Ruby's pretty much a repeat of Smalltalk (Which is cooler, more powerful and has less people caring, and in people actually using it, was unsuccessful. But it did influence Java some) with "normal" syntax. Although I do hope Ruby overtakes that blastedly inconsistent language known as Perl.
Hitler : ~10 million if you include jews, commies, handicapped, non-combat deaths.
Not debating that, but look at the size of the 3rd Reich in 1942, and look at the number of German cars today. Not trying to justify the Holocaust(you have to be pretty sick to do that), merely trying to say that's not the point of GP. The point of GP was that Germany became a world power.
Stalin: ~20 million.. Ever heard of a Gulag
Yep, things were pretty bad during the Soviet Union. But it wasn't much better during the days of the czars. If you count using (number of people killed/population), which is a better indicator than raw numbers, you get about equal numbers for Stalin and Catherine the Great. And although Russia isn't doing very well now, you can't deny that it was a powerhouse during the Soviet days(or else there probably wouldn't've been a Cold War).
But that emphasizes the unimportance, something you very rarely want to do. If you want to emphasize the fact that the food is being carried, just use the passive voice.;)
(I only said it is Evil(TM), not that you should never use it.)
The former often implies the latter, especially on slashdot. Mea culpa. And I agree that the passive is usually awkward and/or unneccessary, but Evil(TM) is a bit too harsh a word--Evil(TM) should be reserved for things like Microsoft, the DMCA, and software patents..
Most people who use passive seem to believe that they need to in order to take the focus away from the person doing the action, and that this is particularly important in scientific publications etc.
Okay then, translate "The window has been broken" into active voice.
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Make sure they're unmarried, that simple. No relationships == no infidelity
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" comes from Clarke, not Asimov.
I know this is a really bad pun, but oh well.
+1, Greeky
You can kill me now.
Ruby's pretty much a repeat of Smalltalk (Which is cooler, more powerful and has less people caring, and in people actually using it, was unsuccessful. But it did influence Java some) with "normal" syntax. Although I do hope Ruby overtakes that blastedly inconsistent language known as Perl.
The Romans didn't use K, you insensitive clod! (Well, they did in a few Etrusan words, but that's it)
That implies it's a person breaking the window.
Yeah, let the wonders never cease, AC.
So obviously, because SM works for VA Software(indirectly), he must support everything VA Software does!
But that emphasizes the unimportance, something you very rarely want to do. If you want to emphasize the fact that the food is being carried, just use the passive voice. ;)
Don't worry, we have the best lawyers.
..Gentoo, Ubuntu. Strike out Slackware, which is quickly becoming irrelevant, and you've got the only 4 distros that raelly matter for general use.
But if X is both ambiguous and unimportant, you're just communicating useless information.
Actually, we share 50% of our DNA with that of a banana, so it might not be like that...
But what if we don't know what X is, which we often don't?
Hilarious!
Dangit, I should have chosen a verb that doesn't have a verb equivelant to the passive form. Try "The food is being carried".
Better than ducttaping the Cheat to the top of it.
Yes, that's exactly how passive perfect tenses are done in Latin. But can you do "The window is being broken"?
Of course! The FSM can do anything!
I believe you mean Foxtrot.