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In Portugal the title "engineer" is subject to acreditation by the Order (much like medical doctors or lawyers) and not all students that complete an engineering school can use engineer as the professional title.

It's a distinction without a difference anyway, people mostly want to use "engineer" and "doctor" as a sign of status (replacing the old system of royal and noble ranks) while professionally it carries no difference at all.

Well it is not that hard to translate normal wiki markup to Latex. Parsewiki is old but does the trick.
http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~villate/parsewiki/README.html

The problem is that Mediawiki has a lot of templates, tables, tags, special pages, permitted HTML, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wiki_markup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_in_wikitext

I once tried to do it for Wikitravel but end up going via HTML.

Yep. In my college, this pseudo-assembly machine is used to introduce freshmen to computing. At the 3rd year, there is a Compilers course where actual assembly is taught.

That's a good comment. However, a lot of machine learning work looks like predicting the unpredictable to the uninitiate. I have no doubt that the problem is approachable theoretically, or that it wouldn't be useful - if-, and that's a big if in my mind, it is practically achievable.

As you note, the probable output wouldn't be in the form of "this is going to happen", but rather "this outcome is more likely than that outcome", to the degree of some percentage probability. That is certainly a useful form of information even if it isn't absolute. It would be extremely useful in elections, for example.

I don't see the problem as intractable, it's a fairly logical extension of current data mining and predictive modeling techniques that are well described in literature. See http://gnomo.fe.up.pt/~nnig/papers/boo_bag.pdf/ this, for example. The problem is how to define the model training data, and to do so in a way that can be achieved in the context of when you are trying to use the output. It would boil down to trying to find a way to express the problem in a modelable fashion, and summing the outputs into some useful phraseology. It's quite easy to develop models that predict behavior, the question is more along the lines of how to describe and measure the behavior you are trying to model.

And anyone that understands enough of what I just said enough to realize how ignorant I am that would like a good job in Seattle, please contact me. We have work in this space.

All right, you're actually making my curious what the actual number is. I look for a couple minutes the other day, but I didn't care enough.

According to this, "As expected, people in the survey purchase more CDs than average. More than 35% of the respondents purchase 5 CDs or more each year, with an average of about 5.5 per year. This contrasts with the average CD consumption of 2.6 per capita in France among adults of 20 or more.2 However, 16% of the respondents claimed they did not purchase any CD. Large volumes of annual CD purchases translate into large collections of music CDs. The average number of CDs owned is around 80. 31% of respondents owned more than 100 CDs."

To be fair, I found another survey the other day of UK people (that I can't find right now) that had an average of 170 or something, which is a tad higher that my estimate, but still well below what people like you think.

If you know people who are buying enormous numbers of CDs, yes, they are above the average. It doesn't matter what you or your friends do -- it just means you know people who like music more than other people. You just don't realize it.

Incorrect address on the free download link. Here's the correct address for anyone who wants to download:

http://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/opera/win/850/en/ow32ene n850.exe

I'm sure they'll fix it shortly

Contrarily to what he stated, Bill Gates also said the same sentence as his colleague.

Download the torrent

New stuff include

• Gnome 2.10.1, which makes the desktop a lot faster than before
• X.org
• Simplified update- and package management
• Much faster boot process
• Better laptop support (ie suspending, hibernating, processor frequency scaling)
• Kickstart support for automated largescale installations
• Live CD and Install CD both use the new debian installer infrastructure
• UTF-8 by default
• A program for collecting information about what hardware works and what doesn't
• Kubuntu - complete KDE 3.4 based version of Ubuntu

Stuff people are going to bitch about

• No graphical installer. The current installer is extremely simple and has been streamlined even further in this release. A graphical installer is planned for the next version (Breezy Badger).
• No menu editor installed. One can always edit the files by hand, or install kmenu or something similar for gnome. The official gnome menu editor just didn't finish in time.
• No DivX or MP3 support. These are simple to add though and anyone coming from debian will probably already know of the Marillat repositories. Just look at the instructions in the wiki or use Hoary After-Install helper or another script to do the dirty work for you.

OSDir has published a lot of screenshots of Ubuntu.

Oh and if you are interested to know if your laptop or other piece of hardware is supported, some info can be found in the wiki on the Hardware support-page

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http://netlab.fe.up.pt/~ei01024/sha-1/

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/pc/TheOpenCD/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /opencd/
ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/filepilot/windows/tools/t he_open_cd/releases/
ftp://ftp.uoi.gr/mirror/opencd/
ftp://neacm.fe.up.pt/pub/OpenCD/
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/theopencd.org/TheOp enCD/
ftp://theopencd.hands.com/theopencd/
ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/gd.tuwien.ac.at/ pc/OpenCD/
ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/windows/opencd
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/opencd/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/TheOpenCD/
ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/windows/opencd/

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Something like GPSMan will overlay over maps, download from the GPS, and show climb/descent rates and speeds over time and distance, but doesn't download them itself - you have to download and then georeference maps manually (or use a map that's already been referenced).

Written in Tk/Tcl, so it runs on Linux/OSX/Windows/anywhere you can run Tk/Tcl. It's what I've been using since I got a Foretrex. Just a sastified customer..

My problem is most of the free map sites I've found are only relevant to the US and don't show Canada.

QUALCOMM has been demonstrating this capability for years using 1xEV-DO.

In December 2000, QUALCOMM provided Wireless LAN access to the 49th IETF meeting in San Diego by doing this. You can read about it in this paper.

The UCSD CyberShuttle has been doing this for over two years. You can read about it in this article.

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Please try to use a geographically closer mirror:

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http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/iso-images/LAS -HTTP US Delaware
ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/iso-images/LAS -FTP US Delaware

http://www.mednor.net/ftp/pub/mirrors/las/ -HTTP US California
ftp://ftp.mednor.net/pub/mirrors/las/ -FTP US California

Not all mirrors are up at this time. We remove mirrors periodically from the list that are not updated but re-add them once updated.
We are currently seeking additional mirrors in Europe and Asia.

HTTP Current 185MB Version | Current 210MB Version| Download Directory

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Please try to use a geographically closer mirror:

http://chefax.fe.up.pt/mirrors/las/ -HTTP Portugal
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http://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/iso-images/LAS -HTTP US Delaware
ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/pub/iso-images/LAS -FTP US Delaware

http://www.mednor.net/ftp/pub/mirrors/las/ -HTTP US California
ftp://ftp.mednor.net/pub/mirrors/las/ -FTP US California

Not all mirrors are up at this time. We remove mirrors periodically from the list that are not updated but re-add them once updated.
We are currently seeking additional mirrors in Europe and Asia.

I just got back from a ride :-)

Mine is a Garmin GPS (eTrex)

To download the data, I use the Garmin Mapsource software under windows. I beleve there is also a linux program avalable called gpstrans that allows you to dump the memory of a Garmin GPS recever to a text file. Both are Garmin Specific. For your magellan, you might try gpsman which is a Tk/TCL program that allows you download routes, from many makes of GPS. I don't know how good the export facilites are though

Once I have exported the track, I get about a thousand waypoints in a flat text file, like this:

Header Position Time Altitude Depth Leg Length Leg Time Leg Speed Leg Course

Trackpoint SU 72030 76363 80.4 m
Trackpoint SU 71964 76159 78.5 m 214.3 m 199 true
Trackpoint SU 72053 76430 77.5 m 285.2 m 19 true
Trackpoint SU 72443 76564 79.4 m 411.9 m 72 true
Trackpoint SU 73069 75936 71.3 m 886.6 m 136 true

One regular expresson later, and I have the data loaded into my perl script ;-)

For a base map, I download mapping data from one of those web sites that will give you a map when you type in a street address or postal code. Needless to say, the site's T&Cs forbid downloading.

I plot my route onto the map, by using libGD in perl, and display it by generating an html file, which I can view or print with mozilla. Unofortunately, I don't have an A2 colour printer, so my maps come out rather small, and in sections :-(

If you live in the UK, or consider yourself a skilled perl hacker, I would be happy to give you a copy of the script, but as it is quite closely tied to the British national grid, I don't think it would be usefull to anyone outside the UK, who is not able to a lot of modification

I hope you find this informative.

I use GMT and USGS data to make topo maps for my GPS. I get the data from my Garmin eTrex Venture with GPSMan.

It's all free, but takes some work. See my page of details and examples.