In my last job I had to fix a project management application, because, to allow user administrative privileges, it checked the condition: if (user_id == 1 || user_id == 18 || user_id == 23) {...}. It had a whole system for managing privileges, but someone got lazy at this particular point.
There are at least two things on that flick which you should never do, according to the manuals they ship with their eee pcs: never put the thing on your laps or on a soft surface (i.e. the bed). I don't have the warranty with me, so I can't say for sure, but I seem to remember the latter even made your warranty void or something.
As much as I like companies getting kicked in the perticulars, I don't think shifting *any* OS without a browser is a good idea.
So, I wonder if MS would ship their OS with different browsers or no browser and a big button saying 'Download IE8 now!' placed on the desktop.
The latter changes nothing very much, and the former raises the question what they'd put onto there.
I published a total of one scientific article. I put it all together it using LaTeX (mostly text and images, nothing fancy) and sent it to my more experienced co-author, who was supposed to add his part and send it out.
When I got a CC of the e-mail sent to the publisher I found that the co-author preferred to completely re-do the article in Word instead of putting his part in LaTeX...
I found that rather subversive,
and now I can't really open the damn thing properly. And the assumption that although not everyone can use LaTeX, everyone will happily use Word was a bit annoying.
Anyway, I think my point is, if I had one to begin with, that although there is a large group of people in my U. who do use LaTeX, there is a group of people who don't, but the latter will not respect the preferences of the former.
I gave someone Texmaker, when they were doing NaNoWriMo once. They didn't know any (La)TeX, so I showed them how to write in paragraphs, use \chapter and \include and there were no problems.
I grant you that's hardly any features, but it was just the job, and I later received reports that it was actually easier than doing the same thing in OO or MS Office.
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Now all anyone needs is a former engineer to run it, and a big dumb guy to be his muscle and we're all set for the future.
In my last job I had to fix a project management application, because, to allow user administrative privileges, it checked the condition: if (user_id == 1 || user_id == 18 || user_id == 23) {...}. It had a whole system for managing privileges, but someone got lazy at this particular point.
There are at least two things on that flick which you should never do, according to the manuals they ship with their eee pcs: never put the thing on your laps or on a soft surface (i.e. the bed). I don't have the warranty with me, so I can't say for sure, but I seem to remember the latter even made your warranty void or something.
I suppose that'd be interesting to watch then.
As much as I like companies getting kicked in the perticulars, I don't think shifting *any* OS without a browser is a good idea.
So, I wonder if MS would ship their OS with different browsers or no browser and a big button saying 'Download IE8 now!' placed on the desktop. The latter changes nothing very much, and the former raises the question what they'd put onto there.
I published a total of one scientific article. I put it all together it using LaTeX (mostly text and images, nothing fancy) and sent it to my more experienced co-author, who was supposed to add his part and send it out.
When I got a CC of the e-mail sent to the publisher I found that the co-author preferred to completely re-do the article in Word instead of putting his part in LaTeX...
I found that rather subversive, and now I can't really open the damn thing properly. And the assumption that although not everyone can use LaTeX, everyone will happily use Word was a bit annoying.
Anyway, I think my point is, if I had one to begin with, that although there is a large group of people in my U. who do use LaTeX, there is a group of people who don't, but the latter will not respect the preferences of the former.
I wouldn't say that's a general rule though.
I gave someone Texmaker, when they were doing NaNoWriMo once. They didn't know any (La)TeX, so I showed them how to write in paragraphs, use \chapter and \include and there were no problems.
I grant you that's hardly any features, but it was just the job, and I later received reports that it was actually easier than doing the same thing in OO or MS Office.
It could be difficult to sign up for school and other institutions without a birth certificate, though.
So he knows for a fact that the Internet is no good: he's been working hard for years on achieving this state of events.