Comment Re:Yes, nearby (Score 1) 242
No one wants to spend tons of money to send a group of people on a dangerous mission to a place that far away.
Depends how dangerous - and which people you have in mind...
No one wants to spend tons of money to send a group of people on a dangerous mission to a place that far away.
Depends how dangerous - and which people you have in mind...
they're collective nouns and could go either way
That's why I included two alternatives, with "or" in between. It still doesn't mean you can say "they is" or "it are".
Of course, it isn't technically a subject verb agreement thing
What is it then, asshat?
Har! My favorite part of that article is:
"Be should be very successful with its new focus. Internet appliances represent the kind of numbers to make a company like Be the money they need to support their efforts."
Internet appliances? Sure. Just as soon as Linux breaks through the Desktop market.
-dZ.
So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind
For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat
Oh, by the way-- Einstein WAS wrong
On Windows, only admins can install.
So only 99% of users?
Ok, which kind of English would you pick? Canadian? Australian? Caribbean? Ghanaese? Indian? Scots?
Proper English, the one that doesn't have any kind of qualifier, description or ($deity forbid) hyphenation bolted onto it.
I'm starting to think that one of the biggest problems with patents is being able to sell them and hold them with out making products based on them.
So you'd like to prevent specialisation? A company that's good at R&D probably won't be good at manufacturing, selling and distribution.
The problem in this case, like many others, is the breadth & vagueness of the patent.
Personally, I trust in the mercy of God and that whatever He does is just. There's not much else you can do.
You mean apart from getting a clue and becoming an atheist?
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall