Comment Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep (Score 1) 292
Oxford commas are optional, and recommended when they improve clarity. In this case, the one after "eats" is enough. Besides, I was quoting the title of the well-known book.
Oxford commas are optional, and recommended when they improve clarity. In this case, the one after "eats" is enough. Besides, I was quoting the title of the well-known book.
I imagine #they'd totally $freak at a @book about &perl.
Or even better, APL.
Or Brainfuck, more politely known as B****fuck.
The hyphens make clear that you are using a compound adjective. In fact, a common error in writing is omitting hyphens when they are necessary. For example, someone writing I saw a man eating alligator probably meant I saw a man-eating alligator
This, this and this.
Awhile ago, we saw a story on this site about a chocolate printer. Of course this was actually a chocolate-printer, a device that prints using chocolate. However, without the hyphen, it refers to a printer that is made out of chocolate. Without the hyphen, what are we to make of The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook?
Hyphens are also important when one needs to disambiguate between compound adjectives and compound nouns. What's a high school building? A building that's a high school (a high-school building) or a school building that is high (a high school-building)?
Hyphens are just another example of how we treat punctuation marks as though they were boogers, something to be expunged and discarded, kept away from ourselves and others. But without them, we cannot distinguish a panda bear who eats shoots and leaves from a mob hit-man who eats, shoots and leaves.
I have always preferred
Why? A sincere question, not a snark. Is it multi-programing-language support? The Microsoft IDE (VS?) What is it that wins over the Java ecosystem?
with the main drawback to
Until Mono came along, I assume you mean. I have little experience with Mono. Those who do, please weigh in: does Mono offer equivalent cross-platform flexibility to Java run-time environments?
It is approximately right, but completely wrong. These are not mutually exclusive. Arguing approximations are perfectly accurate is itself a grave error.
You're abusing the semantics of "right" and "wrong" in a scientific context. A theory or law is "right" if it agrees with observations or predictions to within the accuracy of measurements. It is "wrong" if it doesn't. On that basis, Newtonian physics is "right" over a vast domain of experience, but is "wrong" in situations involving atomic particles or near-light speeds. It is not "completely wrong" -- not at all.
BTW, nobody says approximations are perfectly accurate. That's the same as saying they're perfect, and that would mean they cease to be approximations.
We do use Newtonian Physics, not because they are correct (they are not) but rather because their approximations are within tolerances of certain deviations from accurate.
Again, you abuse semantics. Scientists do not use the word "correct" in the sense of an absolute truth, but rather in the sense of what works to make accurate predictions. Science endeavors to shrink-wrap the tightest possible boundary around "absolute" truth, but does not claim to know what that truth is.
Not to mention A causes X and B causes Y. You know, a coincidence.
One would assume that multiple trials would cause A and B to occur at different times, thus eliminating any perceived correlation between X and Y.
Never mind. GOP = "Guardians of Peace", per the linked article.
Well played. Somebody mod this guy up.
Do *I* think GOP has the ability to pull off such attacks? Probably not. Not at scale. But could they hit one theatre? I'm not willing to take that bet. They've shown they're deep in Sony's business and even if it *isn't* GOP, there's enough crazy in this country to get copycats and sympathizers going if given a push.
What does the GOP have to do with any of this? I'm no Republican, but really, I think it's crazy to talk about them sponsoring attacks on theaters.
Unless GOP means something else here? "Government of P*?" Please enlighten.
Somebody please mod the parent clueful. Thanks for the improvement.
I use my monitor rotated in portrait mode and rotated 270 degrees.
What kind of pr0n are you looking at?
A general ergonomic rule-of-thumb is to adjust your monitor's vertical position so that the top edge is level with your eyes and you don't need to look upwards. A portrait-orientation of your monitor makes that objective difficult to achieve.
It's not enough to kill the perps, you have to kill somebody helpless that's important to them. Torture a man's wife and small child then give him a gun with no bullets!!!
Wow. Classy. The way to combat terror is to be a terrorist?
Suffering the sins of the father on the son has been recognized as unjust since Old Testament times, and probably earlier.
Specifically, he didn't have the IRS on his side. It was tax evasion (not his other misdeeds) that put him in jail.
That's not what I meant, and you know it.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
