In English, and other European languages, the comma is used as a list separator:
I like to eat apples, bananas, and grapes.
Much like how I would say something like this:
I have 120 thousand, 537 apples.
It's natural to use the list separator to separate lists of numbers as well.
I have 120,537 apples.
Fine, metric is a superior measuring system. Even if I wanted to personally switch over and start using that right now - I'd still have to work in inches and pounds in order to communicate - because that's what everyone else in the US uses. It's like how Europeans need to lean Spanish, French, German, Italian, etc. in order to get around and communicate with others. It doesn't matter if your language is superior to the others.
Even if the US fully adopted the metric system right now, we'd still need to know how to convert betwen the two - because of the large and important work that has been done with it. Much like how a dead language like Latin is taught to many students, so that they better understand European languages...
I don't know any actual Republicans, or at least I don't know any who actually think about political issues. (Not saying that Republicans don't think, just that I'm living in an oasis where I don't meet any who do.)
A quoted excerpt from the Kansas City Star says: National Rifle Association members have flooded the FCC with thousands of postcards opposing changes in the ownership rules. An NRA letter to members said, "a small group of top media executives could literally silence your NRA."
A. In 1983, the Postal Service began using an expanded ZIP Code called "ZIP+4." A ZIP+4 Code consists of the original 5-digit ZIP Code plus a 4-digit add-on code. The 4-digit add-on number identifies a geographic segment within the 5-digit delivery area, such as a city block, office building, individual high-volume receiver of mail, or any other unit that would aid efficient mail sorting and delivery. Use of the 4-digit add-on is not mandatory, but it helps the Postal Service direct mail more efficiently and accurately because it reduces handling and significantly decreases the potential for human error and possibility of misdelivery. It also will lead to better control over USPS costs and, in turn, postage rate stability. ZIP+4 is intended for use primarily by business mailers who prepare their mail with typewritten, machine-printed, or computerized addressing formats that can be read by the Postal Service's automated scanners during processing. Mailers who qualify receive a rate discount on First-Class, non-presorted, ZIP+4 mailings of at least 250 pieces and on presorted ZIP+4 mailings of at least 500 pieces. There are also ZIP+4 discounts for bulk business mail.
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* Friendly to modders (wood, bamboo, aluminum?).
An Etch-a-Sketch also has these advantages as well- and you can draw a doggy on it!
Oooh-oooh - I just thought of the next cool/. modders posting... How to build an etch-a-sketch laptop... that would be fresh as hell to be able to see mozilla rendered out in silver and black.
These are probably the same people who sit around on their couch watching TV complaining that there's nothing to do in the world, and that they've got a crappy life.
Dude - get out and have an adventure, try to get something accomplished, experience and enjoy life while you've got it. The internet has just as many things to choose from, including publishing your own content.
I generally find that I don't have enough time to do & read all the things that I'd like to.
dude, last year my dad was struck with colon cancer - after trying the Atkins approach for about 3-4 months. He attributes it to the rotting meat sitting in his gut.
Nutrition expert and author Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the high-protein/low-carbohydrate "Atkins Diet," was released Wednesday from hospital care and is resting well after his heart stopped, a condition called cardiac arrest.
the only truly good security is abstinence. Remove the wireless card, unplug your net connection, and disconnect the power supply. Nobody can root your box then.
Camino / Chimera is a really nice, quick, fast and standards compliant browser. It's got to be my favorite, though as time progress, I'd like to see some little features added such as:
Being able to get a drop-down history and forward list from the title bar, and being able to close individual tabs with a clicky button. I love using cmd-W to close windows, but sometimes it hits a site that's too big, or makes it choke, and I have no idea if it's in the process of closing the window or not.
Dude, a waist is what you strap your pants around, and worry about it growing larger. The word "waste" or "wasting" means to expend carelessly or thoughtlessly. This is what you're doing to the english language.
Even if this was manyoso's error, that is why there are editors that edit the published content before they are published.
Perhaps/. can take up a collection to send Taco back to grammar school.
In this case, I feel like they filed for a patent to save humanity from itself. We as a species are overusing antibiotics. They don't just go away when they exit our bodies, or when the pills, cleaners, feed and fertilizer adjuncts expire. They wash out into the ecosystem where they definitely kill a lot of bacteria... but this is the dark point.
They get weakened and find a culture that has mutated, or is ready to mutate - and it survives. Not only does it live on, but it thrives because it's competition has been wiped out.
Now when that super-bug comes back to knock on your door, it laughs at your antibiotic treatments.
I would prefer to have a certain class of treatment guarded behind intellectual property laws. I would prefer to see doses of that treatment be rather expensive, so that Joe Sixpack isn't sprinkling it on his lawn, and flooding his watershed with the substance - almost dredging out recruits for the next generation of biowars.
Instead, it should be reserved for last-case scenarios, and applied in surgical strike fashion.
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In English, and other European languages, the comma is used as a list separator:
Much like how I would say something like this:
It's natural to use the list separator to separate lists of numbers as well.
Fine, metric is a superior measuring system. Even if I wanted to personally switch over and start using that right now - I'd still have to work in inches and pounds in order to communicate - because that's what everyone else in the US uses. It's like how Europeans need to lean Spanish, French, German, Italian, etc. in order to get around and communicate with others. It doesn't matter if your language is superior to the others.
Even if the US fully adopted the metric system right now, we'd still need to know how to convert betwen the two - because of the large and important work that has been done with it. Much like how a dead language like Latin is taught to many students, so that they better understand European languages...
I may not be funny, but at least I'm... well, not not funny...
If the ladies don't find you handsome, at least they can find you handy.
Ahh, but depending on where you come from, it may be difficult to hear the difference...
They're also going to release an 80" Cinema Display!
...and 5-6 years ago, the same was true with Yahoo! Times change... people's idiotic perceptions change.
Yeah, but that's not full-duplex...
It doesn't even apply to computers anymore...
It can refer to diapers, tupperware, fire-extinguisher, modular book shelving, ball-point pens, towel drying rack, antifog thinner, a TV antennae, a massage tool, eyeglass products, security cameras, an auto-parts trading company, a rental van, a furniture store, a dance bar, a fabric store
or a Korean Metal company...
it's also a hair salon,
and finally, it's a product for fungal diseases of wheat and barley... "There are those who take risks, and those who take UNIX."
Gee, this sounds reminiscent of Shrub's 48-hour ultimatim to Saddam.
This town ain't big enough for the both us. Clear outta dodge in the next 48 hours, or I'll start my pre-emptive strike.
I don't know any actual Republicans, or at least I don't know any who actually think about political issues. (Not saying that Republicans don't think, just that I'm living in an oasis where I don't meet any who do.)
I've heard that the NRA was in opposition to the FCC loosening regulation.
A quoted excerpt from the Kansas City Star says: National Rifle Association members have flooded the FCC with thousands of postcards opposing changes in the ownership rules. An NRA letter to members said, "a small group of top media executives could literally silence your NRA."
Not quite... taken from USPS
Q. Why are ZIP+4 Codes used?
A. In 1983, the Postal Service began using an expanded ZIP Code called "ZIP+4." A ZIP+4 Code consists of the original 5-digit ZIP Code plus a 4-digit add-on code. The 4-digit add-on number identifies a geographic segment within the 5-digit delivery area, such as a city block, office building, individual high-volume receiver of mail, or any other unit that would aid efficient mail sorting and delivery. Use of the 4-digit add-on is not mandatory, but it helps the Postal Service direct mail more efficiently and accurately because it reduces handling and significantly decreases the potential for human error and possibility of misdelivery. It also will lead to better control over USPS costs and, in turn, postage rate stability. ZIP+4 is intended for use primarily by business mailers who prepare their mail with typewritten, machine-printed, or computerized addressing formats that can be read by the Postal Service's automated scanners during processing. Mailers who qualify receive a rate discount on First-Class, non-presorted, ZIP+4 mailings of at least 250 pieces and on presorted ZIP+4 mailings of at least 500 pieces. There are also ZIP+4 discounts for bulk business mail.
Drop and do push-ups until I get tired...
Maybe we should have elected Al Gore... ;)
* Friendly to modders (wood, bamboo, aluminum?).
An Etch-a-Sketch also has these advantages as well- and you can draw a doggy on it!
Oooh-oooh - I just thought of the next cool /. modders posting... How to build an etch-a-sketch laptop... that would be fresh as hell to be able to see mozilla rendered out in silver and black.
10 find pr0n;
20 display pr0n;
30 goto 10;
These are probably the same people who sit around on their couch watching TV complaining that there's nothing to do in the world, and that they've got a crappy life.
Dude - get out and have an adventure, try to get something accomplished, experience and enjoy life while you've got it. The internet has just as many things to choose from, including publishing your own content.
I generally find that I don't have enough time to do & read all the things that I'd like to.
total cost 99cents plus my soul....
redeem yourself, my son (or daughter)... it's tax deductible.
- fighting terrorism - the enemy of free people worldwide!
dude, last year my dad was struck with colon cancer - after trying the Atkins approach for about 3-4 months. He attributes it to the rotting meat sitting in his gut.
On top of which, Atkins himself suffered a heart attack just about a year ago...
Nutrition expert and author Dr. Robert Atkins, creator of the high-protein/low-carbohydrate "Atkins Diet," was released Wednesday from hospital care and is resting well after his heart stopped, a condition called cardiac arrest.
the only truly good security is abstinence. Remove the wireless card, unplug your net connection, and disconnect the power supply. Nobody can root your box then.
Camino / Chimera is a really nice, quick, fast and standards compliant browser. It's got to be my favorite, though as time progress, I'd like to see some little features added such as:
Being able to get a drop-down history and forward list from the title bar, and being able to close individual tabs with a clicky button. I love using cmd-W to close windows, but sometimes it hits a site that's too big, or makes it choke, and I have no idea if it's in the process of closing the window or not.
dunno about karma-whoring, but i haven't seen any frist p0st! messages in a long while. Unless it's someone joking about one that is.
Dude, just stuff your phone into a lead and concrete coated faraday cage. Then don your tinfoil cap and have a silent slumber.
manyoso writes "Sun is waisting no time...
Dude, a waist is what you strap your pants around, and worry about it growing larger. The word "waste" or "wasting" means to expend carelessly or thoughtlessly. This is what you're doing to the english language.
Even if this was manyoso's error, that is why there are editors that edit the published content before they are published.
Perhaps /. can take up a collection to send Taco back to grammar school.
All this, while not contaminating any alien species' primordial goop, and wiping them all out just as we discover them.
In this case, I feel like they filed for a patent to save humanity from itself. We as a species are overusing antibiotics. They don't just go away when they exit our bodies, or when the pills, cleaners, feed and fertilizer adjuncts expire. They wash out into the ecosystem where they definitely kill a lot of bacteria... but this is the dark point.
They get weakened and find a culture that has mutated, or is ready to mutate - and it survives. Not only does it live on, but it thrives because it's competition has been wiped out.
Now when that super-bug comes back to knock on your door, it laughs at your antibiotic treatments.
I would prefer to have a certain class of treatment guarded behind intellectual property laws. I would prefer to see doses of that treatment be rather expensive, so that Joe Sixpack isn't sprinkling it on his lawn, and flooding his watershed with the substance - almost dredging out recruits for the next generation of biowars.
Instead, it should be reserved for last-case scenarios, and applied in surgical strike fashion.