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I have the same problem. I usually find that not only can I remove the parenthesis, but I can often remove the entire phrase. Usually it turns out that they were just extraneous things that I found interesting with no real pertinence to the rest of whatever I am writing.

While 'everyone' sounds like it refers to a plural subject, it technically is singular. Therefore, "Everyone put on their jacket." is correct. This is another one where I would rewrite the whole thing to make it sounds better:

   They all put on their jackets.

Technically, everybody takes a singular verb. Try replacing it with "every single body" or "every person".

The main ambiquity in the phrase is that 'their' isn't -technically- correct as a gender neutral third person possessive pronoun, despite its common usage in that form. (Say -that- five times fast!) If you replace 'their' with 'his or her', the agreement makes much more sense:

    Everybody changed his or her mind.

Personally, I would just rewrite it completely:

    They all changed their minds.

English is fun!

It would be: they changed their minds.

Why? "they" refers to the group members, because "they" is a plural pronoun.

"It changed its mind" would be how you could write the first phrase. In this phrase, "it", a singular pronoun, would refer to the group.

I've never had the solid state caps go bad on me. I've been using strictly solid-state capacitor motherboards on all my computers for two years now, and I haven't had a single (motherboard) problem with them.

First it was the Maxtor hard drives that went bad, then it was the capacitors popping. The company I worked for at the time had literally thousands of these things--and nearly every single one had to get a new motherboard and hard drive before the warranty cycle completed.

Also, we had a Dell 'certification' that essentially let us go to a part of the website, and order the replacement parts for any warrantied system. It was really slick. When the site didn't get it done, there was a super-secret US-based support line we could call :)

No, I hate screencasts for several reasons.

- I can't stream video at work. I can read documentation all day long, but streaming video, audio, etc. is not a valid use of company resources.

- I can't easily find the information I need. Video is not searchable, and it's difficult to just skip to the right spot.

- Documents can work as a reference. A lot of tutorials are good enough to be reference materials, especially when the thing they document is lacking in the documentation department.

- I don't like listening to people talk to me, I read at least 10x faster than somebody can talk to me.

> journalism from around the world with different points of view

Journalism isn't supposed to have a point of view. It's supposed to give you the facts and stay neutral.

The person mentioned supersonic, so I figured that's what the bow wave was referring to. Doesn't help that I work in aircraft and haven't been keeping up on my space knowledge lately ;) (And I don't work on cool military supersonic things, so my supersonic is rusty too...)

I still maintain you can't do do supersonic things in space. The would imply sound moves in space.

Ummmmm... There is almost no air in space, which causes there to be no sound in space. Therefore, the ability to go 'supersonic' in space is highly overrated, seeing as sound simply doesn't even try. This all leads me to believe there's probably not bowshock either.

I find the "email this" link to be extremely useful for when I want to read something, but don't have time to right now.

My Hoover ( http://www.hoover.com/product.aspx?model=U5780900&ds=fal... ) does all that stuff too. It even has the roller brush for stairs, couches, etc. Even better -- it works!

I'm consistently not impressed with Dyson's BS.

indeed

Those are awesome, much nicer than the icons I was using before. Thanks!

We call it the Engineer's Ring in the US ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer%27s_Ring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer