Grapher is the "version" of Graphing Calculator that currently ships with Snow Leopard, I don't know if it's too clumsy for quick transcription. As for TeX based stuff... I gave up in-line typesetting in the eighties for both proper layout and old-school word processing... *shudder*.
It's worth looking at - after all it's on your MBP, so nothing to lose. You can enter equations into Grapher just by typing. The equation shows up in "typeset" form, and can be copied as TIFF/EPS/PDF images (you choose) and pasted into other documents like TextEdit, Pages, Word, etc. Multiple equations can be stored in a Grapher document for recall or reuse.
Prius? For the $16,000 you don't spend on Volt, you'll get an easy 45 mpg (winter) and 50 mpg (summer), with around 600 miles range on a tankful of regular gas. And with a $250 power inverter and a power cord, it'll power parts of your house in an emergency - fridge, computer, lights - as long as there is gas in the tank. The gas engine kicks in and out automatically and quietly as needed to keep the battery "up".
Sometimes a patent is not such a good thing for the public.
I'm curious if a patent ever is a good thing for the public. it really only ever seems to do exactly this.
I mean, look at this. It's clearly Apple's IP. It's clearly a new invention.
It's also clear that Apple has already gained the competitive advantage a patent is supposed to provide, without the patent.
Which means that all the patent does, in this case, is retard progress for twenty years by preventing anyone else from beginning to compete with the iPhone. It's the difference between building new and exciting interfaces that start with the iPhone and expand beyond it, and instead having everyone else have to build ugly hacks to avoid infringing on that patent even when the iPhone is a horribly obsolete product.
Patents should last the amount of time it takes to bring a product to market. That's a year, maybe two or three. Not fifteen or twenty.
Apple has some genuinely novel paradigms in the iPhone interface. It cost a lot to develop. They did it. No one else did it. Why should they not be protected from every tom, dick and harry that wants to make out from their efforts?
And Apple clearly has a large incentive to develop their own invention, not just sit on it. And while they do that, their Patents provide at least one other huge potential: Licensing. That's good for them, and good for everyone with a serious interest.
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Grapher is the "version" of Graphing Calculator that currently ships with Snow Leopard, I don't know if it's too clumsy for quick transcription. As for TeX based stuff... I gave up in-line typesetting in the eighties for both proper layout and old-school word processing... *shudder*.
It's worth looking at - after all it's on your MBP, so nothing to lose. You can enter equations into Grapher just by typing. The equation shows up in "typeset" form, and can be copied as TIFF/EPS/PDF images (you choose) and pasted into other documents like TextEdit, Pages, Word, etc. Multiple equations can be stored in a Grapher document for recall or reuse.
Prius? For the $16,000 you don't spend on Volt, you'll get an easy 45 mpg (winter) and 50 mpg (summer), with around 600 miles range on a tankful of regular gas. And with a $250 power inverter and a power cord, it'll power parts of your house in an emergency - fridge, computer, lights - as long as there is gas in the tank. The gas engine kicks in and out automatically and quietly as needed to keep the battery "up".
Correction: Not FrameMaker - Aldus PageMaker was the desktop publishing pioneer on the Mac.
And for vitally important stuff they use the Spanish Inquisition.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Sometimes a patent is not such a good thing for the public.
I'm curious if a patent ever is a good thing for the public. it really only ever seems to do exactly this.
I mean, look at this. It's clearly Apple's IP. It's clearly a new invention.
It's also clear that Apple has already gained the competitive advantage a patent is supposed to provide, without the patent.
Which means that all the patent does, in this case, is retard progress for twenty years by preventing anyone else from beginning to compete with the iPhone. It's the difference between building new and exciting interfaces that start with the iPhone and expand beyond it, and instead having everyone else have to build ugly hacks to avoid infringing on that patent even when the iPhone is a horribly obsolete product.
Patents should last the amount of time it takes to bring a product to market. That's a year, maybe two or three. Not fifteen or twenty.
Apple has some genuinely novel paradigms in the iPhone interface. It cost a lot to develop. They did it. No one else did it. Why should they not be protected from every tom, dick and harry that wants to make out from their efforts? And Apple clearly has a large incentive to develop their own invention, not just sit on it. And while they do that, their Patents provide at least one other huge potential: Licensing. That's good for them, and good for everyone with a serious interest.
Anthropogenic global warming will prove to be the greatest 'scientific' hoax of all time - and economically one of the most disastrous.