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Looking at the Word of the Year finalists ( http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/11/news/economy/wordof_year/ind... ), they are sort of lame - Frugalista, Moofer, Topless meeting. Definitely questions the credibility of New Oxford American Dictiona
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I never heard the term "hypermiling" until this article. Did anyone else find it term cryptic and misleading? I envisioned windmilling the engines by setting them to idle or something alike.
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All this fuss over the perceived problem of the antenna, it reeks of premature optimization. Has anyone actually observed this being a problem while on a phone call? I'm not talking bars, since bars are a very loose indication of signal str
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16y ago
You could use an ASCII representation of your name. That's what the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese do.
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Translate it to ASCII, that's what the Chinese and Japanese do.
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In the US, air travel made rail obsolete. For long distances (>500 miles) rail just can't compete with air. The was one of the main points in the book "Turbulent Skies: The History of Commercial Aviation" by T. A. Heppenheimer.