I have one (macbook pro), it looks pretty much like the old "matte" displays to me. It is certainly not made of glass, and nowhere near as shiny as those models.
Mod parent up. I write fortran code, and I can't be bothered with this android crap. I have an android phone now, and that's definitely the last time I'm getting one. Story is exactly that of the charts - vendor promises "Android 2.2 will be here soon", then a long wait, then "Android 2.1 is here, woot! We're not going to upgrade to newer versions, f*** you, customer". So my phone is in the red for its entire lifetime, which is pretty short, because the battery conked out, and I'm guessing that the new one I got will, too.
I call BS. Statisticians frequently recommend against going with the trends, because they change so quickly. When I started out in college, IT was going crap, just after the dotcom bubble burst. These days, IT is doing rather well. Financial analysts can't see 5 years into the future, how are kids at age 18 going to do that? Of course, it's no surprise that an arts degree is going to get you unemployed, but that's a different story imho.
Is \include{subdocument} workable when that subdocument is one paragraph long and you have 1000 subdocuments in your book?
I've never tried, but why shouldn't it? LaTeX is a compiler; surely a project of 1000 files could be compiled. Also, there are other ways, such as defining 1000 macros in a single file.
In FrameMaker, you have 'conditional text' which allows you to tag text with a condition. During publishing, you select the conditions you want shown or hidden. This allows you to have one master document to describe a series of related machines (or what have you). All WYSIWYG. Autogeneration of all sorts of lists, and a scripting language are available.
WYSIWYG is a downside IMHO. The UNIX philosophy says "use text, it is a general interface". Also, you can have conditionals in LaTeX code. Oh well, people and their preferences differ, so secretaries probably disagree with me. Of course you could chuck text strings in a database if you wanted to avoid files in a filesystem, too. Heck, you can probably even awk | grep | sed | latex, if you want to - as I said, text is universal, there's a million ways of working with it.
LaTeX/LyX is a nice project, but 'king for technical writing'? Technical writing generally means user guides and other product manuals, and LaTeX is a niche player at best in that market. FrameMaker is popular, and content management systems like AuthorIT are gaining traction. This market is all about reuse of content, and LaTeX doesn't offer that, as far as I know. LaTeX is aimed more at academic publishing.
It may be true that LaTeX is more used in academic publishing, but how is LaTeX not about reuse of content? Define your own commands to write similar equations, easily and portably generate documents from a simple script or program, \include{subdocument}, and a thousand other ways of reuse content makes LaTeX the working environment which allows the MOST reuse, as far as I can tell. Auto-generation of all sorts of references, an index, and so forth also reduces manual labor to an extent I have never seen Word (or whatever) even approach. Please, do correct me if I am wrong, because if something exists that is even better than LaTeX, I'll want to know!
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be trying out LibreOffice now. In the meantime, can someone have a look at their downloads page? 3 screenfuls of Mac PPC (>5 year old machines!) language packs before anything else is not at all sensible. Kthxbai!
Spot on. Please, help spreading the work of Robert Adair, he's got papers on both ELF and cell phones. One of them is found here:
http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v43/i2/p1039_1
There's one about cell phones too, he basically disproves the whole thing using thermodynamics and simple, fundamental physics arguments. It's more thorough than waving your jedi hand and saying "non-ionizing", too.
No. Where I live (outside the US - yes, such a place exists) there is no unemployment (to speak of). People are going for more and more education here, too. For that reason, I don't buy the "economic downturn" argument.
Try backing up in an uphill doing some tight parking maneuver.
I don't live in a terribly hilly area, but wouldn't that be a lot easier with an automatic?
No. At least not with an older, worn automatic. With the clutch you get centimeter (inch?) precision, but with an automatic you rev the engine until it suddenly jumps backwards. At least on a 1995 Ford Mustang. Oh, and manual transmission in hills is easy - you just have to learn it.
I suppose if you live in Scandinavia, that's a pretty good argument, but I don't.
Try backing up in an uphill doing some tight parking maneuver. Yes, that happened to me, in the US (San Francisco) last week. Oh, and I live in Scandinavia, so +1 on the icy point, too. The road doesn't even have to be steep.
I have a macbook pro, and the suspend feature is amazing. I never need to turn it off. I have no idea either why people reboot, outside of core OS updates.. But hey, more features, woot.
Available, in the same way that most people have available a fork to put into their eyes. At least on my install, I can't jump backwards or forwards in videos. "Rich user experience" my posterior. Everything microsoft touches on the mac turns into a fetid pair of dingo's kidneys.
You need to be modded up and start a project. I have been thinking along similar lines. I would think you could make a filesystem which would let you "tag browse"; i.e. as an alternative to browsing directories, one would browse tags instead. Probably you could even do it without making a new filesystem implementation. By the way, lots of metadata already exists (that I think are portable): PDFs can have their creator specified, EXIF data on JPEGs and so on. Just creating a general unix/linux/mac(/windows through cygwin?) variant of locate that would search metadata on the command line would be awesome (and could be the foundation of a GUI tool or two).
It is called a file system. You can put it on Dropbox, Jungledisk, or even better, use unison for synchronization. Use folders to group files together. Use filenames to remind yourself what the content is. Use file suffixes to show the file type. To search, use spotlight or mdfind on OS X, locate on linux, and... go kill yourself on windows (disclaimer: I've only tried the search function on XP and older windozes). Metadata works great with spotlight; I don't know any solutions to that on linux or windows, but someone else probably does.
If you're saying that Android should support wireless tether out of the box,
I know several people who have android 2.2+ phones, and theirs had wifi tethering out of the box. 3G network in, wifi tether out. If it isn't working "out of the box", someone removed it from the box.
You should trust statistical mechanics, yes. If the RMS electromagnetic fields inside cells are orders of magnitude stronger than the fields emitted from a cell phone, then you can neglect them. It's like worrying about the UV radiation from a household fluorescent light source 100 meter away, when you're standing butt naked on the beach in the sunlight. You don't need to know much cell biology to understand those principles.
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Cray has several of the Top 10 supercomputers on earth, especially in the US. They're pretty nice to work with, too.
I have one (macbook pro), it looks pretty much like the old "matte" displays to me. It is certainly not made of glass, and nowhere near as shiny as those models.
Mod parent up. I write fortran code, and I can't be bothered with this android crap. I have an android phone now, and that's definitely the last time I'm getting one. Story is exactly that of the charts - vendor promises "Android 2.2 will be here soon", then a long wait, then "Android 2.1 is here, woot! We're not going to upgrade to newer versions, f*** you, customer". So my phone is in the red for its entire lifetime, which is pretty short, because the battery conked out, and I'm guessing that the new one I got will, too.
I agree, same system here - but if you're running all 4 cores at full tilt it's going to make some noise. What laptop doesn't?
I call BS. Statisticians frequently recommend against going with the trends, because they change so quickly. When I started out in college, IT was going crap, just after the dotcom bubble burst. These days, IT is doing rather well. Financial analysts can't see 5 years into the future, how are kids at age 18 going to do that? Of course, it's no surprise that an arts degree is going to get you unemployed, but that's a different story imho.
Instead of wrist rests, try sweatbands. I love mine - also great if your laptop has sharp edges.
Is \include{subdocument} workable when that subdocument is one paragraph long and you have 1000 subdocuments in your book?
I've never tried, but why shouldn't it? LaTeX is a compiler; surely a project of 1000 files could be compiled. Also, there are other ways, such as defining 1000 macros in a single file.
In FrameMaker, you have 'conditional text' which allows you to tag text with a condition. During publishing, you select the conditions you want shown or hidden. This allows you to have one master document to describe a series of related machines (or what have you). All WYSIWYG. Autogeneration of all sorts of lists, and a scripting language are available.
WYSIWYG is a downside IMHO. The UNIX philosophy says "use text, it is a general interface". Also, you can have conditionals in LaTeX code. Oh well, people and their preferences differ, so secretaries probably disagree with me. Of course you could chuck text strings in a database if you wanted to avoid files in a filesystem, too. Heck, you can probably even awk | grep | sed | latex, if you want to - as I said, text is universal, there's a million ways of working with it.
LaTeX/LyX is a nice project, but 'king for technical writing'? Technical writing generally means user guides and other product manuals, and LaTeX is a niche player at best in that market. FrameMaker is popular, and content management systems like AuthorIT are gaining traction. This market is all about reuse of content, and LaTeX doesn't offer that, as far as I know. LaTeX is aimed more at academic publishing.
It may be true that LaTeX is more used in academic publishing, but how is LaTeX not about reuse of content? Define your own commands to write similar equations, easily and portably generate documents from a simple script or program, \include{subdocument}, and a thousand other ways of reuse content makes LaTeX the working environment which allows the MOST reuse, as far as I can tell. Auto-generation of all sorts of references, an index, and so forth also reduces manual labor to an extent I have never seen Word (or whatever) even approach. Please, do correct me if I am wrong, because if something exists that is even better than LaTeX, I'll want to know!
Actually Fortran is alive and well and still has no real rivals in the high performance computing scene.
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be trying out LibreOffice now. In the meantime, can someone have a look at their downloads page? 3 screenfuls of Mac PPC (>5 year old machines!) language packs before anything else is not at all sensible. Kthxbai!
Spot on. Please, help spreading the work of Robert Adair, he's got papers on both ELF and cell phones. One of them is found here: http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v43/i2/p1039_1 There's one about cell phones too, he basically disproves the whole thing using thermodynamics and simple, fundamental physics arguments. It's more thorough than waving your jedi hand and saying "non-ionizing", too.
More relevant I'd say.
No. Where I live (outside the US - yes, such a place exists) there is no unemployment (to speak of). People are going for more and more education here, too. For that reason, I don't buy the "economic downturn" argument.
Miss Texas at 12:20. Not the worst one, in fact.
Try backing up in an uphill doing some tight parking maneuver.
I don't live in a terribly hilly area, but wouldn't that be a lot easier with an automatic?
No. At least not with an older, worn automatic. With the clutch you get centimeter (inch?) precision, but with an automatic you rev the engine until it suddenly jumps backwards. At least on a 1995 Ford Mustang. Oh, and manual transmission in hills is easy - you just have to learn it.
I suppose if you live in Scandinavia, that's a pretty good argument, but I don't.
Try backing up in an uphill doing some tight parking maneuver. Yes, that happened to me, in the US (San Francisco) last week. Oh, and I live in Scandinavia, so +1 on the icy point, too. The road doesn't even have to be steep.
I have a macbook pro, and the suspend feature is amazing. I never need to turn it off. I have no idea either why people reboot, outside of core OS updates.. But hey, more features, woot.
Available, in the same way that most people have available a fork to put into their eyes. At least on my install, I can't jump backwards or forwards in videos. "Rich user experience" my posterior. Everything microsoft touches on the mac turns into a fetid pair of dingo's kidneys.
I know you're honest. You can't have been a facebook user for more than one night :) They'll reset and modify your settings soon enough, young one.
You need to be modded up and start a project. I have been thinking along similar lines. I would think you could make a filesystem which would let you "tag browse"; i.e. as an alternative to browsing directories, one would browse tags instead. Probably you could even do it without making a new filesystem implementation. By the way, lots of metadata already exists (that I think are portable): PDFs can have their creator specified, EXIF data on JPEGs and so on. Just creating a general unix/linux/mac(/windows through cygwin?) variant of locate that would search metadata on the command line would be awesome (and could be the foundation of a GUI tool or two).
It is called a file system. You can put it on Dropbox, Jungledisk, or even better, use unison for synchronization. Use folders to group files together. Use filenames to remind yourself what the content is. Use file suffixes to show the file type. To search, use spotlight or mdfind on OS X, locate on linux, and... go kill yourself on windows (disclaimer: I've only tried the search function on XP and older windozes). Metadata works great with spotlight; I don't know any solutions to that on linux or windows, but someone else probably does.
If you're saying that Android should support wireless tether out of the box,
I know several people who have android 2.2+ phones, and theirs had wifi tethering out of the box. 3G network in, wifi tether out. If it isn't working "out of the box", someone removed it from the box.
I think the explanation is simpler: Sara Palin hired someone to do it for her.
Oh god I want to go there and "ask a missionary" about the missionary position. I'm sorry, I can't help myself.
You should trust statistical mechanics, yes. If the RMS electromagnetic fields inside cells are orders of magnitude stronger than the fields emitted from a cell phone, then you can neglect them. It's like worrying about the UV radiation from a household fluorescent light source 100 meter away, when you're standing butt naked on the beach in the sunlight. You don't need to know much cell biology to understand those principles.