You can. In fact, I pay less than $1000 for tuition each year after grants and subsidized loans (and a couple scholarships, some of which are again partially need-based).
I'm sorry, but as someone who is "in the trenches" as far as this topic goes, I get way too much aid. I am the son of a single parent family with a sister who is also currently in college. Our total tuition charged is about $20k/year (sister goes to a branch campus that costs around $3k/year), and the total tuition we pay each year is significantly less than $2k. My mom makes about $50k/year, and I make about $20k/year. My sister also has a job.
The kneejerk "omg omg omg they're decreasing edcuation funding" reaction is getting old. If some people aren't getting the funding they need, then the system simply needs reformed to distribute things better, because I'm getting way, way more than I need. In fact, at 6 months after I graduate, when my subsidized loans start acruing interest, I will be able to pay them completely off using money I have saved during my college career because I had loans. (Thus, I am profiting off the loans, since I have this money in share certificates at ~4% interest.)
The last thing the system needs is more money thrown at it.
The scenario I suggested with import/export would allow ODF exports to validate as valid ODF yet still piss off users when their cute little BMP clip art of a guy thinking while a question mark floats above his head suddenly disappears.
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.
If you had RTFA, you would have realized that the topic of discussion is use of ODF by government employees.
Seriously, though, there are certain things that aren't really grammar errors in the traditional sense. True grammar errors are difficult to make on accident, when the author truly does comprehend the language but simply slips up. However, other "grammar errors", like the misuse of 'there', 'their', and 'they're' are simple verbal errors that can happen just like a spelling error or typo.
Others more in the gray area but just as easy to make are verb number agreement in comlpex sentences like one I wrote just a few minutes ago: "Meta information like comments and 'track changes' is lost or corrupt." I admit that I had to read it over again to make sure I had verb number agreeing with my subject, because it sounds almost like it should be plural rather than singular.
Writing a 50-page report, these sort of things are easy to miss. If I have to pay attention to these minor grammar details, that will slow me down (however little) and annoy me. If I can use Office, already installed on my computer, with its grammar checker and not have to worry about these things, I might.
If governments start to use ODF, MS Office will certainly support the format (either natively or via importing and exporting). It will have to or it will lose revenue. However, I'm sure MS will do what it almost always does with open formats, which is fsck it up just enough to make its output incompatible just enough with other readers to keep those readers from being valid replacements for Word.
Probably the easiest way to do this is to allow importing of an ODF document into native Word DOC format, and then exporting to ODF format. In this way, people will not be restricted to using only features which ODF supports while editing the file in Word. Then, when exporting, they will get a warning message about how features will be lost if they convert this file to ODF. All of a sudden their clip art is grayscale, their title is no longer in 3d and written on a curvature, meta information like comments and 'track changes' is lost or corrupt, etc.
Just enough of a nuisance to keep the status quo and get the user to send their version of the document in Word DOC format.
I don't know. One could make an argument that relevant (text) ads would be supplemental to a given article, especially if they are ads for things like books. I think at the very least they would not be a negative.
$3-4 is what it is at grocery stores in my area. If I wanted to go to an Asian grocery store, I would need do drive 45 minutes south to downtown Cincinnati.
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You need to read some books on management. Doing this will never, ever work. You'll just get people to periodically give a look to see if the CTO is walking around, which is even more of a distraction from work.
Sounds like the browser would have to do a lot to make sure it's apparent to the user that this is not the "official" version of the page. Otherwise, we're opening up a whole other can of worms wrt security threats.
The US is a much larger and more diverse country. This is why No Child Left Behind is failing. And that is why, prior to Bush, the Republican Party has held that public schools should be controlled locally. Why anyone could think that a federal government could set a standard that was approrpriate for a rural farm area with 99% white Protestants and approrpriate for an urban area with 95% minorities is beyond me. It is a hindrance to progress for those areas where the guidelines don't make as much sense.
The count varies. My girlfriend is a bartender and has a three count. Another girl at her bar is unfortunate enough to have a 3.5 count. Part of their training is using a vodka bottle filled with water, pouring (with a pourer attached) into a beer glass, and then pouring the beer glass's contents into a shot glass to see how they did. They do this every once in a while when they aren't busy to make sure they are pouring accurately.
This is necessary because of mixed drinks and such. It would be a waste of time and dishes if they measured with a shot glass. Also, some drinks call for half shots and even 3/4 shots of particular liquors.
Who do you know that paid *nothing* for their Windows XP? Did they get a cracked copy or something? Or are you showing your ignorance about how one pays for Windows when buying a new machine with Windows pre-loaded?
It's like when you have a job interview and they ask you to say something "bad" about yourself. The answers are "You work too hard", "You often take on more work than you should", "You make too many demands on yourself",
Yeah, or: I tend to have sexual relations with the cleaning staff, petty cash tends to inexplicably lose money on my watch, when I get angry I open up a console in a random directory and type rm -rf, and I sometimes play WoW when the boss isn't looking.
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surely someone at the Slashdot editors' bunker can learn English!
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You can. In fact, I pay less than $1000 for tuition each year after grants and subsidized loans (and a couple scholarships, some of which are again partially need-based).
I'm sorry, but as someone who is "in the trenches" as far as this topic goes, I get way too much aid. I am the son of a single parent family with a sister who is also currently in college. Our total tuition charged is about $20k/year (sister goes to a branch campus that costs around $3k/year), and the total tuition we pay each year is significantly less than $2k. My mom makes about $50k/year, and I make about $20k/year. My sister also has a job.
The kneejerk "omg omg omg they're decreasing edcuation funding" reaction is getting old. If some people aren't getting the funding they need, then the system simply needs reformed to distribute things better, because I'm getting way, way more than I need. In fact, at 6 months after I graduate, when my subsidized loans start acruing interest, I will be able to pay them completely off using money I have saved during my college career because I had loans. (Thus, I am profiting off the loans, since I have this money in share certificates at ~4% interest.)
The last thing the system needs is more money thrown at it.
Haha, excellent points. If I hadn't already commented in this conversation, I would mod you funny.
The scenario I suggested with import/export would allow ODF exports to validate as valid ODF yet still piss off users when their cute little BMP clip art of a guy thinking while a question mark floats above his head suddenly disappears.
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.
If you had RTFA, you would have realized that the topic of discussion is use of ODF by government employees.
Seriously, though, there are certain things that aren't really grammar errors in the traditional sense. True grammar errors are difficult to make on accident, when the author truly does comprehend the language but simply slips up. However, other "grammar errors", like the misuse of 'there', 'their', and 'they're' are simple verbal errors that can happen just like a spelling error or typo.
Others more in the gray area but just as easy to make are verb number agreement in comlpex sentences like one I wrote just a few minutes ago: "Meta information like comments and 'track changes' is lost or corrupt." I admit that I had to read it over again to make sure I had verb number agreeing with my subject, because it sounds almost like it should be plural rather than singular.
Writing a 50-page report, these sort of things are easy to miss. If I have to pay attention to these minor grammar details, that will slow me down (however little) and annoy me. If I can use Office, already installed on my computer, with its grammar checker and not have to worry about these things, I might.
If governments start to use ODF, MS Office will certainly support the format (either natively or via importing and exporting). It will have to or it will lose revenue. However, I'm sure MS will do what it almost always does with open formats, which is fsck it up just enough to make its output incompatible just enough with other readers to keep those readers from being valid replacements for Word.
Probably the easiest way to do this is to allow importing of an ODF document into native Word DOC format, and then exporting to ODF format. In this way, people will not be restricted to using only features which ODF supports while editing the file in Word. Then, when exporting, they will get a warning message about how features will be lost if they convert this file to ODF. All of a sudden their clip art is grayscale, their title is no longer in 3d and written on a curvature, meta information like comments and 'track changes' is lost or corrupt, etc.
Just enough of a nuisance to keep the status quo and get the user to send their version of the document in Word DOC format.
Use of ODF reduces political contributions from Microsoft in future election campaigns.
I highly doubt they release a non-Windows OS before they release non-Windows versions of their products (e.g. GDS, GTalk, etc.).
It seems that you have forgotten that ignorance is strength. And parent is strong.
"my name is David Smith, I was born in Lancashire in the 1970's, I'm 6'0" tall, I have long dark brown hair and a beard"
Bachelor #2: If you were an ice cream flavor, which would you be and why?
That is horribly incorrect and you're being disingenuous by even suggesting it.
Everyone knows the song is Smack My Bitch Up.
Einstein played the violin too?!
Are Bird and Fish the same or different? This article starts to show that yes they are.
Is the meaning of your comment easy or hard to decipher?
I'd say that yes, it is.
I don't know. One could make an argument that relevant (text) ads would be supplemental to a given article, especially if they are ads for things like books. I think at the very least they would not be a negative.
$3-4 is what it is at grocery stores in my area. If I wanted to go to an Asian grocery store, I would need do drive 45 minutes south to downtown Cincinnati.
I can see it now...
Name: [____]
Mobile Number: [____]
Postal Code: [____]
Number of Children in Household: [____]
Annual Household Income: [____]
Which of the following magazines do you subscribe to: ...
[ ] Time
[ ] Korean Weekly
[ ]
[ ] Check here if you would like to be notified if your indictment is dismissed
[ ] Check here if you would like to be notified about your indictments in our partner countries
You need to read some books on management. Doing this will never, ever work. You'll just get people to periodically give a look to see if the CTO is walking around, which is even more of a distraction from work.
Sounds like the browser would have to do a lot to make sure it's apparent to the user that this is not the "official" version of the page. Otherwise, we're opening up a whole other can of worms wrt security threats.
Not everyone has an Asian grocery around.
The US is a much larger and more diverse country. This is why No Child Left Behind is failing. And that is why, prior to Bush, the Republican Party has held that public schools should be controlled locally. Why anyone could think that a federal government could set a standard that was approrpriate for a rural farm area with 99% white Protestants and approrpriate for an urban area with 95% minorities is beyond me. It is a hindrance to progress for those areas where the guidelines don't make as much sense.
At McD's... Double cheesburger: $1. Fries: $1. Drink: $1. Coronary: Priceless.
The count varies. My girlfriend is a bartender and has a three count. Another girl at her bar is unfortunate enough to have a 3.5 count. Part of their training is using a vodka bottle filled with water, pouring (with a pourer attached) into a beer glass, and then pouring the beer glass's contents into a shot glass to see how they did. They do this every once in a while when they aren't busy to make sure they are pouring accurately.
This is necessary because of mixed drinks and such. It would be a waste of time and dishes if they measured with a shot glass. Also, some drinks call for half shots and even 3/4 shots of particular liquors.
Who do you know that paid *nothing* for their Windows XP? Did they get a cracked copy or something? Or are you showing your ignorance about how one pays for Windows when buying a new machine with Windows pre-loaded?
Actually, a lot of people buy McDonalds because it's cheap and they can have "dinner" for about $3.
Bye bye, analogy.
It's like when you have a job interview and they ask you to say something "bad" about yourself. The answers are "You work too hard", "You often take on more work than you should", "You make too many demands on yourself",
Yeah, or: I tend to have sexual relations with the cleaning staff, petty cash tends to inexplicably lose money on my watch, when I get angry I open up a console in a random directory and type rm -rf, and I sometimes play WoW when the boss isn't looking.