Knuth: All Questions Answered

sunhou writes: "The AMS published a lecture by Donald Knuth called All Questions Answered (pdf), where Knuth simply responded to questions from the audience. Topics ranged from errors in software ('I think Microsoft should say, "You'll get a check from Bill Gates every time you find an error"') to how he gets distracted by fonts on restaurant menus, to software patents. There were some really good questions (and responses)."

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Re:I don't have acrobat.

[Com2Kid]

PDF, for when you REALLY want that whole entire paper metaphor mapped onto a screen that has no bearing what so ever to paper at all!

I HATE having to pan around PDF documents to read what I wan to read, websites that do that are considered piss poor designed, but nooo, PDF files can get away with using size 4 fonts with fixed cartridge returns. Bleh. I _HAVE_ seen a few GOOD PDF documents that are meant to be readable on a computer monitor without horizontal scrolling, but they are VERY rare.

Pray tell, how the HELL did PDF files catch on anyways? They are icky icky icky ICKY to use.

"Oh look mah, I can make the text wrap around the image in all sorts of nifty ways!"

Well yah that's great bub, but do you have to keep that book/magazine 2 column format? Really now, that is nice and all when I am viewing a friggin BOOK or MAGAZINE but NOT when I am looking at it on a COMPUTER MONITOR.

Yeesh.