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Forsooth! Bill used a "prepositional phrase" to end a sentence with? 
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Atcherley, "without equal" is an adverbial phrase (or phrasal adverb), so, technically speaking, there isn't a preposition.
But I was trying to avoid technical accuracy, because that feels too much like work, and this is the Lounge, so I went for chuckles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi Mark, when an adverbial phrase has no subject, no predicate, no verb (action implied), it is "legal" to call it an "adverbial prepositional phrase:" [^].
But, I was just raving having fun with vocabulary, and it's probably just as legal to call that usage an adjectival phrase 
cheers, Bill
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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It's "legal" to call it a banana, if you want -- I don't give a bugger, so long as what it intends to communicate is understood by the reader when it's used. That is the only reason that words exist.
[Unnecessarily technical, again] It could be described as a compound adjective if used with a copular verb, but, since a: the synonymous adjective "unequalled" can be used either with or without a copular, and b: adverbs are allowed to modify nouns, there's nothing really to be gained by calling it anything other than an adverb.
Except potential confusion, of course, which seems to be what many "grammarians" (as opposed to people who have studied the language seriously) like to cause -- the baby Jesus went to alt.usage.english and he cried and he cried and he cried.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have too much respect for bananas do that, Dave.
cheers, Bill
« There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad. » Salvador Dali
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I went for chuckles
As had I.
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Allow me to translate at least part of that, to wit: Chocolate Nonpareil[^]
Will Rogers never met me.
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A driver was stuck in a traffic jam on Pennsylvania Avenue Washington DC . Nothing was moving.
Suddenly, a man knocks on the driver's window.
The driver rolls down the window and asks, "What's going on?"
"Terrorists have kidnapped all of our politicians during a sitting of parliament, and they're asking for a $100 million ransom.
Otherwise, they are going to douse them all in gasoline and set them on fire.
We are going from car to car collecting donations."
"How much is everyone giving, on average?" the driver asks.
The man replies, "Roughly two gallons."
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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Brilliant!  +5
/ravi
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Erm, Washington DC is not where "parliament" is usually held. 
Marc
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Looks like another copy/paste error.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Erm, Washington DC is not where "parliament" is usually held.
Don't ruin jokes with the facts. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Yup, that's precisely why I edited it to read "Congress" in place of "Parliament" before stealing it and posting it on another site. I also changed "sitting" to "session," if it matters to anyone. I'm happy to report that I've scored quite a few  on that site since posting late last night.
Will Rogers never met me.
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So the Canadians came back to finish the job and did a better job of planning than they did the last time when they let them all get away.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A user voted my CWtlPicture article a 1 because I did not supply an EXE file with the article. I stopped putting EXEs with most articles a few years ago because of virus concerns and because targeting multiple platforms (32 bit, 64 bit, etc.) adds complexity to the link structure.
I know it is more convenient to download and run a pre-compiled EXE than to download and build a project. However, at least half of the Code Project EXEs I've recently download either crash or do not run at all, so I have to debug and/or build the project anyway.
On the article submission page, it says "If emailing files, please do not email executable files within zips. Our email provider automatically bounces any email containing exe's, or zip's with exe's inside." But it is possible to send EXE files in other ways.
What is your take on providing EXE files with articles? Do you still do so? Have you run into platform issues with downloaded executables like I have? What is the best practice nowadays?
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I remove my executables and object files.
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The Code Project.
I wonder which part he didn't understand
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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That person does not have C++ in their profile so may have trouble compiling the project like I would.
Several places will not allow downloading files with .exe in them so you could always upload a version with and with out the .exe or a seperate file with just the exe for download for those that would like to test it as is.
Some like to view how a program works before digging into the code. If it crashes then they may not bother viewing the code.
I personally forget to remove the .exe from my projects before uploading them after spending so much time on the articles.
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Yeah, I know including an EXE used to make things easier. But with Vista/Win7/Win8 security features blocking executables or demanding admin privilege, with various 64 bit and 32 bit architectures, with multiple versions of .NET possibly requiring download and installation, it doesn't seem like a good idea anymore to include an EXE that may only run properly on some systems while crashing on others.
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You are right about that, the only way that would work is if version checking was built in so it would not just crash, but throw a error stating it needs version x or admin right to run properly on OS version X or .Net framework X.
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There's usually no point in providing an EXE, because usually it's just an example anyway. The point of the example is showing how something works, not to provide a useful application. Some articles may come with a useful application, but usually that makes no sense to do.
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I agree; most articles should not include an EXE. Only one of mine does.
I also don't include IDE-specific files because I generally don't use an IDE and they're unlikely to be of any use to the reader.
Only include the code and the article text; let the reader decide how to use it. Anyone who can't figure it out probably isn't worth your effort.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I also don't include IDE-specific files because I generally don't use an IDE and they're unlikely to be of any use to the reader.
I'm going to have to disagree with this one unless you're publishing articles for Ruby/C++ on *nix/etc where no IDE is the norm. The vast majority of .net developers do use VS, and automatic up-conversion wizards mean that a minute to create a .sln/csproj pair for your article in the minimum version of VS that supports what you're doing will successfully load in all of the newer and shinier versions of VS that MS churns out.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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But I'm not going to create files that I don't need simply because someone else might find them helpful.
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No exes in any of my articles.
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