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The maths of the Analytical Engine AC?
Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, 1838
http://athena.union.edu/~hemme...

It doesn't flow for shit. Compare that to (La)TeX, where it flows not completely naturally, but it makes sense and actually writes in the order it will be, and mostly the order it's said when you say it.

And tools like tex4ht make translation of LaTeX to html a breeze. You get the best of both worlds, with nice LaTeX documents (from which Postscript or dvi or PDF etc. can also be made) translated to html. It will even generate jsMath if you want.

Also of note is MathJax (http://www.mathjax.com/) which is a full rewrite of jsMath (http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/)
(See jsMath in action: http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/examples/Henrici.html)

It handles a lot of the Math rendering needed for the web without the need for the end user to install/do anything. Granted, it doesn't do things like macros or any other number of LaTeX stuff, but it does quite a lot as-is for taking straight TeX and rendering it properly.

Same goes for SAGE. Thanks to jsmath, Maxima, and the work of a few SAGE developers, the notebook interface renders latex quickly and beautifully, right in the browser.

I'm personally waiting for the Gibraltar Bridge. (scroll down for photos)

Might I suggest something like this?

http://www.vu.union.edu/~shoemakc/new/dos/Y1984K.h tml

-Chris

http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/

At least I prefer to write LaTeX than XML and find the output of jsMath so nice looking.

You Brits are so polite. Around here that would have been dubbed "The Dildo" while it was still just in blueprint.

We already have "The Nipple."

http://www.union.edu/Nott/

KFG

Yep, you're absolutely right, in fact the summer of my freshman year of college I spent the summer working in my advisor's lab, and one of the things I did was set up an ultra high resolution double slit experiment using an image enhanced CCD system, a specially constructed detection box a HeNe laser, polarizing filters and enough neutral density filters that the measured intensity of the laser (At this point invisible to the eye) was on the order of nanowatts, such that the number of photons hitting the detector was 12 per frame. I then assembled the aggregate images into a quicktime movie. And guess what? With only 12 photons per frame, you still develop an observable diffraction pattern.

Check it out here:

http://www1.union.edu/~malekis/QM2004/qm_heis3.htm

The N-person envy-free fair division problem is interesting, but isn't usually tackled using traditional game theory payoff matrices. An article; Google will gets you lots more.

I mirrored the file for everyone.

...AIDS education is equivilent to baptist religion in the United States of America.

...Citizens of the United States of America pay 2-3x as much for US Made Rx drugs than any other people in other countries pay for US Made drugs. And George W Bush's recent seniors drug bill just made it illegal to go to canada to purchase drugs.

...Internal Government agencies murder and jail for life farmers for producing state sanctioned crops.

...freedom of speech is nonexistant in the United States of America.

...soldiers are given amphetamines to enhance battle skills.

...infanticide of children in poverty is commonplace

...
of course the list goes on...

Tricky.

If you define "using" as "plugged in with electrons flowing through it", then that would be a MS mouse from 93'.

If you define "using" as "serving a useful purpose", then that would be a Macintosh LC II from 92', which is presently being used as a wonderful monitor stand

-Chris

Some people are dumb.
like this guy HA HA HA

• Manapouri Power station (Underground hydro-power station). Quite a cool place to visit, drive down a long tunnel to get to it.
• Tiwai Point Comalco Aluminium Smelter (near Bluff) has guided tours. See where a good fraction of NZ's electricity gets used.
• Wairakei Geothermal power station near Rotorua. (The world's first geothermal power station - you can request tours)
• Waihopai Echelon listening station (Nothing much to see but a listening station for NSA's Echelon network)

My gift to you, the slashdot community...

Jar Jar Binks...being tortured...in lego.

-Chris

The BEFSR11 is truly cool. $50 gets you a box that barely draws any power and routes requests quite nicely for 254 machines and functions as a DHCP server to boot.

What.....like this:

Turn those disks into something useful; Purchase the AOL Construction Kit?

-Chris

http://www.vu.union.edu/about.html

Our version allowed you to waste time, mis-appropriate Student Activities funds, and decide if you should revoke accounts for warez hosting.

Hardware requirements are minimal, but the renewal fee is quite high (34+ K/year.)

-Chris

There is a legitimate market for Dmitri's software -- people who have purchased ebooks and wish to have the book on more than one computer. Dmitri's product was intended to help those people. the fact that adobe wrote poor software only allowed him to accomplish this.

If Ford actually made locks so poorly that you could create a key that opened all Fords I'm sure you could create and market it as a "Universal Replacement Key" for all Fords. sure, Ford would try to stop you but it would certainly be thier fault that they created a faulty lock.

In fact there is a product designed to unlock nearly all cars - the Slim Jim. If you're cheap, use a bent coat hangar. When I lock my keys in my car (quite often) I can have my Honda CRX door open in less than a minute with a coat hangar. Should coat hangar manufactures and other medium diameter steel rod manufactures be sued because thier product doesn't discriminate between legitimate fools (myself) and criminals and can be used for "evil?"

Had adobe created a system where users could, for a small fee and with some identification (CreditCardNo), purchase the right to move the an ebook from one computer to another perhaps this would not have happened. however, i would have a problem with that system.

At question here is whether or not a person working in the digital world has the same rights as someone in the analog world. I say yes (as would Thomas Jefferson), DCMA says no.

One of these was porting second teir applications for Linux to the S/390. I have two friends working at IBM this summer doing just that. Not only are these students getting to do an interesting senior project for a real world problem, they're also getting paid pretty nicely.

I used to have a fairly low opinion of IBM, but their recent actions have me rethinking. Not only are they interested in supporting a great OS, but they're doing good things in the education realm too.
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