That suprised me, so I looked at that site (which seems to be some random guy saying he thinks it's probably ok) and did some google searching of my own, which seems to back up what I was saying, that an apostrophe should never be used before the 's' in a plural.
Damn, hate to be a grammar nazi, but this one always annoys me. There's no apostrophe in PCs. And it's sad to see in almost every flyer from PC retailers they're continuing this mistake.
Correct Usage:
I installed XP on my five computers and now all my PCs are on fire.
or
I installed XP on my only computer, and now my PC's on fire.
Incorrect Usage:
All your PC's are belong to us.
I hope this helps.
Jolyon
Important difference with advertising systems
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The author of the article neglected to mention another important advantage that Google has over its competition - google already had a thriving paid-for-advertising system ready (AdWords) ready to slot into Gmail. Yahoo has the Overture system, which although isn't anywhere near as big as AdWords would still be usable, but Microsoft has neither.
While it's not out of the question that Microsoft could develop their own systems to sell targetted ads based on keywords on their email services they wouldn't have the volume of advertisers for such a broad range of keywords as Google has, they would most likely have to swallow their pride and do a deal with either Google or Yahoo/Overture to deliver the targetted ads for any Gmail-cloned system.
Well, it obviously can't have an infinite resolution, the best it could get is 1:1 mapping with the rods and cones in the back of your eye.
And of course this is old fashioned analog technology, just like in a CRT firing beams of electrons in the rough direction of dots in the phosphor, it's not accurate. What you need is a direct digital plug in the back of your optic nerve!
I've always wondered whether a story that mentions Slashdot in the subject would bring on a recurisve slashdotting that would result in the ultimate destruction of the internet.
The power of rexx (or the arexx implementation on the Amiga) was that there was a unified scripting language available across applications from different vendors, I added arexx support into the version 2.0 of the image processing/paint software 'Photogenics' for the Amiga, and the beauty of this was you could script applications from different vendors with ease, so if you wanted to batch process a directory full of images and you needed to run the image first through Photogenics and then through (rival) Art Department Professional or ImageFX, you could do that easily.
Trials of this technology were abandoned in the UK in 1998/1999 (I seem to recall), due to the problem of street lights acting as transmitters, causing significant interference with emergency services transmissions.
It was accepted at the time that the cost of adding the necessary filters to each streetlight was too much to continue with the project.
Of course, technolgy has improved significantly in the last few years, maybe this has now been resolved. But it's quite possible that the system may be able to work in some areas and not in others simply because of the way your road's street lights are wired up.
The best way to do this is to jam at the network level. Rather than having a jammer installed in these places, you actually get the networks to install a short-range cell transmitter/receiver in the building (would need to be carefully placed). The network would control this, so that when a phone is connected via that cell, incoming calls won't get connected (except with operator intervention, so that emergency call you're worried about will get through), but emergency calls can still be made.
In places where there are a great number of cells already, it may even be possible for the networks to triangulate positions, and stop reception of non-emergency calls when they can see that the cellphone is currently within an area on their 'quiet' list.
Best of all (for the networks), they get to be in control and charge for the service.
Jolyon
ps. Somebody print this out and keep it in the Prior Art folder just incase someone tries to get rich:)
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If this is a one-off event - why not just memorize the damn script!
Don't encourage him, it's a bad habit.
Jolyon
That suprised me, so I looked at that site (which seems to be some random guy saying he thinks it's probably ok) and did some google searching of my own, which seems to back up what I was saying, that an apostrophe should never be used before the 's' in a plural.
Jolyon
Damn, hate to be a grammar nazi, but this one always annoys me. There's no apostrophe in PCs. And it's sad to see in almost every flyer from PC retailers they're continuing this mistake.
Correct Usage:
I installed XP on my five computers and now all my PCs are on fire.
or
I installed XP on my only computer, and now my PC's on fire.
Incorrect Usage:
All your PC's are belong to us.
I hope this helps.
Jolyon
The author of the article neglected to mention another important advantage that Google has over its competition - google already had a thriving paid-for-advertising system ready (AdWords) ready to slot into Gmail. Yahoo has the Overture system, which although isn't anywhere near as big as AdWords would still be usable, but Microsoft has neither.
While it's not out of the question that Microsoft could develop their own systems to sell targetted ads based on keywords on their email services they wouldn't have the volume of advertisers for such a broad range of keywords as Google has, they would most likely have to swallow their pride and do a deal with either Google or Yahoo/Overture to deliver the targetted ads for any Gmail-cloned system.
Jolyon
Not here - integrates into Firefox just fine here.
Jolyon
Several times some finite resolution is still not infinte :)
Yes, I appreciate the point, human perception of vision can't be exactly compared to the way that resolution is measured in, say, a digital camera.
Jolyon
Well, it obviously can't have an infinite resolution, the best it could get is 1:1 mapping with the rods and cones in the back of your eye.
And of course this is old fashioned analog technology, just like in a CRT firing beams of electrons in the rough direction of dots in the phosphor, it's not accurate. What you need is a direct digital plug in the back of your optic nerve!
Jolyon
It doesn't actually explain on the site why anyone would want to do this.
And I'm still not sure! What's wrong with compiling it every time the code changes and booting up quicker than 15 seconds?
Jolyon
I've got mod points but I can't use them here, so unfair!
Of special importance to slashdot:
garbage in = garbage out
Jolyon
I've always wondered whether a story that mentions Slashdot in the subject would bring on a recurisve slashdotting that would result in the ultimate destruction of the internet.
Well, it's worth a try anyway
If there's anything that's going to kill Ogg Vorbis, it's lack of iPod support.
That's nearer the truth.
Maybe this 'other server' server needs to be dumped into Mount Doom?
The power of rexx (or the arexx implementation on the Amiga) was that there was a unified scripting language available across applications from different vendors, I added arexx support into the version 2.0 of the image processing/paint software 'Photogenics' for the Amiga, and the beauty of this was you could script applications from different vendors with ease, so if you wanted to batch process a directory full of images and you needed to run the image first through Photogenics and then through (rival) Art Department Professional or ImageFX, you could do that easily.
Trials of this technology were abandoned in the UK in 1998/1999 (I seem to recall), due to the problem of street lights acting as transmitters, causing significant interference with emergency services transmissions.
It was accepted at the time that the cost of adding the necessary filters to each streetlight was too much to continue with the project.
Of course, technolgy has improved significantly in the last few years, maybe this has now been resolved. But it's quite possible that the system may be able to work in some areas and not in others simply because of the way your road's street lights are wired up.
Jolyon
Yep, 404 error now.
Not sure if it would work, but worth a try.
Get a Compact Flash or SD card GPS device then. I have one of each (don't ask why) and they work great.
The best way to do this is to jam at the network level. Rather than having a jammer installed in these places, you actually get the networks to install a short-range cell transmitter/receiver in the building (would need to be carefully placed). The network would control this, so that when a phone is connected via that cell, incoming calls won't get connected (except with operator intervention, so that emergency call you're worried about will get through), but emergency calls can still be made.
:)
In places where there are a great number of cells already, it may even be possible for the networks to triangulate positions, and stop reception of non-emergency calls when they can see that the cellphone is currently within an area on their 'quiet' list.
Best of all (for the networks), they get to be in control and charge for the service.
Jolyon
ps. Somebody print this out and keep it in the Prior Art folder just incase someone tries to get rich
I hope not!
"I told you I was ill!"
Aaarrrrghhh....!!!!
Won't the Women go to Venus?
The last word in file systems is "systems".
Thank you.