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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
Charlie is SO VERY RIGHT! I mostly use Open Office, and convert its .odt files to Word 95 or PFD or whatever an editor demands. Which does not always quite work. Only my having programmed computers since 1966 (yes, 47...
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Thought I'd avoid the Texas heat (which I remembered from NASFIC 1985 LoneStarCon 1 in high-tech Austin, on the way back for a wonderful Aussiecon I). So we've had a "once in a century" record humid heatwave in Southern California,...
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Congratulations, Charlie. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Software, Pharmacy, great blogging... how long until you have a hit play on the London stage and on Broadway simultaneously? ;)...
Commented on Crib sheet: Singularity Sky
Mr.Stross is correct on CTCs giving P=NP, as has been known 8 years. See: Guest Column: "NP-complete problems and physical reality", Scott Aaronson, ACM SIGACT Volume 36 Issue 1, March 2005 Pages 30 - 52 Abstract: an NP-complete problems be...
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I recommend July 13, 2010, Scribner 10th Anniversary edition of the book (ISBN 978-1-4391-9363-1), featuring an updated reading list from Stephen King, tales of battling drug addiction, gory details of near-death, and painful recovery through writing, from local yokel he...
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I wonder what connections you see either during subcreation of the fictional worlds, or retroactively in autobiographical analysis, back to your academic or on-the-job education. That is, what did the Biochemistry and other required classes for Pharmacy lead to in...
Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
I am a peer-reviewed literary critic in our genres, in venues such as The Columbia Encyclopedia of American Poetry, and the Science Fiction Research Association Review, and say that critics are only able to see a reviewed work through their...

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scentofviolets commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I prefer 'hlepful' because it reminds me of 'heffalump'....
paws4thot commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
My Office 2010 (not just Word; I use Access and Excel too) experience was somewhat improved by the discovery that ctrl+key shortcuts still work, and by someone telling me about the customisable quick access toolbar (File -> Options -> Quick Access Toolbar)....
the other rob commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I have a copy of Smartsuite somewhere, dating from the Windows 95 / NT 4 era that will, iirc, run on XP. Vista breaks a lot of software from that era, though, so it likely won't run on anything newer. Your best bet is probably a temporary install on an XP box and convert the docs to another filetype. There are still plenty of XP machines in use, so you're bound to know somebody who has one....
anglebracket commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
Publishers hate Word just as much as everyone else. Really, trust me on this. But they love the power that change tracking gives them, and the idea of going back to proofreaders' markup simply isn't going to happen, as you well demonstrate. But Word is ugly, unreliable, cumbersome, and prone to sulking. The bad news is that most other editors are nearly the same, especially those which try to mimic Word. The good news is that HTML5 (and/or/EPUB3) is going to be the file format which will save humanity*, so expect to see a lot of editors start offering it,...
zhochaka commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
I can now confirm that the current version of LibreOffice will read .lwp files produced by the Millenium Edition of Smartsuite....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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