User: nilonaut

That will teach him

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about the stupidity to work for free for greedy companies.

This proves

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that there is something fundamentally wrong with economics. No real value is produced, but you can still treat it as a real economy.

ImPress, MagicPoint, KPresenter, PSSlides,

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OperaShow ....
I have to choose a way to make several presentations, using material that's now in TeX, HTML, jpg. Any qualified recommendation (somebody
who actually tried some of the above would be highly appreciated.

Re:Honestly

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... I'd be more than happy to terminate my relationship with that ISP

... even if it's the only highspeed provider.

Don't need big computing for cutting edge science

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Apart from the current trendy number-crunching fields (genetics, bioinfo ...) I'd say that most current interesting scientific work is independent from the advancement of CS.

For example in environmental sciences (integrating biology, chemistry, earth sciences and everything that may be useful), where you are actually trying to figure out how real-world systems work, the most advanced use of computing is for implementing models to check if your understanding of the matter matches reality. In order to build working models, you're pulling together knowledge from all kinds of disciplines, from observation and experiments. Computers only needed because spreadsheets come in handy.

I can't think of any problem in that realm, where our knowlege would be limited by CS-related problems.

thoughts of a law professor

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You might want to read this excellent essay.