Forgive the stupidity, but please help.
Again, forgive my idiocy, but I can't seem to do this. Anyway--currently, I'm running Windows XP...dear, there's the problem, isn't it. laughs...and for some reason, whenever I decompress one of the compressed files from the plugin board, it decompresses as nothing more than a File. It doesn't have an extension, basically. Anyone know how to fix this? --oh...sidenote, I'm using Stuffit Standard 9. Sankye again!
~Dragily
Deiza, on Jun 28 2005, 11:24 PM, said:
Again, forgive my idiocy....
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Gah! The root word "idiot" isn't used correctly in your sentencce. The word you're looking for is "stupidity". But the aain, it isn't stupidity. It's just being uninformed. The file that comes out is going to be a macintosh plugin file. The resource extension is ".npif". You need to run it through the converter that comes with the Nova application. It should be in the EV Nova 1.0.8 folder.
This post has been edited by Slayer LP-5 : 29 June 2005 - 01:55 AM
Slayer LP-5, on Jun 29 2005, 05:54 PM, said:
It should be in the EV Nova 1.0.8 folder.
You mean 1.0.6, right?
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The resource extension is ".npif".
Only in very rare cases (.rsrc is more common, as are extensionless files), and never once Stuffit 9 has had a go at it - the correct output of Stuffit 9 is a .bin file, which is short for Mac Bin ary.
In any case, Deiza, using Stuffit 9, the correct way to expand a .sit file is to right-click on the file, and select Stuffit Archive > Expand Mac Archive > MacBinary Fork Encoding. Otherwise, you end up with files of size zero bytes. If it's a .hqx file, you first need to select Stuffit Archive > Expand Here in order to get a .sit file, and then do the MacBinary expansion as above (if you don't get a .sit file, but it expands all the way, then you need to open the options and uncheck "expand completely" or whatever it says).
Slayer LP-5, on Jun 28 2005, 10:54 PM, said:
Gah! The root word "idiot" isn't used correctly in your sentencce. The word you're looking for is "stupidity". But the aain, it isn't stupidity. It's just being uninformed.
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The root word "idiot" wasn't used at all in his or her sentence. Deiza used the word "idiocy", and used it correctly from a grammatical point of view. With regard to your assertion that "stupidity" would be better suited to the sentence, please refer to www.answers.com/idiocy where you will find that the first definition of "idiocy" is, "Extreme folly or stupidity," and that the second definition thereof is, "A foolish or stupid utterance or deed."
Of course, you are absolutely right that Deiza is neither stupid nor idiotic, but was simply uninformed. That does not change the fact that the sentence in question was and is perfect, grammatically, orthographically and syntactically. If you truly wish to enter a discourse on the English language as used on an internet forum, please spell-check your own posts before criticizing anothers writing.
Please excuse me, but I feel inclined to point out that while Deizas two posts on this thread have zero errors between them, your one post has two words misspelled and one trademark not capitalized.
Deiza: your English is superb. 
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This post has been edited by Qaanol : 29 June 2005 - 10:48 AM
The original definition of idiot, which I would think is the root word of idiocy(where the word comes from, you know), is someone who is full of themself. Maybe that's a little old and has been changed now, but that's the original definition.
Well...no.
No offense, but the word idiot has meant "a mentally deficient person" for at least a little over a century. I have no dictionaries from before then, but I do not believe that it had a different meaning at any previous time, after all, Shakespeare used it to mean this, and he coined a pretty large amount of the English language.
This may have to do with what dialect of English you're using, I truly have no idea. But as far as the English that I speak goes, someone who is full of themself is an egotist, not an idiot.
Again, no offense.
I happen to love etymology, so I'll introduce you to the www.etymonline.com page for idiot. As you can see, it is a 700-year-old word:
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c.1300, "person so mentally deficient as to be incapable of ordinary reasoning," from O.Fr. idiote "uneducated or ignorant person," from L. idiota "ordinary person, layman," in L.L. "uneducated or ignorant person," from Gk. idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill," lit. "private person," used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own" (see idiom).
Stupidity, idiocy, ignorence, Windows XP...they're all the same thing
True.
