General TE tips

[DeniseGoldberg]

Double bump - good info about copyright infringement.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/faq.p...q#faq_policies

Funny - I was going to post the same thing but you beat me to it. One of the big copyright infringements that I've been noticing lately is people copying text from other sites. Sometimes there is an acknowledgement of the source, sometimes not. But whether even with an acknowledgement it is an infringement of copyright.

--- Denise

[SadieKate]

Denise, lemme guess. You are also in a position where you have to keep an eye on your company's intellectual property or some other copyrighted material?

[DeniseGoldberg]

Denise, lemme guess. You are also in a position where you have to keep an eye on your company's intellectual property or some other copyrighted material?

Uh, sort of. My work life revolves around product management and QA for a software company. So yes, intellectual property & copyrighted material both come into play here. In the past I worked for a health care software company and was caught up in making sure we were following the HIPAA (privacy) regulations. And of course that we were acknowledging the use of copyrighted materials.

I guess everything related to privacy and security plus falling into copyright areas is intertwined in my head...

--- Denise

[SadieKate]

Ditto! I contract the project services for a health care software company with its own clinical content. You want info, even a project plan, you have to pay for it.

[SadieKate]

Has anyone had "problems" with the spell checker? It appears to get creative with apostrophes. Doesn't seem to get the difference between the plural, the possessive or the contractive. Is it just the grouchy grammar grinch getting grumpy?

[maillotpois]

There's a spell checker?

[SadieKate]

Yes, I had to download it. Someone called our attention to it somewhere, somehow. Who was it and where? Trek420 prolly knows.

[Dianyla]

There's a spell checker?

There's a spellchecker in some web browsers, but not in the forums software.

[snapdragen]

There's a spell checker?

See up at the top of the Reply to Thread box, in the right hand corner? There's a little check mark with ABC - spell checker. It's for IE only though. Firefox has one too, but I don't know the name.

Now if someone would invent an internet grammar checker, Sadie could rest.....

[Lise]

Has anyone had "problems" with the spell checker? It appears to get creative with apostrophes. Doesn't seem to get the difference between the plural, the possessive or the contractive. Is it just the grouchy grammar grinch getting grumpy?

SK--people don't know the difference between the plural, possessive, or contractive! People program machines... My favorite misuse of the apostrophe to date (and I've been collecting them for over 30 years), is the sign in a window in my neighborhood, advertising the following service: Re'sume's. Oh, the irony.

I appreciate the presence of another GGG! Have you seen this? http://angryflower.com/aposter.html My personal favorite. I found my 6 year old nephew studying the poster on the side of my frig one day. I hope I've saved one child from lawless apostrophe abuse! L.

[SadieKate]

lawless apostrophe abuse

That's so good I changed my signature line.

"Re'sume's" - that's very unique.

I'm adding you to my compatriot list.

[bikerz]

My favorite misuse of the apostrophe to date (and I've been collecting them for over 30 years), is the sign in a window in my neighborhood, advertising the following service: Re'sume's. Oh, the irony.

Hey Lise - have you ever read the book Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman? She has a really hilarious essay in there about her family (grammar grinches one and all!) who have a family sport of collecting published grammer errors. That's a really great little book! (She also wrote the wonderful The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which was mentioned on a another thread here recently.)

(Can anyone tell I'd rather be doing something besides working right now?)