You want a programmatic way to generate PDF, yet you eschew pdfTeX, which is a compiled language that produces PDF as native output, and is a descendent of TeX, a language invented by Knuth, a programmatic fellow if there ever was one.
Sorry, but it's obvious you don't know much about TeX.
Do any other really complete and compatible math fonts even exist?
Yes. MathTime and Lucida Math, to name the two
most complete sets. A consortium of publishers has a third set in the works. And there are numerous math implementaions that exist but don't pass muster as
"complete".
Making even slight adjustments or fixes is a real nightmare
Do you know about, e.g., ConTeXt?
As far as I know, this has only been done using web2c
Wrong again. Google Kasper Peeters for a complete recode of TeX in C or C++. And NTS,
a Java TeX.
I would suggest rather getting
ghostscript for Windows, the free
PostScript interpreter, and also GSview, a viewer (the latter requires the former).
Ghostscript is free as in speech, with a GNU release and a release under AFPL, a slightly different license (the GNU code is older than the AFPL code). GSview is available, as far as I can tell, under the AFPL only, which is still free but not GPL.
With both of these properly installed on Windows,
one click on the link provided by Slashdot will
launch the viewer. (It must gunzip on-the-fly.)
pure titanum [sic] is not as stong as the
titanium alloy with 6% Aluminum and 4% Vanadium.
This is what's usually used when Ti is used as a lighter
alternative to steel.
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We don't have a randomized experiment here, with cabinet size
being manipulated... countries get the cabinets they choose
(sort of).
More complex problems (to begin with) -?-> larger cabinet.
Is a deal breaker for me.
(Yes I know the OS supports non-Apple mice, but it's
still an issue with notebooks/laptops.)
using TeX or whatever
And that's bad because...?
You want a programmatic way to generate PDF,
yet you eschew pdfTeX, which is a
compiled language that produces PDF as native output,
and is a descendent of TeX, a language invented by
Knuth, a programmatic fellow if there ever was one.
I have never gotten dual-head support
out of the OS nv driver; the nVidia
closed-source drivers work for dual
head workstations.
As has been mentioned, why get an nVidia
card for your server? And this may be a
moot point for single-user workstations.
But do not assume that the nv driver is
a panacea.
I used a hard drive when they were the size of a suitcase.
That's nothing. I used a hard drive when they were the size of a VW and held only 64 bytes. That's bytes not kb.
This (and the pricetag) is exactly why the
Segway has not taken off.
For everyone who thinks its cool, there are
10 people who think it's stupid, or, at best,
"dorky". Gob, the buffoon, rides a segway.
Michael, the straight man, rides a bicycle.
The Segway has utterly failed to tip the tipping
point, unlike, say, those Razor scooters that
you (still!) see everywhere.
My freshman year at college, the campus paper did a survey on love/sex/etc.
This was 1989 and Tetris was quite the late-night procrastination tool before looking for MP3s, etc.
Included was a series of anonymous quotes about the stare of love on campus. I'll never forget, one female student said:
Love here is like Tetris. You never get the long piece when you need it.
I'd rather have a filesystem scan than a fscked up filesystem. Is this really a big deal to people?
Sorry, but it's obvious you don't know much about TeX.
Do any other really complete and compatible math fonts even exist?
Yes. MathTime and Lucida Math, to name the two most complete sets. A consortium of publishers has a third set in the works. And there are numerous math implementaions that exist but don't pass muster as "complete".
Making even slight adjustments or fixes is a real nightmare
Do you know about, e.g., ConTeXt?
As far as I know, this has only been done using web2c
Wrong again. Google Kasper Peeters for a complete recode of TeX in C or C++. And NTS, a Java TeX.
Laid out with great care, byte-for-byte.
Whatever, dude.
Another program of his (the name escapes me) progress the in the same way towards the base of the natural logarithm e.
That would be METAFONT. It's a companion program to TeX, for making fonts.
I would suggest rather getting ghostscript for Windows, the free PostScript interpreter, and also GSview, a viewer (the latter requires the former).
Ghostscript is free as in speech, with a GNU release and a release under AFPL, a slightly different license (the GNU code is older than the AFPL code). GSview is available, as far as I can tell, under the AFPL only, which is still free but not GPL.
With both of these properly installed on Windows, one click on the link provided by Slashdot will launch the viewer. (It must gunzip on-the-fly.)
Are you copyrighting whitespace?
Or was that meant to be silence? Which would have a (P), for phonographic copyright.
I'd like you to see what happens when all the 'peons' go on strike.
... Surely you jest!
In the tech industry?
Tech has the weakest unions of any major industry and the worst track record of organization and job actions.
P.S. Nice troll.
Back atcha.
I will probably be modded down for "redundant", but I'd just like to say, I wish there were a (Score: 6) for posts like this. Kudos to you.
To the OP: dude, like fmaxwell said, it's not our problem that your servers are down. Feel important on your own time.
ah... Vienna
(Ultravox!)
(The new wave band).
"save link as"
has become
"save link target as"
barf. this is IE-speak
M105 have a problem with defective manufacture (something around 5% it seems)
I must be in the other 95%. I've had a Palm m105 since November 2001 and it works great.
Insightful? You must be fucking shitting me!!!!
Take all my karma away. I don't care.
First there was Jon Katz's puking piece yesterday, and now this Lucas-asslicking shill troll is "5-insightful"
What is slashdot coming to?
...it was a book review, New Yorker style, not an article.
As they say on USENET, "watch your attributions"
gotta agree with you. I use Mathematica, though not often, for mathy stuff. But always IDL for graphs and LaTeX for text. Glad somone made the point.
Somone mod that up.
"centrifugal force does not exist" is not true.
"centrifugal force is called a 'fictitious' force in physics 101" is true.
I think electolysis of seawater is a far cheaper source of hydrogen than mining from deep within the earth's crust. And this also gives off oxygen.
It's not the inavailability of H2 that has lead to our oil dependence.
pure titanum [sic] is not as stong as the titanium alloy with 6% Aluminum and 4% Vanadium. This is what's usually used when Ti is used as a lighter alternative to steel.
http://www.ushba.com/tifacts.html
Various companies have been making Titanium ice screws for about 11 years now.
Lighter than Cr/Mo and rustproof, take more wear and tear then Al, and stronger, all things equal, than either one.
See for example.
They own Lexmark!
No, they don't. Lexmark is a publicly-traded company with some close business links to IBM.