. or is windows the apples and linux the oranges?... or is it that other way round? or are you just saying you like citrus? I'm confused....
actually, the second article addresses this. basically there's two things that prevent it:
1) it shakes and giggles when it has something to say, you then squeeze it to hear what it has to say (of course the continual shaking and giggling *could* get annoying)
2) it doesn't react to the same transmitter twice. So i assume it won't keep repeating the same info.
It actually sounds like great idea, excpet for the tracking part, espescially if it's done without any warning to the folk buying them. I'm also sort of curious as to how the tracking works - could it extend outside of the park?
Oh, I dunno. I myself have hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw away and in the last few years I've frequently found myself thinking "Gee, wouldn't it be cool if I had a huge amphibious bus to drive around in..."
I remember there was a good post on Kuroshin a while back advocating the creation of a gender neutral pronoun. I think they (ha!) promoted the idea of using 'They' which is often used (incorrectly) in place of he/she.
Hmm... actually the co-called "singular they" goes back a little further... You might like to read this as it gives a pretty good history of the whole thing. Only during/after the eighteenth century did this become so called "bad grammar"
I have no problems with using it today - some of the authors who use(d) it include:
Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, the King James Bible, The Spectator, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Frances Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Fielding, Maria Edgeworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot [Mary Anne Evans], Charles Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, George Bernard Shaw, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, W. H. Auden, Lord Dunsany, George Orwell, and C. S. Lewis.
Also, the comment about Dick's ideas infusing The Matrix is true as far as it goes, but misses one important point. Dick was an SF writer firmly grounded in the field, and would never have made as obvious and asinine mistake as violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics the way The Matrix's idiotic "humans as batteries" backstory does.
Actually the original script apparently had a (slightly) more plausible explanation - the machines used humans as components in a sort of huge neural network, and the point of the matrix was to keep the conscious parts of the brain occupied while they use the rest as needed (ties in nicely with the whole humans only use 10 percent of their brain thing.) But apparently that was too complicated for the average Joe Moviegoer so they dumbed it down to the stupid batteries thing. Blah.
Where did you see the graphics? As far as I've heard, they haven't even announce the game officially, let alone released any graphics. Maybe you're thinking of the FO:BoS game, IMHO a very different beast to FO3.
To me it looks, well, sucky, completely departing from what the originals were all about - gameplay, atmosphere, kickass story, etc over graphics. *shrug* oh well, at least it seems to be a console only title, so I won't be playing it:)
I disagree. Why do they have to be "more discrete projects"? The biggest problem as I see it with engineering is its dismally low profile - most people barely seem to have an idea what "engineering" even means. I'm all for anything that will raise it's profile. And I really can't see anything wrong with teaching engineers that it's ok to take the lime light, at least a little anyway.
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....Is that because scout walkers prefer reading kuro5hin or something...?
Dear Quill,
I am interested in purchasing your magical alarm clock. If
possible, please let me know how much you would let it
go for. I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
bad_fx
Damn straight. Heck, I personally like the idea of having alternatives to anything. Competition == Good Thing(tm).
South Africa.
PS: Sorry, I didn't mean singular, maybe I confused the issue by saying "still" - Neither lego nor legos makes sense for a single piece.
Ask any kid who has a Lego product what the pieces are called, and he will say "Lego's". Not "lego bricks", not "lego blocks". Frankly, kids don't really care about the correct usage of a term.
:P When refering to them in plural it was still lego. For example:
*Heh, decides not to get pedantic over "Lego's" (Lego is?) vs Legos* (Muahahaha - fear my grammar nazism)
Maybe it's just 'cause I don't live in the US, but seriously when I was a kid, none of us called them legos (IIRC). Perhaps it's just another of your weird Americanisms
"When I was a kid I had lots of lego", not "lots of legos."
or
"When I was a kid I played with lego a lot", not "I played with legos a lot."
See, you don't even have to say the blocks or the s. It's actually shorter not to. And for this story they could have said "space lego". I don't really care what kids call it, but we here at Slashdot (though we're all kids at heart) are mostly adults, I would think, so how about getting it right, hmm?
Yeah come on folks, do your bit for slashdot's reputation!
Won't someone think of the children.
Here. I must say I'm particularly excited about the ability of this device to "impress the laay-deees"... uhh.. yeah.
:(
oh, and there's a video here, though without any impressed "laay-deees."
from here. "Legos" makes no sense, dangit. How and why did people even start saying "legos"? The blocks/parts aren't legos! They're called LEGO blocks or blocks of LEGO or LEGO bricks or LEGO pieces... See, there's so many damn choices, why do people insist on legos? Gah! When I wuz a kid we knew what to call LEGO.
*Sits here and rereads that there post twice and decides that There should change their name, cause it's neither here nor there*
My feeling is that all of SCO's recent claims/demands/etc are nothing more than a huge publicity stunt. They seem to be specifically targetting the biggest names they can think of, just to get their name out there. Any publicity is good publicity and all that. *Sigh* And it seems to be working too.
..They're already REALLY confused...
Seamus and Murphy were walking in the woods when they came across a sign saying, "Tree Fellers wanted". So Murphy said, "Ye know, it's a damn shame Paddy isn't here. We could have gotten that job."
PS: I'm sorry.
I know thats like compairing apples to oranges but i like oranges better anyway.
Wait, wait, wait... Are you saying that Windows 2000 is like apples and XP is like oranges?.. or is gnome the apples and kde the oranges?.. or is windows the apples and linux the oranges?... or is it that other way round? or are you just saying you like citrus? I'm confused....
PS: obligatory: No! This is comparing apples and oranges!
actually, the second article addresses this. basically there's two things that prevent it:
1) it shakes and giggles when it has something to say, you then squeeze it to hear what it has to say (of course the continual shaking and giggling *could* get annoying)
2) it doesn't react to the same transmitter twice. So i assume it won't keep repeating the same info.
It actually sounds like great idea, excpet for the tracking part, espescially if it's done without any warning to the folk buying them. I'm also sort of curious as to how the tracking works - could it extend outside of the park?
What I really want to know now is, what was his screensaver??
Oh, I dunno. I myself have hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw away and in the last few years I've frequently found myself thinking "Gee, wouldn't it be cool if I had a huge amphibious bus to drive around in..."
regards,
some rich dude
Hey, at least they didn't blow it up.
Hmm... actually the co-called "singular they" goes back a little further... You might like to read this as it gives a pretty good history of the whole thing. Only during/after the eighteenth century did this become so called "bad grammar"
I have no problems with using it today - some of the authors who use(d) it include:
*Head explodes*
*Sigh* I've got one, and your rumors of limitations are 100% true - pr0n looks terrible on it! .....everything ends up freakin' square!
Also, the comment about Dick's ideas infusing The Matrix is true as far as it goes, but misses one important point. Dick was an SF writer firmly grounded in the field, and would never have made as obvious and asinine mistake as violating the Second Law of Thermodynamics the way The Matrix's idiotic "humans as batteries" backstory does.
Actually the original script apparently had a (slightly) more plausible explanation - the machines used humans as components in a sort of huge neural network, and the point of the matrix was to keep the conscious parts of the brain occupied while they use the rest as needed (ties in nicely with the whole humans only use 10 percent of their brain thing.) But apparently that was too complicated for the average Joe Moviegoer so they dumbed it down to the stupid batteries thing. Blah.
Dang, all these years I thought it was "Have compiler, will sit in basement."
Where did you see the graphics? As far as I've heard, they haven't even announce the game officially, let alone released any graphics. Maybe you're thinking of the FO:BoS game, IMHO a very different beast to FO3.
:)
To me it looks, well, sucky, completely departing from what the originals were all about - gameplay, atmosphere, kickass story, etc over graphics. *shrug* oh well, at least it seems to be a console only title, so I won't be playing it
I disagree. Why do they have to be "more discrete projects"? The biggest problem as I see it with engineering is its dismally low profile - most people barely seem to have an idea what "engineering" even means. I'm all for anything that will raise it's profile. And I really can't see anything wrong with teaching engineers that it's ok to take the lime light, at least a little anyway.
bah, just my $0.02
No, fortunately for the rest of you puny mortals, most of us