"I think when I open my store I'm going to pipe chamber music into the computer repair area."
Depends on your worker's tastes how they'll react, but if they're repairing computers they should be using their sense of hearing and all their other senses (except perhaps taste) to do the work. You wouldn't have them examining circuit boards with almost no light in the room, they need to be listening unimpeded as well.
It must be just when you post in Plain Old Text mode that you need all caps. Oh well, I like doing it that way by default anyway. I don't actually know anything about this stuff, I just learn by doing.
As I mention elswhere, virus is Latin for "slime". You can count units of slime (teaspoons, whatever), but you can't count slimes. There's no Latin plural of virus because it isn't possible without giving the word a meaning it didn't have back then. It's like "what's the plural of rust?". Any answer is wrong.
If you had actually studied Latin, you'd know that the latin plural of "virus" is not "virii".
Virus is basically the Latin word for "slime" (I think it's distantly connected with whatever the Latin for the color green is), so there is no plural, nor any possibility of one. It's like saying "what's the plural of 'rust'?". You can't say one rust, two rusts, et cetera, or one slime, two slimes, and so on. They (ancient Latin speakers) never anticipated that the word would be used for discrete, countable things (which means you should say fewer, not less, as long as we're off-topic), so they didn't ever need a plural for it.
My new proposal for a plural for the computer type of virus is "viren", so that we can tick off all the people who jump through the roof whenever anyone says "boxen":-)
I like the other guy's positive and negative infinity explanation but the way I explain it to myself is that zero isn't just the abscence of something, it's actually nothing, and anything that's something doesn't have any nothings in it to remove, although I admit that even that explanation falls apart when you consider 0/0. (It seems to me that zero should go into zero exactly one times, but I'm sure there must be one of those chain of equations that starts there and ends with 2=3 or something like that.)
Don't forget the special Slashdot addendum to that cheatsheet. All the html stuff, like A for anchor, EM for emphasis, etc., that goes between the bird'smouths has to be uppercase for some secret slashcode reason. So HREF="http://slashdot.org", in conjunction with the anchor tag, will get you a clickable link, but href="http://slashdot.org" won't.
I couldn't get to any of it between about 3pm and 7 pm EST Tuesday the 25 (pings timed out), although apparently others could, judging from the story post times. Found one guy on Kuro5hin with same problem, but he wasn't especially flooded with 'me too's. Is there such a thing as a rolling IP blackout?
And because it is divisible by 2, it does not follow the rule followed by all other prime numbers of *not* being divisible by 2, hence making it an "odd" prime number in spite of being "even". You read my previous post too quickly, apparently.
"After a year and a half of studying Electrical Engineering and over 5 years of applying it practically, I know enough to say I don't know nearly enough to intelligently critique any one else's ideas."
That's okay, just so you can consistantly avoid ground loops.
I fear that Osbourne and Thigpen aren't really related with regard to the "comes in threes rule". I'm afraid the sequence is going to be Richard Crenna ("Judging Amy"), Lynne Thigpen ("The District"), and someone else whose unexpected demise will necessitate some frantic plot line reworking for some other television show.
Unless,of course, this is a PBS thing, and it's Mr. Rogers, Lynne Thigpen, and someone else from afterschool TV.
Of course we could also see two more unexpected losses of personal computer pioneers.
Glad (or at least somewhat put at ease) to see that it isn't just me and my browser. I was wondering if people were replying to the parent of what they were really replying to.
"...click once at the beginning or end of text..."
Why can't there be an "insert cursor(insertion point, that flashing vertical line)" command/keycombo so as to avoid having to use the mouse in the first place. If you have to leave the keyboard to grab the mouse to to insert the cursor you might as well stay with the mouse for click and drag.
Let's just say that I'm really uncomfortable with even the "fairly unbalanced" news channel affiliating itself with any one religion.
If they ran that same spot with a Star of David or the Islamic Crescent symbol instead of a cross, imagine all the flack they'd catch.
Let me amend my previous statement. I hope our bombs don't hurt any people ('cept maybe that little Stalin wannabe and those who share in his guilt), but that they do such a scary job on a bunch of replaceable buildings (as opposed to ancient sites of great archeological interest) that all the humans realize that right now would be a really good time to surrender and tell our troops where Saddam and company are hiding or to where they have run off.
How about if we come up with a new Iraqi flag, similar enough to the current one to be recognizable as Iraqi, but different enough from the current one to be recognizable as new? Then we could take down the old Iraqi flag, run ours up for a moment and then bring it back down and run up the new one and tell everybody it's the flag of the new Iraq until the new democratic republic of Iraq is up and running and can decide for themselves about a new, "You have just entered a Saddam-free zone" flag.
"Exactly when did it become cool for American's to hate their government?"
When it sent the Army to shoot and trample with horses starving, out-of-work World War One veterans and their familes camped out in a hooverville in Washington, D.C.? When they lied to us about the Gulf of Tonkin incident? When they used unwitting military personnel for secret LSD experiments, leaving them with permanent brain damage?
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Depends on your worker's tastes how they'll react, but if they're repairing computers they should be using their sense of hearing and all their other senses (except perhaps taste) to do the work. You wouldn't have them examining circuit boards with almost no light in the room, they need to be listening unimpeded as well.
Slashdot's so quiet about this I'm thinking it's "Anne Tomlinson's Revenge". :-)
It must be just when you post in Plain Old Text mode that you need all caps. Oh well, I like doing it that way by default anyway. I don't actually know anything about this stuff, I just learn by doing.
Doesn't that actually just say it all?
As I mention elswhere, virus is Latin for "slime". You can count units of slime (teaspoons, whatever), but you can't count slimes. There's no Latin plural of virus because it isn't possible without giving the word a meaning it didn't have back then. It's like "what's the plural of rust?". Any answer is wrong.
Virus is basically the Latin word for "slime" (I think it's distantly connected with whatever the Latin for the color green is), so there is no plural, nor any possibility of one. It's like saying "what's the plural of 'rust'?". You can't say one rust, two rusts, et cetera, or one slime, two slimes, and so on. They (ancient Latin speakers) never anticipated that the word would be used for discrete, countable things (which means you should say fewer, not less, as long as we're off-topic), so they didn't ever need a plural for it.
My new proposal for a plural for the computer type of virus is "viren", so that we can tick off all the people who jump through the roof whenever anyone says "boxen" :-)
I like the other guy's positive and negative infinity explanation but the way I explain it to myself is that zero isn't just the abscence of something, it's actually nothing, and anything that's something doesn't have any nothings in it to remove, although I admit that even that explanation falls apart when you consider 0/0. (It seems to me that zero should go into zero exactly one times, but I'm sure there must be one of those chain of equations that starts there and ends with 2=3 or something like that.)
Don't forget the special Slashdot addendum to that cheatsheet. All the html stuff, like A for anchor, EM for emphasis, etc., that goes between the bird'smouths has to be uppercase for some secret slashcode reason. So HREF="http://slashdot.org", in conjunction with the anchor tag, will get you a clickable link, but href="http://slashdot.org" won't.
I couldn't get to any of it between about 3pm and 7 pm EST Tuesday the 25 (pings timed out), although apparently others could, judging from the story post times. Found one guy on Kuro5hin with same problem, but he wasn't especially flooded with 'me too's. Is there such a thing as a rolling IP blackout?
Unless you're not seeing the posts to which I've been replying.
And because it is divisible by 2, it does not follow the rule followed by all other prime numbers of *not* being divisible by 2, hence making it an "odd" prime number in spite of being "even". You read my previous post too quickly, apparently.
That's okay, just so you can consistantly avoid ground loops.
Yeah, I know. Terrible pun. So, if anybody ever figures out how to define division by zero, will this screw up the definition of a prime number?
Unless,of course, this is a PBS thing, and it's Mr. Rogers, Lynne Thigpen, and someone else from afterschool TV.
Of course we could also see two more unexpected losses of personal computer pioneers.
Glad (or at least somewhat put at ease) to see that it isn't just me and my browser. I was wondering if people were replying to the parent of what they were really replying to.
Perspective changes perception--big time.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a doodly.
Just hasn't got quite the same ring to it, does it.
Why can't there be an "insert cursor(insertion point, that flashing vertical line)" command/keycombo so as to avoid having to use the mouse in the first place. If you have to leave the keyboard to grab the mouse to to insert the cursor you might as well stay with the mouse for click and drag.
Who was the totally lacking in any knowledge of electronics idiot that modded the above as a troll?!?
I think "sideways with a Sawz-all" has a much better ring to it, what with the alliteration and all.
What are you guys complaining about? I'm still waiting to learn the secret of Coronet Blue!
If they ran that same spot with a Star of David or the Islamic Crescent symbol instead of a cross, imagine all the flack they'd catch.
Let me amend my previous statement. I hope our bombs don't hurt any people ('cept maybe that little Stalin wannabe and those who share in his guilt), but that they do such a scary job on a bunch of replaceable buildings (as opposed to ancient sites of great archeological interest) that all the humans realize that right now would be a really good time to surrender and tell our troops where Saddam and company are hiding or to where they have run off.
Don't worry about it. They're just running a sub-woofer test track from a test CD.
How about if we come up with a new Iraqi flag, similar enough to the current one to be recognizable as Iraqi, but different enough from the current one to be recognizable as new? Then we could take down the old Iraqi flag, run ours up for a moment and then bring it back down and run up the new one and tell everybody it's the flag of the new Iraq until the new democratic republic of Iraq is up and running and can decide for themselves about a new, "You have just entered a Saddam-free zone" flag.
When it sent the Army to shoot and trample with horses starving, out-of-work World War One veterans and their familes camped out in a hooverville in Washington, D.C.? When they lied to us about the Gulf of Tonkin incident? When they used unwitting military personnel for secret LSD experiments, leaving them with permanent brain damage?