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Dec 18, 2003, 3:08am

[View Quote] > A very nice railgun might propel a 2kg projectile at 4,000 m/s (and require
> several million amps to fire).
> Thats roughly 0.0013% of the speed of light.
> (And railguns use magnetic fields too, just not the way people normally
> think)

Well, that's all well and dandy... but that's a magnetic accelerator and
not quite a railgun.

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Dec 18, 2003, 6:00pm

[View Quote] > People call the round packaged food items served up by McDonalds
> hamburgers.
>
> It's not reality, but common useage that counts in language....

Nonsequitor... ham is synonym for pork. When was the last time you ate
a hamburger out of pork? It does have cow meat in it, but it's not 100%
cow meat, no... the FDA allows 1 rathair, max, per chocolate candybar.
Maybe you should be more worried about that then, say, what composes the
protein you ingest at a fast food resturant. :P

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Dec 18, 2003, 6:03pm

[View Quote] > Well did another test today...
>
> This time I used an set of 800 coil electromagnets in series... Accelerated
> via 22 volts across each and timed switches... Few failed attempts...
>
> Decided to try and remove the friction from the surface... so made a little
> trolley type device outta something a bit like Lego, but actual design

LEGO's. I would've also accepted legos and LEGOs as the correct term.
The correct term is LEGO Bricks for the plural form, therefore, using a
proper contraction as defined in the British dialogue of English, LEGO's
is as close as possible to the original plural verb. Even LEGO would've
been more correct.

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Dec 18, 2003, 11:12pm

[View Quote] It follows rule one on the left side. What's your point? LEGO Bricks.
LEGO [Brick]s -- LEGO's. Ready!? Let's pronounce this, Le(g-o-s.
Hurray. Despite what you learned in your ass backwards areas, the
proper way is LEGO's. You are not pluralizing it simply because it ends
in a vowel, no, you're adding an apostrophe because you remove "Brick"
in the true plurarl. My hats off that you didn't realize that even
after I explained it. Let's pick apart why example one and two on the
left are correct, okay?

"The cat's out of the bag." Well... this is correct simply because the
contraction "cat's" is a combination of cat and is -- therefore making
it a proper contraction of the two words as an apostrophe has been added
in place of the missing letter(s). Tada, this is where my rule of the
plural of LEGO fits best.

"The cat's feet are out of the bag." Why is this one correct? Because
the cat is showing ownership to the feet. The ownership clause is also
another correct way to use an apostrophe. My rule on on pluralizing
LEGO does not fit all too well here.

"All of the cat's are out of the bag." Why is this wrong? Well,
simply, they used the apostrophe to denote the actual plural instead of
using it to replace the _WORD_ that is actual making LEGO's plural.
This is incorrect either way -- you would get 5 points off for even
suggesting that.

Well... in short, you didn't read my post this time and are way off. I
stated quite clearly that the apostrophe in LEGO's is to replace the
world "Brick," and is not actually making the word LEGO plural itself.
And thus, this follows example one, as I've stated.

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Dec 19, 2003, 1:41am

[View Quote] I think it's funny you'll do anything to try and prove me wrong.
Unfortunately for you, this time it IS right. Their is no right and
wrong place you can use an apostrophe to replace a word as long as it
seems logical. You're not going to go Learned'n for learned in, of course.

>
>
> If you mean that correct English is "ass backwards", then you can go
> right on thinking that.

Whatever you say, you're obviously right because that's just you. You'd
stick a nail in your eye if you felt it would cure herpes just because
an enecylopedia said it would.

>
>
> I don't know what you mean about that vowel part but it doesn't matter
> since that is irrelevant to this discussion. You can't just remove a
> whole word and create a non-standard contraction because you think it
> justifies your *incorrect* use of the apostrophe.

Well, since your link obviously shows the only allowable apostrophe
rules -- it doesn't outright say it's incorrect. But you believe
everything you read on the internet, remember? Oh yeah, nail in the eye
too.. cures herpes. Encyclopedia1337.com says so.

But then again, http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/punct/apostrophe.html. I
can find sites that prove me right too:

"1. The apostrophe indicates that a number or a letter has been omitted:

it is = it’s
does not = doesn’t..."

Therefore, following this rule, LEGO's is a proper contraction, of the
word LEGO Bricks, by use of apostrophe. Go ahead... keep saying I'm
wrong like you always do. Both your link and my link agree with me.

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Dec 20, 2003, 5:25am

[View Quote] > You're missing the point by so much, you must be aiming that
> way intentionally :-)
>
> To the people in these newsgroups, Strikes description of a railgun
> was perfectly acceptable.
>
> I don't know and don't really care if the strict technical definition
> of a railgun has something to do with the speed of light or not.
>
> I knew what he meant, and so did probably everyone else on here
> other than you, and that's what counts, and that's what my analogy
> to hamburgers was about. It was only a non-sequitor to someone
> who failed to grasp it's essential connection to the subject.
>
> Unless you were prefacing your comment.. marking it as a non
> sequitor. If that's what you meant.. then....
>
> As far as what goes into the food goes, you don't need to educate
> me about it. My father was a butcher and I used to visit the various
> places he worked as a kid, and I have had the pleasure of touring
> slaughterhouses, meat packing plants, 'rendering' plants and other
> such places.
>
> I just decided when I was that age I would never eat anything without
> cooking the hell out of it.

So if I throw a baseball I'm a particle accelerator? ;)

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Dec 20, 2003, 5:26am

[View Quote] > I was thinking today that English is missing some pronouns that
> various English cultures have filled in with common usage.
>
> In Canada, we say 'youse' as in 'What are youse people doing?'
> because there is no plural for 'you' when adressing a group.
>
> In America, people in many states say "y'all" to mean the same
> thing.
>
> I wonder if the Brits have a similar term... Strike?

You is both the plural and the non plural. Like fish. Although many
people from the southern states will argue "fishes" is correct. That's
not what Dr. Seuss taught us though.

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Dec 20, 2003, 5:33am

[View Quote] [View Quote] Which have an transitive purpose.

>
>
> Nah.

Yeah.

>
>
> "There".

Yup, I realized that after I posted -- I didn't feel like posting a
correction as I thought you could've understood it. Maybe you did,
maybe you didn't.

>
>
> Your use in this case doesn't seem logical.

Tell me how "shan't" seems logical -- if you can explain how it seems
logical to remove the two L's to complete the contraction... by all
means. As far as I know, this is the only craction that does this.

>
>
> That is exactly the kind of thing you're doing. Saying that "LEGO's" is
> instead of "LEGO Bricks" is just as silly as the example you gave.

Then, LEGO Bricks is the correct plural. LEGO is not, nor is LEGOs (or
any derivative thereof).

>
>
> I never said that I was perfect; just that in this case, you are wrong.

Okey Dokey Cap'n fuzzlebum. Oh wait, that's a contraction too.. and
that's completely illogical!!! Oh no. Explain that one too and I'll
give you a cookie. Cap'n Crunch is going to eat your soul.

>
>
> Nope. That would be stupid.

Ok, then so is basing your argument off a picture. Word up home dawg.

>
>
> I don't see how posting one link that clearly show's you're incorrect is
> the same as believing everything I read on the Internet. Your
> entertaining explanation of how it is acceptable to use "LEGO's" is one
> example of why you shouldn't believe everything you read.
>
>
>
> I never claimed that it didn't. I only said that your use of it was
> ludicrous and non-standard at best.
>
>
>
> No it isn't.
>
>
> You're wrong like you always are.
>
>
>
>
> Nope. You never posted anything that backs up your elimination of all
> traces of an entire word. Good luck next time, though!

Contractions assume that the reader has the basic knowledge of the
subject matter at hand.

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Dec 20, 2003, 5:28pm

[View Quote] Of course it's not, it's one a singular plural. There are people who do
call it United's. Some Canadians do it up near where my family is located.

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Dec 21, 2003, 4:43pm

[View Quote] Oh it appears that this is not so. Language is static -- language does
not adapt to have slang or jargon.

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Dec 31, 2003, 11:25pm

[View Quote] What's so hard, break it up into an array and search the array for keywords.

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Jan 1, 2004, 6:29pm

[View Quote] > Break *what* into an array?

The string, like you said.

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Jan 1, 2004, 7:21pm

[View Quote] Yeah, I assumed explode() from PHP parsed it into an array. My friend
and I made a similar class for C++ -- only because I get lazy when it
comes to string parsing. Really lazy.

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Jan 2, 2004, 1:59pm

[View Quote] > That would be cool.. assuming the rating and language are tossed in there
> somewhere too.
>
> Knowing the location isn't that useful to the OP path. Once it gives
> someone an object, that object is cached so you can't change it if
> they move somehwere else.

Maybe you only want certain objects to be used in certain areas. Maybe
you have a more mature area of a world that uses some objects that might
make mickey mouse cry. Or maybe you have boat objects and you don't
want them in the air, with the birds.

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Jan 2, 2004, 6:39pm

[View Quote] Ew that would be ugly if it wasn't.

> It is a bit of a pain though if you get half a line of valid tokens
> and things fall apart in the middle somewhere.
>
> At least you don't use scanf... that one is ugly. Having to work
> with other peoples code who use it a lot has made me very
> bitter.

Have fun with it. ;)

#include <string.h>
#include <sstream>
#include <vector>

using namespace std;

class explode
{
private:
vector<string>tokens;
public:
explode(char*Buffer, int sep=-1)
{
char Buf2[1024];
stringstream str(Buffer);
while(!str.eof())
{
if(sep==-1)
str>>Buf2;
else
str.getline(Buf2,1024,(char)sep);
tokens.push_back(Buf2);
}
}
int size() { return tokens.size(); }
const char*operator[](int N) { return tokens[N].c_str(); }
};

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Jan 1, 2004, 6:28pm

[View Quote] So users don't accidently waste 10 seconds of their time clicking a
world with people in it and not have it be in their native language...
of course.

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Jan 6, 2004, 3:12am

[View Quote] Safest way is to have people submit their sourcecode and have the
organization recompile it themselves.

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Jan 6, 2004, 12:18pm

[View Quote] Wow Matt, where do you find this outdated trojan code...

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Jan 10, 2004, 6:10pm

[View Quote] Yes... what would I do with the excess of hookers and things that go boom.

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Jan 7, 2004, 7:55pm

[View Quote] How about this, you're both idiots.

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Jan 9, 2004, 12:10am

[View Quote] Black market is correct.

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Jan 10, 2004, 6:12pm

[View Quote] > *in Yoda voice*
> Do or do not. There is no "try".

Tell that to all the teachers that gave you partial credit.

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Oct 10, 2003, 2:44am

I'm giving you guys a heads up, my arm's just fallen asleep.

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Oct 13, 2003, 2:07pm

[View Quote] > AP.....I've about come to my limit of tolerance with these kids also..... yes I said it again KIDS......they need to learn to live in a society where love flourishes and not hatred. You guys seem to relish in the fact you've driven one more adult user that can't deal with your impish mouth away from AW. Well my account is about to expire and I feel it's about my time to leave...I cannot contribute any more to this nonsense. I used to love AW and it's virtual people.....but the hatred is too much in here.
>
> You kids should stay with your killing games and leave this little slice of VR to the people that like to spend time in here peacefully. Your more than welcome...always have been....but you've outstepped your bounds and want to rule this place with hatred and I for one will not let you do this to my "pastime".

I wish I could stereotype as well as you. It would be so useful.

Oh wait, I can. Hey old guy, go to the doctor and get some sugar.

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Oct 13, 2003, 5:58pm

[View Quote] > keep this up AFM your just making it much easier for me to make my point on this issue. :)

I love it, you keep going. I thought you were more mature, I thought
you were an adult? Keep arguing if you want to be like me then, go
ahead, prove you're a child. I have no problem denying it, I love being
a kid.

It seems you want to be a kid again too, you just can't handle it, I'm
eternally youthful, like a pixy, but unlike you.

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Oct 13, 2003, 6:20pm

[View Quote] > Same reply to you Bowen go ahead post another to this...you seem
> to like last words yourself... You see we were arguing just fine
> and you have to bring your smart mouth into it....you kids are all
> alike you see a fight and love to put in your 2 cents
> worth....wanna bet you will come back with some smart ass response to
> my post? sure you will...:) Why do you feel the need to interject?
> cause you seek attention otherwise just leave this "old man"
> alone...:)

I love it, you like to state the obvious how it's a brainstorm. No shit
I like the last word. Want a cookie Sherlock?

Old is right. Old like a dinosaur. Same bone conditions.

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Oct 13, 2003, 2:16pm

My bologna has a first name, it's O S C A R,
My bologna has a second name, it's M A Y E R.
I love to eat it every day.
And if you ask me why, I'll say
"'cause oscar mayer has a way
with B O L O G N A."

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Oct 13, 2003, 6:35pm

[View Quote] > We've got a Mayer plant here... Along with a wiener-mobile........ yay for
> us!

You are nothing without the whistle!

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Oct 18, 2003, 3:58am

[View Quote] Too bad there's 5-6 against you and 2-3 against me, hurrah.

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Oct 22, 2003, 7:27pm

[View Quote] It would be more atune to an American spitting on a person from
Singapore, then they probably could ask for the person to expidited.
Would the country do it? Probably not. You'll find that countries are
very protective of their citizens.

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