Stop messign with our userboxes! We'll desysop you! I repeat don't mess with our templates! I'm reporting you to WP:ANI, WP:RFC, WP:AN, WP:VP for breaking WP:AGF, WP:DICK and you'll be desysopped really soon.
> There is also not an easy avenue for feedback. Not rating scheme -- nothing. Just about the only measure one can use is "how many times is the article cited, and by who [important because a group may be citing their own articles again and again]".
in mathematics, the group related to the smarandache stuff does exactly that
You don't need to hide if you're trading copyrighted material that you have permission to trade, or own the copyright on yourself.
No, wrong.
EVerybody hide many things in your everyday even though they aren't illegal (although for many several reasons).
Samples: PIN credit card secret, how many times you went to the bathroom yesterday, medical problems, when you send letters you send them in envelopes (after all isn't illegal to send letters, and asuming you don't engage in illegal communication, why keep the content secret?), etc.
illegality isn't the only reason to keep things in secret.
I use both debian and gentoo, and always prefer gentoo. About your claims.
Granted, Gentoo takes a little bit longer than your average installation. for instance, last weekend I installed gentoo on this laptop in less than 3 hours (and I spent lots of time learning the new 2.6 kernel stuff) but, once you do, you can create a quick installation package to replicate bas install in less than 20 minutes (I guess your company can pay the 20c that a blank cd costs)
emerge does dependency checking, you just don't use the tools (have you heard of gentoolkit) or emerge -p but you claim accident. you could've as well accidentally rmf'ed/usr and you would still be screwed (not gentoo's fault, get the point?)
gentoo has two branches: stable and testing. And by the way, most sarge reviewers will use precompiled packages from pretty much the same sources gentoo builds stuff, but sarge users don't have so readily the source code (unless they do apt-src which then makes the point moot)
and again.. aboout your last paragraph. Yes I do use debian, I like it, I still think gentoo works better
you can run knoppix adding some parameters at boot time so you get a light window manager (like fluxbox) or jsut not using X at all (after all, if you're the rescuing guy, you will be using mostly console)
just at boot time write knoppix desktop=fluxbox or knoppix 2 (that 2 will only run text mode)
and as mentiones, you can make a boot floppy to use this even when computer can't boot from cd
Of course you can run KDE using other window managers (flux, metacity, icewm, etc) just setup the env variable KDEWM to fluxbox, login again and you're ready
and so has mozilla (remeber the one discovered by GreyMagic)?
my poijnt is both are great browsers. but it's a bit manipulative to mention one browsers flaws (I've been with opera since version 4 and those are very rare) and not mention the other ones
for the record, I'm using mozilla since 0.6 and I have RC3 now. however I still prefer opera.
sorry if I look too naiveee. I recall seeing the agbrowser and agsatellite stuff on the debian packages list, and I assumed it would be safer than other options.
I never installed it anyway (at the time modem was not working properly), but this is a bit interesting for me
can you provide more info on spyware on the linux port?
this has been bugging me for a while and nobody answers me.
Why is it called TeXmacs is it's not based at TeX/LaTeX (as stated in the doc and faq)?
it's a bit misleading. Yes... there's exporting (not perfefct) to latex. But that's like saying that since MSWord exports unperfect html, it should be called MSHTMLword
one of the things I value most about TeX/LaTeX is its portability, if you stay away from the most esoteric latex packages, you can compile your docpretty much everywhere, and gots bettter with TeX.
That's why kinds of bugs me the name. But again, TeXmacs lovers always tell me it'0s named after TeX and emacs which doesn't really enlighten me.
there's a free clone-like of matlab called octave
I don't know about a mathematica clone (since it's much more complex to program symbolic stuff)
but there are free programs following the same style (as mupad, khalamaris, etc)
well.. these kind of issues were the ones that motivated planetmath [planetmath.org] to see the light.
The site works around the GNU Free documentation license and the central idea are the users. THat is, everyone can signup and post and you're not asked to give away your rights. And everyone can send corrections and addendums to any entry.
The site has already a descent amount of mathematical content that has been added over the last months, but it's still relatively small so contributors (and coders!) are well appreciated.
And the site does not aim to be just an encyclopedia nor a replacement of MW. It has forums to discuss math and there are several others sections being considered.
I invite you all to stop by and see another option, and contributing if you feel up to
as it was pointed...
there is a project that tries to cover this issues (and providing other services as well) it's called planetmath [planethmath.org] for which I'm VERY proud of being a contributor, since the essence of the site are its users. and also.. the license tries to keep the free spirit and preventing the site suffering the same fate as MW had.
However, it's still a nascent project and we need more contributors and coders. So I make an open invitation to all of you to stop by and help if you feel you can.
I didn't know this big CONTINENT is now a republic...
sheeeeshhh...
canadians, USers, mexicans, brazilians all together now in a single republic...
It's a little strange to see people ranting about how does a particular entity (MS in this case) behave like if it were the only existent thing but behaving exactly the same way.
I just wanted to point one of the reasons for which wavelets are better than fourier.
When you use fourier.. the basis functions are sines and cosines, whose ranges extend over all the real line... thus.. even for a small modification of the data you need to consider the whole set. With wavelets, the stury is different... the basis functions used with wavelets have often finite support (roughly the range where they aren't 0) or at least have very fast decays. So... when you modifiy some data... you don't care about the whole data (i.e. the whole song or the whole video) but only on a finite interval. This also means that wavelets are better suited to analyzing stream data.. since you can decompose locally instead of needing to have the whole data for applying fourier.
And btw... wavelet transform is *lossless* lossy... one of its main appeals are that the wavelets preserve the information so you can always recover the original data from the transformed one.
when you said lossy... maybe you meant that the data changes when you transform.. but its because it is a transform. But this transformatin lets you recover the original data exactly. Think on the basic RLE.. of course it changes the origianl data, if it didn't, then you could end again with raw data and not compressed. But rle can be done inverse and recover the riginal image. On the other hjand.. when you enconde a image with jpeg, you can't recover the origianl one.. that is lossy
And finally.... while fourier gives usually information about frequencies... wavelets give informatio about variations over the time.
well... I noticed I scroll up a lil more before posting. that was for the anonymous coward:
"Homosexuals were once looked at with the same level of disgust and contempt as the modern-day pedophile. If you could travel back to the 1950s and me..."
I'm thiinking you're missing the point. Gays were rejected because society at that point was a little more hypocrital than now is. It was about avoiding 2 persons to express their sexuality in a natural way. I mean... if they 2 are in agreement why should society forbid it?
But.. when we are talking about pedophilia is very different. there are children being exploited to satisfy other persons. In many cases, those childs don't want to do it but are forced.
Read me well... am not criticizing the pedophilia itselfs, since am nobody to judge the sexuality other people. Am talking about all the mafia that abuses of childrens. They have to be stopped.
personally... I would prefer a free world in the sense that no one regulates what I wanna see or read. And if we can reach that and avoid it being a reason to childrens being abused. Cool.
But if not... am willing to accept some restrictions for helping others. We shall not be so selfish. (that's what I think, not telling that you have to)
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Stop messign with our userboxes! We'll desysop you!
I repeat don't mess with our templates!
I'm reporting you to WP:ANI, WP:RFC, WP:AN, WP:VP for breaking WP:AGF, WP:DICK and you'll be desysopped really soon.
You're gonna be so sorry...
> There is also not an easy avenue for feedback. Not rating scheme -- nothing. Just about the only measure one can use is "how many times is the article cited, and by who [important because a group may be citing their own articles again and again]".
in mathematics, the group related to the smarandache stuff does exactly that
No, wrong.
EVerybody hide many things in your everyday even though they aren't illegal (although for many several reasons). Samples: PIN credit card secret, how many times you went to the bathroom yesterday, medical problems, when you send letters you send them in envelopes (after all isn't illegal to send letters, and asuming you don't engage in illegal communication, why keep the content secret?), etc.
illegality isn't the only reason to keep things in secret.
I use both debian and gentoo, and always prefer gentoo. About your claims.
/usr and you would still be screwed (not gentoo's fault, get the point?)
Granted, Gentoo takes a little bit longer than your average installation. for instance, last weekend I installed gentoo on this laptop in less than 3 hours (and I spent lots of time learning the new 2.6 kernel stuff)
but, once you do, you can create a quick installation package to replicate bas install in less than 20 minutes (I guess your company can pay the 20c that a blank cd costs)
emerge does dependency checking, you just don't use the tools (have you heard of gentoolkit) or emerge -p
but you claim accident. you could've as well accidentally rmf'ed
gentoo has two branches: stable and testing. And by the way, most sarge reviewers will use precompiled packages from pretty much the same sources gentoo builds stuff, but sarge users don't have so readily the source code (unless they do apt-src which then makes the point moot)
and again.. aboout your last paragraph. Yes I do use debian, I like it, I still think gentoo works better
you can run knoppix adding some parameters at boot time
so you get a light window manager (like fluxbox)
or jsut not using X at all (after all, if you're the rescuing guy, you will be using mostly console)
just at boot time write
knoppix desktop=fluxbox
or
knoppix 2
(that 2 will only run text mode)
and as mentiones, you can make a boot floppy to use this even when computer can't boot from cd
Of course you can run KDE using other window managers (flux, metacity, icewm, etc)
just setup the env variable KDEWM to fluxbox, login again and you're ready
and so has mozilla (remeber the one discovered by GreyMagic)?
my poijnt is both are great browsers.
but it's a bit manipulative to mention one browsers flaws (I've been with opera since version 4 and those are very rare)
and not mention the other ones
for the record, I'm using mozilla since 0.6 and I have RC3 now. however I still prefer opera.
sorry if I look too naiveee.
I recall seeing the agbrowser and agsatellite stuff on the debian packages list, and I assumed it would be safer than other options.
I never installed it anyway (at the time modem was not working properly), but this is a bit interesting for me
can you provide more info on spyware on the linux port?
miktex, the neater distro for windows
also comes with pdftex/pdflatex
besides, it comes with dvipdfm to onverti fi you don't have source code (teTeX does it too)
If I had a theorem for each mistake on MW...
. org
ehhehe
well guys, give the guy a break.
Send a correction, besides talking here
so his site gets improved. It's an
awesome site
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drini@math.com
http://planetmath
this has been bugging me for a while
and nobody answers me.
Why is it called TeXmacs is it's not based at TeX/LaTeX (as stated in the doc and faq)?
it's a bit misleading.
Yes... there's exporting (not perfefct) to latex.
But that's like saying that since MSWord exports unperfect html, it should be called MSHTMLword
one of the things I value most about TeX/LaTeX is its portability, if you stay away from the most esoteric latex packages, you can compile your docpretty much everywhere, and gots bettter with TeX.
That's why kinds of bugs me the name. But again, TeXmacs lovers always tell me it'0s named after TeX and emacs which doesn't really enlighten me.
there's a free clone-like of matlab called octave
I don't know about a mathematica clone (since it's much more complex to program symbolic stuff)
but there are free programs following the same style (as mupad, khalamaris, etc)
well.. these kind of issues were the ones that motivated planetmath [planetmath.org] to see the light.
The site works around the GNU Free documentation license and the central idea are the users. THat is, everyone can signup and post and you're not asked to give away your rights. And everyone can send corrections and addendums to any entry.
The site has already a descent amount of mathematical content that has been added over the last months, but it's still relatively small so contributors (and coders!) are well appreciated.
And the site does not aim to be just an encyclopedia nor a replacement of MW. It has forums to discuss math and there are several others sections being considered.
I invite you all to stop by and see another option, and contributing if you feel up to
drini
http://planetmath.org
as it was pointed...
there is a project that tries to cover this issues (and providing other services as well) it's called planetmath [planethmath.org] for which I'm VERY proud of being a contributor, since the essence of the site are its users. and also.. the license tries to keep the free spirit and preventing the site suffering the same fate as MW had.
However, it's still a nascent project and we need more contributors and coders. So I make an open invitation to all of you to stop by and help if you feel you can.
drini
http://planetmath.org
I didn't know this big CONTINENT is now a republic... sheeeeshhh... canadians, USers, mexicans, brazilians all together now in a single republic... It's a little strange to see people ranting about how does a particular entity (MS in this case) behave like if it were the only existent thing but behaving exactly the same way.
I just wanted to point one of the reasons for which wavelets are better than fourier.
When you use fourier.. the basis functions are sines and cosines, whose ranges extend over all the real line... thus.. even for a small modification of the data you need to consider the whole set.
With wavelets, the stury is different... the basis functions used with wavelets have often finite support (roughly the range where they aren't 0) or at least have very fast decays. So... when you modifiy some data... you don't care about the whole data (i.e. the whole song or the whole video) but only on a finite interval.
This also means that wavelets are better suited to analyzing stream data.. since you can decompose locally instead of needing to have the whole data for applying fourier.
And btw... wavelet transform is *lossless* lossy... one of its main appeals are that the wavelets preserve the information so you can always recover the original data from the transformed one.
when you said lossy... maybe you meant that the data changes when you transform.. but its because it is a transform. But this transformatin lets you recover the original data exactly.
Think on the basic RLE.. of course it changes the origianl data, if it didn't, then you could end again with raw data and not compressed. But rle can be done inverse and recover the riginal image.
On the other hjand.. when you enconde a image with jpeg, you can't recover the origianl one.. that is lossy
And finally.... while fourier gives usually information about frequencies... wavelets give informatio about variations over the time.
well...
I noticed I scroll up a lil more before posting.
that was for the anonymous coward:
"Homosexuals were once looked at with the same level of disgust and contempt as the modern-day pedophile. If you could travel back to the 1950s and me..."
sorry Carp
I'm thiinking you're missing the point.
Gays were rejected because society at that point was a little more hypocrital than now is.
It was about avoiding 2 persons to express their sexuality in a natural way.
I mean... if they 2 are in agreement why should society forbid it?
But.. when we are talking about pedophilia is very different. there are children being exploited to satisfy other persons. In many cases, those childs don't want to do it but are forced.
Read me well... am not criticizing the pedophilia itselfs, since am nobody to judge the sexuality other people. Am talking about all the mafia that abuses of childrens. They have to be stopped.
personally... I would prefer a free world in the sense that no one regulates what I wanna see or read. And if we can reach that and avoid it being a reason to childrens being abused. Cool.
But if not... am willing to accept some restrictions for helping others.
We shall not be so selfish. (that's what I think, not telling that you have to)
$ drini