Well I guess this adds more fuel to our fire about whether to put BiDi support into AbiWord now or after 1.0.
We can read MS Word and rtf docs in Chinese already, with a bit of help from Hebrew Hackers we can get this in quickly too.
I'm extremely interested in getting AbiWord to run in framebuffer GTK. we just got a Psion import and we hope to get a Psion exporter as well as a Palm importer Real Soon Now. With this you can happily beam word/abi/rtf/Psion/Palm docs to and from all
manner of PDA to all manner of Desktops.
Linux, Unix, Windows, Beos, QNX now hopefully Mac before too long.
Having seen only the histograms from a talk given to the cern program advisory committee, I think they're a little bold. The claim for a signal rests on proving that they know precisely each background in each detector (there are four seperate dectors) and that they know how to add these backgrounds together.
I would not be a bit surprised to see the "signal" disappear after more data. That said it is intriguing enough to keep running for the extra time they ask for.
By the way the guys running the experiments do not have to fear for their jobs. There is plenty to do to get the LHC up and running
Since no one else has done it yet, I'll put in an advertisement for CERN:
You would not be reading this website today without CERN. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Burness Lee from CERN and was given its initial boost by Particle Physicists as means to aid their international collaborations.
I think most people here missed the point about VA buying Andover. Slashdot can't help them without slashdot losing what it is - independent. If it is not independent we will all go to freedot.org (or whatever having forked for slash code). On the other hand Andover were just about ready to ramp up Freshmeat to have the same backend as SourceForge and to go into competition with sourceforge. Andover had some real interesting ideas on how to help everyone (including themselves) via paid upgrades to Freshmeat code. Now VA Linux gets to intergrate the Freshmeat front-end to their sourceforge backend with even more potential for paid open-source upgrade code. Frankly, the SourceForge/Freshmeat integration is more liekly to be successful than either SourceForge or Freshmeat individually. The best VA Linux can do with slashdot is generate long term warm fuzzies provided they leave it alone. But SourceForge/Freshmeat has REALLY interesting long-term potential.
Conventional research has made great progress on thin film solar cell cells already. Pacific Solar in Sydney is completing an Industial Scale production facility that will manufacture thin film laminates with at least 15% efficiency at effective cost of less than 12 cents per kilowatt hour. Look for these mid 2001 (mt prediction only!) Checkout http://www.pacificsolar.com.au/ Martin Sevior
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Martin Sevior
I'm extremely interested in getting AbiWord to run in framebuffer GTK. we just got a Psion import and we hope to get a Psion exporter as well as a Palm importer Real Soon Now. With this you can happily beam word/abi/rtf/Psion/Palm docs to and from all
manner of PDA to all manner of Desktops.
Linux, Unix, Windows, Beos, QNX now hopefully Mac before too long.
Fun, fun, fun!
Martin Sevior
Abiword Developer
You want AbiWord! This is an almost perfect
description of what abi can do:
1. We have all these platforms except Mac and the Mac port is progressing well. Though more help here is really appreciated.
2. We're Fully WYSIWYG
3. OK we're weak here right now. Version 1.2 will alomost certainly have equations and tables though.
4. Got this Now. Our native format is Source XML.
We also save to DocBook XML. Plus lots of others.
5. Got all this now.
6. We can export to tex for those that like it.
7. We're getting there. 0.7.12 is a vast improvement over 0.711
With a bit more development Abiword will do all
these things...
Martin Sevior
(AbiWord Developer)
Having seen only the histograms from a talk given to the cern program advisory committee, I think they're a little bold. The claim for a signal rests on proving that they know precisely each background in each detector (there are four seperate dectors) and that they know how to add these backgrounds together.
I would not be a bit surprised to see the "signal" disappear after more data. That said it is intriguing enough to keep running for the extra time they ask for.
By the way the guys running the experiments do not have to fear for their jobs. There is plenty to do to get the LHC up and running
Since no one else has done it yet, I'll put in an advertisement for CERN:
You would not be reading this website today without CERN. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Burness Lee from CERN and was given its initial boost by Particle Physicists as means to aid their international collaborations.
Just thought you could do with reminding :-)
Martin Sevior
Martin Sevior
Conventional research has made great progress on thin film solar cell cells already. Pacific Solar in Sydney is completing an Industial Scale production facility that will manufacture thin film laminates with at least 15% efficiency at effective cost of less than 12 cents per kilowatt hour. Look for these mid 2001 (mt prediction only!) Checkout http://www.pacificsolar.com.au/ Martin Sevior