Come visit any of the fine SUNY(State University of New York) Schools. You'll see what he's talking about. I just keep all my books...fuck everybody I say.
Slight error there, I was NOT speaking I was typing.. there is a difference.
Purely symantics. The way I see it writing(even on slashdot) benefits from having 30 seconds of proofing applied before submission. No spelling or grammer checker would have caught the error you made(none that I've encountered that is).
I agree with your statement that I am ignorant. However you seem irrational. I never claimed that your spelling and grammar should be perfect(who is to determine perfection?) just that you might want to strive to improve yourself.
I believe knee-jerk defensiveness is a stronger sign of ignorance. I am far from perfect and can accept the errors I make. I also don't use my handicaps as excuse for anything.
But in your brain it seems, anyone that posts on/. with a mistype, bad punctuation or shitty grammar somehow should know better, wake up and relise this is the real world, no one is perfect.
This sentence is nonsense. I do realize this is the real world and the imperfection inherent. Somehow, I cannot find the place in my brain that you have retrieved these fascinating tid-bits.
I didn't correct you to pass any judgement.
I won't be responding to this thread further.
And your life is so great that you have the time to reply?
I was just trying to half-way politely correct someone. One in twenty of my posts is a correction of spelling or grammar. There are just some things that I find really irritating.
Similar irritants:
irregardless - it's just not a word and has no valid linguistic meaning
'play it by year' - correctly: 'play it by ear', the first makes no sense
There are quite a few more but I think you get the idea. I don't correct people in public unless I'm very good friends with that person(even then rarely). I just figure here is a good place to occasionally correct people so that they might not sound uneducated in the real world. The way you speak _does_ make people think differently about you.
You could have just read the aticle and then posted something worth my time instead of this dribble.
You could have just learned the English language and then posted something worth anyone's time instead of this drivel
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That's horrible. I had completely forgot about the Element. What the hell are automakers thinking? None of these vehicles look futuristic, modern, nor good.
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IMHO, the Aztec is the fugliest vehicle on the entire planet.
What made the space travel possible to the degree we have now?
Deciding that it was a goal and that we're going to devote time, money and resources to the project.As well as feeling the need to accomplish the feat.
That's what it's taken to accomplish 'magic trick's' throughout history. Why not try?
Some of the authors left much to be desired. I wish they wouldn't have been so set on releasing the entire series so rapidly.
I forget the names of the authors that I didn't care for but one couldn't describe a space battle(Greg Bear I believe), and another one or two thought that they were really funny(they weren't funny, just irritating).
IANANP( I am not a nuclear physicist ) but it seems to me that a mass to energy conversion is what a nuclear reaction is.
e.g. the uranium core in a nuclear bomb being subjected to an explosive force of some sort(dynamite?) to initiate a chain reaction which causes the conversion of the reactive mass to energy.
Agreed. But I've never seen specs(except possibly the AthlonXP marketing is similar) that say a [Chipset] that approximates [AnotherChipset]. They always just say 'features [Chipset]'.
Ok here's a simpler example(tad absurd tho). You buy a 5 pound sledge. Then one day you need a stick to wack somebody with(without excessive injury nor death) and a 5 pound weight to replace the weight of a golden idol(a la Raiders of the Lost Ark). Well you better hope that 5 pound hammer head is actually 5 pounds and that the hammer haft is swingable.
How about this one, you buy a roast beef sandwich and end up with two slices of bread and sliced soy substitute, you're not going to be happy because this is NOT what you bought/were led to believe you bought.
What if someone wants to take this '9200' chip out of their laptop for some other purpose that only a '9200' could perform? Then there _is_ a difference in performance and features(eg, agp 8x).
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IIRC. A group of blind phreaks with perfect pitch told him about it.
Draper wasn't the one who figured it out.
Come visit any of the fine SUNY(State University of New York) Schools. You'll see what he's talking about. I just keep all my books...fuck everybody I say.
We all know what a software festival at Redmond means. He'll spend 6 days and 7 nights in a re-education and brainwashing resort.
I don't know about you but I measure mine in meters.(Transplanted from a blue whale)
man bind,man kill,man bash, man touch, and man finger are my favorites
But I'm not Don't question my authority or put me in the dock Cozimnot!
Won't happen again.
Speaking of irony. When I logged on Slashdot this morning my fortune was;
FOOLED you! Absorb EGO SHATTERING impulse rays, polyester poltroon!!
Slight error there, I was NOT speaking I was typing.. there is a difference.
/. with a mistype, bad punctuation or shitty grammar somehow should know better, wake up and relise this is the real world, no one is perfect.
Purely symantics. The way I see it writing(even on slashdot) benefits from having 30 seconds of proofing applied before submission. No spelling or grammer checker would have caught the error you made(none that I've encountered that is).
I agree with your statement that I am ignorant. However you seem irrational. I never claimed that your spelling and grammar should be perfect(who is to determine perfection?) just that you might want to strive to improve yourself.
I believe knee-jerk defensiveness is a stronger sign of ignorance. I am far from perfect and can accept the errors I make. I also don't use my handicaps as excuse for anything.
But in your brain it seems, anyone that posts on
This sentence is nonsense. I do realize this is the real world and the imperfection inherent. Somehow, I cannot find the place in my brain that you have retrieved these fascinating tid-bits.
I didn't correct you to pass any judgement.
I won't be responding to this thread further.
I was just trying to half-way politely correct someone. One in twenty of my posts is a correction of spelling or grammar. There are just some things that I find really irritating.
There are quite a few more but I think you get the idea. I don't correct people in public unless I'm very good friends with that person(even then rarely). I just figure here is a good place to occasionally correct people so that they might not sound uneducated in the real world. The way you speak _does_ make people think differently about you.
You could have just read the aticle and then posted something worth my time instead of this dribble.
You could have just learned the English language and then posted something worth anyone's time instead of this drivel
That's horrible. I had completely forgot about the Element. What the hell are automakers thinking? None of these vehicles look futuristic, modern, nor good.
IMHO, the Aztec is the fugliest vehicle on the entire planet.
What made the space travel possible to the degree we have now?
Deciding that it was a goal and that we're going to devote time, money and resources to the project.As well as feeling the need to accomplish the feat.
That's what it's taken to accomplish 'magic trick's' throughout history. Why not try?
I hear space chicks are easy!
Some of the authors left much to be desired. I wish they wouldn't have been so set on releasing the entire series so rapidly. I forget the names of the authors that I didn't care for but one couldn't describe a space battle(Greg Bear I believe), and another one or two thought that they were really funny(they weren't funny, just irritating).
Speak for yourself!
Which is the concept I couldn't articulate sufficiently with my pea brain so I used an example.
IANANP( I am not a nuclear physicist ) but it seems to me that a mass to energy conversion is what a nuclear reaction is.
e.g. the uranium core in a nuclear bomb being subjected to an explosive force of some sort(dynamite?) to initiate a chain reaction which causes the conversion of the reactive mass to energy.
So what's this first name? You can't dangle something like that post out there and not give us our pay off!
Let's not even try. Let's just shoot them. Cheaper and a lot less work than trying to change the world in a non-violent manner.
Apt and hilarious! Bravo!
Hygiene. Us lazy Americans think it's too much work to pull back a foreskin.
Agreed. But I've never seen specs(except possibly the AthlonXP marketing is similar) that say a [Chipset] that approximates [AnotherChipset]. They always just say 'features [Chipset]'.
Ok here's a simpler example(tad absurd tho). You buy a 5 pound sledge. Then one day you need a stick to wack somebody with(without excessive injury nor death) and a 5 pound weight to replace the weight of a golden idol(a la Raiders of the Lost Ark). Well you better hope that 5 pound hammer head is actually 5 pounds and that the hammer haft is swingable.
How about this one, you buy a roast beef sandwich and end up with two slices of bread and sliced soy substitute, you're not going to be happy because this is NOT what you bought/were led to believe you bought.
What if someone wants to take this '9200' chip out of their laptop for some other purpose that only a '9200' could perform? Then there _is_ a difference in performance and features(eg, agp 8x).