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  1. 1+1=2 on Could LaTeX Replace HTML? · · Score: 1

    I guess my question would be this: Why can't the best features and typesettings be incorporated to HTML? I, admittedly, do not remember much HTML syntax (WYSIWYG spoiled me... =-( ) but it seems to me that the next version of HTML should include a full-featured equation notation that can at a bare minimum compete with MS Equation Editor. Of course I may just be way off base...

  2. Re:Do Something on FBI Releases More Carnivore Information · · Score: 1

    You post has been intercepted by Carnivore, now sit back and relax as we hax0r your inbox... Have a nice day =)

  3. What in God's name... on On The CopyLeft Of DTDs · · Score: 1

    ... is a DTD? It sure doesn't sound good. Maybe its a digitally transmitted disease? Why not just call it a virus?

  4. Computer Can't on What Computers Really Can't Do · · Score: 1

    Reliably run Microsoft Products.

  5. Re:music as information on The Regulon · · Score: 1
    I'd prefer to take the approach that music is a constant the same as a mathematician discovers universal truths. The pathagorean theorem would be true even if nobody ever discovered it or put it into words. Music -- the sum of all the energies and disturbances created from an instrument -- would still exist even if Beethoven never wrote it down. The combinations of notes on a page are infinite as numbers but nobody claims copyright to 88*7 = 616. People do however claim ownership to OTHER equations like the LZH compression used in certain image formats. I am speaking as a musician (believe it or not) and I do agree that it takes a fair amount of intelligence to compose a piece, however just because it was I who have discovered a combination of notes as opposed to some other Joe Schmoe (who is just as capable of writing the same piece, however unprobable) I do not believe that I should be able to controll who listens to my work, or whom it is given to. Instead (as is done with constants and formulas) I name my piece and have the credit of having been the first one to discover it. Taylor didn't patent the Taylor series, Newton and Leibniz did not claim copyright to Calculus or say that Riemann could not use their intellectual properties to develop Riemann sums.

    Yes -- I know that this is a far stretch and that my facts are a little shakey, so please spare the flames, but my point still stands. Music - like math, science, and everything else in this universe - is information. And information does not want to be free. It wants to be known.

  6. Call an apple an apple... on The Regulon · · Score: 1
    Information is information. Not just electronically but in every respect. Is there a regulon in the mother-of-all-harddrives (A.K.A. our brains)? To what degree are human beings (and all creatures for that matter) capable of ingesting information? Is it possible that being human implies a limited ability to understand and process that information, or is it our average life span that will ulitmately kill any chances of having any one person know-it-all, so to speak?

    Just a few thoughts

  7. Re:I beg to differ.... on The Regulon · · Score: 1

    A little further reading would have made me see this point mentioned... (blushing)

  8. I beg to differ.... on The Regulon · · Score: 3
    But I remained fixated on the idea that there is no Regulon in the Semiosphere, no natural barrier to the endless flow and reproduction of electronic information.

    Where do you think the MPAA and RIAA come in? Certaintly not an advocate of the proliferation of electronic information...