Given that it's not feasible to teach 100% of all chemistry to students in the 1950 or modern day, and that two subsets of that knowledge are not guaranteed to have 100% overlap, your assertion that they couldn't have been tought differently is wrong.
Using commas in a number is consistent with separating longer things into chunks, where using a full stop in decimals is consistent with separating two distinct parts.
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Won't trading standards have something to say about this blatant lie then?
Strange, he didn't even say Candleja
I'm pretty sure the standard SCART does something similar too.
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Broke the IP barrier? What speed were they going?
Just because we don't write it down on a piece of paper and put it in a museum doesn't mean we don't have one.
You can't really quote "magic" if he didn't say it.
You're trying to browse the internet without seeing something that might offend someone? You must be new here.
I think we've experienced this point in time before.
What whitespace problem?
Surely it'd either be butterfuss/bitterfuss, or Bee Tee Are Eff Ess, not pronouncing btr as it's spelt but then expanding FS to file system?
Did you read the bit where he said what you said?
Was it? There's nothing wrong with not wanting to chose, that's the whole point of the 'there are too many options' argument, isn't it?
Given that it's not feasible to teach 100% of all chemistry to students in the 1950 or modern day, and that two subsets of that knowledge are not guaranteed to have 100% overlap, your assertion that they couldn't have been tought differently is wrong.
Except available without having to pass a driving test.
Sure, if you make a List-er all the Agatha Christie stories you ever read.
Using commas in a number is consistent with separating longer things into chunks, where using a full stop in decimals is consistent with separating two distinct parts.
Is there some unwritten rule that you can't use 'and' in a headline?
Great for DOS games :P
This is the internet, it's never too soon.
It's not a pony wish, it's reasonable and it already is the standard in some countries.
Uh, no. How could you even think that?
I live in the UK and I thought exactly what the GP thought :P
A crime is still a crime even if it was mistakenly uncovered.
Public source means the source code is publicly available. Open source means that you can take that source and do whatever you want with it.