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What does Q1 2009 mean?

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Sunday
Nov 30,2008

it says the conduit comes out Q1 2009 so thats whennnn lol

In this case, a projection is being made that implies January, February, March of 2009 is when to expect availability, delivery, or release of product.

1st quarter of 2009, the first 3 months of the year of 2009

Michael

Quarter one, 2009, ie the first 3 months of 2009

first quatre of 2009

jan- april :)

Could i be bettering myself?

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Sunday
Nov 30,2008

I'm an 18 year old girl and i have alot of debts i'm paying them off quickly and surely but at the risk of my own life im prostituting if thats how i would put it. I know its wrong but its getting me the money, i'm scared that after i have the money that i will still keep on being a prostitute. Please help me with the answers.

You know what you need to do -quit the game darling before it quits your life and you die a tragic death…Go to www.itv.com or watch ITV2 at 3ish and watch Jeremy Kyle today was a prostitute special -look out for the member of the audience who goes "It's not going thorugh is it? Your not getting it!" ….Thats me right now shouting at you via my PC screen… :)

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

Please help me doing my homework in English!

I need at least three slang and colloquial expressions beginning with "get". i need your help, thanks a lot. :-)

Get real!

Get over it!

Get it on!

He gets on well with his sister.

She got it off her chest when she told her father about crashing his car.

What he said obviously didn't get across to them.

There are many more examples here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/get

check it out from urban dictionary.com

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=get

get lost

get bent

get cracking

…or maybe get f***ed, which is what you should probably tell your english teacher lol

Does terrible grammar really annoy you?

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Sunday
Nov 30,2008

Because I actually cannot stand it….

i like to write in wingdings does that annoy you aswell.

;'l;'#:L~l;~)_ )_ !"!##[';'#p[#p/'/#]….

It really depends.

If someone speaks a language but is not a native speaker of that language, I find grammar and language mistakes pretty charming and cute. Like for instance, some people here on Yahoo Answers, come from an other country (like me actually ;-) ) Sometimes their (and probably mine as well) English has all kind of mistakes, and you can't always avoid them with the spelling check. Specially grammar. But at least they try hard to speak an other language. Which can not be said by many people who are native English speakers, most don't speak an other language and do not try to either.

But, if someone is a native speaker and makes many mistakes in his own language, and many kids lately have this lazy use of language, that can really annoy me sometimes. I think that, except if you are dyslectic, you should be able to speak and write your own language.

it depends how bad it is. the occasional typo, the non use of caps, even some mistakes confusing their, they're and there, I feel is fine. we're not writing literature here, it's what we think and our feelings so I personally perfer that the typing should mirror that. not some 18th century grammar school book.

but it's more the out right "lYk dIS" that the other answerer pointed out that gets on my nerves. there's honest mistakes and then there's either total disregard to grammar or the hideous text typing that's taking over that I just can't stand.

Yes. I went to a Catholic elementary school. My little joke about it is that for eight years all I learned was God and Grammar.

I think awful spelling disturbs me more than terrible grammar, although it is a close race. You see dreadful spelling and grammar all over YA. What annoys me is that most of the people who are very opinionated and close minded are the ones who can barely put together a sentence.

It annoys me because it's just the basics of our language. I know I make mistakes but to see some of the errors on here is unbelievable at times. Some of it is so bad that the questions are almost impossible to read. I can understand and accept it from someone from foreign parts but not from anyone educated here.

But keep in mind, without grammar knowledge, you can't know the language.Better than learning rules, it is better to learn the examples complying with the rules. Should you need the rule, then you can deduce it from the example. Take it eaasy!

I can't abide it. Nor can I stand text talk. Sometimes it's impossible to make any sense out of the questions on here as they are littered with spelling mistakes, too much or no punctuation. I could go on. Thank the lord we are intellectually superior!!

I feels sorry for those peolple. They can't even right english like what we do. I mean I have actually, got to agree, with all of youse actually, people here need to get themselves an actual dicshonary. LOL

What do youse all feel?.

yes, sometimes.

Look at the grammar and spelling of this character.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…

If you want us to suggest changing "I actually" to "actually I", then it's unnecessary, the word "actually" is superfluous. (or "actually superfluous", if you prefer)

Yes, it bugs me a lot. I have grammatical errors but I'm working on minimizing them.

Please help me if you get a chance thanks!

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?…

I sometimes shorten word,

but I really hate it when people start putting numbers in the middle of words (like m8s) you really have to translate some peoples writing.

and I HATE it when people shorten my name to KT.

xxx.

Admittedly, yes!

Almost as bad as apostrophes all over the show is when people say "pacifically" rather than "specifically".

It's pretty infuriating.

Yes it does as does incorrect use of apostophes, e.g in many cafes

"Bean's on toast"

I also hate many newspaper headlines, especially "Phew what a scorcher"

We're talking. . . . .UP. . . .A. . . . .FREAK'N. . . . .WALL. . . . .HERE !

it does annoy me but what annoies me more are the peoples who was thinking it don't matter or indeed nows the grammer proper but just can't be bothered to use it like. tsk.

Yes, it really does. My friend's daughter now not only uses slang and shortcut words talking to her friends online, they actually speak it!!!

Yes it does. It also annoys me when people start a question with "OK",or "Right".

It doesn't really annoy me. I just think it's a shame so many people are so illiterate.

Not as much as this: "lyk ToTalLy"

Lack of grammar does annoy me though.

Yes it does get quite annoying sometimes..

It bothers me more if i don't like what is being written.

Then you must luuurve YA!

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

if you could give exercise for noun clause

A. Noun clauses perform the same functions in sentences that nouns do:

A noun clause can be a subject of a verb:

What Billy did shocked his friends.

A noun clause can be an object of a verb:

Billy’s friends didn’t know that he couldn’t swim.

A noun clause can be a subject complement:

Billy’s mistake was that he refused to take lessons.

A noun clause can be an object of a preposition:

Mary is not responsible for what Billy did.

A noun clause (but not a noun) can be an adjective complement:

Everybody is sad that Billy drowned.

if you want to give it as an exercies,the instructions would be to:

underline the noun clause in the sentence and identify it.

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

Not naming any names but this was the answer posted to a question which made me laugh a lot:

"Assuming you mean jell-o (damn britishisms), you shouldn't have to make any changes to it…."

Now, really.

You're speaking ENGLISH. We made the words…you changed them. It's not 'Britishisms' it's the English language. You're the ones using your own 'isms'!!!

PS. It's called JELLY

"Jelly" has been in use since the 14th century whereas "jello" only dates from 1934 and is a trade name.

Language naturally evolves and it is to be expected that there will be differences between British and American (and other) English. Neither is the only "correct" form, they are both correct. I don't try to teach Americans to speak a British form of English, neither should they attempt to Americanise (note the spelling!) the English used in Britain.

It's not necessarily that you don't have proper grammar, it's the fact that, to us Americans it sounds weird and a lot of times hard to decipher exactly what you're saying. So much so that it sounds as if you're the ones that are changing the way the words are pronounced. For example, when I hear someone from Britain say hello, it sometimes sounds as if you're saying ello instead of hello. That's just my opinion however.

Well, since we seem somewhat hell-bent on butchering the English language, I'd have to say 'no'.

Oh, and because I'm a nice American, I'm going to let the typo in your question go, instead of making a snide comment, as some would ;-).

It took me years to realise that a "Jelly donut" was the American way of saying "Jam doughnut"

Anyway, in time, Microsoft spelling will rule the world whether we like it or not.

(By the way. Never met an American I didn't like)

i think they shouldn't be compared. british and american are really different in many aspects,spelling,pronunciation and even terminologies.

this is your argument? over jelly and jell-o? hello! you don't have any thing else to do like pick lint off of a jacket?

NO THEY CAN'T (I'm not from England)

Talk how you want, tis tour country and no one should correct it..

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

An A4 sheet of paper usually holds about 200 lines of text and each line has about ten words on it.

How many sheets of A4 paper can be stored on a 10GB hard disc?

Show your working!!

i dont know this either !!

Im so confused.

And it has to be in for tomorrow,

im utterly confused.

im not gunna do it (:

200 lines x 10 words per line = 2000 words per page

If the average length of each word is 5 characters, there are 2000 x 5 = 10000 characters per page

I think each character uses up 1 byte

So number of bytes used per page = 10000 x 1 =10000 bytes

1024 bytes = 1 kB (strange but true because 1 kB = 2^10 bytes)

So the number of kB used per page = 10000 / 1024 = 9.8 kB

1 GB = 1024 MB

1 MB = 1024 kB

So 1GB = 1024 x 1024 = 1048576 kB

10GB = 10 x 1048576 = 10485760 kB

Number of A4 sheets able to be stored on a 10GB hard drive is

10485760 / 9.8 = 1069975.5 pages

You will need to go back and check my answer. I am no mathematician! but here is how I tried to work it out:

————————————–…

Byte Specifications

The primary specifications of hardware are rated in bytes; for example, an 80-gigabyte (80GB) disk holds 80 billion characters of software and data. A 256-megabyte (256MB) memory allows 256 million characters of instructions and data to be held internally for processing.

(Source: Answers.com)

______________________________________…

So therefore a 10GB hard disk holds 10 billion characters.

An A4 sheet of paper holds 200 lines of text, each line has ten words. So the sum is:

200 x 10 = 2000

We know that the disk has a capacity for 10 billion characters, and we know that thee are 2000 WORDS on an A4 sheet but what we don't know is how many characters those words contain, so we have to make an educated guess. By looking back at the last ten words I typed, adding the number of characters and dviding by 10, I get an average (rounded up) of: 4.

So now we know that if the average length of a word is 4 characters and we have 2000 x 4. We therefore have 8000 characters per page.

10,000,000,000 (which is 10 billion) divided by 8000 is the sum you need to solve.

1,000,000,000 divided by 8000 is 125,000

and 125,000 X 10 = 1,250,000.

So, if I were asked this question, my answer would be 1,250,000 (one and a quarter million) but I could very well be wrong!

Good luck!

The average word length in the English language is 5.1 letters:

http://blogamundo.net/lab/wordlengths/

I tried typing one line of ten words into a plain text file in wordpad. This turned out to have a file size of 60 bytes. A gigabyte is 1024^3 bytes. Multiply this by ten and divide by sixty, and you get an answer of roughly 179 million.

Your teacher must be a dork!

Anyway, try this site:

http://www.unitconversion.org/unit_converter/data-storage.html

It says-

10 gigabyte (10^9 bytes) = 5000000000 word

Divide that to (200X10) equals >>>2,500,000 sheets.

I really think its a very stupid question which in reality doesnt apply, duh.. we can use winzip to compress 1 file and we can get twice that or more.

why not ask your family to help you.

I'm sure they will.

***!

u reminded my math homework i had ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh`!

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

Here are some good site-

http://www.boloji.com/kabir/essays/index.htm

http://www.hindinest.com/chitralekh/index.htm (probably the best)

If you are in India you can check in Orkut Communities. For more info go to www.search.com or www.google.com

Hope this ^ helped you.

I have not been able to find such ready made site.

You can try http://www.hindinest.com/

sorry di ko alam.

www.englishforums.com

get what.?

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

Definitions of consideration on the Web:

the process of giving careful thought to something

circumstance: information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take"

a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting); "consideration of the traffic problem took more than an hour"

kind and considerate regard for others; "he showed no consideration for her feelings"

retainer: a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone

a considerate and thoughtful act

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

example:

Can i ask my teacher to give me some considerations regarding my homework? the dog ate it.

Sunday
Nov 30,2008

you cannot tear, rip, or cut the napkin. and the napkin is your normal kind thats about the size of a 8×11 inch paper. the two people have to be in completely different rooms where they cannot come into contact with each other. they cannot even see each other if they were both face to face. for example, if they were to reach out to each other, they could no way touch.

Put the napkin under a doorway and shut the door.

The napkin would go on each side, giving them each room to stand on it.

They would be in different rooms.

And the door would prevent them from having contact with one another.

*monkey*

lol..simple…the to people stay in to rooms that are connected, they close the door and put the napkin under the door so that there is a part of the napkin in both rooms and they put their foot on it

Put a napkin under the door and have the people on each side of the door stand on it?

That's the only way i can think of.

lol.

you put them in two different rooms

and you put the napkin under a door

and close it

then each person stands on it

?? [:

only way i can think of

hahaha

Put a piece of metal like a large one that is taller and three times wider in between them both on the piece a napkin.

The paper is placed under a closed door

The napkin is under a door?

Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm don't know? xox

i would say walk backwards to it and close your eyes or somthin

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