Word: coded
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...increased efficiency. Applications are no longer constrained by the cramped 64K segment limit. Instead, rewritten applications have a continuous ("flat") view of a four gig memory world. And therein lies the catch. Applications must be revised--which can be a few minutes of bit twiddling or many months of code pounding--to be savvy in the 32-bit world...
Jonathan Hullah is from Sioux Lookout which, he tells us, lies "nearly 2000 miles northwest of Toronto." Although this sounds to an American like code for the North Pole, the narrative stays in the township long enough to give the young Hullah a youthful bout with scarlet fever (childhood disease is a favorite repeated trope of Davies), the friendship of an Indian healer and wise woman named Mrs. Smoke (who saves him with neither scalpel nor the Merck Manual) and a lifelong interest in medicine, especially non-traditional medicine...
...parlaying a Word document into a Web page is a new variant on the old "Save As..." command. This command, called "Save As Hypertext Markup," converts Word documents, including any special bells and whistles like custom formatting, to equivalent HTML code which can be "spun" onto the Web via a Web server (a computer specially configured to handle Web requests from other computers around the world...
...They know the new rules are cutting down on fraud," he says. The IRS points out that 98% of all tax returns this year will not get audited; rejections because of errors affect only 20% of electronic filers and 3% of paper filers. Moreover, says the IRS, the tax code's complexity doesn't affect most filers, 70% of whom take the standard deduction and file the short form...
...membership in the community they oversee because they cannot be trusted to be discreet and act fairly? Whoever wants to assert that ought to state it plainly. And then they should state what that view leads to--that Harvard is not a community where the many adhere to a code of conduct that rests on humanitarian ideals, but just a collection of individuals who are morally free to get here any way they...