If that's what you'll do with it, I hope not. There's too many other things that you could hit as you roar out of that corner: older cars without bluetooth2, cyclists, pedestrians, animals, children. While a crash with someone in a flashy car that has bt2 on would probably have been the most spectacular, it doesn't mean the others become insignificant.
I'm probably only replying to this post because I'm a committed cyclist and get cars bumping me to the side of the road simply because they don't really notice me; it pisses me off immensely that they have so little regard for my safety that they'll slide into the cycle lane to be able to take a slow curve in the road slightly more tightly, and act so surprised when I hammer on the window because they bump me.
It only saves you a couple of seconds to roar out of your alley, but taking those two seconds to make sure you're not doing something spectacularly stupid is only two seconds. Enjoy the thrill of accelerating on the road again rather than accelerating just the once and risking a crash every time you pull out.
While it's a long way off, there's possible problems with it just as there's problems with almost all tech these days. An example, Illyan from the Vorkosigan series:
In the book Memory (by Lois McMaster Bujold) we see a man with an "eidetic memory chip" in his head. Technology is far along advanced that this effectively is a huge hard drive, giving this man perfect memory of everything for the 20 years or so that he's had it in. He's then hit by something which screws up the chip in his head; and since his brain has come to rely on it as memory storage, he starts getting scrambled memories, and acts as if they were real, losing touch with reality.
I know it's a long way off and a bit extreme... but we can only hope that the early adopters will have some protection against failure and/or bugs and/or malice.
Over time, the human body learns to interact. A child picks up walking by practise, a musician gets better as they practise and worse if they don't, ditto with sports players and gamers and everything at all.
This isn't restricted to behaviour. With practise over the past years, I've gained control of muscles in my face that other people don't even know exist; I find it fun to twitch them and distract people. People who split their tongues as body modification can, with practise, control both tips independently, even though the tongue is hardly designed for it; the muscle is there, and with the cut the movements change.
I very much doubt we need gene modification to control this. While it will of course be hard at first to activate the right neurons, in the same way that most people don't know how to twitch the right muscles to wiggle their ears, tic their cheeks (even though I can tic my left cheek easily, I don't yet have the fine control of my right, though from knowing that I was formerly unable to tic either and can now tic the left one under full control, I have no doubt that the right one will come with practise), or pull the really difficult one that moves the scalp back and forth, they all have the muscles there, they all have the neurons there to do it. Hook the chip up to an interface, then do random things like think about chocolate, wiggle your toes, try to talk in French; when you find something that triggers the chip, you'll be able to practise that trigger and eventually disassociate it from the chocolate/toes/translation to become a simple signal-to-chip.
Watch a pro musician or even a pro gamer play, or a fast typer type. There isn't a conscious decision to play that note or press that key; it's too fast for that. It's something that's practised enough, and it's instinctive and automatic.
Well, they already had RC roaches back in 2001: 1, 2.
The equipment on both of those looks off-the-shelf and testing-mode rather than optimised for size. Granted, those are big roaches, but you can betcha that 5 years on things have got a lot smaller; and if it goes towards use, then it'll be better funded and use smaller components.
You don't even need a mod... they made a Care Bear, they made some really quite funky other stuff, and from the look of the editor you can make anything you want so long as it can still walk and eat, or anything at all if you don't mind it getting attacked in short order by a predator. Considering a fair number of people will have a bipedal race with two arms and one head, and human movement is going to be the major component in modelling how bipeds walk in the game, it'll probably be fairly easy to create a race of naked women. Creative use of eyes for texture.
There'll probably be muttering about it, but if EA censor anything that looks like a woman then someone will release a patch to get round the censor and/that/ will be picked up by the media; there's a mild chance that the simple ability to create naked people will cause minor uproar, but the look and feel of the game put it such a way away from the likes of GTA and the lawsuits that have been zooming around there that it probably won't be an issue.
But who wants to model a human? There's already mention of winged predators, which means that flying is in the game; it's unclear whether you can have an underwater civilization until you have pressure domes. But the game has no end and no win (other than going ET, which is like reaching top rank in your job in the Sims... and soon ditching the job and starting elsewhere), and no lose (unless you get eaten/starve/etc, on which it hasn't yet been made clear whether you respawn in another species-member, or start over, or what...). The entire game is about creativity; while some will no doubt make those naked women, the rest of us will get our naked women somewhere more realistic and get on with playing the game more creatively.
For a custom mouse? I can understand that the creation of a mutation is a negligible problem - but the key is that a random mutation doesn't help most people. If you want random mutations you do it yourself. If you want custom mutation, uncomplicated by other problems - then $100,000 is far more realistic.
My old 15" iMac (700MHz/768MB) could run World of Warcraft nicely, except in lagforge and rarely in orgrimmar. I suspect the macbook pro won't even blink.
I find that hard to believe... a diamond seller would be able to sell large numbers of diamonds at a slightly lower price; sure, the market would devalue, but DeBeers wouldn't survive if it was paying its suppliers anything near cost price, so those same suppliers should easily be able to sell at a markup from the sell-to-DeBeers price that would still give a profit over their production price.
You can get a lot of hazing without external damage - if you have any clear biros around, put one in your teeth and squeeze gently until you get a "craAACk" noise; there'll be a craze in the plastic, but the surface will remain completely smooth. Since plastic strains during fracture, you get a white stress-area that's highly visible, that looks like a crack - glass breaks very cleanly though, so crazes in glass might be invisible unless you were looking very carefully for them. This is similar to why you can place the pieces of a broken glass back together again and make the line almost invisible. The impression there is that those saved glasses - if dropped again - wouldn't survive (unless combined with the point of your other child post).
Disclaimer: while this comes from a materials science course, it's been a while since I've gone over it and I don't have the materials to hand to test with, so might be off target.
Unbiased media? The entire history of media is soaked in political sponsorship (in both directions), spin, and so on. A media source that hoped to be purely objective would always be tainted by the individual views of its writers putting slant on the articles in question, and this is further disrupted by the statements of people sourcing information for the article.
Your point about accurate information stands separate from your points about bias: it's possible to word a sentence in many ways, in each one putting the facts or statements in a recognisably truthful way, but constructing the sentence in a favourable or unfavourable light.
Case in point being that my post has been negative about your no-news-bias point, while it could have been structured as a "they can only try" or "absolutely and wholeheartedly agree; the media are being lax and allowing their PoV to stray from neutral!"
All three post types would have been valid; I chose to select some facts about the media's past (and draw on having seen goodness-knows how many left- and right-spun articles, especially around election times) to challenge your point.
As an 8-year cox and coach, I'm massively surprised that you think that could have an effect. Even lightweights should keep themselves hydrated for training; if you didn't rehydrate after a training session, it's your own damn fault that you've got a large lactic acid buildup (the pain of an erg) because you don't have anything to flush it out with... even just before a major race you still want to keep yourself hydrated, because of the performance increase it gives.
Lineage 1, you might recall, was a subscription-only product. In the days of yore it was a pain to download the gig-sized package and then patch with goodness knows how many extra files (Episodes 1-n); with your account you could opt to have a CD sent to you for free. Ebay always had a run of these CDs when a new episode came out, because you could get the content online with the autopatch, and sell off the CD cheap to some unsuspecting person who was interested.
Lineage 1 came out in 1998; digital delivery is by no means new!
To ice on the coast, I fully agree - I used to live in Holland, which is due east of Wales - and the sea readily freezes over in calm patches (eg behind sandbars, though at especially cold times this spreads) in winter. The proximity of the two makes NAD winter warming clear; however I'd be surprised to see that the NAD warmed us up over the summer. That would imply that the sea is generally warmer than the land, which seems unlikely since the SHC of water is so high; swimming in summer is certainly a way to cool off, implying it's having a cooling effect; I'm intrigued if it's the other way round!
I think it was the BBC news (eg at this BBC article, though that's less sensational than the one I remembered) and various pop science journals. This was inflamed by the natural gas crisis, since we were expecting to use more than we were going to have access to (which was multiplied by someone not sending the expected quota) - for some reason the UK holds only 10 days' reserve of natural gas as opposed to most other EU countries' 20 days reserve, and the implication was that the cold would mean we used a lot more than usual to stay warm, and then run out. It turned out better than expected, with several warm spells, though we did see -8 in the South a couple of times over the new year, which is a lot colder than usual.
I'm curious as to why my original post got modded flamebait though...
In the UK we were warned this would be the coldest winter in (some large number) years. I know that the loss of the gulf stream would make summers hotter and winters colder here (the gulf stream having a mediating effect) but it does go head to head against the 'hottest year since...' saga
I agree with the parent, but will take it one step further:
So do we. I can recognise the differences and meaning of "Which witch blew the blue candle" written - but if someone said it to me out of the blue (npi), I'd have to think through it a couple of times to parse it, because if said as intended - with matching sounds, to rely entirely on context inside the sentence to decipher which word is which, then I'd have as much problem as a computer. The semantic rules I was taught as a child are what enables me to understand the sentence; the exact same semantic rules, in a computer, will most likely parse faster than I will.
Teletext subtitles are a good example of this; if watching a live news program (in the UK, dunno what it's like in the US) the subtitles are transcribed by a typist. While I would have expected them to straight copy the prompter words to subtitles, occasionally the newsreader speeds up (running out of time, or whatever reason) and the typed text starts getting typos and - here's the key - phonographical errors. Again, you can usually pick it out as being incorrect by context, and reparse it correctly and move on. The exact same mistakes are those being noted in this topic as those experienced by speech recognition software.
Oh, please don't let one group take over the entire world. In many games where players rule areas, you get one major group who holds the [holdings], and either you're in that bloated group or you're unable to take them on. The fun is in the battles for takeover, and having a power group with a large income essentially overbalances the battle so that competitors have to resort to odd timings and sneak attacks rather than the fun of pitched battles. In Lineage 1, the servers became stagnant when a large alliance of Korean players controlled the land and transferred the holdings between two pawn factions so that all battles were at stupid o'clock for the european and american players.
Even in games where the landholdings are small, alliances form and the bloated conglomerate reigns. Granted, the alliances get to have their fun in the initial battles, but for anyone who comes later the odds are often overwhelmingly against them, with the alliances shifting their resistance force without much problem to where needed to hold that land.
There needs to be some kind of balance - the more holdings you own the worse the corruption (as in the Civilisation series), so that after a number of holdings it becomes inefficient to attack a new area unless an old one is relinquished. That way the large groups will move to more prosperous areas (leaving a low value area behind), requiring momentum in play to maintain value. The low value area, presumably taken by a smaller group, will become more prosperous over time again (less corruption for a smaller group); while as usual this idea is probably exploitable in various ways, at least it gives the game more action, less stagnation, and will draw a heck of a lot more holding power. Games are a lot more interesting if there's a pressure to stay on the form you had.
One drawback here is that smaller players - a handful of hours per week rather than massive chunks of time spent in game - will become a target when any land held is more prosperous, and it'd be tiresome to be attacked over and over just as land becomes useful - but at least it's a start, and should keep the game interesting for a lot longer.
Disclaimer: I am not a GW player, and don't know the game mechanics. And kinda got carried away a little with the idea. But I've seen enough stagnant powermongers to put me off for a bit, so something more dynamic and interesting like this would be novel enough to give a fair bit more pull.
However - the article can be paralleled with "Interface controls replacing user skill? Twenty standard computer users were shown to a seat in front of a vintage 22-year old Commodore. While all were competent with their newer systems, not a single one was able to control the early model."
People learn to use the systems they have. Just as with development in computer systems the public - through assistive devices designed by others to reduce the complexity - have absolutely no need to know how to work machine code, or programming languages, or even scripting languages, the modern driver has assistive devices designed by others to reduce the complexity of operation. And, as the parent post puts so well, all the better if it stops them killing us.
What on earth are you talking about? At first look, you seem to be thinking of "odd numbers", a fascinating concept made yet simpler by the fact you don't even have to divide the huge number by anything, just look at the last digit and see whether it's odd or even. Yet that still doesn't fit with your 'divide it by 2 and see if it comes out even; you seem to take "prime number" to mean "anything that isn't divisible by 4".
While straying completely and utterly offtopic here, remember that (i) the grammar there is indeed correct (though there's probably a hidden tag between the two double quotes) and (ii) the majority of people here are either programmer-types (understand that at the end of a paragraph that they're all closing tags, so the "" is effectively equal to }} rather than {} ) or don't care/notice/etc, or both.
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If that's what you'll do with it, I hope not. There's too many other things that you could hit as you roar out of that corner: older cars without bluetooth2, cyclists, pedestrians, animals, children. While a crash with someone in a flashy car that has bt2 on would probably have been the most spectacular, it doesn't mean the others become insignificant.
I'm probably only replying to this post because I'm a committed cyclist and get cars bumping me to the side of the road simply because they don't really notice me; it pisses me off immensely that they have so little regard for my safety that they'll slide into the cycle lane to be able to take a slow curve in the road slightly more tightly, and act so surprised when I hammer on the window because they bump me.
It only saves you a couple of seconds to roar out of your alley, but taking those two seconds to make sure you're not doing something spectacularly stupid is only two seconds. Enjoy the thrill of accelerating on the road again rather than accelerating just the once and risking a crash every time you pull out.
That would be because I'm Dutch.
While it's a long way off, there's possible problems with it just as there's problems with almost all tech these days. An example, Illyan from the Vorkosigan series:
In the book Memory (by Lois McMaster Bujold) we see a man with an "eidetic memory chip" in his head. Technology is far along advanced that this effectively is a huge hard drive, giving this man perfect memory of everything for the 20 years or so that he's had it in. He's then hit by something which screws up the chip in his head; and since his brain has come to rely on it as memory storage, he starts getting scrambled memories, and acts as if they were real, losing touch with reality.
I know it's a long way off and a bit extreme... but we can only hope that the early adopters will have some protection against failure and/or bugs and/or malice.
Over time, the human body learns to interact. A child picks up walking by practise, a musician gets better as they practise and worse if they don't, ditto with sports players and gamers and everything at all.
This isn't restricted to behaviour. With practise over the past years, I've gained control of muscles in my face that other people don't even know exist; I find it fun to twitch them and distract people. People who split their tongues as body modification can, with practise, control both tips independently, even though the tongue is hardly designed for it; the muscle is there, and with the cut the movements change.
I very much doubt we need gene modification to control this. While it will of course be hard at first to activate the right neurons, in the same way that most people don't know how to twitch the right muscles to wiggle their ears, tic their cheeks (even though I can tic my left cheek easily, I don't yet have the fine control of my right, though from knowing that I was formerly unable to tic either and can now tic the left one under full control, I have no doubt that the right one will come with practise), or pull the really difficult one that moves the scalp back and forth, they all have the muscles there, they all have the neurons there to do it. Hook the chip up to an interface, then do random things like think about chocolate, wiggle your toes, try to talk in French; when you find something that triggers the chip, you'll be able to practise that trigger and eventually disassociate it from the chocolate/toes/translation to become a simple signal-to-chip.
Watch a pro musician or even a pro gamer play, or a fast typer type. There isn't a conscious decision to play that note or press that key; it's too fast for that. It's something that's practised enough, and it's instinctive and automatic.
Just needs practise.
Well, they already had RC roaches back in 2001: 1, 2.
The equipment on both of those looks off-the-shelf and testing-mode rather than optimised for size. Granted, those are big roaches, but you can betcha that 5 years on things have got a lot smaller; and if it goes towards use, then it'll be better funded and use smaller components.
You don't even need a mod... they made a Care Bear, they made some really quite funky other stuff, and from the look of the editor you can make anything you want so long as it can still walk and eat, or anything at all if you don't mind it getting attacked in short order by a predator. Considering a fair number of people will have a bipedal race with two arms and one head, and human movement is going to be the major component in modelling how bipeds walk in the game, it'll probably be fairly easy to create a race of naked women. Creative use of eyes for texture.
/that/ will be picked up by the media; there's a mild chance that the simple ability to create naked people will cause minor uproar, but the look and feel of the game put it such a way away from the likes of GTA and the lawsuits that have been zooming around there that it probably won't be an issue.
There'll probably be muttering about it, but if EA censor anything that looks like a woman then someone will release a patch to get round the censor and
But who wants to model a human? There's already mention of winged predators, which means that flying is in the game; it's unclear whether you can have an underwater civilization until you have pressure domes. But the game has no end and no win (other than going ET, which is like reaching top rank in your job in the Sims... and soon ditching the job and starting elsewhere), and no lose (unless you get eaten/starve/etc, on which it hasn't yet been made clear whether you respawn in another species-member, or start over, or what...). The entire game is about creativity; while some will no doubt make those naked women, the rest of us will get our naked women somewhere more realistic and get on with playing the game more creatively.
For a custom mouse? I can understand that the creation of a mutation is a negligible problem - but the key is that a random mutation doesn't help most people. If you want random mutations you do it yourself. If you want custom mutation, uncomplicated by other problems - then $100,000 is far more realistic.
My old 15" iMac (700MHz/768MB) could run World of Warcraft nicely, except in lagforge and rarely in orgrimmar. I suspect the macbook pro won't even blink.
I find that hard to believe... a diamond seller would be able to sell large numbers of diamonds at a slightly lower price; sure, the market would devalue, but DeBeers wouldn't survive if it was paying its suppliers anything near cost price, so those same suppliers should easily be able to sell at a markup from the sell-to-DeBeers price that would still give a profit over their production price.
Where's the flaw?
You can get a lot of hazing without external damage - if you have any clear biros around, put one in your teeth and squeeze gently until you get a "craAACk" noise; there'll be a craze in the plastic, but the surface will remain completely smooth. Since plastic strains during fracture, you get a white stress-area that's highly visible, that looks like a crack - glass breaks very cleanly though, so crazes in glass might be invisible unless you were looking very carefully for them. This is similar to why you can place the pieces of a broken glass back together again and make the line almost invisible. The impression there is that those saved glasses - if dropped again - wouldn't survive (unless combined with the point of your other child post).
Disclaimer: while this comes from a materials science course, it's been a while since I've gone over it and I don't have the materials to hand to test with, so might be off target.
All you need to do is send bloodninja up and compare his level 1,000,000 lightning spell to it... ;)
Um? That's what the "history" tab is for at the top of a page. You can compare between any pair of versions too.
:)
But yeah, it's a pretty cool feature
A slashdotting doesn't need to sound like anything, most admins notice anyway when the server catches fire...
Unbiased media? The entire history of media is soaked in political sponsorship (in both directions), spin, and so on. A media source that hoped to be purely objective would always be tainted by the individual views of its writers putting slant on the articles in question, and this is further disrupted by the statements of people sourcing information for the article.
Your point about accurate information stands separate from your points about bias: it's possible to word a sentence in many ways, in each one putting the facts or statements in a recognisably truthful way, but constructing the sentence in a favourable or unfavourable light.
Case in point being that my post has been negative about your no-news-bias point, while it could have been structured as a "they can only try" or "absolutely and wholeheartedly agree; the media are being lax and allowing their PoV to stray from neutral!"
All three post types would have been valid; I chose to select some facts about the media's past (and draw on having seen goodness-knows how many left- and right-spun articles, especially around election times) to challenge your point.
As an 8-year cox and coach, I'm massively surprised that you think that could have an effect. Even lightweights should keep themselves hydrated for training; if you didn't rehydrate after a training session, it's your own damn fault that you've got a large lactic acid buildup (the pain of an erg) because you don't have anything to flush it out with... even just before a major race you still want to keep yourself hydrated, because of the performance increase it gives.
Lineage 1, you might recall, was a subscription-only product. In the days of yore it was a pain to download the gig-sized package and then patch with goodness knows how many extra files (Episodes 1-n); with your account you could opt to have a CD sent to you for free. Ebay always had a run of these CDs when a new episode came out, because you could get the content online with the autopatch, and sell off the CD cheap to some unsuspecting person who was interested.
Lineage 1 came out in 1998; digital delivery is by no means new!
To ice on the coast, I fully agree - I used to live in Holland, which is due east of Wales - and the sea readily freezes over in calm patches (eg behind sandbars, though at especially cold times this spreads) in winter. The proximity of the two makes NAD winter warming clear; however I'd be surprised to see that the NAD warmed us up over the summer. That would imply that the sea is generally warmer than the land, which seems unlikely since the SHC of water is so high; swimming in summer is certainly a way to cool off, implying it's having a cooling effect; I'm intrigued if it's the other way round!
I think it was the BBC news (eg at this BBC article, though that's less sensational than the one I remembered) and various pop science journals. This was inflamed by the natural gas crisis, since we were expecting to use more than we were going to have access to (which was multiplied by someone not sending the expected quota) - for some reason the UK holds only 10 days' reserve of natural gas as opposed to most other EU countries' 20 days reserve, and the implication was that the cold would mean we used a lot more than usual to stay warm, and then run out. It turned out better than expected, with several warm spells, though we did see -8 in the South a couple of times over the new year, which is a lot colder than usual.
I'm curious as to why my original post got modded flamebait though...
In the UK we were warned this would be the coldest winter in (some large number) years. I know that the loss of the gulf stream would make summers hotter and winters colder here (the gulf stream having a mediating effect) but it does go head to head against the 'hottest year since...' saga
I agree with the parent, but will take it one step further:
So do we. I can recognise the differences and meaning of "Which witch blew the blue candle" written - but if someone said it to me out of the blue (npi), I'd have to think through it a couple of times to parse it, because if said as intended - with matching sounds, to rely entirely on context inside the sentence to decipher which word is which, then I'd have as much problem as a computer. The semantic rules I was taught as a child are what enables me to understand the sentence; the exact same semantic rules, in a computer, will most likely parse faster than I will.
Teletext subtitles are a good example of this; if watching a live news program (in the UK, dunno what it's like in the US) the subtitles are transcribed by a typist. While I would have expected them to straight copy the prompter words to subtitles, occasionally the newsreader speeds up (running out of time, or whatever reason) and the typed text starts getting typos and - here's the key - phonographical errors. Again, you can usually pick it out as being incorrect by context, and reparse it correctly and move on. The exact same mistakes are those being noted in this topic as those experienced by speech recognition software.
ehh... methinks you might have missed Zonk's punlet on terns, whose behaviour is usually quite shitty.
Oh, please don't let one group take over the entire world. In many games where players rule areas, you get one major group who holds the [holdings], and either you're in that bloated group or you're unable to take them on. The fun is in the battles for takeover, and having a power group with a large income essentially overbalances the battle so that competitors have to resort to odd timings and sneak attacks rather than the fun of pitched battles. In Lineage 1, the servers became stagnant when a large alliance of Korean players controlled the land and transferred the holdings between two pawn factions so that all battles were at stupid o'clock for the european and american players.
Even in games where the landholdings are small, alliances form and the bloated conglomerate reigns. Granted, the alliances get to have their fun in the initial battles, but for anyone who comes later the odds are often overwhelmingly against them, with the alliances shifting their resistance force without much problem to where needed to hold that land.
There needs to be some kind of balance - the more holdings you own the worse the corruption (as in the Civilisation series), so that after a number of holdings it becomes inefficient to attack a new area unless an old one is relinquished. That way the large groups will move to more prosperous areas (leaving a low value area behind), requiring momentum in play to maintain value. The low value area, presumably taken by a smaller group, will become more prosperous over time again (less corruption for a smaller group); while as usual this idea is probably exploitable in various ways, at least it gives the game more action, less stagnation, and will draw a heck of a lot more holding power. Games are a lot more interesting if there's a pressure to stay on the form you had.
One drawback here is that smaller players - a handful of hours per week rather than massive chunks of time spent in game - will become a target when any land held is more prosperous, and it'd be tiresome to be attacked over and over just as land becomes useful - but at least it's a start, and should keep the game interesting for a lot longer.
Disclaimer: I am not a GW player, and don't know the game mechanics. And kinda got carried away a little with the idea. But I've seen enough stagnant powermongers to put me off for a bit, so something more dynamic and interesting like this would be novel enough to give a fair bit more pull.
That's called a 'taxi' ;-)
However - the article can be paralleled with "Interface controls replacing user skill? Twenty standard computer users were shown to a seat in front of a vintage 22-year old Commodore. While all were competent with their newer systems, not a single one was able to control the early model."
People learn to use the systems they have. Just as with development in computer systems the public - through assistive devices designed by others to reduce the complexity - have absolutely no need to know how to work machine code, or programming languages, or even scripting languages, the modern driver has assistive devices designed by others to reduce the complexity of operation. And, as the parent post puts so well, all the better if it stops them killing us.
"Just divide it by 2"
What on earth are you talking about? At first look, you seem to be thinking of "odd numbers", a fascinating concept made yet simpler by the fact you don't even have to divide the huge number by anything, just look at the last digit and see whether it's odd or even. Yet that still doesn't fit with your 'divide it by 2 and see if it comes out even; you seem to take "prime number" to mean "anything that isn't divisible by 4".
While straying completely and utterly offtopic here, remember that (i) the grammar there is indeed correct (though there's probably a hidden tag between the two double quotes) and (ii) the majority of people here are either programmer-types (understand that at the end of a paragraph that they're all closing tags, so the "" is effectively equal to }} rather than {} ) or don't care/notice/etc, or both.