Nit, typo and a question

Post #99,254 by drewk 4/29/03 10:45:22 AM Reply	Nit, typo and a question Nit: Nothing "free" is ever really free, and "free" file-sharing services aren't either. They deliver adware / spyware to your computers Except for the open-source ones that either don't have any adware/spyware, or you can remove the hooks yourself. Typo: The risk of sexual harassment suits resulting from employees downloading pornography is well know. Should be "known". Personally, I don't trust software firewalls (Norton and the like) because I see no reason why a trojan program, working from within, can't disable or bypass them. By software firewall, do you mean software installed on each system? Or do you mean software running on a dedicated computer acting as a router/firewall? I suspect you mean the former, but as written it looks like you're saying that a general-purpose computer configured as a dedicated firewall isn't as effective as a single-purpose firewall box. I'm not a network security guy, but that doesn't sound right to me. Another typo (or is this a style issue?): Napster's users had no thought whatever but to amass vast amounts of top artist's music The way I learned it, that should be "top artists' music". === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #99,260 by cwbrenn 4/29/03 10:53:32 AM Reply	artists' ? Why is that? I thought the s' combo was used only when the singular form of the word ended in "s." Well, or if it falls under one of those "special cases" that occur all too often in our quirky english language. But I don't think this is one. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #99,263 by ben_tilly 4/29/03 11:14:03 AM Reply	It is used for the possessive of plurals as well [link\|http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html\|http://owl.english.p...mmar/g_apost.html] In this case there are multiple people described by the phrase "top artists" so its possessive ends in s', and not 's. Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #99,292 by jb4 4/29/03 12:52:24 PM Reply	Re: artists' ? Actually, it's only used in the plural possessive form. So, "I'm getting my class's syllabus," is correct, because 'class' is singular. But, "I need to know all the special cases' exceptions," is also right because 'cases' is plural (although the sentence itself is of questionable English...;-) ). jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #99,297 by cwbrenn 4/29/03 1:09:06 PM Reply	In summation, I hate the English language. :) "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #99,480 by jb4 4/30/03 1:28:07 PM Reply	It'd be OK, if only its exceptions didn't have exceptions... jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #99,265 by Andrew Grygus 4/29/03 11:18:35 AM Reply	Yes, I meant individual firewalls . . . . which is why I mentioned Norton. I've changed the wording to "personal" firewalls to make that clear. Your other suggestions and corrections have been incorporated as well. Thanks. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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