I can just see it now... Get an old metal lunchbox, stick this in the main compartment, with a small LCD screen on top, and shoehorn a keyboard w/ touchpad into the underside of the lid. Add some ports on the bottomof the lunchbox and a power supply (somewhere...) Voila! You've got a LinuxPPC lunchbox.
The problem with TeX is that is doesn't preserve content, which is one of the goals of MathML. $f(a+b)$ can be interpreted as either "f of a plus b" or "f times the quantity a plus b". If I select expression in my web browser and paste it into my favorite math program, how does it interpret it? This ambiguity will exist for content generated from TeX in either case, but if the expression is generated in a math program, it will be able to embed the interpretation, conserving the content. Then when someone copies it into another math program, the program automatically knows how to interpret it.
I believe it's at that point in the article that they reference Cajori, the author of an amazing book on the history of mathematical notation. I don't have it handy, but there are all kinds of notations that we take for granted today, that were formerly written in several different ways by different authors. It's an interesting book to pick up and read a few pages at various points in the book, although it's not meant to be read cover to cover. The book is filled with things like "person A used this notation in paper B in 1734" and gives an example, "while Person C used this other notation in his 1736 paper D." (another example)
Actually, it would need a notice on the wrapping along the lines of: "By opening this shrink-wrap you hereby agree to abide by the license located on the inside cover of the enclosed book."
At least in America this is unenforcable. You can' tax used items either because the government already got it's cut the first time around.
Where did you get this idea? I know that I paid sales tax when I bought my car from my parents a few years ago. Granted, the amount of the tax was based on the age of the car, not the price, but it was still a tax.
Similarly, most of the larger flea markets I've been to have had signs posted that the vendors are required to collect sales tax, and probably half the stuff is used at those places.
HTH
Brett
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Actually, there original version was flawed. See this page for more information. Check out the "Post Script: An Attack on the CP Algorithm" section.
Part of the problem with the current system is that companies get names under as many TLD's as possible. What if we created "regional TLD's", with the stipulation that the company be within an appropriate region. This is based along the idea for the local newsgroups in the Champaign-Urbana area of Illinois. All the local newsgroups are of the form cmi.*, with cmi being the local airport code. Under this system, a local business, say Bob's Bike Store (fictional) could have the domain bobsbikes.cmi, whereas someone else could have bobsbikes.lax, bobsbikes.ord, etc...
Granted, this would take a bit more work and oversight than the current system uses, but perhaps part of the workload could be taken on by local ISP's.
Brett
Disclaimer: This has not been thought out in great detail by me, since I'm not an expert on such matters, but I think it might work.
Last week the Chicago Tribune had a column that goes into some detail about some of the additional lobbying that Bill Gates has done recently. It's quite scary, in fact. A brief quote from the article:
The Republicans even pledged to turn Microsoft's conviction into a campaign issue. "This should be looked into by Congress," said Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi.
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Unless there's evidence that a person purposely overdosed on cocaine, the death would probably be ruled "accidental".
I spent a morning on a coroner's jury hearing inquests a while back, and it was kinda interesting.
Here's a description someone wrote up of their experience, and it was pretty similar to how mine went:
http://www.omnux.com/kvandivo/jury/
I can just see it now... Get an old metal lunchbox, stick this in the main compartment, with a small LCD screen on top, and shoehorn a keyboard w/ touchpad into the underside of the lid. Add some ports on the bottomof the lunchbox and a power supply (somewhere...) Voila! You've got a LinuxPPC lunchbox.
Gives a whole new meaning to swapping lunches...
Brett
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Similarly, most of the larger flea markets I've been to have had signs posted that the vendors are required to collect sales tax, and probably half the stuff is used at those places.
HTH
Brett
Actually, there original version was flawed. See this page for more information. Check out the "Post Script: An Attack on the CP Algorithm" section.
Brett
Part of the problem with the current system is that companies get names under as many TLD's as possible. What if we created "regional TLD's", with the stipulation that the company be within an appropriate region. This is based along the idea for the local newsgroups in the Champaign-Urbana area of Illinois. All the local newsgroups are of the form cmi.*, with cmi being the local airport code. Under this system, a local business, say Bob's Bike Store (fictional) could have the domain bobsbikes.cmi, whereas someone else could have bobsbikes.lax, bobsbikes.ord, etc...
Granted, this would take a bit more work and oversight than the current system uses, but perhaps part of the workload could be taken on by local ISP's.
Brett
Disclaimer: This has not been thought out in great detail by me, since I'm not an expert on such matters, but I think it might work.
Last week the Chicago Tribune had a column that goes into some detail about some of the additional lobbying that Bill Gates has done recently. It's quite scary, in fact. A brief quote from the article:
The Republicans even pledged to turn Microsoft's conviction into a campaign issue. "This should be looked into by Congress," said Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi.
You'll need to log in to view the actual article.
Brett