"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
I agree that US dates and times are screwed up. But only a little more so than the dates and times used by the rest of the world. As an IT professional, I feel the only sensible way to order a date is yyyy/MM/dd. (Choose whatever separator you want; doesn't matter to me.) Because (a) it's uniformly ordered from most to least significnat (just like time fields HH:mm:ss as well as individual digits within the date fields), and (b) the moment you write the year first, it's obvious to everyone (American or not) that the next field is months - because no one in their right mind would use yyyy/dd/MM as a format.
[ July 26, 2004: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Le Cafe Mouse - Helen's musings on the web - Java Skills and Thrills
"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Originally posted by Adrian Wallace:
Someone in another post suggested:
"Colour? Why do you British have to be so pompous as to insert extra letters into the words of our language? "
Le Cafe Mouse - Helen's musings on the web - Java Skills and Thrills
"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors
Gail Schlentz
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
I have no love of language/grammar/spelling facists.
<irony>
That's "fascists", you ignoramus.
</irony>
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Originally posted by Elaine Micheals:
Since the topic of advertisements was mentioned, what about, "Save up to XX%, and more!" I always figured "up to" was the upper limit, so how could there be more?
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Originally posted by Jeroen Wenting:
Them thinking the Brits changed English around when the Brits had been speaking it for a thousand years before the USA was established shows enough I think
F�der ure �u �e eart on heofonum; Si �in nama gehalgod to becume �in rice gewur�e �in willa on eor�an swa swa on heofonum. urne ged�ghwamlican hlaf syle us tod�g and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfa� urum gyltendum and ne gel�d �u us on costnunge ac alys us of yfele so�lice.
Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
Associate Instructor - Hofstra University
Amazon Top 750 reviewer - Blog - Unresolved References - Book Review Blog
Originally posted by Warren Dew:
When writing, I consider "how" to be important.
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Books: Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java, Agile Java, Modern C++ Programming with TDD, Essential Java Style, Agile in a Flash. Contributor, Clean Code.
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Books: Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java, Agile Java, Modern C++ Programming with TDD, Essential Java Style, Agile in a Flash. Contributor, Clean Code.
F�der ure �u �e eart on heofonum; Si �in nama gehalgod to becume �in rice gewur�e �in willa on eor�an swa swa on heofonum. urne ged�ghwamlican hlaf syle us tod�g and forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfa� urum gyltendum and ne gel�d �u us on costnunge ac alys us of yfele so�lice.
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"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Le Cafe Mouse - Helen's musings on the web - Java Skills and Thrills
"God who creates and is nature is very difficult to understand, but he is not arbitrary or malicious." OR "God does not play dice." - Einstein
I've heard it takes forever to grow a woman from the ground
Originally posted by Adrian Wallace:
Obviously this business model works, since "Rugs-a-million" seems continually to be expanding its empire. Are we as consumers really that stupid that we fall for these cheap stunts?
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Originally posted by Adrian Wallace:
(Wouldn't it be nice if things could cost $50 instead of the annoying $49.95?
- I have pockets worn thin by the almost worthless 5c coins!)
Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
Converzation next