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"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email hidden]> wrote:
> >> Your computer's hardware is probably made in Taiwan. Possibly China.
> >> And
> >> I'll bet the hardware's been pretty reliable. That's as far as I'm
> >> going.
> >
> > Mike makes a good point. Free China (ROC Taiwan) can indeed do top
> > quality
> > work. And does.
>
> Yes, but nobody took me up on the corolary, that being that, if a
> computer
^^^^^^^^
I _know_ that there is a double letter in there someplace.
Can never remember how to spel it.
I've often thought that, if we want computers to actually make us smarter
in
any reasonable way, the spell checker ought to spit out a report at the end
of each week or month showing words that were most-frequently mispelled
(er.
ok, misspelled). It's pretty amazing that's not already a normal feature.
It
would certainly help me a lot. That would give me a reason to actually use
a
spell-checker.
Oh, if you want to be _serious_ about it, some applications
have an unobtrusive but obvious way of highlighting words
that it does not recognize. This way we do not need to run
the spell checker as a separate process.
It's offered as an OS-level service, available to any application whose
developer uses the API, on the Mac OS. I am moderately sure this is also
true on the Windows side, though I would have to look it up, and I'm not
going to.
The big news in Mac OS 10.5 was the availability of the grammar checker
as well.
And continuing tidying up the loose threads in this, er, thread, nobody
has mentioned the Jaguar S-Type, which shares a common platform with the
now-defunct Lincoln LS.
The super-duper grand touring XK model shared a platform with the Aston
Martin DB7 until 2006 or so, but I don't know if the DB and XK continue
on a common platform today.
The super-duper sedan, the XJ, gets an unshared chassis, but like the
other models, pulls engines from Ford's common pool (notably the
gets-around-like-crazy modular V8) and Jag-ifies them in various ways.
The new Jags are great cars in their various ways, and surely far better
than the dubious rolling bathtubs of trouble that were their ancestors.
But one worries that every one of them offers about half the grins per
dollar of a Mazdaspeed 6, which has the advantage of looking like every
other unprepossessing Japanese family sedan, thus flying under the radar
(so to speak).
Alas, the wagon is not available in the US, and the Mazdaspeed 6 is not
sold in Canada at all.
Back to the bike that started this, I can't wait to hear how the
warranty claim turns out, but that looks pretty impressive.
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"My scenarios may give the impression I could be an excellent crook.
Not true - I am a talented lawyer." - Sandy in rec.bicycles.racing
