umm.. duh? where are you going to get the hardware for a mcp, other than in a mcp? it's not a bucket of parts OTS.

ok, so your display is a third the price of a self contained state-of-the-art computer. my lunchbox is much cheaper than a refrigerator. so?

why don't you get a retina macbook pro. the screen has 5 million pixels.

remember the world bank guy who used the word "niggardly" in congressional testimony, and got fired for it? it means "stingy" but you can see how it would raise people's eyebrows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niggardly

my rig has 360 degree horizontal / 180 degree vertical, no bezels, retina display. it's called LIFE. high fps!

i tell you this: for those of us in the knowledge industry, grammar separates the men from the boys.

umm, i think that a reasonable person would see the protest message, and conclude that the site did not in fact crash. just sayin'

You must be new here.

Dude, it,s a thread ABOUT GRAMMAR! what do expect people to talk about? If you don't want to be near pedants, don't hang around slashdot.

Let me be clear - I don't give an eff what kind of grammar people have. It's a free country and people can do what they want. However, I think that people with bad grammar are effing retards, and I don't let them near me in professional contexts. And if my kids don't get grammar I will force it on them.

I spend a lot of time making sure these "kindred souls" don't work at my company. They can all go to government or wherever these people go. McDonald's?

a distinction without a difference. Or perhaps if not an idiot, then sloppy and careless, which makes you look like an idiot. Either way,, bad grammar makes you look like an idiot.

The only people who don't know proper grammar are children and the uneducated. what you're saying is either 1) if you're uneducated, you can miscommunicate without shame to other uneducated people. 2) if you know proper grammar, you don't need to bother with the rules when communicating with the uneducated because your disdain for them is so great and you're so much better than them. And what subcultures do you mean? Ebonics, the soft racism of low expectations?

So you... Agree? What you're saying is "there are many ways to look like an idiot; one of them is to use poor grammar." I agree with your argument!

Timothy, is that you?