Bali Haque, deputy chief executive of the authority, said there had been no change to guidelines and there was no specific policy about text language.
However, he warned: "If people are expecting they can come up with an exam script full of text and pass, then they're dreaming.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1 &ObjectID=10410066
If what you're doing doesn't qualify as such, then I don't know what does.
When you preface a figure of speech with "literally", what you're saying is "(figure of speech) occurred, and I don't mean that as a figure of speech".
No, obviously that's not what the author was saying. Using the word "literally" to add emphasis is common usage, and given that you understood clearly the intent of the author, it seems that it was an adequate choice of words.
Oh, and I can play the prescriptionist game too...
To whom were you talking about the use of literally? Me? If not, you should have said, "When one prefaces..."
And if I'm not mistaken, we use the American punctuation rules on slashdot, so put those commas back behind those quotation marks.
I probably haven't convinced you, but at least I hope you see that prescription is ultimately a waste of time.
I fail to see how a water cooling system would do any sock-knocking. I guess they don't actually know what the word literally means (hint: it isn't a superlative nor does it simply add emphasis).
Begone you prescriptionist! and your prescriptionist dictionary too!
Though while you're at it, you should lash yourself 40 times with a prescriptionist style manual for using "they" with a singular antecedent.
I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between genetics, over which one has no control, and taking drugs, which is (at least certainly in the beginning) a voluntary action.
And even if you check the rear of the machine, it's also possible that it's been compromised by a software keylogger that is much more difficult to detect.
How about not using an OS on which anyone can install a software keylogger?
But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need.
Wow. How can an educated person write garbage like that? I would expect something similar from a 5th grader.
I've been in Costa Rica, and the telephone company there *is* a real monopoly. On public pay-phones, only their phone cards work! Bring a pre-paid phone card from the US and you're out of luck, you have to buy one from them!
They spend their time deciphering file formats that haven't been used for 10 years, but they don't include AbiWord or OpenOffice whose file format is open??
What's to stop people from going to Blockbuster Video, renting DVDs and copying them to their computer??
I guess the DVDCCA needs to sue all makers of dvd drives and hard drives (in addition to RAM) for computers too...
I'm waiting for the firefox of word processors, something sleek and lean, fast, stable, with only the functionality I need, yet compliant with MS Word 2000.
Why wasn't the parent modded Funny?
Really... abiword is all that!
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Bali Haque, deputy chief executive of the authority, said there had been no change to guidelines and there was no specific policy about text language. However, he warned: "If people are expecting they can come up with an exam script full of text and pass, then they're dreaming. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1 &ObjectID=10410066
1) Get wealthy people to give you their money when they die so you can invest it for when they return.
2) Pay someone to accidently leave the door to the freezer full of people open over the weekend.
3) PROFIT!!!
Ahem... aren't you missing a step?
Prescriptionist? WTF are you talking about?
c ription
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_and_des
In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for a language.
If what you're doing doesn't qualify as such, then I don't know what does.
When you preface a figure of speech with "literally", what you're saying is "(figure of speech) occurred, and I don't mean that as a figure of speech".
No, obviously that's not what the author was saying. Using the word "literally" to add emphasis is common usage, and given that you understood clearly the intent of the author, it seems that it was an adequate choice of words.
Oh, and I can play the prescriptionist game too...
To whom were you talking about the use of literally? Me?
If not, you should have said, "When one prefaces..."
And if I'm not mistaken, we use the American punctuation rules on slashdot, so put those commas back behind those quotation marks.
I probably haven't convinced you, but at least I hope you see that prescription is ultimately a waste of time.
I fail to see how a water cooling system would do any sock-knocking. I guess they don't actually know what the word literally means (hint: it isn't a superlative nor does it simply add emphasis).
Begone you prescriptionist! and your prescriptionist dictionary too!
Though while you're at it, you should lash yourself 40 times with a prescriptionist style manual for using "they" with a singular antecedent.
Is it me, or is Sony the first vendor to make (or spread) a Mac OS X Root Kit?
I don't know if something that only installs if you type in the administrator username and password qualifies as a root kit...
Standford engineers have discovered...
"Standford on iTunes"
It appears ScuttleMonkey didn't just make a typo, but just has no clue that it is actually Stanford not Standford...
I'm sorry, but there's a big difference between genetics, over which one has no control, and taking drugs, which is (at least certainly in the beginning) a voluntary action.
I stopped reading at
...senior director of Microsoft's Intellectual Property Ventures.
And even if you check the rear of the machine, it's also possible that it's been compromised by a software keylogger that is much more difficult to detect.
How about not using an OS on which anyone can install a software keylogger?
But if you're working for a company and that you have to routinely discuss about sensitive future projects or the possible acquisition of another company, you need more security, and this new video conferencing system based on quantum cryptography is a tool you need.
Wow.
How can an educated person write garbage like that? I would expect something similar from a 5th grader.
Used 'ftp' lately?
Comes with tab completion and all, and was only released 07/31/00, so I guess the authors of netkit must be retarted too.
Tab completion in sftp!
I don't use sftp nearly as much as I would if I could actually navigate and download files with any efficiency instead of copying and pasting...
This is 2005, come on.
I appears this may be one of those annoying not-released-to-the-public versions... like 3.5 :(
I've been in Costa Rica, and the telephone company there *is* a real monopoly.
On public pay-phones, only their phone cards work!
Bring a pre-paid phone card from the US and you're out of luck, you have to buy one from them!
Yep, it does. With the grsecurity patchset, you can disable memory from being executed.
Interesting how something can be marked redundant when it was posted at the same time as a comment that said the same thing and got +5 insightful...
This is a common prosecutorial practice... whats the big deal?
What happened to release early and often?
Let them dupe all they want, I wont believe it until Brian Hook confirms it.
They spend their time deciphering file formats that haven't been used for 10 years, but they don't include AbiWord or OpenOffice whose file format is open??
Hmm
What's to stop people from going to Blockbuster Video, renting DVDs and copying them to their computer?? I guess the DVDCCA needs to sue all makers of dvd drives and hard drives (in addition to RAM) for computers too...
I'm waiting for the firefox of word processors, something sleek and lean, fast, stable, with only the functionality I need, yet compliant with MS Word 2000.
Why wasn't the parent modded Funny? Really... abiword is all that!
You can import an OpenOffice document in AbiWord 2.0, you just need to install the plugin.