I'm working on my MSCIT from Regis Online, and I am very happy with it so far. I have already had the "college experience", and now I just need the additional degree. I'm already teaching, and my schedule doesn't permit me to go through a traditional program. Plus I've already had the "college experience", and the best thing I got out of that was my husband (another Regis grad). I would say avoid online-only or online-mostly schools and find a traditional school that has an established online program. Many of my former students now work for University of Phoenix, and they aren't terribly thrilled with it.
when she congratulated the wrong person for an internal promotion
The HR manager where I used to work had two employees with very similar first names and identical last names; one had recently been fired. Guess which one she invited to the Christmas party?
Spellcheck is a great tool, but only if people actually read what is being suggested by the spellchecker. The two most common errors translated into new errors I see are "alot" -> "allot" (as in "There were allot of people there") and "definately" -> "defiantly" (as in "I defiantly want to get a good job").
And in doing so, they consistently include their own misspellings and grammatical nightmares.
Spelling does count. My sister just ordered a decorative stone for my parents' garden. The stone is supposed to say "The Harveys". The idiot woman who took the order insisted that it must be spelled "The Harvey's", as in "belonging to the Harvey". A friend of mine who is a talented graphic designer but horrible speller designed a sign for "Asbury Hospitle". No one at the company noticed the error, and they wasted $3000 creating a misspelled sign.
Do run your spellchecker. Do find someone to proofread your important memos and emails. People who aren't spelling and grammar whizzes may not mind a cascade of errors, but those who do notice will think you are either lazy or a fool.
I don't think spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. are quite as important in informal communications, but when someone like a department chair sends out a grammatical trainwreck of an email to the whole campus, he looks like an idiot and loses credibility.
So how is he dumbing it down with his mere presence online? I've lived just up the (dirt) road from BFE, Oklahoma, and I can tell you that the people there are a lot more intelligent and educated than you think. When you don't have internet porn and AOL to take up all of your time, you tend to actually learn important skills, and (God forbid), read books.
The drivel that we see online and on TV doesn't usually come from BFE, you know.
It sounds like you (and probably most of your customers) have never really used Linux as a daily desktop. The distros I have used lately (Red Hat, SuSE, Fedora), have the KDE or GNOME equivalent of a "Start" button, which leads you to "Internet", which leads you to an amazing thing called a "Web Browser". The average user doesn't really need to know whether this is Mozilla, Epiphany, Konqueror, etc., just that it gets them to the internet.
The sames goes for office suites. Mainstream distros have easy pointy-clicky access to OpenOffice.org through the same "Start"-like menu -- no choice required for those who might be easily overwhelmed.
I teach Linux as an NOS, but invariably, my students are amazed at how easy and intuitive KDE is to use, and many of them switch to Linux as their primary desktop OS.
BTW, did you see that the Lotus Development co-founder, Mitchell Kapor (also co-founder of EFF), resigned from Groove a few days ago? Not a positive sign for Groove, IMHO.
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Sweet Jesus. How does one's Social Security number end up in the pubic domain? I don't even think I want to know.
We know it's not flat. If we stand on the roof of our house, we can see the curve of the earth.
I'm working on my MSCIT from Regis Online, and I am very happy with it so far. I have already had the "college experience", and now I just need the additional degree. I'm already teaching, and my schedule doesn't permit me to go through a traditional program. Plus I've already had the "college experience", and the best thing I got out of that was my husband (another Regis grad). I would say avoid online-only or online-mostly schools and find a traditional school that has an established online program. Many of my former students now work for University of Phoenix, and they aren't terribly thrilled with it.
when she congratulated the wrong person for an internal promotion
The HR manager where I used to work had two employees with very similar first names and identical last names; one had recently been fired. Guess which one she invited to the Christmas party?
Spellcheck is a great tool, but only if people actually read what is being suggested by the spellchecker. The two most common errors translated into new errors I see are "alot" -> "allot" (as in "There were allot of people there") and "definately" -> "defiantly" (as in "I defiantly want to get a good job").
And in doing so, they consistently include their own misspellings and grammatical nightmares.
Spelling does count. My sister just ordered a decorative stone for my parents' garden. The stone is supposed to say "The Harveys". The idiot woman who took the order insisted that it must be spelled "The Harvey's", as in "belonging to the Harvey". A friend of mine who is a talented graphic designer but horrible speller designed a sign for "Asbury Hospitle". No one at the company noticed the error, and they wasted $3000 creating a misspelled sign.
Do run your spellchecker. Do find someone to proofread your important memos and emails. People who aren't spelling and grammar whizzes may not mind a cascade of errors, but those who do notice will think you are either lazy or a fool.
I don't think spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, etc. are quite as important in informal communications, but when someone like a department chair sends out a grammatical trainwreck of an email to the whole campus, he looks like an idiot and loses credibility.
You can make more money selling subscriptions to Vibe.
Consumptionjunction.com actually did something like this. Yesterday, every link to a gross-out picture was really a link to a "Go out and vote" image.
And yes, I am embarrassed that I know this.
And . . . "A penny for the Old Guy"
From the VoteHere site (http://votehere.com/vhti.html):
"VHTi proves that electronic voting machines worked correctly and did not cheat in every election. "
So . . . only in a few elections?
The drivel that we see online and on TV doesn't usually come from BFE, you know.
It sounds like you (and probably most of your customers) have never really used Linux as a daily desktop. The distros I have used lately (Red Hat, SuSE, Fedora), have the KDE or GNOME equivalent of a "Start" button, which leads you to "Internet", which leads you to an amazing thing called a "Web Browser". The average user doesn't really need to know whether this is Mozilla, Epiphany, Konqueror, etc., just that it gets them to the internet. The sames goes for office suites. Mainstream distros have easy pointy-clicky access to OpenOffice.org through the same "Start"-like menu -- no choice required for those who might be easily overwhelmed. I teach Linux as an NOS, but invariably, my students are amazed at how easy and intuitive KDE is to use, and many of them switch to Linux as their primary desktop OS.
...this'll bring on some "Bewulf slays the monster" jokes amongst the more esoteric geeks.
If Darl is Grendel, does this mean that Mr. billg is Grendel's mother?
And text editor != text processor.
A text processor is more along the lines of LaTeX, LyX, etc.
It looks like Textmaker is really just another word processor similar to OO.org, but non-free.
BTW, did you see that the Lotus Development co-founder, Mitchell Kapor (also co-founder of EFF), resigned from Groove a few days ago? Not a positive sign for Groove, IMHO.
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