I remember a buddy showing me "this cool yahoo thing" on Mosaic my senior year at GT. I think it was hosted out of a home directory rather than a proper URL.
Before that, we were lucky to have "fast" 9600 baud modems in the dorms. Get off of my lawn!
But you are right on use of more interesting packages, latex2html probably can't handle them. But I don't see the advantage of writing my own code and limiting myself to simple cases.
There are some things LyX is better at than pure LaTeX code.
I can see the current version of my figures, not just rely on the file name.
I can add references from a list instead of trying to remember what labels I have used.
I can search bib items and add / order citations easily.
I can make complex tables without forgetting some damn }
I can generate and view a new version of my document in a single keypress.
I can see my equations without having to mentally render them, while still using most of my TeX knowledge (\alpha _12 in LyX is the same as \alpha_{12})
Students can make the transition from Word a little more readily. Remember, LyX is not WYSIWYG, it is WYSIWYM (what you mean) so the on screen representation is close to the final but not exact.
Plus you have access to tons of menu options that you may not be aware of. I learn more about LaTeX by using and exploring LyX. And you can always use pure code if you want, for any fancy stuff.
For mathy stuff, LaTeX is great. I am not sure how to separate that content from the TeX itself. And I never understood why MathML did not just use TeX.
And I am a huge proponent of LyX. Much easier to get students to use than advocating vi+LaTeX....
I have been using LyX for over a decade, and I feel it is a great tool for using LaTeX without the headache of LaTeX. The code it produces is not great, but it is reasonably readable.
It has been done for years. I have seen lots of talks at conferences where they discuss formulating and solving numerical optimization problems to maximize profits subject to constraints.
The first problem is getting all the tax rules formulated as constraints. Crazy tax rules can be difficult to formulate.
The next problem are the 0-1 binary variables for yes/no questions, so you can end up with mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems, which can be difficult to solve deterministically at large scale. But a lot of times, you don't need the global solution, just a good solution so methods like genetic algorithms or simulated annealing work adequately well.
Right. My wife is a PhD chemist, and she has worked in multiple non-related industries, all totally non-related to her fairly obscure PhD thesis topic.
They expect her to figure stuff out on her own and find a solution. A PhD does not guarantee that you have those skills, but it is an indicator that you may have acquired them at some point.
No, it is similar in the US for many Chemistry majors. They often end up running a QC bench without a PhD.
A PhD these days is more often a certification, can you work on a large nebulous problem? Can you work continuously for four or five years on a problem? Can you work with limited direct supervision?
Students do work in their sub-field or sub-subfield. Sometimes they get a truly relevant job, sometimes they get a job in that general area, sometimes they go completely afield. It just depends.
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Did ANYONE criticizing this theory actually listen to the entire lecture??
It's kind of like comparing a television with a video camera.
No, your analogy is flawed.
Tablets and laptop are both computers. The tablet is limited by lack of a keyboard. The iPad is limited in a variety of other ways (Flash, battery, ports, battery, application installs, multitasking, etc).
Even you admit tablets are used for creating and consuming. Creating blog updates. Emails. Pictures. But the tablet is crippled. And overpriced.
The iPad does give you a nice user experience, if all you basically want to do is consume. However if you want to do anything more than play with a toy, you may need something different.
There may be network issues. Just like the FCC regulates what you do with your wifi antenna. Yes, you can get into your router and up the power on your wifi router, but I think it violates some regulations. I am not a EE, but I bet if you up the power it may screw up other frequencies.
For a cell phone, imagine if you started spewing crap packages on their network? Or somehow masked your id and got free service? They don't want people exploiting their network, which I understand.
Ideally they would put all the magic in hardware, then let your OS do whatever you want. Have the cellular radio chip handle everything, so the OS can just interface to it so the network is protected and you can't scam a fake ID. Then you could do whatever you want, like run up cell bills for running over your cap using p2p.
What about a background download? App install? Those can run while you are surfing / pandoraing and eat at data. At least they run in the background on Android.
I think PDAnet also modifies user strings, they claim it should look just like normal browser usage.
However, I notice that normal Android browser allows you to open multiple tabs but it seems to only load the one currently in focus. This does not appear to be the case when tethering, so maybe loading five different web pages simultaneously is a tip-off?
You should get fitted for a tinfoil hat ASAP. So should Stallman.
Maybe you should get rid of your car? Traveling around freely is a tool of the devil and leads one down the path of sin. This new-fangled technology is bad for you.
I remember as a kid seeing a man on the TV telling me that the gubbament is watching us using the TV in our house. So no more TV either.
What else? Books! They may have RFID tags in them, so the CIA is tracking you too. I am sure they want to keep tabs on your penchant for pulp romance novels.
How about, we don't put anything online that you wouldn't say in public to strangers?
I am not sure if you are trying to be humorous in your post.
The US generally has housing for low-income folks. But some people don't take advantage of it for one reason or another.
I have heard people say that most of the homeless in the US have mental health issues. For years, they would have been involuntarily committed, but court cases in the 70s set them free.
Having them hang out in the library is not such a terrible thing for them or the community in general. Although, I doubt they are getting much education.
I made the mistake of taking my kids to the local public library right when it opened one morning. The local shelter is across the street, so all the homeless head over the the library for Heat/AC and internets.
I would say unfettered free internet access for homeless seems to be the new library mission.
But I really don't have a problem with that. It keeps them off the street, it keeps them away from local businesses, it keeps them away from substance abuse a bit.
Personally, I would make internet access in the main hall stand up only and put in a remote "internet access room" with comfy chairs, free coffee, and separate restrooms.
I did learn to show up 15 minutes after they open to avoid the smell and stares...
Too bad slashdot is not set up to allow community to mark shills as a group? Could we do that?
If you had a clique of others you trust, and allow them to mark posts as shill and it would reduce their score for you if you trust that clique? Sorta like moderation but for sub groups rather than moderation for the whole site at once? I guess you could use the friend-foe thing but AC would not get reduced.
And this firehose thing probably makes story posting worse and more susceptible to being gamed. But maybe it helps minimize dupes and trupes and quadrupes. Hell, I remember the good old days when our awesome editors had the same story on the front page three times. Almost like they never even looked at the site...
Of course, trolls and shills disrupt threads and derail conversations. But as long as you allow AC and recent register posting, that will be the case.
Real science simulations require a lot of backend computational power and a ton of coding / configuration. You probably spend more time on setting up parameters / boundary conditions than establishing geometry.
To the Apple Fanboi that modded me troll for my honest and accurate comment, I will always hate you and your kind. You managed to help solidify my thoughts about all things apple.
And I was just warming to the idea of an iPad, but I would hate to join with those thin-skinned folk...
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I remember a buddy showing me "this cool yahoo thing" on Mosaic my senior year at GT. I think it was hosted out of a home directory rather than a proper URL.
Before that, we were lucky to have "fast" 9600 baud modems in the dorms. Get off of my lawn!
A quick google, looks like latex2html may work on files with UTF-8 chars in them:
After a lot of research I finally could find the right invocation of latex2html to generate HTML correctly with accents:
latex2html -html_version 4.0,latin1,unicode book.tex
From http://miguel.leugim.com.mx/index.php/2008/05/18/latex2html-and-utf8-encoding/
But you are right on use of more interesting packages, latex2html probably can't handle them. But I don't see the advantage of writing my own code and limiting myself to simple cases.
There are some things LyX is better at than pure LaTeX code.
I can see the current version of my figures, not just rely on the file name.
I can add references from a list instead of trying to remember what labels I have used.
I can search bib items and add / order citations easily.
I can make complex tables without forgetting some damn }
I can generate and view a new version of my document in a single keypress.
I can see my equations without having to mentally render them, while still using most of my TeX knowledge (\alpha _12 in LyX is the same as \alpha_{12})
Students can make the transition from Word a little more readily. Remember, LyX is not WYSIWYG, it is WYSIWYM (what you mean) so the on screen representation is close to the final but not exact.
Plus you have access to tons of menu options that you may not be aware of. I learn more about LaTeX by using and exploring LyX. And you can always use pure code if you want, for any fancy stuff.
What was wrong with using latex2html to generate hyperlinked files and such? What is the advantage of using your code? I did not see a readme or faq.
I have used latex2html successfully in a few cases, but maybe I am missing something.
For mathy stuff, LaTeX is great. I am not sure how to separate that content from the TeX itself. And I never understood why MathML did not just use TeX.
And I am a huge proponent of LyX. Much easier to get students to use than advocating vi+LaTeX....
I have been using LyX for over a decade, and I feel it is a great tool for using LaTeX without the headache of LaTeX. The code it produces is not great, but it is reasonably readable.
I thought I read OS2 was still going, being resold and supported by a third party licensed by IBM.
I think it was these folks:
http://www.ecomstation.com/
HP 15C FTW! Best evah.
Graphing is for pansies. Landscape is where its at!
It has been done for years. I have seen lots of talks at conferences where they discuss formulating and solving numerical optimization problems to maximize profits subject to constraints.
The first problem is getting all the tax rules formulated as constraints. Crazy tax rules can be difficult to formulate.
The next problem are the 0-1 binary variables for yes/no questions, so you can end up with mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems, which can be difficult to solve deterministically at large scale. But a lot of times, you don't need the global solution, just a good solution so methods like genetic algorithms or simulated annealing work adequately well.
Right. My wife is a PhD chemist, and she has worked in multiple non-related industries, all totally non-related to her fairly obscure PhD thesis topic.
They expect her to figure stuff out on her own and find a solution. A PhD does not guarantee that you have those skills, but it is an indicator that you may have acquired them at some point.
No, it is similar in the US for many Chemistry majors. They often end up running a QC bench without a PhD.
A PhD these days is more often a certification, can you work on a large nebulous problem? Can you work continuously for four or five years on a problem? Can you work with limited direct supervision?
Students do work in their sub-field or sub-subfield. Sometimes they get a truly relevant job, sometimes they get a job in that general area, sometimes they go completely afield. It just depends.
Did ANYONE criticizing this theory actually listen to the entire lecture??
You must be new here...
Love my HP 48sx and even my 15C. Tools, not toys.
Blah blah blah. Overruled.
Angry Birds, FTW!
Too bad he did not get in some KDE vs Gnome with a side of US politics.
Something to shoot for, I guess!
It's kind of like comparing a television with a video camera.
No, your analogy is flawed.
Tablets and laptop are both computers. The tablet is limited by lack of a keyboard. The iPad is limited in a variety of other ways (Flash, battery, ports, battery, application installs, multitasking, etc).
Even you admit tablets are used for creating and consuming. Creating blog updates. Emails. Pictures. But the tablet is crippled. And overpriced.
The iPad does give you a nice user experience, if all you basically want to do is consume. However if you want to do anything more than play with a toy, you may need something different.
There may be network issues. Just like the FCC regulates what you do with your wifi antenna. Yes, you can get into your router and up the power on your wifi router, but I think it violates some regulations. I am not a EE, but I bet if you up the power it may screw up other frequencies.
For a cell phone, imagine if you started spewing crap packages on their network? Or somehow masked your id and got free service? They don't want people exploiting their network, which I understand.
Ideally they would put all the magic in hardware, then let your OS do whatever you want. Have the cellular radio chip handle everything, so the OS can just interface to it so the network is protected and you can't scam a fake ID. Then you could do whatever you want, like run up cell bills for running over your cap using p2p.
What about a background download? App install? Those can run while you are surfing / pandoraing and eat at data. At least they run in the background on Android.
I think PDAnet also modifies user strings, they claim it should look just like normal browser usage.
However, I notice that normal Android browser allows you to open multiple tabs but it seems to only load the one currently in focus. This does not appear to be the case when tethering, so maybe loading five different web pages simultaneously is a tip-off?
You should get fitted for a tinfoil hat ASAP. So should Stallman.
Maybe you should get rid of your car? Traveling around freely is a tool of the devil and leads one down the path of sin. This new-fangled technology is bad for you.
I remember as a kid seeing a man on the TV telling me that the gubbament is watching us using the TV in our house. So no more TV either.
What else? Books! They may have RFID tags in them, so the CIA is tracking you too. I am sure they want to keep tabs on your penchant for pulp romance novels.
How about, we don't put anything online that you wouldn't say in public to strangers?
I am not sure if you are trying to be humorous in your post.
The US generally has housing for low-income folks. But some people don't take advantage of it for one reason or another.
I have heard people say that most of the homeless in the US have mental health issues. For years, they would have been involuntarily committed, but court cases in the 70s set them free.
Having them hang out in the library is not such a terrible thing for them or the community in general. Although, I doubt they are getting much education.
I made the mistake of taking my kids to the local public library right when it opened one morning. The local shelter is across the street, so all the homeless head over the the library for Heat/AC and internets.
I would say unfettered free internet access for homeless seems to be the new library mission.
But I really don't have a problem with that. It keeps them off the street, it keeps them away from local businesses, it keeps them away from substance abuse a bit.
Personally, I would make internet access in the main hall stand up only and put in a remote "internet access room" with comfy chairs, free coffee, and separate restrooms.
I did learn to show up 15 minutes after they open to avoid the smell and stares...
Too bad slashdot is not set up to allow community to mark shills as a group? Could we do that?
If you had a clique of others you trust, and allow them to mark posts as shill and it would reduce their score for you if you trust that clique? Sorta like moderation but for sub groups rather than moderation for the whole site at once? I guess you could use the friend-foe thing but AC would not get reduced.
And this firehose thing probably makes story posting worse and more susceptible to being gamed. But maybe it helps minimize dupes and trupes and quadrupes. Hell, I remember the good old days when our awesome editors had the same story on the front page three times. Almost like they never even looked at the site...
Of course, trolls and shills disrupt threads and derail conversations. But as long as you allow AC and recent register posting, that will be the case.
This is for games / toys / entertainment.
Real science simulations require a lot of backend computational power and a ton of coding / configuration. You probably spend more time on setting up parameters / boundary conditions than establishing geometry.
But it looks cool.
Pretty worthless, as you are going to lose space on the lower display to "type" when you need text input.
Or you could slide our a real keyboard like on my droid and have a single nice screen that works fine...
To the Apple Fanboi that modded me troll for my honest and accurate comment, I will always hate you and your kind. You managed to help solidify my thoughts about all things apple.
And I was just warming to the idea of an iPad, but I would hate to join with those thin-skinned folk...