For someone who is an affiliate marketer for MacMinis, your omission of Google's Adwords program as an alternative investment vehicle is somewhat surprising.
Inferring that you have not experienced the Adwords bounty, I can assure you that my company's $2000/day ad spend makes a better return than I am willing to divulge publicly. And, like you, we do not even control the point of sale.
I personally use LaTeX for all of my writing beyond a simple memo (which is usually email at this point). Although I am no professional writer, I find myself writing and maintaining several large documents on a daily basis. Things like software architecture documentation, requirements documents, etc.
Tex's seperation of "content" from "formating" means that, as I am writing, I am not distracted by things like font and layout, I can decide on that stuff later. Then all I do is publish to Postscript,PDF or HTML and I am done.
I have written everything from my master's thesis, to magazine/journal articles, and large(50-200 page) documents for my business with it and have had no complaints. The documents can easily be maintained in a source controll system like cvs, because they are just text. I use the emacs tex-mode for editing the documents and I find it to be a very productive combination.
The other nice thing is that LaTeX is a full fledged typesetting system and does a very good job of laying things out in a consistent manner. IIRC, O'Reilly used to use TeX for typesetting all of there books, but I am not sure if that is still ture. But LaTeX does produce great looking documents, I have recieved numerous comments from my clients on how consistent and professional my documents look.
The only problem with it is when people want to get the document in "word format" so that it can be maintained by someone other than myself. Or when I am working on an article and the magazine requires it to be submitted in word format. I still haven't found a good solution to this, but thankfully it is not something that happens too often.
I have thought about moving to a more "modern" system like DocBook, but I haven't found any good tools for working with DocBook documents yet. Nor do I like the very verbose XML syntax which seems to me to clutter up the text much more than the simple LaTeX directives. So, I really haven't had sufficient motivation to change yet.
I can't remeber where I saw it, possibly on zauruszone.com or some such. But there is a python script that allows you to integrate the zaurus w/ evolution. It is called evolution.py I think.
On another note, I would liked to have seen real linux desktop support for the zaurus upon release... but they are getting there. Oh well.
Slashdot Mirror
For someone who is an affiliate marketer for MacMinis, your omission of Google's Adwords program as an alternative investment vehicle is somewhat surprising.
Inferring that you have not experienced the Adwords bounty, I can assure you that my company's $2000/day ad spend makes a better return than I am willing to divulge publicly. And, like you, we do not even control the point of sale.
I personally use LaTeX for all of my writing beyond a simple memo (which is usually email at this point). Although I am no professional writer, I find myself writing and maintaining several large documents on a daily basis. Things like software architecture documentation, requirements documents, etc.
Tex's seperation of "content" from "formating" means that, as I am writing, I am not distracted by things like font and layout, I can decide on that stuff later. Then all I do is publish to Postscript,PDF or HTML and I am done.
I have written everything from my master's thesis, to magazine/journal articles, and large(50-200 page) documents for my business with it and have had no complaints. The documents can easily be maintained in a source controll system like cvs, because they are just text. I use the emacs tex-mode for editing the documents and I find it to be a very productive combination.
The other nice thing is that LaTeX is a full fledged typesetting system and does a very good job of laying things out in a consistent manner. IIRC, O'Reilly used to use TeX for typesetting all of there books, but I am not sure if that is still ture. But LaTeX does produce great looking documents, I have recieved numerous comments from my clients on how consistent and professional my documents look.
The only problem with it is when people want to get the document in "word format" so that it can be maintained by someone other than myself. Or when I am working on an article and the magazine requires it to be submitted in word format. I still haven't found a good solution to this, but thankfully it is not something that happens too often.
I have thought about moving to a more "modern" system like DocBook, but I haven't found any good tools for working with DocBook documents yet. Nor do I like the very verbose XML syntax which seems to me to clutter up the text much more than the simple LaTeX directives. So, I really haven't had sufficient motivation to change yet.
I can't remeber where I saw it, possibly on zauruszone.com or some such. But there is a python script that allows you to integrate the zaurus w/ evolution. It is called evolution.py I think.
On another note, I would liked to have seen real linux desktop support for the zaurus upon release... but they are getting there. Oh well.