why do you believe that there's a "best" CPU for any given PDA application? From the various reports that I've read, the current Xscale chip is barely faster and less power efficinet than the ARM. Same things applies with the OMAP device that Palm are using, and let's not forget that there are still plenty of "68k" (well, Dragonball) devies out there who's owners are quite happy with their speed and week-long battery life.
As for the Mac - the desktops need better CPUs, but the laptops? Seem to be doing pretty good with the G3 and G4 class.
"Even if you consider they spend half that time during middle school, Korean students entering college have spent something like 4000 hours studying english and the vast majority of them can't speak or write grammatical (nevermind idiomatic) english to save their lives. It's totally pathetic."
I don't really fancy myself a grammarian, I'm just trying to get people to use their spellcheckers when they obviously can't spell properly without assistance.
The problem with your reformatted sentence is that it ends up sounding absurdly pompous.
Spellchekers aren't a panacea for all of the language carnage on Slashdot, but they're a good, geeky start.
"Second, did you at all think that there may be a reason beyond being stupid?"
Well, no. You see, it's become possible as computers have grown more powerful to actually have your machine check your text input against a database of known words, and inform you when you have made an error. In more advanced systems, it's actually possible to have the software automatically correct any mistakes that you may have made through typing (or sheer ignorance). Even better, it's often possible to "train" these sytems to not flag your own peculiar idioms of local spellings.
The overall effect is much like a traditional dictionary, but much faster and customisable.
If you can be bothered with SOME punctuation, why not fucking finish the job?
By the way, if your post had made any sense, I might have posted a reply to it other than just correcting one aspect of it - it cannot be a typo if you do it twice.
basically, everything in the UK is officially Metric EXCEPt for Miles and Pints, both of which are still permitted. I'm pretty confident that both will be gone before I am (and I'm 30). British people still like to talk about how much PEOPLE weigh in Stones, and talk about their height in Feet and Inches.
PS is approximately the same as BHP (though KW makes a lot more sense to me as a measure of power) - the L/KM is self explanatory (and actually MUCH more relevant now that petrol is priced by the Litre.
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why do you believe that there's a "best" CPU for any given PDA application? From the various reports that I've read, the current Xscale chip is barely faster and less power efficinet than the ARM. Same things applies with the OMAP device that Palm are using, and let's not forget that there are still plenty of "68k" (well, Dragonball) devies out there who's owners are quite happy with their speed and week-long battery life.
As for the Mac - the desktops need better CPUs, but the laptops? Seem to be doing pretty good with the G3 and G4 class.
"Even if you consider they spend half that time during middle school, Korean students entering college have spent something like 4000 hours studying english and the vast majority of them can't speak or write grammatical (nevermind idiomatic) english to save their lives. It's totally pathetic."
What excuse do American kids have?
he said "weighs", nothing about mass
zarius?
????????
Apparently, this comment looks too much like ascii art...
since when has THAT been a bad thing?
discutions?
surely you meant to write discussions?
M.a.c.?
???
If you think conspicuous consumption is reserved for American plutocrats/criminals, you should visit Monaco some time.
I had spellcheckers on my Amiga, 386DX running Win 3.1 and my first Mac (a Colour Classic).
Anyway, you can almost always tell a non-English speaking author - public schooled Americans are FAR, FAR worse.
I don't really fancy myself a grammarian, I'm just trying to get people to use their spellcheckers when they obviously can't spell properly without assistance.
The problem with your reformatted sentence is that it ends up sounding absurdly pompous.
Spellchekers aren't a panacea for all of the language carnage on Slashdot, but they're a good, geeky start.
that's LOSE
You're the one engaged in the holocaust of the English language, not me.
CAFFEINE FREE DIET Coke?
Wouldn't it just a be a lot simpler, cheaper and nutritionally beneficial to just drink water?
Don't you know the difference between THEN and THAN?
And what the fuck is PRACTACLY supposed to be?
And it should be BEATEN.
And it should be it's.
Your homework must be a fucking disgrace.
define "it" please
It's DEFINITELY you stupid stupid fucker
"Second, did you at all think that there may be a reason beyond being stupid?"
Well, no. You see, it's become possible as computers have grown more powerful to actually have your machine check your text input against a database of known words, and inform you when you have made an error. In more advanced systems, it's actually possible to have the software automatically correct any mistakes that you may have made through typing (or sheer ignorance). Even better, it's often possible to "train" these sytems to not flag your own peculiar idioms of local spellings.
The overall effect is much like a traditional dictionary, but much faster and customisable.
You should try such a program out. Really.
If you can be bothered with SOME punctuation, why not fucking finish the job?
By the way, if your post had made any sense, I might have posted a reply to it other than just correcting one aspect of it - it cannot be a typo if you do it twice.
DEMENTED and SAD, but still kind of social
what?
"finantually"
Oh Jesus, that's fucking priceless! And who said that Americans were illiterate, slack-jawed slobs, eh? Not me, that's for sure!
I'll
ill means something completely different
so, in America, if a store sold you 10 pounds of sugar but you only got 8 pounds, there would be no legal case for the store to answer?
well, sort of
basically, everything in the UK is officially Metric EXCEPt for Miles and Pints, both of which are still permitted. I'm pretty confident that both will be gone before I am (and I'm 30). British people still like to talk about how much PEOPLE weigh in Stones, and talk about their height in Feet and Inches.
PS is approximately the same as BHP (though KW makes a lot more sense to me as a measure of power) - the L/KM is self explanatory (and actually MUCH more relevant now that petrol is priced by the Litre.
Is that some new meaning of the word gay that I wasn't previously aware of?
PS Using gay as an insult makes you sound like a three year old.