I'm sorry, but you're an idiot.
I'm sorry, but you're a troll.
Bush has nothing to do with this conversation.
True, but I happen to believe that a person is entitled to say his opinion. I also happen to believe that his post was partly a joke.
You're obviously hung up on this whole bush thing and you probably have some kind of mental problems.
You're obviously having a grammar problems... People frequently make the mistake of believeing that just because I write a thorough post on something, I'm hung up with it.
Oh, and since when did Slashdot conversations stay on topic?
Some clarifications: The event I refer to in #5 is the one in #2. This isn't in über-perfect chronological order, but I think the point ought to come across anyway.
People who oppose Bush tend to use him as a metaphor, especially when discussing stupidity. Personally, I think he's "rural minded" but not stupid. He's probably a clever dude with some unpopular opinions (70% of non-Americans would vote Kerry). My understanding of events that led to the war in Iraq is as follows:
1. Saddam threatens to launch attacks USA over many years, mostly getting ignored, but occationally getting bombed, as a deterrant.
2. Osama bin Laden launches his terrorist attacks.
3. The country recovers, and Bush says that threats must be taken seriously.
4. Saddam (foolishly enough, some might say) continues with his threats.
5. USA decides to kill a fly with a cannon, and bombs Afghanistan back into the stone age.
6. The government pushes the terror threat, even though no intelligent terrorist (they are usually quite cunning people) would dare to launch any attack after that event.
7. The government, having created the right political climate, sees the oppurtunity to cannonball another fly and attacks Iraq with no apparent reason other than that Saddam's threats now somehow magically can be considered to be a real danger.
I keep forgetting that Gmail has ads. I hardly notice them... which is kind of contrary to the purpose of advertising. I guess it suffices that users notice once in a while.
The phone companies over there can't have much of a clue... All major phone companies in Norway offer you a prepaid plan. You buy a unique code, dial a number, input the code, and you get either 150, 300 or 500 NOK of additional calling credit. It's a little more expensive than having a regular phone subscription, but everyone prefers it these days. Because getting a phone number isn't legally binding anymore, any teenager can ge to a kiosk or gas station and buy a starter package with a subsidized phone. You pay for what you call and nothing more.
I can't believe such plans aren't more common abroad? I suspect cell phone usage would explode if that happened. Maybe we just have a different culture here in Scandinavia.;)
In a post in the discussion for a previous article, someone said that it's bullshit that one volcano eruption can produce that much gas. I don't know if it's true, but have you even checked up on that?
if(trunc(M_PI) == 3) { printf("My name is... my name is... my name is..."); printf(" %s\n", argv[0]); }
/* That would make for a more consistent style. I prefer to keep the brackets at the if() level, though, because it makes it much easier to find the conditional statement that starts a block, if the block enclosers are on the same level at the statement. You don't need to do any mental jumps to the left or the right, you just follow a straight line. */
Last time I checked, women who take abortions do NOT enjoy it. It's not like pro-choice people take lightly upon abortion either. If you're 16 and are accidentally impregnated... It's just a bad time to have a child at. I wouldn't judge her. I strongly doubt that anyone thinks "Oops, hehe, I got pregnant again." I'd suspect it's more like "Oh no! This will ruin my education and my parents' economy. What am I going to do?"
As a matter of fact, I'm not a native speaker of English at all. I just happen to be proficient enough in the language to feel confident in debating issues like these.;)
I would categorize my spoken English as leaning towards Brish English. My written English is American English; probably with occational glitches.
Wether it is a proper noun or not is only of relevance *if* the status of a 'composite entity' warrants a change to a grammatical plural. I think it does not, neither for "Intel" nor "team".
If the AC by some fat chance is right in his handling of 'composite entities', it must practically be dead in modern English, with a mere 8% of the Internet using it.
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I'm sorry, but you're a troll.
Bush has nothing to do with this conversation.
True, but I happen to believe that a person is entitled to say his opinion. I also happen to believe that his post was partly a joke.
You're obviously hung up on this whole bush thing and you probably have some kind of mental problems.
You're obviously having a grammar problems... People frequently make the mistake of believeing that just because I write a thorough post on something, I'm hung up with it.
Oh, and since when did Slashdot conversations stay on topic?
Okay... Correction to clarification: #6 refers to #2.
Some clarifications: The event I refer to in #5 is the one in #2. This isn't in über-perfect chronological order, but I think the point ought to come across anyway.
People who oppose Bush tend to use him as a metaphor, especially when discussing stupidity. Personally, I think he's "rural minded" but not stupid. He's probably a clever dude with some unpopular opinions (70% of non-Americans would vote Kerry). My understanding of events that led to the war in Iraq is as follows:
1. Saddam threatens to launch attacks USA over many years, mostly getting ignored, but occationally getting bombed, as a deterrant.
2. Osama bin Laden launches his terrorist attacks.
3. The country recovers, and Bush says that threats must be taken seriously.
4. Saddam (foolishly enough, some might say) continues with his threats.
5. USA decides to kill a fly with a cannon, and bombs Afghanistan back into the stone age.
6. The government pushes the terror threat, even though no intelligent terrorist (they are usually quite cunning people) would dare to launch any attack after that event.
7. The government, having created the right political climate, sees the oppurtunity to cannonball another fly and attacks Iraq with no apparent reason other than that Saddam's threats now somehow magically can be considered to be a real danger.
Obviously, I'm not too fond of the dude...
Um... duh?
I keep forgetting that Gmail has ads. I hardly notice them... which is kind of contrary to the purpose of advertising. I guess it suffices that users notice once in a while.
Risking to sound like a complete fool: What makes Gmail a fake e-mail service?
The phone companies over there can't have much of a clue... All major phone companies in Norway offer you a prepaid plan. You buy a unique code, dial a number, input the code, and you get either 150, 300 or 500 NOK of additional calling credit. It's a little more expensive than having a regular phone subscription, but everyone prefers it these days. Because getting a phone number isn't legally binding anymore, any teenager can ge to a kiosk or gas station and buy a starter package with a subsidized phone. You pay for what you call and nothing more.
;)
I can't believe such plans aren't more common abroad? I suspect cell phone usage would explode if that happened. Maybe we just have a different culture here in Scandinavia.
This must be the dumbest comment I've ever read.
In a post in the discussion for a previous article, someone said that it's bullshit that one volcano eruption can produce that much gas. I don't know if it's true, but have you even checked up on that?
Oh drat... That's supposed to be "its", not "it's"... *blushes in utter shame*
/* I prefer to indent like this: */
if(1)
{
char *dumbString = "This is a test.";
puts(dumbString);
}
/* I think this is messy: */
if(1)
{
char *protest = "I hate messy indentation.";
puts(protest);
}
/* Now, I often do this: */
if(fsin(90) == 1 && fsin(0) == 0 && 1)
puts("My computer knows it's math.\n");
So I *might* accept the following:
if(trunc(M_PI) == 3)
{
printf("My name is... my name is... my name is...");
printf(" %s\n", argv[0]);
}
/* That would make for a more consistent style. I prefer to keep the brackets at the if() level, though, because it makes it much easier to find the conditional statement that starts a block, if the block enclosers are on the same level at the statement. You don't need to do any mental jumps to the left or the right, you just follow a straight line. */
I use Joker too, never had a problem.
Last time I checked, women who take abortions do NOT enjoy it. It's not like pro-choice people take lightly upon abortion either. If you're 16 and are accidentally impregnated... It's just a bad time to have a child at. I wouldn't judge her. I strongly doubt that anyone thinks "Oops, hehe, I got pregnant again." I'd suspect it's more like "Oh no! This will ruin my education and my parents' economy. What am I going to do?"
MAC? As in Media Access Control? I thought this was about Macs! :O
Seriously, though. I don't know if it's the case, but it looks like you're confused. "Mac" is not an acronym. It should not be in uppercase.
(Boy, does it annoy me when I see people do this.)
Okay. I declare that Brits are strange in so unevenly bringing a practical distinction into their grammar.
This wouldn't by any chance be the same mechanism that is at work in "People are..." sentence constructs?
More "evidence"... Google gives 5,880,000 results for "team is", but only 1,250,000 results for "team are". That's a ratio of 4.7 to 1.
Glitches; like typing "Brish" instead of "British".
As a matter of fact, I'm not a native speaker of English at all. I just happen to be proficient enough in the language to feel confident in debating issues like these. ;)
I would categorize my spoken English as leaning towards Brish English. My written English is American English; probably with occational glitches.
Wether it is a proper noun or not is only of relevance *if* the status of a 'composite entity' warrants a change to a grammatical plural. I think it does not, neither for "Intel" nor "team".
If the AC by some fat chance is right in his handling of 'composite entities', it must practically be dead in modern English, with a mere 8% of the Internet using it.
Let us use Google to decide: Double-quoted search term "Intel are" gives 27,900 hits. Double-quoted search term "Intel is" gives 344,000 hits...
That's a rather irregular distinction if it is in fact made.
"A team are working hard" still sounds self-contradictive...
See my reply to the parent for a more efficient demonstration of this. ;)