Wow. i asked you a few honest questions and you went full asshole. Do you treat people like that in person, or only when they can't strangle you?
The earliest citation given in the **Oxford English Dictionary** for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which **British** chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium."[42]
By 1812, **Davy** had settled on **aluminum**. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[43] But the same year, an ->anonymous contributor- to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a ***less classical sound***."[44]
The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the sixteenth century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.
The -um suffix on the other hand, has the advantage of being more consistent with the universal spelling alumina for the oxide, as lanthana is the oxide of lanthanum, and magnesia, ceria, and thoria are the oxides of magnesium, cerium, and thorium respectively.
The spelling used throughout the 19th century by most U.S. chemists ended in -ium, but common usage is less clear.[45] The -um spelling is used in the Webster's Dictionary of 1828, as it was in 1892 when Charles Martin Hall published an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[39] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[46] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.
In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant. [edit] Present-day spelling
Most countries spell aluminium with an i before -um. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[47][48] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both.[49] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.[50]
So it came down to an anonymous guy and who wanted it to sound classical, rather than the guy who isolated it. The addition of the "i" was arbitrary.
English spellings pervade Wikipedia. People from many dialects are contributing. None of them are particularly dominant.
The rest of your post is too childish, ignorant and belligerent to warrant response. Lighten up, Francis. i wasn't trying to prove you wrong, and the questions weren't rhetorical. i wanted to know where you were coming from. Now i know... Assholeville.
Most people (around me) say "Spell check that" rather than "Spelling check that". i might say, "(you) check that for spelling (errors)". Hmm. Google gives 17,600,000 results for 'spell check' and 11,800,000 for 'spelling check'. On Wikipedia, 'spelling checker' redirects to 'spell checker'.
What's your English dialect? Mine is GenAm.
i wouldn't say "Spell and grammar checks" because each is one check. Which makes me think you're coming from a different dialect. Would you say "Pearl Jam is on tour" or "... are on tour"?
-ing aside, what if i had said this? Spell check and grammar check aren't enough to ensure proper sentences.
3) Did anyone else read the headline as "Someone offered lap dances to Yahoo at hack event"? Most/. headlines use passive voice (which i despise) so that's how i read it./better when the stripper is cryin'
You're ignoring that computers have more RAM available. My 5 year old machine is maxed at 4GB. The machine i'll build for 7 will likely START at 4GB. Did you miss the trend about computers having ever faster CPUs and more RAM and storage? How did that escape your notice as a member of Slashdot?
You're also ignoring that 7 will have more features than XP. Word is bigger than Notepad. Therefore Word is teh b10@3d!!! OMG!1! Bigger doesn't necessarily mean bloated. There might be some bloat, sure. But NEW FEATURES ADD TO THE SIZE OF SOFTWARE.
A bigger OS runs slower than a smaller OS on the same hardware? WOW. Thanks Capt. Obvious! While you're here, could you tell us if this water is wet? But why the fuck would i install a new OS on old ass hardware? Masochism? It's a cute experiment, but useless as a means to judge how a current OS will run on CURRENT hardware.
1) Unless they pulled their corsair along side a frigate full of copies of WoG, it isn't piracy. Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material is copyright infringement.
2) If we make light of real world murderers and hostage takers like those operating off the coast of Somalia, this STILL isn't piracy, these people paid. It may not be enough to please your highness, but they paid. So again, not piracy. If i buy a CD from the penny bin i haven't "pirated" it just because you paid more. i still paid more than the people who shoplifted it or DLed it from BT.
3) If the creators wanted to set a higher price, it was within their rights to do so. If they wanted to set the price at a minimum of $1, they could have. They set up the situation to allow one cent purchases.
i think it should have to hit the market and at least put a dent in marketshare before we can call it an "$product killer". This is the second headline this week about a killer product that no one is buying. If the term is to have any meaning other than "rival product", then we should stop jumping to call every new product a killer. We already have a term for competing product....
If it's being controlled, it's not a robot. It's a car for rat brain cells. It's not following a program, it's being steered. While we're at it, the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either. They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor. My car is not a robot just because it is a machine. If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it's still not a robot. Until it's driving itself, it ain't a robot.
Also: a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped. T1000, C3P0 - Yes. R2D2 - No.
i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler. i'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain' and another for 'Remote Brain'. Maybe categories for environment: Water, Air, Land. Then maybe size class. It would be nerdgasmic.
i don't know how to not think something, or how i'd know i was not thinking it.
Would it be a significant financial investment?
Do you mean to develop it or to own it? For the former, yes, but WotC could recover that cost by making it part of DDI. In the later, yes, but there are always people with more money than sense... or just willing to cough up the dough. Like any toy, the early adopters will pay through the nose to have the newest gadget, but will fund the infrastructure to make the next version cheaper. Eventually, all screens will be touch screens, in the same way that almost all TVs for sale today are HD.
Plus, the very act of making such a system will spawn a new sort of high end board game market. Monopoly w/o needing to count money or worrying about losing pieces, no stepping on hotels.... i can see families sitting around a touch screen table (where they just finished dinner), clearing off the plate and loading last week's unfinished game of Scrabble. They reload it and start playing again.
Instead of using a touch screen this system could use a projector with RFID tagged minis. A device could continuously poll the tags to see where the minis are. Or each player could have a device that the sensor would track as a sort of cursor to move a virtual mini instead of an physical mini.
Life's more fun when you look at possibilities instead of difficulties. Problems are obvious and boring... solutions, there's the fun. Getting to the Moon was way more interesting than "oh that would be difficult and expensive". Cars were expensive, now everyone has them.
4E is built for this sort of application. This might be better than what WotC had planned (at least for a meatspace game). If WotC is smart, they will build this on their own and then build modules for it. The potential is astounding./4E is my favorite edition.//OWoD is my favorite RPG
Some laws create freedom (even while taking it). The laws against murder give us the freedom to live by discouraging murder (or even merely punishing it).
Which isn't a coincidence. It also makes me want this game.
i like the "you are what you wear" classlessness. It's one of my favorite features of PlanetSide(PS). i despise classes in other MxxGs.
Normally i'd say the 4 player teams is lame, but in this case it fits with the setting. It does erode their claim that it is a massive. Only the public spaces are massive. Sounds a bit like Global Agenda (which i didn't care for after being in the beta).
Switching to third person is clever, as long as there is no auto aim BS. The over the should shit is fine for an MRPG, but not for something calling itself a shooter.
Missions SHOULD be PvP, one agency defends, the other attacks.
The lack of persistence is disappointing. What my team does in Prague has no effect on what your team does in Prague. It's counter strike with a loose plot tied on to it. PS has one and only one instance and everything is persistent and interconnected. My team capturing Hossin gives your team on Ishundar a benefit. Hossin stays captured until someone takes it back. In tA, the map resets.
PvP appears to be tacked on like it is in much of GA, WoW and other massives, rather than a part of the whole game.
i hope they find a way to make console and pc players integrate. Without auto aim the PC players will wipe the console players with little effort. Or maybe... consoles should *GASP* allow keyboard and mouse as input!
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Was one of the soldiers using a giant pick to comb the steppes?
Why do my mod points always expire just before some idiot posts bullshit like this?
Grow up.
Wow. i asked you a few honest questions and you went full asshole. Do you treat people like that in person, or only when they can't strangle you?
The earliest citation given in the **Oxford English Dictionary** for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which **British** chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium."[42]
By 1812, **Davy** had settled on **aluminum**. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[43] But the same year, an ->anonymous contributor- to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a ***less classical sound***."[44]
The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the sixteenth century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.
The -um suffix on the other hand, has the advantage of being more consistent with the universal spelling alumina for the oxide, as lanthana is the oxide of lanthanum, and magnesia, ceria, and thoria are the oxides of magnesium, cerium, and thorium respectively.
The spelling used throughout the 19th century by most U.S. chemists ended in -ium, but common usage is less clear.[45] The -um spelling is used in the Webster's Dictionary of 1828, as it was in 1892 when Charles Martin Hall published an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[39] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[46] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.
In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant.
[edit] Present-day spelling
Most countries spell aluminium with an i before -um. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[47][48] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both.[49] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.[50]
So it came down to an anonymous guy and who wanted it to sound classical, rather than the guy who isolated it. The addition of the "i" was arbitrary.
English spellings pervade Wikipedia. People from many dialects are contributing. None of them are particularly dominant.
The rest of your post is too childish, ignorant and belligerent to warrant response. Lighten up, Francis. i wasn't trying to prove you wrong, and the questions weren't rhetorical. i wanted to know where you were coming from. Now i know... Assholeville.
Most people (around me) say "Spell check that" rather than "Spelling check that". i might say, "(you) check that for spelling (errors)". Hmm. Google gives 17,600,000 results for 'spell check' and 11,800,000 for 'spelling check'. On Wikipedia, 'spelling checker' redirects to 'spell checker'.
What's your English dialect? Mine is GenAm.
i wouldn't say "Spell and grammar checks" because each is one check. Which makes me think you're coming from a different dialect. Would you say "Pearl Jam is on tour" or "... are on tour"?
-ing aside, what if i had said this?
Spell check and grammar check aren't enough to ensure proper sentences.
"In other news, I use linux?"
What the hell is this question asking?
That or Libertarians are Republicans trying to be associated with W. Your post makes just as much sense if we R2 Libertarian with Republican.
i want to go to the regulated free market to by some fresh frozen jumbo shrimp.
Spell and grammar check aren't enough to ensure proper sentences.
1) Like the boobies said, "Why wasn't i invited?"
2) Why is at capitalized in the headline?
3) Did anyone else read the headline as "Someone offered lap dances to Yahoo at hack event"? Most /. headlines use passive voice (which i despise) so that's how i read it. /better when the stripper is cryin'
You're ignoring that computers have more RAM available. My 5 year old machine is maxed at 4GB. The machine i'll build for 7 will likely START at 4GB. Did you miss the trend about computers having ever faster CPUs and more RAM and storage? How did that escape your notice as a member of Slashdot?
You're also ignoring that 7 will have more features than XP. Word is bigger than Notepad. Therefore Word is teh b10@3d!!! OMG!1! Bigger doesn't necessarily mean bloated. There might be some bloat, sure. But NEW FEATURES ADD TO THE SIZE OF SOFTWARE.
A bigger OS runs slower than a smaller OS on the same hardware? WOW. Thanks Capt. Obvious! While you're here, could you tell us if this water is wet? But why the fuck would i install a new OS on old ass hardware? Masochism? It's a cute experiment, but useless as a means to judge how a current OS will run on CURRENT hardware.
1) Unless they pulled their corsair along side a frigate full of copies of WoG, it isn't piracy. Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery. Unauthorized copying of copyrighted material is copyright infringement.
2) If we make light of real world murderers and hostage takers like those operating off the coast of Somalia, this STILL isn't piracy, these people paid. It may not be enough to please your highness, but they paid. So again, not piracy. If i buy a CD from the penny bin i haven't "pirated" it just because you paid more. i still paid more than the people who shoplifted it or DLed it from BT.
3) If the creators wanted to set a higher price, it was within their rights to do so. If they wanted to set the price at a minimum of $1, they could have. They set up the situation to allow one cent purchases.
"I seriously doubt this will be a DVD killer"
i think it should have to hit the market and at least put a dent in marketshare before we can call it an "$product killer". This is the second headline this week about a killer product that no one is buying. If the term is to have any meaning other than "rival product", then we should stop jumping to call every new product a killer. We already have a term for competing product....
Don't forget lotion and privacy.
Did you SEE that yaw control??
Stupid Flanders!
If it's being controlled, it's not a robot. It's a car for rat brain cells. It's not following a program, it's being steered. While we're at it, the battle bots/robot wars are not robots either. They are remote controlled cars with weapons and armor. My car is not a robot just because it is a machine. If i attach some kind of Myth Busters control system... it's still not a robot. Until it's driving itself, it ain't a robot.
Also: a robot is an android IFF is is human shaped. T1000, C3P0 - Yes. R2D2 - No.
i think a show about ACTUAL ROBOTS hunting each other down would be way cooler. i'd have a category for 'Onboard Brain' and another for 'Remote Brain'. Maybe categories for environment: Water, Air, Land. Then maybe size class. It would be nerdgasmic.
i don't know how to not think something, or how i'd know i was not thinking it.
Would it be a significant financial investment?
Do you mean to develop it or to own it? For the former, yes, but WotC could recover that cost by making it part of DDI. In the later, yes, but there are always people with more money than sense... or just willing to cough up the dough. Like any toy, the early adopters will pay through the nose to have the newest gadget, but will fund the infrastructure to make the next version cheaper. Eventually, all screens will be touch screens, in the same way that almost all TVs for sale today are HD.
Plus, the very act of making such a system will spawn a new sort of high end board game market. Monopoly w/o needing to count money or worrying about losing pieces, no stepping on hotels.... i can see families sitting around a touch screen table (where they just finished dinner), clearing off the plate and loading last week's unfinished game of Scrabble. They reload it and start playing again.
Instead of using a touch screen this system could use a projector with RFID tagged minis. A device could continuously poll the tags to see where the minis are. Or each player could have a device that the sensor would track as a sort of cursor to move a virtual mini instead of an physical mini.
Life's more fun when you look at possibilities instead of difficulties. Problems are obvious and boring... solutions, there's the fun. Getting to the Moon was way more interesting than "oh that would be difficult and expensive". Cars were expensive, now everyone has them.
4E is built for this sort of application. This might be better than what WotC had planned (at least for a meatspace game). If WotC is smart, they will build this on their own and then build modules for it. The potential is astounding. /4E is my favorite edition. //OWoD is my favorite RPG
i can't pirate his book unless i get a boat, find a boat carry his books and then proceed to commit armed robbery.
i think i'd rather just download it, which would be copyright infringement (unless i have permission).
Some laws create freedom (even while taking it). The laws against murder give us the freedom to live by discouraging murder (or even merely punishing it).
Which isn't a coincidence. It also makes me want this game.
i like the "you are what you wear" classlessness. It's one of my favorite features of PlanetSide(PS). i despise classes in other MxxGs.
Normally i'd say the 4 player teams is lame, but in this case it fits with the setting. It does erode their claim that it is a massive. Only the public spaces are massive. Sounds a bit like Global Agenda (which i didn't care for after being in the beta).
Switching to third person is clever, as long as there is no auto aim BS. The over the should shit is fine for an MRPG, but not for something calling itself a shooter.
Missions SHOULD be PvP, one agency defends, the other attacks.
The lack of persistence is disappointing. What my team does in Prague has no effect on what your team does in Prague. It's counter strike with a loose plot tied on to it. PS has one and only one instance and everything is persistent and interconnected. My team capturing Hossin gives your team on Ishundar a benefit. Hossin stays captured until someone takes it back. In tA, the map resets.
PvP appears to be tacked on like it is in much of GA, WoW and other massives, rather than a part of the whole game.
i hope they find a way to make console and pc players integrate. Without auto aim the PC players will wipe the console players with little effort. Or maybe... consoles should *GASP* allow keyboard and mouse as input!
Yup, prolly should have been "in front and above".
i was.
Yeah, that would be h00t. Lemme see what happens to IE....
170MB. Wow.
What is the awesome number? The summary makes a big deal about this number but doesn't include it! WtF?
Just direct them to this reassuring website:
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/