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Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix)
Article: 7610 of alt.hackers From: emerson@sfsu.edu (Russell Pickett) Newsgroups: alt.hackers,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Hacker FAQ (please comment and help fix) Date: 6 Apr 1995 20:46:15 GMT Organization: the mercy of his .edu account Lines: 43 Approved: Y Distribution: world Message-ID: 3m1jun$10t@news.csus.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: @orion.sfsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.2 Status: RO
In article <3lvpr6$3qu@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, mjhaisma@eos.ncsu.edu says... > > >In article <3lucq9$1b7@mangrove.Intran.Xerox.COM>, >seebs@mangrove.Intran.Xerox.COM (Peter Seebach) writes: > >>"see? there are other people like me". (You may wish to capitalize >>when actually saying it though; bad grammar looks unprofessional.) >> >Also it should read: "See? There are other people like I." Nay verily. In modern American English, "like (pronoun)" is treated as a prepositional phrase. As such, (pronoun), being the object of a preposition, should be in the objective form -- me, you, him, her, us, them, myself, himself, etc... In this case, though, "other people like myself" would be the least offensive all around, IMHO. Damn, that means I need a hack... ObAsAKidIThoughtItWasCoolHack: Old TRS-80 Model I, with Expansion Interface. (Man, just SAYING that takes me back...) The EI had two cassette ports, that had a relay that audibly switched between them. I worked out what address to POKE to in BASIC to do the switching, and made a neat little buzzer by switching at some atrociously fast rate. I was just working out timing loops to play different notes when my Dad came in and got a bit peeved that I was wearing out the relay... -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ R Pickett * This line under construction -- pardon our dust.* emerson@sfsu.edu Not responsible blahblahblah my own words blahblah, emerson@opcode.com blahblah reflect the opinions blahblah get it blah? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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