We have logging roads too. They tend to be insane, rutted potholes that don't generally deserve the name and are not traversed by anyone other than logging trucks, loggers, and people using them to get back into the woods. It's often easier to walk them than drive them (I know. I've used more than a few for the last reason).
However, we have a lot of roads made for "normal" traffic that really aren't suited to semis and other large trucks for the reasons I mentioned. A lot of the roads in this state (especially in the older towns and cities) were originally made for horses and the layouts are frequently anything but grid-based (Ohio was a testing ground for different city planning methods. Go west of here, and most towns and cities tend to be laid out in a general grid).
For that price you could buy a real sword and armor.
You can buy a real sword and armor for significantly less than that.
A well tempered, well made sword designed for actual use will run between $100 and, say, $1000 (unless you want an expensive antique or a sword made by a well-known master smith) depending on type of sword, maker, how fancy you want it, etc (average cost is more along the lines of $250-$600).
A good suit of chain mail can be gotten for between $250 (for butted mail) and $700 (for riveted mail from some makers) or you can go for the suit of plate mail for something in the neighborhood of $1400.
Add in a shield for between $100 and $300 depending on size, type, and materials, and about $200 or $250 for a helm.
Perhaps another couple hundred dollars for a dagger and mace, hand axe, or hammer and you're pretty well set.
So low end you'd be looking at about $350-$400 (less if you go with a leather brigandine or other light armor) and high end, somewhere in the neighborhood of about $3000 (and that was if you really wanted to splurge and get a stupidly expensive sword. Realistically, high end would be closer to about $2500-$2800).
Oh, we have our share of fools on wheels in the general population as well, but Ohio (where I am) tends to be a pretty large truck shipping hub, so we get more than our fair share of the good, the bad, and the just plain stupid when it comes to truckers.
I blame a lot of the increase in problems here over the last decade or so to those "learn to be a trucker in 40 days" programs that have been popping up all over the place. Most of the people I've seen who go through those have absolutely no idea how to handle their rigs and are bloody dangerous.
Can I request that the small path leading to my cottage be erased so that I may get less Jehovah's Witnesses traffic?
I inadvertently found a solution to that problem in my early teens. I was training in the back yard and came inside to get something to drink via the door at the back of the house. There was a knock at the front door, so I walked across the house to answer it since I was the only one home.
I opened the door, and there were the Jehovah's Witnesses. They took one look at me, and decided they didn't want to stay. Apparently something about a teenager in robes with a pair of swords strapped to his back and his hair matted to his forehead with sweat just didn't sit well with them...
Never did see them again. In fact, we never even got another one of those magazines left in our door after that...
I'm in Ohio, which is a major truck shipping hub, and we have a lot of "No Truck" roads. They're generally declared that because of the width of the road, excessive curves, etc or because it goes through nothing but residential neighborhoods (which some truckers try to use as shortcuts and end up causing a number of accidents on).
Glad your father came out of the ordeal alright. I've met a few Canadian truckers. They tend to be rather unpleasant (unlike most of the other Canadians I've known over the years).
Some of the interstates (and a lot of cities, for that matter) here in the US aren't any better. I have far too many stories of almost being run off the road by long haul truckers that either aren't paying any attention to the road or are literally falling asleep at the wheel. It's crazy.
Then there was the night that I almost got run off the bridge over the Mississippi river while driving into St Louis by a crazy guy driving a FedEx truck. Must have been a *really* urgent package delivery.
The understood subject of "people" can exist because "Most" can be treated as an adjective in this instance. "Most" describes some group of things (depending on the subject of the sentence, it could have been people, puppies, killer robots, flying spaghetti monsters, etc etc etc). It isn't restricted to declarative sentences.
"Yeah, that makes a lot of sense once we remove the phrases that the nested prepositional phrases modify."
You really seem to be having a problem understanding the following.
1) A prepositional phrase is a group of words in the form of [preposition][optional adjectives][object]. The object comes last. In order for there to be nesting, it would have to be done *in the place where the adjectives are expected*. 2) There are 3 prepositional phrases. 2a) One is used as an adjective. 2b) Two are used as adverbs. 3) Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. 4) There is no nesting.
"Most in search of malware for offensive use know the good stuff."
Breaking the sentence down, you get the following
[subject] [prepositional phrase used as an adjective] [prepositional phrase used as an adverb] [prepositional phrase used as an adverb] [verb] [adjective] [object].
Now, treating the prepositional phrases as the part of speech they are used as, you get:
Taking the adjective out of the sentence leaves two adverbs that don't have a real use. It doesn't work even if prepositional phrases *weren't* involved. You're trying to prove an incorrect conclusion using an equally incorrect argument.
Actually, "most" could be interpreted two ways. One is as a plural pronoun, however the other is as an adjective for the understood subject "people" (understood in the same way that "you" is in the sentence "Do the dishes"). Both would be acceptable.
Additionally, the prepositional phrases are not nested, and all three are indeed prepositional phrases. The first is used as an adjective, and the last two as adverbs. Prepositional phrases are categorized as a sequence of preposition [adjectives] subject.
I could repeat your advice about being an ass, but that would be tacky.
Criticizing the sentence and then showing your lack of expertise in the language?:P
"Use" is not a verb in this sentence. Use as in "I have found a use for this" is a noun.
"Offensive" is used as an adjective describing "use"
"Good" is used to describe "stuff" and in this context it means "good at what it was meant to do". It isn't confusing at all.
It isn't three levels of prepositional phrases. It's three prepositional phrases back to back (which is also not uncommon). "in search" (preposition, object) "of malware" (preposition, object) "for offensive use" (preposition adjective object).
Kid, my rant isn't mouth breathing in the least nor is it defensive. In fact, its purpose was to teach you something. I hope you learn the lesson some day - more people need to.
As for why I said it, spreading mirth is often a positive thing.
You have a great deal to learn. (Among them is that following an "apology" with an insult is not the mark of an apology.)
No, kiddo, the reason it seems funny is the cultural disconnect, and like it or not Steinbeck is a part of the culture. You're "if this were before the time of Steinbeck" comment just shows how much you don't get it and how far you are going out of your way to be uptight.
"In my opinion, laughing at the guy's name (which itself carries some weight of history and knowledge deeper than probably you or I ever regularly conjure) simply shows ignorance"
First off, *most* names have a deeper meaning than most people think. Secondly, it isn't always a sign of ignorance. As I said, sometimes you need to appreciate the humor in the world around you, which you still don't seem to understand (Heck, Jesus Pagan understood and was quite a good sport about it. We used to joke with each other regularly on a variety of things including our own names).
Research is a fine thing, but don't let it kill the joy in life. Just because you understand the roots of something doesn't mean it still isn't amusing. It just means that you're uptight.
I know you're probably at that point in life where you think that being a geek and an intellectual means that you have to kill the fun in everything, but it doesn't and you may learn that sometime.
Finally, I can assure you that I am neither a "doorknob" nor am I uneducated. In fact, I am educated, at least moderately intelligent, and have quite a lot of experience in a wide variety of fields (intellectual, cultural, and otherwise).
Stop being so bloody serious. You'll die of a heart attack or aneurism by the time you're 40. The world is full of humor. Take some time to find and enjoy it. Yelling at it just makes you look like an ass.
Life doesn't take you seriously. Return the favor.
I'm sorry that you're so uptight that you fail to see humor in the world and are, in fact, I'd say you're getting bent out of shape over this just to have something to gripe about.
Well, as the OP, I can say that race and nationality have nothing to do with it.
It's a great example of a difference between cultures, and in my opinion is indeed amusing. An intelligent Nimrod, which is slang for someone stupid (and he does indeed seem to be quite intelligent).
In my time, I've encountered quite a few amusing names - among them Placenta, Cantaloupe, and Jesus Pagan (pronounced hey-sus pay-gon. Jr, if you believe it. Even more amusingly, he worked in robotics. It just seemed fitting. He was a heck of a guy and, in my opinion, proof that the divine has a sense of humor).
Not that you would understand the humor behind any of them because you just want to be a troll instead of seeing the humor inherent in life.
I can't really imagine people texting while driving, though I hear that a lot do try to kill themselves in this manor.
Many parts of Europe are different from the US in that most people use public transit. You also have to consider that, in a car containing more than one person, not everyone is driving.
Those facts make messaging while being in transit a whole lot more appealing and a lot less dangerous.
I went shopping on Black Friday a few years ago. My general comment has been that I will only do it again if I'm armed. Those people are freaking crazy. It's like a bunch of rabid Tasmanian devils...
Counterexample for your "Only gamers need that" rant.
My laptop (2.4ghz, 512MB ram running XP) runs fine for most things. However, I have issues while running an IDE (Visual Studio or Eclipse), having a browser open, aim, and a couple of e-books up. It doesn't lock up, but it does tend to crawl at times(more so with Eclipse than Visual Studio).
Granted, that's not a normal user thing to do, but it's something other than playing games where the system resources are taxed quite heavily. Needless to say that I'm going to be dropping more ram into it in the near future.
I'll leave the calculus as an exercise for the reader.
Ah, but that requires the following questions:
How many zune products are there? How many Apple products are there?
Chances are that a much higher percentage of Zune's total product offerings are on that list than Apple has.
Apple has largely banked on it being the "In" thing, so they constantly come out with new models, which everyone who already has one of the older ones "simply must" have the new generation of.
No, it should be just as it was written. It's the percentage of *users* who answered the survey, not the percentage of all answers that were a particular answer.
Given your sample data, ~67% of *users* use each of the operating systems.
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We have logging roads too. They tend to be insane, rutted potholes that don't generally deserve the name and are not traversed by anyone other than logging trucks, loggers, and people using them to get back into the woods. It's often easier to walk them than drive them (I know. I've used more than a few for the last reason).
However, we have a lot of roads made for "normal" traffic that really aren't suited to semis and other large trucks for the reasons I mentioned. A lot of the roads in this state (especially in the older towns and cities) were originally made for horses and the layouts are frequently anything but grid-based (Ohio was a testing ground for different city planning methods. Go west of here, and most towns and cities tend to be laid out in a general grid).
For that price you could buy a real sword and armor.
You can buy a real sword and armor for significantly less than that.
A well tempered, well made sword designed for actual use will run between $100 and, say, $1000 (unless you want an expensive antique or a sword made by a well-known master smith) depending on type of sword, maker, how fancy you want it, etc (average cost is more along the lines of $250-$600).
A good suit of chain mail can be gotten for between $250 (for butted mail) and $700 (for riveted mail from some makers) or you can go for the suit of plate mail for something in the neighborhood of $1400.
Add in a shield for between $100 and $300 depending on size, type, and materials, and about $200 or $250 for a helm.
Perhaps another couple hundred dollars for a dagger and mace, hand axe, or hammer and you're pretty well set.
So low end you'd be looking at about $350-$400 (less if you go with a leather brigandine or other light armor) and high end, somewhere in the neighborhood of about $3000 (and that was if you really wanted to splurge and get a stupidly expensive sword. Realistically, high end would be closer to about $2500-$2800).
Oh, we have our share of fools on wheels in the general population as well, but Ohio (where I am) tends to be a pretty large truck shipping hub, so we get more than our fair share of the good, the bad, and the just plain stupid when it comes to truckers.
I blame a lot of the increase in problems here over the last decade or so to those "learn to be a trucker in 40 days" programs that have been popping up all over the place. Most of the people I've seen who go through those have absolutely no idea how to handle their rigs and are bloody dangerous.
Can I request that the small path leading to my cottage be erased so that I may get less Jehovah's Witnesses traffic?
I inadvertently found a solution to that problem in my early teens. I was training in the back yard and came inside to get something to drink via the door at the back of the house. There was a knock at the front door, so I walked across the house to answer it since I was the only one home.
I opened the door, and there were the Jehovah's Witnesses. They took one look at me, and decided they didn't want to stay. Apparently something about a teenager in robes with a pair of swords strapped to his back and his hair matted to his forehead with sweat just didn't sit well with them...
Never did see them again. In fact, we never even got another one of those magazines left in our door after that...
I'm in Ohio, which is a major truck shipping hub, and we have a lot of "No Truck" roads. They're generally declared that because of the width of the road, excessive curves, etc or because it goes through nothing but residential neighborhoods (which some truckers try to use as shortcuts and end up causing a number of accidents on).
Glad your father came out of the ordeal alright. I've met a few Canadian truckers. They tend to be rather unpleasant (unlike most of the other Canadians I've known over the years).
Some of the interstates (and a lot of cities, for that matter) here in the US aren't any better. I have far too many stories of almost being run off the road by long haul truckers that either aren't paying any attention to the road or are literally falling asleep at the wheel. It's crazy.
Then there was the night that I almost got run off the bridge over the Mississippi river while driving into St Louis by a crazy guy driving a FedEx truck. Must have been a *really* urgent package delivery.
Hey now. anonymous coward has a 3 digit uid. It's 666.
Seriously.
"isn't restricted to declarative sentences"
Commands rather. (Again multi-tasking bites me in the rear as I try to arrange thoughts).
While it's true that it's most common in commands, it is by no means restricted to them.
The understood subject of "people" can exist because "Most" can be treated as an adjective in this instance. "Most" describes some group of things (depending on the subject of the sentence, it could have been people, puppies, killer robots, flying spaghetti monsters, etc etc etc). It isn't restricted to declarative sentences.
"Yeah, that makes a lot of sense once we remove the phrases that the nested prepositional phrases modify."
You really seem to be having a problem understanding the following.
1) A prepositional phrase is a group of words in the form of [preposition][optional adjectives][object]. The object comes last. In order for there to be nesting, it would have to be done *in the place where the adjectives are expected*.
2) There are 3 prepositional phrases.
2a) One is used as an adjective.
2b) Two are used as adverbs.
3) Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs.
4) There is no nesting.
"Most in search of malware for offensive use know the good stuff."
Breaking the sentence down, you get the following
[subject] [prepositional phrase used as an adjective] [prepositional phrase used as an adverb] [prepositional phrase used as an adverb] [verb] [adjective] [object].
Now, treating the prepositional phrases as the part of speech they are used as, you get:
[subject] [adjective] [adverb] [adverb] [verb] [adjective] [object].
Taking the adjective out of the sentence leaves two adverbs that don't have a real use. It doesn't work even if prepositional phrases *weren't* involved. You're trying to prove an incorrect conclusion using an equally incorrect argument.
Your self-congratulations are misplaced.
preposition [adjectives] object rather.
(this is what I get for multitasking)
Actually, "most" could be interpreted two ways. One is as a plural pronoun, however the other is as an adjective for the understood subject "people" (understood in the same way that "you" is in the sentence "Do the dishes"). Both would be acceptable.
Additionally, the prepositional phrases are not nested, and all three are indeed prepositional phrases. The first is used as an adjective, and the last two as adverbs. Prepositional phrases are categorized as a sequence of preposition [adjectives] subject.
I could repeat your advice about being an ass, but that would be tacky.
Criticizing the sentence and then showing your lack of expertise in the language? :P
"Use" is not a verb in this sentence. Use as in "I have found a use for this" is a noun.
"Offensive" is used as an adjective describing "use"
"Good" is used to describe "stuff" and in this context it means "good at what it was meant to do". It isn't confusing at all.
It isn't three levels of prepositional phrases. It's three prepositional phrases back to back (which is also not uncommon). "in search" (preposition, object) "of malware" (preposition, object) "for offensive use" (preposition adjective object).
also
Most (people - understood. common in English)
You're welcome
Kid, my rant isn't mouth breathing in the least nor is it defensive. In fact, its purpose was to teach you something. I hope you learn the lesson some day - more people need to.
As for why I said it, spreading mirth is often a positive thing.
You have a great deal to learn. (Among them is that following an "apology" with an insult is not the mark of an apology.)
No, kiddo, the reason it seems funny is the cultural disconnect, and like it or not Steinbeck is a part of the culture. You're "if this were before the time of Steinbeck" comment just shows how much you don't get it and how far you are going out of your way to be uptight.
"In my opinion, laughing at the guy's name (which itself carries some weight of history and knowledge deeper than probably you or I ever regularly conjure) simply shows ignorance"
First off, *most* names have a deeper meaning than most people think. Secondly, it isn't always a sign of ignorance. As I said, sometimes you need to appreciate the humor in the world around you, which you still don't seem to understand (Heck, Jesus Pagan understood and was quite a good sport about it. We used to joke with each other regularly on a variety of things including our own names).
Research is a fine thing, but don't let it kill the joy in life. Just because you understand the roots of something doesn't mean it still isn't amusing. It just means that you're uptight.
I know you're probably at that point in life where you think that being a geek and an intellectual means that you have to kill the fun in everything, but it doesn't and you may learn that sometime.
Finally, I can assure you that I am neither a "doorknob" nor am I uneducated. In fact, I am educated, at least moderately intelligent, and have quite a lot of experience in a wide variety of fields (intellectual, cultural, and otherwise).
Stop being so bloody serious. You'll die of a heart attack or aneurism by the time you're 40. The world is full of humor. Take some time to find and enjoy it. Yelling at it just makes you look like an ass.
Life doesn't take you seriously. Return the favor.
I'm sorry that you're so uptight that you fail to see humor in the world and are, in fact, I'd say you're getting bent out of shape over this just to have something to gripe about.
Well, as the OP, I can say that race and nationality have nothing to do with it.
It's a great example of a difference between cultures, and in my opinion is indeed amusing. An intelligent Nimrod, which is slang for someone stupid (and he does indeed seem to be quite intelligent).
In my time, I've encountered quite a few amusing names - among them Placenta, Cantaloupe, and Jesus Pagan (pronounced hey-sus pay-gon. Jr, if you believe it. Even more amusingly, he worked in robotics. It just seemed fitting. He was a heck of a guy and, in my opinion, proof that the divine has a sense of humor).
Not that you would understand the humor behind any of them because you just want to be a troll instead of seeing the humor inherent in life.
Kid, humor is where you find it.
Maybe you'll understand that when you stop being a troll. =]
I take it you don't know anyone from Hawaii.
I have no plans to use gdrive or google apps for the reason outlined as well as others.
However, I have to ask...
Am I the only one who got a chuckle out of the professor's name? Nimrod
If the GPL is not a contract, then what is it?
A License, which is what the L stands for.
One of the characteristics of a contract is that it's negotiable.
I can't really imagine people texting while driving, though I hear that a lot do try to kill themselves in this manor.
Many parts of Europe are different from the US in that most people use public transit. You also have to consider that, in a car containing more than one person, not everyone is driving.
Those facts make messaging while being in transit a whole lot more appealing and a lot less dangerous.
I went shopping on Black Friday a few years ago. My general comment has been that I will only do it again if I'm armed. Those people are freaking crazy. It's like a bunch of rabid Tasmanian devils...
Counterexample for your "Only gamers need that" rant.
My laptop (2.4ghz, 512MB ram running XP) runs fine for most things. However, I have issues while running an IDE (Visual Studio or Eclipse), having a browser open, aim, and a couple of e-books up. It doesn't lock up, but it does tend to crawl at times(more so with Eclipse than Visual Studio).
Granted, that's not a normal user thing to do, but it's something other than playing games where the system resources are taxed quite heavily. Needless to say that I'm going to be dropping more ram into it in the near future.
Count - The bestseller list has:
4 Zune products
13 Apple products
I'll leave the calculus as an exercise for the reader.
Ah, but that requires the following questions:
How many zune products are there?
How many Apple products are there?
Chances are that a much higher percentage of Zune's total product offerings are on that list than Apple has.
Apple has largely banked on it being the "In" thing, so they constantly come out with new models, which everyone who already has one of the older ones "simply must" have the new generation of.
It happens. No big deal. :P
WTF kind of math is that? Shouldn't it really be:
Ubuntu = 2/4 = 50%
Red Hat = 2/4 = 50%
No, it should be just as it was written. It's the percentage of *users* who answered the survey, not the percentage of all answers that were a particular answer.
Given your sample data, ~67% of *users* use each of the operating systems.