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Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex
After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
WTF is this!!@1!!!!!!!@111
I hear it's already been rejected from the App store.
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What?
No Twitter integration?
I, for one, welcome our new marketing-lingo overlords.
We were all hoping he'd announce proof that P = NP....
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Idle. A joke. Content please...
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I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Name it after some other deliberately mispronounced form of fetish-wear. I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
Come to think of it, I'm only familiar with the hardware side of 3D printing.
What is the state of the art in terms of 3D printing software and/or definition languages? Is there anything approaching a standard yet, that can take account of issues like number and type of available materials (conductive metal, plastic, etc.), material properties (tensile strength etc.), degrees of freedom (angles that can be accessed), resolution/step size, and other issues like that in a reasonable way?
I doubt it really, but I guess my question is more "how far are we from achieving it? What work's been done so far?"
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"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
He said earthshaking, not Earth-destroying. Sad to see that he is going to waste more time on typesetting, though.
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here:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1702818&cid=32752126
It was an hilarious presentation in the spirit of his first publication... http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-enduring-art-of-computer-programming.html (scroll down to Potrzebie)
to repeat (w/o the geocoord)
a successor to TeX which he has been working on for some time
scratch tex78 and tex82
so making up for assumptions which don't fit the internet age
jokes about measuring and math in TeX .4pt == .3999pt
maxdimen too small, 1sp too large
tunnel vision caused by computers of the day
subset of XML uses Unicode automatic everything
all directions and all dimensions
hypertext
text audio video sensors GPScoords accelerometers haptics
midi input to score and back to music
no macros --- menu driven like Word but enhanced
spoken command and gestures
\i \TeX (wrapped on a sphere)
spoken name accompanied by (optional) ringing bell
not programmed directly
1289 bugs in TeX
571 bugs in metafont
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Project Biturgical
written in Scheme using all buzzwords
pricing - monthly subscription on cloud
first year one month free
pricing based on internet speed
will change everyday
life is too short to reread anything
will benefit world's economy, user's can sell documents
network of certified consultants
online help
- for dummies
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symbolic equations
graphics
maps
satellite photos
\i\TeX hyper document
math mode like mathml --- must evaluate
avatars
hyperbolic geometry
videoconferencing
world-class photo retouching
character, face, speech recignition
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output format:
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interactive cookbook
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TeX has been extensively used to develop high-quality documents, from small articles to full-fledged books. Yet, I don't believe that neither animation nor stereographic sound will come out well in print. Exactly, what's the objective here? Is it to replace media formats which support sound, video and 3D graphics?
Slashdot, fix your code or at least hire someone who is competent at it to do it for you.
I'm trying to figure out what stereographic sound is. I think it's sound, but the graphic makes me thing maybe it's graphics. Or is this a joke? I'm really confused.
i call iShenanigans
your one and only chance today to claim "1st iPost" but nooooo, you had to do something else instead...
Never saw Slashdot article with less substance... And that says a lot.
And who is this news source?
http://opencm3.net, http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/
Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
In other words, it will become a bloated mess.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
iText is a free and open source library for creating and manipulating PDF files in Java.
Whoa
Why is that a "Troll"? I can see "offtopic", but what is trollish about that?
Animations? So with a buildup like that we get... a blink tag?
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OT comments on religion or politics are, ex ipso, trolls.
It amazes me how many people take this seriously.
It reads just like the Kernighan & Ritchie C "admission" or RFC 1149.
Jeez folks. It's a JOKE.
I wonder if this would surprise him: at 4AM Pacific today, I searched for "knuth announcement".
Google told me that was the 27th most common search over the preceding hour.
As always, all IMO. Insert "I think" everywhere grammatically possible.
> No Twitter integration?
It also has no wireless and less space than a Nomad.
stereophonic sound maybe?
'I can't hear you without my glasses on!'
Who does Knuth think he is? Steve Jobs?
... Apple sues Knuth for infringing trademarks over the use of the "i" in iTex?
Techshop is a shared-equipment workspace in Menlo Park CA, with a few other branches (they're opening in San Francisco this summer.) I was there welding a couple of weeks ago, and ran into a friend of mine who was doing a project in the laser cutter room, and the people working on the other laser cutter were Knuth and his wife. (I refrained from walking over and saying "Hi, I'm Joe Fanboi, I used your books 30 years ago!".) Techshop has laser cutters, embroidering machines, 3D printers, and plasma cutters, and here's Knuth's latest project supporting them. I wonder if he's got any plans for controlling CNC milling machines and routers?
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P=0 is also a valid solution.
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srpd
Wow, your earthshattering announcement sure was earthshattering! You're going to name your next project iTex! Wow! I mean, holy shit, wow!
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
26 users.
I don't do that stuff anymore.
There's a hidden treasure in Python 3.x: __prepare__()
Latex is still used in the academic world, but mostly by stick-in-the-mud professors that don't want to learn anything new. Word seems to be the fast growing standard. I understand the included equation editor is good for most things, and for what it isn't, you get Mathtype.
I work as tech support in an engineering department so this is the sort of thing I see a lot of. We have a number of Latex users, but we have far more Word users. Of those Word users some find Mathtype useful or necessary, others say the included equation editor is enough. We have some who have moved from Latex to Word because it is easier in terms of being able to see what you are doing and having robust spell checking.
Absolute formatting isn't all that useful a feature since the journal you send it to will reformat things to fit on the page, anyhow.
Of course any of this only applies to "hard" sciences with lots of equations. Engineering, math, chemistry, etc. The social sciences, arts, humanities, etc have no need as they do not do massive equations. They are all Word all the time.
Tex seriously is a very, very small market and getting smaller. Computer users who have come up using GUIs are wanting WYSIWYG programs like Word.
please move along
God spoke to me.
we all know that earthshattering is caused by women dressing immodestly. An Iranian cleric told me this so I know that it is true. The lack of any earth shattering during knuths presentation suggestion he did not yell "show us your tuts!" to throngs of swooning coeds.
This's Donald Knuth. The guy's no joking matter, even for /. IT-wise, he's the equivalent of Galileo or Copernicus. I'm glad he's still on the hunt. I'm going to love playing with his new invention.
For the uninitiated, TeX and its cousins are documentation programming languages. If you're a programmer, you'd probably love writing documentation in LaTeX, once you learned it, and it isn't tough sledding. This stuff makes you look beautiful. I suggest you try it before you joke about it.
"Tongue tied and twisted, just an Earth bound misfit
...by a new version, called Hitex.
Turkish is such a cool language. They can put a tit on an uppercase "I" like how a lowercase "i" has a tit above it. Umlaut is cool because it has two tits above that Uhm, but that arrived from latination of the Germs by the Holy Roman Uhmpire. Turkish isn't latin in any way, so it f*cking earned those tits on it's uppercase "I" and that's what I like. Yet then, what if it wasn't the miscegenation of Rome into a Germani Superior by conquest to bring about the Uhmlaut? What if the Ottoman Uhmpire introduced the Uhmlaut into Dooshlund? oh oh!
even though it's called iTex, i isn't useful as a version numbering scheme... \sqrt{2} maybe?
I hope this is real, because this would be very bad for a joke.
OK, so what is "stereographic sound"?
what the hell is a TeX?
I wonder if this would surprise him: at 4AM Pacific today, I searched for "knuth announcement".
Not likely. A lot of computer scientists have strange hours.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
http://river-valley.tv/an-earthshaking-announcement/ posted with permission from Knuth.
Download the announcement at http://river-valley.tv/conferences/tug-2010