Thursday, 22 September 2011

Crystypos [WAS: [ccp4bb] Mac OSX 10.7 Lion]

From: Ed Pozharski

The best X-ray related typo I ever seen was the "Small angel scattering"
- poor little things!

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:23 -0400, Patrick Loll wrote:
> Still doesn't beat my all-time favorite, an early Microsoft spell-checker that changed "diffract" to "defrocked."
>
> >
> > I forgot to mention how delightful the spelling auto-"correction"  feature can be.  (It should have read "nothing unusual in and of itself").
> >
> > That, at least, can be turned off.

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From: Vellieux Frederic

Well in fact, it all depends on the type of detector these small angels end up on and on the speed of this "godly" radiation. Only once you have considered both these elements can you say "poor little things".

My 2p worth.

Fred.


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