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17y ago
I have the same problem. I usually find that not only can I remove the parenthesis, but I can often remove the entire phrase. Usually it turns out that they were just extraneous things that I found interesting with no real pertinence to the
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While 'everyone' sounds like it refers to a plural subject, it technically is singular. Therefore, "Everyone put on their jacket." is correct. This is another one where I would rewrite the whole thing to make it sounds better: They all
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17y ago
Technically, everybody takes a singular verb. Try replacing it with "every single body" or "every person". The main ambiquity in the phrase is that 'their' isn't -technically- correct as a gender neutral third person possessive pronoun, des
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17y ago
It would be: they changed their minds. Why? "they" refers to the group members, because "they" is a plural pronoun. "It changed its mind" would be how you could write the first phrase. In this phrase, "it", a singular pronoun, would refer t
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17y ago
I've never had the solid state caps go bad on me. I've been using strictly solid-state capacitor motherboards on all my computers for two years now, and I haven't had a single (motherboard) problem with them.
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17y ago
First it was the Maxtor hard drives that went bad, then it was the capacitors popping. The company I worked for at the time had literally thousands of these things--and nearly every single one had to get a new motherboard and hard drive bef
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No, I hate screencasts for several reasons. - I can't stream video at work. I can read documentation all day long, but streaming video, audio, etc. is not a valid use of company resources. - I can't easily find the information I need. Video
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17y ago
> journalism from around the world with different points of view Journalism isn't supposed to have a point of view. It's supposed to give you the facts and stay neutral.
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The person mentioned supersonic, so I figured that's what the bow wave was referring to. Doesn't help that I work in aircraft and haven't been keeping up on my space knowledge lately ;) (And I don't work on cool military supersonic things,
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17y ago
Ummmmm... There is almost no air in space, which causes there to be no sound in space. Therefore, the ability to go 'supersonic' in space is highly overrated, seeing as sound simply doesn't even try. This all leads me to believe there's pro
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17y ago
I find the "email this" link to be extremely useful for when I want to read something, but don't have time to right now.
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17y ago
My Hoover ( http://www.hoover.com/product.aspx?model=U5780900&ds=fal... ) does all that stuff too. It even has the roller brush for stairs, couches, etc. Even better -- it works! I'm consistently not impressed with Dyson's BS.
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17y ago
indeed
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17y ago
Those are awesome, much nicer than the icons I was using before. Thanks!
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17y ago
We call it the Engineer's Ring in the US ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer