Whatever happened to that idea where any message sender (with a white list to op certain ones out) would have to make a nummerically intensive calculation before delivering the message? Easy for single messages, but hard for a million.
And somehow chess is more interesting than checkers. The thing that makes chess interesting is what it requires of the player. That is also true of any other interesting game or sport. So what is it about Everquest that actually makes it interesting? My (limited) experience with the game seems to be that it requires nothing of the player but sufficent free time.
Exactly. And the Chicago Manual of Style says that Ph.D.'s is correct. (It does agree with you, however, on abbreviations without punctuation.) Other manuals of style make an exception for abbreviations ending with the letter 's'. Still others agree with me.
Everything2 has the best comments on the matter that I've come across:
One thing that (excuse me) has been covered is the use of the apostrophe to indicate plural amounts of letters and numbers.
"Bs" or "B's."
"1980s" or "1980's"
Unfortunatly, this matter in a flux, and is really a question of style based on appearance and personal preference. There are conflicting reports on proper usage in this matter from several reliable sources. There is one rule that seems to be constant, however. If the letter (or group of letters) is an S or ends in S, it is proper to use the apostrophe to pluralize it, such as: "There are five S's in that word" and not "There are five Ss in that word".
It is also generally considered improper to use an apostrophe to pluralize abbreviations such as CD. This, however, also is conflicted.
The bottom line? Do it however you want to (or whichever way your teacher wants for assignments).
Very good. I imagine that you didn't get C's in school, but rather As. The various Ph.D.'s--excuse me, Ph.D.s, I was reading the Chicago Manual of style for a moment there--at your college taught you rather well.
But then again, in a historical sense, the possessive "'s" does indicate missing letters. I do know that Chaucer didn't spell the possessive that way. I'd be interested in seeing the etymology.
CD is an abbreviation. Therefore good usage can be to include an apostrophe for the plural. I've seen the issue go both ways. Personally, I think something like CEOs looks wrong. Recall that an apostrophe is used to indicate letters that are missing as well as the possessive. In fact, that usage trumps the possessive usage (itsit's).
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Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
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Hell, I'll go to bat any day for someone who wants to remove some piece of overused cruft from the English language.
I've explained this to you before. Commercial speech in the U.S. does not have the same protections as other types of speech. You are being intentionally obtuse. It is true that the Thai restaurant does have a 'right' (though city ordinances against liter can come into play from time to time) to go up to your door and put a menu on your doorknob. Funny, though--but that is not what the original poster stated. He said: People don't have the right to go up to the windows on your house and tape an advertisement to it. And they don't. At a certain time speech becomes a public nuisance. Communities can protect themselves--especially if ordinances are content neutral and restrict themselves to commercial speech.
No--I don't mean judges. You need to travel a bit. There are other countries around the world besides the United States. Some of them have a great deal of success with a professional juror system.
A bad memory stick can be a problem as well. Memtest is always smart. I have a computer that crashed both Linux and Windows XP until I replaced the memory stick.
"What was the first-piece of man-made space junk?"
I'd imagine that is asking what the first thing we put into orbit was. If no screws came off experimental V2's, then I'd imagine that the first real "space junk" was put up with the atomic bomb detonation at Trinity.
There is actually an interesting story in regards to this. When the SR-71 was first built, they were surprised to find little black impact crators on the wind-shield--apparently received while the bird was flying at maximum altitude. Of course, that is far too high for debris. Later, after analysis, they came to the conclusion that the SR-71 had collided with insects thrown up by nuclear detonations. You can think of it as our first problem with space (high-altitude anyway) junk.
If Feng Shui is Japanese, how come the two words are Chinese? In Japanese it would be something like He-n-gu Shu-i. There isn't even a 'Fe' sound in the Japanese language.
This is more or less a good thing, but I don't like the precedent.
Why should Sun get special treatment? Does this mean that every Joe, Dick, and Harry, gets to include his platform independant runtime with windows?
And how is Java different from, say, Mozilla or Phoenix? It's simply another application that Microsoft is using its monopoly powers to crush.
With the conditions as they are, all Sun is doing is grabbing onto the coat-tails of Microsoft's monopoly. The only way this is good, is if Microsoft is Sun's only competitor. Otherwise you have just created a second monopoly where there was only one at first.
If this isn't overturned, get ready for about 1,000,000 lawsuits from software makers clambering to get their product included with Windows. Worst case, I can imagine a future where the government decides which software companies survive and which don't, all by deciding who gets to be included on the common platform.
Well, that would make sense except that it doesn't. A broadcast is an act of copying...Thousands of televisions across the nation get a duplicate of the one show. Therefore I fail to see how your example supports your statement: "So the idea that copyright holders get to determine more than simply who does and who does not get to copy their works has been around for nearly 100 years."
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Whatever happened to that idea where any message sender (with a white list to op certain ones out) would have to make a nummerically intensive calculation before delivering the message? Easy for single messages, but hard for a million.
And somehow chess is more interesting than checkers. The thing that makes chess interesting is what it requires of the player. That is also true of any other interesting game or sport. So what is it about Everquest that actually makes it interesting? My (limited) experience with the game seems to be that it requires nothing of the player but sufficent free time.
Hehehe...True. But I didn't include the comments for any sort of authority value.
Amazon has some reviews.
It's the same kind of book as the MLA handbook.
Everything2 has the best comments on the matter that I've come across:
Very good. I imagine that you didn't get C's in school, but rather As. The various Ph.D.'s--excuse me, Ph.D.s, I was reading the Chicago Manual of style for a moment there--at your college taught you rather well.
Some things are a matter of style.
You are correct.
But then again, in a historical sense, the possessive "'s" does indicate missing letters. I do know that Chaucer didn't spell the possessive that way. I'd be interested in seeing the etymology.
Ah. A member of the 'because I say so' school of grammatical thought. I can respect that.
The apostrophe in "it's" is there to indicate missing letters. The apostrophe in CD's is as well.
(its--it's). Goddamn hypertext. I tried to put brackets around the dash to make little arrows.
CD is an abbreviation. Therefore good usage can be to include an apostrophe for the plural. I've seen the issue go both ways. Personally, I think something like CEOs looks wrong. Recall that an apostrophe is used to indicate letters that are missing as well as the possessive. In fact, that usage trumps the possessive usage (itsit's).
Black Knight:
Oh. Oh, I see. Running away, eh? You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you! I'll bite your legs off!
Hell, I'll go to bat any day for someone who wants to remove some piece of overused cruft from the English language.
I've explained this to you before. Commercial speech in the U.S. does not have the same protections as other types of speech. You are being intentionally obtuse. It is true that the Thai restaurant does have a 'right' (though city ordinances against liter can come into play from time to time) to go up to your door and put a menu on your doorknob. Funny, though--but that is not what the original poster stated. He said: People don't have the right to go up to the windows on your house and tape an advertisement to it. And they don't. At a certain time speech becomes a public nuisance. Communities can protect themselves--especially if ordinances are content neutral and restrict themselves to commercial speech.
No--I don't mean judges. You need to travel a bit. There are other countries around the world besides the United States. Some of them have a great deal of success with a professional juror system.
Professional Jurors.
A bad memory stick can be a problem as well. Memtest is always smart. I have a computer that crashed both Linux and Windows XP until I replaced the memory stick.
The editors can already see the IP address of every poster.
"What was the first-piece of man-made space junk?"
I'd imagine that is asking what the first thing we put into orbit was. If no screws came off experimental V2's, then I'd imagine that the first real "space junk" was put up with the atomic bomb detonation at Trinity.
There is actually an interesting story in regards to this. When the SR-71 was first built, they were surprised to find little black impact crators on the wind-shield--apparently received while the bird was flying at maximum altitude. Of course, that is far too high for debris. Later, after analysis, they came to the conclusion that the SR-71 had collided with insects thrown up by nuclear detonations. You can think of it as our first problem with space (high-altitude anyway) junk.
Dumbass. I could out-troll you in my sleep.
If Feng Shui is Japanese, how come the two words are Chinese? In Japanese it would be something like He-n-gu Shu-i. There isn't even a 'Fe' sound in the Japanese language.
Yes. And that is what makes his playful misreading into something called a joke...
That is a horrible analogy. In the free market, the game is never over. There are no ultimate winners or losers.
This is more or less a good thing, but I don't like the precedent.
Why should Sun get special treatment? Does this mean that every Joe, Dick, and Harry, gets to include his platform independant runtime with windows?
And how is Java different from, say, Mozilla or Phoenix? It's simply another application that Microsoft is using its monopoly powers to crush.
With the conditions as they are, all Sun is doing is grabbing onto the coat-tails of Microsoft's monopoly. The only way this is good, is if Microsoft is Sun's only competitor. Otherwise you have just created a second monopoly where there was only one at first.
If this isn't overturned, get ready for about 1,000,000 lawsuits from software makers clambering to get their product included with Windows. Worst case, I can imagine a future where the government decides which software companies survive and which don't, all by deciding who gets to be included on the common platform.
Well, that would make sense except that it doesn't. A broadcast is an act of copying...Thousands of televisions across the nation get a duplicate of the one show. Therefore I fail to see how your example supports your statement: "So the idea that copyright holders get to determine more than simply who does and who does not get to copy their works has been around for nearly 100 years."