Your semicolon should be a comma. The second part can't stand on its own as a sentence.;-)
I originally had a full stop followed by a sentence fragment. I replaced it with a semi-colon because I felt it didn't need such an extreme break, but I still wanted the first part to stand alone so I didn't tone it down as far as a comma. A comma would have implied too much reliance on the second clause. I stand by my sentence structure, though I appreciate the irony.
Being verified repeatedly in thousands upon thousands of experiments and observations for over a hundred years and making thousands of complex predictions that bear out in observation makes something as close to being a fact as anyone besides a drunk armchair philosopher should require. Evolution is as much a fact as anything else we know.
He did remark that he no longer understood general relativity after it was "taken over" by the mathematicians. I point that out to anyone who has trouble with differential geometry (which, to a good first approximation, is anyone who ever looks at differential geometry).
Every day I get printed college notes handed to me with obvious spell-check induced errors in them. You never see words like "teh" in spell-checked documents but this material is riddled with misplaced words. "Loose" is quickly becoming my least favourite word. "Your" vs. "you're" and "there" vs. "their" are other common misplacements. It's caused either by carelessness or incompetence, neither of which reflect well on the writer.
Sloppy writing implies carelessness at best, ineptitude at worst. It's not okay to write badly in a business setting; at least not in inter-business communication.
If it's not there you can create it, in the same directory as prefs.js. I gave you the preference line from memory so it may not be quite right. I'm sure there's enough there to google it though. The extension ChromEdit (for both Firefox and Thunderbird) allows you to edit user files like user.js easily.
You've always been able to specify mail directory locations. I don't have a copy of Thunderbird here right now (my home directory in college is barely enough for Firefox) but I believe the option is in Account Settings (seperate for each account, though I presume there's an option for the new global inbox too).
To add to your list: Terry Pratchett frequently reads and posts to alt.fan.pratchett, Douglas Adams lamentably is no longer in a position to do the same on alt.fan.douglasadams, and I believe Neil Gaiman has an online journal.
On the other hand (and to drag myself back on topic) I don't think any of them are nearly as open as Wil is on wilwheaton.net. When I first read Wil's blog I thought of it as a celebrity blog but as the years have gone by (and I've stayed glued to this uncomfortable swivel chair) it's lost its celebrity sheen in exchange for the real humanity that shows through it. Now I'm more inclined to think of people like Jeffrey Zeldman and Dave Shea as the "celebrities" in my blog aggregator, where Wil is Just a Geek.
Welcome to my friends list. That costume rules. As for your first question (which I'm going to answer from the position of no experience and not having been asked) you should probably forget about anonymous Slashbots and Farkers. They insult 101 people before breakfast. All I see is Wil Wheaton, resident really cool guy, being pleased to be seen with you; isn't that what matters here? I guess you just have to consider whose opinion you value most.
You list wordplays with enough logic behind them to make them fun for the interested linguist. I like the idea of polygoose being the plural of mongoose for example. These words are the creations of educated people making absurd but fun extensions of language.
Virii is nothing like that. It's born of ignorance, clearly by analogy to words like radii. Follow the logic that all words ending in -us should be pluralised with -i, as radi-us -> radi-i, abac-us -> abac-i. This isn't true of course--only certain Latin-derived words actually follow the rule-- but it's good enough if we say we're just toying with the language. Now consider virus. Replace the -us with -i. Viri (Veye-reye). Not Virii (Vye-ree-eye). That's why I hate that version of the word. Not because I expect the language to remain unchanging and joyless, but because it's fucking stupid. It doesn't even follow the (incorrect) rule that it tries to obey.
Wow! That's the first time I've got a response like that to a language-nazi post. Kinda makes me feel bad for being so snarky about it. Well you've just ensured I keep up the pedantic fight. Well done!
All of what you say is true, but you omit the possibility of a multi-user system. If a single user has non-root permissions he can only destroy his own data, not those of others.
What part of "In actual fact the page for IE was designed for use in the IE search pane, where as the Firefox page is obviously designed to be set as the homepage" didn't you understand?
Firefox and Thunderbird, and their like, may not be replacing the Windows desktop, but they can facilitate the move away from it. Before I moved to Linux this summer I was using Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, the GIMP and Gaim on Windows. That made it a lot easier to move away from Windows than if I was used to IE, Outlook, MS Office, MSN Messenger and Photoshop.
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Direct link to the fullscreen CatCF trailer
Beastie's revenge!
Wouldn't 2.0 be the second major release? You know, given that its major version number is 2.
Damn. Well how about PIMP (recursive acronym: PIMP Image Manipulation Program), LIMP, or WIMP? No. They're all terrible.
Why not just IMP? It's descriptive (if expanded) and a little cheeky, and it has a mascot just ready for it.
Only if you didn't know when its was going to happen. (or some other details)
Being verified repeatedly in thousands upon thousands of experiments and observations for over a hundred years and making thousands of complex predictions that bear out in observation makes something as close to being a fact as anyone besides a drunk armchair philosopher should require. Evolution is as much a fact as anything else we know.
He did remark that he no longer understood general relativity after it was "taken over" by the mathematicians. I point that out to anyone who has trouble with differential geometry (which, to a good first approximation, is anyone who ever looks at differential geometry).
Every day I get printed college notes handed to me with obvious spell-check induced errors in them. You never see words like "teh" in spell-checked documents but this material is riddled with misplaced words. "Loose" is quickly becoming my least favourite word. "Your" vs. "you're" and "there" vs. "their" are other common misplacements. It's caused either by carelessness or incompetence, neither of which reflect well on the writer.
Sloppy writing implies carelessness at best, ineptitude at worst. It's not okay to write badly in a business setting; at least not in inter-business communication.
If it's not there you can create it, in the same directory as prefs.js. I gave you the preference line from memory so it may not be quite right. I'm sure there's enough there to google it though. The extension ChromEdit (for both Firefox and Thunderbird) allows you to edit user files like user.js easily.
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You've always been able to specify mail directory locations. I don't have a copy of Thunderbird here right now (my home directory in college is barely enough for Firefox) but I believe the option is in Account Settings (seperate for each account, though I presume there's an option for the new global inbox too).
You changed your name from Paul Czarnecki to Jeannette Angell when you got married? Sounds like you did more than get married.
To add to your list: Terry Pratchett frequently reads and posts to alt.fan.pratchett, Douglas Adams lamentably is no longer in a position to do the same on alt.fan.douglasadams, and I believe Neil Gaiman has an online journal.
On the other hand (and to drag myself back on topic) I don't think any of them are nearly as open as Wil is on wilwheaton.net. When I first read Wil's blog I thought of it as a celebrity blog but as the years have gone by (and I've stayed glued to this uncomfortable swivel chair) it's lost its celebrity sheen in exchange for the real humanity that shows through it. Now I'm more inclined to think of people like Jeffrey Zeldman and Dave Shea as the "celebrities" in my blog aggregator, where Wil is Just a Geek.
Welcome to my friends list. That costume rules. As for your first question (which I'm going to answer from the position of no experience and not having been asked) you should probably forget about anonymous Slashbots and Farkers. They insult 101 people before breakfast. All I see is Wil Wheaton, resident really cool guy, being pleased to be seen with you; isn't that what matters here? I guess you just have to consider whose opinion you value most.
What, killing the ones that have something to say?
Virii is nothing like that. It's born of ignorance, clearly by analogy to words like radii. Follow the logic that all words ending in -us should be pluralised with -i, as radi-us -> radi-i, abac-us -> abac-i. This isn't true of course--only certain Latin-derived words actually follow the rule-- but it's good enough if we say we're just toying with the language. Now consider virus. Replace the -us with -i. Viri (Veye-reye). Not Virii (Vye-ree-eye). That's why I hate that version of the word. Not because I expect the language to remain unchanging and joyless, but because it's fucking stupid. It doesn't even follow the (incorrect) rule that it tries to obey.
Wow! That's the first time I've got a response like that to a language-nazi post. Kinda makes me feel bad for being so snarky about it. Well you've just ensured I keep up the pedantic fight. Well done!
It's also invulnerable to wormii and trojanii. You know why? Because there's no such thing. On the other hand, viruses for Linux are quite possible.
All of what you say is true, but you omit the possibility of a multi-user system. If a single user has non-root permissions he can only destroy his own data, not those of others.
What part of "In actual fact the page for IE was designed for use in the IE search pane, where as the Firefox page is obviously designed to be set as the homepage" didn't you understand?
Firefox and Thunderbird, and their like, may not be replacing the Windows desktop, but they can facilitate the move away from it. Before I moved to Linux this summer I was using Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office, the GIMP and Gaim on Windows. That made it a lot easier to move away from Windows than if I was used to IE, Outlook, MS Office, MSN Messenger and Photoshop.