Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle/Google demonstrate human beings cannot write 10 lines of code without making a mistake ;) Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 16:13:03 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <288d8379-ebe0-4441-9bc4-79fd11c76ff6@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 23:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="tCs9q+zYIgWty87qnomMxw"; logging-data="28856"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kUqf4qxE+sbcL3Gjcv2b5apI+4T+3Fyo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <288d8379-ebe0-4441-9bc4-79fd11c76ff6@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:HtYmf+hs4N4/7xYsPIBeYJZY95c= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:14606 On 5/17/2012 2:43 PM, Lew wrote: > markspace wrote: >> >> The internet: it's like an assembly factory for idiots. > > Isn't that spelled "Internet", being a proper noun and all? I haven't been in the habit of capitalizing "internet" in a long time. There appears to be some debate about it, which rather surprised me. I would have thought by now it would be ubiquitous to not capitalize. "In 2002, a New York Times column theorized that Internet has been changing from a proper noun to a generic term.[4] Words for new technologies, such as Phonograph in the 19th century, are sometimes capitalized at first, later becoming uncapitalized.[4] In 1999, another column suggested that Internet might, like some other commonly used proper nouns, lose its capital letter.[5]" C.f. "Oxford comma."