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Comment Re:but why ? (Score 1) 468

This is just unfathomable... In the Netherlands, if there is nobody home when they try to deliver, they will knock on your neighbours' doors until one of them receives temporarily the package, and then leave a note in your home saying "your package was delivered to house #123". If no neighbours are available, they will leave the package in one of the shops associated with PostNL (usually within a couple of blocks distance), and you have to go and pick it up yourself. Simple and effective. Nobody here would dream of leaving a package on the doorstep!

Comment Scientific American collection? (Score 1) 96

I will always remember Martin Gardner as one of the key influences in my mathematical leanings. His column in Scientific American was always interesting, even when I didn't know enough to understand half of what he wrote.

Anybody knows if one can get a collection of all his SciFi columns in a single volume or a set of volumes? I would gladly pay significant bucks to be able to have all those interesting articles in my possession.

So long Martin. Thanks for all the wonderfully wasted hours.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 1077

Spanish is my main environmental language. You would never believe it, but things like Excel function names are TRANSLATED to Spanish in the Spanish version of Office. I HATE THAT with a passion, and find it very difficult to read. So it is not only the French (although everybody should have seen it coming from the frogs).

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