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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: A t(o)uring circus? #147778 09/14/05 04:29 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley OP Carpal Tunnel OP Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta I don't know what your set-up is Leslie, but I find when I go there I get a blank page with ads down the side and I have to scroll about half-way down the page to get to the content, and even then the first paragraph is often covered by more ads. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A t(o)uring circus? #147779 09/14/05 02:14 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 M maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 [tech sidebar] fwiw, I only get that effect when the window is not maximised - something about the framing of that page seems to scramble if I have say a half-screen window. [/tech sidebar] I don't fully share your doubts, Capfka - once the full power of modern computing gets trained on the tree logic as a corpora, I suspect a good approximation may start to emerge. But you're right of course - that which humans process without much conscious effort sets a fiendish task to analyse and an even harder challenge to replicate... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: A t(o)uring circus? #147780 09/14/05 05:57 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 87 Ohio V vanguard journeyman vanguard journeyman V Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 87 Ohio Mav, thanks for your reply - it was the one that worked! As soon as I enlarged the screen, the text appeared. And thanks very much for the other replies as well. Falage, I'm a PC gal all the way (no choice, it's my machine at work) so the MAC stuff doesn't have any effect here. Anyway, I appreciate once again the help given here. We really are a rather nice bunch of folks, eh? Leslie What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (1929- ) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,347 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (wofahulicodoc), 769 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 21 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,548 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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