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Last February 21st, a group of translators and cyberactivists published The Tlaxcala's Manifesto. What is your impression about it? (I hope you read most of it). Understanding English has given me the chance to communicate with "strange" people whose native language was not English, from...

According to the Wikipedia: Searching MSDN shows there is a canonicalize method in the .NET Framework and in Visual C++ Libraries. So, is this a new word or just a bastardization of English? I can't find it in dictionaries, but they have "canonize" meaning to make canonical. Would it be...

The British Library reveals the Original Alice. Lewis Carroll's original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground has now been put online with voiceover by Miriam Margolyes. Of special interest are Carroll's illustrations and the discovery of a hidden picture of Alice on the last page."...

Here I am again having trouble with translations. This time I want to translate "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." a quote from the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, delivered on June 12, 2005 at Stanford University. That is the context, but you may like to read the complete speech. A literal...

Can you help me translate this paragraph to English? Neither the waiver by a party hereto of a breach of, or a default under, any of the provisions of this Contract, nor the failure of a party on one or more occasions, to enforce any of the provisions of this Contract or to exercise any right or...

Salve! recently I've been exposed to more latin expressions than usual, for example I didn't know the latinized word for Pope, "Papa" (which is preserved in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian and Hungarian) is an acronym from Petri Apostoli Potestatem Accipiens, or "he who gets...

My data looks like this: Client Jan Feb Mar Apr Jun Jul Aug A 77 71 106 99 94 118 135 B 0 0 0 25 45 13 25 C 25 80 55 128 0 0 0 D 217 0 0 301 228 0 0 E 227 86 0 0 0 0 35 F 0 0 15...

Searching a String for the occurance of specific words... thread184-961186 In that thread tjc240e had a list of 14 words he wanted to check for their occurrance in a multiple word field. Many suggestions were given like: use GETWORDCOUNT() and GETWORDNUM(), INLIST(), $ operator, AT(), or ATC()...

Actually the subject of this thread doesn't sound as bad as its literal meaning, if you didn't notice those words can be played on a musical instrument. Can you think of a better-sounding phrase? This puzzle is susceptible to SQLing! Some words you can use: bag, dead, beef, bed, face, babe...

The Da Vinci Code By Dan Brown Has anyone read this book? I did, and enjoyed it. To create the anagrams in this book, the author has used Anagram Genius (so they claim). If you dare, you can try the WEB quest, but it is easier after you read the book.

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Synopsis Has anyone read this book? I haven't yet, but I am posting it here just in case someone is interested. Sounds fun... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592400876/103-5387049-1434216?v=glance

Building a Visual FoxPro Application for SQL Server by Les Pinter. Well, this post is not a review about this book as I have not read it yet. Have you? If so, please post your comments. For those interested, here you can find a free sample chapter...

I began my present job back in 1999 because of Y2K problem. The billing system of this company was developed in 1989 using Clipper, then in 1993 it was modified to be used as a multiuser system. It was developed by a third party from another city, who were not available anymore in 1999 when...

I have seen many posts about removing duplicate records when a single field (or concatenated fields) is the same in two or more records. But what about if you want to delete records that are exact duplicates of each other? When every field is the same (replica) in more than one record, the...

Counting the occurrences of a string within another string can be done using the following equivalent functions: Occurs(cSearchString, cStringSearched) HowMany(cSearchString, cStringSearched) where HowMany() is defined as function HowMany(cSearchString, cStringSearched) nOcurrence = 1 Do...