If you run linux or windows, you can get a decent version of latex, ps2pdf, and lyx to make publication quality articles, books, or even web pages.
latex makes nice postscript files lyx is a free latex editor (not quite WYSIWYG, but it makes latex less painful sometimes) ps2pdf works great to make postscripts into pdfs
I have also used a combination of crossover, MS office, and ps2pdf to make nice PDF files out of word docs / powerpoint files.
Oh yeah, and tgif makes great vector graphics for free.
Free stuff, open formats, with source code so you can keep using the applications until you cannot build them anymore....
We found some sarin in a roadside bomb that exploded, and some Polish troops found 15 shells with cyclosarin. Search google news for sarin to find stories on both events.
They never promised nuclear weapons, and we knew they had bio and chemical weapons, we just had to find them.
And don't give me the tired old "it is only enough to kill a few thousand people" crap. A WMD is a WMD. One is to many, and we have found around 20 shells, so far./. bitches about "censored" news stories, but stuff that actually supports the war and kicking ass in the middle east also gets dropped or overlooked.
I think chemical weapons are included in the definition of WMDs. They can certainly kill thousands in a single strike, ask the Kurds.
I listened to speaches of W, and I never thought we would find nukes, just bio or chemical and an active nuke program in the process of making nukes.
Still, one terrorist with a couple of chemical / biological weapons can really ruin your day in Manhattan.
I have not seen anything on the bill only letting W go into Iraq with UN permission, but I do remember the UN resolution promising dire consequences. Yes, it may be a gray area WRT the UN, but it is difficult to get some middle of the road media info. Moveon or foxnews won't give you a real analysis.
From google:
Definitions of weapon of mass destruction on the Web:
a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
Wait, they found enough to kill thousands, if not tens of thousands, with roumors that a lot of the stockpile may have moved to Syria. Finding SOME evidence should suffice.
How muc WMD must be found to convice a Bush-hating liberal? I bet you could never find enough.
The US military also deposed one of the world's terrible dictators. That alone should have been reason enough to justify military action.
The US was enforcing UN sanctions, with UN approval. I think the wording was "dire consequences" for not Iraq not accepting UN requests.
Would you rather fight the war in NYC? I prefer using our military in someone else's backyard.
Some people in the US would rather the UN rule for us, telling us what to do. Total BS. Move to France, hippies.
And if you read enough about Iraq trying to get nuclear weapons, there is a substantial back story that may indicate they were looking into African uranium. I really don't know.
You really need to read more than moveon.org and the NYT and/.
We found some sarin in a roadside bomb that exploded, and some Polish troops found 15 shells with cyclosarin. Search google news for sarin to find stories on both events.
They never promised nuclear weapons, and we knew they had bio and chemical weapons, we just had to find them.
And don't give me the tired old "it is only enough to kill a few thousand people" crap. A WMD is a WMD. One is to many, and we have found around 20 shells, so far./. bitches about "censored" news stories, but stuff that actually supports the war and kicking ass in the middle east also gets dropped or overlooked.
That is like saying "I flew on 15 different flights last month, but no one reports it on the news. All I hear about is the one or two plane crashes. News reporting is so unrepresentative."
Why should there be news stories covering something that MS should have done a decade ago? How we forget that BG missed the internet thing, see The Road Ahead, Ed 1, before the internet got added back in his vision.
We should give MS praise for delivering a software firewall, even though it appears to be insecure by default?
If you read/. a bit, you know it is slanted. Don't complain.
If you read/. a bit, you know the posters are mostly idiots, (self included), don't complain.
If you are a MS fanboy, go find some MS fanboy community, don't complain here.
This is not a linux site, it is news for nerds, although you may consider it pro-linux. Nerds use MS products too, so we need to know what is going on with everything from linux to XP to Mac to more obscure (dec, sgi / mips, etc).
Smear campaign agains MS? You sound like you could be on the MS payroll, one of those "grassroots" marketing efforts they can fund with the stacks of cash they make sellin you a $1 CD / software package for $300. I have never met a legitimate fan of MS products. People may be ok with MS, but few take it upon themselves to defend MS openly.
I think I saw the special back when it aired. I was around six or seven at the time. I was probably the target audience. From the perspective of a six year old, it seemed ok at the time. Look, Chewbacca! And Luke!
As a kid, I had every single action figure and playset for the star wars line. I even got some that you had to collect stickers and send in for. So they had me hooked, even with the Christmas special.
Lucas was a master of merchandising, and I think the star wars series was one of the first to realy exploit the kids with a full line of toys, sheets, etc.
They can also look at purchase records from bookstores, and subpoena internet records. Where else am I supposed to obtain reading materials, pray tell?
If you are that paranoid (or that busy doing something illegal) you should be paying with untraceable cash for your transactions and surfing anonymously at a internet cafe.
Anything you do online, assume that ayone can watch over your shoulder.
Any email could be forwarded, so never say anything that you wouldn't want everyone to know about in email.
Do you really think that this will "silence dissent"? Are you really that daft?
There are still thousands (tens of thousands?, hundreds of thousands?) of protesters in NYC whining about everything under the sun.
This was on jerkoff that got busted for vandalism. Maybe it doesn't meet the standard, maybe it does, let that come out in the general trial. There are still tons of people protesting around town. Maybe they won't paint stuff on the streets so they don't have to all go to jail.
We still allow political protests like we still allow idiots to post crap on slashdot, but apparently painting streets with semi-permanet chalk MAY be over the line. Carry a sign, use a bull horn, hand out pamplets if you don't want trouble.
A buddy of mine got repeatedly hastled by the cops at Auburn for chaking a few years back.
What about chalking a building? Sure it will wash off in a few weeks...
What about a new marketing method? Coke buys a truck that chalks up everything in sight, but it will wash off, no worries.
IBM got in trouble for hiring a marketing group that spray painted pro linux motos on the sidewalks in boston. They got busted and had to clean the stuff up.
True, transparency, dragging windows cleanly, and pager preview are nice. They are still eye-candy, but it does help with the wow-factor.
We have huge GPU's, so why not use them. Good point.
It is amazing the strides linux has made over the last few years. As you knock out more and more of the limitations, people can't say "I can't swich because linux doesn't do anti-aliased fonts or transparent windows." They may bitch on usability, but that is another problem...
XM is pretty good with tons of channels, but even there you start hearing a couple of repeat songs after listening to your favorite 5-10 channels.
I have thought about ripping hours of XM to mp3, but I would not get the info tags that I have in my collection.
But you would have an hours of commercial free music...
I bet you could hook up a web cam to watch the XM display, image process the camera output to get the text, cut off the mp3 song and insert the song title and artist tags whenever the song changed, but I don't have the time, and your swithching might suck as the overlap the songs a bit, but you could fade in and out.
And you would get stuck with text string limitations of XM. My wife and I still laugh about one incendent. I said "That shounds like the Bosstones," and she said, "No, it is the Mighty Might's"
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It is eye candy, and it is cool, but I still have trouble using it for real work.
Maybe for some applications (drawing?) it might be ok, but reading web pages and writing code, transparency makes my eyes hurt...
I remember the first time I saw a neat looking transparent eterm years back. It was very hard to use for any length of time at all, but it is neat to show people.
Back to my glowing monochromatic lime green vt100 serial terminal for another round of nethack. "Welcome Luddite the evoker!"
You are wrong on at least one account, he does not support federal funding for new stem cell research.
You can use all your private funds on new stem cell lines, or you can write a federal grant to use the existing lines.
And I am not sure what "his education and domestic policy are faltering" means. People may not agree with some policy, but such broad statements are difficult to examine.
Yeah, say what you want about newfangled nethack interfaces, but when I finally started using unix and vi I already knew how to move the cursor around using h j k l naturally.
Slashdot Mirror
If you run linux or windows, you can get a decent version of latex, ps2pdf, and lyx to make publication quality articles, books, or even web pages.
latex makes nice postscript files
lyx is a free latex editor (not quite WYSIWYG, but it makes latex less painful sometimes)
ps2pdf works great to make postscripts into pdfs
I have also used a combination of crossover, MS office, and ps2pdf to make nice PDF files out of word docs / powerpoint files.
Oh yeah, and tgif makes great vector graphics for free.
Free stuff, open formats, with source code so you can keep using the applications until you cannot build them anymore....
You can get rid of it by removing the first part of the URL, like chage games.slashdot.org to slashdot.org.
The following is from another comment to help you in mozilla automatically drop the it. or games. part:
Create New bookmark.
Label something useful - "/. it fix"
In location insert this
javascript:void(location.hostname = "slashdot.org");
If you can get to a prompt (logged in as a user, not as root) the following may work:
kill -9 -1
This kills all your jobs with highest priority, and should kill X. If you kill all the jobs as root, you probably need to reboot...
They do have a math markup, mathml.
It is not real nice to use without some sort of editor to generate it. I think MathType does it in Windows.
I think the latest Mozilla supports it:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/
htt
Usually, it is probably better to make a pdf, but then you miss out on hyperlinks (unless you know how to stick them in your pdf)
If you don't like it, move. I hear North Dakota is very pleasant in January, and you would get to maximize your "voter impact."
If you don't like the constitiution, get people to ammend it...
Terrific!
I tried mucking around with my
You may be able to fix this to completely automate the color removal, but I have not figured it out.
Thanks!
Ed
I think chemical weapons are included in the definition of WMDs. They can certainly kill thousands in a single strike, ask the Kurds.
I listened to speaches of W, and I never thought we would find nukes, just bio or chemical and an active nuke program in the process of making nukes.
Still, one terrorist with a couple of chemical / biological weapons can really ruin your day in Manhattan.
I have not seen anything on the bill only letting W go into Iraq with UN permission, but I do remember the UN resolution promising dire consequences. Yes, it may be a gray area WRT the UN, but it is difficult to get some middle of the road media info. Moveon or foxnews won't give you a real analysis.
From google:
Definitions of weapon of mass destruction on the Web:
a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn
You can remove the politics from politics.slashdot.org to get your scheme back to "normal"
Works for yro.slashdot.org and it.slashdot.org
I have not figured out how to automate this.
Could you point me to a quote where he promised nukes?
I know he said something about "British intelligence has info supporting Iraq attempting to buy uranium" but W never promised nukes.
I think they did promis biological / chemical, and that is what they found.
How much WMD would be enough to satify you?
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Enough to kill 1,000 people?
Enough to kill 10,000 people?
Enough to kill 1,000,000 people?
Wait, they found enough to kill thousands, if not tens of thousands, with roumors that a lot of the stockpile may have moved to Syria. Finding SOME evidence should suffice.
How muc WMD must be found to convice a Bush-hating liberal? I bet you could never find enough.
The US military also deposed one of the world's terrible dictators. That alone should have been reason enough to justify military action.
The US was enforcing UN sanctions, with UN approval. I think the wording was "dire consequences" for not Iraq not accepting UN requests.
Would you rather fight the war in NYC? I prefer using our military in someone else's backyard.
Some people in the US would rather the UN rule for us, telling us what to do. Total BS. Move to France, hippies.
And if you read enough about Iraq trying to get nuclear weapons, there is a substantial back story that may indicate they were looking into African uranium. I really don't know.
You really need to read more than moveon.org and the NYT and
Uh, they did find WMD's in Iraq, multiple times.
/. bitches about "censored" news stories, but stuff that actually supports the war and kicking ass in the middle east also gets dropped or overlooked.
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We found some sarin in a roadside bomb that exploded, and some Polish troops found 15 shells with cyclosarin. Search google news for sarin to find stories on both events.
They never promised nuclear weapons, and we knew they had bio and chemical weapons, we just had to find them.
And don't give me the tired old "it is only enough to kill a few thousand people" crap. A WMD is a WMD. One is to many, and we have found around 20 shells, so far.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.as
That is like saying "I flew on 15 different flights last month, but no one reports it on the news. All I hear about is the one or two plane crashes. News reporting is so unrepresentative."
/. a bit, you know it is slanted. Don't complain.
/. a bit, you know the posters are mostly idiots, (self included), don't complain.
Why should there be news stories covering something that MS should have done a decade ago? How we forget that BG missed the internet thing, see The Road Ahead, Ed 1, before the internet got added back in his vision.
We should give MS praise for delivering a software firewall, even though it appears to be insecure by default?
If you read
If you read
If you are a MS fanboy, go find some MS fanboy community, don't complain here.
This is not a linux site, it is news for nerds, although you may consider it pro-linux. Nerds use MS products too, so we need to know what is going on with everything from linux to XP to Mac to more obscure (dec, sgi / mips, etc).
Smear campaign agains MS? You sound like you could be on the MS payroll, one of those "grassroots" marketing efforts they can fund with the stacks of cash they make sellin you a $1 CD / software package for $300. I have never met a legitimate fan of MS products. People may be ok with MS, but few take it upon themselves to defend MS openly.
I think I saw the special back when it aired. I was around six or seven at the time. I was probably the target audience. From the perspective of a six year old, it seemed ok at the time. Look, Chewbacca! And Luke!
As a kid, I had every single action figure and playset for the star wars line. I even got some that you had to collect stickers and send in for. So they had me hooked, even with the Christmas special.
Lucas was a master of merchandising, and I think the star wars series was one of the first to realy exploit the kids with a full line of toys, sheets, etc.
They can also look at purchase records from bookstores, and subpoena internet records. Where else am I supposed to obtain reading materials, pray tell?
If you are that paranoid (or that busy doing something illegal) you should be paying with untraceable cash for your transactions and surfing anonymously at a internet cafe.
Anything you do online, assume that ayone can watch over your shoulder.
Any email could be forwarded, so never say anything that you wouldn't want everyone to know about in email.
Do you really think that this will "silence dissent"? Are you really that daft?
There are still thousands (tens of thousands?, hundreds of thousands?) of protesters in NYC whining about everything under the sun.
This was on jerkoff that got busted for vandalism. Maybe it doesn't meet the standard, maybe it does, let that come out in the general trial. There are still tons of people protesting around town. Maybe they won't paint stuff on the streets so they don't have to all go to jail.
We still allow political protests like we still allow idiots to post crap on slashdot, but apparently painting streets with semi-permanet chalk MAY be over the line. Carry a sign, use a bull horn, hand out pamplets if you don't want trouble.
Not all universities are so open to defacement.
A buddy of mine got repeatedly hastled by the cops at Auburn for chaking a few years back.
What about chalking a building? Sure it will wash off in a few weeks...
What about a new marketing method? Coke buys a truck that chalks up everything in sight, but it will wash off, no worries.
IBM got in trouble for hiring a marketing group that spray painted pro linux motos on the sidewalks in boston. They got busted and had to clean the stuff up.
True, transparency, dragging windows cleanly, and pager preview are nice. They are still eye-candy, but it does help with the wow-factor.
We have huge GPU's, so why not use them. Good point.
It is amazing the strides linux has made over the last few years. As you knock out more and more of the limitations, people can't say "I can't swich because linux doesn't do anti-aliased fonts or transparent windows." They may bitch on usability, but that is another problem...
XM is pretty good with tons of channels, but even there you start hearing a couple of repeat songs after listening to your favorite 5-10 channels.
I have thought about ripping hours of XM to mp3, but I would not get the info tags that I have in my collection.
But you would have an hours of commercial free music...
I bet you could hook up a web cam to watch the XM display, image process the camera output to get the text, cut off the mp3 song and insert the song title and artist tags whenever the song changed, but I don't have the time, and your swithching might suck as the overlap the songs a bit, but you could fade in and out.
And you would get stuck with text string limitations of XM. My wife and I still laugh about one incendent. I said "That shounds like the Bosstones," and she said, "No, it is the Mighty Might's"
It is eye candy, and it is cool, but I still have trouble using it for real work.
Maybe for some applications (drawing?) it might be ok, but reading web pages and writing code, transparency makes my eyes hurt...
I remember the first time I saw a neat looking transparent eterm years back. It was very hard to use for any length of time at all, but it is neat to show people.
Back to my glowing monochromatic lime green vt100 serial terminal for another round of nethack. "Welcome Luddite the evoker!"
We don't have automated windows, but we do have automated blinds from Hunter Douglas.
They sell a timer that will schedule open/close cycles, so you can block out the intense afternoon sun while you are gone.
You are wrong on at least one account, he does not support federal funding for new stem cell research.
You can use all your private funds on new stem cell lines, or you can write a federal grant to use the existing lines.
And I am not sure what "his education and domestic policy are faltering" means. People may not agree with some policy, but such broad statements are difficult to examine.
Yeah, say what you want about newfangled nethack interfaces, but when I finally started using unix and vi I already knew how to move the cursor around using h j k l naturally.
Mice and graphics are for wimps. nethack rules.
Didn't I hear that SSN is not unique? I think the combination of SSN and birth date are required to be unique, unless I am mistaken.
Some really large databases have to take this into account.