publishers shouldn't have to be the ones punished into pulling a lot of hours into explicitly drawing up a list that tells Google to back off. Google should be the one hiring lots of guys to compose a list of all books they want to index into a polite application submitted to the publishers for approval.
It seems to me that the publishers' claim about this is somewhat lame:
"We're not aware of everything we've published," Sanfilippo said. "Back in the 50s, 60s and 70s, there were no electronic files for those books."
Well, if you don't have any idea that you own copyright on these books, perhaps those books aren't really doing you any good anyway.
I've completed a major in Microbiology an Immunology at McGill University, supposedly the second best school in canada and I can say that I wouldn't wipe my ass with my degree. The only people who achieve are those who practice the memorize and forget mantra.
Intuitive understanding is discouraged, all tests are multiple choice and ambiguously phrased. I became so disenchanted with science that I'm taking another year to do a more liberal arts kind of degree in East asian studies.
I think that's because the microbiology and immunology programme at McGill has way too many students; of course if you have 500 students in your class, then you have to give multiple-choice tests; how else would you mark all those exams? (I also think that's because too many people are in these programmes trying to become doctors). This certainly wasn't my experience for the math and computer science classes that I took at McGill. I had a lot of classes with under 20 students, especially after U1 (second year for all those people not from Quebec), and I don't remember doing a single multiple choice test.
My linux laptop is immune because I haven't bothered to set up the softmodem drivers yet. I'd be impressed if some malware managed to set up my modem drivers for me!
Actually, Her Majesty the Queen of Canada holds copyright on stuff created by Canadian government employees. Canadians are not British citizens or subjects anymore; the current Citizenship Act defines Canadian citizenship as something distinct.
When I submitted my Master's thesis, I had to give the Queen in right of the National Librarian the non-exclusive right to reproduce that thesis.
And the most scary part of this plan is the "cooperative" nature of the suggested radios. Creating a worldwide infrastructure without considering the security holes is negligence. How nice, the signal you receive will contain a URL to tell you how to download new software for your radio. And if that signal is from an illicit source telling your radio to start relaying spam back onto the net?
Yes, that's why IP packets should know about the security implications of the data they're being used to transmit, right?
We want stupid networks (it's the end-to-end argument) and intelligent protocols layered on above the network.
I found out that the switcher's story is recursively enumerable. Below is the grammar. Feel free to use this for your application essay.
Hi, my name is <IDENTIFIER>. I am (a|an) <IDENTIFIER> [from <IDENTIFIER>].
Yes, this language is recursively enumerable. But you probably meant to say regular. Recursively enumerable languages are the languages that are decidable by some Turing Machine - that includes a lot of languages. Regular languages are those that correspond to deterministic finite automata, or regexps. There are less of these. (Every regular language is also recursively enumerable, of course.)
This is not true, as many Canadian users have known for a while and many Australian users such as myself have just discovered. Google now redirects the front page (www.google.com) to a country-specific front page based on your IP address.
I recently found out that if you go to http://www.google.com. (with the extra dot at the end) then it doesn't autoredirect. This doesn't always work, but sometimes it does; lynx continues to redirect, for instance. It's weird.
(The dot is implicit in regular DNS lookups. For some reason it seems to change the autoredirect behaviour.)
Then again, that might have to do with older contact lenses when the technology wasn't as good.
I used to have soft contact lenses from about 14 to 23. I finally got LASIK in January 2001 because I was starting to have trouble with contact lenses. The problem wasn't actually, in my case, with scratching, but rather with not letting enough oxygen reach the surface of my eyes.
LASIK works well for me. I don't think I would've been able to wear contacts for too much more time, and glasses are pretty inconvenient for some things that I do.
I have also noticed the atrophy of the ability to plan in my friends who have cell phones. I generally don't use one (occasionally activate a pre-paid mobile for long driving trips, should there be an emergency), and it is impossible to meet anyone anymore. They like to just say "meet me on 6th street in some bar" and then you are supposed to go to 6th, call them, find out what bar they went to on the spur of the moment, realize their habits have so atrophied they can't even tell you where they are in the bar, go to the bar and call them AGAIN, so you can locate them by the ringing phone.
I do this too. But, I don't have a cellphone (by choice, but that's another issue). Perhaps that's why it's always problematic for me to set up things where meeting people is involved.
Unless of course you've got an installed base somewhere in the billions
Sure, I'll buy that.
20 years worth of compiler optimization,
Compiler optimization on the x86 series really sucks. It's really hard to optimize compiler-side when all you've got is 6 registers to play with. And at the machine-code level, register allocation is one of the most important things. More important things happen at a (processor-independent) intermediate-code level.
a factor of, what 100, more people that know the assembly language, etc.
Far more than 100. But does it really matter? More people know x86 assembler than need to, these days. You just need some people to design compiler backends.
Is there a reason that abiWord doesnt have header/footer capabilities or am i just missing it?
AbiWord has headers and footers, but no footnotes. I think that if you hit Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] you get respectively the headers and footers, or you can use the edit menu.
I've tried to load a word document that has header and footer stuff already in it, and it never shows up right (it just screws up on each page)
I'm not even sure how you could write a lab report using abiword without table support.
You can't write a proper lab report with Microsoft Word either. Try TeX.
Well, I use LaTeX myself, but if you really like plain.fmt, more power to you. Being able to write sections is useful to me.
(I wouldn't advocate writing anything scientific in any version of AbiWord; to me, text processing is the way to go. I'll send you my camera-ready copy in PS/PDF when I'm done with it. But I know for a fact that some scientific journals only accept Word format; what a travesty! I believe that there should be a good free word processor, so I hack on AbiWord.)
The person that posted this should have realised that OpenOffice is a office suite, not a word processor. Therefore you can't compare them, it's like comparing apples to oranges. The numbers would change once whoever made AbiWord also made a spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing program.
Of course I realize this. I'm not dumb. But I caught your eye (as well as the Slashdot editors' eyes), didn't I?
Yeah. It sucks. X fonts are a terrible mess. The whole sordid affair is documented in Abi bug 1030. We will use FreeType in the future, though, and I hope that this solves the problem.
By the way, AbiWord usually stores its fonts in/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. If you want to use system fonts, you need to symlink them from your system fonts directory to that directory and run mkfontdir/mkttfdir to create a fonts.dir in/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. Then it'll happily use your fonts.
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This Isn't Free Software For Windows... unless the download for the Windows source is just in an awkward spot where I can't find it. I found source downloads for FreeBSD, Linux, and MacOS X, but not Windows.
You mean like at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/setup _a biword-1.0.1.exe?
I didn't know about these utilities. I just posted a request for enhancement at Bugzilla. It would be really cool to have this as a plugin for 1.0.2; hopefully I (in my copious free time) or someone else can snarf the code and implement the frontend hooks Abi would need.
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AbiWord may be a part of Gnome Office, but it isn't a Gnome-only application. It will build and run just fine without Gnome. So knowing if it will eventually integrate with other non-exclusively-gnome office apps is something I a lot of people would like to know. Frankly, I'm not interested in installing Gnome just to get an office suite.
We certainly intend to keep the non-GNOME AbiWord as a viable option. But we don't have the resources to start building our own spreadsheet (or other office apps).
If there's an interoperability API to code to, there's good chances that someone (probably Martin Sevior, he rocks) will implement the bits AbiWord needs in order to use this API so that Abi can be embedded in other programs.
I think there was work on other cross-application interfaces e.g. for Windows too. I don't know any details about this.
Well I have to point out that openoffice is much more than just a word processor. It even saves in PDF format, has an impressive font rendering etc. I don't think there should be any comparision there.
AbiWord for GNOME can use gnome-print to produce PDF files. I'm not sure what you mean by impressive font rendering. (Abi 1.2 is going to use freetype for font rendering, so that all sorts of international scripts can be written.)
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You mean like Google? They hire PhDs regardless of field.
I think that's because the microbiology and immunology programme at McGill has way too many students; of course if you have 500 students in your class, then you have to give multiple-choice tests; how else would you mark all those exams? (I also think that's because too many people are in these programmes trying to become doctors). This certainly wasn't my experience for the math and computer science classes that I took at McGill. I had a lot of classes with under 20 students, especially after U1 (second year for all those people not from Quebec), and I don't remember doing a single multiple choice test.
Have you turned on DMA for your hard drive? (hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda).
You mean, like, launching rockets?
My linux laptop is immune because I haven't bothered to set up the softmodem drivers yet. I'd be impressed if some malware managed to set up my modem drivers for me!
MIT has been known to revoke degrees (temporarily) for non-academic reasons. See Chronicle of Higher Education.
Expand? No. But perhaps someone wants to copy your thesis 2-up, and that's a lot easier with metric sizes.
I was skeptical, so I used Google to look up said vulnerability. Huh. Good thing I don't use Windows!
When I submitted my Master's thesis, I had to give the Queen in right of the National Librarian the non-exclusive right to reproduce that thesis.
Yes, that's why IP packets should know about the security implications of the data they're being used to transmit, right?
We want stupid networks (it's the end-to-end argument) and intelligent protocols layered on above the network.
Yes, this language is recursively enumerable. But you probably meant to say regular. Recursively enumerable languages are the languages that are decidable by some Turing Machine - that includes a lot of languages. Regular languages are those that correspond to deterministic finite automata, or regexps. There are less of these. (Every regular language is also recursively enumerable, of course.)
I recently found out that if you go to http://www.google.com. (with the extra dot at the end) then it doesn't autoredirect. This doesn't always work, but sometimes it does; lynx continues to redirect, for instance. It's weird.
(The dot is implicit in regular DNS lookups. For some reason it seems to change the autoredirect behaviour.)
Then again, that might have to do with older contact lenses when the technology wasn't as good.
I used to have soft contact lenses from about 14 to 23. I finally got LASIK in January 2001 because I was starting to have trouble with contact lenses. The problem wasn't actually, in my case, with scratching, but rather with not letting enough oxygen reach the surface of my eyes.
LASIK works well for me. I don't think I would've been able to wear contacts for too much more time, and glasses are pretty inconvenient for some things that I do.
Nope. That's false. You're thinking about trademarks. Patents can be as selectively enforced as the owner wants.
AbiWord has headers and footers, but no footnotes. I think that if you hit Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] you get respectively the headers and footers, or you can use the edit menu.
This is a known bug.
Well, I use LaTeX myself, but if you really like plain.fmt, more power to you. Being able to write sections is useful to me.
(I wouldn't advocate writing anything scientific in any version of AbiWord; to me, text processing is the way to go. I'll send you my camera-ready copy in PS/PDF when I'm done with it. But I know for a fact that some scientific journals only accept Word format; what a travesty! I believe that there should be a good free word processor, so I hack on AbiWord.)
Of course I realize this. I'm not dumb. But I caught your eye (as well as the Slashdot editors' eyes), didn't I?
Yeah. It sucks. X fonts are a terrible mess. The whole sordid affair is documented in Abi bug 1030. We will use FreeType in the future, though, and I hope that this solves the problem.
/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. If you want to use system fonts, you need to symlink them from your system fonts directory to that directory and run mkfontdir/mkttfdir to create a fonts.dir in /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. Then it'll happily use your fonts.
By the way, AbiWord usually stores its fonts in
You mean like at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/abiword/setu
I didn't know about these utilities. I just posted a request for enhancement at Bugzilla. It would be really cool to have this as a plugin for 1.0.2; hopefully I (in my copious free time) or someone else can snarf the code and implement the frontend hooks Abi would need.
We certainly intend to keep the non-GNOME AbiWord as a viable option. But we don't have the resources to start building our own spreadsheet (or other office apps).
If there's an interoperability API to code to, there's good chances that someone (probably Martin Sevior, he rocks) will implement the bits AbiWord needs in order to use this API so that Abi can be embedded in other programs.
I think there was work on other cross-application interfaces e.g. for Windows too. I don't know any details about this.
AbiWord for GNOME can use gnome-print to produce PDF files. I'm not sure what you mean by impressive font rendering. (Abi 1.2 is going to use freetype for font rendering, so that all sorts of international scripts can be written.)