If you were one of the great grammar Nazis, you'd recognize that he's using "would of" as a modal auxiliary. Although modal auxiliaries look like verbs and are part of the verb group, they actually are a word class of their own, not a subset of verbs. As a result, "would have" may transform (using Modern English rules) to "would of" or more commonly as "woulda", as well as other modal auxiliaries.
Furthermore, as a student of languages, one should recognize that language does not stagnate. It does not hold the same rules forever, lest we'd never have evolved from pre-proto English, to proto-English, to Old English, to Middle English, to Modern English. Language is always in a state of devolution or evolution depending on your perspective.
Let us assume for the moment you are not posting as mere flaimbait. Let us also assume that you really are employed by some game company.
If your company is so short sighted as to not jump on the Wii band wagon, then your company has many ways of dying. The first is that what if the Wii continues its success? Sure, it has been a long time since Nintendo was successful for a 5 year stint. However, Nintendo is likely to make its next generation console an improvement on this one. That is to say, a more accurate Wii-mote and HD output graphics. The second way you folks are killing yourself is let us say all the game companies collude to continue pumping out the same shit as last year with better graphics. You aren't bringing in new customers. The Wii is proving that it can expand the game market; a game market that wasn't interested in last years crap last year and will be less interested in it this year.
If you and your company cannot see what the Wii is actually doing, then hopefully someone else will take over for you. Customers are buying the Wii because they are tired of the SoS. Some customers (fan boys) will continue to buy the SoS, but the rest of us are looking for the next new thing; not last years game with a shiny new interface.
One of the problems with keeping our resources up-to-date is the cost. The transportation departments do not actually build the roads and bridges, they contract out the job. The problem with contracting out the job rather than having a few employees with direct oversight do it, is many fold. The first problem is that the bidder feels they need to make a significant profit on the job. That seems okay, it's the American way. Except this profit is probably many times the actual material and labor cost of the job itself. The low bid on what the state could do for $100,000 is probably $500,000 after only considering the profits. Then we have the insurance costs, and worse yet the re-insurance costs. The insurance companies consider the liability if the bridge were to collapse (amortized over many bridges) and add their profits. So now our $500,000 bid is a bid of $1,250,000. That's 11 less bridges the state can't maintain using the same budget.
It gets worse when you add in the fact that most traffic engineers can't see the big picture and people complain about the projects that are being done. If a city has 5 major arterials traveling east to west, they tend to put 4 of them into construction at the same time. This means that the minor arterials, and the collectors have to handle significantly more traffic flow than designed for, and the 1 major arterial left is congested from the beginning to the ending mile points of the city.
So between over-priced construction projects and under-trained traffic engineers, it doesn't surprise me in the least that our infrastructure is crumbling.
The acronym TALON means Threat and Local Observation Notice.
So when you read about the TALON database , you will know it is the Threat and Local Observation Notice database. Now just in case you missed it, Threat and Local Observation Notice can be shortened to TALON.
This story is another reminder of the way the fan to content relationship is changing. From t.v. to the web the lines are blurring between fans as passive consumers of entertainment to active participants.
Unfortunately, many people don't understand what it means to be a true fan. I am often called a fan of StarTrek, but the truth is that I simply enjoy it. I've been to 1 convention and will never go again; I just don't want to deal with those who are fanatical enough to go in costum, or debate what the real chronological order of TOS should be. I have every episode on DVD of all the series, but I can't tell you what episode redshirt #3 died on plant who-really-cares. I know people who don't own any episodes, but could give you the information and the precise minute into the episode it happened.
I think of fans as those who are fanatical enough to make something a deep part of thier daily lives, and I just enjoy the content. Yet because I have every episode of StarTrek on DVD, I get accused of being a fan.
Maybe we need a new word for the consumers who enjoy a particular activity and those who are fanatical about it. Even more so, the word shouldn't just exist, but be used by the masses.
That, and the "neon strip malls" look spammy. If I'm in the mood for ad-riddled garbage (i.e. I'm shopping for something), I visit Yahoo, else I visit Google (which I'll visit even if I'm shopping).
Fortunately for him, it takes a while for them to waddle to the elevator. If he's lucky, the sheeple will hit both the up and down buttons, catch the opposite going elevator, allowing his escape.
I might mention I own what might be called an air mouse. I bought it a few years ago. They called it the gyro mouse.
It's okay. It works well on a surface as well as in the air. There are rare uses for the gyro mouse, but I'd agree it didn't exactly revolutionize my computer experience. At best it is neat to use when guests come over, or I need to use my left hand (it feels about the same in either hand).
A more practical idea for a mouse is for Logitech to get off their collective arse, and make the original size of TrackMan, then mold it for lefties.
What is also green are those people who think they should const or #define sequential sets. Use enum folks! Enums allow you to auto-increment/decrement your set, or re-order without having to re-type a bunch of numbers. Also, it doesn't hurt to add an end reference to your set for future use, eg: enum EFruits {APPLES = 0, BANANAS, CLAMENTINES, DURIAN, EGGPLANT, GUAVA, ELAST_FRUIT};
Then later in your code you can run over the enumeration as follows: int dxFruit; for(dxFruit = 0; dxFruit ELAST_FRUIT; dxFruit++) {// Do something. }
The advantages are if you go back and add FIGS to the list, you don't have to hunt down every instance you ever used the fruit set to ensure your count is right, and you don't have to re-number GUAVA. I really hate seeing: #define APPLES 1 #define BANANAS 2 #define CLAMENTINES 3 #define DURIAN 4 #define EGGPLANT 5 #define GUAVA 6... for(i = 0; i 7; i++) {// Do something. }
Another advantage is to eliminate the referencing of "magic numbers". I just want to flog the person who write: if (myFruit == 3) { }
I shouldn't have to spent a fortnight looking up what the hell 3 means!
Simply because the RPMs are low doesn't necessarily mean one is getting the most efficient use of the gasoline consumed. If you compared foreign cars to American cars, you'd find that the foreign cars tend to run at higher RPMs, yet they get better fuel economy. If you studied transmissions, you'd find that the point of a CVT isn't to keep the engine running at the lowest RPM, but the most efficient RPM.
As for the parent's comment about the EPA fuel ratings, they aren't completely bogus. Some of us actually do better than the sticker. For example, I have a 1993 Pontiac Grand Am 2.0 SOHC. The EPA rating says I should get 36 MPH on the highway. I often get 37-38 MPH and I live in Idaho (not the plains). I've been keeping accurate records for the past 3 years on the car of my fuel consumption.
After having studied a fair bit about automotives, I'm surprised (though I shouldn't be) that trucks are still using throtle-body fuel injection rather than any of the more efficient technologies such as GDI. Also, I've learned when my previous car had a problem that running the engine slightly hotter than normal also helps.
WTF indeed! California Edison and PG&E have always bilked their customers for as much as they can. They know they have a very profitable localized monopoly. I live in Idaho (just a couple of states away). We pay $0.055/kWh. Whether our power is green or not is up for debate; the bulk of it is hydropower. Never the less, even ours is significantly cheaper.
My TV has been off since October of 2005. I don't feel like I'm missing anything either. I have more time to read, play games, interact with people, watch movies, whatever. If folks ask me if I've seen a recent commercial, I can always catch it on YouTube.
My impetus was two-fold. First those DAMNED Old Navy commercials. Second, I was down to only 1 half hour show a week worth watching; I can wait for it to come to DVD.
Cable and OTA TV is gone from my life. It was hard at first, but I've broken the fetters and I think I'm better for it. I would recommend abandoning the TV to anyone. Free yourselves to enjoy other forms of entertainment (some of which contain no ads).
I wouldn't want Vista even if it were given to me by Microsoft for free. There doesn't seem to be anything that I would want with the new OS. I'm not into having tightly locked down DRM. I'm not into system reboots every few days. I'm not into having security holes big enough to drive a convoy of semi's through (sure they found a new security hole in OpenBSD, but...). No, I just don't see any reason. XP was my last MS OS, I think I'll be happier on OpenBSD; it hasn't failed me yet and I don't need the latest and greatest hardware.
What do you mean cheap enough? I live in a small/rural town and the cheapest package the cable company offers is $50 for the first 6 months, then it is $60/mo. I could afford it, but I don't think $60/mo is cheap enough for the limited programs I used to watch on TV. Before giving it up, I was down to 1 half-hour show per week. Most of the country (which is rural) is gouged by the local cable monopolies. As for satillite, that works well enough (starting at $30/mo) if a) they provide service in your area, and b) you have LOS; otherwise, you are out of luck. Don't assume everyone has the same access as you do.
Boise has already gone through a great deal of it's growing pains. In many ways, it has learned that people will come whether you build it or not. In the 90's, Boise stated to change directions in its look to the future. Although it maybe difficult to see, they're preparing the infrastructure for tomorrow. The rest of Idaho might need to learn that lesson, but there's only so many people who are going to want to move to a place that only has agricultural jobs. Y por eso, hay mas mexicanos que otras en el sur. In the northern portion of the state, they'll just shoot your smart ass.
Recently, I moved from Boise to Idaho Falls, and I'm not sure if it is worth it. There isn't a damned thing to do, and none of the restaurants have food or service above McD's quality.
The way I see it, it isn't even a "fuller, more entertaining experience" anymore even for the big-screen & sound system. I've always hated them blaring the volume to deafening levels, but I can do that at home now too; though I don't. As for the big screen, I figure a 12 foot screen is plenty big enough for me. Since the price of a projector compares with the price of a big screen TV, I took the plunge. Sure, I can only display 720p, but for a first generation, I'm fine. I love sitting in my recliners, not having someone kick them from behind, not have to tell people to move their conversations to a coffee shop, and being able to pause the movie for a bathroom break.
I haven't been to a cinema in almost a year, and certainly not since I bought a projector. In fact, the cost of the projector seems quite reasonable since I watch an average of a movie a night. I've disliked the cinema for years, but now that I've got a projector, my friends don't seem to mind coming over for a movie instead.
How do 12 year old commercials make one feel old? 12 years isn't much. I don't feel old (ok, sometimes I do, but...), and I recall commercials from 30 years ago. Ones with Mr. Whipple's "Don't squeeze the Charmin", Cal Worthington & his dog spot, or the O-S-C-A-R M-A-Y-E-R commercials teaching me how to spell my first word B-O-L-O-N-G-A. Depending on the amount of TV a kid watched, 12 years could put you at 15/16.
Let me guess, you weren't born yet when StarWars was first in theaters?
That isn't to dissimilar from my path.
SuSe, Red Hat, Debian, OpenBSD. I tried Fedcora on an alternate server, but when back to OpenBSD. I like knowing what my OS is doing, and I like that nothing is started without my explicit say so.
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If you were one of the great grammar Nazis, you'd recognize that he's using "would of" as a modal auxiliary. Although modal auxiliaries look like verbs and are part of the verb group, they actually are a word class of their own, not a subset of verbs. As a result, "would have" may transform (using Modern English rules) to "would of" or more commonly as "woulda", as well as other modal auxiliaries.
Furthermore, as a student of languages, one should recognize that language does not stagnate. It does not hold the same rules forever, lest we'd never have evolved from pre-proto English, to proto-English, to Old English, to Middle English, to Modern English. Language is always in a state of devolution or evolution depending on your perspective.
Now get off my lawn you young whippersnappers.
Let us assume for the moment you are not posting as mere flaimbait. Let us also assume that you really are employed by some game company.
If your company is so short sighted as to not jump on the Wii band wagon, then your company has many ways of dying. The first is that what if the Wii continues its success? Sure, it has been a long time since Nintendo was successful for a 5 year stint. However, Nintendo is likely to make its next generation console an improvement on this one. That is to say, a more accurate Wii-mote and HD output graphics. The second way you folks are killing yourself is let us say all the game companies collude to continue pumping out the same shit as last year with better graphics. You aren't bringing in new customers. The Wii is proving that it can expand the game market; a game market that wasn't interested in last years crap last year and will be less interested in it this year.
If you and your company cannot see what the Wii is actually doing, then hopefully someone else will take over for you. Customers are buying the Wii because they are tired of the SoS. Some customers (fan boys) will continue to buy the SoS, but the rest of us are looking for the next new thing; not last years game with a shiny new interface.
One of the problems with keeping our resources up-to-date is the cost. The transportation departments do not actually build the roads and bridges, they contract out the job. The problem with contracting out the job rather than having a few employees with direct oversight do it, is many fold. The first problem is that the bidder feels they need to make a significant profit on the job. That seems okay, it's the American way. Except this profit is probably many times the actual material and labor cost of the job itself. The low bid on what the state could do for $100,000 is probably $500,000 after only considering the profits. Then we have the insurance costs, and worse yet the re-insurance costs. The insurance companies consider the liability if the bridge were to collapse (amortized over many bridges) and add their profits. So now our $500,000 bid is a bid of $1,250,000. That's 11 less bridges the state can't maintain using the same budget.
It gets worse when you add in the fact that most traffic engineers can't see the big picture and people complain about the projects that are being done. If a city has 5 major arterials traveling east to west, they tend to put 4 of them into construction at the same time. This means that the minor arterials, and the collectors have to handle significantly more traffic flow than designed for, and the 1 major arterial left is congested from the beginning to the ending mile points of the city.
So between over-priced construction projects and under-trained traffic engineers, it doesn't surprise me in the least that our infrastructure is crumbling.
The acronym TALON means Threat and Local Observation Notice. So when you read about the TALON database , you will know it is the Threat and Local Observation Notice database. Now just in case you missed it, Threat and Local Observation Notice can be shortened to TALON.
Unfortunately, many people don't understand what it means to be a true fan. I am often called a fan of StarTrek, but the truth is that I simply enjoy it. I've been to 1 convention and will never go again; I just don't want to deal with those who are fanatical enough to go in costum, or debate what the real chronological order of TOS should be. I have every episode on DVD of all the series, but I can't tell you what episode redshirt #3 died on plant who-really-cares. I know people who don't own any episodes, but could give you the information and the precise minute into the episode it happened.
I think of fans as those who are fanatical enough to make something a deep part of thier daily lives, and I just enjoy the content. Yet because I have every episode of StarTrek on DVD, I get accused of being a fan.
Maybe we need a new word for the consumers who enjoy a particular activity and those who are fanatical about it. Even more so, the word shouldn't just exist, but be used by the masses.
A better place to ask these types of questions would be www.experts-exchange.com.
Wouldn't it have been simpler to say a septillion rather than a trillion trillion? It's not like 10^24 is an unnamed number.
That, and the "neon strip malls" look spammy. If I'm in the mood for ad-riddled garbage (i.e. I'm shopping for something), I visit Yahoo, else I visit Google (which I'll visit even if I'm shopping).
That's because people are idiots. Here's the correct choices:
;)
KDE
emacs
BSD
gtk
O(1) scheduler
BSD license
potatoes
Should this be modded funny or flaimbait? After all, this is /.
Fortunately for him, it takes a while for them to waddle to the elevator. If he's lucky, the sheeple will hit both the up and down buttons, catch the opposite going elevator, allowing his escape.
I might mention I own what might be called an air mouse. I bought it a few years ago. They called it the gyro mouse.
It's okay. It works well on a surface as well as in the air. There are rare uses for the gyro mouse, but I'd agree it didn't exactly revolutionize my computer experience. At best it is neat to use when guests come over, or I need to use my left hand (it feels about the same in either hand).
A more practical idea for a mouse is for Logitech to get off their collective arse, and make the original size of TrackMan, then mold it for lefties.
Chucky?
What is also green are those people who think they should const or #define sequential sets. Use enum folks! Enums allow you to auto-increment/decrement your set, or re-order without having to re-type a bunch of numbers. Also, it doesn't hurt to add an end reference to your set for future use, eg:
// Do something.
... // Do something.
enum EFruits {APPLES = 0, BANANAS, CLAMENTINES, DURIAN, EGGPLANT, GUAVA, ELAST_FRUIT};
Then later in your code you can run over the enumeration as follows:
int dxFruit;
for(dxFruit = 0; dxFruit ELAST_FRUIT; dxFruit++)
{
}
The advantages are if you go back and add FIGS to the list, you don't have to hunt down every instance you ever used the fruit set to ensure your count is right, and you don't have to re-number GUAVA. I really hate seeing:
#define APPLES 1
#define BANANAS 2
#define CLAMENTINES 3
#define DURIAN 4
#define EGGPLANT 5
#define GUAVA 6
for(i = 0; i 7; i++)
{
}
Another advantage is to eliminate the referencing of "magic numbers". I just want to flog the person who write:
if (myFruit == 3)
{
}
I shouldn't have to spent a fortnight looking up what the hell 3 means!
Simply because the RPMs are low doesn't necessarily mean one is getting the most efficient use of the gasoline consumed. If you compared foreign cars to American cars, you'd find that the foreign cars tend to run at higher RPMs, yet they get better fuel economy. If you studied transmissions, you'd find that the point of a CVT isn't to keep the engine running at the lowest RPM, but the most efficient RPM.
As for the parent's comment about the EPA fuel ratings, they aren't completely bogus. Some of us actually do better than the sticker. For example, I have a 1993 Pontiac Grand Am 2.0 SOHC. The EPA rating says I should get 36 MPH on the highway. I often get 37-38 MPH and I live in Idaho (not the plains). I've been keeping accurate records for the past 3 years on the car of my fuel consumption.
After having studied a fair bit about automotives, I'm surprised (though I shouldn't be) that trucks are still using throtle-body fuel injection rather than any of the more efficient technologies such as GDI. Also, I've learned when my previous car had a problem that running the engine slightly hotter than normal also helps.
WTF indeed! California Edison and PG&E have always bilked their customers for as much as they can. They know they have a very profitable localized monopoly. I live in Idaho (just a couple of states away). We pay $0.055/kWh. Whether our power is green or not is up for debate; the bulk of it is hydropower. Never the less, even ours is significantly cheaper.
My TV has been off since October of 2005. I don't feel like I'm missing anything either. I have more time to read, play games, interact with people, watch movies, whatever. If folks ask me if I've seen a recent commercial, I can always catch it on YouTube.
My impetus was two-fold. First those DAMNED Old Navy commercials. Second, I was down to only 1 half hour show a week worth watching; I can wait for it to come to DVD.
Cable and OTA TV is gone from my life. It was hard at first, but I've broken the fetters and I think I'm better for it. I would recommend abandoning the TV to anyone. Free yourselves to enjoy other forms of entertainment (some of which contain no ads).
I wouldn't want Vista even if it were given to me by Microsoft for free. There doesn't seem to be anything that I would want with the new OS. I'm not into having tightly locked down DRM. I'm not into system reboots every few days. I'm not into having security holes big enough to drive a convoy of semi's through (sure they found a new security hole in OpenBSD, but...). No, I just don't see any reason. XP was my last MS OS, I think I'll be happier on OpenBSD; it hasn't failed me yet and I don't need the latest and greatest hardware.
I stopped watching TV 2 years ago. I think I'm better for it, even if my Tivo just sits in the corner.
What do you mean cheap enough? I live in a small/rural town and the cheapest package the cable company offers is $50 for the first 6 months, then it is $60/mo. I could afford it, but I don't think $60/mo is cheap enough for the limited programs I used to watch on TV. Before giving it up, I was down to 1 half-hour show per week. Most of the country (which is rural) is gouged by the local cable monopolies. As for satillite, that works well enough (starting at $30/mo) if a) they provide service in your area, and b) you have LOS; otherwise, you are out of luck. Don't assume everyone has the same access as you do.
Boise has already gone through a great deal of it's growing pains. In many ways, it has learned that people will come whether you build it or not. In the 90's, Boise stated to change directions in its look to the future. Although it maybe difficult to see, they're preparing the infrastructure for tomorrow. The rest of Idaho might need to learn that lesson, but there's only so many people who are going to want to move to a place that only has agricultural jobs. Y por eso, hay mas mexicanos que otras en el sur. In the northern portion of the state, they'll just shoot your smart ass.
Recently, I moved from Boise to Idaho Falls, and I'm not sure if it is worth it. There isn't a damned thing to do, and none of the restaurants have food or service above McD's quality.
The way I see it, it isn't even a "fuller, more entertaining experience" anymore even for the big-screen & sound system. I've always hated them blaring the volume to deafening levels, but I can do that at home now too; though I don't. As for the big screen, I figure a 12 foot screen is plenty big enough for me. Since the price of a projector compares with the price of a big screen TV, I took the plunge. Sure, I can only display 720p, but for a first generation, I'm fine. I love sitting in my recliners, not having someone kick them from behind, not have to tell people to move their conversations to a coffee shop, and being able to pause the movie for a bathroom break.
I haven't been to a cinema in almost a year, and certainly not since I bought a projector. In fact, the cost of the projector seems quite reasonable since I watch an average of a movie a night. I've disliked the cinema for years, but now that I've got a projector, my friends don't seem to mind coming over for a movie instead.
Oh well, I never could spell well, and even a jingle can't seem to fix that.
How do 12 year old commercials make one feel old? 12 years isn't much. I don't feel old (ok, sometimes I do, but...), and I recall commercials from 30 years ago. Ones with Mr. Whipple's "Don't squeeze the Charmin", Cal Worthington & his dog spot, or the O-S-C-A-R M-A-Y-E-R commercials teaching me how to spell my first word B-O-L-O-N-G-A. Depending on the amount of TV a kid watched, 12 years could put you at 15/16.
Let me guess, you weren't born yet when StarWars was first in theaters?
That isn't to dissimilar from my path. SuSe, Red Hat, Debian, OpenBSD. I tried Fedcora on an alternate server, but when back to OpenBSD. I like knowing what my OS is doing, and I like that nothing is started without my explicit say so.