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  1. Recent evacuation in Fujian, China on Sonic 'Lasers' to be Deployed in Hurricane Region · · Score: 1
    You're kidding, right? Have you ever tried to move 100,000 people from a disaster area?

    It seems that a country like China, much less developed than the US, managed to evacuate several hundred thousand people in a couple of days before the arrival of a typhoon.

  2. Moderation on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 · · Score: 1

    It is good to see that people here have a good sense of humor.

  3. Book writing on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 · · Score: -1, Troll

    I bet this book was written with MS Word!

  4. Not just a GPS on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 1

    A GPS is just a satellite signal receiver. There is no way to be tracked by GPS. So I guess we are more exactly talking about a GPS receiver plus some kind of transmitter (radio, mobile phone, etc.).

  5. The worst feature in OOo on Why OpenOffice.org? Open Document Formats · · Score: 1

    Try and create a table inside a slide in Impress... Some as apparently simple is really tricky.

    However, being fair, other features of OOo are clearly superior than those in MS Office, like the equations editor.

  6. Re:For the non-british on NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft · · Score: 1

    So then why in US dollars?

  7. Re:For the non-british (e.g. me) on NHS Awards Contract to Microsoft · · Score: 1
    $924 million

    Why not in Euros?

  8. 35km/h ? on E-bike E-xperiences? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do you really mean 35km/h on average? For how long? That is almost as good as a professional cyclist can get...

  9. VB is a tool on Programming Language Popularity Survey · · Score: 1

    But VB is not a programming language but a development tool that includes a BASIC dialect as the programming language...

  10. VB a language? on Quake2 Engine In Java · · Score: 1
    As a language it's superior to VB

    VB is not a programming language, but a development tool that includes some sort of Basic language, in a similar way that Delphi includes Pascal.

  11. Equations editor on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 1

    Last time I used AbiWord I couldn't find its equation editor. Is it a lacking feature? If so, I think it is a serious limitation of the product.

  12. Linespace in thesis on AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now · · Score: 1
    That seems to be why PhD theses that contain chemical or mathematical formulas usually are typeset with linespace 1.5, which doesn't look good either.

    So what linespace you think is suitable for a PhD thesis, a single line? As far as I know, most universities require thesis to use linespaces of 1.5 and even 2. I haven't seen any thesis using single line spacing as far as I can remember. I think it would look way too tight.

  13. Re:Pasting on Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    That's pretty funny. So, to avoid having pasted text disrupt the page settings, I have to throw out all of the formatting in the pasted text, then re-do it. Cool feature!

    Then maybe you are expecting that Word is more intelligent than you and either find out or take a decision by itself on what format settings it must remove and what others it must keep when you paste a formatted block of text into another formatted block of code, and certain format settings are in conflict.

    If you think carefully you will realise that the way Word is acting upon this action totally makes sense and in fact I don't think any other word processing application should behave differently.

  14. Pasting on Anatomy Of A Bug In Microsoft Office · · Score: 1
    Pasting text from one document into another and having the document's margins get reset?

    Maybe it is time for you to learn how to paste text without format. Instead of just using the Paste option, use Paste Special and pick Unformatted Text. That will do the trick.

  15. Virgin USA on Email Notification via SMS in the US? · · Score: 1
    I used a similar approach while living in the USA with my prepaid Virgin cell phone. There is an e-mail address associated with your phone. I don't remember the exact format (it was something like number@vmobile.com) but finding out is as easy as to send to yourself an e-mail from the cell phone, and look at the from.

    Interestingly, Virgin does not charge for receiving a SMS as opposed to other cell phone companies.

  16. Telefonica on Lycos Sold To South Korean Company · · Score: 2, Informative
    Telifonica, which is the national phone company of Spain

    Telefonica stopped being a state-owned company several years ago. So it is not the "national" company anymore, or at least not more than any of the many more that currently exist in Spain.

  17. El Salvador on Africa Enters Global Market For IT Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    El Salvador is located in Central America, not South America.

  18. Just a minor remark on ESA Plans Test of Asteroid Defense System · · Score: 1

    I think the original, exact Spanish title is "El ingenioso Hidalgo, Don Quijote de la Mancha". In old Spanish, 'x' was the same as 'j' (e.g. Mexico is the same as Mejico), but nonetheless I think in the original book, it was written Quijote.

  19. How Apple Mail filters Spam on Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 In Anti-Spam Shootout · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a somewhat interesting article where they more or less explain how the Mac OS X Mail application works regarding Spam:

    http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/s pam_pt2.html

  20. Why not just burn CDs? on Speculating About Gmail · · Score: 1

    Isn't it just simpler, faster, and safer to burn a couple of CDs with the information?

  21. Re:Not his masters degree on Y Window System Project Started · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Isn't that about the same way it works for other top universities in the UK such as Cambridge and Oxford? I honestly wonder why.

  22. UNION on MySQL: Building User Interfaces · · Score: 1

    Unions are not supported either in MySQL 3.x. It is easy to replace it with several queries, but not convenient when you have a lot of SQL code that relies on unions.

  23. Interview log on Chatting with Ken Coar · · Score: 1

    Do you know where exactly I can get the interview log from? Thanks in advance.

  24. Bouncing in Windows on Is E-Mail Obscuration Worth It? · · Score: 1

    You can also bounce messages in Windows using this Eudora plug-in. I don't think it is effective against spam, but it might be useful in other cases, like a friend sending you all the time stuff you are not interested in.

  25. Re:Tips for travel blog on Weblogging from Various Ends of the Earth? · · Score: 1
    The advantage with this model, drivers are very small and easy to install.

    And why not just use one of the many digital cameras that do not even need a driver to work as a USB hard drive?