The reason there is a grammar checker in M$ Word is that M$ stuck it in there to have a leg up on competing wordprocessors (long time ago, when there actually were other WP. Now, any computational linguist will tell you, making a grammar checker actually work right is next to impossible.
Noone can do it (yet), not microsoft, and not any serious scientific team. There is no such thing as a usable grammar checker. The reason is that in too many cases you need to understand context to be able to check grammar, and computers can't quite understand natural speech, except in scifi movies. You can make a grammar checker that will sort-of work, but all too often it would just fuck up. Just like the M$ one.
The best you can with the grammar checker is send it the way of Clippy, i.e. turn it the fuck off.
Now, this guy the article is about, he's a marketeer. Them marketeers invented the darn thing, and now one of them is complaning about it, and he hasn't got a clue in CompSci. He does have a clue in marketing, though. This time he's marketing his website.
I feel the same way with their ubiquitous cabbage soup.
Borscht is mainly made with beets, though they put cabbage and carrots in there as well. But the main ingredient is beets, so you can't really call it "cabbage soup". And it's not really Russian, it's Ukranian. Russians eat it too, but usually a simplified version. If you want real borscht, order "Ukranian borscht".
The v180 does have dynamic menu, but only the top-level menu is dynamic. The numbers on sub-menus would be really useful. The way they have it, the number keys do nothing at all in submenus, and that's silly.
Also, this ust be one of those phones you mention as caught-in-the-middle on that transition, as it has send key on the left, yet the "positive" softkey is on the right. This is too subtle to be annoying, though.
Can someone explain (I'm not trolling here) how the heck did M$ manage to shove a patent in on a public format that's been around for ages?
Or, is it some other issue than patents this time? I mean, XML-based formats are easily hackable, so M$ doesn't really need to spec it for you to write a converter, even though for a state government it would be logical to ask for a spec.
Better idea: make a snooze button that snoozes only once. The second time you hit it, the clock keeps on beeping. Just don't forget to make the clock shatterproof.
My usual method is, set the alarm so late I can barely make it even if I don't snooze. Then I won't have any illusions about using the snooze button. Plus, I get maximum sleep.
And if it turns out to be not enough sleep, I just sleep through the alarm anyways. And if I'm late, I'm late, and it doesn't matter if you're late by 10 minutes or 2 hours - I still have to lie about dog ate my homework, or buy new plane tickets, or whatever, right?
Life is short. I don't have time for snooze buttons.
Coming to think of it, my cat gets scared shitless every time an anonimate object moves (oxymoron there?). Anyway, something that smells like plastic and metal, and makes noise when it moves. Damn cat runs away from even tiniest toy cars.
I wonder what kind of relationship it would have with a claw-scratching pad (as the cat would most certainly perceive clocky) that whines and rolls away. I wonder if the cat would get scared enough to stop tearing up the curtains.
If the cat doesn't get scared, though, I doubt clocky would last a night. Those claws need sharpening.
You must have an older model. The recent ones are pretty decent. I have a v180, and can't complain of usability problems...
Well, now that I think of it, they did swap the Send and End buttons compared to nokia. Then, again, my sony-ericsson didn't have Send or End buttons whatsoever.
Another thing, the v180 has a light sensor that tells it whether to turn the keypad light on (nice touch), but the algorithm that runs the sensor is f*cked up, so the keypad flashes every time you press a key, which is kinda stupid.
And, you can't input multiple letters when you search the phone book (you can on Nokias, but not on sony-ericsson).
And, you can't use number keys to make menu selections.
That's all. Only 4 small complaints, and nothing as gross as you describe.
That's why they want it with no computer connection, so you'd have to use their paid service to get the songs into the phone. They are being too greedy. They's do better if they allowed over-the-air iTunes for a fee, in addition to being able to load songs in. At least some people would pay for getting new songs while afk.
I treat my phones as disposable too, i.e. my phone is usually ready for the landfill by the time I cat get a new one for free from the carrier. I also treat the carriers as disposable, i.e. switch them every year just to get in on promotions. It's a good life.
I don't own an iPod - it wouldn't last me a month. With a hard drive, and all. I use a flash mp3 player, a 1gb model. And I'd much rather treat it as disposable too, except I'm still waiting for someone to start giving me a new mp3 player every year for free.
Verizon modified the firmware on the Treo 600 and Motorola v710 camera phones to prevent the images from being copied off via Bluetooth.
Verizon has always been nice to their customers. I switched to another carrier when they started adding new hidden fees every month, about 3 years ago.
Motorola makes the sexiest damn cell phones around.
WHAT? WHAT? I just got a motorola phone; it was the only cheap phone with a speakerphone that they had. The speaker doesn't work right, and the phone drops calls. In other words, it's a piece of garbage. It's also bigger than all the other phones I've ever had. I should've gone for Samsung...
Oh, and the Razor thing - have you even seen it? It just looks like razor in pictures. In reall life, it's more like a rather large brick. And if you're willing to drag around a big gadget, you could get something with a lot more functionality in it, like a palm or a pocketpc.
We already have real player for linux, but from what I see at my univ, most people are using mplayer or kaffeine.
Real player is a worthless chunk of malware on any OS. I wouldn't touch the stinker, Windows or linux. If a site has no video other than.rm, too bad, go to next site!
If they release it under BSD or GPL, then I'm interested.
Who cares? Are you, like, going to develop it, or just use it? There are open source pdf readers already. If you want to work on a pdf reader, just fout your efforts into xpdf or kpdf, no?
You also can't fill out fillable PDFs with anything except acroread
But you can't save them to disc once you fill them with acroread! You need a $500 fix from Adobe to be able to do that - and if you cna't save it to disk, why bother using it?
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Actually, I know quite a few people who are quite facinated with Clippy. And not all of them are complete idiots.
The reason there is a grammar checker in M$ Word is that M$ stuck it in there to have a leg up on competing wordprocessors (long time ago, when there actually were other WP. Now, any computational linguist will tell you, making a grammar checker actually work right is next to impossible.
Noone can do it (yet), not microsoft, and not any serious scientific team. There is no such thing as a usable grammar checker. The reason is that in too many cases you need to understand context to be able to check grammar, and computers can't quite understand natural speech, except in scifi movies. You can make a grammar checker that will sort-of work, but all too often it would just fuck up. Just like the M$ one.
The best you can with the grammar checker is send it the way of Clippy, i.e. turn it the fuck off.
Now, this guy the article is about, he's a marketeer. Them marketeers invented the darn thing, and now one of them is complaning about it, and he hasn't got a clue in CompSci. He does have a clue in marketing, though. This time he's marketing his website.
Well, he's no good for much anything else, and he got thrown out of priceline, so there...
I can understand the man's motivations. I just hope he doesn't get his way.
I feel the same way with their ubiquitous cabbage soup.
Borscht is mainly made with beets, though they put cabbage and carrots in there as well. But the main ingredient is beets, so you can't really call it "cabbage soup". And it's not really Russian, it's Ukranian. Russians eat it too, but usually a simplified version. If you want real borscht, order "Ukranian borscht".
In Canada it's called Jetsgo
ValueJet.
Not funny.
The v180 does have dynamic menu, but only the top-level menu is dynamic. The numbers on sub-menus would be really useful. The way they have it, the number keys do nothing at all in submenus, and that's silly.
Also, this ust be one of those phones you mention as caught-in-the-middle on that transition, as it has send key on the left, yet the "positive" softkey is on the right. This is too subtle to be annoying, though.
You insensitive clod! Some of us are actually americans!
What, the party invented the aeroplane?
Can someone explain (I'm not trolling here) how the heck did M$ manage to shove a patent in on a public format that's been around for ages?
Or, is it some other issue than patents this time? I mean, XML-based formats are easily hackable, so M$ doesn't really need to spec it for you to write a converter, even though for a state government it would be logical to ask for a spec.
Better idea: make a snooze button that snoozes only once. The second time you hit it, the clock keeps on beeping. Just don't forget to make the clock shatterproof.
Pencils break off in space, and lead fragments float around and potentially short out electronics, or float into your eye while you're asleep.
My usual method is, set the alarm so late I can barely make it even if I don't snooze. Then I won't have any illusions about using the snooze button. Plus, I get maximum sleep.
And if it turns out to be not enough sleep, I just sleep through the alarm anyways. And if I'm late, I'm late, and it doesn't matter if you're late by 10 minutes or 2 hours - I still have to lie about dog ate my homework, or buy new plane tickets, or whatever, right?
Life is short. I don't have time for snooze buttons.
Hang a bucket of water over your bed, and rig it to tip over when the clock goes off. Aside from being messy, it's work every time, guaranteed.
C'mon, REAL DAWN doesn't wake me up. Why would some "dawn simulator" work?
Interesting shit..
Got a web page with it?
Coming to think of it, my cat gets scared shitless every time an anonimate object moves (oxymoron there?). Anyway, something that smells like plastic and metal, and makes noise when it moves. Damn cat runs away from even tiniest toy cars.
I wonder what kind of relationship it would have with a claw-scratching pad (as the cat would most certainly perceive clocky) that whines and rolls away. I wonder if the cat would get scared enough to stop tearing up the curtains.
If the cat doesn't get scared, though, I doubt clocky would last a night. Those claws need sharpening.
I am going to bludgeon him with a tractor.
Hmm.. Interesting idea.. How the heck do you bludgeon someone with a tractor???
You must have an older model. The recent ones are pretty decent. I have a v180, and can't complain of usability problems...
Well, now that I think of it, they did swap the Send and End buttons compared to nokia. Then, again, my sony-ericsson didn't have Send or End buttons whatsoever.
Another thing, the v180 has a light sensor that tells it whether to turn the keypad light on (nice touch), but the algorithm that runs the sensor is f*cked up, so the keypad flashes every time you press a key, which is kinda stupid.
And, you can't input multiple letters when you search the phone book (you can on Nokias, but not on sony-ericsson).
And, you can't use number keys to make menu selections.
That's all. Only 4 small complaints, and nothing as gross as you describe.
They could just add a 'iTunes Phone Access Fee'
That's why they want it with no computer connection, so you'd have to use their paid service to get the songs into the phone. They are being too greedy. They's do better if they allowed over-the-air iTunes for a fee, in addition to being able to load songs in. At least some people would pay for getting new songs while afk.
I beat the living tar out of my phone.
I treat my phones as disposable too, i.e. my phone is usually ready for the landfill by the time I cat get a new one for free from the carrier. I also treat the carriers as disposable, i.e. switch them every year just to get in on promotions. It's a good life.
I don't own an iPod - it wouldn't last me a month. With a hard drive, and all. I use a flash mp3 player, a 1gb model. And I'd much rather treat it as disposable too, except I'm still waiting for someone to start giving me a new mp3 player every year for free.
Verizon modified the firmware on the Treo 600 and Motorola v710 camera phones to prevent the images from being copied off via Bluetooth.
Verizon has always been nice to their customers. I switched to another carrier when they started adding new hidden fees every month, about 3 years ago.
Motorola makes the sexiest damn cell phones around.
WHAT? WHAT? I just got a motorola phone; it was the only cheap phone with a speakerphone that they had. The speaker doesn't work right, and the phone drops calls. In other words, it's a piece of garbage. It's also bigger than all the other phones I've ever had. I should've gone for Samsung...
Oh, and the Razor thing - have you even seen it?
It just looks like razor in pictures. In reall life, it's more like a rather large brick. And if you're willing to drag around a big gadget, you could get something with a lot more functionality in it, like a palm or a pocketpc.
It didn't work for me last year. Or did you think I was talking about some other pdf forms?
There are two possibilities.
Either you have the $500 thing installed in your machine by the systems group, and you don't realize it.
Or, Adobe and IRS fixed it since last year.
We already have real player for linux, but from what I see at my univ, most people are using mplayer or kaffeine.
.rm, too bad, go to next site!
Real player is a worthless chunk of malware on any OS. I wouldn't touch the stinker, Windows or linux. If a site has no video other than
If they release it under BSD or GPL, then I'm interested.
Who cares? Are you, like, going to develop it, or just use it? There are open source pdf readers already. If you want to work on a pdf reader, just fout your efforts into xpdf or kpdf, no?
You also can't fill out fillable PDFs with anything except acroread
But you can't save them to disc once you fill them with acroread! You need a $500 fix from Adobe to be able to do that - and if you cna't save it to disk, why bother using it?
I generally take a shower after I start the adobe reader.
Man, you need a new computer! I can't even finish a coffee while the thing starts!