"that can offers", rather.
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
or (three times more recharge cycles than most laptops) then you've defined cycle already, kind of
OR ...
(three times the number of most laptops)
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can be recharged 1,000 times (a threefold improvement over most laptops).
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Ooh - threefold. How could I forget lovely threefold?
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
*applauds*
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually I would have said "triple what other laptops can do" but I guess that's a bit conversational?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah I don't think you'd use 'do' in this context
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
triple what other laptops can offer
― Alba, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
triple what other laptops' batteries can offer?
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:23 (fifteen years ago) link
"Apple laptop batteries come with three times as many complimentary donuts."
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
three times the recharge cycle lifespan of most other laptops
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:31 (fifteen years ago) link
three times as often as most other laptops
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Flib flabbity fram jamma!
xpost That makes it sound like you need to charge it more often.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
well, "can be charged three times as often " as opposed to "needs to be charged three times as often" but yeah see your point there.
― Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 15 January 2009 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
How about more than the work of three normal laptops?
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Its chief breakthrough is what Apple claims is an eight-hour battery that can be recharged 1,000 times (which would take a thousand monkeys working feverishly at a thousand normal laptops to achieve).
― Gorgeous Preppy (G00blar), Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:03 (fifteen years ago) link
How about just:
"Monkeys!"
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 12:05 (fifteen years ago) link
"Apple lie about battery life."
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Thursday, 15 January 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh god, company names as plural, grrrrr
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 January 2009 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Next you'll be saying band names are singular.
Blur: is shite.
― Francisco Javier Sánchez Brot (onimo), Thursday, 15 January 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, this is ridiculous, but does the word "pants" (in the UK English sense) always mean men's underwear? This is what I am arguing now. Women don't generally wear pants, do they?
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 26 January 2009 10:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, they do. Next.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Monday, 26 January 2009 10:40 (fifteen years ago) link
You're more likely to call them knickers, though.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I think I might call them 'pants' as much as 'knickers'.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the fact you appear to have spent a whole minute thinking about that.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
If the planet we live on is the Earth, why is the moon not the Moon?
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Cos that's its name, right? Our moon happens to be called Moon, no?
― Zoe Espera, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Where I work, it's "the Moon" when referring to it as an astral object ("The Moon is thousands of miles from Earth") and "the moon" in more poetic or metaphorical usages ("man in the moon," "reach for the moon").
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, there seems to be a trend toward deleting the "the" before "Earth," as I have just done, since it's just one planet among eight, but no one seems to be suggesting that the same be done for "Moon."
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Actually, I have seen "the" dropped from Moon quite a bit.
― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
it's "the moon" for the same reason it's "my mom" vs "Mom" or "the sun" vs "Sol" etc
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I like the sound of Man on Moon. But that is not a good guide for usage.
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
merriam-webster says both "often capitalized" and "usually used with 'the,'" which i dont really agree w/
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
of course, saying "often" is essentially read as "ask someone else"
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Internet" vs. "internet" also y'alls.
― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe "the" should be dropped from "the Internet".
I will look for this tasty recipe on Internet.
iirc AP says "Internet" and "E-mail" which i think is ridiculous
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
That's, "the E-mail".
― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyways it's all just "mail" now thanks to the wondrous technology of backronyms and "snail" or "postal" mail.
― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:38 (fifteen years ago) link
pleas no hyphen in email
― Safe Boating is No Accident (G00blar), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and no e in please doh
plas
― 7Crutis (libcrypt), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, AP also says "Web site"
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
my bad, AP doesn't capitalize email, but it does add the dash
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I get into this conversation fairly often, but "Internet" and "e-mail" are so standardized to me that it's impossible for me to imagine them any other way. On the other hand, "Web site" has always looked silly.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
We go with the Internet, but email and website.
But anyway, we have started extracting stuff from the reports we doand putting them into PowerPoint, which we then have to sub (a bit).
But it drives me mad!
For example, how can I do a non-breaking hyphen, an optional hyphen, a non-breaking space? Help!
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:55 (fifteen years ago) link
In PowerPoint? I don't imagine you can, to be brutally frank.
― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 29 January 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Has no-one ever wanted to do a line break in a presentation? Or not split Mr and Smith?
Gah!
"business-friendly formats"
― Jamie T Smith, Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Non-breaking space: don't have PPt here, but try alt+0160 (on numpad).
Non-breaking space: similarly, try alt+0173.
Optional hyphen: I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't possible, that sounds like word-processing type funcionality.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 29 January 2009 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I was riding the train to work, and across the aisle, I saw a woman with a cardboard box perched on top of her backpack. The boxstarted to slide off, but she hesitated before catching it -- so I must've saw it fall before she did. Or must I have seen it fall before she did?
― Leee, Saturday, 31 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link