But it's not exactly a new phenomenon. Artists have always revised their work after release - to pick one example at random, the version of Wagner's Tannhäuser that's actually performed is almost invariably the "Paris" version, revised in the early 1860s from the 1845 original to take advantage of Wagner's later skill with the orchestra. The only thing I wish is that more directors|authors|composers got the chance to update in the light of later knowledge.
Of course, as per the linked document, MathML isn't supposed to replace TeX any more than PostScript is - it's meant to be machine-generated from easier-to-input forms such as TeX.
Just a clarification of that copyright law comment - even if I don't believe it's right, it is the law, and so I follow it. That's why one doesn't see non-free(-beer) software on my computers - and Netscape (the only non-Free part AFAIK) will be replaced by Galeon full-time as soon as it's feasable.
Why not? After all, it is Famous Fruit. There'll always be people who want the original (the live concert version as it were) rather than a replication. If he doesn't want you replicating it, he should go the software industry route and sell you a license for eating the fruit, rather than the fruit itself. After all, once you're positing Star Trek style replication, basically any physical object is - or can trivially become - software.
(Yes, I'm ducking the "replicating books" question here. Suffice to say that while I don't believe in copyright law, I do believe that an author is within his rights to limit what a consumer does with his work via a contract.)
Unless you made a contract with Farmer Fred not to replicate his Famous Fine Fruit when you bought it, you'd seem to be completely within your rights. What would make you think otherwise?
My palm has a Scheme interpreter - and the very first function I wrote for it was a numeric integrator, precisely because I want it to do everything my old HP 32SII calculator does.
Mind you, the HP is still faster, though not by much. And, alas, I'm not much called upon to integrate arbitrary functions anymore.
Which is all well and good, but SGML (and hence HTML) doesn't use a Unicode character set. It uses 7-bit ASCII. When you send pages with those sorts of characters through something like the W3C's HTML validation program, they show up as errors.
(try telling MSVC to run lex and yacc and then compile the output files, using only.dsp files! HA!)
I do this all the time. It's a bit fiddly, because you have to muck with that horrible custom build step dialog, but it's not even buried too deeply in the GUI. Just say "grammar.y" produces "yy.tab.c" (and "yy.tab.h" if you're having it make tokens for the lexer too) by means of "bison grammar.y", and put both files in the project. Similar for lex.
That said, I still prefer makefiles. Much easier just to set up a general rule and tell make to go to it.
Just to add my two cents to the other non-math applications: recently I've been using TeX almost exclusively to typeset music (via GNU Lilypond). Though I did originally start using TeX to typeset math-heavy CS homework.
The Ultra 5 runs six software operating systems in one workstation: Sun's own Solaris, Java, which it pioneered, Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows NT, Windows 95, DOS and open-source Linux.
NT, 95 and DOS run on a Sparc? News to me.... Presumably there's some sort of emulation going on here. And since when is Java an operating system?
Hm... looks like I'm finally going to have to cave in and get some sort of 3d hardware. So, any recommendations? This is a field about which I know absolutely nothing - and I certainly don't want to buy something only to find that it doesn't work with Linux...
Huh ... multiple VM s ?
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I didn't write the thing. I just have to fix it. (And since I'm me, that means C++.)
Hello! VM's are what Java is all about! If you get rid of the VM, what's the advantage of Java? Buzzword compliance?
My current task at work is to translate Java code into C++ because the servers couldn't handle the load of starting up as many VMs as were needed. If this is ready for use (and you can bet I'm going to give it a try) it'll let me get back to interesting stuff.
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But it's not exactly a new phenomenon. Artists have always revised their work after release - to pick one example at random, the version of Wagner's Tannhäuser that's actually performed is almost invariably the "Paris" version, revised in the early 1860s from the 1845 original to take advantage of Wagner's later skill with the orchestra. The only thing I wish is that more directors|authors|composers got the chance to update in the light of later knowledge.
Of course, as per the linked document, MathML isn't supposed to replace TeX any more than PostScript is - it's meant to be machine-generated from easier-to-input forms such as TeX.
XHTML Basic has forms. It just doesn't have file and image input types (since "only devices with a local filesystem can take advantage" of them).
Just a clarification of that copyright law comment - even if I don't believe it's right, it is the law, and so I follow it. That's why one doesn't see non-free(-beer) software on my computers - and Netscape (the only non-Free part AFAIK) will be replaced by Galeon full-time as soon as it's feasable.
(Yes, I'm ducking the "replicating books" question here. Suffice to say that while I don't believe in copyright law, I do believe that an author is within his rights to limit what a consumer does with his work via a contract.)
Unless you made a contract with Farmer Fred not to replicate his Famous Fine Fruit when you bought it, you'd seem to be completely within your rights. What would make you think otherwise?
Mind you, the HP is still faster, though not by much. And, alas, I'm not much called upon to integrate arbitrary functions anymore.
Yes, Lynx does support HTTPS, though you have to patch the source for it to do so.
Which is all well and good, but SGML (and hence HTML) doesn't use a Unicode character set. It uses 7-bit ASCII. When you send pages with those sorts of characters through something like the W3C's HTML validation program, they show up as errors.
Hm... a special passthrough link on the "blocked site" page. Doesn't sound too hard to code up. I think I'll write that, in fact.
That said, I still prefer makefiles. Much easier just to set up a general rule and tell make to go to it.
On the other hand, some of us can use more music per disk. I'd love not to need to switch disks three times during a single piece of music.
Hm... Just out of curiosity: A javascript link? Well, it works in Preview, anyway. Time to send email to Rob (the other Rob), I think...
Just to add my two cents to the other non-math applications: recently I've been using TeX almost exclusively to typeset music (via GNU Lilypond). Though I did originally start using TeX to typeset math-heavy CS homework.
Hm... looks like I'm finally going to have to cave in and get some sort of 3d hardware. So, any recommendations? This is a field about which I know absolutely nothing - and I certainly don't want to buy something only to find that it doesn't work with Linux...
I didn't write the thing. I just have to fix it. (And since I'm me, that means C++.)
My current task at work is to translate Java code into C++ because the servers couldn't handle the load of starting up as many VMs as were needed. If this is ready for use (and you can bet I'm going to give it a try) it'll let me get back to interesting stuff.