Sounds like you had a lot to get off your chest... that was quite an impressive rant. Incidentally, by what logic do you begin ranting against processed foods in reply to a sentence that mentioned rice and beans?
Tabbed browsing doesn't attempt to be a window manager. It also happens to simply be a more useful interface than separate windows could ever be (unless you use one of those little-known X window managers that combines similar windows into tabs itself).
Because this is otherwise a rather insightful comment, I think I'll help in its interpretation. I'm going to guess that "ommendom" is a really really bad misspelling of "amendment".
some 60% of spoken English (significantly lower in written English) is Latin
Where in the world did you get that fact? English arose when Old English (a Germanic language with no roots in Latin) was mixed with French. The only Latin in English would come indirectly from French. And why would more spoken English than written be like that?
If you're going to make up statistics, at least make them slightly believable.
Did I ever say that people should use prepositions with no object at all like "We don't live here, we're from"?
If you say "We don't live here, New York is where we're from", it makes sense, because it uses one of the methods in English that you can use to change the word order of a sentence.
Look at the original sentence that started this.
"I know this is not exactly on topic but this is something I am really sick of."
The second "this" is the prepositional object, and the final "of" is the preposition. Of course he could have said "...but I am really sick of this", but he rearranged the sentence in an entirely acceptable way to put more emphasis on "this".
Even the clunky "grammatical" version, "this is something of which I am really sick", separates the preposition from its object, and that has the disadvantage of separating the idiom "sick of". And even your dictionary allows for these situations:
so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased
The idea of not being allowed to end a sentence with a preposition came from misguided scholars who thought English should be like Latin. The sentence structure of English means it makes perfect sense to end a sentence with a preposition. People who tell you otherwise are people who enjoy appearing intelligent. These are also the people who will arbitrarily turn adjectives into adverbs ("I feel badly") because it sounds more grammatical.
When you criticise the grammar of someone criticizing grammar using a false grammar rule and misspell "grammar" at the same time, does that mean you have to send a case of beer to Taco?
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Or perhaps that manager should look for a job asking "Would you like fries with that?"
Given that so many people don't understand how the GPL works - even the comments on this story, where people are going "buh, it's a license, it must work like an EULA" even after it's been blatantly explained to them - it's about time.
You're assuming that games run under VMware. They don't. Sure, you hear about the occasional successes getting one game to run, but not the multitude of people who try to get a game to run, find that it doesn't run or is slow as ass, and give up.
It turns out that SpamAssassin has an example in its README file of how to set it up with Mutt so that hitting "X" on a spam reports it to the Razor spam filtering database.
Of course, if SpamAssassin is working properly, the spams you see will be few and far between anyway. Quite a nice program.
Lycoris got it right - Solitaire isn't a time-sensitive game.
When Caldera's install started writing lots of stuff to the hard disk, the Tetris game would not have time to accept user input, and you'd lose. What fun.
I was wrong, then - a die does not have to be a Platonic solid. On a d10, the corners are not all identical (the top and bottom are very obtuse angles) but this just means they're more likely to stay in whatever half of the die is up when it hits the table. Since that should be random anyway, the die works.
The thing about dice that makes them work is that they are Platonic solids, so that all the faces and vertices are shaped the same. If you had a 10-faced solid, some of its faces would have to be different shapes.
It would have been helpful if you had challenged his point, and not him. Then again, that would be quite a bit more difficult, because his reasoning is sound.
A "License" gives you the right to do something. Companies like Microsoft have mangled this definition by tying their "licenses" to shrink-wrap agreements - first they take away all your rights to use the product, then their license gives you some back.
When you use or distribute GPL software, you never agree to a contract! This is a difficult concept for people to grasp in this age of EULAs. The GPL simply tells you that you _are_ allowed to distribute the software under certain conditions. If you don't accept these conditions, it reverts to ordinary copyright law, meaning you can't distribute the software at all.
If what you said were true, then it would mean that people under 18 are allowed to violate copyrights, which is quite different from nullifying contracts.
It sounds like it's an old computer, and so it quite simply needed to be programmed. As in, it didn't have any software on it that would help the drug store guy with his job, and it's not like you could just hook it up to the Internet and download stuff.
Then again, who knows if NetZero is still in business..:)
They're not.
And an advertising-supported Linux distro would suck just as much as advertising-supported anything. However you set it up, you'd have to face the fact that being on the Internet costs money.
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Sounds like you had a lot to get off your chest... that was quite an impressive rant. Incidentally, by what logic do you begin ranting against processed foods in reply to a sentence that mentioned rice and beans?
So that you're not preaching to the choir, why don't you tell the rest of us what the heck 24 was?
Tabbed browsing doesn't attempt to be a window manager. It also happens to simply be a more useful interface than separate windows could ever be (unless you use one of those little-known X window managers that combines similar windows into tabs itself).
Oh, and it doesn't take 3 minutes to start up.
Benefits? It's really fun to program in.
Useful benefits? Does it need any?
You do sell information about yourself. Like when you use your identity to pay for "discounts" at the supermarket.
And of course, once they've bought it, you're not exactly in a position to tell them what they can do with it.
Because this is otherwise a rather insightful comment, I think I'll help in its interpretation. I'm going to guess that "ommendom" is a really really bad misspelling of "amendment".
Just a clarification: There is no word missing after "I know where I'm going to". The object is already there; it is the pronoun "where".
Adding "go" or "be" (which are verbs, not objects) changes the meaning of "to" so that it's no longer a preposition at all.
some 60% of spoken English (significantly lower in written English) is Latin
Where in the world did you get that fact? English arose when Old English (a Germanic language with no roots in Latin) was mixed with French. The only Latin in English would come indirectly from French. And why would more spoken English than written be like that?
If you're going to make up statistics, at least make them slightly believable.
Did I ever say that people should use prepositions with no object at all like "We don't live here, we're from"?
If you say "We don't live here, New York is where we're from", it makes sense, because it uses one of the methods in English that you can use to change the word order of a sentence.
Look at the original sentence that started this.
"I know this is not exactly on topic but this is something I am really sick of."
The second "this" is the prepositional object, and the final "of" is the preposition. Of course he could have said "...but I am really sick of this", but he rearranged the sentence in an entirely acceptable way to put more emphasis on "this".
Even the clunky "grammatical" version, "this is something of which I am really sick", separates the preposition from its object, and that has the disadvantage of separating the idiom "sick of". And even your dictionary allows for these situations:
so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased
The idea of not being allowed to end a sentence with a preposition came from misguided scholars who thought English should be like Latin. The sentence structure of English means it makes perfect sense to end a sentence with a preposition. People who tell you otherwise are people who enjoy appearing intelligent. These are also the people who will arbitrarily turn adjectives into adverbs ("I feel badly") because it sounds more grammatical.
When you criticise the grammar of someone criticizing grammar using a false grammar rule and misspell "grammar" at the same time, does that mean you have to send a case of beer to Taco?
Or perhaps that manager should look for a job asking "Would you like fries with that?"
which has a 2GHz Intel Pentium 4 and a 120Mb hard disk.
Cool! But does it have a top-of-the-line 3D card that outputs to a CGA adapter?
Given that so many people don't understand how the GPL works - even the comments on this story, where people are going "buh, it's a license, it must work like an EULA" even after it's been blatantly explained to them - it's about time.
You're assuming that games run under VMware. They don't. Sure, you hear about the occasional successes getting one game to run, but not the multitude of people who try to get a game to run, find that it doesn't run or is slow as ass, and give up.
You do know that GVim has been around for quite a while, right?
It turns out that SpamAssassin has an example in its README file of how to set it up with Mutt so that hitting "X" on a spam reports it to the Razor spam filtering database.
Of course, if SpamAssassin is working properly, the spams you see will be few and far between anyway. Quite a nice program.
Lycoris got it right - Solitaire isn't a time-sensitive game.
When Caldera's install started writing lots of stuff to the hard disk, the Tetris game would not have time to accept user input, and you'd lose. What fun.
Or particularly expensive 900 numbers. Would that work?
Oh, I see.
I was wrong, then - a die does not have to be a Platonic solid. On a d10, the corners are not all identical (the top and bottom are very obtuse angles) but this just means they're more likely to stay in whatever half of the die is up when it hits the table. Since that should be random anyway, the die works.
Thanks for pointing that out. d10s look neat.
There is no such thing as a d10.
The thing about dice that makes them work is that they are Platonic solids, so that all the faces and vertices are shaped the same. If you had a 10-faced solid, some of its faces would have to be different shapes.
It would have been helpful if you had challenged his point, and not him. Then again, that would be quite a bit more difficult, because his reasoning is sound.
The usual GPL misinformation.
A "License" gives you the right to do something. Companies like Microsoft have mangled this definition by tying their "licenses" to shrink-wrap agreements - first they take away all your rights to use the product, then their license gives you some back.
When you use or distribute GPL software, you never agree to a contract! This is a difficult concept for people to grasp in this age of EULAs. The GPL simply tells you that you _are_ allowed to distribute the software under certain conditions. If you don't accept these conditions, it reverts to ordinary copyright law, meaning you can't distribute the software at all.
If what you said were true, then it would mean that people under 18 are allowed to violate copyrights, which is quite different from nullifying contracts.
It sounds like it's an old computer, and so it quite simply needed to be programmed. As in, it didn't have any software on it that would help the drug store guy with his job, and it's not like you could just hook it up to the Internet and download stuff.
(offtopic: regarding your sig)
Damn, you've mangled that quote. You took the subtlety right out of it. Egad.
Then again, who knows if NetZero is still in business.. :)
They're not.
And an advertising-supported Linux distro would suck just as much as advertising-supported anything. However you set it up, you'd have to face the fact that being on the Internet costs money.
This would also
* Get their pets murdered
Taking a stand against the Scientologists is not something you want to do on a whim.