It's actually consistent with the other possessive pronouns though: his (you don't say "him's" or you have more than an apostrophe issue to work out), hers (not "her's"), yours, ours, theirs. Its. Same deal. It's not just "its" that's out of whack with the rest of the possessives.
I consulted the OED. It uses three quotes of or very close to the form you say is wrong.
From the OED online: "c. pass. To be composed of, to consist of.
1874 Art of Paper-Making ii. 10 Thirds, or Mixed, are comprised of either or both of the above. 1928 Daily Tel. 17 July 10/7 The voluntary boards of management, comprised..of very zealous and able laymen. 1964 E. PALMER tr. Martinet's Elem. Gen. Ling. i. 28 Many of these words are comprised of monemes. 1970 Nature 27 June 1206/2 Internally, the chloroplast is comprised of a system of flattened membrane sacs."
You're providing the programmer's point of view here, not the user's. I tried Linux (Mandrake 9.0) for a couple of months (until I had unrelated issues that forced me to give it up) and while I could run KDE apps under Gname and vice versa, I didn't like having applications with 2 or 3 completely different looking widget sets sitting on my screen at once. This isn't a major problem I don't think, but it does give the impression of much fragmentation in the Linux community that could discourage some new users.
For the record: PSU already limits transfers to 1.5 gigs/week. There were only 2 times when I came close to violating it. Once was when I, uh, pirated something*, and the other was from dling isos of Mandrake Linux (I got a friend to dl ane of the 3, otherwise I *would* have gone over). The limits could have been half what they were and most of the time I wouldn't have had a problem. I've also heard very few complaints that weren't related to piracy.
So the point being that bandwidth limits, while stopping those who would otherwise dl tons of movies, rarely have an effect on legitimate uses. Of course, they have virtually no effect on music piracy.
*Disclaimer to the MPAA: the movie had pirated had already left theaters and had not you been released to DVD. I bought the DVD the day after it was released.
I made a boot disk, I lost the boot disk. Running the Mandrake reinstaller didn't help. I didn't find any useful links with Google. Oh, and I have a book. I tried Red Hat before Mandrake (but couldn't get my soundcard--onboard unfortunately--to work which was unacceptable so I tried Mandrake which did work), and got the Red Hat Linux 7.3 Bible. Not the best book out there, but it helped for most things.
I've run Windows XP since last August. I reinstalled over Thanksgiving break because installing PGP make something go horribly wrong, and my computer ceased to boot completely.
I also ran Mandrake Linux 9 from August to the reinstall of XP. (At which point I could no longer boot to linux as XP overwrote LiLo, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work and didn't feel like a reinstall, so I just reformatted wit partition magic to a NTFS partition.)
I had more system crashes under the 2 1/2-3 months I had Linux than I have had under 9 months of XP (not including the bajillion times I tried to boot after installing PGP).
The illusions are completely different. The endless beer can's illusion is just that: a never ending stream of beer/water/whatever. It flows normally, just there's way too much of it in the faucet. Dyson's illusion is that water flows uphill.
Sure, they use somewhat related concepts--and not even all that related considering that the main component of Dyson's illusion seems to be the air bubbles--but to accomplish entirely different things.
>>No, the water going uphill is an optical illusion. Look at the bbc's explanation - the bubbles rising make it look like the water flow is up, but in fact they're rising through water going in the opposite direction.
But that's the point... the illusions are completely different. The endless beer can's illusion is just that: a never ending stream of beer/water/whatever. It flows normally, just there's way too much of it in the faucet. Dyson's illusion is that water flows uphill.
Sure, they use related concepts--and not even all that related considering that the main component of Dyson's illusion seems to be the air bubbles--but to accomplish entirely different things.
>>Finally, putting the punctuation inside the quotes on a quoted word is technically correct I suppose, but as a programmer it really hurts my eyes.
He means it should be "1001 Tense Formations," [...] instead of "1001 Tense Formations", [...]. This is dependent upon you country, though I supect from your use of double- rather than single-quotes that you're based in the US. In the US, punctuation goes inside the quotes, with the exception of the '?' which depends on if it was part of the quote origionally.
(I think most other countries use single quotes more often, and punctuation such as '1001 Tense Formations', is sometimes not considered incorrect.)
Just romembor that the trailer almost always comes out before the score (technical name for the soundtrack, which is technically the score + dialog + sound effects) is finished, so it's an impossibility to use music from the movi they are promoting as it's not finished yot.
>>I don't know about you, but no mailing list that I have ever been on makes any effort to hide either its origin or nature. Besides, the hosts that send spam and mailing lists are nearly disjoint.
That's not the point... despite how easy you apparently think it is to set up a good blacklist, legitimate mailing list users (e.g. Peacefire, MoreOn.org) have been blocked in the past despite not being spaming operations.
I kinda doubt this... I've looked fairly deeply into the Challenger disaster, and the same sort of problems were present in 1985 during the June/July briefing of the NASA leadership concerning the O-ring issue. The problem is probably not a tools issue so much as a author's issue.
Slashdot Mirror
It's actually consistent with the other possessive pronouns though: his (you don't say "him's" or you have more than an apostrophe issue to work out), hers (not "her's"), yours, ours, theirs. Its. Same deal. It's not just "its" that's out of whack with the rest of the possessives.
I consulted the OED. It uses three quotes of or very close to the form you say is wrong.
From the OED online:
"c. pass. To be composed of, to consist of.
1874 Art of Paper-Making ii. 10 Thirds, or Mixed, are comprised of either or both of the above. 1928 Daily Tel. 17 July 10/7 The voluntary boards of management, comprised..of very zealous and able laymen. 1964 E. PALMER tr. Martinet's Elem. Gen. Ling. i. 28 Many of these words are comprised of monemes. 1970 Nature 27 June 1206/2 Internally, the chloroplast is comprised of a system of flattened membrane sacs."
I figured that they'd have a mirror, but I didn't see it in list of mirrors and didn't want to go hunting for it.
WinAMP: A Windows program that acts like an amp. An amp makes sound... hence WinAMP.
And all are better that glib, gzip, etc.
You're providing the programmer's point of view here, not the user's. I tried Linux (Mandrake 9.0) for a couple of months (until I had unrelated issues that forced me to give it up) and while I could run KDE apps under Gname and vice versa, I didn't like having applications with 2 or 3 completely different looking widget sets sitting on my screen at once. This isn't a major problem I don't think, but it does give the impression of much fragmentation in the Linux community that could discourage some new users.
For the record: PSU already limits transfers to 1.5 gigs/week. There were only 2 times when I came close to violating it. Once was when I, uh, pirated something*, and the other was from dling isos of Mandrake Linux (I got a friend to dl ane of the 3, otherwise I *would* have gone over). The limits could have been half what they were and most of the time I wouldn't have had a problem. I've also heard very few complaints that weren't related to piracy.
So the point being that bandwidth limits, while stopping those who would otherwise dl tons of movies, rarely have an effect on legitimate uses. Of course, they have virtually no effect on music piracy.
*Disclaimer to the MPAA: the movie had pirated had already left theaters and had not you been released to DVD. I bought the DVD the day after it was released.
Except that is an external download... Spanier is talking about ways to limit bandwidth use.
I wonder what ultimately happened... anyone know?
I made a boot disk, I lost the boot disk. Running the Mandrake reinstaller didn't help. I didn't find any useful links with Google. Oh, and I have a book. I tried Red Hat before Mandrake (but couldn't get my soundcard--onboard unfortunately--to work which was unacceptable so I tried Mandrake which did work), and got the Red Hat Linux 7.3 Bible. Not the best book out there, but it helped for most things.
Obligory response:
I've run Windows XP since last August. I reinstalled over Thanksgiving break because installing PGP make something go horribly wrong, and my computer ceased to boot completely.
I also ran Mandrake Linux 9 from August to the reinstall of XP. (At which point I could no longer boot to linux as XP overwrote LiLo, and I couldn't figure out how to get it to work and didn't feel like a reinstall, so I just reformatted wit partition magic to a NTFS partition.)
I had more system crashes under the 2 1/2-3 months I had Linux than I have had under 9 months of XP (not including the bajillion times I tried to boot after installing PGP).
Then don't get Longhorn. Just because lots of other people won't have it doesn't mean whatever Windows you had before will suddenly cease to function.
No, 'cause you can still sit around using what you already have.
Both are accepted
She could mean "junk" as "ignore" and not as delete.
The illusions are completely different. The endless beer can's illusion is just that: a never ending stream of beer/water/whatever. It flows normally, just there's way too much of it in the faucet. Dyson's illusion is that water flows uphill.
Sure, they use somewhat related concepts--and not even all that related considering that the main component of Dyson's illusion seems to be the air bubbles--but to accomplish entirely different things.
>>No, the water going uphill is an optical illusion. Look at the bbc's explanation - the bubbles rising make it look like the water flow is up, but in fact they're rising through water going in the opposite direction.
But that's the point... the illusions are completely different. The endless beer can's illusion is just that: a never ending stream of beer/water/whatever. It flows normally, just there's way too much of it in the faucet. Dyson's illusion is that water flows uphill.
Sure, they use related concepts--and not even all that related considering that the main component of Dyson's illusion seems to be the air bubbles--but to accomplish entirely different things.
>>Finally, putting the punctuation inside the quotes on a quoted word is technically correct I suppose, but as a programmer it really hurts my eyes.
He means it should be "1001 Tense Formations," [...] instead of "1001 Tense Formations", [...]. This is dependent upon you country, though I supect from your use of double- rather than single-quotes that you're based in the US. In the US, punctuation goes inside the quotes, with the exception of the '?' which depends on if it was part of the quote origionally.
(I think most other countries use single quotes more often, and punctuation such as '1001 Tense Formations', is sometimes not considered incorrect.)
I think you just hit upon the next major world religion.
Or not.
Just romembor that the trailer almost always comes out before the score (technical name for the soundtrack, which is technically the score + dialog + sound effects) is finished, so it's an impossibility to use music from the movi they are promoting as it's not finished yot.
Right. Like as others have said, I can best that. "My" system uses 99 coins of each denomination from 1 cent to 99. Boom: 1 coin per change session.
Which is at least partially dictated by the theme: Is the close button upper right? Which is the minimize button?
See another poster's post about the distinction between themes (as we use the term here) and "mere" skins.
>>I don't know about you, but no mailing list that I have ever been on makes any effort to hide either its origin or nature. Besides, the hosts that send spam and mailing lists are nearly disjoint.
That's not the point... despite how easy you apparently think it is to set up a good blacklist, legitimate mailing list users (e.g. Peacefire, MoreOn.org) have been blocked in the past despite not being spaming operations.
But what about ISPs who possibly dump the email that you DO want and have even explicitly requested into oblivion?
I kinda doubt this... I've looked fairly deeply into the Challenger disaster, and the same sort of problems were present in 1985 during the June/July briefing of the NASA leadership concerning the O-ring issue. The problem is probably not a tools issue so much as a author's issue.
You're right, he wouldn't .