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I have been on Win 11 for quite a while now, and use CraftArtist 2 Pro quite frequently … I am very pleased that I can use it pretty much as well as I did when on Win 10.
Thanks, Karen, that’s good to know. Very encouraging!
PS. I have been using MoviePlus on my usual PC, so no need to find and copy unlock codes.
You absolutely do need to copy (or rather, export) your unlock codes! Your ‘usual’ PC will fail eventually, and you’ll be completely stuffed if any of your projects need codecs corresponding to unlock codes that you haven’t kept.
It seems to work on Windows 10 OK, so it should do so on W11, I think.
In theory it should do, in practice there seem to have been some problems with Win 11, particularly after a recent update.
I like the way that Copilot has introduced the word "tangible".
William
What do you like about it? I’m afraid I don’t see how the introduction of that word brings anything to the party: a giclée print is a physical item, so both ‘hardcopy’ and ‘tangible’ are redundant.
In summation,…
I think Copilot meant to write ‘In summary’ (i.e. paring things down). Summation is adding things up!
[I also choose professional as the styleand long.]
William, please translate the above into Standard English!
> I took a common sense test – and my result appalled me
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/i- … r-AA1rswYa
There is a link to a test. I haven't tried it yet.
William
I wish you’d use the ‘Quote’ markup on here, William. At first glance I thought the words
I took a common sense test – and my result appalled me
were your own words rather than a quote from the linked article.
For those wondering (as I always do with these MSN links!) the original Guardian article is here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr … ppalled-me
The ‘online challenge’ is here:
William wrote:Well, I wrote it the same as if I was saying it in a conversation.
I have just noticed. I wrote "was" but should it have been "were"?
William
I think the subjunctive in English is very largely ignored these days. If I were you I wouldn’t worry about it!
Isn’t “we older people” simply clarifying that, as used here, “we” refers to older people? If it is, then the clarification isn’t strictly necessary, so “we older people” becomes simply “we people” or even more simply “we”; replacing “we older people” with “we” means that “Some of we older people” becomes “Some of we”, but I hope it’s clear to everyone that it should be “Some of us”.
Thanks, Geoff. I wasn’t aware of the existence of a sung version of The Bricklayer’s Lament.
Please answer the questions when I ask them which may save a lot of to and fro. In the demo file source do you see what is in the image below? To do that in your file follow the instructions to copy and then to paste place your cursor at the right tip of the green arrow but in the white area and hit enter a couple of times. Click in the space you have just made, right click, paste.
If you only see white circles (instead of white round-ended rectangles with code in them) then you’ll need to click in the ‘Show Default Text’ button.
I am fairly sure that I once saw somewhere that in the United States of America, where the deposit is with the Library of Congress, that they do not keep everything.
You’re right, William, they don’t:
Does the online catalog list every item in the Library's collections?
No. While the Library of Congress collections contain over 162 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources, the online catalog contains 17 million records describing these collections.
What We Collect
Although the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, it does not have a copy of every item ever published, nor does it retain copies of every item submitted through the acquisition sources listed above for its research collection. The Library's permanent collections are shaped by Collections Policy Statements, with technical agricultural works acquired mainly by the National Agricultural Library and clinical medical works by the National Library of Medicine.
An interesting aspect of the United Kingdom Legal Deposit system is that everything is conserved.
So there is no assessment of merit in relation to which items are conserved.
William
Do any countries use a system where everything is assessed for merit? If so, there must be a humongous amount of work involved, not to mention the scope for controversy.
> Largest known prime number, spanning 41 million digits, discovered by amateur mathematician using free software
The original Live Science article is here:
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mat … e-software
I wonder why MSN classifies this as ‘entertainment news’!
Well, what?
Well, I would say “some of us” rather than “some of we” (and likewise, “some of them” rather than “some of they”). You could, of course, avoid the issue altogether by omitting the first three words (to leave you with “Older people…”) or the second and third words (leaving “Some older people…”).
Some of we …
Hmm. 
My late mother-in-law could do beautiful calligraphy work. She wrote out our wedding invites and the names in the front of our wedding album. I've added the photo of a piece of her work that hangs in the darker area of our upper landing.
That is indeed beautiful, Karen. Thank for sharing!
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertrei … ey-be-tied
With two weeks to go before Election Day, Kamala Harris and Donald J. Trump are essentially tied.
Neither candidate is ahead by even a single point in The New York Times’s polling average of five critical battleground states (Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and North Carolina).
How the hell is this possible? Even if polls were systematically off and Harris were actually ahead of Trump by, say, 5 percent, I’d still be appalled that so many Americans in swing states were supporting Trump.
Somewhat related to the topic of this thread:
https://open.substack.com/pub/heatherco … er-21-2024
On Saturday, September 7, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that his plan to deport 15 to 20 million people currently living in the United States would be “bloody.” He also promised to prosecute his political opponents, including, he wrote, lawyers, political operatives, donors, illegal voters, and election officials. Retired chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told journalist Bob Woodward that Trump is “a fascist to the core…the most dangerous person to this country.”
PDI (Portable Document Image) is a file format used to store scanned documents and images. Although PDI files are less prone to corruption or data loss than other image formats and are therefore generally considered to be more reliable, it’s still possible that one or more of of the images in the document is corrupt and in need of replacement.
If you remove the image files one at a time, you should be able to identify any corrupt ones.
Original article:
Alfred wrote:KarenPL wrote:In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth …
It seems that I’m cursed with a complete inability to encounter references to forebears without thinking of Goldilocks!
Ooops, yes, forgot the 'e' in forebear.
Not necessarily! 
In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth …
It seems that I’m cursed with a complete inability to encounter references to forebears without thinking of Goldilocks!
Alfred wrote:William wrote:A copy of a print publication must be sent within one month of publication to The British Library.
Just as a point of information, they style themselves as ‘the British Library’ rather than ‘The British Library’. Please see https://www.bl.uk.
I seem to remember that that organization posted something about that some time ago.
I think that it might have changed from when it was established.
Maybe something to do with it being listed in directories under T rather than under B.
The answer? List it twice, both under The British Library and British Library.
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles … 050208.htm
“The Definite Article: Acknowledging ‘The’ in Index Entries,” Glenda Browne, The Indexer, vol. 22, no. 3 April 2001, pp. 119-22.
William
The British Library’s domain on the Internet is bl.uk. The Times newspaper is at thetimes.com and The Guardian and The Observer are at theguardian.com and theguardian.com/observer respectively.
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