If you have to use a grammar checker, you shouldn't be writing in the first place, except as part of a remedial course on grammar.
Too many people rely on spelling checkers already to tell them how such and such words are to be spelled.
I use spelling checkers as the very last step of the writing process, to check for typographical errors that I might have missed while proofreading the hard copy.
(And from experience, proofreading on-screen is not as efficient -- so much for a paperless office.)
That being said, I have never tried any of the open source word processors, but I believe that if such an application is to take on MS Word and WordPerfect, it has to be able to convert documents to and from those formats flawlessly.
If it's less than flawless, people will stick with what they have. Heck, even MS Word and WordPerfect can't convert each other flawlessly, and people who work in organizations that have both apps have to have both installed on their machines to deal with every possible documents sent to them.
Which brings me to my pet peeve: any conversion will add tons of garbage formatting codes in the resulting converted document, and forces me to clean everything up by copypasting text in and out of Notepad (yes, we use Windows here, through no fault of my own).
A few years ago I went to a restaurant, in the gay neighborhood of a large city, with a bunch of friends... this place had "theme nights" where the waiters would all dress up according to the theme.
That night the theme was "anime".
Our male waiter, dressed as as a sailor moon character, arrives at the table: "Hi, I'm Thailor Uranuth and I'll be your waiter thith evening..."
just the other day, i was going to a restaurant with 3 other friends in one of them's car.
he parks the car, and we get out in the lot.
suddenly a police cruiser stops in front of us with it's cop lights on, and soon two other cruisers arrive and surround us in a Y pattern.
we have no clue why we're stopped, and we all get asked for our IDs.
eventually we find out that the driver had an unpaid parking ticket, which caused his licence to be suspended without notice.
we never got any explanation why the other 3 of us were detained (albeit shortly), other than for a frickin traffic violation commited by someone we just happened to have been in a car with a few minutes before.
and I've just discovered this store in chinatown that has all the movies on DVD as they come out in theatres! and for 5$ each too! you can't get those prices and that kind of selection at HMV that's for sure.
I'm betting taht tomorrow, or Monday, Gabe Newell will announce that due to the pirates distributing HL2 on torrent networks, the game will be further delayed.
A friend of mine who broke a toe went to the ER to have it fixed. As she was thinking to herself that the wait was taking forever, a woman was rushed in, and then my friend heard the people who accompanied her talk about how that woman no longer had a face after getting kicked by a horse, and were wondering what would or could be done.
Suddenly she didnt feel so bad about her broken toe.
When she told me, I made a mental note to stay away from large animals.
everyone knows that in the first iteration of HL, the gimmick was that your flashlight's batteries drained and you had to let them recharge once in a while.
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If you have to use a grammar checker, you shouldn't be writing in the first place, except as part of a remedial course on grammar.
Too many people rely on spelling checkers already to tell them how such and such words are to be spelled.
I use spelling checkers as the very last step of the writing process, to check for typographical errors that I might have missed while proofreading the hard copy.
(And from experience, proofreading on-screen is not as efficient -- so much for a paperless office.)
That being said, I have never tried any of the open source word processors, but I believe that if such an application is to take on MS Word and WordPerfect, it has to be able to convert documents to and from those formats flawlessly.
If it's less than flawless, people will stick with what they have. Heck, even MS Word and WordPerfect can't convert each other flawlessly, and people who work in organizations that have both apps have to have both installed on their machines to deal with every possible documents sent to them.
Which brings me to my pet peeve: any conversion will add tons of garbage formatting codes in the resulting converted document, and forces me to clean everything up by copypasting text in and out of Notepad (yes, we use Windows here, through no fault of my own).
hollywood stars arent free. they are bought and the maintenance has to be paid for by the star's owner.
if i was a celebrity, no matter how much money i had, i wouldnt get one, just because of that fact.
for helping me to get laid in the UK.
that the name of the MS music store will be:
DowsTunes
when is the Devilman movie coming out?
A few years ago I went to a restaurant, in the gay neighborhood of a large city, with a bunch of friends... this place had "theme nights" where the waiters would all dress up according to the theme.
That night the theme was "anime".
Our male waiter, dressed as as a sailor moon character, arrives at the table:
"Hi, I'm Thailor Uranuth and I'll be your waiter thith evening..."
Needless to say eveyone cracked up...
in French, a cake is a "gateau" (with a '^' circumflex accent on the "a"), which is pronounced gah-tow.
gatou (ga-too?) doesn't have any meaning, literal, imagined, spelled or phonetic, that I can think of.
Can I run Doom 3 on it in maximum resolution mode?
probably, but the main character is still doesnt have enough processing power out-of-the-box to use both a gun and the flashlight simultaneously...
defensive is right.
just the other day, i was going to a restaurant with 3 other friends in one of them's car.
he parks the car, and we get out in the lot.
suddenly a police cruiser stops in front of us with it's cop lights on, and soon two other cruisers arrive and surround us in a Y pattern.
we have no clue why we're stopped, and we all get asked for our IDs.
eventually we find out that the driver had an unpaid parking ticket, which caused his licence to be suspended without notice.
we never got any explanation why the other 3 of us were detained (albeit shortly), other than for a frickin traffic violation commited by someone we just happened to have been in a car with a few minutes before.
Astroglide is a much better product.
I use a dead HDD's magnet to hold all my spare change together in my pocket.
I bet you're the kind of guy who posts headlines on Fark about scientific discoveries and adds "Still no cure for cancer".
and I've just discovered this store in chinatown that has all the movies on DVD as they come out in theatres!
and for 5$ each too!
you can't get those prices and that kind of selection at HMV that's for sure.
from the movie Independence Day:
"You don't actually think they spend twenty thousand dollars on a hammer, thirty thousand dollars on a toilet seat, do you?"
I'm betting taht tomorrow, or Monday, Gabe Newell will announce that due to the pirates distributing HL2 on torrent networks, the game will be further delayed.
A friend of mine who broke a toe went to the ER to have it fixed. As she was thinking to herself that the wait was taking forever, a woman was rushed in, and then my friend heard the people who accompanied her talk about how that woman no longer had a face after getting kicked by a horse, and were wondering what would or could be done.
Suddenly she didnt feel so bad about her broken toe.
When she told me, I made a mental note to stay away from large animals.
yea but the slashbot attack only lasts while the URL is on the front page, which is barely a day...
did anyone else also read this as "five-packet" monkeys?
[/too much Southpark]
that would certainly explain the Honda Insight fp trolls
everyone knows that in the first iteration of HL, the gimmick was that your flashlight's batteries drained and you had to let them recharge once in a while.
didnt you play it?
I'll go walk around in the rain with my brand new Bright Night Umbrella!
I had been wondering when someone would steal that idea from Blade Runner...
They're just idiot twelve year olds who think the internet is another plaything
while there are plenty of adults out there who think the internet = ebay.
i was riding my geekified chopper bicycle the other day, when someone asked me where i bought it.
i replied "off the internet".
clueless adult "what, on ebay?"
me "i suppose you might also be able to find chopper bicycle frames on ebay as well..."
and at that he gave me the most confused look ever.
no we predicted there would be a story dupe posted today.
well, it did kinda happen, in a follow-up sorta way.
I think Darl read too much in Linus' announcement, a while ago, that Santa Claus invented Linux...
If Santa Claus does not exist, he cannot have possibly invented Linux! I can't wait to submit this new evidence in court!
I noticed a lot of my favourite overseas sites have been slow to load, while others, located in North America, load normally...
Just an impression though. I did not notice any more lag than usual in the online games I play