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> However much it cost Microsoft to build Excel. More than that, because you have to replicate a lot of Excel's idiosyncracies in order to get compatibility. That's a very challenging task. When Microsoft was putting Lotus 1
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> I find Word's attempt to highlight word at a time to be extremely frustrating and distracting. Use the keyboard if you want to highlight character-by-character. Word is simply optimizing for the most-common case: copying-and-pas
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> I'm surprised nobody mentioned Pages on a Mac. It's a style sheet-based tool, where the styles are quite easy to work with. ... Pages works just fine, and produces nicely-formatted documents. Microsoft Word is also a styles
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Home and Business only costs $60 more than Home and Student. However, I don't think there's a way to upgrade if you buy Home & Student and then discover that you need to do commercial work with it. You have to buy a new licen
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Gemini was actually more cramped than Mercury. It had 160% the habitable volume of Mercury, but twice the crewmembers. Gemini was known as the Gusmobile, because Gus Grissom basically lived at McDonnell during its development and tailored
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> No. China is a divided country today, if you believe the official view of both the P.R.C. and R.O.C. regimes about Taiwan as a territory of China > If one accepts a Marxist framework of economic determinism, as many social scient
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> This is frightening to social scientists in China who analyze society from a Marxist framework, especially those who have noticed that regional wealth gaps in China are greater than those in Yugoslavia before Yugoslavia disintegrated.
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Do note that T-Mobile USA paid $225 million in "Interest expense to affiliates." The affiliate, in this case, is Deutsche Telekom, which owns T-Mobile. If this had been structured as preferred equity rather than debt, then it wou
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If you have freedom of movement, then you can move to a place that has freedom of speech. If you have freedom of speech, then you can grumble about being prohibited from traveling. But you are highly unlikely to have the influence to get t
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I don't know that one brand is that much better than another. But for something like a smoke detector, you'd probably feel better buying one of the big brands. Just make sure they're lithium, non-rechargeable batteries, with
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> Have you ever had your smoke detector do the low battery chirp? Because I will easily pay 6 times more to never hear that godawful sound ever again. Or, you can pay $5 for a lithium battery that will last the life of the alarm. If i
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We're long past the point where you should be replacing smoke alarm batteries at all. Put in a lithium battery. The lithium battery will last for the entire 10-year life of the smoke alarm. Thus, you should only replace smoke alarms
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> Sure, you can replace all your batteries really easily. But do you KNOW that the alarm is going to work? Sure. Push the button labeled "Test." (Cover your ears -- you should still be able to hear it.) Seeing the green glo
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Hardwired smoke alarms have been required on new construction in the US since the 1989 NEC. It usually takes a few years for cities and states to adopt the newest NEC revision. However, by now, all states have adopted at least 1989. Hardw
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You probably have an ionization smoke alarm. You should replace it with a photoelectric smoke alarm, which is less susceptible to nuisance alarms. In fact, manufacturers are now starting to label them right on the package: "Best for k
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> Most home systems use ionic detection, which is better for large particulates. ... Photoelectric detectors are better for detecting small particulates - the smoke before the fire - and they are less prone to false alarms. Other way a
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> They've since had ignition No. Notice how it is worded. > "More importantly, Moses said, the mechanism that generated the powerful energy burst appeared to be the self-sustaining thermonuclear fusion process that defin
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Most nations put Arabic numerals on their coins.
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Many foreign banks will only take the latest iteration of US currency. Thus, holding onto the old bills would create unnecessary friction. You'd have to take the cash to the United States to be guaranteed to exchange them for face val
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> Err... there is a Chinese space station: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1 The Chinese space station portrayed in the film is Tiangong-8. Not number 1. Thus, the movie takes place in the future. Actually
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The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans testing of any "nuclear" explosions. Doesn't matter if it's fission or fusion or both. (The United States has not ratified the CTBT, but generally abides by it.) The Non-Prolifera
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> total energy dumped into the entire system: 1.7 megajoules. In comparison, the fusion power produced was a paltry 8 kilojoules In other words, the National Ignition Facility hasn't achieved ignition yet. If you can actually ach
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> 2012 is actually NT 6.2 (as is Windows 8). Notice that I listed Windows Server 2008 R2 as 7.0 rather than as 6.1. And that I listed Windows 2000 as 2000, rather than as 5.0. In other words, I was giving the equivalent workstation OS
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Why not have prosecutors be civil servants, as in most civil law countries?
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> But the user has no access to file symlinks without escalating to admin every time they want to make one. By default. This is a security restriction, like UAC. And so you can turn it off, just like you can turn off UAC.
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The Itanium build continued through Server 2008 R2. Thus, every version of Windows NT has been released on at least one non-x86 platform. - NT 3.1-3.5: x86, Alpha, MIPS - NT 4.0: x86, Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC - 2000 through 2008 R2 (7.0): x86
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> I heard Hotmail (now Outlook.com?) runs on Linux servers? No, Hotmail runs on Windows. Before it was ported to Windows in 2000-2001, it ran on FreeBSD. Not Linux.
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> And since when Richmond is a state? You can read the constitution by spirit or by the letter. You cannot have both. There is no local sovereignty in the United States, except for whatever a state chooses to delegate to its municipali
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> No mortgages = Detroit. The end result of this idea is not pretty. The lack of mortgages did not cause the collapse of Detroit. The causation runs the other way. The collapse of the auto industry led to the collapse of housing price
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> No mortgages = 10x lower property prices. Without mortgages, housing would simply stabilize at the rental value. This will be lower than the current price -- but not anywhere close to 90% lower. The price floor would be the cost of

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