...in semi-First World countries like those in Europe
Wow!
But then, you are right, when I was living there the first 25 years of my life, we used to sit on trees and hunt mammoths with hand-axes, while our neighbours were struggling with the fancy new walking-upright industrial norm.
LaTeX has been retrofitted to use TrueType - it's called XeTeX, and it's good stuff.
And Unicode, OpenType and Unicode, it's brilliant, but you still have to be a "LaTeX Jedi" to use it, which apparently bothers the original poster, but then XeTeX and LyX should do the trick.
This is your father's mark-up. The typesetting system of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a WYSIWYG editor. An elegant program for a more civilised age.
I did some more searches now, and the quality of the results is really, really bad. If you enter a name [First_Name Family_Name], sometimes you get results which match exactly that sequence - and that is what you probably want - and sometimes the parts of the name show up in different paragraphs of the text.
Other results are suprisingly good, even for the same category (i.e. [First_Name Family_Name]).
Now, if the results would be good, I can see how they could improve their coverage fast and easy, but their coverage seems to be OK, but I can't see how they gonna fix their algorithm fast and easy.
Re:So who was the more pragmatic CSO?...
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Cuil has only just opened. Already, it is pretty decent.
I don't know, the algorithm seems to be rather bad. They surely have indexed a decent amount of pages, but extracting relevant information seems to be done rather badly. E.g.: if you search for a language, whose name is also a place name or something, and put the name - say "Rwanda" a Bantu language - in the search field and then add "language", because you are interested in the language and not the country. Google ranks the results with a closer syntactic (or semantic?) connection between "Rwanda" and "language" higher, which gives you information about the language Rwanda or at least languages in Rwanda, while the results from cuil are not decent, to say the least. The first page has no result about the language Rwanda, only rather random pages somewhat connected to the country Rwanda. So it seems that cuil does a rather bad job in retrieving the relevant information from an indexed page.
Wow, one of the best postings I have read for months.
Although I wouldn't call it "very dangerous", you are so right about the difference between, what you call, knowing and understanding. Raw data and number crunching is only one step towards understanding. Interpretation of the data and in the end really grasping the problem and hopefully a solution are something different.
Theories may have gone wild in some sciences in the sense that theorizing is overvalued compared to data munching, but theories and models will remain integral part of any sane science.
... and correct if you ask some logicians and linguists. For us, imply means "something meant although not said but (through different mechanisms) conveyed" and entail means "if A is true, B MUST be true also".
Yes, I know that DOC had troubles across Office versions, but still sending DOC was your best bet if you wanted the party at the other end to be able to open and edit the document you were sending.
Well, depends. In my experience.rtf worked better in most cases (actually one of the few decent formats that creeped out of Redmond) and if you have a more complex document at hand.tex is still your friend.
(And exchanging.doc-files between different Office version from a Mac to a MSWindows machine can make you cry.)
Oh, the possibilities... make it a print server and reuse the coffee grounds.
But seriously, it does not run Windows XP, the text says (emphasis mine):
The connectivity kit uses the connectivity of the PC it is running on to connect the coffee machine to the internet. This allows a remote coffee machine "engineer" to diagnose any problems and to remotely do a preliminary service.
Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.
No one in its right mind would run Windows XP on a coffee machine or even use a full-blown x86 infrastructure in it. Windows XP does support only x86, x86-64 and IA-64 and requires quite a lot from the system (e.g. 1,5 GB harddisk space)
I would not expect more than an ARM in it and whatever software running on it. (Would be interesting to see whether it has GPL software running;-)
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That's why I think the OpenMokoLinux project was smarter. They chose a community guy (Harald Welte) as their system architect and tried (as far as I know) to stay in closest possible contact with the general Linux community. And the hardware side of OpenMoko has a strong emphasis on open hardware. Quite the opposite to that DRM crap talk of Nokia.
I'm not entirely surprised that so many people here are willing to accept a Google monopoly on the grounds that Microsoft was once convicted of being a monopolist in the OS market. Plus, if Google monopolizes internet advertising, it will just provide an excuse for Microsoft to escape anti-trust regulation in the OS/desktop market.
I second that, but I think it is time for many paople to realize that although it was fun to see another big player (Google) going after MS, there is little advantage for us in it in the end. It is not the case that Google has any particular interest in achieving a "just" situation. It's not a simple good (Google) against bad (MS). It is only two companies having to make profit for their stockholders. And whatever they do, they are not concerned about us or the market or technology or whatever, but about their profit.
Yep, MS will apparently never learn that there are sometimes good reasons to channel the behaviour of users (Mac OSX does it quite well, or maybe Gnome or Python come to that) but there is nearly never a good reason to hinder a reasonable usage of something.
No, no, no, it's a great idea, now they can say: "It's not working?... Yeah, that's a feature not a bug, we've got a patent for that one." Sounds like a proper business strategy for me.
Re:What exactly is X.Org missing ?
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One interesting bit of reworking is MPX Yes, MPX looks quite promising (MPX demo video) and will also enable multi-touch which will be relevant for several areas of application (e.g. embedded stuff). Really exciting stuff seems to be coming up. I really hope they will get all the support they need.
I don't want to make the Roland here, but what's your problem with Roland Pick-a-pie?
I guess Roland is just a new name for that entity Anonymous Coward that we all love and respect for its valuable contributions to our beloved slashdot. What would a day on slashdot be without goatse, first post and Roland postings
Mind you, if ISO is so vulnerable this does beg the question 'is it still relevant?'
No it doesn't. It actually shows how badly needed it is. Otherwise MS wouldn't give a damn and you wouldn't either.
It does beg several questions though - e.g How can a rational and fair evaluation be assured? How can the decision making be improved, especially in some "underdeveloped" countries, but sadly also in many "developed" ones. How can the national bodies be hardened against lobbying?
I happen to disagree with you both, it's always good time to be a geek. It was when my father brought home a Sharp MZ whatever. It was a good time when he was soldering in his first transistor radio. It was when my grandfather bought his first motorcycle in the 1920s and crossed the Alps with it. It was when one of my ancestors got his first water driven hammer mill. It probably was when the first person was tinkering with steam, gun powder, paper or fire.
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You:
...in semi-First World countries like those in Europe
Wow!
But then, you are right, when I was living there the first 25 years of my life, we used to sit on trees and hunt mammoths with hand-axes, while our neighbours were struggling with the fancy new walking-upright industrial norm.
LaTeX has been retrofitted to use TrueType - it's called XeTeX, and it's good stuff.
And Unicode, OpenType and Unicode, it's brilliant, but you still have to be a "LaTeX Jedi" to use it, which apparently bothers the original poster, but then XeTeX and LyX should do the trick.
This is your father's mark-up. The typesetting system of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a WYSIWYG editor. An elegant program for a more civilised age.
I did some more searches now, and the quality of the results is really, really bad. If you enter a name [First_Name Family_Name], sometimes you get results which match exactly that sequence - and that is what you probably want - and sometimes the parts of the name show up in different paragraphs of the text.
Other results are suprisingly good, even for the same category (i.e. [First_Name Family_Name]).
Now, if the results would be good, I can see how they could improve their coverage fast and easy, but their coverage seems to be OK, but I can't see how they gonna fix their algorithm fast and easy.
CSO
I would opt for Combined Sewer Overflow , but it's Chief security officer.
Cuil has only just opened. Already, it is pretty decent.
I don't know, the algorithm seems to be rather bad. They surely have indexed a decent amount of pages, but extracting relevant information seems to be done rather badly. E.g.: if you search for a language, whose name is also a place name or something, and put the name - say "Rwanda" a Bantu language - in the search field and then add "language", because you are interested in the language and not the country. Google ranks the results with a closer syntactic (or semantic?) connection between "Rwanda" and "language" higher, which gives you information about the language Rwanda or at least languages in Rwanda, while the results from cuil are not decent, to say the least. The first page has no result about the language Rwanda, only rather random pages somewhat connected to the country Rwanda. So it seems that cuil does a rather bad job in retrieving the relevant information from an indexed page.
I for one would love to have options to Google.
Yes, agreed, very much.
tough to find it out this way...
Wow, one of the best postings I have read for months.
Although I wouldn't call it "very dangerous", you are so right about the difference between, what you call, knowing and understanding. Raw data and number crunching is only one step towards understanding. Interpretation of the data and in the end really grasping the problem and hopefully a solution are something different.
Theories may have gone wild in some sciences in the sense that theorizing is overvalued compared to data munching, but theories and models will remain integral part of any sane science.
... and correct if you ask some logicians and linguists. For us, imply means "something meant although not said but (through different mechanisms) conveyed" and entail means "if A is true, B MUST be true also".
Yes, I know that DOC had troubles across Office versions, but still sending DOC was your best bet if you wanted the party at the other end to be able to open and edit the document you were sending.
Well, depends. In my experience .rtf worked better in most cases (actually one of the few decent formats that creeped out of Redmond) and if you have a more complex document at hand .tex is still your friend.
(And exchanging .doc-files between different Office version from a Mac to a MSWindows machine can make you cry.)
...Celsius has been the standard for science and, well, everywhere except the US, for a long time...You forgot ... Belize!
Oh, the possibilities ... make it a print server and reuse the coffee grounds.
But seriously, it does not run Windows XP, the text says (emphasis mine):
The connectivity kit uses the connectivity of the PC it is running on to connect the coffee machine to the internet. This allows a remote coffee machine "engineer" to diagnose any problems and to remotely do a preliminary service. Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.No one in its right mind would run Windows XP on a coffee machine or even use a full-blown x86 infrastructure in it. Windows XP does support only x86, x86-64 and IA-64 and requires quite a lot from the system (e.g. 1,5 GB harddisk space)
I would not expect more than an ARM in it and whatever software running on it. (Would be interesting to see whether it has GPL software running ;-)
Up to now the record broke them ... or at least their servers.
I used Firefox 3 beta for quite a while now and it's great. Nice to see that a flagship of FOSS has such a sustained success.
(BTW - yes I missed a chance for a "in soviet russ..."on purpose.)
ouch, sorry, I think I grammared my damage.
Aren't we the personal swiss army knife of social engineered DoS attacks? (Post it, we slash it down.)
That's why I think the OpenMoko Linux project was smarter. They chose a community guy (Harald Welte) as their system architect and tried (as far as I know) to stay in closest possible contact with the general Linux community. And the hardware side of OpenMoko has a strong emphasis on open hardware. Quite the opposite to that DRM crap talk of Nokia.
I second that, but I think it is time for many paople to realize that although it was fun to see another big player (Google) going after MS, there is little advantage for us in it in the end. It is not the case that Google has any particular interest in achieving a "just" situation. It's not a simple good (Google) against bad (MS). It is only two companies having to make profit for their stockholders. And whatever they do, they are not concerned about us or the market or technology or whatever, but about their profit.
Yep, MS will apparently never learn that there are sometimes good reasons to channel the behaviour of users (Mac OSX does it quite well, or maybe Gnome or Python come to that) but there is nearly never a good reason to hinder a reasonable usage of something.
No, no, no, it's a great idea, now they can say: "It's not working? ... Yeah, that's a feature not a bug, we've got a patent for that one." Sounds like a proper business strategy for me.
I don't want to make the Roland here, but what's your problem with Roland Pick-a-pie?
I guess Roland is just a new name for that entity Anonymous Coward that we all love and respect for its valuable contributions to our beloved slashdot. What would a day on slashdot be without goatse, first post and Roland postings
No it doesn't. It actually shows how badly needed it is. Otherwise MS wouldn't give a damn and you wouldn't either.
It does beg several questions though - e.g How can a rational and fair evaluation be assured? How can the decision making be improved, especially in some "underdeveloped" countries, but sadly also in many "developed" ones. How can the national bodies be hardened against lobbying?
Nice that they provide a doc version (instead of a odf version). But at least pdf and html are open.
You don't need a company, a community is more than enough.
I happen to disagree with you both, it's always good time to be a geek. It was when my father brought home a Sharp MZ whatever. It was a good time when he was soldering in his first transistor radio. It was when my grandfather bought his first motorcycle in the 1920s and crossed the Alps with it. It was when one of my ancestors got his first water driven hammer mill. It probably was when the first person was tinkering with steam, gun powder, paper or fire.