You pronounce FYI "eff-why-eye" not "for your information." As such, you should say "an FYI." Whether to use "a" or "an" for your indefinite article is based on pronounciation.
And anyway, it's entirely plausible for there to be some sort of obscure filesystem where ci\data\datafile.dat is a valid address. He might have known about c:\foo\bar.ext but how could he know that he wouldn't find himself in a world where strange new paths would assault him.
Also, sometimes people amuse themselves by correcting teachers but would rather cover their ass by saying it in the form of a question.
Mr. Coward was refering to how DOS/Windows OSes are "severely retarded" for having drive letters.
Quite possibly, but languages don't map exactly one-to-one, even relatively related languages like Italian and English. (Although Skywalker is a pretty damned Germanic word. Walk comes from Anglo-Saxon, and sky comes from Old Norse.)
At any rate, Sky Traveller is probably what he was trying to conjure up when he named his characters "Skywalker." Luke doesn't walk the stars, that would be stupid. He travels them. Lucas only said "walker" because Skywalker sounds like a real last name in English, whereas Sky Traveller does not.
If you fight against a totalitarian government, you are going to have to break the law anyway. It's not a huge deal to add gun smuggling onto your list. I don't think it'll matter that you have that on your record, when you are wanted for an attempt to rebel against the glorious fuhrer. (Undoubtedly, a much more serious crime.) And anyway, individual ownership of guns ain't gonna help you against the much better trained and better armed forces that are the Gestapo. Who cares whether you have a gun? They can snuff you before you even see them coming.
That's because in the movie Stanley Kubrick wasn't confident that he could whip up the special effects to properly represent Saturn's rings, so he decided to have the have the Monolith be moved to a moon of Jupiter.
No, we're going to always have a 2 party system because we use "First past the post." The spoiler effect is too damned strong there. Third party candidates tend to help the party of the big two that it resembles least.
Although maybe if the Libertarians and the Greens could manage to take votes from the Democats and Republicans equally, third parties might be able to rise in power. (Although there are probably quite a few more Democratic-Libertarians than there are Republican-Greens.)
Now, if we used "Instant Runoff Voting" or "Approval Voting," this problem wouldn't be as big a deal.
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It's not so much that it's about diseases that most people haven't heard of. It's more that they're about diseases which are very similar to common maladies, although more intense. Migraines, acid reflux disease, depression, and social anxiety disorder are all "worse" forms of headaches, heartburn, sadness, and stress.
I'm not saying that migraine, acid reflux disease, depression, and social anxiety disorder aren't serious diseases, but because of their similarities to far less serious but more common problems, the hypochondriacs will come out in droves.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I probably could've put more effort into my post if I had known it was going to get so many replies. It's not copyrighted, and that's really I was going for. Sure, you have had the threat of eternal damnation or burning at the cross, but... it's still public domain.
Most religions are already as close to Open Source as you can get. (Except for "Mystery Religions" which keep the "source" of their religion secret. Scientology has even managed to copyright their religious texts.) You can take ideas from religions freely and to form your own religion. Just look at how many forks came out of the original Judaism project.
Yeah, my little brother, (who liked Ocean's Eleven) told me about the movie a while ago. And I said, "Um, they're calling it Ocean's Twelve? Yeah, sure. I'll watch that right after I buy Mario 65."
But no, it's really the title. Ocean adds a twelfth member... There's not really much else you can say.
You don't have to use fossil fuel. Yeast and distillation is used in the drinkable kind, and would probably work just as well. (Although I unfortunately have absolutely idea how economic it is on large scales.)
Ethanol's energy doesn't come from fossil fuels, it comes from sugar. Yes, one industrial method for making ethanol comes from fossil fuels, but you can also use yeast and distillation.
There could easily be a bit of pork-barrelling to ethanol, but it could work. (Of course, the ideal solution would just to be to make the hydrogen from solar and wind powered electrolysis or something.)
Lets not forget who first wrote SCO Unix. Microsoft. Microsoft bought the rights to a Unix back in the eighties, (which they named Xenix) but DOS/Windows got too damned popular, and when they started working on OS/2 they decided to sell off Xenix to the Santa Cruz Operation. Years later, Santa Cruz Operation would recieve the rights to Unix-proper from Novell. A little after that, Santa Cruz Operation sold all their Unix stuff to Caldera, who promptly renamed themselves SCO.
Of course, this lawsuit is based on the AT&T Unix which "Classic SCO" got from Novell, not from Xenix, but... well, there's a lot of mixed up stuff here.
Ian Maxtone-Graham was head writer. Mike Scully was producer. But those two events happened around the same time, and both people are widely percieved as "being the spawn of Satan," so your confusion is understandable. Some other problems associated with them include "stupidly wacky plots," and "characters becoming obnoxious caricatures of themselves."
Luckily, Ian and Mike have both left the show.
I don't really think the computer-aided drawing is a huge factor, although I admit it looked better before.
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The show probably underwent some sort of subtle decline while Mike Scully was in charge, but he has left and it seems like the show has gotten over whatever Scully did to it.
I'm sure there could be other explanations, but I would not at all mind for the Libertarian party to get popular. Not neccesarily because I like them, but because I think Libertarian voters are more likely to vote for Republicans than Democrats, and I feel it is only fair for Bush to experience the same "spoiler effect" Gore felt from Nader in 2000.
Some critics have argued that, because the universal political centre has moved to the right, our axes should correspondingly move to the right. This, however, would not indicate how far one way or the other society has shifted. It could not convey paradoxes such as the fact that, in the UK, New Labour occupies an economic position to the right of pre-Thatcher Conservatives. Where was the centre, for example, in Apartheid South Africa ? In Third Reich society, such a skewed analysis might show a Nazi opposed to the death chambers as representing liberal opinion.
Narrowing the standard political goalposts to accommodate merely the range of mainstream opinion within any given society at a given time is not only historically uninstructive; it is unscientific.
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You pronounce FYI "eff-why-eye" not "for your information." As such, you should say "an FYI." Whether to use "a" or "an" for your indefinite article is based on pronounciation.
Did you point to the hard drive, or did you just go straight to correcting her?
And anyway, it's entirely plausible for there to be some sort of obscure filesystem where ci\data\datafile.dat is a valid address. He might have known about c:\foo\bar.ext but how could he know that he wouldn't find himself in a world where strange new paths would assault him.
Also, sometimes people amuse themselves by correcting teachers but would rather cover their ass by saying it in the form of a question.
Mr. Coward was refering to how DOS/Windows OSes are "severely retarded" for having drive letters.
Quite possibly, but languages don't map exactly one-to-one, even relatively related languages like Italian and English. (Although Skywalker is a pretty damned Germanic word. Walk comes from Anglo-Saxon, and sky comes from Old Norse.)
At any rate, Sky Traveller is probably what he was trying to conjure up when he named his characters "Skywalker." Luke doesn't walk the stars, that would be stupid. He travels them. Lucas only said "walker" because Skywalker sounds like a real last name in English, whereas Sky Traveller does not.
If you fight against a totalitarian government, you are going to have to break the law anyway. It's not a huge deal to add gun smuggling onto your list. I don't think it'll matter that you have that on your record, when you are wanted for an attempt to rebel against the glorious fuhrer. (Undoubtedly, a much more serious crime.) And anyway, individual ownership of guns ain't gonna help you against the much better trained and better armed forces that are the Gestapo. Who cares whether you have a gun? They can snuff you before you even see them coming.
Well yeah, but that wouldn't have looked as good.
835UR370DR1NKY0UR0V4L71N3 is too obvious. DRINKYOUR is practicaly sitting there yelling at you.
That's because in the movie Stanley Kubrick wasn't confident that he could whip up the special effects to properly represent Saturn's rings, so he decided to have the have the Monolith be moved to a moon of Jupiter.
He searched the exact phrase "diode wave shaper." You did not.
No, we're going to always have a 2 party system because we use "First past the post." The spoiler effect is too damned strong there. Third party candidates tend to help the party of the big two that it resembles least.
Although maybe if the Libertarians and the Greens could manage to take votes from the Democats and Republicans equally, third parties might be able to rise in power. (Although there are probably quite a few more Democratic-Libertarians than there are Republican-Greens.)
Now, if we used "Instant Runoff Voting" or "Approval Voting," this problem wouldn't be as big a deal.
It's not so much that it's about diseases that most people haven't heard of. It's more that they're about diseases which are very similar to common maladies, although more intense. Migraines, acid reflux disease, depression, and social anxiety disorder are all "worse" forms of headaches, heartburn, sadness, and stress.
I'm not saying that migraine, acid reflux disease, depression, and social anxiety disorder aren't serious diseases, but because of their similarities to far less serious but more common problems, the hypochondriacs will come out in droves.
Maybe he's British. At least some british accents have the tendency to make starting H's silent. So he might pronounce it Aipochondriac.
GTK was originally written for the GIMP. GTK is the widget toolkit which GNOME uses.
Yes, I'm aware of that. I probably could've put more effort into my post if I had known it was going to get so many replies. It's not copyrighted, and that's really I was going for. Sure, you have had the threat of eternal damnation or burning at the cross, but... it's still public domain.
Most religions are already as close to Open Source as you can get. (Except for "Mystery Religions" which keep the "source" of their religion secret. Scientology has even managed to copyright their religious texts.) You can take ideas from religions freely and to form your own religion. Just look at how many forks came out of the original Judaism project.
Yeah, my little brother, (who liked Ocean's Eleven) told me about the movie a while ago. And I said, "Um, they're calling it Ocean's Twelve? Yeah, sure. I'll watch that right after I buy Mario 65."
But no, it's really the title. Ocean adds a twelfth member... There's not really much else you can say.
The snarky-atheist crowd would counter that Rome fell AFTER they converted to Christianity.
But yeah, Genghis Kahn certainly liked the ladies.
You don't have to use fossil fuel. Yeast and distillation is used in the drinkable kind, and would probably work just as well. (Although I unfortunately have absolutely idea how economic it is on large scales.)
Ethanol's energy doesn't come from fossil fuels, it comes from sugar. Yes, one industrial method for making ethanol comes from fossil fuels, but you can also use yeast and distillation.
There could easily be a bit of pork-barrelling to ethanol, but it could work. (Of course, the ideal solution would just to be to make the hydrogen from solar and wind powered electrolysis or something.)
That's not valid XML.
Lets not forget who first wrote SCO Unix. Microsoft. Microsoft bought the rights to a Unix back in the eighties, (which they named Xenix) but DOS/Windows got too damned popular, and when they started working on OS/2 they decided to sell off Xenix to the Santa Cruz Operation. Years later, Santa Cruz Operation would recieve the rights to Unix-proper from Novell. A little after that, Santa Cruz Operation sold all their Unix stuff to Caldera, who promptly renamed themselves SCO.
Of course, this lawsuit is based on the AT&T Unix which "Classic SCO" got from Novell, not from Xenix, but... well, there's a lot of mixed up stuff here.
Ian Maxtone-Graham was head writer. Mike Scully was producer. But those two events happened around the same time, and both people are widely percieved as "being the spawn of Satan," so your confusion is understandable. Some other problems associated with them include "stupidly wacky plots," and "characters becoming obnoxious caricatures of themselves."
Luckily, Ian and Mike have both left the show.
I don't really think the computer-aided drawing is a huge factor, although I admit it looked better before.
The show probably underwent some sort of subtle decline while Mike Scully was in charge, but he has left and it seems like the show has gotten over whatever Scully did to it.
Yes, but for various reasons, people tend to call them trits.
I'm sure there could be other explanations, but I would not at all mind for the Libertarian party to get popular. Not neccesarily because I like them, but because I think Libertarian voters are more likely to vote for Republicans than Democrats, and I feel it is only fair for Bush to experience the same "spoiler effect" Gore felt from Nader in 2000.
In short, the "center" isn't the average.