Maker of a technology predicts said technology will become ubiquitous.

I'm no linguistics major but my stab at this is that in ".5 books", "books" is the subject and .5 makes it non-singular. In "half a book", the more grammatically correct way to say it would be "half of a book". Then it's easier to see that "half" is the subject, which is singular, and "of a book" is merely a prepositional phrase.

I think both views are correct. If you approach learning a language by purely studying, being older is more beneficial because it's basically just another intellectual pursuit and you have more intellectual capacity. On the flip side, learning a language through immersion would be easier as a kid because you're not trying to overcome years of thinking and processing information in another language.

You know when I'm down to just my socks it's time for business, that's why they call them business socks.

It's like rain on your wedding day...

Or in other words, "Ironically, the cops seem extremely concerned with protecting their own privacy, but the documents encourage police to examine iPhones during the course of interacting with the public to see what apps they have."

Well, it's an absolutely killer idea if you want to watch Food Network... other than that, I got nothing. But just thinking about watching Iron Chef America with smell is making my mouth water.

FTFY

Or Hanlon's razor.

If you use phrases like "alfalfa gorging sheep" in everyday conversation, I think a virtual swear jar is the least of your concerns.

The point of his comparison has nothing to do with the plugin or its availability.

Maybe he was on PSN...

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Give Pale Moon a try (http://www.palemoon.org/). It's a fork that's basically like an optimized Firefox (note: only for Windows). I only found it a couple days ago but so far it seems to be a lot better with memory than Firefox 4.

If you watch the trailer, it does give off a very strong E.T. vibe. Basically E.T. if E.T. was a scary badass alien instead of harmless and innocent.