Most corporate documents are transient: they are critical for a very short time, until a high-level decision is made, and then they're basically landfill. Contracts, sure, you might want to go back and look at them, but pretty much everything else is ephemeral. They use change tracking and comments, but hardly ever stylesheets.

Documentation, particularly professionally-written documentation, on the other hand, needs named styles, and this is where OO, LO, and GD fall flat on their faces. Word lets you set a style margin, where each paragraph-level object's style name can be seen at a glance. In other systems you have to hover or click or something on each object in turn. Editing or writing in this mode is a snap compared to OO, LO, and GD. Named styles are the only way that you can reliably get a reusable XML document out of a wordprocessor (ie not OOXML), and without proper facilities in the interface to manage styles, a wordprocessor is a dead duck.

Oh yes it is. Most users have absolutely no idea you can even do this.

Unfortunately, yes.

Latin itself doesn't enhance logical thinking abilities. It's the highly-structured way it was taught and presented.

But yes, if you wanted to learn a language not for the purposes of travel or getting a job or communicating with co-workers or getting further with that cutie you were chatting to last night, then Latin would do fine. At least the process would teach you more about language structure, which is a useful thing in itself; and it's undeniably useful if you then go on to learn other languages.

Otherwise, Spanish or an Asian language; or French or German or Italian.

Klingon or Elvish, anyone?

Body search doesn't work, and never has, if you use IMAP.

So you don't have to use the goddamn awful sucky webmail interfaces.

What I said.

Most supermarkets I use in continental Europe are perfectly clean and well-serviced, but you're right about the taxes. I see supermarkets open late at night in the USA with no customers, and yet it's obviously worth someone's while to keep them open for a handful of people because the staff are barely paid anything at all.

I hate having some incompetent dickhead pack my groceries for me, so I always avoid places that offer to do this. They always do it wrong and end up squasing or breaking stuff. I wish American supermarkets would leave my groceries the fuck alone.

That much is very true, although the Boston Big Dig did linger for a while. And I wouldn't want to guesstimate how long the 15-storey building will last if it's built in two days.

There have been many attempts to tackle this problem (not just with wiki markup) and most of them have foundered when the requirements of the document type went beyond the facilities that could conveniently be represented in a synchronous typographic interface (I have been gathering these for my thesis on structured editing). Let's hope this implementation is more successful, given that the wiki markup is relatively simple.

Apart from the genetic advance, anything which improves an already tasty animal is welcome.

I voted for Lincoln. I thought it was important to vote for someone who went to the theater occasionally.

So Charm=Obama and Strange=Romney?