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When do you use alternate instead of alternative?
But in many cases where choice is involved, ‘alternate’ is a viable alternative. Usage commentators, however, have often emphasized a distinction: one should use alternate to mean “occurring or succeeding by turns” and alternative to mean “offering or expressing a choice.”
Is there any alternative to using local storage?
Since 4KB (the cookie max size) isn’t a lot, local storage is one of your only real alternative options. OK. We talked about the good, now let’s spend a minute (or two!) talking about the bad.
Where do I find the alternatives in Linux?
These commands create a new symlink, /usr/bin/em, pointing to /etc/alternatives/em, which you can in turn point to either /opt/em-legacy/em2 or /usr/local/bin/nem. The human-friendly reference to this bundle of alternatives is uemacs, which has been arbitrarily chosen by the systems administrator because it’s descriptive and memorable.
When do I need to remove an alternative?
Sometimes alternatives are long-term solutions, and other times they’re just to help users or admins to transition to something new. If you need to remove an alternative for any reason, you can do that with the –remove-all option, followed by the “generic” name of the alternative. In this example, that’s uemacs:
The use of ‘alternate’ and ‘alternative’ is different in the UK and much of the English speaking world from the US. ‘Alternate’ is used when things move from one option to another in sequence, from the verb ‘to alternate’. When there is a choice,’ alternative’ is preferred.
Is the word alternative the same as choice?
The word alternative implies a choice outside of the one you already have: if you have one option but also one other option, that means the second is an alternative. The word ‘alternative’ cannot be used to mean the same thing as ‘choice’.
When do you have to take an alternative route?
For example, when a road undergoing maintenance is closed to traffic, you have to take an alternate route. But when an under-construction road is still accessible to traffic, you might choose to take an alternative route to avoid congestion. The first option is still there, and the alternative gives you a choice.