Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:41:02AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. > > It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) > > Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go > for a Python prompt? :D What's wrong with bc? One of the things that first impressed me about Linux was that bc could calculate 2^(2^22) and the Windows calculator couldn't. I think, btw, that "maths" is used throughout the British Commonwealth, and that mathematics used to be a singular noun more often than not but is now usually plural. Likewise politics, economics and similar words. I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that Greek and Latin neuter plurals (such as "mathematica") regularly take a singular verb? -- PJR :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
Kent West wrote: > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. > It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go for a Python prompt? :D -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
Chris Bannister wrote: > >mmm, maths, short for mathematics whereas math is short for maths? >Mathematics is plural like arithmetic is singular? > > >Is 'math' used for maths only in America? > > > I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On Sunday June 12 2005 10:10 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Unlike vi v. emacs or KDE v. Gnome, there's actually an RFC about > > this one. It's a dead issue. If you don't conform, people will be > > less liekly to reply to you. > > Really? an RFC? Which one, and where might I find it? http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting#RFC_1855.C2.A0.28http%3A.2F.2Fursine.ca.2Fcgi-bin.2Fdwww.3Ftype.3Dfile.26location.3D.2Fusr.2Fshare.2Fdoc.2FRFC.2Ffor-your-information.2Frfc1855.txt.gz.29 -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/ pgpfs09cm0CxK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:36:38PM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> Tom Waits.
>
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:22:27PM -0500, John Carline wrote:
>
> > What a crock of snobbish BS!
> >
> > snobbish
> > adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social
> >exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people
> >considered inferior [syn: {clannish}, {cliquish},
> >{clubby}, {snobby}]
> >
> >
> > Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make
> > my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to scroll
> > down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just to read the
> > one line added to the 200 I've already read.
>
> So use the tab key (or whatever the equivalent is in your client for
> skipping quoted text). You could also encourage people to delete
> irrelevant quoted text when replying.
>
> Unlike vi v. emacs or KDE v. Gnome, there's actually an RFC about this
> one. It's a dead issue. If you don't conform, people will be less
> liekly to reply to you.
Really? an RFC? Which one, and where might I find it?
-- hendrik
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