And I ask you this, would it bother you if I ride my unregistered dirt bike, horse or skateboard in the "bike lane" slowing you down? Goddamned right it would,...
We know what assuming does, right?
If you weren't being a dick about it, no, it wouldn't bother me much. I would simply wait for a break in the real traffic lane and pass you. (If you sped up to prevent that, that would qualify as you being a dick.) Cyclists get behind slower cyclists all the time, and motorists get behind slower motorists all the time, and we seem to deal with it reasonably well.
The problem with riding close to the curb is that doing so will give impatient motorists the incorrect impression that there is safe room to pass.
It's also the case that, on a lot of roads, the edge is in pretty poor shape... more bumps, cracks, and gravel that you don't have to deal with if you ride in the lane a bit.
I was under the impression you dropped the s after the apostrophe only in plurals already ending with an s.
You can also do it for singluars ending in s if you want.
Quick rundown of the rules:
For a singular possessive, if the word doesn't end in s, add 's. If it does end in s, add either ' (i.e. just an apostrophe) or 's as before. So either Chris's or Chris' is okay for a singular possessive.
For a plural possessive, you just add an ' after the s in the plural form, or 's if the plural doesn't end in an s already (as in people's).
(To justify my statement, Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (4th ed, 1999) says the following: "If pronunciation would be awkward with the added -'s, some writers use only the apostrophe. Either use is acceptable. )
My impression is that the use that omits the final s is dwindling, but I still think it would be wrong to consider it incorrect.
Nevermind that if you -now- want something to be bold, short of writing your own XML bits and pieces, you have do something insane like ".b { font-weight:bold }...this is bold".
(1) What's wrong with and ? Okay, they aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty darn close.
(2) If you're working on a quick & dirty page or something like that, why not just use a version of HTML with it?
I agree... but at the same time, it seems unlikely that the best route from A to B would be through 1.5h of crawling traffic; I'd bet there's at least a little bit of freeway driving. Maybe I'm just not used to cities or something and this is very possible.
I don't want to discount the moving possibility or the benefits of biking... but they may not be possible here. There are plenty of reasons that the submitter could want or "have" to stay where he is now.
And if he does, and he's commuting 1.5 hours presumably by car, I don't exactly have high hopes for commuting by bike leaving time to, say, sleep.
Quite a reversal of the "Ghost Copy" feature or whatever of StarCraft 1 that allows many people to use one copy over the LAN.
To be fair, this doesn't exclude this possibility. Wikipedia says that the Spawn edition of SC1 allowed Battle.Net play, so if SC2 has something similar, then the situation will be much the same.
(I'm not saying that it will, just that it could and there's precedent for it.)
Don't be so sure... Blizzard seems to be one of the companies that actually takes an interest in the quality of their games, and they're really interested in giving SC2 the same longevity SC1 has had.
Even if they sell a bunch of copies, if it looks like popularity is dwindling because of lack of native LAN support, I would be surprised if they don't patch it in. (There's already precedent for this; SC1 shipped with IPX support but no TCP or UDP; UDP support was added later.)
Sure, it's 77 degrees (F) at 11:41 pm and the sun has set for the day here.
Why are you reporting the temperature now? Why not 3 hours ago, or yesterday? Why haven't you reported the average temperature for the last month? Are you trying to argue that it's particularly hot in your location to be 77 degrees at almost midnight, but it's unusually hot right now so that isn't typical for your location? Why did you report the temperature and not the phase of the moon?
Unless you report everything (which is, of course, completely impossible), there is always at least some bias in choosing what to even report. If a pundit reports only 100% true facts, but only those facts that fit his agenda, that is still bias.
Yes, the ends justified the means, and all it cost was the last of Wikipedia's integrity.
If you think it cost Wikipedia its integrity, then by all means stop using it. Plenty others of us think that it hasn't.
Maybe my fingers are just too long, but I find no problem hitting the control key with my left pinky and then rapidly hitting any key that the left hand is expected to type (and one or two that some think the right hand should type).
I can do it fast enough, but if I do that for long enough (I'm an Emacs user when I'm in Linux) my hand will start to hurt. I've had RSI issues in the past and ctrl next to A helps quite a bit with that for me, so I just find that way better.
(Also, my one complaint about the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad keyboards is that the lower-left corner is Fn, not Ctrl, so using caps just makes it even that much easier.)
And requires me to figure out the useragent of either every browser out there (to allow) or every bot out there (to deny). At least, as far as I can tell.
Oh, please don't do that. Don't assume that we have rights to that directory. I already really really wish I could set robots.txt for just my subdirectory, but no can do since some semi-moron thought it would be a good idea to make me mail my school department's webmaster to exclude part of my directory.
Considering that everyone on Slashdot keeps claiming that.NET is a poor copy of Java...
The sad thing is that, other than the fact that you need Mono to be cross platform and Mono lags behind and doesn't keep full compatibility, C#/CLR is actually a really good copy of Java. Or more precisely, it's not a very good copy of Java because it doesn't suck as badly as Java does.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that MS took almost all of the good parts of Java, removed some bad parts of it, and added a few more good things, so it winds up being, I think, a rather nicer platform to actually program in.
This is sad since because it's actually pretty nice, I have to decide whether losing the cross-platformness of Java is worth the improvement. If C# and.Net sucked, then there'd be a clear winner when I wanted a Javaish environment. So I go program a little in C++ with Qt instead, or in Scheme, and don't use either.
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And I ask you this, would it bother you if I ride my unregistered dirt bike, horse or skateboard in the "bike lane" slowing you down? Goddamned right it would, ...
We know what assuming does, right?
If you weren't being a dick about it, no, it wouldn't bother me much. I would simply wait for a break in the real traffic lane and pass you. (If you sped up to prevent that, that would qualify as you being a dick.) Cyclists get behind slower cyclists all the time, and motorists get behind slower motorists all the time, and we seem to deal with it reasonably well.
The problem with riding close to the curb is that doing so will give impatient motorists the incorrect impression that there is safe room to pass.
It's also the case that, on a lot of roads, the edge is in pretty poor shape... more bumps, cracks, and gravel that you don't have to deal with if you ride in the lane a bit.
I was under the impression you dropped the s after the apostrophe only in plurals already ending with an s.
You can also do it for singluars ending in s if you want.
Quick rundown of the rules:
For a singular possessive, if the word doesn't end in s, add 's. If it does end in s, add either ' (i.e. just an apostrophe) or 's as before. So either Chris's or Chris' is okay for a singular possessive.
For a plural possessive, you just add an ' after the s in the plural form, or 's if the plural doesn't end in an s already (as in people's).
(To justify my statement, Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference (4th ed, 1999) says the following: "If pronunciation would be awkward with the added -'s, some writers use only the apostrophe. Either use is acceptable. )
My impression is that the use that omits the final s is dwindling, but I still think it would be wrong to consider it incorrect.
I'm sort of an idiot and followed the discussion thread wrong... both "Chris's" and "Chris'" are acceptable; "Chriss" and "Chrises" are both not.
Either is accepted, "Chris's" seems to be more common, and neither is wrong.
What I don't understand is how he posts so often... no way his he following the "every 2 minute" rule.
Crap... I totally screwed that up. This is what my part should have looked like:
(1) What's wrong with <strong> and <em>? Okay, they aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty darn close.
(2) If you're working on a quick & dirty page or something like that, why not just use a version of HTML with it?
Nevermind that if you -now- want something to be bold, short of writing your own XML bits and pieces, you have do something insane like ".b { font-weight:bold } ...this is bold".
(1) What's wrong with and ? Okay, they aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty darn close.
(2) If you're working on a quick & dirty page or something like that, why not just use a version of HTML with it?
I agree... but at the same time, it seems unlikely that the best route from A to B would be through 1.5h of crawling traffic; I'd bet there's at least a little bit of freeway driving. Maybe I'm just not used to cities or something and this is very possible.
You're half right... static stretching may be bad for you, if you do it before exercising. Dynamic stretching before is still good.
Also, I've seen other sources say that static stretching after exercising can still help flexibility.
Move closer and/or bike into work.
I don't want to discount the moving possibility or the benefits of biking... but they may not be possible here. There are plenty of reasons that the submitter could want or "have" to stay where he is now.
And if he does, and he's commuting 1.5 hours presumably by car, I don't exactly have high hopes for commuting by bike leaving time to, say, sleep.
Quite a reversal of the "Ghost Copy" feature or whatever of StarCraft 1 that allows many people to use one copy over the LAN.
To be fair, this doesn't exclude this possibility. Wikipedia says that the Spawn edition of SC1 allowed Battle.Net play, so if SC2 has something similar, then the situation will be much the same.
(I'm not saying that it will, just that it could and there's precedent for it.)
Technically 7,000 is scores... just close to a score of scores of scores. ;-)
...they'd either need to include the server as well or have a separate network architecture for peer-to-peer play.
So? Both of these have precedent. Valve releases servers, and some of Blizzard's own games (including SC1) have peer-to-peer play.
While we're at it, why is this post modded down?
Don't be so sure... Blizzard seems to be one of the companies that actually takes an interest in the quality of their games, and they're really interested in giving SC2 the same longevity SC1 has had.
Even if they sell a bunch of copies, if it looks like popularity is dwindling because of lack of native LAN support, I would be surprised if they don't patch it in. (There's already precedent for this; SC1 shipped with IPX support but no TCP or UDP; UDP support was added later.)
One of my personal favorites... Acrobat Reader won't install on Vista.
lolwut? I've installed Acrobat Reader a couple times on both Vista and Win 7 RC. I filed my taxes from Acrobat Reader on Vista.
I hate every operating system, each for its own special reasons.
Throwing your computer off the roof - Because your time isn't free
Sure, it's 77 degrees (F) at 11:41 pm and the sun has set for the day here.
Why are you reporting the temperature now? Why not 3 hours ago, or yesterday? Why haven't you reported the average temperature for the last month? Are you trying to argue that it's particularly hot in your location to be 77 degrees at almost midnight, but it's unusually hot right now so that isn't typical for your location? Why did you report the temperature and not the phase of the moon?
Unless you report everything (which is, of course, completely impossible), there is always at least some bias in choosing what to even report. If a pundit reports only 100% true facts, but only those facts that fit his agenda, that is still bias.
Yes, the ends justified the means, and all it cost was the last of Wikipedia's integrity.
If you think it cost Wikipedia its integrity, then by all means stop using it. Plenty others of us think that it hasn't.
Maybe my fingers are just too long, but I find no problem hitting the control key with my left pinky and then rapidly hitting any key that the left hand is expected to type (and one or two that some think the right hand should type).
I can do it fast enough, but if I do that for long enough (I'm an Emacs user when I'm in Linux) my hand will start to hurt. I've had RSI issues in the past and ctrl next to A helps quite a bit with that for me, so I just find that way better.
(Also, my one complaint about the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad keyboards is that the lower-left corner is Fn, not Ctrl, so using caps just makes it even that much easier.)
Ugly, lots of over head...
And requires me to figure out the useragent of either every browser out there (to allow) or every bot out there (to deny). At least, as far as I can tell.
Don't depend on user-generated content, since it's shit.
Says the person providing user-generated content to a site that depends on it.
Oh, please don't do that. Don't assume that we have rights to that directory. I already really really wish I could set robots.txt for just my subdirectory, but no can do since some semi-moron thought it would be a good idea to make me mail my school department's webmaster to exclude part of my directory.
If you'll notice, CSS was already taken for web-stuff, and X often means "cross", so it does actually make sense.
Yeah but a dev phone has one purpose - for development.
I've considered getting a dev phone so that I can have an unlocked phone!
Is there a reason this is unreasonable (other than the aforementioned inability to load copy-protected apps from the store)?
Considering that everyone on Slashdot keeps claiming that .NET is a poor copy of Java...
The sad thing is that, other than the fact that you need Mono to be cross platform and Mono lags behind and doesn't keep full compatibility, C#/CLR is actually a really good copy of Java. Or more precisely, it's not a very good copy of Java because it doesn't suck as badly as Java does.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that MS took almost all of the good parts of Java, removed some bad parts of it, and added a few more good things, so it winds up being, I think, a rather nicer platform to actually program in.
This is sad since because it's actually pretty nice, I have to decide whether losing the cross-platformness of Java is worth the improvement. If C# and .Net sucked, then there'd be a clear winner when I wanted a Javaish environment. So I go program a little in C++ with Qt instead, or in Scheme, and don't use either.