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Commented on "The next big thing"
None of its Spin-offs were terribly successful. I'd argue that Dune 2 was hugely successful, given that it kick started the RTS genre. I can't find any sales figures with a quick search, but it made Westwood's name for...
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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
Chris Borthwick, see OGH's previous post about why he hates Word. Essentially to get Word-like formatting to work in anything else and vice versa, you need to recreate Word and all its foibles. Hence, it's not straightforward....
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Commented on CMAP: "Why do you use Microsoft Word?"
There's an assumption here that Word is bug-compatible with Word. How much of an assumption is that? I know I've been bitten when formatting and similar got screwed over because someone had a different default paper size, or even...
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Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
I can't be the only person who remembers you posting about the direction the Laundry verse was taking back in 2010: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/psa-new-book-deal.html...
