I disagree strongly with your revision. You state that they are running an article on the CD having copy protection mechanisms. The article is about how it fubars the system: "Celine Dion kills iMacs!" You don't remove much of the awkwardness from the sentence--"not only won't it play"--and you change the meaning--see above. As for setting off the title in commas, would that follow the same rules for names (cf. "I asked my sister Kate to go away" and "I asked Kate, my sister, to go away")?
I will definitely agree that it could be broken up into two sentences and be clearer, but as far as grammaticality is concerned, it is an okay sentence. I think were I to break up the sentence to produce something for an online news site, I would do it something like:
MacUser is running an article about the effects of playing the new Celine Dion CD A New Day Has Come on iMacs. The CD has copy protection mechanisms to prevent it from being played on PCs and iMacs. In addition to not playing on an iMac, the CD will lock the CD tray and fubar the firmware, effectively killing the iMac.
lol@LOL u r soooo funny omg! this genertaion iz so NOT domed! lol;) LOL ROFL! liike i m totally smaerter then u. an that smarterchilf. he iz so not all that smart. LOL;) I am somuch smarter than him. lol@LOL;) wut r u talkin bout? u thikn ur so msart but yer not, ok? lolololol;)
The distribution was okay over all, but the people in charge of it were not people I would necessarily want to support monetarily or vocally.
Excerpt from #gentoo: 21:35:58 I don't necessarily think that Muslims are bad people. 21:36:03./join #religion 21:36:14 there are some very wonderful muslims
(yeah, that's drobbins... the head of gentoo... with a wonderfully flattering view of Muslims...)
I have trouble supporting someone with a view like that (or the rest of the views on Islam he disseminated into the channel).
Oh really? I had never noticed that. He is, in fact, the sole reason I walked away from Gentoo. I actually recommend people not read what he says as anything close to The Truth.
and just when i learned all those secret combos so that I could challenge jackie chan and say that i beat him in a fight, now this'll just give him the advantage again:(
people will give up on their false hopes and dreams of a peaceful, loving society. they will, instead, revert back to a more animalistic sensibility in which only the strong survive. No longer will money be wasted on the sick and the old. They will be killed off to help the greater good of the species. Through this natural selection, we will bring the relative strength of our species back up. No longer will we be dependant on multitudes of drugs to protect us from disease. We will instead evolve to the point where the diseases no longer affect us. Big industry will slowly rot away and new growth forests will become old growth forests. Groups of people will form extrafamily bonds, creating packs and legions. These packs will war with eachother, not with guns and missiles and nuclear weapons, but instead with knives and swords and flesh. People will live better lives. There will be a larger sense of happiness. The weaker people will be destroyed, being seen as a threat to the species. Money will no longer have worth. Muscles will truly outweigh brains in usefulness. But, even so, the level of common sense will be raised. The whole of the species will become relatively smart. The whole of the species will become relatively strong. The whole of the species will no longer be a threat to itself.
are they going to give angelina some wire frames in her clothing so that her profile more accurately portrays the impossibly proportioned lara croft? or are they just gonna go ditch that whole "55DDD" look and go for something more reasonable?
I'll admit that I'm, unfortunately, not familiar with your work. However, I was wondering what your thoughts on artificial life were, and how you see it in comparison to artificial intelligence as a model for learning. Do you think one is better than the other or do you see them as being apples and pianos?
sheesh. reading that article made me wonder if it was talking about VA/Andover or just the coming of the apocalypse. It sounded as though it should be read by Satan (or your personal [a]religious choice of a mightily evil being) himself in a loud booming voice. I hope that what he says does not come true and that/. still provides the best news for nerds.
i hope the world does come to an end, not because of y2k, but because of rioters tearing through the streets, i hope the world goes up in flames, so that i may watch it from an apartment window with a sick little smirk on my face, revling in the uncontrollable mass hysteria. oh wait, this is supposed to be a nyr, hmmm, in that case i resolve that i will not actually _try_ to incite the aforementioned riots, if they so happen to come about i'll blame it on the media's constant reference to that thing in colum.. no, i can't get myself to utter that word. but oh, how i'd like to see buildings topple, people in a chaotic frenzy killing each other, burning each other, dying off 1 by 1, and when it comes to be my turn, i'll ruin their fun and go out of the world in a peaceful mindset. and i think i'm going to switch back to the julian calendar...
it's interesting that they said both debian and slackware's installations were difficult. Those were (until I installed RedHat on a friend's computer) the only two distros I'd ever installed. I couldn't imagine an install being much easier than slackware's. *shrug* Of course I had plenty of trouble with the RedHat install when it locked up my mouse and then more or less required it to be used throughout the install. *grrr*
And unfortunately, some schools attempt to emphasize concepts but then wind up with procedural programmers attempting to explain OO concepts and failing *sigh* just one of the reasons I plan on changing my major
When I was in high school, I beat up the geeks and stole their lunch money. Then I found out about the internet and "hacking." I mean, I was like wow, I can run this little script and do stuff to other people. I don't even know what I'm doing half the time, but you should all fear me because my friends and me, we started this new hacker group called Legndary Attackers, Maliciously Evil Reconnaisance Specialists.
if someone brought up that post (how'd you know about that one, btw?) then I would simply shrug it off. If people want to go dredging up my past thoughts on nuns and dogs and other stuff like that, then there's nothing I can do to stop them other than to not exist. I don't lead a perfect life nor do I try to pretend to. If they want to bring back stuff I said, then they will bring back any "dirt" on me that they can get their hands on.
I know that I can't expect you to reveal the marketing behind the pricing of various books published by O'reilly & Associates, Inc., but, I was wondering what factors were built into the pricing scheme? As a college student/ORA book lover I often find myself unsure whether to buy the seemingly smaller book on topic A or the book on topic B that's 2x as big for only $5 more.
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I disagree strongly with your revision. You state that they are running an article on the CD having copy protection mechanisms. The article is about how it fubars the system: "Celine Dion kills iMacs!" You don't remove much of the awkwardness from the sentence--"not only won't it play"--and you change the meaning--see above. As for setting off the title in commas, would that follow the same rules for names (cf. "I asked my sister Kate to go away" and "I asked Kate, my sister, to go away")?
I will definitely agree that it could be broken up into two sentences and be clearer, but as far as grammaticality is concerned, it is an okay sentence. I think were I to break up the sentence to produce something for an online news site, I would do it something like:
MacUser is running an article about the effects of playing the new Celine Dion CD A New Day Has Come on iMacs. The CD has copy protection mechanisms to prevent it from being played on PCs and iMacs. In addition to not playing on an iMac, the CD will lock the CD tray and fubar the firmware, effectively killing the iMac.
What is the problem with the quoted sentence beyond the misspelling of "effectively"?
lol@LOL u r soooo funny omg! this genertaion iz so NOT domed! lol ;) LOL ROFL! liike i m totally smaerter then u. an that smarterchilf. he iz so not all that smart. LOL ;) I am somuch smarter than him. lol@LOL ;) wut r u talkin bout? u thikn ur so msart but yer not, ok? lolololol ;)
I swore I hit preview, but those go (in order):
[drob|away]
[chadh]
[drob|away]
The distribution was okay over all, but the people in charge of it were not people I would necessarily want to support monetarily or vocally.
./join #religion
Excerpt from #gentoo:
21:35:58 I don't necessarily think that Muslims are bad people.
21:36:03
21:36:14 there are some very wonderful muslims
(yeah, that's drobbins... the head of gentoo... with a wonderfully flattering view of Muslims...)
I have trouble supporting someone with a view like that (or the rest of the views on Islam he disseminated into the channel).
Rock Linux has ports to Alpha AXP, PowerPC, and Sparc
Oh really? I had never noticed that. He is, in fact, the sole reason I walked away from Gentoo. I actually recommend people not read what he says as anything close to The Truth.
so, the proof is in the ... err ... FUDding?
commercial software like yahoo stores written in lisp?
and just when i learned all those secret combos so that I could challenge jackie chan and say that i beat him in a fight, now this'll just give him the advantage again :(
people will give up on their false hopes and dreams of a peaceful, loving society. they will, instead, revert back to a more animalistic sensibility in which only the strong survive. No longer will money be wasted on the sick and the old. They will be killed off to help the greater good of the species. Through this natural selection, we will bring the relative strength of our species back up. No longer will we be dependant on multitudes of drugs to protect us from disease. We will instead evolve to the point where the diseases no longer affect us. Big industry will slowly rot away and new growth forests will become old growth forests. Groups of people will form extrafamily bonds, creating packs and legions. These packs will war with eachother, not with guns and missiles and nuclear weapons, but instead with knives and swords and flesh. People will live better lives. There will be a larger sense of happiness. The weaker people will be destroyed, being seen as a threat to the species. Money will no longer have worth. Muscles will truly outweigh brains in usefulness. But, even so, the level of common sense will be raised. The whole of the species will become relatively smart. The whole of the species will become relatively strong. The whole of the species will no longer be a threat to itself.
... is a better grasp of the English language.
Of all of the characters you have created and gotten to know in your works, which is your favorite?
(my favorite is Dirk Gently)
are they going to give angelina some wire frames in her clothing so that her profile more accurately portrays the impossibly proportioned lara croft? or are they just gonna go ditch that whole "55DDD" look and go for something more reasonable?
I'll admit that I'm, unfortunately, not familiar with your work. However, I was wondering what your thoughts on artificial life were, and how you see it in comparison to artificial intelligence as a model for learning. Do you think one is better than the other or do you see them as being apples and pianos?
Why was the M15 agent carrying sensitive material on a laptop? Even if it was encrypted, that doesn't sound like the most brilliant of ideas.
sheesh. reading that article made me wonder if it /. still provides the best news
was talking about VA/Andover or just the coming of
the apocalypse. It sounded as though it should be
read by Satan (or your personal [a]religious
choice of a mightily evil being) himself in a loud
booming voice. I hope that what he says does not
come true and that
for nerds.
i hope the world does come to an end, not because of y2k, but because of rioters tearing through the streets, i hope the world goes up in flames, so that i may watch it from an apartment window with a sick little smirk on my face, revling in the uncontrollable mass hysteria. oh wait, this is supposed to be a nyr, hmmm, in that case i resolve that i will not actually _try_ to incite the aforementioned riots, if they so happen to come about i'll blame it on the media's constant reference to that thing in colum.. no, i can't get myself to utter that word. but oh, how i'd like to see buildings topple, people in a chaotic frenzy killing each other, burning each other, dying off 1 by 1, and when it comes to be my turn, i'll ruin their fun and go out of the world in a peaceful mindset. and i think i'm going to switch back to the julian calendar...
it's interesting that they said both debian and slackware's installations were difficult. Those were (until I installed RedHat on a friend's computer) the only two distros I'd ever installed. I couldn't imagine an install being much easier than slackware's. *shrug* Of course I had plenty of trouble with the RedHat install when it locked up my mouse and then more or less required it to be used throughout the install. *grrr*
And unfortunately, some schools attempt to emphasize concepts but then wind up with procedural programmers attempting to explain OO concepts and failing *sigh* just one of the reasons I plan on changing my major
When I was in high school, I beat up the geeks and stole their lunch money. Then I found out about the internet and "hacking." I mean, I was like wow, I can run this little script and do stuff to other people. I don't even know what I'm doing half the time, but you should all fear me because my friends and me, we started this new hacker group called Legndary Attackers, Maliciously Evil Reconnaisance Specialists.
just my $0.02
if someone brought up that post (how'd you know about that one, btw?) then I would simply shrug it off. If people want to go dredging up my past thoughts on nuns and dogs and other stuff like that, then there's nothing I can do to stop them other than to not exist. I don't lead a perfect life nor do I try to pretend to. If they want to bring back stuff I said, then they will bring back any "dirt" on me that they can get their hands on.
never never... my words are my words... if people want to misrepresent me through a misinterpretation of my words, then so be it..
(err, how do I unpost something?)
I know that I can't expect you to reveal the marketing behind the pricing of various books published by O'reilly & Associates, Inc., but, I was wondering what factors were built into the pricing scheme? As a college student/ORA book lover I often find myself unsure whether to buy the seemingly smaller book on topic A or the book on topic B that's 2x as big for only $5 more.
Justin said this.