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  1. Re:Office.. on Josh Ledgard On MS's Future Open Source Efforts · · Score: 1
    Don't you need to pay for office to get that COM object?

    The next version of .Net will have native reader/writers for all the office document formats. Which means you will be able to read and modify word documents without having Office installed.

  2. Re:Does this mean anything? on One, Two, Many - Language Shapes Thought · · Score: 1
    I always suspected that the native name of your town, and the local features affected your accent (explains Liverpool and Stoke)

    I read somewhere that the Liverpool accent was down to the industrial pollution but as the air has grown cleaner the children are merely learning the accent from their parents.

    I've found a reference for the pollution theory: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_217094.html

  3. Re:Out of curiosity on BBC to Trial Worldwide Multicast Streaming? · · Score: 1
    Sadly we need to be really careful about how our Olmpics coverage is allowed out, since it's a big deal for the IOC to allow us to stream it at all, and they have only granted us rights for the UK. The IOC tend to notice when people overstep their agreed rights too, so people absolutely must play nicely (you can understand that, it's their event, after all).

    Could you say why office connections aren't allowed? When I'm at home I can watch the extra streams on DSAT!

    It's especially annoying to have lost FiveLive.

  4. Re:Menuing system on Microsoft, Apple Sued Over Software Update Patent · · Score: 1
    The difference between the patent's claim is that the patent describes a system where the client machine provides the server with a list of the products that are already installed.

    Actually, if that's true it should get Microsoft off the hook, since the client never sends the server a list of installed products. An ActiveX control builds the list of applicable updates on the client, allowing the user to select which ones to download from the server. Only those requests are fed back.

  5. Re:I don't care if they're slow. on First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed · · Score: 1
    My DVD-R holds full uncompressed DVD's just fine? (In DVD-5 format). Run DVD-9's through DVD-Shrink (or whatever it's called).

    All DVD Shrink does is take the existing compressed (and it is already compressed to fit on a DVD-9) video and chuck away some of the data to make it fit a DVD-5.

  6. Re:missing line on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 1
    Try Coldfusion. Its based on HTML, all tag based, and its relativly easy to learn once you get the hang of it. You can tie into COM objects, talk to any ODBC DB (and some others), and do anything that HTML can do (or flash, or java, etc.) check it out, I make a living with it. :)

    You can also create some quite wonderful memory leaks with it.
    I used to make a living with it, now moved on to asp.net, a whole new way to create memory leaks :-)

  7. Re:All phone services should have 911 access! on FCC: VoIP Providers Must Provide 911 Services · · Score: 1
    In the UK, it's 999. Which boggles me. When I lived there in the early 90's, there was no touch tone. I have a phone with buttons but it pulse dials. 9 br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br 9 br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br 9 br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br-br

    Well, you could use 112, which as well as being much shorter on a pulse dialer also has the benfit of being usuable in any European Union member state.

  8. Re:"Hong Kong-based"?!? on UK Music Industry Stomps on Imported CD Seller · · Score: 1
    So if CD Wow had a legal presence in the UK, their business model was based on illegal import: they were not allowed by the record companies to import into the UK. I had understood this to be the case.
    If CD Wow was completely based in HK, I'm not sure what british courts would be able to do about it.

    Unfourtunately it's the things cd-wow have over overseas sites that are causing the problems.

    They accept payment in sterling through Worldpay (including the Switch debit card, which is affiliated to the unusable most places Maestro scheme); they deliver for free to the UK; and they have a returns department in England. All things which make buying from them a lot more convenient than other sites.