the grammar checker shouldn't be bundled with the word processor, it should be a separate, bolt-on item so that YOU can choose the best grammar checker YOU want.
Note, MS-Word did not originally have a built-in grammar checker. In fact, there used to be a very healthy software scene for grammar checkers that could be called by means of hot keys when you actually wanted to do the check. When MS introduced the Grammar checker, this killed that healthy third party market instantly...
This is precisely WHY I believe that OOo should not have a built in grammar checker. Anyone is now free to develop and market their own grammar checker for use with the ODF as the format is OPEN... now that will encourage a healthy development scene and you will then be able to have a CHOICE again, rather than having a choice forced upon you.
Not that this really relates to your comment, but OpenOffice.org doesn't have a grammar checker.
I wrote a paper in OpenOffice once... then I took it to a computer with MS Office to run the grammar check. I think the lack has a serious effect on OO's functionality and as a consequence, its usefulness.
does a word processor really need a Grammar Checker? A grammar checker can't substitute for a proper grounding in your language. If you need a grammar checker, then perhaps you, yourself, are lacking somewhat.
the testing will be signed off as soon as the patch breaks one or more of the following: iTunes, Samba, GoogleDesktop, Palm Desktop... they only care about testing against their own applications, breaking third party programs in the process is a bonus, breaking old versions of ms apps while not breaking the latest versions is a double bonus... as it forces an upgrade
Anyone who's seen this commercial knows what I'm talking about, it involved a family sitting in their new Ford vehicle literally screaming for 30 seconds.
I'd be screaming too if you'd managed to get me into a Ford...;)
back in my old tape deck days, pre-CD... I used a Compander in conjunction with my tape deck... I compressed when recording, and decompressed on playback... this was a means to get around the dynamic range limitations of tape.
What hacks me off these days, is the sudden increase in perceived volume when an advert or similar break occurs during a television show... it's so blatant, yet they keep denying there's anything happening. I have to turn the volume down quite some way, and then remember to turn it back up when the program continues...
in fact, lately, I've started using the Mute during the breaks... which means those advertisers have shot themselves in the foot as I'm not hearing the message.
yes, I know, I could get a "tivo" type machine or even build my own, but I watch telly so infrequently these days it's not worth the bother. I get any shows I'm really interested in off the intarweb... and if I'm really impressed, I go and buy the DVDs
But what really really gets my Goat is those bl00dy anti-priracy messages on the DVDs I can't get round... I'm not the one whose pirating the bloody thing, I've actually gone out and bought it, so why the heck am I being forced to watch an anti-piracy message???
aaarghhh... my brain has exploded... all I want to know is, will there be any proper support from the manufacturers for Linux drivers??? or will Microsoft just lean heavily on them...
Even if they had a rouge Linux install with IPX ready to go,
what the fsck is it with you Americans and your inability to spell "rogue"??? For your information, rouge is something you use to make your cheeks prettier with... and is also the French word for the colour red...
if you remember to encrypt any partitions that temporary data might possibly reside on... cos it would be awfully silly to protect your home partition and forget/var or/tmp or the swap... why not be completely paranoid and encrypt the the volatile "partition" that gets created in memory
hey, don't blame KDE or Gnome... they're just following an existing trend... there's a heck of a lot of programs on my system here that start with 'x'... xpdf, XEmacs, xsane, xmms, xine to name a few
I'd love to be able to VPN to my home machine, but the internet connection at work is far too damned slow... it's almost as slow as dialup... things are bad when the sysadmin goes home to download updates from microsoft update on his own connection...
2. Downloading my favorite linux distro in a reasonable amount of time
hey, redownloading the whole damn thing everytime there's a new release is daft and so last century... at least Ubuntu and Debian have got it right, just update your sources list to point to the new repositories and an upgrade is seriously easy...
3. Video and Voice chat with family, especially my parents, who live out of state, so they can see the grandkids more than they normally would
now that's something I can agree heartily with being a grandparent myself...
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Note, MS-Word did not originally have a built-in grammar checker. In fact, there used to be a very healthy software scene for grammar checkers that could be called by means of hot keys when you actually wanted to do the check. When MS introduced the Grammar checker, this killed that healthy third party market instantly...
This is precisely WHY I believe that OOo should not have a built in grammar checker. Anyone is now free to develop and market their own grammar checker for use with the ODF as the format is OPEN... now that will encourage a healthy development scene and you will then be able to have a CHOICE again, rather than having a choice forced upon you.
does a word processor really need a Grammar Checker? A grammar checker can't substitute for a proper grounding in your language. If you need a grammar checker, then perhaps you, yourself, are lacking somewhat.
the testing will be signed off as soon as the patch breaks one or more of the following: iTunes, Samba, GoogleDesktop, Palm Desktop... they only care about testing against their own applications, breaking third party programs in the process is a bonus, breaking old versions of ms apps while not breaking the latest versions is a double bonus... as it forces an upgrade
/me ha ha... V. funny... MOD parent UP...
I'd be screaming too if you'd managed to get me into a Ford... ;)
statistically speaking, 50% of people are below the national average for IQ/smarts/whatever...
in the EU, the players are limited by law as to how loud they can go
That's what I keep telling my daughter, but I don't think she hears me...
What hacks me off these days, is the sudden increase in perceived volume when an advert or similar break occurs during a television show... it's so blatant, yet they keep denying there's anything happening. I have to turn the volume down quite some way, and then remember to turn it back up when the program continues...
in fact, lately, I've started using the Mute during the breaks... which means those advertisers have shot themselves in the foot as I'm not hearing the message.
yes, I know, I could get a "tivo" type machine or even build my own, but I watch telly so infrequently these days it's not worth the bother. I get any shows I'm really interested in off the intarweb... and if I'm really impressed, I go and buy the DVDs
But what really really gets my Goat is those bl00dy anti-priracy messages on the DVDs I can't get round... I'm not the one whose pirating the bloody thing, I've actually gone out and bought it, so why the heck am I being forced to watch an anti-piracy message???
Royal Marines yomped all the way from San Carlos to Port Stanley with 110lb loads in their backpacks, and had to fight along the way...
aaarghhh... my brain has exploded... all I want to know is, will there be any proper support from the manufacturers for Linux drivers??? or will Microsoft just lean heavily on them...
what the fsck is it with you Americans and your inability to spell "rogue"??? For your information, rouge is something you use to make your cheeks prettier with... and is also the French word for the colour red...
I've just emailed him to find out... his email is on his own website
if you remember to encrypt any partitions that temporary data might possibly reside on... cos it would be awfully silly to protect your home partition and forget /var or /tmp or the swap... why not be completely paranoid and encrypt the the volatile "partition" that gets created in memory
fscking ignorant fool...
when I've conducted my own tests... now where's those highball glasses and whisky tumblers... now where's that whiskey...
you forgot Zinf... "Zinf Is Not FreeAmp"
and are they forcing you to buy Dell???
Freehand's been taken...
hey, don't blame KDE or Gnome... they're just following an existing trend... there's a heck of a lot of programs on my system here that start with 'x'... xpdf, XEmacs, xsane, xmms, xine to name a few
no, you are not allowed to peek at those links either... ;)
see where it kets you... for example Killustrator was forced to rename itself because adobe managed to convince a court that it's trademark on Adobe Illustrator was being infringed...
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database- rebuild.html
l es/debian-package-database-rebuild
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/examp
it's the same wire/fibre in both directions... so any limitations are purely arbitrary
I'd love to be able to VPN to my home machine, but the internet connection at work is far too damned slow... it's almost as slow as dialup... things are bad when the sysadmin goes home to download updates from microsoft update on his own connection...
hey, redownloading the whole damn thing everytime there's a new release is daft and so last century... at least Ubuntu and Debian have got it right, just update your sources list to point to the new repositories and an upgrade is seriously easy...
now that's something I can agree heartily with being a grandparent myself...