Beware if someone compliments you by saying "your excellent at using spell check" because there lying.
Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
The 'grammar check' that infests several softwares that I use [ . . . ]
Ouch.?ÿ
The plural form of?ÿsoftware?ÿis?ÿsoftware. This is true even when you??re referring to multiple programs.?ÿSoftwares?ÿ(with an?ÿS?ÿat the end) isn??t an actual word.?ÿ The word software?ÿis a mass noun because it can be used to refer to a?ÿmass?ÿ(or nonspecific number) of computing programs or products.?ÿMass nouns?ÿfunction as both singular and plural nouns. They can describe either one item, multiple items of the same type, or an entire category of items.
Other mass noun examples include furniture, cutlery & hardware.?ÿ Does furnitures, cutleries & hardwares sound right to you??ÿ Your attempt to make a mass noun into a countable noun by the use of the pronoun?ÿseveral is inappropriate.?ÿ Correct would be "that infests some software that I use".
I always wanted to be an Architect too...started schooling at a local Community College but didn't finish. Got into surveying and now I can't stand some of the Architects I've dealt with and their design "ideas" when staking in the field.
T. Nelson - SAM
@mathteacher I taught an evening class one time titled "Intragalactic Azimuth Determination", or how to shoot Polaris.
The autocorrect on my phone makes more mistakes than I make.
What gets me is that it all looks fine and as I hit send autocorrect changes what I have written and it all comes out as garbage.
The autocorrect on my phone makes more mistakes than I make.
What gets me is that it all looks fine and as I hit send autocorrect changes what I have written and it all comes out as garbage.
My phone makes the auto-incorrections as I type.?ÿ The effect of hitting send is to make me notice what it did.
It seems to be getting smarter.?ÿ I think I can now type NGS without it changing it, for instance, but it took a lot of undo's to get there.
I understand your point of view. Although the word software may be accepted as an uncounted noun, I used it as a counted noun. Much like the reference to plant material (uncounted) vs. flammable materials (unspecified but counted; hence plural).
Probably not correct in some circles. One rarely takes artistic license with the English language without a corrective suggestion. 😉
I too had the architect dream (even thought about changing my name to Art Vandalay), but crisis averted. The one thing I don't understand about architects though is that they can design a building with whatever funky angles the client wants or whatever's necessary, but can't seem to comprehend property lines that aren't square. Had one that would move a property line that he didn't like just so his design would meet setback requirements (well the tax map showed it as square). Went round and round with him several times over that.
Quite foolishly my university had most of the engineers and all of the arky-tex housed in the same huge building during my time there. Day vs Night. Oil vs Water. With the exception of some lower level technical classes, we were not in the same classrooms, luckily. Two totally different breeds of cat. Each developing what they fit best, just with different goals in mind. The world needs both professions.
..The world needs both professions.
I suppose the engineer is needed to explain to the architect why a 61' wide structure won't fit on a 60' wide lot.?ÿ And they both need the surveyor to explain why the 60' wide lot is really only 59.8' wide...
There is truly harmony in the spheres I guess.
@paden-cash When I first started surveying I heard a story about a surveyor (engineer?) who laid out a house parallel with the lot lines at the required setbacks: 25' in front, 5' on each side. Two stakes at each corner on the outside lines prolongation.
The foundation was poured, the framing completed, the roof built and the drywall installed, but the cabinet maker couldn't fit the pre-built cabinets into the kitchen even though the dimensions were exactly per plan.
Seems the lot was not 90° (surprise, surprise), but more like 88°±, just not enough to see the difference with the naked eye. And it took all the way to the finish carpenter to find it when it should have been caught by the surveyor(engineer?) And it would appear that nobody checked the diagonals.
The biggest mistake made in staking structures is not checking the diagonals. I've seen it many times. ????
@flga?ÿ
I can think of a situation where the diagonal measurements are equal, but, the structure is not "square" and it happened to me.
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Historic boundaries and conservation efforts.
Yes, it could. I always stake buildings radially, then check diags, and pull from house corners to lot corners. Then close the setup into two other known control points. ????
@not-my-real-name Yep, trapezoids will do that to you.
I have interviewed my fair share of office & field applicants. Our office applicant form contains only bio, education & immediate past employer, if they want to include it. For office CAD positions, after the initial get to know you conversation, I have them sit in front of the PC & tell them to process some contours from an XYZ file or fill up some CAD title blocks with basic data. Those that know what they are doing would go straight to it and ask some basic questions about menu items if they are not familiar with our CAD version. For field crew positions, we just ask them to set up a tripod using an old instrument (in case they drop it accidentally) over a point that is a bit difficult to occupy .
That's basically it. Those career objectives are BS if you ask me.
It worked well in the '80s.
Still does. ?????ÿ
Huh?
Equal diagonals of a trapezoid, for instance.?ÿ If there are errors in the side lengths of an intended rectangle, you can still get equal diagonals. But not in a figure resembling a parallelogram unless the sides are really weird.
Edit: can't spell this morning.