Heh, you telling me that/. is formal writing? I don't know about you, but I class/. as more spoken language, more informal than just 'written' language.
Informal. To cause to increase in intensity or excitement. Often used with up: "His book is an exercise in the fashionable art of instant history, in which every episode is hotted up with an anecdote" (Harper's).
Well, not really, because the definition you give in kind of recursive. What do you call the organisation to which these wonderful men and women belong? And is it a singular or a plural?
Well, The Police Force of course. It's different! Honest guv.
I like to point and giggle at the woefully ignorant as much as the next upstanding citizen, I suppose I treat using singular and plural in this case as interchangeable as the language has mutated over time. Mutated or evolved? Whatever, you're right, it doesn't have hard and fast rules, and me being English ain't either.:o)
Don't you mean 'Vincit qui patitur'? I only noticed because that is the motto of the high school I went to. And yes they did teach me not to end sentences in prepositions, but I agree with Winston Churchill on that point.
Speaking of UK experience, they ain't worth the money they are written on. For example, the UK government's Office of Fair Trading warns consumers that they probably don't need one. Certainly from working in <unnamed massive computer superstore owned by Dixons>, I can tell you that about 70% of people that came into the store and tried to claim on them were refused because of small print. Plus, you know that the sales people are paid twice as much comission on the warranties as well?
You seem to have had different experiences, so good for you, but from both sides, both trying to get a replacement, and seeing how a store operates with regards to these, I wouldn't wipe my arse with them in case I get ink stains from it.
Generally this seems to be the case, but I had to restart on this one as it stopped many of my programs (Terminal, Office, etc.) from starting for some reason. New version of Safari started no problem though.
Choosing one of those links at random: BBC. What does it say? It says Americans work longer hours (from the title). The first line of the article then says:
Working long hours does not necessarily mean improved productivity, a report on world-wide labour trends suggests
and next but one paragraph....
But while US workers still lead the world in terms of productivity, European workers are closing the gap, despite working fewer hours.
. Looking at the other links, picking businessweek, I quote
Americans work longer hours mainly because of the lure of big wage gains
which implies that the Europeans (which is the comparison only in this article) are less greedy? No, that would be generalising, and just doesn't make sense. In short, these articles don't really prove that Americans work harder.
From Naples news:
U.S. workers are the world's most productive, but they put in more hours than Europeans to score higher...In terms of output per hour we have three European countries doing better than the U.S.... and they have done so ever since the mid-80s.
It is the same as the measurement: dividing GDP by population does not give a measurement of how hard the people of a nation work, nor does how many hours: it is the combination of the two. Does it apply equally to blue collar and white collar? To code monkeys? I be willing to guess that an offshore programmer in India has to work twice as hard to do the same amount of work of their American counterpart, just to understand what has to be done in the first place: the output is the same, and probably takes longer for the Indian, but he has probably worked harder, and longer.
Unless of course they know something we don't. Keynote is already out there. What if Apple is developing its own Office Suite? Apple Works X? And Open Office would just not be able to compete in its current form?
I use the under-X version irregularly, because it can open Word documents that Word cannot open, and Excel documents that Excel can't open from other people in my company using Office 2000 or 2002. It is ugly to use, and nowhere near as easy for the sort of documents I have to write - lots of styling, lots of nested tables, and lots of pages. And if there was an Apple Office suite, OOo would be dead in the water in comparison.
the only movie I've ever gotten up and walked out of.
I take it you were not unfortunate enough to be taken to see Ace Ventura Pet Detective: When Nature Calls then?
I think the main surprise is that they are attacking the source of the licence from which they made their money in the first place. If I was Eidos, I sure as hell wouldn't want them to be able to make another film after hearing that.
Yup, agreed, then the doctor/surgeon/nurse just needs to read the patient code, and retrieve the info from the server. Wherever they are.
But rather than the bed, why not just put it in the wrist tag that most patients wear now? Then you wouldn't get any mix ups in the nursery, or any problems when patients go walkabout.
Hey it's a late comment, but no-one else mentioned it, and it is kind of amusing.
The primary situation I can think of when my TiBook strains because of lack of memory is when I have Virtual PC running with a Win2K session going. Unfortunately, there is nothing equivalent of MS Project that I have found, and my job requires me to work with Project. As soon as I give the W2K Virtual PC anything less than 256Mb, it becomes unbearable to use easily, but of course, I then reduce the Powerbook to low amounts of memory for running everything else.
I quite often have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, five or six SAP sessions, Safari/iTunes/Toast/Mail perhaps, and the memory does make a difference. I will be soon be upgrading to 1Gb, just to make it fly.
When HSBC 'upgraded' their security (ie changed the login process to two screens), I couldn't get in at first, so I got on the phone, and talked to a tech, who explained that they had to get it working for the majority first (understandable). Half an hour later I got a phone call back from the head of the section, asking me lots of questions, and saying that he understood my position, and they were definitely working on it, etc etc.
The next day I tried, and it worked without even changing user agents...
One of the most useful things about OO for me has been this: being the only TiBook user in a company awash with Compaqs and very many different versions of windows, I get many different versions of Word documents, and some of them would force Office 2001 and Office v.X to quit: open the document, application quits! However, when I opened them in OO, it accepted it perfectly. I could then save them (type a space, delete the space) in the same format, but OO would save them in a format that either MS Office would then play nicely. Incredible but true!
However, I wasn't able to use the last beta for my work, simply because it didn't support the number of features that I required for working e.g. version tracking, embedded tables, full bullet point customisation, spacing between bullets etc. It has some of these, but doesn't pplay the same way as office, and in this company I can get away with using a Mac, but for presentation purposes, I need to play the same unfortunately.
If there was one thing I didn't like which I couldn't forgive it for was that you had to set all documents the same size - at least - I couldn't find a way to set them differently.
Still. having said that I have downloaded this latest version, and will again see how well it works. The IT guys want to get rid of Office (purely for the licensing), and are waiting for OO to be possible as a replacement..
One of the most annoying spam I get is when I cross borders in Europe, which I do every week. Because my phone is roaming, it means it changes local provider regularly, but if I haven't been in that particular country for a week or so, I get a sickly message telling me "Welcome to dial for services, have a nice stay." Okay the first time, but when you end up getting these every week, and sometimes many times a week, it is just annoying, especially with no way to stop them.
Well, except that it was amusing when entering Belgium you get a welcome message for Greece... Typical Orange: since it was taken over by France Telecom, it's just been one long journey downhill.
Well basically, as all PC-advocates love to say, Apple is only 3% of the market, whereas Microsoft 0wn3s the majority of the market, and have a bigger responsibility. It's not different, but could affect a much larger proportion of the computer using population.
Resetting the clock IS a little different from losing network access to me. I could just reset the clock on my TiBook, I'm not sure I would have been able to reconnect my XP box without uninstalling the patch, and I wouldn't have necessarily have blamed the patch initially: I would more likely just put it down to Windows as a whole...;o)
Not at first: it is a sliding scale over time, such that the distributors get their money in the first weeks, and depending how successful the film is, after that the theatres get get a larger percentage of the revenue as it goes on.
Of course, they don't change the price of the popcorn, but that ain't never stopped me from taking my own whiskey.
Interesting to see that, as last figures I had seen were from a couple of years before that, but I didn't have a link. Merci bien.
But also shouldn't be forgotten that the UK has a rebate because of it's small farming industry, of around£2.8 billion, which is why the net payment gap is so big.
You are sadly misinformed about the amount of money that UK pays and receives from the EU. The UK being the second biggest economy in Europe pays the second biggest amount after Germany, and receives around two thirds back in subsidies and development projects, especially for areas where EU quotas has destroyed industry etc (eg fishing, farming). Germany receives more money from the EU than the UK, because it has such a large poor immigrant population. Both countries give more than they receive, unlike most of the others.
Most British want to be the US bitch even less than part of Europe, and it is a shame that you couldn't even begin to behave how you talk: 'help each other out', 'being a community'. If you had ever stopped to realise why there are so many illegally imported tobacco, you'd realise that it is called a long term health policy - tax cigarettes to make it less attractive to waste money, and at the same time raise money to treat those that need it.
One thing you couldn't get without the UK? Nothing, not a thing, not a single thing. Just the same as if Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria didn't exist. It would still be possible to get ANYTHING. Don't think yourself so special, or so different.
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But yes, in that case, troll I am..
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Well, The Police Force of course. It's different! Honest guv.
I like to point and giggle at the woefully ignorant as much as the next upstanding citizen, I suppose I treat using singular and plural in this case as interchangeable as the language has mutated over time. Mutated or evolved? Whatever, you're right, it doesn't have hard and fast rules, and me being English ain't either. :o)
Think of Police as a short form of 'those wonderful men and women of the police Constabulary'. Does that help?
Really? Should I get Panther now so I am entitled to this free upgrade?
I can only imagine the hilarity that would ensue when I get to work in the morning and have forgotten to turn off THAT feature....
Don't you mean 'Vincit qui patitur'? I only noticed because that is the motto of the high school I went to. And yes they did teach me not to end sentences in prepositions, but I agree with Winston Churchill on that point.
You seem to have had different experiences, so good for you, but from both sides, both trying to get a replacement, and seeing how a store operates with regards to these, I wouldn't wipe my arse with them in case I get ink stains from it.
Generally this seems to be the case, but I had to restart on this one as it stopped many of my programs (Terminal, Office, etc.) from starting for some reason. New version of Safari started no problem though.
From Naples news:
It is the same as the measurement: dividing GDP by population does not give a measurement of how hard the people of a nation work, nor does how many hours: it is the combination of the two. Does it apply equally to blue collar and white collar? To code monkeys? I be willing to guess that an offshore programmer in India has to work twice as hard to do the same amount of work of their American counterpart, just to understand what has to be done in the first place: the output is the same, and probably takes longer for the Indian, but he has probably worked harder, and longer.
Okay Dave.
I use the under-X version irregularly, because it can open Word documents that Word cannot open, and Excel documents that Excel can't open from other people in my company using Office 2000 or 2002. It is ugly to use, and nowhere near as easy for the sort of documents I have to write - lots of styling, lots of nested tables, and lots of pages. And if there was an Apple Office suite, OOo would be dead in the water in comparison.
Mind you, that is a rather massive 'IF'.
I take it you were not unfortunate enough to be taken to see Ace Ventura Pet Detective: When Nature Calls then?
I think the main surprise is that they are attacking the source of the licence from which they made their money in the first place. If I was Eidos, I sure as hell wouldn't want them to be able to make another film after hearing that.
But rather than the bed, why not just put it in the wrist tag that most patients wear now? Then you wouldn't get any mix ups in the nursery, or any problems when patients go walkabout.
And then the mouse could be called Jerry..
Having said that, if you watch the extras on the DVD, you'll understand that they chose the better ending....
Office 2001 yes (via Classic), Office v.X no. And it is so much nicer to use than on XP, even if that is (I agree) solid.
The primary situation I can think of when my TiBook strains because of lack of memory is when I have Virtual PC running with a Win2K session going. Unfortunately, there is nothing equivalent of MS Project that I have found, and my job requires me to work with Project. As soon as I give the W2K Virtual PC anything less than 256Mb, it becomes unbearable to use easily, but of course, I then reduce the Powerbook to low amounts of memory for running everything else.
I quite often have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, five or six SAP sessions, Safari/iTunes/Toast/Mail perhaps, and the memory does make a difference. I will be soon be upgrading to 1Gb, just to make it fly.
When HSBC 'upgraded' their security (ie changed the login process to two screens), I couldn't get in at first, so I got on the phone, and talked to a tech, who explained that they had to get it working for the majority first (understandable). Half an hour later I got a phone call back from the head of the section, asking me lots of questions, and saying that he understood my position, and they were definitely working on it, etc etc.
The next day I tried, and it worked without even changing user agents...
However, I wasn't able to use the last beta for my work, simply because it didn't support the number of features that I required for working e.g. version tracking, embedded tables, full bullet point customisation, spacing between bullets etc. It has some of these, but doesn't pplay the same way as office, and in this company I can get away with using a Mac, but for presentation purposes, I need to play the same unfortunately.
If there was one thing I didn't like which I couldn't forgive it for was that you had to set all documents the same size - at least - I couldn't find a way to set them differently.
Still. having said that I have downloaded this latest version, and will again see how well it works. The IT guys want to get rid of Office (purely for the licensing), and are waiting for OO to be possible as a replacement..
But it will more likely be acomplished with the intelligence of Inspector Gadget.
Well, except that it was amusing when entering Belgium you get a welcome message for Greece... Typical Orange: since it was taken over by France Telecom, it's just been one long journey downhill.
Resetting the clock IS a little different from losing network access to me. I could just reset the clock on my TiBook, I'm not sure I would have been able to reconnect my XP box without uninstalling the patch, and I wouldn't have necessarily have blamed the patch initially: I would more likely just put it down to Windows as a whole... ;o)
Of course, they don't change the price of the popcorn, but that ain't never stopped me from taking my own whiskey.
Interesting to see that, as last figures I had seen were from a couple of years before that, but I didn't have a link. Merci bien.
But also shouldn't be forgotten that the UK has a rebate because of it's small farming industry, of around£2.8 billion, which is why the net payment gap is so big.
Most British want to be the US bitch even less than part of Europe, and it is a shame that you couldn't even begin to behave how you talk: 'help each other out', 'being a community'. If you had ever stopped to realise why there are so many illegally imported tobacco, you'd realise that it is called a long term health policy - tax cigarettes to make it less attractive to waste money, and at the same time raise money to treat those that need it.
One thing you couldn't get without the UK? Nothing, not a thing, not a single thing. Just the same as if Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Austria didn't exist. It would still be possible to get ANYTHING. Don't think yourself so special, or so different.