Yet stock market valuations increase, concentrating wealth in a lucky few.
Why can't companies pay better wages?
Wal-Mart increasing their wages to $12/hr. would increase their average item price by 1.1% --- perhaps then their workers could occasionally afford to shop somewhere else, or eat out at somewhere other than McDonald's.
Sad that fewer people own/read Literate Programming (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Donald E. Knuth (Jun 1, 1992) than TAOCP.
I believe it was more recent than revision 0.5, more like 0.9 --- whatever the last version bundled in the SDK before they published the final version w/ Addison-Wesley.
Dr. Donald Knuth has opined that Literate Programming is the most important computer science concept which he has created and that TeX and Metafont couldn't've been written w/o that technique:
Water as a useful thing for blocking radiation actually comes up as a plot point in Charles Stross's recent short story _Zombies_. Available online here:
Actually, I thought the combat in Skyward Sword was perfect --- I'd give my interest in hell to have a motion-controlled RPG and was quite disappointed that none of the Operation Rainfall games used motion controls beyond Pandora's Towers use of IR pointing and swinging and pulling the chain (which switched between the Nunchuk and the Wii Remote if memory serves).
Ideal game:
- motion controls from Skyward Sword / Red Steel 2
- huge explorable overworld from Xenoblade Chronicles
- on-line interaction and lovely fluid anti-aliased on-screen appearance from The Last Story
- an option or alternate gameplay mode for precise IR pointing as used in Goldeneye / Pandora's Tower
and an extensible, on-going story provided as downloadable content.
Agreed. One of my favorite books --- I'd love to see it developed as an FPS.
Similarly, I'd like to see C.J, Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels as the background for a an exploration/trading game, and her Morgaine novels as the setting for an on-line RPG.
Even taking the creature as a whole, the nature of God, that His existence can't be proven and requires faith, requires that all of creation be ordered in such a way that it could have evolved without an active Creator --- If you can prove that something could only be made through ``intelligent design'' then there's no room for faith.
Let's leave religion in church and Sunday School where it belongs, okay?
Unfortunately, no, it requires Rosetta, so won't run (directly) on anything newer than Mac OS X 10.6.x --- I managed to score the nicest Mac running 10.6 I could at work, and I'll use it until I'm forced to replace it. Hopefully by then there'll be an alternative (I've got hopes for Tribaloid, and wish that the Cenon folks took interface more seriously, and regret Andrew Stone moving on to do iPad apps....)
Running Freehand in Windows using Parallels may be the best option for the long run, but that makes me very, very sad.
My Cube was the most productive machine I've ever owned/used.
Sadly, Mac OS X loses much of that synergy (limited Services, no DPS, Pantone per application, no global Webster.app, no systemic Digital Librarian, &c.)
It kills me that I can't find a vector drawing environment as productive as Altsys Virtuoso --- Freehand is close, but it's been EOL'd, and I dread when I won't be able to install it on a new machine.
I've been tempted by the Surface Pro --- things which have kept me from purchasing:
- Windows 8 (maybe now w/ 8.1 that'd be okay)
- battery life (v2 addresses this)
- lack of a daylight viewable display
It's the latter that kills the deal for me. I'd be replacing a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 which I use as an ebook reader and map viewer when travelling and also as a controller for my hobby-level CNC mill (a ShapeOko for the curious) when I use it on my back deck. I also use it out at the archery range as a chronograph / notetaker, so daylight viewability is an essential feature for me.
Unfortunately, the iPad and Android Tablets pretty much killed off the Tablet PC, so there aren't any new tablets that I'm aware of in the 15--17" size range. There is the Sony Tap 20 if one wants to go larger, but it's not really portable:
My high school shop was always open for personal projects befoee and after school, and one could go in during study halls or lunch so long as one didn't interfere w/ the current class.
Right, that's 4 concepts which have to be explicitly explained (or passed over) before we even get to how to put a single character on the screen, or add two numbers....
I really find it a tedious stumbling block explaining to my kids all the ``public static void main'' stuff --- really wish that Oberon had made it instead. Niklaus Wirth at least has his manuals heading in the right direction (Pascal, hundreds of pages; Modula, a hundred or so, Oberon, dozens).
Easy solution there is to co-locate a fish hatchery w/ the nuclear power plant and use the warm water from the plant to keep the hatchlings comfortable.
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Yet stock market valuations increase, concentrating wealth in a lucky few.
Why can't companies pay better wages?
Wal-Mart increasing their wages to $12/hr. would increase their average item price by 1.1% --- perhaps then their workers could occasionally afford to shop somewhere else, or eat out at somewhere other than McDonald's.
Why doesn't Literate Programming ever make these lists?
http://www.literateprogramming.com/
Sad that fewer people own /read Literate Programming (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Donald E. Knuth (Jun 1, 1992) than TAOCP.
Given that a 2 lb. book is not as dense or aerodynamic as an electronic device, yes.
In a crash, unstowed gear represent potential projectiles:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=128062&page=1
Or at least that's what the guy I sold it to said in an e-mail after a brief discussion of my buying it back.
Sadly, WordPerfect for NeXTstep was _amazing_ --- wish the code could get ported to OS X
Agreed, except I'm still wanting for a unit w/ a daylight viewable display.
I believe it was more recent than revision 0.5, more like 0.9 --- whatever the last version bundled in the SDK before they published the final version w/ Addison-Wesley.
Dr. Donald Knuth has opined that Literate Programming is the most important computer science concept which he has created and that TeX and Metafont couldn't've been written w/o that technique:
http://www.literateprogramming.com/
I've found that using it for the TeX projects I do results in much more maintainable code which was also easier to write initially.
Interestingly, the last copy of the PenPoint Interface Guidelines I sold on Amazon was to such a law firm.
Water as a useful thing for blocking radiation actually comes up as a plot point in Charles Stross's recent short story _Zombies_. Available online here:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/09/zombies.html
Actually, I thought the combat in Skyward Sword was perfect --- I'd give my interest in hell to have a motion-controlled RPG and was quite disappointed that none of the Operation Rainfall games used motion controls beyond Pandora's Towers use of IR pointing and swinging and pulling the chain (which switched between the Nunchuk and the Wii Remote if memory serves).
Ideal game:
- motion controls from Skyward Sword / Red Steel 2
- huge explorable overworld from Xenoblade Chronicles
- on-line interaction and lovely fluid anti-aliased on-screen appearance from The Last Story
- an option or alternate gameplay mode for precise IR pointing as used in Goldeneye / Pandora's Tower
and an extensible, on-going story provided as downloadable content.
William
and w/ a kernel compiled so as to support the ancient machines people still running Windows XP are still using?
Is there any hope of ReactOS being useful as a general-purpose replacement by then?
Agreed. One of my favorite books --- I'd love to see it developed as an FPS.
Similarly, I'd like to see C.J, Cherryh's Alliance-Union novels as the background for a an exploration/trading game, and her Morgaine novels as the setting for an on-line RPG.
Even taking the creature as a whole, the nature of God, that His existence can't be proven and requires faith, requires that all of creation be ordered in such a way that it could have evolved without an active Creator --- If you can prove that something could only be made through ``intelligent design'' then there's no room for faith.
Let's leave religion in church and Sunday School where it belongs, okay?
Re: applications loading fonts from a folder
Adobe InDesign has had support for document ``Fonts'' folders since CS5:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6e29a.html#WS328f5ee33f08f77d1e63e3d123e8d1b40b-8000
Unfortunately, no, it requires Rosetta, so won't run (directly) on anything newer than Mac OS X 10.6.x --- I managed to score the nicest Mac running 10.6 I could at work, and I'll use it until I'm forced to replace it. Hopefully by then there'll be an alternative (I've got hopes for Tribaloid, and wish that the Cenon folks took interface more seriously, and regret Andrew Stone moving on to do iPad apps....)
Running Freehand in Windows using Parallels may be the best option for the long run, but that makes me very, very sad.
My Cube was the most productive machine I've ever owned/used.
Sadly, Mac OS X loses much of that synergy (limited Services, no DPS, Pantone per application, no global Webster.app, no systemic Digital Librarian, &c.)
It kills me that I can't find a vector drawing environment as productive as Altsys Virtuoso --- Freehand is close, but it's been EOL'd, and I dread when I won't be able to install it on a new machine.
I've been tempted by the Surface Pro --- things which have kept me from purchasing:
- Windows 8 (maybe now w/ 8.1 that'd be okay)
- battery life (v2 addresses this)
- lack of a daylight viewable display
It's the latter that kills the deal for me. I'd be replacing a Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121 which I use as an ebook reader and map viewer when travelling and also as a controller for my hobby-level CNC mill (a ShapeOko for the curious) when I use it on my back deck. I also use it out at the archery range as a chronograph / notetaker, so daylight viewability is an essential feature for me.
Wacom just introduced something close to that, the Cintiq Companion --- your choice of Windows 8 or Android: http://cintiqcompanion.wacom.com/CintiqCompanion/en/
Press release: http://www.wacom.com/in/en/news/971
Same size as the ModBook Pro which has been out for a while: http://www.modbook.com/modbookpro-specs
Unfortunately, the iPad and Android Tablets pretty much killed off the Tablet PC, so there aren't any new tablets that I'm aware of in the 15--17" size range. There is the Sony Tap 20 if one wants to go larger, but it's not really portable:
http://store.sony.com/c/VAIO-Tap-20-Touchscreen-Computers/en/c/S_J2_SERIES_PAGE
My high school shop was always open for personal projects befoee and after school, and one could go in during study halls or lunch so long as one didn't interfere w/ the current class.
Take a look at this chart:
http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-bcc9036c04a16179b3ecfd490333a32e
Interesting examination of it on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Dharmesh-Bhatt/Quora-gold/Batteries-are-following-Moores-law
Right, that's 4 concepts which have to be explicitly explained (or passed over) before we even get to how to put a single character on the screen, or add two numbers....
I really find it a tedious stumbling block explaining to my kids all the ``public static void main'' stuff --- really wish that Oberon had made it instead. Niklaus Wirth at least has his manuals heading in the right direction (Pascal, hundreds of pages; Modula, a hundred or so, Oberon, dozens).
Easy solution there is to co-locate a fish hatchery w/ the nuclear power plant and use the warm water from the plant to keep the hatchlings comfortable.