I've been seeing a lot of parked cars with both Lyft and Uber stickers. I worry that after they work their 10 hour shift for oee company they move on and work another 10 hour shift at the other.
It's not easy, and every few years the way you have to do it changes, but if you don't do that, you can't take ebooks out of the library, so it's worth the pain.
Other ebook readers download the whole book when you open it, and you can continue reading even without an internet connection, but for some reason Google play books needs to contact the mothership every few pages, or if you want to change the color scheme (which I do twice a day) or the font size.
On the other hand, the first novel submitted as a typewritten manuscript was "Huckleberry Finn", so not everybody who thinks about new writing technology is a bad writer.
Speakeasy does claim to offer the naked DSL, but in practice, they believe what Verizon tells them about the lines not being high enough quality, so at least in my case, I couldn't get it.
I read the New York Times article this morning (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/technology/23li nux.html), and I thought it was clearly based on the same argument quoted on/. and Groklaw. I wanted to read more than they included, so I rushed to/., but for a 3 paragraph summary of Linus' argument, it was pretty good.
Someone else has already pointed out that a dog is not only someone to talk to, but someone you have to go on walks with. If you go to the same parks all the time, you get to know the other dog-walkers.
Another useful idea is to find a good neighborhood bar with regulars. The one I go to (Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square, Cambridge) when I feel like eating and talking but not like cooking or organizing company has lots of other people who are self-employed or in small business environments who use the bar for something like what you're looking for.
I haven't tried the complicated accounts -- I've been using it for the checking account of an organization for which I'm treasurer.
What I mainly wanted is the pie charts that show where the money is coming from an going to, to bring to board meetings.
I agree with other posters that installation is pretty simple on a distribution that manages dependencies (I use debian apt-get). But I still needed help to see the simplest of reports, and the help came in the form of workarounds for bugs in the libraries that are used to create the reports.
So printing out the reports for the board meeting isn't just a push a button and get the pie charts process. The workaround causes me to lose the headers, so I have to save the graphs and include them in a TeX file that has the headers.
So yes, gnucash is a good program, and I like its double entry bookkeeping philosophy, but I don't think it fills the niche of Quicken yet.
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>> in general, nations with the lowest piracy rates >> had the largest IT sectors
I think for people who don't think of software as work that puts bread on the table, software piracy feels less like stealing than it does for people who have had jobs writing software that paid their bills and bought food.
There was a story in the Boston Globe recently about a woman whose purse containing her cellphone was snatched. The police officer she reported it to called the cellphone and said he was the owners brother, asked the thief to meet him in a parking lot to return the cellphone for a reward. And he did. (meeting a couple of police officers with handcuffs in the parking lot.)
So maybe some email to the perp offering a reward would produce similar results.
I have a similar problem -- I don't need large numbers of staves but I'm transcribing renaissance music, so I need features that aren't present in low-end systems, and flexibility that isn't available in barline-based systems.
What I'm doing at the moment is using ABC for the data entry. This is because I can touch type this. There are attempts to provide GUI's for ABC, none of which is yet really usable for my purposes. However, there is a lot of really good command line based software that runs fast enough for me.
Then when I have what I want, I use the abc2ly converter that comes with lilypond to do the actual typesetting. This is also software that has a long way to go. It's in python, and I found I was able to add things to it when it didn't have a feature I wanted, so by now it's pretty good for my purposes. One of the features I added was an ability to put lilypond directives as comments in the ABC, so I keep the ABC as the "source" form for my music.
I don't think it requires a lot of funding to keep
a website on the net indefinitely, and I think the
lilypond project is as robust as most of the other
gnu efforts.
That being said, if I were looking for a free music publishing project to compare to gutenberg,
mutopia isn't the one I would have picked.
What gutenberg provides is a very bare raw text version of a piece of writing. To publish a score in lilypond requires a lot of thinking about the formatting, that's more equivalent to writing a novel in LaTeX than to producing a Gutenberg text.
I think the closest equivalent to that in music publishing would be the ABC archives at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/
Other sites that are more encyclopedic than the Mutopia one is (yet) are http://www.musicaviva.com and http://www.cpdl.org.
Neither of these is as religious about being open source as mutopia or the ABC site, but I think the cpdl (Choral Public Domain library) in particular is probably the wave of the future for providing out-of-copyright music via the internet. If you publish music that's in the right genre, and you want to be linked to, it links to you and you have the freedom to provide whatever music in whatever format suits you.
Another site with a lot of open source music available is http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/.
More ideas about music publishing on the internet are discussed at http://www.mstation.org/internetpublishing.html, which features interviews with several people who are doing it.
Because I've been trying to do just that for my own site. You can see the results at http://www.laymusic.org/laymusic/laymusic.html
What I'm doing is using latex to write a document with chapters, sections, etc. Then I use latex2html (look on freshmeat) to translate the latex to html.
The nice thing about this is that I automatically get things like tables of contents and (if I wanted it) and index, and navigation bars, and I can do global search and replace on the latex documentation if I decide I need to change something wherever it's referred to. And of course, I can print a very nice copy of the whole thing any time I want to.
The less nice thing is that the bookkeeping I used to do by section is harder. For instance, the html that I write for myself in xemacs has the date the page changed last at the bottom. I haven't figured out how to get this by document section in latex.
On the whole, I think the answer to your question is No. I think what's eventually going to happen is a markup language like XML, which will be translatable to html for browsing, TeX for printing, etc...
But I tried using docbook while I was fiddling with this problem, and I don't think the tools for using XML are there yet. I'd be happy to find I'm wrong about that.
I'm on RedHat 6.2, and I haven't managed to get
java to work on either Netscape 6 or a Mozilla
nightly build.
I also can't use either one to do either shopping or banking. This might be legitimate for Mozilla,
but I thought Netscape was supposed to have all the security stuff?
I'm looking forward to dumping Netscape 4.x, but I don't seem to be there yet.
The stylesheet support does seem to be a lot better on both new programs.
It's easy enough to print in Linux if you use a PostScript printer.
Everybody says that and I believed it, so I got an HP5000 laserjet. All the stuff that's on all other laser printers works fine, but I've been having a lot of trouble making the ledger paper and the duplex options work together correctly.
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I've been seeing a lot of parked cars with both Lyft and Uber stickers. I worry that after they work their 10 hour shift for oee company they move on and work another 10 hour shift at the other.
It's not easy, and every few years the way you have to do it changes, but if you don't do that, you can't take ebooks out of the library, so it's worth the pain.
Other ebook readers download the whole book when you open it, and you can continue reading even without an internet connection, but for some reason Google play books needs to contact the mothership every few pages, or if you want to change the color scheme (which I do twice a day) or the font size.
On the other hand, the first novel submitted as a typewritten manuscript was "Huckleberry Finn", so not everybody who thinks about new writing technology is a bad writer.
It would be more in the spirit of a project like this if they allowed open formats like lilypond and ABC
Speakeasy does claim to offer the naked DSL, but in practice, they believe what Verizon tells them about the lines not being high enough quality, so at least in my case, I couldn't get it.
I read the New York Times article this morning (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/technology/23l
Someone else has already pointed out that a dog is not only someone to talk to, but someone you have to go on walks with. If you go to the same parks all the time, you get to know the other dog-walkers.
Another useful idea is to find a good neighborhood bar with regulars. The one I go to (Cambridge Brewing Company in Kendall Square, Cambridge) when I feel like eating and talking but not like cooking or organizing company has lots of other people who are self-employed or in small business environments who use the bar for something like what you're looking for.
> Here's the reasoning: you want to make sure that
> you cannot play games on your computer.
But the oldest of computers that would do a student's word processing has solitaire on it.
I haven't tried the complicated accounts -- I've been using it for the checking account of an organization for which I'm treasurer.
What I mainly wanted is the pie charts that show where the money is coming from an going to, to bring to board meetings.
I agree with other posters that installation is pretty simple on a distribution that manages dependencies (I use debian apt-get). But I still needed help to see the simplest of reports, and the help came in the form of workarounds for bugs in the libraries that are used to create the reports.
So printing out the reports for the board meeting isn't just a push a button and get the pie charts process. The workaround causes me to lose the headers, so I have to save the graphs and include them in a TeX file that has the headers.
So yes, gnucash is a good program, and I like its double entry bookkeeping philosophy, but I don't think it fills the niche of Quicken yet.
>> in general, nations with the lowest piracy rates >> had the largest IT sectors
I think for people who don't think of software as work that puts bread on the table, software piracy feels less like stealing than it does for people who have had jobs writing software that paid their bills and bought food.
There was a story in the Boston Globe recently about a woman whose purse containing her cellphone was snatched. The police officer she reported it to called the cellphone and said he was the owners brother, asked the thief to meet him in a parking lot to return the cellphone for a reward. And he did. (meeting a couple of police officers with handcuffs in the parking lot.)
So maybe some email to the perp offering a reward would produce similar results.
What I'm doing at the moment is using ABC for the data entry. This is because I can touch type this. There are attempts to provide GUI's for ABC, none of which is yet really usable for my purposes. However, there is a lot of really good command line based software that runs fast enough for me.
Then when I have what I want, I use the abc2ly converter that comes with lilypond to do the actual typesetting. This is also software that has a long way to go. It's in python, and I found I was able to add things to it when it didn't have a feature I wanted, so by now it's pretty good for my purposes. One of the features I added was an ability to put lilypond directives as comments in the ABC, so I keep the ABC as the "source" form for my music.
You can see the final result of this process by looking at dowland.pdf , and the ABC sources are on my Music publishing page.
I don't think it requires a lot of funding to keep a website on the net indefinitely, and I think the lilypond project is as robust as most of the other gnu efforts. That being said, if I were looking for a free music publishing project to compare to gutenberg, mutopia isn't the one I would have picked. What gutenberg provides is a very bare raw text version of a piece of writing. To publish a score in lilypond requires a lot of thinking about the formatting, that's more equivalent to writing a novel in LaTeX than to producing a Gutenberg text. I think the closest equivalent to that in music publishing would be the ABC archives at http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/ Other sites that are more encyclopedic than the Mutopia one is (yet) are http://www.musicaviva.com and http://www.cpdl.org. Neither of these is as religious about being open source as mutopia or the ABC site, but I think the cpdl (Choral Public Domain library) in particular is probably the wave of the future for providing out-of-copyright music via the internet. If you publish music that's in the right genre, and you want to be linked to, it links to you and you have the freedom to provide whatever music in whatever format suits you. Another site with a lot of open source music available is http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/. More ideas about music publishing on the internet are discussed at http://www.mstation.org/internetpublishing.html, which features interviews with several people who are doing it.
What I'm doing is using latex to write a document with chapters, sections, etc. Then I use latex2html (look on freshmeat) to translate the latex to html.
The nice thing about this is that I automatically get things like tables of contents and (if I wanted it) and index, and navigation bars, and I can do global search and replace on the latex documentation if I decide I need to change something wherever it's referred to. And of course, I can print a very nice copy of the whole thing any time I want to.
The less nice thing is that the bookkeeping I used to do by section is harder. For instance, the html that I write for myself in xemacs has the date the page changed last at the bottom. I haven't figured out how to get this by document section in latex.
On the whole, I think the answer to your question is No. I think what's eventually going to happen is a markup language like XML, which will be translatable to html for browsing, TeX for printing, etc...
But I tried using docbook while I was fiddling with this problem, and I don't think the tools for using XML are there yet. I'd be happy to find I'm wrong about that.
I'm on RedHat 6.2, and I haven't managed to get java to work on either Netscape 6 or a Mozilla nightly build. I also can't use either one to do either shopping or banking. This might be legitimate for Mozilla, but I thought Netscape was supposed to have all the security stuff? I'm looking forward to dumping Netscape 4.x, but I don't seem to be there yet. The stylesheet support does seem to be a lot better on both new programs.
Everybody says that and I believed it, so I got an HP5000 laserjet. All the stuff that's on all other laser printers works fine, but I've been having a lot of trouble making the ledger paper and the duplex options work together correctly.