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  1. Re:moderate parent (-1 bad grammar) on Cyrix III Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    The grammar in the post to which you are replying is impeccable. Why didn't you understand it?

  2. Re:Tom's Charts on Cyrix III Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    "Yoda you talk like." What is that? Yoda uses correct grammar, save for some dangling participles. 'Yoda you talk like' is a travesty of grammar, if I can use the term so loosely.

    Perhaps "Talk like Yoda you do" is the sentence you were looking for?

  3. Re:moderate parent (-1 bad grammar) on Cyrix III Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    Come on, grammar nazi! "They aren't worried about competing with one of their better processors, because they don't have any better processors." That comma DOES NOT belong there!

    "With performance ratings like what the Cyrix 3 got..." Like what the Cyrix 3 got? Please, please, please. That 'what' is horribly misused.

    Get with it! You do not deserve your self-assigned title.

    That last paragraph hurt my eyes! ;)

  4. Re:Come sirrah Jack Straw! on Slashback: Attenuation, Maturity, Packaging · · Score: 2

    i dunno what tha language is. sera is french for "will be." there's no accent on the a.

  5. Re:Come sirrah Jack Straw! on Slashback: Attenuation, Maturity, Packaging · · Score: 2

    "sera" is future tense, so more accurately:

    "Whatever will happen will happen."

    Note the correct english grammar too ;)

  6. Re:Eliminates costly programming errors ... on Microsoft Releases C# Language Reference · · Score: 2

    I don't know what you're smoking. Do this in your compiler:

    #include
    int main() {
    int a;
    cout a;
    return 0;
    }

    You will not get 0, I promise. I got -188293. Yes I just got out of CS1, and I learned that. The int a; line declares the memory address a uses, and as soon as we reference it in cout a;, it pulls whatever it finds in that memory address. C++ does not automagically set that memory address to 0.

  7. Re:MP3 can sound as good as CD on Kenwood Tries To Improve MP3 Sound · · Score: 3

    Aiwa's got one for around $300. And with that Kenwood (Z919 I believe?), it isn't like you're buying a $200 cd receiver and paying $450 for the mp3 capability. The Z919 is, from what I hear and see at least, a damn fine in-dash CD receiver. $650 does seem a bit steep though..I could pick up a good Sony Mobile ES receiver, a decent 4-way amplifier (75-100 watts), and maybe a pair of Infinity Kappa 6x9's for my back deck for all that :)

  8. Re:Warning: article contains bad grammar on The Challenges Of Integrating Unix And Mac OS · · Score: 2

    I'm shocked by you, grammar nazi. Though you usually find a couple of the more egregrious grammar errors in documents and miss the more subtle ones, I find it amazing that you make so many in your posts.

    To be fair, my first nit to pick is style and not grammar: "imroper, non-American, and redundant grammar" is indeed redundant from your point of view ;). Additionally, according to my 20 volume OED (as well as dictionary.com), "Arian" refers to one born under the sign of Aries or relating to the Roman bishop Arius. Perhaps you were looking for "Aryan," which refers to the Nordic Caucasian gentiles of Nazism.

    I've seen various other grammar errors in your other posts, but have refrained from pointing any of them out to you. I suggest you pick up a copy of Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay : Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged or, preferably, Elements of Grammar. In any case, you can always email me for grammar tips; I proofread theses and papers for fun. To the morrow.

  9. Re:Laptops on Airplanes on Computers And The Noise They Make · · Score: 2

    You're smoking some bad crack. I have never been on a flight which hasn't allowed me to use my nice shiny Thinkpad. You obviously haven't flwon in a while.

    Laptops are in the same category as cd players and walkmans on airplanes...once they've started cruising, use it all you like. Cell phones are a quite different story..they were designed to emit large amounts of radiation in communications bands, I would think.

    Anyway, why do you think they make dvd playser for laptops? Those coast to coast business flights :P

  10. Re:Virii? on Vir[i/ii/a/uses] As Nano-Blueprints? (Updated) · · Score: 5

    I'd like to know where you got viri. References, or something? The conjugation (I suppose that's what it is in Latin) of a noun in Latin doesn't mean that form is an English word.

    According to Miriam-Webster's, the Oxford English Dictionary (a huge volume I have in print), dictionary.com, Brittanica, and Encarta, the plural for virus - in English now - is viruses. None of these sources have any entry or make any reference to either "viri" or "virii."

  11. Re:*sigh* on Barbie Demands A Domain · · Score: 2

    With what company does the laundry soap share a name, exactly?

  12. Re:Robotech! on Essential Anime · · Score: 2

    If I recall the Pirates of DarkWater or some such was an awesome cartoon...and the death toll was quite high each show, which was very surprising. I don't off-hand recall any of the main characters dying, but I didn't see too many of the shows.

  13. Re:Two Issues Here on Rural India Could Get Internet Access Via Railway · · Score: 2

    Well basically there's no evidence for it. every study that has attempted to validate it has failed miserably. THAT invalidates the model

  14. Re:Not a troll post on Apogee(r) Bans Negative Reviews? · · Score: 2

    I think the point of the license is not to control negative reviews, as another poster pointed out. They're allowing fan sites to use their trademarks, as long as...say, your site's title graphic isn't a drawing of a gorilla taking a shit on the Apogee logo.

    Don't freak out people, no one mentioned the UCITA. The CEO and founder of Apogee is laughing at our reaction - he knows he couldn't sue for a negative review.

  15. Re:Two Issues Here on Rural India Could Get Internet Access Via Railway · · Score: 1

    FWIW, Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a classic model of how NOT to do psychology. It's an interesting, captivating, intuitive look at the human psyche, but it was based on no evidence. The massive amounts of studies done on it have proven it wrong over and over. People tend to skip severeal layers at once, ignore some layers, etc.

  16. Re:$0.10 more a stick? Try $0.10 more a chip. on RAM Prices Expected To Skyrocket This Week · · Score: 2

    16 to make a 256 MB DIMM? 64Mb / 8 = 8 MB. That means _32_ to make a 256 MB DIMM, and I have yet to see a DIMM with 32 chips. Expect the price increase for the 256 MB DIMM to be a little greater than you predicted.

  17. Re:What The Fuck Does A Ski Mask Have To Do With I on Seagram Declares War On Napster · · Score: 2

    Drivers license and ss#?? I've been selling and buying on ebay for quite some time...but i've never had to do anything to my driver's license or type my ss#.

    What are you talking about?

  18. Re:Finally! on Cisco's IP Phones - Seven Digits And Cat5 · · Score: 1

    Nope. Because of deregulation, all the LD providers have access to the same phone lines.
    You dont have an MCI _and_ an AT&T phone line into your house. Thats an AT&T phone line. But the feds have said that MCI/Sprint and whoever else can use it.

  19. Re:Look on the bright side... on Los Alamos Lab: We're OK, You're OK · · Score: 2

    Things don't glow in the dark after being exposed to radioactivity. That's akin to saying that my floor will glow for a while after i turn the lights out because it's been exposed to EM radiation.

    A material will not emit light because it was exposed to any sort of radiation, sorry.
    I wonder where that comes from...whenever someone wants to show that something is radioactive, it glows green...
    Anyone know who came up with that?

  20. Re:Finally! on Cisco's IP Phones - Seven Digits And Cat5 · · Score: 1

    Long distance monopolies? What company has a monopoly on long distance?
    Silly me, I thought that those commercials from MCI, Sprint, and AT&T meant that I could choose any of them...

  21. Re:I worked at Oracle - this is a flop. on Larry Ellison's Next NC -- But Not Yet For You · · Score: 2

    Did you even read any of this? This isn't an Oracle venture, it's Ellison and Ellison only. It has nothing to do with Oracle.

  22. Re:Useful, but... on Larry Ellison's Next NC -- But Not Yet For You · · Score: 3

    Because a very small percentage of these children will ever need to know what a directory tree structure is or how to manage a large database. These computers are NETWORK computers. Think Internet.

    The Internet is a useful medium for anyone, just as television, magazines, and radio. These aren't intended to make kids literate in MySQL, but to give them the opportunity to make use of the vast resources available on the web.

  23. Re:"Identify new business opportunities..." on Red Hat Ventures To Fund Open Source · · Score: 2

    Red Hat doesn't make ANY money.

  24. Re:He served his time, let him make a living! on Mitnick Ordered Off Lecture Circuit · · Score: 3

    There is a difference between these:

    1) Aquiring skills, using them to commit a crime, doing time, and coming out and using those skills constructively.

    2) Aquiring skills, using them to commit a crime, doing time, then coming out and making money off of the _crime itself_.

  25. Re:It's not that difficult, guys? on WinDSL Coming? · · Score: 2

    The problem, as another poster pointed out, is that most DSL vendors give you a DSL modem to use for the duration of your contract/subscription. With these, they'll continue to charge the same price, but you get a shitty modem. Someone said there would be Linux support, but I doubt that. So those who want DSL for Linux will have to buy their own modem and still pay for the Winmodem.