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Unique is unique. Unique means that there is only one of it. You cannot have degrees of "uniqueness" - either there are zero items, in which case they are not unique because they don't exist; or there is exactly one of the items, in which case it is unique; or there are two or more of the...

Plenty of room! Come on over. Bring a friend!

"Thank you" is, as far as I know, the only correct form in American English, but in Standard English "thank you" and "thankyou" are equally acceptable. This is actually rather interesting because, nearly always, it is the American form that gets shortened, abbreviated, contracted...

Not a chance, Sunshine. May I take this opportunity to pass on my best wishes and congratulations to all those mentioned above (excepting possibly Tannin). Great posting, team, and to celebrate, I'm offering a 24 hour amnesty for grammatical mistakes, at no extra charge. Oh, and make mine a...

Nope. Nothing out of the ordinary. Working backwards from your post, what do we have? -1: CityK didn't bother with full stops. Not a hanging offence. -2: Sechs uses "slower" where he might be better advised to use "more slowly", but then his final sentence would be awkward. On balance, I think...

Did I miss something?

Not possible. An implication is always in the source material. Always. By definition. When reading, one can only infer, never imply

Wacky: mildly perjorative adjective. Of or pertaining to any and all things that one does not happen to actually do oneself.

One can only hope that this reviewer knows his CPUs, as quite clearly he does not have the ability to express himself in standard English. As a rule of thumb, he that cannot write can neither think clearly nor observe accurately. (There are exceptions, of course, but they are few in number.)

Ahem .... You can do better than that.

Thou shalt not edit posts. Thou shalt not make mistakes. Thou shalt not be human. Thou shalt not ask forgiveness. Thou shalt suffer terrible punishment. Be afraid. Be very afraid. We miss nothing. We are everywhere. We have no mercy.

Ahem. ... What's this I hear about moderators accepting bribes from ordinary contributors? We'll have none of that, thankyou.

ATTENTION! WE DO NOT PERMIT TYPOS. WE DO NOT PERMIT MISTAKES. WE DO NOT PERMIT ERRORS OF ANY KIND. ANY MEMBER COMMITTING THESE GROSS VIOLATIONS UPON THE LANGUAGE WILL REPORT TO ME IMMEDIATELY. SWIFT AND SEVERE PUNISHMENT WILL BE PROMPTLY ADMINISTERED. (PS: By special request of the...

In the old days, having issue was another way of saying a happy event or, to be more specific, producing yet another baby. Still, all things considered, it's probably cheaper to have another electronic device. Even if you do have to resort to hard-wired network connections. Mercutio, just be...

Hmmmm .... That is quite possibly a world record, Tea. A four word sentence with three commas (and a full stop just for good measure). You don't feel that you are under-punctuating a little, Small Hairy One? Are you comfortable that your sentence above is ready to meet the world as-is, with no...

English! (As opposed to the degenerate tongue spoken on the other side of the pond and known as "American".) Would you like me to translate?

An LCD. A liquid crystal but an LCD.

And the official Grammar Police Prize for the funniest post all week goes to .... (drumroll) .... Steve Groltz! The winning entry was this swallow-your-pipe one-liner: "The first picture that came to my mind was Greg on all fours with a freshly slain Norway rat clenched in his teeth."

Are you sure about that, CityK? Sometimes I look inside the box and it gives me cause to seriously wonder.

Why? Because, with one single, solitary exception, Intel have never successfully introduced a brand new architecture and made money out of it. Never. (Can we say "i860"?) Panic mode? Huh? Intel are not in panic mode. They always introduce stupid new architectures that no-one wants, lose bucket...

Stand on Zanzibar. Yes indeed. Fool, you are no fool.

People find that they use less detergent, soap and shampoo. Well, yes. Ain't you never seen the Rinso and Omo and Cold Power ads on TV? People do use less detergent when they wash in hot water. Morons

Gah! There seems to be a small family dispute going on in the House of Tannin. Tea read the garbage above, but seemed to find herself incapable of being sufficiently rude about it to do the subject justice. Even Tannin can't summon up the bile to adequetly deal with the (alleged) mind that can...

Can we expect a glowing review of a Nivida graphics card next? A sentimental eulogy for those wonderful old Micropolis drives? A learned discourse on the contribution to the development of tonality and the creative use of leitmotifs made by Johnny Rotten? A resounding endorsement of the...

You mean sport. ""Sports" is an illiterate Americanisim. (Oh dear. I think I just found a fourth way to start an argument!)

Of course, one would wish to remove all that mounting hardware from the Slot One product first, my friend. On the ... er ... whole ... it might be best to chose a more modest CPU, such as one of those nice little socketed 386 parts.

Steady on there, my man. Nothing in the software world is as bad as that. Pour yourself a stiff brandy and calm down a little. Then sit back, relax, and settle back to watch the hordes of people posting in this thread to say that, yes, there is in fact some worse software than Flash or even...

Dozer, your response to those irreverant and bickering two clowns is truly gentlemanly. If I wore a hat (which I don't) I would doff it to you, Sir! (If Tannin took to me with a terrible misquote like that, I'd take to him with a sharp stick.)

Well said, Fool, and welcome. Or, as Michael from the movie The Big Chill so eloquently put it: (The conversation is about life, the universe and everything.) Other player, name I forget: "But that's just a rationalisation" Michael: "Don't knock rationalisation. Rationalisations are more...

Excuse me, Tea, but your proofreading skills are apppalling. Where on earth did that want's come from?

Sorry. I thought that was me. I seem to be getting confused lately. All that orange hair in my soup, I guess. Is this one better? Anyway, what I meant to say was: "No. She'll be back in a minute."

SNo. It was cruel. he'll be back in a minute. You watch.

The silence thing is just beautiful, Platform. A wonderful link. I have long maintained that musical composition is like great cooking: it ain't the bits you put in, it's the stuff you leave out. Here, for example, is the secret to the success of composers as diverses as Mozart and...

I'm afraid not, Buck. I was making the point that, in talking about Rambus Inc, saying "another company with better ethics" is like talking about Vostock Base in Antarctica and saying "another place that is also warmer" or talking about Mt Everest and saying "another mountail that is shorter"...

That's a tautology, Cougtek.

Hmmm... I avoid commercial radio like poison, and stay out of shops and public places as far as possible. But last week or the week before - late November, I think it was - I was assulted by the sound of a brass band walking around the district and playing the usual horrible crap. I assume they...

Ha! Just goes to show that, deep down inside, I really do have a little tiny bit of spelling inside me. All the way through that post, I had to keep crossing out the letter "d" and forcing myself to write "pigeon". As I did so, I was vaguely wondering why my fingers seemed to want to keep on...

Errr ... in my quest to wind up witth exactly 101 words in that last post, I think I just mangled my sentence. Serves me right for not previewing properly. :( Excuse me, I have to go and lock myself up now. Tea? Would you mind letting me out in the morning? Danke.

I don't know what a passive participle is, but I bet you I don't use them - and as for "run-on sentences", this is a silly rule that a computer is utterly incapable of judging with any reliability or sense of clarity, and even humans should be wary of, as it is perfectly possible to create a...

Blue Banner: yes, Slo - they are the best. :) PS: the great secret to vinegar on chips is that you must not use vinegar from a bottle - that is acrid and horrible - you need to use the liquid that the pickled onions were in. This is why fish shop chips taste so good - the proprietor, in his...

Of course, as you can see by my various errors above, not to mention my consistent mangling of the word "grammer", spelling is not inborn!

There is no such thing as a competent grammer checker, bar the one on the top of your neck. No computer program written so far or in the forseeable future can remotely approach the ability of a human being. Humans are hard-wired to check grammer: one of the very few things that set us apart from...

A Grand Duchess, My Lord (as the daughter of the Tsar) is properly addressed as "Your Grace". In Her Grace Tea's case, however, a simple "hey you" is generally sufficient. Her Grace responds quite positively to "hey you", particularly in when it is included in phrases like "Hey you! Want some...

WARNING: Pat Robertson fans will find this link offensive. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/28468.html Others who click on the the screenshot of the Amazon page may just laugh themselves silly.

Perhaps I should help Tannin out by describing the players. Seeing that he has started with an imaginary but representative South Africa vs Australia match, I'll try my hand at describing one of the imaginery but representative teams. To do this, I'll go in batting order - this is something that...

For someone with a formidable competence with things linguistic, you display an appalling ignorance of the meaning of the word 'liberal', Cliptin. You have been reading too many low-brow weirdo right-wing tracts, and become infected by the usuall illiteracy with which they are afflicted, it...

Hmmmm ... Seeing as the Inquisition was shut down in ... er ... 1809, if I remember correctly, I guess this must make you one of the longest-serving undergraduates, yes? Are they planning any special ceremony in seven years time to mark your 200th straight year without graduating Prof? How do...

Perhaps so, Mubs. On the other hand, I can't say I've met too many Abominable Snowmen in Glen Waverley either. Just as well my colleague The Spelling Police is off on sick leave at present. :)

There is something rather beautiful about this thread title. It is redolant with echoes of those long forgotten small ads in the back of Sixties tabloid glossies like Australasian Post - spiritual home of the undiscovered Abominable Snowman in suburban Glen Waverly, or the country grandmother...