A few months ago I decided to apply Mellel to a more serious task, translating from English to Hebrew an academic book, laden with footnotes, bibliographical references, any many quotes in ancient Greek, Latin, German, Italian and Russian. In short, a task for grown-up word processors. Normally I would use MS Word for such a processing task (in this case I would have used a Windows machine, since Word for Mac cannot handle Hebrew). But I said to myself ...
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Now that everyone inside and outside of British Telecom has had their fantasies of cashing in on BT's patent that is being asserted against Internet Service Providers, and the folks at Aurigin have nominated the BT patent for the "'Rembrandt' in the Attic" of the year award, and the press have made long term plans for something new to write about, let's hear from Greg's peanut gallery on why this patent's strength is up there with wet spaghetti. In short, this patent probably
better qualifies for the "'Dogs Playing Poker' in the Basement" award. ...
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