What? Smartphone pioneer? How do they figure that?
They were a PDA pioneer, but did very little, if anything revolutionary or pioneering in the Smartphone space. They just did what everyone else was doing... they did not pioneer anything in that space. They were already pretty much washed up and a has-been by the time the smartphone revolution rolled around. Not saying their phones weren't nice or quality or anything, just saying they weren't anything revolutionary.
1. Politicians and government no longer represent what the people want. The bribary by the copyright lobby has gone way beyond the pale, and the political corruption of government seems unstoppable.
2. Politicians and government are now costing businesses money. While traditionally the government has supported businesses more than individuals, this has now reached the point where business finds itself at odds with the customers that provide its income, and that is a terminal situation.
The messages are pretty clear. What's unclear is where this is going, other than sending SOPA to hell.
Unfortunately, it's not a terminal situation for big business. Take a look at the telecom and to an extent the cable industries. When they start losing customers, they lobby to get "fee" attached to their bills (and other companies bills WTF!) that directly benefit them. Universal Service fund immediately springs to mind, but there are lots of other examples. Just pick up a bill and read it carefully.
Canada has that goofy law where you pay taxes on blank media... which goes directly to the recording industry. Government mandated payments to a business because the business forces away customers.
Ooops, you'll hit a problem when you get to 4 (00100).
Only if you're one of those freaks that starts counting with their thumb. The problem comes at 2 for the rest of the civilized world.
You don't hold your thumb up when you are miming to someone that you want one of something you use your index finger, so why do you start counting with your thumb? It makes no sense consistency wise.
The summary reads like an angry teenager implying that they could do better.
Really? Do yo have any idea how hard it is to actually manage launching something like that in to space? We should be more amazed when everything goes right and a rocket actually makes it there. The rocket failing is, of course, not a good thing... but at least they are trying in the face of failure, instead of giving up and whining about for a decade like the US did after the shuttle disasters.
Launching a rocket into space is a marvel of just about every discipline involved.
I did not recognize many of the names on the list... but most of the ones I did recognize read like a who's who of who to avoid doing business with. I would say roughly 90% of them are companies that have already shown themselves to be worthless scum that should be avoided. At least they are all compiled on one list now for easy viewing.
This device was never intended to be an iPad killer. Amazon itself said as much. The linked article makes it sound like it was set to be an iPad killer by "important people," but the link just links back to another pcmag.com article. What a joke.
The fire is not intended, has not been intended to be an iPad killer. It's a cheap tablet device that does what many people need it to do without all the extras that the iPad has that some people will never use. It's one of the primary reasons I returned my iPad and got a Color Nook and rooted it - the Nook did everything I wanted a tablet to do at a fraction of the price. If I were to do the same thing today, I would buy a fire instead of a Nook.
Slowly and carefully... You'll probably never get done and in the end you'll be applying similar band-aids to get things running/keep things going as your predecessor did. Then you'll leave and someone else will come in and the cycle will start all over.
Yet somehow in this environment full of pirates, Call of Duty manages to make a billion dollars, Skyrim manages to make over 450 million dollars, etc. Ubisoft is full of shit and their games stopped being good a long time ago. Come to think of it no, SSI was good. But who the hell is Ubisoft? Ahh yes, they wanted to become another EA studio-devouring machine. Well the experiment has failed.
This pretty much sums it up.
I also wanted to point out that Ubisoft is not releasing a PC title because of all the piracy... so in effect, they'd rather get 0% of nothing instead of >0% of something.
I am a native speaker and I've learned many words in writing before I learned them in speech. As a result, some of my pronunciations are nonstandard. I pronounce "comparable" as if it were "compare" + "able", even though the standard way is irregular, "comp" + "arable". I tried to pronounce these words from how they were written before I'd heard them.
Where are you getting your "standard" pronunciation definition? I've heard both ways equally... though I am assuming you really mean by "comp" + "arable" as "comp" + "rable" with the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The two common pronunciations of that word are as you describe the first, and the second pronunciation completely or nearly so drop the first "a" sound by extending out the "r" sound or it being covered up by the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The "ar" in "arable" being overshadowed by the emphasis on "a" extending out the "r."
Integrated graphics is all well and good for the mobile market, but I bet you'll have a hard time finding anyone running integrated graphics in a home built machine
I have a number of machines running integrated graphics for numerous reasons. Least of which is the kids machines - you sure as hell don't need a discrete graphics card to play stupid little flash games and do homework.
Machines that are for checking email and surfing the web... don't really need discrete graphics either.
That's nice and everything, but I'll wait for Ivy Bridge, which is due March 2012.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Ivy Bridge based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Haswell, which is due in 2013.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink from Sandy Bridge if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Haswell based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Haswell, which is due in 2013.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink from Sandy Bridge if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Haswell based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Broadwell, which is due in 2014.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Broadwell based.
It's not "fine" for FPS gaming. It may be "adequate", "marginally acceptable," or possibly even "workable." But it is not "fine." Fine implies that does everything required of it, and being as it has almost no precision, it falls short in that area (as well as others, but you only need one area to be less than "fine")
[quote]games and HDTVs have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do.[/quote]
HDTVs do not have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do. SOME HDTVs may have the same amount of lag as some monitors, but I have yet to see an HDTV that has the same or less lag than the best monitors for gaming. I'm not saying they don't exist, I've just never heard of nor seen them.
stereotypical -- a witchhunt, and very quick to label this guy as a religious nut with dangerous delusions and now a sore loser --, rather justifies his decision, even at the risk of a Streisand Effect (which his opponent was very quick to pursue).
I'm not making any statements either way on he rest of your post, so don't take what I write next as a condemnation of the rest of your post:
The guy IS a religious nut. He believes in an imaginary man in the sky that watches everything he does. That is pretty much the definition of a nut. It's not a "quick to label" thing - it's simply a statement of fact.
This game has very little of the elements that make Battlefield 2 fans so loyal. I have no clue what marketing "genius" came up with the idea to call a Bad Company sequel the long awaited Battlefield 3 and thought we'd be dumb enough to swallow the bait.
Oye... I take it you've not actually played the game if you think it's a BC sequel. It is definitely a BF2 sequel. Is it the greatest game ever in the BF universe? I dunno, that's a judement call I suppose... but BF3 is definitely far more like BF2 than anything like BC/BC2.
Lots and lots (and lots!) of bugs to work out, for sure... but certainly no more bugs than BF2 had when it launched. At least I can play it for more than 10 - 15 minutes at a time without something going tits up like BF2 was on release day. The classes are actually reasonably balanced from the start (surprise!), though they can use tweaking. It's not a perfect game, but it's certainly not a BC sequel.
The controller is fine for FPS games and HDTVs have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do.
Um... no. No, and also, no. If you think a controller is fine for FPS gaming, you are not very good at FPS games. This is a fact, not an opinion. The controller does not offer the precision that a KB/Mouse offers, plain and simple. The best console player in the world of any given FPS game will get schooled by an average PC KB/Mouse player. The speed and precision just aren't there with a controller.
Anyone who has progressed beyond just sitting down to a quick game of deathmatch to something resembling competitive play will tell you straight out that a controller is a joke for serious play. The fact that you think an controller is fine for FPS indicates you've not progressed beyond the occasional game with your friends on a Saturday night, therefore, you aren't really qualified to make a judgement call as to whether or not a controller is "fine for FPS."
Many HDTVs introduce a lot more lag than a monitor, so your argument there is also false. Although, many PC monitors do have quite a bit of lag. Again, if you're buying a monitor for gaming, you should make sure you get one with low latency.
The way I see it is that the patent was filed when the first iPhone was released but was granted only today. AFAIK, this is the first device I've ever seen doing this. And no, the N1m is no prior art at all. There is no unlocking of anything on the video, so how could it be a prior art of "slide to unlock" ?
Blame it on the patent system, but not on apple for playing by the rules of the system.
Really? The first device you've ever seen doing this? I guess you've never see a bathroom stall in a public place with a SLIDE TO LOCK. Or maybe you've never flown on an airliner and use the lavatory with a SLIDE TO LOCK.
I mean, you can be forgiven for that, since locks on doors and other devices that SLIDE TO LOCK & UNLOCK have only been around a few thousand years.
Check out the WNDR3700v2. The folks doing serious research into home network performance have settled on this unit. Check out the prices on Amazon's refurbished stock - equivalent to what I was paying for 54GL's back in the day. I picked up a new for the office and a refurb for home.
They have lots of RAM, a decent processor, and dual-band radios. I think it's the 54G for the new decade.
Since the OP is intending to run DD-WRT on it, it doesn't really matter... but this router is a piece o' crap with the stock firmware. The external drive function has never worked properly, Netgear has known about the bug and never bothered to fix it. The drive(s) will go offline for no explicable reason and require a power cycle. If you aren't using that portion of the router, it's probably fine, but since I purchased this router for my parents house and purchased it explicitly for the extra drive connectivity, I am rather displeased. A quick scan of the Netgear forums reveals that it's a known issue, many people have it, Netgear just doesn't care and won't issue a fix for it.
Because they invented it, remember (you know, the multiple fingers thing... pinch to zoom, etc)? And the term "Multi-Touch" was never used before January 2007 (ever by anyone) when it was first revealed.
Wow, really? Synaptics might have a few things to say about that, since I was using their products and experimenting with multiple touchs on their touchpads in 2003, a full 4 years before it was even a gleam in Apples eye. If I were Synaptics, I'd be suing the shit out of Apple for patent infringement... even though a touch pad and a smart phone are two different things, Apple can sue Samsung for making their tablet, you know.. rectangular! Why not sue Apple for making their phone rectangular, just like a touch pad!
The law does not allow one to discriminate upon certain grounds even if it is the most efficacious choice.
But that is not what you said. Let me requote you again:
My argument is that a perfectly neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children.
Your assertion is that an American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children. Your argument makes no mention of moral or ethical implications, only that a neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary. I pointed out that the argument for it is based off what is most efficacious, not what is ethical or moral. You were not arguing the moral or ethical implications in your post, only what is absolutely necessary.
But, if you want to bring the moral and ethical side into it, what is the definition of absolutely necessary? I would say the efficiency of learning and providing the greatest amount of good to the greatest amount of people would qualify as "absolutely necessary." If your definition of "absolutely necessary" is "whatever works well enough to get by," then I would like to point out that is exactly the reason our education system is in such decline. It is exactly that line of reasoning that our public school system is in such sorry, pathetic shape.
No child left behind. Cater to the lowest common denominator. Teach to the test. Etc...
We hamstring and neuter our education system so that we do not trample on the sensitive feelings of those that can't or won't keep up or make accommodations for the culture they have decided to be a part of. When I move to other countries (or even just travel) I make every effort to conform to local customs, traditions and even language. I do not (Yeah, I know, rare for an American) try to force my language or ideals on my host culture. I listen to how they speak and I try to imitate it as best I can. I very seriously dislike the "polite" people that will not correct me when I make a mistake - I want to be corrected, I want to understand and I want to be understood. No person in a foreign (to them) culture should strive for anything less. To not do so is not only rude but the height of arrogance.
My argument is that a perfectly neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children.
I don't think this is about what is absolutely necessary, but what is the most efficacious. There can really be no argument that teaching in a neutral "accent" is the most efficacious for the most number of people. Other issues not withstanding.
if you the rest of the world all spoke the Queens sodding English as we taught it to you, Then there wouldnt be a problem.
Yes there would, we'd have already used up all the supply of vowels buried in the ground. We're really close to peak vowel consumption now... if we had been using the Queens English from the get-go, all those extra vowels we'd have been using would have consumed the supply long ago.
You Limey's should be thanking us for allowing you to continue in your wanton use of superfluous vowels. Letting you live in the lap of vowel luxury while we labor under the sharp lash of the consonant, with no soft, fluffy vowels to make our lives as easy as yours.
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What? Smartphone pioneer? How do they figure that?
They were a PDA pioneer, but did very little, if anything revolutionary or pioneering in the Smartphone space. They just did what everyone else was doing... they did not pioneer anything in that space. They were already pretty much washed up and a has-been by the time the smartphone revolution rolled around. Not saying their phones weren't nice or quality or anything, just saying they weren't anything revolutionary.
It may be inconsistent but I'm prepared to go to war with your country over thumb-first counting. Burn inifidels!
I have just one thing to say: 2 you and the swine humping oxen you rode in on!
Oh here, let me translate: 4 off heathen!
1. Politicians and government no longer represent what the people want. The bribary by the copyright lobby has gone way beyond the pale, and the political corruption of government seems unstoppable.
2. Politicians and government are now costing businesses money. While traditionally the government has supported businesses more than individuals, this has now reached the point where business finds itself at odds with the customers that provide its income, and that is a terminal situation.
The messages are pretty clear. What's unclear is where this is going, other than sending SOPA to hell.
Unfortunately, it's not a terminal situation for big business. Take a look at the telecom and to an extent the cable industries. When they start losing customers, they lobby to get "fee" attached to their bills (and other companies bills WTF!) that directly benefit them. Universal Service fund immediately springs to mind, but there are lots of other examples. Just pick up a bill and read it carefully.
Canada has that goofy law where you pay taxes on blank media... which goes directly to the recording industry. Government mandated payments to a business because the business forces away customers.
Ooops, you'll hit a problem when you get to 4 (00100).
Only if you're one of those freaks that starts counting with their thumb. The problem comes at 2 for the rest of the civilized world.
You don't hold your thumb up when you are miming to someone that you want one of something you use your index finger, so why do you start counting with your thumb? It makes no sense consistency wise.
The summary reads like an angry teenager implying that they could do better.
Really? Do yo have any idea how hard it is to actually manage launching something like that in to space? We should be more amazed when everything goes right and a rocket actually makes it there. The rocket failing is, of course, not a good thing... but at least they are trying in the face of failure, instead of giving up and whining about for a decade like the US did after the shuttle disasters.
Launching a rocket into space is a marvel of just about every discipline involved.
I did not recognize many of the names on the list... but most of the ones I did recognize read like a who's who of who to avoid doing business with. I would say roughly 90% of them are companies that have already shown themselves to be worthless scum that should be avoided. At least they are all compiled on one list now for easy viewing.
Bunch of useless pricks, all of them.
I'll wait for XBox 1.44
It's the Xbox Zip for me, or maybe even the Xbox Orb.
This device was never intended to be an iPad killer. Amazon itself said as much. The linked article makes it sound like it was set to be an iPad killer by "important people," but the link just links back to another pcmag.com article. What a joke.
The fire is not intended, has not been intended to be an iPad killer. It's a cheap tablet device that does what many people need it to do without all the extras that the iPad has that some people will never use. It's one of the primary reasons I returned my iPad and got a Color Nook and rooted it - the Nook did everything I wanted a tablet to do at a fraction of the price. If I were to do the same thing today, I would buy a fire instead of a Nook.
Slowly and carefully... You'll probably never get done and in the end you'll be applying similar band-aids to get things running/keep things going as your predecessor did. Then you'll leave and someone else will come in and the cycle will start all over.
Good luck and god speed, sir.
Yet somehow in this environment full of pirates, Call of Duty manages to make a billion dollars, Skyrim manages to make over 450 million dollars, etc. Ubisoft is full of shit and their games stopped being good a long time ago. Come to think of it no, SSI was good. But who the hell is Ubisoft? Ahh yes, they wanted to become another EA studio-devouring machine. Well the experiment has failed.
This pretty much sums it up.
I also wanted to point out that Ubisoft is not releasing a PC title because of all the piracy... so in effect, they'd rather get 0% of nothing instead of >0% of something.
Yeah... that makes sense!
I am a native speaker and I've learned many words in writing before I learned them in speech. As a result, some of my pronunciations are nonstandard. I pronounce "comparable" as if it were "compare" + "able", even though the standard way is irregular, "comp" + "arable". I tried to pronounce these words from how they were written before I'd heard them.
Where are you getting your "standard" pronunciation definition? I've heard both ways equally... though I am assuming you really mean by "comp" + "arable" as "comp" + "rable" with the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The two common pronunciations of that word are as you describe the first, and the second pronunciation completely or nearly so drop the first "a" sound by extending out the "r" sound or it being covered up by the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first. The "ar" in "arable" being overshadowed by the emphasis on "a" extending out the "r."
Integrated graphics is all well and good for the mobile market, but I bet you'll have a hard time finding anyone running integrated graphics in a home built machine
I have a number of machines running integrated graphics for numerous reasons. Least of which is the kids machines - you sure as hell don't need a discrete graphics card to play stupid little flash games and do homework.
Machines that are for checking email and surfing the web... don't really need discrete graphics either.
Plenty of reasons to use integrated graphics.
That's nice and everything, but I'll wait for Ivy Bridge, which is due March 2012.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Ivy Bridge based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Haswell, which is due in 2013.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink from Sandy Bridge if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Haswell based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Haswell, which is due in 2013.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink from Sandy Bridge if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Haswell based.
That's nice and everything, but I would just wait for Broadwell, which is due in 2014.
So yeah, just hang on for the die shrink if you care about performance and power consumption. My next system will definitely be Broadwell based.
It is false because of these two statements:
[quote]The controller is fine for FPS[/quote]
It's not "fine" for FPS gaming. It may be "adequate", "marginally acceptable," or possibly even "workable." But it is not "fine." Fine implies that does everything required of it, and being as it has almost no precision, it falls short in that area (as well as others, but you only need one area to be less than "fine")
[quote]games and HDTVs have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do.[/quote]
HDTVs do not have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do. SOME HDTVs may have the same amount of lag as some monitors, but I have yet to see an HDTV that has the same or less lag than the best monitors for gaming. I'm not saying they don't exist, I've just never heard of nor seen them.
stereotypical -- a witchhunt, and very quick to label this guy as a religious nut with dangerous delusions and now a sore loser --, rather justifies his decision, even at the risk of a Streisand Effect (which his opponent was very quick to pursue).
I'm not making any statements either way on he rest of your post, so don't take what I write next as a condemnation of the rest of your post:
The guy IS a religious nut. He believes in an imaginary man in the sky that watches everything he does. That is pretty much the definition of a nut. It's not a "quick to label" thing - it's simply a statement of fact.
This game has very little of the elements that make Battlefield 2 fans so loyal. I have no clue what marketing "genius" came up with the idea to call a Bad Company sequel the long awaited Battlefield 3 and thought we'd be dumb enough to swallow the bait.
Oye... I take it you've not actually played the game if you think it's a BC sequel. It is definitely a BF2 sequel. Is it the greatest game ever in the BF universe? I dunno, that's a judement call I suppose... but BF3 is definitely far more like BF2 than anything like BC/BC2.
Lots and lots (and lots!) of bugs to work out, for sure... but certainly no more bugs than BF2 had when it launched. At least I can play it for more than 10 - 15 minutes at a time without something going tits up like BF2 was on release day. The classes are actually reasonably balanced from the start (surprise!), though they can use tweaking. It's not a perfect game, but it's certainly not a BC sequel.
The controller is fine for FPS games and HDTVs have the same amount of lag that PC monitors do.
Um... no. No, and also, no. If you think a controller is fine for FPS gaming, you are not very good at FPS games. This is a fact, not an opinion. The controller does not offer the precision that a KB/Mouse offers, plain and simple. The best console player in the world of any given FPS game will get schooled by an average PC KB/Mouse player. The speed and precision just aren't there with a controller.
Anyone who has progressed beyond just sitting down to a quick game of deathmatch to something resembling competitive play will tell you straight out that a controller is a joke for serious play. The fact that you think an controller is fine for FPS indicates you've not progressed beyond the occasional game with your friends on a Saturday night, therefore, you aren't really qualified to make a judgement call as to whether or not a controller is "fine for FPS."
Many HDTVs introduce a lot more lag than a monitor, so your argument there is also false. Although, many PC monitors do have quite a bit of lag. Again, if you're buying a monitor for gaming, you should make sure you get one with low latency.
The way I see it is that the patent was filed when the first iPhone was released but was granted only today. AFAIK, this is the first device I've ever seen doing this. And no, the N1m is no prior art at all. There is no unlocking of anything on the video, so how could it be a prior art of "slide to unlock" ?
Blame it on the patent system, but not on apple for playing by the rules of the system.
Really? The first device you've ever seen doing this? I guess you've never see a bathroom stall in a public place with a SLIDE TO LOCK. Or maybe you've never flown on an airliner and use the lavatory with a SLIDE TO LOCK.
I mean, you can be forgiven for that, since locks on doors and other devices that SLIDE TO LOCK & UNLOCK have only been around a few thousand years.
Check out the WNDR3700v2. The folks doing serious research into home network performance have settled on this unit. Check out the prices on Amazon's refurbished stock - equivalent to what I was paying for 54GL's back in the day. I picked up a new for the office and a refurb for home.
They have lots of RAM, a decent processor, and dual-band radios. I think it's the 54G for the new decade.
Since the OP is intending to run DD-WRT on it, it doesn't really matter... but this router is a piece o' crap with the stock firmware. The external drive function has never worked properly, Netgear has known about the bug and never bothered to fix it. The drive(s) will go offline for no explicable reason and require a power cycle. If you aren't using that portion of the router, it's probably fine, but since I purchased this router for my parents house and purchased it explicitly for the extra drive connectivity, I am rather displeased. A quick scan of the Netgear forums reveals that it's a known issue, many people have it, Netgear just doesn't care and won't issue a fix for it.
Netgear can go piss up a pole.
Because they invented it, remember (you know, the multiple fingers thing... pinch to zoom, etc)? And the term "Multi-Touch" was never used before January 2007 (ever by anyone) when it was first revealed.
Wow, really? Synaptics might have a few things to say about that, since I was using their products and experimenting with multiple touchs on their touchpads in 2003, a full 4 years before it was even a gleam in Apples eye. If I were Synaptics, I'd be suing the shit out of Apple for patent infringement... even though a touch pad and a smart phone are two different things, Apple can sue Samsung for making their tablet, you know.. rectangular! Why not sue Apple for making their phone rectangular, just like a touch pad!
This doesn't help you when you need:
1: Access to a file or files totaling more than 64 GB (or however much ram you have for caching)
2: Files not yet cached
Neither does a 64GB SSD, brainiac.
Hey dipshit, I have a newsflash for you: They have 500 GB SSD drives. 128GB SSD drives are under a $100 now a days.
Buy a clue before posting, idiot. You fucking moron.
The law does not allow one to discriminate upon certain grounds even if it is the most efficacious choice.
But that is not what you said. Let me requote you again:
My argument is that a perfectly neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children.
Your assertion is that an American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children. Your argument makes no mention of moral or ethical implications, only that a neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary. I pointed out that the argument for it is based off what is most efficacious, not what is ethical or moral. You were not arguing the moral or ethical implications in your post, only what is absolutely necessary.
But, if you want to bring the moral and ethical side into it, what is the definition of absolutely necessary? I would say the efficiency of learning and providing the greatest amount of good to the greatest amount of people would qualify as "absolutely necessary." If your definition of "absolutely necessary" is "whatever works well enough to get by," then I would like to point out that is exactly the reason our education system is in such decline. It is exactly that line of reasoning that our public school system is in such sorry, pathetic shape.
No child left behind.
Cater to the lowest common denominator.
Teach to the test.
Etc...
We hamstring and neuter our education system so that we do not trample on the sensitive feelings of those that can't or won't keep up or make accommodations for the culture they have decided to be a part of. When I move to other countries (or even just travel) I make every effort to conform to local customs, traditions and even language. I do not (Yeah, I know, rare for an American) try to force my language or ideals on my host culture. I listen to how they speak and I try to imitate it as best I can. I very seriously dislike the "polite" people that will not correct me when I make a mistake - I want to be corrected, I want to understand and I want to be understood. No person in a foreign (to them) culture should strive for anything less. To not do so is not only rude but the height of arrogance.
There's a standard contraction for the "of" sound: "would've been".
Umm... no... that is a contraction of "would have," thus the " 've " and not "would'f."
My argument is that a perfectly neutral American accent is not absolutely necessary to teach children.
I don't think this is about what is absolutely necessary, but what is the most efficacious. There can really be no argument that teaching in a neutral "accent" is the most efficacious for the most number of people. Other issues not withstanding.
if you the rest of the world all spoke the Queens sodding English as we taught it to you, Then there wouldnt be a problem.
Yes there would, we'd have already used up all the supply of vowels buried in the ground. We're really close to peak vowel consumption now... if we had been using the Queens English from the get-go, all those extra vowels we'd have been using would have consumed the supply long ago.
You Limey's should be thanking us for allowing you to continue in your wanton use of superfluous vowels. Letting you live in the lap of vowel luxury while we labor under the sharp lash of the consonant, with no soft, fluffy vowels to make our lives as easy as yours.