Amazing stupidity from MS. They support saving to rtf (which is an horrible format, wps (Works 6/7),mht and more; opening WordPerfect and other formats but OpenOffice format is a big no-no.
Although, to be honest, I am not a fan of OO XML-based compressed formats. They might have created the new format from the scratch and make it much more cleaner.
Microsoft said that Massachusetts decision is wrong because open document formats do not allow embedded video or audio in the document.
I wonder, how many of us have ever used embedded audio/video feature in the.doc?!
Set up downlaod mirrors for DVD Decrypter - as much as you can, especially in the countries where it is legal to use it.
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"crap they saw on a local market"??? That "crap" happened to be a new species of mammal, not to mention it belonged to a new family.
At modern times, perhaps 2-3 new species of mammals are discovered every year (more then that go extinct). I cannot even remember when there was a new family of mammals that was not created by systematics but by actually describing a new species.
Think of it as this. A new CPU comes out much more often then a new species of mammals. See how many "sensational" press that gets.
Quite remarkable. While it is fairly certain that a lot of new species of rodents will emerge from DNA studies of existing rodents (for example, Norway rats (a.k.a. brown rats) have certainly several subspecies and is quite probably more then one species), discovery of any totally new mammal species is rare in modern days. And, in this case, not only is the species new but it is also in new family, which is even rarer.
However, did I miss it or didn't any of the articles mention the latin name for the new rodent?
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Amazing stupidity from MS. They support saving to rtf (which is an horrible format, wps (Works 6/7),mht and more; opening WordPerfect and other formats but OpenOffice format is a big no-no. Although, to be honest, I am not a fan of OO XML-based compressed formats. They might have created the new format from the scratch and make it much more cleaner.
Microsoft said that Massachusetts decision is wrong because open document formats do not allow embedded video or audio in the document. I wonder, how many of us have ever used embedded audio/video feature in the .doc?!
http://www.holoscience.com/news.php?article=re6qxn z1
Site seems to be down or really slow right now.
Poor sci-fi writers. Half of the (bad) sci-fi deals with supernovas being collapsed stars. What will they do now, use them as a power station?
Set up downlaod mirrors for DVD Decrypter - as much as you can, especially in the countries where it is legal to use it. http://www.hot.ee/dvddecrypter/
"crap they saw on a local market"??? That "crap" happened to be a new species of mammal, not to mention it belonged to a new family. At modern times, perhaps 2-3 new species of mammals are discovered every year (more then that go extinct). I cannot even remember when there was a new family of mammals that was not created by systematics but by actually describing a new species. Think of it as this. A new CPU comes out much more often then a new species of mammals. See how many "sensational" press that gets.
My bad - NYT article had the latin name next to the image: Laonastes aenigmamus. Roughly translates to "Enigmatic Laotian"
Quite remarkable. While it is fairly certain that a lot of new species of rodents will emerge from DNA studies of existing rodents (for example, Norway rats (a.k.a. brown rats) have certainly several subspecies and is quite probably more then one species), discovery of any totally new mammal species is rare in modern days. And, in this case, not only is the species new but it is also in new family, which is even rarer. However, did I miss it or didn't any of the articles mention the latin name for the new rodent?