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Comment on Bad Open Access Idea by thomblake

thomblake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:11:02 +0000

Probably doesn’t sound too strange if they also do science journals - they usually have to pay to publish anyway.

Comment on Bad Open Access Idea by Stevan Harnad

Stevan Harnad — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:47:51 +0000

The Bad Open Access Idea (boai - not to be confused with the BOAI) is the Trojan Horse, described in this series of postings (sorry for the long URL!):
http://blogsearch.google.ca/blogsearch?hl=en&num=100&c2coff=1&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&q=%22trojan+horse%22+blogurl%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fopenaccess.eprints.org%2F&btnG=Search+Blogs

Comment on OpenOffice 3.0 Notes Feature - Printing Notes by Ian

Ian — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:33 +0000

You can print a screenshot. This gives output that looks identical to the screen. I prefer OOo way of showing deletions and changes to that in Word, so for me this is preferable. However, it is a bit of a hassle to have to do this for each page. An option to print markup as is Word would be preferable.
I run Wordview.exe in Win4LinPro which is a WinXP (etc) emulator which is very easy to use. So I use this for printing markup as well. It is very easy to use.

Comment on Is Something Wrong with the APA? by thomblake

thomblake — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:10:00 +0000

well, duh. It’s ridiculous logistic problems (with obvious solutions) like this that remind me again that it’s a professional organization for philosophers, not engineers.

And concerned that a student might not have a computer? Probably more likely one won’t have sight or hearing. Treat it like any other rare disability.

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by Andrew Cullison

Andrew Cullison — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:25:20 +0000

Kevin,
Did the formula with the nested IFs work?

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by Kevin Timpe

Kevin Timpe — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:28:39 +0000

I tried John’s suggustion and got a formula error highlighting the “F”.

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by Andrew Cullison

Andrew Cullison — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:37:44 +0000

Thanks John!

LOOKUP is actually simpler. I wasn’t aware of that function. I was thinking about the VLOOKUP, that references a separate table in the spreadsheet.

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by John Olsavsky

John Olsavsky — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:07:32 +0000

I don’t think a LOOKUP function is any more difficult than nested IFs.

=LOOKUP(A1,{0,”F”;59.5,”D-”;62.5,”D”;66.5,”D+”;69.5,”C-”;72.5,”C”;76.5,”C+”;79.5,”B-”;82.5,”B”;86.5,”B+”;89.5,”A-”;93.5,”A”})

But, you say tomato….

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by Dale

Dale — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:50:49 +0000

Comes out “Invalid Expression” in Gnumeric…

Comment on Percentages into Letter Grades: Spreadsheet Formulas by thom blake

thom blake — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:16 +0000

I’ve never cared much for averaging grades. I think I’ll have to write a blog post about it.