Not reading any of the reviews (but having RTFA, GASP!) the new Sony sounds more like Fujifilm FinePix F10, which I just bought a month ago. Super CCD, long battery, 6.3 megapixels, and best of all -- much, much less than $1000 that these Sony ones go for. It had very good reviews, and good heavens, they weren't lying about its ISO 1600 sensitivity.
So, Mr. I'm-a-tech-savvy-/.er-with-perfect-grammar (err...), you hate how the grammar checker doesn't like your technical writing style. First of all, if you're that tech-savvy, turn that feature off or don't use Microsoft Word, brought to you the software maker you love to hate and troll for eternity. Like a previous commenter pointed out, WordPerfect Grammatik was pretty good at spotting errors at the right places.
In my opinion, grammar checker was never intended for checking your technical documents; rather, it is intended for every-day writing, documents that don't necessarily warrant the troubles of finding a person to proofread it for you, but still embarrassing nonetheless if a grammatical oversight happened to be present, e.g. a memo to your co-workers.
I hope people who whine and complain about how annoying the grammar checker can realize how lucky they are to possess such command of the English language (or any other languages in which the checker is available). Having immigrated to Canada 8 years ago with very little prior knowledge of English -- if at all -- I experienced first-hand how painful a 400-word mini-essay can become, and how embarrassing it is to get it back painted red with the unsparing wrath of the correction pen. Even the MS Word grammar checker helped me immensely to minimize these corrections, and while I sometimes still struggle with finding the right preposition to use, I can honestly say it played a significant role in my study in English: it is widely accepted that writing is the most difficult part to master in a language.
The news of a GPL'd word-processor to incorporate a grammar checker opens up a positive alternative for those who still struggle to compose the grammatically correct documents on the computer, and that's A Good Thing(tm). Many people can benefit from it, and if you don't like it, TURN IT OFF.
(Cue/. grammar zealots to find a grammar mistake here and mod me -1.)
I told her that I was sure it couldn't be cited because the information there is simply too fluid and couldn't be counted on to remain unchanged over time... He [the professor] looked into the matter and told her that it was perfectly acceptable as long as the citations were up to MLA standards.
I am not an iTunes user, and I am waiting for my free iPod Shuffle to arrive in my mailbox (sveet) but I would imagine you would need a method of payment like a credit card.
Not everyone has a credit card.
As an example, quite a few of music downloaders are under the age of majority, ineligible for a credit card. They are probably reluctant to ask their parents about it, and then what good is iTunes, or any other downloading places for that matter?
There was also a newspaper article written by a psychologist or whatnot about how a teenager's mind is incapable of fully understanding the consequences of one's actions. That's part of the rationale behind Canada's Young Offenders Act, and I am sure there is a similar law in the United States as well. So what was that about that long trip to Zimbabwe again?
Are you familiar with paleopathology? Anthropologists dig up bones and study traces of diseases and injury in human skeletons. They use this to gain further insight on the lifestyle Dark Ages people led; for example, a typical Dark Ages skeleton would have bones that suggest they have been broken a few times moreso than other ages, suggesting to historians Dark Ages people engaged in physically risky and demanding activities. Furthermore, by studying the growth on these broken bone sites, they can figure out how they would have treated them.
I'm a little skeptic about why we have to archive all that information in the first place. History as we know it is established through researching for bits and pieces of evidences and putting them together; we know quite a bit about what happened 200, 300 years ago, but I am sure we don't have an equivalent of 200 petabytes of, say, parchment from which to study our recent history.
It'd be crazy to suggest the NARA audit every single bit (no pun intended) of archival data to determine whether they're worth archiving or not -- not only is it impossible, it flies in the face of the whole idea of archiving. However, the estimate of 347 petabytes may perhaps be too pessimestic, as surely not every kind of information they have are worth archiving.
Just my two cents.
First this from TFA and the leg-humping feature comment... it's a matter of time before some sick lonely, yet adventurous and... animal loving... geek would come up with an "innovative" hardware hack for AIBO.
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Not reading any of the reviews (but having RTFA, GASP!) the new Sony sounds more like Fujifilm FinePix F10, which I just bought a month ago. Super CCD, long battery, 6.3 megapixels, and best of all -- much, much less than $1000 that these Sony ones go for. It had very good reviews, and good heavens, they weren't lying about its ISO 1600 sensitivity.
In my opinion, grammar checker was never intended for checking your technical documents; rather, it is intended for every-day writing, documents that don't necessarily warrant the troubles of finding a person to proofread it for you, but still embarrassing nonetheless if a grammatical oversight happened to be present, e.g. a memo to your co-workers.
I hope people who whine and complain about how annoying the grammar checker can realize how lucky they are to possess such command of the English language (or any other languages in which the checker is available). Having immigrated to Canada 8 years ago with very little prior knowledge of English -- if at all -- I experienced first-hand how painful a 400-word mini-essay can become, and how embarrassing it is to get it back painted red with the unsparing wrath of the correction pen. Even the MS Word grammar checker helped me immensely to minimize these corrections, and while I sometimes still struggle with finding the right preposition to use, I can honestly say it played a significant role in my study in English: it is widely accepted that writing is the most difficult part to master in a language.
The news of a GPL'd word-processor to incorporate a grammar checker opens up a positive alternative for those who still struggle to compose the grammatically correct documents on the computer, and that's A Good Thing(tm). Many people can benefit from it, and if you don't like it, TURN IT OFF.
(Cue /. grammar zealots to find a grammar mistake here and mod me -1.)
It's fairly complex because it doesn't repeat the same four one-chord open-fifth bars for 20 minutes? *ducks*
That's why MLA citations include the date on which you accessed the cited information from the web. They change.
Of course, one may raise the question: what if I edit wikipedia to support my thesis all the way and cite it?
Not everyone has a credit card.
As an example, quite a few of music downloaders are under the age of majority, ineligible for a credit card. They are probably reluctant to ask their parents about it, and then what good is iTunes, or any other downloading places for that matter?
There was also a newspaper article written by a psychologist or whatnot about how a teenager's mind is incapable of fully understanding the consequences of one's actions. That's part of the rationale behind Canada's Young Offenders Act, and I am sure there is a similar law in the United States as well. So what was that about that long trip to Zimbabwe again?
Also people are known to like not having to pay.
Are you familiar with paleopathology? Anthropologists dig up bones and study traces of diseases and injury in human skeletons. They use this to gain further insight on the lifestyle Dark Ages people led; for example, a typical Dark Ages skeleton would have bones that suggest they have been broken a few times moreso than other ages, suggesting to historians Dark Ages people engaged in physically risky and demanding activities. Furthermore, by studying the growth on these broken bone sites, they can figure out how they would have treated them.
It'd be crazy to suggest the NARA audit every single bit (no pun intended) of archival data to determine whether they're worth archiving or not -- not only is it impossible, it flies in the face of the whole idea of archiving. However, the estimate of 347 petabytes may perhaps be too pessimestic, as surely not every kind of information they have are worth archiving. Just my two cents.
First this from TFA and the leg-humping feature comment... it's a matter of time before some sick lonely, yet adventurous and ... animal loving ... geek would come up with an "innovative" hardware hack for AIBO.
http://inhome.rediff.com.nyud.net:8090/money/2005/ jun/21ms.htm