I fight cancer with math, too. I have for all my life. For instance, I fight ovarian cancer by having a 0% chance of developing it based on my gender, race, and age.
Protected classes, under constitutional equal protection standards, are considered those who closely match the paradigmatic class of blacks. I think that any comparison I try to draw between your comment and blacks would do nothing but give rise to cries of racism, whether I say your comment sounds black or say that no black person spells that poorly. But good try.;)
There is no rule of the English language that prohibits ending a sentence with a preposition. I believe it was most notably Fowler who called that made-up rule a superstition.
Sometimes it is just much more difficult to write a sentence with no terminating prepositions, and the only clear way to convey your meaning requires you to end a clause or even the whole sentence with one. To the contrary, there is never a time when using I or whom incorrectly is necessary for clear communication.
So why doesn't she sue her ex-boyfriend whom posted this information without her consent?
Others have pointed out that Yahoo has deep pockets whereas the boyfriend doesn't. However, you hit a pet peeve of mine, which is using whom instead of who (or I instead of me) in a failed attempt to follow the more nuanced rules of English grammar.
You wanted to use the word who here. The clause "who posted this information without her consent" acts as an adjective, modifying "her ex-boyfriend." In such a clause, you want the subject of it to be a subject pronoun; here, who is correct. If you had instead used the who/whom as an object, as in "her ex-boyfriend whom she hated with a passion," then you'd use whom because it is the object of hated.
Similar problems occur when people try to use the word I too much. For instance, "Are you coming to the mall with Jane and I tonight?" is incorrect. But you didn't do that. I just wanted to indicate my distaste for it as equivalent to the who/whom confusion.
Oh, and don't take this personally. Everyone on Slashdot (myself included) could use the occasional grammar lesson.
Also: the school now uses it almost exclusively, has classes on it's use, and encourages students to use it whenever possible. This should obviously be its.
Additionally, by one possible and certainly common reading of the word staff, namely that it functions in this sense as a plural, you have: some administrative staff still uses Microsoft Office. Here, some staff use would work, although some staff members use would be the best as it eliminates the issue.
I agree with the premise of your comment entirely: The school should teach the students how to write, rather than what program to write with.
Domestic terrorists don't need to travel to do their damage, so that point is moot. I have no problem agreeing, though, that it's a lot easier to attack the US by traveling via the UK than directly from the Middle East, but ID card uniformity between the US and the UK just doesn't seem to me to be the answer.
I'm like that, except I usually get branded as a racist, chauvinist, or just an asshole as a result. And I'm none of those things. Well, maybe an asshole, but I'm equal opportunity.;)
Let's see...I got modded up as funny, and you got modded down. Without even going into your trouble with the language, I'll just thank you for demonstrating which of us is the idiot.
Satellite antennas in my pocket scare me. I don't care how safe "they" say they are, I'd just rather not take my chances. And besides, I prefer XM to Sirius.
What ever happened to bluetooth mice? I can hardly find them anymore, and haven't seen the Microsoft bluetooth keyboard or mouse for a long time. Did they just suck, or what's the deal?
My experience with wireless mice has been that they are laggy - you move the mouse and the pointer is late to catch up with your movement. Most sane people can't notice that, apparently, but it really got on my nerves. But I'd like a bluetooth mouse for my Powerbook if they don't suck too bad.
It'll get better in about 20 minutes when I sit down to "Eat Fresh (TM)" at Subway, but don't get me started on their termination of the Sub Club stamp promotion.;-D
"Tortured sentence structure," indeed. This from a person who (1) fails to realize that a poorly-written Slashdot post cannot be expected to be properly capitalized, and relies on capitalization in the story blurb to determine meaning, (2) incorrectly capitalizes "Job Title," and (3) writes "Which it isn't." as a sentence and paragraph to itself, after another purported sentence which is in fact a misplaced clause and before yet another that misspells "capitalization" (or is too British to receive any attention).
Yes, my sentence structure is indeed tortured. It's tortured by idiots like you who see fit to be pedantic without the requisite knowledge.
Slashdot is predominantly a news site located in, based from, and operated primarily by people residing in the United States. On the front page of any news source, it is always nice if the language used is consistent within that page. But at least it's not ABC News, where this story managed to discover a previously unknown word: Artical (see the caption under the photograph).
You didn't spell it "senior programme manager" is all. How can the editors get wet over a story when you spell everything correctly? (Note to the people who think "programme" is the correct spelling - no, it's not. A "senior program manager" at Microsoft is an American job and deserves an American spelling.)
I'll try fscking tonight. I did the permission repair already to no avail but can try again after I fsck it. And I don't have my install disc in the same state as the computer is in, so I will have to wait a while before I can try the Disk Utility repair procedure (although the permission repair is available without the installation media).
Thanks for the suggestions - I hope they help (and restore my faith in my Mac, since I am really liking OSX and the hardware, and was really looking forward to a PowerMac).:)
I agreed with you until my G4 PowerBook started locking up two nights ago, seemingly at random (I thought it could be some software, but I wasn't running that software and it locked up a few more times). I was going to be saving up and getting a PowerMac this summer, but I am rethinking that since I can't seem to figure out why my Mac is crashing like that.
The really annoying thing is that it hasn't locked up in the same way twice. A few different ways it has died: light-blue screen with the little circle-of-lines indicator going as it does on bootup; frozen screen with applications visible including the last tooltip I hovered over with the same circle indicator going; colored-pinwheel mouse cursor with no ability to switch applications or force-quit anything; dark background with white message "You need to restart your Mac"; etc.
Don't get me started on the pedantic explanation. I don't think bandwidth matters a bit, and the relation from latency of noncontiguous accesses to consequences of fragmentation is direct, not inverse. But who's counting?;)
I think that you're going to have a filesystem on it that is based on either a linked list or something substantially similar, so unless the latency is affected by the distance "on disk" between blocks, it doesn't matter if they're in order because you are "searching" for them either way.
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I fight cancer with math, too. I have for all my life. For instance, I fight ovarian cancer by having a 0% chance of developing it based on my gender, race, and age.
Fry: ...Then when I feel so stuffed I can't eat anymore, I just use the restroom, and then I can eat more.
LiuBot: You should write a book, Fry. People need to know about the- CAN EAT MORE.
Fry: You're cute!
LiuBot: You're cute!
Fry: You!
LiuBot: You!
Fry: You!
(This goes on for a while)
Farnsworth: Oh, dear! She's stuck in an infinite loop, and he's an idiot. Well, that's love for you.
What happened to "Natalie Portman naked, petrified, and covered in hot grits"?
:) <-- That's what I would have typed if the lameness filter didn't say otherwise.
Protected classes, under constitutional equal protection standards, are considered those who closely match the paradigmatic class of blacks. I think that any comparison I try to draw between your comment and blacks would do nothing but give rise to cries of racism, whether I say your comment sounds black or say that no black person spells that poorly. But good try. ;)
Fair enough. :)
There is no rule of the English language that prohibits ending a sentence with a preposition. I believe it was most notably Fowler who called that made-up rule a superstition.
Sometimes it is just much more difficult to write a sentence with no terminating prepositions, and the only clear way to convey your meaning requires you to end a clause or even the whole sentence with one. To the contrary, there is never a time when using I or whom incorrectly is necessary for clear communication.
So why doesn't she sue her ex-boyfriend whom posted this information without her consent?
Others have pointed out that Yahoo has deep pockets whereas the boyfriend doesn't. However, you hit a pet peeve of mine, which is using whom instead of who (or I instead of me) in a failed attempt to follow the more nuanced rules of English grammar.
You wanted to use the word who here. The clause "who posted this information without her consent" acts as an adjective, modifying "her ex-boyfriend." In such a clause, you want the subject of it to be a subject pronoun; here, who is correct. If you had instead used the who/whom as an object, as in "her ex-boyfriend whom she hated with a passion," then you'd use whom because it is the object of hated.
Similar problems occur when people try to use the word I too much. For instance, "Are you coming to the mall with Jane and I tonight?" is incorrect. But you didn't do that. I just wanted to indicate my distaste for it as equivalent to the who/whom confusion.
Oh, and don't take this personally. Everyone on Slashdot (myself included) could use the occasional grammar lesson.
Also: the school now uses it almost exclusively, has classes on it's use, and encourages students to use it whenever possible. This should obviously be its.
Additionally, by one possible and certainly common reading of the word staff, namely that it functions in this sense as a plural, you have: some administrative staff still uses Microsoft Office. Here, some staff use would work, although some staff members use would be the best as it eliminates the issue.
I agree with the premise of your comment entirely: The school should teach the students how to write, rather than what program to write with.
Domestic terrorists don't need to travel to do their damage, so that point is moot. I have no problem agreeing, though, that it's a lot easier to attack the US by traveling via the UK than directly from the Middle East, but ID card uniformity between the US and the UK just doesn't seem to me to be the answer.
I'm like that, except I usually get branded as a racist, chauvinist, or just an asshole as a result. And I'm none of those things. Well, maybe an asshole, but I'm equal opportunity. ;)
I'm trying to figure out the nexus between ID cards in the US and UK and terrorists. What percentage of terrorists are US or UK citizens?
So I guess that leaves Europe, Canada, Australia, and many others out uh?
You spelled "eh" wrong.
Let's see...I got modded up as funny, and you got modded down. Without even going into your trouble with the language, I'll just thank you for demonstrating which of us is the idiot.
I'm just glad someone got it. Usually I get modded down as offtopic, flamebait, troll, or just overrated and nobody catches on.
Satellite antennas in my pocket scare me. I don't care how safe "they" say they are, I'd just rather not take my chances. And besides, I prefer XM to Sirius.
What ever happened to bluetooth mice? I can hardly find them anymore, and haven't seen the Microsoft bluetooth keyboard or mouse for a long time. Did they just suck, or what's the deal?
My experience with wireless mice has been that they are laggy - you move the mouse and the pointer is late to catch up with your movement. Most sane people can't notice that, apparently, but it really got on my nerves. But I'd like a bluetooth mouse for my Powerbook if they don't suck too bad.
It'll get better in about 20 minutes when I sit down to "Eat Fresh (TM)" at Subway, but don't get me started on their termination of the Sub Club stamp promotion. ;-D
Wouldn't you be too ashamed to link to it if it was your grandmother who ran a sexually explicit blog?
Is it the British spelling that makes Indian people impossible to understand when they speak, or is there some other factor there?
"Tortured sentence structure," indeed. This from a person who (1) fails to realize that a poorly-written Slashdot post cannot be expected to be properly capitalized, and relies on capitalization in the story blurb to determine meaning, (2) incorrectly capitalizes "Job Title," and (3) writes "Which it isn't." as a sentence and paragraph to itself, after another purported sentence which is in fact a misplaced clause and before yet another that misspells "capitalization" (or is too British to receive any attention).
Yes, my sentence structure is indeed tortured. It's tortured by idiots like you who see fit to be pedantic without the requisite knowledge.
Slashdot is predominantly a news site located in, based from, and operated primarily by people residing in the United States. On the front page of any news source, it is always nice if the language used is consistent within that page. But at least it's not ABC News, where this story managed to discover a previously unknown word: Artical (see the caption under the photograph).
You didn't spell it "senior programme manager" is all. How can the editors get wet over a story when you spell everything correctly? (Note to the people who think "programme" is the correct spelling - no, it's not. A "senior program manager" at Microsoft is an American job and deserves an American spelling.)
I'll try fscking tonight. I did the permission repair already to no avail but can try again after I fsck it. And I don't have my install disc in the same state as the computer is in, so I will have to wait a while before I can try the Disk Utility repair procedure (although the permission repair is available without the installation media).
:)
Thanks for the suggestions - I hope they help (and restore my faith in my Mac, since I am really liking OSX and the hardware, and was really looking forward to a PowerMac).
I agreed with you until my G4 PowerBook started locking up two nights ago, seemingly at random (I thought it could be some software, but I wasn't running that software and it locked up a few more times). I was going to be saving up and getting a PowerMac this summer, but I am rethinking that since I can't seem to figure out why my Mac is crashing like that.
The really annoying thing is that it hasn't locked up in the same way twice. A few different ways it has died: light-blue screen with the little circle-of-lines indicator going as it does on bootup; frozen screen with applications visible including the last tooltip I hovered over with the same circle indicator going; colored-pinwheel mouse cursor with no ability to switch applications or force-quit anything; dark background with white message "You need to restart your Mac"; etc.
And I can't seem to find any help on it.
Don't get me started on the pedantic explanation. I don't think bandwidth matters a bit, and the relation from latency of noncontiguous accesses to consequences of fragmentation is direct, not inverse. But who's counting? ;)
I think that you're going to have a filesystem on it that is based on either a linked list or something substantially similar, so unless the latency is affected by the distance "on disk" between blocks, it doesn't matter if they're in order because you are "searching" for them either way.