I don't need that to open the door and start the engine, as I do the ignition/door key(s). Try pushing those little buttons with a wool mitten, anyhow.;)
You may find this shocking, but this is a problem that occurs due to the existence and proximity of other vehicles. As to the likelihood of this happening, I can't say that it's high. Or even measurable. However, it does exist. Say that you drive up to your house and walk across your cement driveway to the front door, shivering and hurried due to the extreme cold. There is probably also some wind. Yes, wind. Lots of wind. So you're fighting the wind, the cold, and hypothermia by this point, and you are carrying in groceries, a briefcase, and your gym bag. Your keys fall onto the driveway. You live in a secluded spot (secluded mostly due to the climate, if you can imagine that) so your front door is never locked, and you don't need the keys to get inside. You don't even know you're missing them until after you put the groceries away, and by then someone else has pulled up onto the driveway in a truck, running over your keys in the process.
You're right that this is an excessively rare occurrence, but you are not right for the right reasons. You assume that either there is only one vehicle in all the world or that it requires stupidity to run over a car key. Neither assumption is valid, but your anger is.:)
How about running over it with a grain truck when the ambient temperature is -40 (celsius or fahrenheit, your pick)? I can do that with my keys right now and they still work.
Don't forget yours, ours, and whose. If you want irregular, the first-person singular pronoun is your friend.
I'm almost tempted to make your point into a signature line around here, but for the fear that it will turn any insightful or informative comment I make into an off-topic, flamebaiting troll.;)
Wikipedia on Dictionary History. Enjoy. I am personally a "When in Rome" person on the English language. I can speak and spell British English and American English, and I even know several of the Canadian English oddities (some words are spelled the American way, others the British way). Because I am an American, when I'm in any nation-agnostic forum such as Slashdot, I use American English. I won't correct your spelling if you say favour, but I will myself spell it favor.
Now, as to its/it's... I can understand why uneducated monkeys may have a problem with the distinction, but people with even the slightest experience with a programming language of any sort, be it GW-BASIC, PDP-8 assembler, or Common Lisp, have no excuse for not obeying such a basic rule of English syntax. Slashdot as a whole has atrocious spelling and grammar, which is ironic given that outside of the English language most of us are downright pedantic about spelling and grammar. You wouldn't see code like wile(1) { blah(); } or while 1 blah(;) (both examples in C) and let it slide without both correcting it and punching the guy who wrote it in the face - why do you let it slide in English?
This is something where reasonable minds can differ. I consider it spelling because it all takes place within one word, and the word itself, sans context, has a different meaning depending on which letter you use to begin it. I suppose it's largely a matter of case-sensitivity in your spelling system, but I personally consider proper nouns to be spelled with the capital letter, and consider the capital and lowercase of the same letter to be different letters for spelling purposes. Initial capitals in sentences are decidedly a rule of grammar, because the word's meaning independent of the sentence has not changed, whereas the different meaning of a proper noun when capitalized or not and when divorced from the sentence as a whole, combined with the assumption that grammr rules determine how to put together sentences and spelling rules determine how to put together individual words (which assumption probably makes a lot of computer programmers feel warm and fuzzy because of how much they hated context-sensitive languages in their Finite Languages & Automata classes back in college), leads to the conclusion that we have an issue of spelling and not one of grammar in this case.
Like I said, reasonable minds can disagree on this point.
Very few criminals are all that intelligent about their crimes. Those who are don't even trigger any warning signs that would lead a person to hire a computer forensics guy.
File access times. Word to the wise: If you want to copy all the files off of a hard drive, mount it read-only or make an image of it and work from that instead.
For a law firm, I investigated a drive that had been stolen by a former employee. The drive had been recovered, and my task was to determine what he had done with it and whether he had taken or tampered with any of the intellectual property on the drive. It paid very handsomely for the amount of work involved, and it was an intellectual challenge. That said, this book may have made it easier (I didn't read the review in-depth or the book itself, but I assume it wouldn't make the task more difficult).
In this case, I determined that the employee had mounted each partition on the drive to a separate mount point, not in the original structure (such as/,/usr,/home, and so forth; he had mounted it on/mnt1,/mnt2,/mnt3, and such).
It's not as glamorous as extreme porn or personal ads, but it was still interesting.
It's subject only to your definition of what constitutes the grand scheme of things. I define it to extend beyond mere tens of thousands of years into the eons. In the past 100 million years alone, what mark have humans made on the planet that hasn't been overshadowed by the slightest whim of a meteorite?
The difference is that a flathead Ford V8 develops, according to your link, 60hp, while my boxer twin BMW motorcycle engine beats that and gets 45mpg and a Boss Hoss motorcycle probably beats 300hp given what little I know of Chevy V8 engines.
if pop stars were paid like teachers an iTunes song would cost about the same as P2P.
You have forgotten that a very large cut of what you pay for music doesn't go to the musicians at all, but rather to the record labels. They wouldn't fight these battles nearly as hard - and it would instead be all the musicians out there fighting them - if record label executives and shareholders didn't profit the most from winning them.
I'll see your buddy-free accounts and raise you a buddy-free server. So that my excessively arrogant and self-centered e-mail address would be matched with an equally cocky IM address, I ran my own Jabber server for several years and had on it just the one account and on that account zero contacts.
Jigga, what? Motorcycles only have two wheels, which is the square root of the number of wheels on a Delorean. So obviously you divide by 1 million to get the power requirement for a flux capacitor on a motorcycle.;-D
No. The Dodge Magnum isn't a penis enhancer, it's a penis eliminator. Basically, you can assume that any guy driving a Dodge Magnum not only lacks enough of a penis for it to be even remotely useful, but is also so out of touch with what he has that it may as well just be removed and spare him the confusion.
No, this thing is squarely directed at people uncomfortable with the size of their penis.
Not at all! It's not that I'm uncofmortable with the size of my penis, it's that I need 1.21 kilowatts to power the flux capacitor on my not-penis-related motorcycle with a V8 engine.
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No, thank goodness. I moved away from that madness.
Yeah, most people up that way don't drive Mazdas. They drive grain trucks, hence the situation I described. :)
I don't need that to open the door and start the engine, as I do the ignition/door key(s). Try pushing those little buttons with a wool mitten, anyhow. ;)
Wow. There are officially four Nodaks on Slashdot. :)
You may find this shocking, but this is a problem that occurs due to the existence and proximity of other vehicles. As to the likelihood of this happening, I can't say that it's high. Or even measurable. However, it does exist. Say that you drive up to your house and walk across your cement driveway to the front door, shivering and hurried due to the extreme cold. There is probably also some wind. Yes, wind. Lots of wind. So you're fighting the wind, the cold, and hypothermia by this point, and you are carrying in groceries, a briefcase, and your gym bag. Your keys fall onto the driveway. You live in a secluded spot (secluded mostly due to the climate, if you can imagine that) so your front door is never locked, and you don't need the keys to get inside. You don't even know you're missing them until after you put the groceries away, and by then someone else has pulled up onto the driveway in a truck, running over your keys in the process.
:)
You're right that this is an excessively rare occurrence, but you are not right for the right reasons. You assume that either there is only one vehicle in all the world or that it requires stupidity to run over a car key. Neither assumption is valid, but your anger is.
How about running over it with a grain truck when the ambient temperature is -40 (celsius or fahrenheit, your pick)? I can do that with my keys right now and they still work.
Don't forget yours, ours, and whose. If you want irregular, the first-person singular pronoun is your friend.
;)
I'm almost tempted to make your point into a signature line around here, but for the fear that it will turn any insightful or informative comment I make into an off-topic, flamebaiting troll.
Wikipedia on Dictionary History. Enjoy. I am personally a "When in Rome" person on the English language. I can speak and spell British English and American English, and I even know several of the Canadian English oddities (some words are spelled the American way, others the British way). Because I am an American, when I'm in any nation-agnostic forum such as Slashdot, I use American English. I won't correct your spelling if you say favour, but I will myself spell it favor.
Now, as to its/it's... I can understand why uneducated monkeys may have a problem with the distinction, but people with even the slightest experience with a programming language of any sort, be it GW-BASIC, PDP-8 assembler, or Common Lisp, have no excuse for not obeying such a basic rule of English syntax. Slashdot as a whole has atrocious spelling and grammar, which is ironic given that outside of the English language most of us are downright pedantic about spelling and grammar. You wouldn't see code like wile(1) { blah(); } or while 1 blah(;) (both examples in C) and let it slide without both correcting it and punching the guy who wrote it in the face - why do you let it slide in English?
This is something where reasonable minds can differ. I consider it spelling because it all takes place within one word, and the word itself, sans context, has a different meaning depending on which letter you use to begin it. I suppose it's largely a matter of case-sensitivity in your spelling system, but I personally consider proper nouns to be spelled with the capital letter, and consider the capital and lowercase of the same letter to be different letters for spelling purposes. Initial capitals in sentences are decidedly a rule of grammar, because the word's meaning independent of the sentence has not changed, whereas the different meaning of a proper noun when capitalized or not and when divorced from the sentence as a whole, combined with the assumption that grammr rules determine how to put together sentences and spelling rules determine how to put together individual words (which assumption probably makes a lot of computer programmers feel warm and fuzzy because of how much they hated context-sensitive languages in their Finite Languages & Automata classes back in college), leads to the conclusion that we have an issue of spelling and not one of grammar in this case.
Like I said, reasonable minds can disagree on this point.
One thing's for certain - if you fly into the restricted airspace over D.C., you will very quickly find out where you are.
The English spell themselves with a capital E.
Very few criminals are all that intelligent about their crimes. Those who are don't even trigger any warning signs that would lead a person to hire a computer forensics guy.
File access times. Word to the wise: If you want to copy all the files off of a hard drive, mount it read-only or make an image of it and work from that instead.
Don't even try. I have yet to find anyone on Slashdot capable of understanding the case and changing their opinion on it.
For a law firm, I investigated a drive that had been stolen by a former employee. The drive had been recovered, and my task was to determine what he had done with it and whether he had taken or tampered with any of the intellectual property on the drive. It paid very handsomely for the amount of work involved, and it was an intellectual challenge. That said, this book may have made it easier (I didn't read the review in-depth or the book itself, but I assume it wouldn't make the task more difficult).
/, /usr, /home, and so forth; he had mounted it on /mnt1, /mnt2, /mnt3, and such).
In this case, I determined that the employee had mounted each partition on the drive to a separate mount point, not in the original structure (such as
It's not as glamorous as extreme porn or personal ads, but it was still interesting.
That's exactly what I just said.
It's subject only to your definition of what constitutes the grand scheme of things. I define it to extend beyond mere tens of thousands of years into the eons. In the past 100 million years alone, what mark have humans made on the planet that hasn't been overshadowed by the slightest whim of a meteorite?
Humans are part of nature, and a rather insignificant part in the grand scheme of things.
The difference is that a flathead Ford V8 develops, according to your link, 60hp, while my boxer twin BMW motorcycle engine beats that and gets 45mpg and a Boss Hoss motorcycle probably beats 300hp given what little I know of Chevy V8 engines.
if pop stars were paid like teachers an iTunes song would cost about the same as P2P.
You have forgotten that a very large cut of what you pay for music doesn't go to the musicians at all, but rather to the record labels. They wouldn't fight these battles nearly as hard - and it would instead be all the musicians out there fighting them - if record label executives and shareholders didn't profit the most from winning them.
I'll see your buddy-free accounts and raise you a buddy-free server. So that my excessively arrogant and self-centered e-mail address would be matched with an equally cocky IM address, I ran my own Jabber server for several years and had on it just the one account and on that account zero contacts.
Jigga, what? Motorcycles only have two wheels, which is the square root of the number of wheels on a Delorean. So obviously you divide by 1 million to get the power requirement for a flux capacitor on a motorcycle. ;-D
No. The Dodge Magnum isn't a penis enhancer, it's a penis eliminator. Basically, you can assume that any guy driving a Dodge Magnum not only lacks enough of a penis for it to be even remotely useful, but is also so out of touch with what he has that it may as well just be removed and spare him the confusion.
No, this thing is squarely directed at people uncomfortable with the size of their penis.
Not at all! It's not that I'm uncofmortable with the size of my penis, it's that I need 1.21 kilowatts to power the flux capacitor on my not-penis-related motorcycle with a V8 engine.
Touch eyeballs to screen for cheap laser surgery.