Because it's far easier to get it right than endlessly attempt to justify and argue why it shouldn't be wrong. And if we can't agree on basic things like this, then what's the point in having any rules at all? You might as well take your wife out for dinosaur for your 17th wedding throw-rug on Sunflower, then sit out and watch the sky turn lunch.
If you want to change the language, form your own English variant-speaking country to fit your own misguided sense of nationalism. We've already had our Noah Webster; we don't need another.
A local Amigos is advertising a food item for.99 cents. I should order one, give them a penny, and ask for a 1/100-of-a-cent-cash-value coupon in change.
You do know you can get controllers for pretty much every type of drive interface you could want on a PCI or PCIe card right?
Finally, I can get some use out of those old full-height Disk ][ drives on a modern machine! 140 KB floppies again! Some RWTS source code and a 6502 coprocessor board and I'll have my classic T-800 running and hunting down the Connor family in no time!
Indeed, once you aren't all in one basket, you devalue the preservation of the basket you are in and are more willing to destroy the ones your enemies are in.
We're surviving on fear of blow-back effects. Off-world colonization with maintained peace requires co-dependence between the colonies where everyone has something someone else needs and those needs remain mutual.
Oddly, though, I've noticed that when I type, if it's a space between words I use my right thumb. For the end of my sentence, I use my left one.
This is why I hate keyboards with a split space bar where one side is space and the other is backspace: I keep hitting the backspace. I'll also decide for myself which hand will type the letters B and Y, so I hate split keyboards that don't include redundant B and Y keys, one for each hand.
"Is a slave still a slave if he doesn't know he's a slave?"
"Yes." The deep voice sounded almost bored.
"Awww, I was hoping for a philosophical debate." He was disappointed; the conversation was not living up to its potential. "Is that all I'm going to get? `Yes'?" mocking the tone.
"Yes." Clipped, definite.
Petulant and condescending, he laughed. "Oh, you're no fun."
render two spaces if ((two spaces are present following a period) && (the font is monospaced)).
And what of question mark and exclamation point? colon? What of a quoted phrase ending in terminal punctuation before the closing quote? There's also continuation of sentence after question mark not employing capital letter to consider. Are we to always have trailing whitespace at the end of a paragraph?
What about forestalled sentence termination due to interrup-- Hey, I'm talking here!
Notice when you read shit on the internet it is single spaced after punctuation, and not double spaced?
That's only because HTML decided that consecutive whitespace should be compressed to a single character. I may put two spaces after full stops followed by new sentences, but I'm not going to make one of them to (try to) force it.
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs. Books tend to reserve double spacing between paragraphs for a change of scene within a chapter, and if it occurs at a page break, a line with one to five asterisks, spaced, is employed, on whichever page it will fit.
I wouldn't even call this photoshopping. All he did was take a photo at the same angle and then use a mask to show various parts.
Either with lenses with the exact same distortion or correcting for the distortion in the old photo, new photo, or both. And making sure the scale is exactly right for both images.
Even just finding the exact positioning for the camera to produce the proper alignment is a challenge, especially if it has to be taken with the camera in the middle of modern traffic, or if the terrain has changed enough that you can't stand there anymore.
In practice, you'll have to make lots of adjustments in post just to get the images aligned properly even if you do get the modern photo taken from the right position with the right angle.
Gee, that's new! Typists from decades ago were able to do just that. It was called "training" and "expertise".
Not looking at the "screen" (i.e. platen) while typing was generally due to the fact that you were reading off copy and typing it in to create another (typically more legible) copy. Now that computers can do copy and paste without a man-in-the-middle, we do what manual typists did when coming up with original work: we look at what we're typing so we catch our own mistakes. Reading off paper copy still occurs, but is less common. (Though sometimes you're reading off electronic copy that prevents copy & paste for DRM or other equally stupid reasons.)
What I want to know is, why did they put the Return/Enter key for the right hand on electric typewriters when before you used your left hand to slap the bar to return the carriage? We should be mounting return keys to the left side of our monitors. Then maybe we'd have more job satisfaction if we regularly slapped our computers around for going "Bing!"
News about the app serviced during a talk given by Lookout yesterday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, the app, which offers desktop wallpapers featuring designs from Star Wars, My Little Pony, and more, collects SIM card numbers, text messages, browsing history, and voicemail passwords. The app in questions has reportedly been downloaded as much as 4.6 million times.
...due to the multiple errors in writing, it accuses the Black Hat conference of doing the data theft.
But they may still break into the cars to steal parts out of them, like airbags, radios, GPS, and other easily removed items for which the body color doesn't matter.
Vanity plates for a pink car: LTSH RED.
What about color-shifting paint, and what do you put on the DMV record for that?
Generally there are not exposed power lines between your power meter and your home, and even less likely with newer construction. They could trace it to your neighborhood, but not to any one particular home unless they caught it perching.
There are also people working on leeching power from WiFi radio signals in order to recharge cell phones, with the consequence of reducing the range of your WiFi.
I'm looking forward to someone coming up with the not-so-bright idea of recharging electric cars using the induction loops that control the lights at intersections. Like pulling power for your time machine by parking on a rift in Cardiff.
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Because it's far easier to get it right than endlessly attempt to justify and argue why it shouldn't be wrong. And if we can't agree on basic things like this, then what's the point in having any rules at all? You might as well take your wife out for dinosaur for your 17th wedding throw-rug on Sunflower, then sit out and watch the sky turn lunch.
If you want to change the language, form your own English variant-speaking country to fit your own misguided sense of nationalism. We've already had our Noah Webster; we don't need another.
A local Amigos is advertising a food item for .99 cents. I should order one, give them a penny, and ask for a 1/100-of-a-cent-cash-value coupon in change.
You acknowledge that a noun and a pronoun are different, then argue that they shouldn't be treated differently?
Next you'll be arguing that all adverbs should be joined to their object by a hyphen even if they already end in -ly.
He should have traveled by bridge.
You do know you can get controllers for pretty much every type of drive interface you could want on a PCI or PCIe card right?
Finally, I can get some use out of those old full-height Disk ][ drives on a modern machine! 140 KB floppies again! Some RWTS source code and a 6502 coprocessor board and I'll have my classic T-800 running and hunting down the Connor family in no time!
I remember something like this being suggested for adding Windows PC compatibility to a pre-Intel Macintosh.
And a few in the past had S-Video.
It's the Nude Laser! We need to get Agent 86 on this.
Oh, he is? How about Agent 86.1?
Oh, ugh! Um, any chance we have an Agent 99.1?
Indeed, once you aren't all in one basket, you devalue the preservation of the basket you are in and are more willing to destroy the ones your enemies are in.
We're surviving on fear of blow-back effects. Off-world colonization with maintained peace requires co-dependence between the colonies where everyone has something someone else needs and those needs remain mutual.
The news of a person being found not guilty needs to be even bigger than the news that a person was accused.
O.J.?
Yeah, in the midst of editing, I'd deleted the word "default" but left the word "by".
Oddly, though, I've noticed that when I type, if it's a space between words I use my right thumb. For the end of my sentence, I use my left one.
This is why I hate keyboards with a split space bar where one side is space and the other is backspace: I keep hitting the backspace. I'll also decide for myself which hand will type the letters B and Y, so I hate split keyboards that don't include redundant B and Y keys, one for each hand.
"Is a slave still a slave if he doesn't know he's a slave?"
"Yes." The deep voice sounded almost bored.
"Awww, I was hoping for a philosophical debate." He was disappointed; the conversation was not living up to its potential. "Is that all I'm going to get? `Yes'?" mocking the tone.
"Yes." Clipped, definite.
Petulant and condescending, he laughed. "Oh, you're no fun."
render two spaces if ((two spaces are present following a period) && (the font is monospaced)).
And what of question mark and exclamation point? colon? What of a quoted phrase ending in terminal punctuation before the closing quote? There's also continuation of sentence after question mark not employing capital letter to consider. Are we to always have trailing whitespace at the end of a paragraph?
What about forestalled sentence termination due to interrup-- Hey, I'm talking here!
Notice when you read shit on the internet it is single spaced after punctuation, and not double spaced?
That's only because HTML decided that consecutive whitespace should be compressed to a single character. I may put two spaces after full stops followed by new sentences, but I'm not going to make one of them to (try to) force it.
HTML, also by not employing indentation at the start of paragraphs by, has steered people toward double-spacing between paragraphs. Print media prefers not to waste the line between paragraphs and sticks with indentation of the first line of paragraphs. Books tend to reserve double spacing between paragraphs for a change of scene within a chapter, and if it occurs at a page break, a line with one to five asterisks, spaced, is employed, on whichever page it will fit.
I wouldn't even call this photoshopping. All he did was take a photo at the same angle and then use a mask to show various parts.
Either with lenses with the exact same distortion or correcting for the distortion in the old photo, new photo, or both. And making sure the scale is exactly right for both images.
Even just finding the exact positioning for the camera to produce the proper alignment is a challenge, especially if it has to be taken with the camera in the middle of modern traffic, or if the terrain has changed enough that you can't stand there anymore.
In practice, you'll have to make lots of adjustments in post just to get the images aligned properly even if you do get the modern photo taken from the right position with the right angle.
Same with any typing correction features, it only works on proper English (or whatever dictionary used).
There was the famous CNET blooper where an iPhone wouldn't let Brian Tong type "kewl", thinking he intended to write "kewpie".
Gee, that's new! Typists from decades ago were able to do just that. It was called "training" and "expertise".
Not looking at the "screen" (i.e. platen) while typing was generally due to the fact that you were reading off copy and typing it in to create another (typically more legible) copy. Now that computers can do copy and paste without a man-in-the-middle, we do what manual typists did when coming up with original work: we look at what we're typing so we catch our own mistakes. Reading off paper copy still occurs, but is less common. (Though sometimes you're reading off electronic copy that prevents copy & paste for DRM or other equally stupid reasons.)
What I want to know is, why did they put the Return/Enter key for the right hand on electric typewriters when before you used your left hand to slap the bar to return the carriage? We should be mounting return keys to the left side of our monitors. Then maybe we'd have more job satisfaction if we regularly slapped our computers around for going "Bing!"
PC Mag reports 4.6 million. However...
Brian Heater writes:
He suggested that just like SMTP and Sendmail standardized what were previously propriety e-mail services,
Spelling checkers only catch when you misspell a word; they won't catch when you use the wrong word spelled correctly.
"Wouldn't that make a B be average?"
"Uh, I'd have to ask my superintendent."
"Just give me my kid's report card."
"There you go. Would you like fries with that?"
"Why would I want fries with a report card?"
"Uh, I'd have to ask my superintendent." ...
"Great, Dad, you picked up my report card! Didn't you get any fries?"
But they may still break into the cars to steal parts out of them, like airbags, radios, GPS, and other easily removed items for which the body color doesn't matter.
Vanity plates for a pink car: LTSH RED.
What about color-shifting paint, and what do you put on the DMV record for that?
The way things are going, extended HDTV and HD monitor warranties are going to need interface obsolescence coverage.
Indeed, many omissions make no ¢s.
Generally there are not exposed power lines between your power meter and your home, and even less likely with newer construction. They could trace it to your neighborhood, but not to any one particular home unless they caught it perching.
There are also people working on leeching power from WiFi radio signals in order to recharge cell phones, with the consequence of reducing the range of your WiFi.
I'm looking forward to someone coming up with the not-so-bright idea of recharging electric cars using the induction loops that control the lights at intersections. Like pulling power for your time machine by parking on a rift in Cardiff.