Sure. But not to minors. Checking the ID of everyone who wants to buy ammo is easy. Checking the ID of the subset of CD buyers who want to buy "explicit" CDs is not.
I dunno about that. They're a pain in the ass to use (for example, if you set the white balance and then adjust the aperture, you can't change the white balance again without undoing the aperture setting), and they don't really hold up all that well. My school gives them out to film students, and they're in crappy condition after only a couple of semesters of use--people complain about dropouts all the time, even though they're DVCAM and should be more or less immune to that (and that's not to mention all the other problems they've had with them).
If you want a really nice camera in that range, pick up a Canon GL2. Easy to use (put it in automatic mode and you're all set), but highly configurable if you need that capability as well. I've known people who have bought Sony cameras and liked them, but I've also known people who've bought them and regretted them. I've never met anyone (myself included) who has bought a Canon and regretted the purchase.
Whatever camera you get, make sure you put it in a Pelican case or equivalent waterproof case. I see a lot of people buy nice cameras and then put them in soft camera bags--it boggles the mind. If you take decent care of it, and don't let too many people who don't know what they're doing screw around with it, it should last for years even with heavy use. Just clean the heads every now and then, and make sure to watch out for the "conflicting lubricant" issue by either standardizing on one brand of tape or frequently switching brands (more info on that here). Also, get a decent tripod and some sandbags, especially if you're going to leave the camera unattended. It only takes one good fall to destroy your camera completely, and that probably won't be covered under warranty.
None may very well be singular (and even that is disputed - see your own link), but it refers to a group - can you therefore not use it in conjunction with a plural verb?
You can if you want--it's an accepted usage as well. I normally wouldn't though. "None was" sounds perfectly fine to me. A lot of things that are correct may not sound right at first--"the data are" for example.
By the way, it's not disputed that "none" is singular. If you read the link carefully, you'll see that both the singular and the plural are accepted usages. My point was that the original poster was trying to nitpick a grammar point that was actually the correct (and, in fact, is generally considered the "more correct") usage.
Well, it seems to me that the proper response is to grab a CD and hurl it as hard as you can so it flies just over their heads and shatters against the back wall. When they complain that you could have hurt them, just tell them that you do it all the time and you haven't hurt anyone yet, so they must be wrong.
Penn Jillete (of Penn & Teller) once related a story in one of his books wherein he used a milkshake for self defense. He had stopped to eat in a little greasy spoon in the middle of nowhere, and he managed to get into a little altercation with a couple of truck drivers. Basically, they told him he had a choice: he could step outside and they'd beat his ass for him, or he could stay in the diner and they'd beat his ass for him anyway. So, he picked up the milkshake he was drinking and poured it all over his head. The truckers were so confused (and, at that point, probably fairly reluctant to get all sticky) that they just backed off and left.
Yeah, but I think the max speed you can get out of most equipment at those frequencies is something like 28.8kbps, maybe less. Also, I think you might run afoul of the FCC by letting a bunch of non-amateur operators use the frequencies unsupervised.
Yeah, all that and a really crappy keyboard. Seriously, I'm pretty happy with the features of my 49G+, but the build quality of the unit is very disappointing. I upgraded from a 48GX after the screen was smashed, and although I'd heard that people were unhappy with the keyboard, I kinda figured that it couldn't be all that bad. As it turns out, it misses maybe 1-3% of all keystrokes (especially on certain keys), which can really screw you up when you're doing calculations quickly and not looking at the screen to make sure you typed everything in correctly. I never had this problem with the 48--the keys had a nice tactile feedback that ensured that the key was actually entered. The 49G+ has tactile feedback, but it doesn't seem to actually relate to whether the key was registered or not. Very frustrating.
Rhetorical or not, that is the stupidest question I've ever heard. Monopoly or not, nobody would be willing to pay $100K for an OS.
The whole concept behind a monopoly is that they can increase their prices and people will have no choice but to pay them.
So.... If people have no choice but to pay whatever a monopoly asks for its product, and nobody would pay $100K for WinXP... Hmm. Sounds to me like you just proved Microsoft isn't a monopoly!
Serves him right for using a wimpy little round like 9mm. Next time try at least a.357 Magnum.... Or maybe a 10ga slug. That sure as hell wouldn't bounce.
Spending money is always better then a tax cut which is pure flushing money down the drain and doesn't help anyone.
Uh, how about the people who have to pay less in taxes? Jeezus Christ. This attitude that tax cuts should only be looked at in a larger economic sense really irritates me. How about looking at it like this:
It's my money! When you raise taxes, you are taking my money away from me! A tax cut is a good thing, in that I get to keep more of my money!
The real problem is that at 10 meters you dont want to be staying under water for anything more than about 60 minutes, due to nitrogen build up.
Well, you can stay underwater a bit longer than that. Check your dive tables. Even at 40 feet, you can stay underwater for 140 minutes, and if you don't break 35 you can still do a no-decompression dive for up to 205 minutes. I bet even longer with enriched air.
Nitrogen narcosis isn't the problem. Having your lungs explode because of the decrease in pressure is the problem. Even at 30 feet (~1 atm), air has only have the volume it does at the surface. So, when you go up but don't exhale, you've got twice as much air (by volume) in your lungs. And then you die.
Y'know, I was gonna make that joke too when I first saw the "byte-sized" in the article. Then I noticed that there were already 20 comments posted, and I was willing to bet someone else had beaten me to it.
It's pretty sad what a bunch of geeks we all are.:-)
But they didn't go far enough! They should also prevent you from editing images of coins!
Reminds me of a joke... A counterfeiter accidentally prints up a batch of $18 bills. He figures, what the heck, and heads off into the mountains to find some hillbillies, figuring they don't know anything about money anyway. He runs across a couple of them sitting on a porch, rolls down his window, and shouts, "Any of you got change for an $18 bill?"
One of them shouts back, "Sure do! You want 3 sixes or 6 threes?"
Just kinda curious.... By the time you realized you were (or had been) addicted to, say, cocaine, morphine, caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol, did it not occur to you to say, "Hey, maybe I shouldn't start using heroin too?"
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can you say 1200 baude model, I knew you could!
Can you type "1200 baud modem"? No? God damn remedial kids. I swear, I must be up to three packs a day...
Oh yeah? Well what the hell is this that I'm staring at? I bought a Umax Core Duo 7500 with Mac OS X from eBay just last week.
Well, based on the fact that there is no such thing as a "Umax Core Duo 7500", I would guess that you're likely staring at an empty crack pipe.
Sure. But not to minors. Checking the ID of everyone who wants to buy ammo is easy. Checking the ID of the subset of CD buyers who want to buy "explicit" CDs is not.
I dunno about that. They're a pain in the ass to use (for example, if you set the white balance and then adjust the aperture, you can't change the white balance again without undoing the aperture setting), and they don't really hold up all that well. My school gives them out to film students, and they're in crappy condition after only a couple of semesters of use--people complain about dropouts all the time, even though they're DVCAM and should be more or less immune to that (and that's not to mention all the other problems they've had with them).
If you want a really nice camera in that range, pick up a Canon GL2. Easy to use (put it in automatic mode and you're all set), but highly configurable if you need that capability as well. I've known people who have bought Sony cameras and liked them, but I've also known people who've bought them and regretted them. I've never met anyone (myself included) who has bought a Canon and regretted the purchase.
Whatever camera you get, make sure you put it in a Pelican case or equivalent waterproof case. I see a lot of people buy nice cameras and then put them in soft camera bags--it boggles the mind. If you take decent care of it, and don't let too many people who don't know what they're doing screw around with it, it should last for years even with heavy use. Just clean the heads every now and then, and make sure to watch out for the "conflicting lubricant" issue by either standardizing on one brand of tape or frequently switching brands (more info on that here). Also, get a decent tripod and some sandbags, especially if you're going to leave the camera unattended. It only takes one good fall to destroy your camera completely, and that probably won't be covered under warranty.
None may very well be singular (and even that is disputed - see your own link), but it refers to a group - can you therefore not use it in conjunction with a plural verb?
You can if you want--it's an accepted usage as well. I normally wouldn't though. "None was" sounds perfectly fine to me. A lot of things that are correct may not sound right at first--"the data are" for example.
By the way, it's not disputed that "none" is singular. If you read the link carefully, you'll see that both the singular and the plural are accepted usages. My point was that the original poster was trying to nitpick a grammar point that was actually the correct (and, in fact, is generally considered the "more correct") usage.
"None" is short for "not one" and so it uses the singular verb form. The subject of the sentence is "none", not "applicants", so the usage is correct.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=none
They may be weird fish, but they sure didn't wash up on shore from the tsunami! This story just isn't true.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/tsunami/creature.asp
A lot like how countries where the education is controlled by the state turn out a bunch of dulled-down dependents who don't question the nanny state.
Well, it seems to me that the proper response is to grab a CD and hurl it as hard as you can so it flies just over their heads and shatters against the back wall. When they complain that you could have hurt them, just tell them that you do it all the time and you haven't hurt anyone yet, so they must be wrong.
Penn Jillete (of Penn & Teller) once related a story in one of his books wherein he used a milkshake for self defense. He had stopped to eat in a little greasy spoon in the middle of nowhere, and he managed to get into a little altercation with a couple of truck drivers. Basically, they told him he had a choice: he could step outside and they'd beat his ass for him, or he could stay in the diner and they'd beat his ass for him anyway. So, he picked up the milkshake he was drinking and poured it all over his head. The truckers were so confused (and, at that point, probably fairly reluctant to get all sticky) that they just backed off and left.
Yeah, but I think the max speed you can get out of most equipment at those frequencies is something like 28.8kbps, maybe less. Also, I think you might run afoul of the FCC by letting a bunch of non-amateur operators use the frequencies unsupervised.
Yeah, all that and a really crappy keyboard. Seriously, I'm pretty happy with the features of my 49G+, but the build quality of the unit is very disappointing. I upgraded from a 48GX after the screen was smashed, and although I'd heard that people were unhappy with the keyboard, I kinda figured that it couldn't be all that bad. As it turns out, it misses maybe 1-3% of all keystrokes (especially on certain keys), which can really screw you up when you're doing calculations quickly and not looking at the screen to make sure you typed everything in correctly. I never had this problem with the 48--the keys had a nice tactile feedback that ensured that the key was actually entered. The 49G+ has tactile feedback, but it doesn't seem to actually relate to whether the key was registered or not. Very frustrating.
If you feel like taking one of these for a little test drive, you can find a virtual version here.
You need X-Plane to use it. Check it out. X-Plane is actually a pretty sweet flight sim.
Rhetorical or not, that is the stupidest question I've ever heard. Monopoly or not, nobody would be willing to pay $100K for an OS.
The whole concept behind a monopoly is that they can increase their prices and people will have no choice but to pay them.
So.... If people have no choice but to pay whatever a monopoly asks for its product, and nobody would pay $100K for WinXP... Hmm. Sounds to me like you just proved Microsoft isn't a monopoly!
Hahahaha, the round bounced off the Xbox!
.357 Magnum.... Or maybe a 10ga slug. That sure as hell wouldn't bounce.
Serves him right for using a wimpy little round like 9mm. Next time try at least a
Spending money is always better then a tax cut which is pure flushing money down the drain and doesn't help anyone.
Uh, how about the people who have to pay less in taxes? Jeezus Christ. This attitude that tax cuts should only be looked at in a larger economic sense really irritates me. How about looking at it like this:
It's my money! When you raise taxes, you are taking my money away from me! A tax cut is a good thing, in that I get to keep more of my money!
Yeah, I know what you mean... Just not enough time in the day, or days in the week. ;-)
The real problem is that at 10 meters you dont want to be staying under water for anything more than about 60 minutes, due to nitrogen build up.
Well, you can stay underwater a bit longer than that. Check your dive tables. Even at 40 feet, you can stay underwater for 140 minutes, and if you don't break 35 you can still do a no-decompression dive for up to 205 minutes. I bet even longer with enriched air.
Well, until you'd absorbed enough nitrogen to give you a serious case of the bends when you come up.
Granted, at 30 feet that'd take a pretty long time, but you could probably still do it.
Nitrogen narcosis isn't the problem. Having your lungs explode because of the decrease in pressure is the problem. Even at 30 feet (~1 atm), air has only have the volume it does at the surface. So, when you go up but don't exhale, you've got twice as much air (by volume) in your lungs. And then you die.
Fixing them?
I didn't even know you could bet on them!
*B-dum chhhh*
Y'know, I was gonna make that joke too when I first saw the "byte-sized" in the article. Then I noticed that there were already 20 comments posted, and I was willing to bet someone else had beaten me to it.
:-)
It's pretty sad what a bunch of geeks we all are.
But they didn't go far enough! They should also prevent you from editing images of coins!
Reminds me of a joke... A counterfeiter accidentally prints up a batch of $18 bills. He figures, what the heck, and heads off into the mountains to find some hillbillies, figuring they don't know anything about money anyway. He runs across a couple of them sitting on a porch, rolls down his window, and shouts, "Any of you got change for an $18 bill?"
One of them shouts back, "Sure do! You want 3 sixes or 6 threes?"
Just kinda curious.... By the time you realized you were (or had been) addicted to, say, cocaine, morphine, caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol, did it not occur to you to say, "Hey, maybe I shouldn't start using heroin too?"
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