Does this help?
It's particularly irritating to me because I'm extra careful with my phone. I don't even remember dropping it.
No, by definition, I find everything to be generally irritating. The very nature of particularity requires a discrete, finite subject.
Only if you assume I'm not indicating each thing separately (definition #3 on m-w.com, for authority). Without context, you'll have to rely on my word.
It is most assuredly not my car. That smells distinctly of old fast food.Maybe clean your car?
Pfft, you can do better than that.Maybe clean your car?
But an infinite set of finite articles still invalidates any definition of "particular," be it the discrete definition or the extremity definition, because if everything is extreme, then nothing is. Yes?
I have to give you that the parts with a lot of cattle have that problem. But this isn't that. This is most definitely the smell of the spoor of something carnivorous or omnivorous... perhaps canine or maybe even human. So either somebody over the fence isn't cleaning up after their dog, or there's a bum who's decided he's found a regular toilet here somewhere.Pfft, you can do better than that.
Ahem: IT'S TEXAS, Gas. Not confined to the parking lot.
Your prisoner might have an overflowing bucket?
Am I the only one who thought he meant, like, a lights-n-sound Star Wars action figure or something?
A debate between Darth Vader and Grievous, that's like the Asthma Association's yearly get-together?
And don't you love the fact that if you want a DVD-RW drive, you have to buy one separately? It's the iMac all over again. The thing that really gets me is that we were just talking about this in our vendor bay. One of the guys was talking about how during the presentation video you could hear people in the background clamoring for Apple to take their money now, that they can't wait 2 weeks for the 17in version to be released, etc. I went to their store, priced out a minimal upgrade version of the 15in computer (I went with the 768GB hard drive and added the "superdrive" option.) and after paying for all of the cables you would need to connect the new drive, etc., it came to $3500. Then I went to Dell's website and customized an Alienware gaming rig, with a better video card (nVidia GTX 660M 2GB vs. nVidia GTX 650M 1GB), same amount of RAM (8GB), same Intel core i7 processor (up to 3.6GHz with Boost), more hard drive space (1.5TB vs. 768GB), a DVD-RW drive that comes standard, and it's 17in instead of 15. The Alienware was almost $2,000.00 cheaper (I think it was almost exactly $1,800.00). For that much money, I could drop another 8GB of RAM and a second 2GB GTX 660M with SLI support into the Alienware rig. That's how effective the Apple brand name is right now. People are willing to give up twice the RAM, twice the HDD space, twice the video card performance, and a DVD-RW drive, just for the privilege of getting to buy an Apple computer.
The DPI of pixels on a "retina" display are supposed to be a higher density than the human eye can process at the expected viewing distance, thus making it appear smooth and sharp. There is some controversy about that claim. In any case, it's basically super duper ultra high resolution, but naturally it's limited to the smaller screens.
