Or at least, that's what the man page for the copy of TeX on my NeXT Cube stated.
This isn't much different from that.
The company, as a commercial entity, has to accept that they don't have unrestricted access to items which are licensed under a non-commercial license --- they either need to comply w/ the license (properly attributing it in this case), or draw up their own version.
It's a lot of fun, and certainly a worthier bit of research / effort than the recent ``books'' published since Frank Herbert's passing.
It's far truer to the spirit of the originals, and doesn't introduce changes to events as the new books do (for example, the bull which killed the first Duke Leto's father being gunned down w/ lasguns, when in the original books, it was noted that the only time Duke Leto had entered the bull-fighting arena was to fight and kill the animal personally).
They could've made quite a bit of money by announcing this concept first, using placeholder names, then auctioning off various word combinations, or allowing people to pay to assign certain word combinations to coordinates.
Actually, mass murders in schools date back to the Greeks, and one Greek philosopher noted an instance of the students of a school being murdered by the schoolmaster's slave by knocking out the central pillar, collapsing the school.
``The American Committee for defense of British Homes has organized to collect gifts of pistols, rifles, revolvers, shotguns (and binoculars) from American civilians who wish to answer the call and aid in defense of British homes....''
Actually, that's how things used to be done --- look at the (laborious) notation which was prevalent before Sir Thomas Harriot (and his printer) developed the equals sign, less than and greater than symbols (the printer actually used side-ways `V's at some points in Artis analyticae praxis http://lccn.loc.gov/2006938536 ), &c.
If you want to see the textual names instead of the symbols, just look at the (La)TeX source instead.
It's strange, for some reason, Pen Computing Magazine has always been a niche publication: http://www.pencomputing.com/ --- guess they missed out when they picked the wrong part of the device for their name --- wonder how theyd've faired if they'd named themselves ``Tablet Computing Magazine''.
- filtering --- you wouldn't believe the crap people submit for publishing
- editing for style, grammar, consistency --- you wouldn't believe some of the mistakes authors make
- cover images --- while not always great, at least they're better than 99% of the self-published stuff
Popular authors are able to negotiate for better terms than mid-list and new authors, so are as well-compensated as they're willing to negotiate for.
William (who is quite bummed that he didn't get his reward check back when Dr. Knuth was using Wells Fargo as his bank: http://www.truetex.com/knuthchk.htm )
The games which I've enjoyed the most recently have been:
- Legend of Zelda Skwyard Sword
- Red Steel 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- The Last Story
- Pandora's Tower (finally found a work-around which seems to be consistent for me for the glitch)
In particular:
- motion controls and the interface of Skyward Sword and Red Steel 2
- exploration and vast expanses and lengthy gameplay of Xenoblade
- online campaign and RPG-style grinding of The Last Story
- fascinating story of Pandora's Tower
I'd give a lot for a motion-controlled RPG w/ downloadable content, grinding and on-line play which had a good story which was suited to the on-line environment.
One of the best potential backgrounds for such a thing would be C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine stories (travel is by a series of gates to different worlds) --- I really wish someone would license it.
and all of those ball points would wind up in a land fill.
Glad to see that this supports options which include a fountain pen unit --- I go through roughly a bottle of ink year --- the glass bottle gets recycled and I purchase another one.
I did look through the entire article in the first link, and regret having missed the small textual entry of ``fountain pen'' and admit that in retrospect, I should've clicked on the company's link, the first image of which (currently) shows a fountain pen insert.
Ball points just don't work for me, gel pens are barely tolerable, felt tips and markers are okay, but the only writing tools which I really enjoy and am pleased to use are fountain pens (preferrably with italic nibs).
Got a link for that? I've been considering a second smaller machine for metal-working.
Screw drive machines aren't easily expanded to 1.2m x 1.2m --- it only cost ~$60 to extend my Y-axis to 1m, and double up the MakerSlide on the X-axis --- much more solid, but admittedly, still a bit fiddly, but for the price, it meets my needs thus far.
I tried to put together a B.O.M. @ kitbom.com: http://kitbom.com/WillAdams/reprap-morgan and it currently prices out @ $274.26, not including the 3D printed parts and some things we've not found good sources for.
Also, free software for 3D CAD/CAM still needs a lot of work --- I've listed everything I could find here:
Agreed. It kills me that one has to shell out $1,495 to get Quantrix Financial Modeler to have that sort of interface w/ the numbers, and it's still bizarre to me that Lotus Improv didn't succeed.
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Or at least, that's what the man page for the copy of TeX on my NeXT Cube stated.
This isn't much different from that.
The company, as a commercial entity, has to accept that they don't have unrestricted access to items which are licensed under a non-commercial license --- they either need to comply w/ the license (properly attributing it in this case), or draw up their own version.
but then they added in JavaScript, so one can have full programming again. ::grr:: I'd rather have Display PostScript.
It's a lot of fun, and certainly a worthier bit of research / effort than the recent ``books'' published since Frank Herbert's passing.
It's far truer to the spirit of the originals, and doesn't introduce changes to events as the new books do (for example, the bull which killed the first Duke Leto's father being gunned down w/ lasguns, when in the original books, it was noted that the only time Duke Leto had entered the bull-fighting arena was to fight and kill the animal personally).
William
They could've made quite a bit of money by announcing this concept first, using placeholder names, then auctioning off various word combinations, or allowing people to pay to assign certain word combinations to coordinates.
Actually, mass murders in schools date back to the Greeks, and one Greek philosopher noted an instance of the students of a school being murdered by the schoolmaster's slave by knocking out the central pillar, collapsing the school.
Because of course, being unarmed is such a perfectly safe state. How soon we forget:
http://twinbuttebunch.org/index.php?fuseaction=misc.sendguns
``The American Committee for defense of British Homes has organized to collect gifts of pistols, rifles, revolvers, shotguns (and binoculars) from American civilians who wish to answer the call and aid in defense of British homes....''
The problem is the rate of false positives --- let's assume an accuracy of 99.99% --- 1 failure in 10,000 uses.
~254 million passenger vehicles in the U.S. --- let's halve that and round down and assume each vehicle makes 4 trips per day
~500,000,000 instances of cars needing to start / 10,000 == 50,000 instances of people being left stranded 'cause their car won't start
per day.
hearing ``click'' when you expect to hear ``bang''.
Actually, that's how things used to be done --- look at the (laborious) notation which was prevalent before Sir Thomas Harriot (and his printer) developed the equals sign, less than and greater than symbols (the printer actually used side-ways `V's at some points in Artis analyticae praxis http://lccn.loc.gov/2006938536 ), &c.
If you want to see the textual names instead of the symbols, just look at the (La)TeX source instead.
It's strange, for some reason, Pen Computing Magazine has always been a niche publication: http://www.pencomputing.com/ --- guess they missed out when they picked the wrong part of the device for their name --- wonder how theyd've faired if they'd named themselves ``Tablet Computing Magazine''.
Things which publishers add:
- filtering --- you wouldn't believe the crap people submit for publishing
- editing for style, grammar, consistency --- you wouldn't believe some of the mistakes authors make
- cover images --- while not always great, at least they're better than 99% of the self-published stuff
Popular authors are able to negotiate for better terms than mid-list and new authors, so are as well-compensated as they're willing to negotiate for.
or one instead offers ``certificates of deposit'' in the (fictional) ``Bank of San Seriffe'': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
William
(who is quite bummed that he didn't get his reward check back when Dr. Knuth was using Wells Fargo as his bank: http://www.truetex.com/knuthchk.htm )
Are you sure it wouldn't have more to do w/ things like: http://www.fabathome.org/index.php?q=node/10 having a link to: http://fabathome.org/wiki2/wiki.html which is 404.
The website rendering unbelievably hideously in Safari.
The link for ``get a printer'' going to: http://www.fabathome.org/wiki/index.php/Fab@Home:Choose_Your_Fabber which is also 404.
I was interested in it, despite the low resolution, but that's more energy / irritation than I'm willing to deal with.
The games which I've enjoyed the most recently have been:
- Legend of Zelda Skwyard Sword
- Red Steel 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- The Last Story
- Pandora's Tower (finally found a work-around which seems to be consistent for me for the glitch)
In particular:
- motion controls and the interface of Skyward Sword and Red Steel 2
- exploration and vast expanses and lengthy gameplay of Xenoblade
- online campaign and RPG-style grinding of The Last Story
- fascinating story of Pandora's Tower
I'd give a lot for a motion-controlled RPG w/ downloadable content, grinding and on-line play which had a good story which was suited to the on-line environment.
One of the best potential backgrounds for such a thing would be C.J. Cherryh's Morgaine stories (travel is by a series of gates to different worlds) --- I really wish someone would license it.
and all of those ball points would wind up in a land fill.
Glad to see that this supports options which include a fountain pen unit --- I go through roughly a bottle of ink year --- the glass bottle gets recycled and I purchase another one.
I did look through the entire article in the first link, and regret having missed the small textual entry of ``fountain pen'' and admit that in retrospect, I should've clicked on the company's link, the first image of which (currently) shows a fountain pen insert.
Mea culpa.
William
Ball points just don't work for me, gel pens are barely tolerable, felt tips and markers are okay, but the only writing tools which I really enjoy and am pleased to use are fountain pens (preferrably with italic nibs).
William
Got a link for that? I've been considering a second smaller machine for metal-working.
Screw drive machines aren't easily expanded to 1.2m x 1.2m --- it only cost ~$60 to extend my Y-axis to 1m, and double up the MakerSlide on the X-axis --- much more solid, but admittedly, still a bit fiddly, but for the price, it meets my needs thus far.
Yeah, 'cause no thesis contributes anything to human knowledge --- here's a better guide:
http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
The ShapeOko is a well-documented, opensource and affordable hobby-levek CNC router:
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A Delta-based printer: http://reprap.org/wiki/Simpson
I'd really like to see the best of both worlds (the Simpson build instructions are quite nice, while Morgan's is a wall of text...)
I tried to put together a B.O.M. @ kitbom.com: http://kitbom.com/WillAdams/reprap-morgan and it currently prices out @ $274.26, not including the 3D printed parts and some things we've not found good sources for.
Also, free software for 3D CAD/CAM still needs a lot of work --- I've listed everything I could find here:
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAD
http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/CAM
and people still over-whelmingly choose commercial software:
3D CAD 9/15 --- http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1783
3D CAM 19/37 --- http://www.shapeoko.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1785
(by way of comparison the commercial stuff is listed here: http://www.shapeoko.com/wiki/index.php/Commercial_Software )
Please tell me I missed a fabulous opensource solution, or some much less expensive parts....
Except for all the novels where the nature of entire planets was ret-conned, forcing authors of incompleat trilogies to just stop writing.
Agreed. It kills me that one has to shell out $1,495 to get Quantrix Financial Modeler to have that sort of interface w/ the numbers, and it's still bizarre to me that Lotus Improv didn't succeed.
Actually, the UI for Lotus Improv was quite nice and won some awards.
Its (spiritual) successor, Quantrix Financial Modeler seems to be selling well enough, even w/ a $1,495 price point.
I wish that Flexisheet (an opensource take on this sort of thing) would get more traction.