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RSS wordsEnhancing RTF Output With RTF Control Words and In-Line Formatting
White Paper Also added was the ability to use RTF control words within cells. The SAS Output Delivery System (ODS) allows output to be printed directly to a Rich Text Format (RTF) file. RTF can be read by word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect. [01 Jun 2007]
Automatically Correct Spelling With Words From the Main Dictionary
White Paper The user can set up the program to automatically correct misspelled words that are similar to words in the main dictionary that the spelling checker uses. When one installs Microsoft Office, AutoCorrect is set by default to try to match and correct... [16 Apr 2008]
This time in '99: Web registrar sued for banning rude words
News Domain name registrar, Network Solutions, is facing court action in the US over its refusal to register domain names containing offensive words. Web company, Seven Words, is arguing for the right to register whatever domain name it likes in... [11 May 2000]
Identification of Probable Real Words: An Entropy-Based Approach
White Paper This paper proposes a method for identifying probably real words among out-of-vocabulary (OOV) words in text. The identification of real words is done based on entropy of probability of character trigrams as well as the morphological rules of English. [12 Apr 2005]
Web registrar sued for banning rude words
News Domain name registrar, Network Solutions, is facing court action in the US over its refusal to register domain names containing offensive words. Web company, Seven Words, is arguing for the right to register whatever domain name it likes in... [12 May 1999]
Chinese MSN: Microsoft admits to censoring 'list of words'
News Microsoft has hinted it is censoring certain words on its MSN website in China. When asked if it had banned the words 'freedom' and 'democracy' from the web portal, which was launched last month, the company said it had a list of words that kept... [16 Jun 2005]
War of worms turns into war of words
News Like any community, the virus writers often are at war with each other - rather like politicians - but their war of words is taking place on users' desktops and users' email systems. The authors of the MyDoom, Bagle and Netsky worms have been... [03 Mar 2004]
Oxford puts 130 million words online
News The site (http://www.oxfordreference.com ) is expected to contain well in excess of 130 million words within 10 years and has been developed in conjunction with OUP Oxford and OUP New York. It offers a vast knowledge resource of facts and figures... [20 Mar 2002]
How many dirty words can you come up with?
News The company responsible for running the new dot-kids domain has drafted a list of words which anyone running a site with such a domain must avoid. The list outlaws sex, violence and the "seven dirty words". [10 Sep 2002]
A Multi-Class Approach for Modelling Out-of-Vocabulary Words
White Paper This paper presents a multi-class extension to the approach for modelling Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) words. Instead of augmenting the word search space with a single OOV model, the authors add several OOV models, one for each class of words. [01 Mar 2007]
The Naked CIO: Tech's weasel words
Comment To improve our credibility we could all start by rooting out the waffle, the weasel words and the technical jargon. It seems the IT community increasingly uses words that give it plausible deniability in almost any situation. [04 Aug 2008]
Access 2007 Reserved Words and Symbols
White Paper "Reserved words" are words and symbols that have a specific meaning to Microsoft Office Access 2007 or to the Access database engine. If the user uses a reserved word or symbol to name a field in a table, Access warns that the word is reserved and... [21 Feb 2007]
Palm-sized Trojan horse sparks industry war of words
News Palm UK claims anti-virus specialist McAfee is guilty of overreacting to the danger by issuing warnings to users. Security specialist Sophos added that such statements may do more harm than good. A spokeswoman for Palm UK said the company is very... [31 Aug 2000]
Vodafone and DoCoMo trade words
News Chris Gent, chief executive of Vodafone, questioned how much arch-rival DoCoMo would achieve with its early launch of 3G services. Gent questioned whether DoCoMo's imminent launch of 3G services would be "a full commercial service". [27 Sep 2001]
Nineteen words that don't belong in your resume
White Paper Career coaches or head hunters may have told you that creating an effective resume means punching it up with jazzy verbs and adjectives. Not so, say IT hiring managers. In fact, if you're using glitzy modifiers, you could be doing your resume more... [25 May 2006]
