He doesn't seem to be actually comparing the two. All he said that was LaTeX sounded pretty powerful, but that Word also has some powerful features. Nowhere did he seem to say one is more powerful than the other, or compare anything between the two.
Well said. I can't speak on the Open Office/MS Office side of things, but I'm sick of people who aren't in a related industry telling me (out of fanboyism for open source projects) that the gimp and Blender are just as good as their commercial counterparts. Even worse is when you explain that you've actually tried the open source software and found it to be lacking.... only to be told that the problem(s) is with you and not the software,or that your problem(s) is somehow an anomaly.
Oops, hit submit too early (I couldn't remember if slashdot automatically made a url into a clickable link or if you needed to do some HTML for that, so hit preview, then submit for some dumb reason). I should point out that yes, it's probably a drastically different scenario from say, being stuck in traffic, and having the windows down, etc. But, I have been stuck in traffic with the sun beating down, and even with the windows down, it can still get quite warm in a car, especially if there's no breeze.
Just posting that as it's evidence that even in cooler outdoor ambient temperatures, the temperature inside a vehicle can skyrocket, and indeed be deadly. Of course, a 4month old child is going to be more susceptible to these kind of things, but they too have to ride in cars sometimes.
I am American, and when I first heard Cheney shot his friend hunting, I thought it was a joke - I had been away from the various media sources all day (TV, radio, internet), and when I came home to my roommate watching The Daily Show, I thought they had gone from making fun of actual news topics to generating their own fake news headlines like The Onion. Now, I knew my roommate kept up on the actual news, and just turned to The Daily Show for a humorous slant on it, but I was still convinced it was all a big joke.
Except even those bullets that are "sprayed" ARE going straight - they're just leaving the gun at a slightly different angle than the other bullets, but their trajectory is still straight.
Madison is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live according to some magazines. (I think Forbes has often listed it in the top 10, and Money Magazine has listed it in the top spot before). Madison also has one of the best employment rates in the country, and also is quite an educated city, having one of the highest percentages of PhDs in the nation. (While that doesn't necessarily mean the people there ARE smarter, it can't really hurt, and at the very least, it probably says that continuing one's education may be a bit easier there?)
We all know they would get nothing. A store owner would be out of business, and the family would be out legal expenses. A great ending if you're a law firm.
Tell him to take it down? Again, how have you really "won" anything.
Maybe someone can correct me, but I was under the impression that usually when someone sues another person and wins, the judge may rule that the defendant has to pay the plaintiff's counsel costs. Or, the more likely case usually seems to be that often lawyers take on cases on a "no fee unless we win" deal - that is, if the plaintiff wins, the lawyer(s) take a cut of the settlement. On the flipside, I believe that if the defendant wins the case, they can usually counter-sue for damages including lawyer costs (or possibly, especially in a suit the judge finds to be frivolous, he may be able to directly order this). Again, I could be completely wrong, and if I am, I'd be glad to be corrected.
Since most accidents seem to occur on take off and landing, just do what I do: Open the door before landing and jump out. If indeed most accidents do occur on take off and landing, I figure I double my chances of survival by eliminating one of them. In fact, it's saved me quite a few times, and it seems to be mostly on landing that the airplanes I travel on have run into trouble. Seems like every time I jump out, the airplane crashes right after, and the FAA later reveals it to be due to sudden and drastic catastrophic cabin depressurization.
This is something I was thinking about yesterday when watching something on TV about the extinction of some of the huge mammals. Is it possible that quite a few of the dinosaurs survived the asteroid impact for quite awhile, but were slowly led to extinction by the more adaptive animals such as birds* and mammals out competing them? A lot of the stuff I've read always makes it seems like happened in a blink of the eye, but I've wondered if it could have been much more gradual than is often implied.
* In this context I'm making a distinction between dinosaurs and what we commonly think of as birds.
When new storage methods arrive, it's not like the other ones will stop working immediately and prevent you from transferring the data to a new storage method.
I think the best method is not necessarily to plan on storing data on a single medium for many years, but to have an archiving system in which many redundant copies are continually checked and backed up again, to new storage mediums as they become available.
Well, I have to wonder if it was a "friendly" looking frown face, if MORE people might have helped. That is, if it looked distressed and lost, but still cute, if people would have taken pity on it and helped it on it's way.
That's been my observation as well. Most people simply prefer to turn off the monitor when walking away for awhile. In fact, it seems some people seem to think turning off the monitor IS turning off the computer. For the rest of the people, they seem to just turn off the monitor because it's much quicker and easier than a full shut down then boot up.
Because at least here in the US, precedent in law can be a big thing. If there's been a precedent set, it's often enough to go through with a case, no matter how absurd or how ridiculous. I don't know if it's a "well they did it before, so the decision isn't mine" mentality or what, but precedent is often taken into consideration in unusual situations (or at least I believe that's the case).
I'm fully aware of that. Notice I didn't say we've moved on from ray tracing to GI. I said we've moved on from "SIMPLE" ray tracing - the operative word being "simple". Perhaps I should have been more clear and said "we've moved on from just basic raytracing to more advanced and accurate methods of ray tracing", but I figured my point was clear enough.
Wouldn't that fall under "light reflected and refracted by a curved object"? Isn't a telescope lens just that? Or is there something else going on I'm not aware of?
I assume you're kidding, but for the uninitiated: Caustics also refers to light reflected and refracted by a curved object. Think the pattern of light cast by a glass on your desk, or thrown off by a ring sitting on a surface.
Being a 3D artist (mostly just a modeler and texture artist, but sometimes a generalist), I'm happy to see work like this being done. It seems like only yesterday I was waiting hours or all night for simple ray traced scenes.
While it may be underwhelming to some, I'm more than happy to see people working on this kind of tech. Sure, we've moved on from just "simple" ray tracing to using things like GI, etc, but in time we'll have that in real time as well. Some apps are already doing some tricks to enable real time GI and other tricks. (the key word being tricks, since they're not totally physically accurate). Obviously real time will always lag behind, but I look forward to the future.
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Maybe. But if the food runs out, all we'll have left to eat is meat!
But.... how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?!
He doesn't seem to be actually comparing the two. All he said that was LaTeX sounded pretty powerful, but that Word also has some powerful features. Nowhere did he seem to say one is more powerful than the other, or compare anything between the two.
Well said. I can't speak on the Open Office/MS Office side of things, but I'm sick of people who aren't in a related industry telling me (out of fanboyism for open source projects) that the gimp and Blender are just as good as their commercial counterparts. Even worse is when you explain that you've actually tried the open source software and found it to be lacking.... only to be told that the problem(s) is with you and not the software,or that your problem(s) is somehow an anomaly.
Oops, hit submit too early (I couldn't remember if slashdot automatically made a url into a clickable link or if you needed to do some HTML for that, so hit preview, then submit for some dumb reason). I should point out that yes, it's probably a drastically different scenario from say, being stuck in traffic, and having the windows down, etc. But, I have been stuck in traffic with the sun beating down, and even with the windows down, it can still get quite warm in a car, especially if there's no breeze.
http://www.nbc15.com/state/headlines/42760642.html
Just posting that as it's evidence that even in cooler outdoor ambient temperatures, the temperature inside a vehicle can skyrocket, and indeed be deadly. Of course, a 4month old child is going to be more susceptible to these kind of things, but they too have to ride in cars sometimes.
I am American, and when I first heard Cheney shot his friend hunting, I thought it was a joke - I had been away from the various media sources all day (TV, radio, internet), and when I came home to my roommate watching The Daily Show, I thought they had gone from making fun of actual news topics to generating their own fake news headlines like The Onion. Now, I knew my roommate kept up on the actual news, and just turned to The Daily Show for a humorous slant on it, but I was still convinced it was all a big joke.
WP is not about "facts/truth": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:V
And are you *really*, *truly*, hurt by this? Or just distorting the facts to make your point stronger?
Except even those bullets that are "sprayed" ARE going straight - they're just leaving the gun at a slightly different angle than the other bullets, but their trajectory is still straight.
Madison is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live according to some magazines. (I think Forbes has often listed it in the top 10, and Money Magazine has listed it in the top spot before). Madison also has one of the best employment rates in the country, and also is quite an educated city, having one of the highest percentages of PhDs in the nation. (While that doesn't necessarily mean the people there ARE smarter, it can't really hurt, and at the very least, it probably says that continuing one's education may be a bit easier there?)
We all know they would get nothing. A store owner would be out of business, and the family would be out legal expenses. A great ending if you're a law firm.
Tell him to take it down? Again, how have you really "won" anything.
Maybe someone can correct me, but I was under the impression that usually when someone sues another person and wins, the judge may rule that the defendant has to pay the plaintiff's counsel costs. Or, the more likely case usually seems to be that often lawyers take on cases on a "no fee unless we win" deal - that is, if the plaintiff wins, the lawyer(s) take a cut of the settlement. On the flipside, I believe that if the defendant wins the case, they can usually counter-sue for damages including lawyer costs (or possibly, especially in a suit the judge finds to be frivolous, he may be able to directly order this). Again, I could be completely wrong, and if I am, I'd be glad to be corrected.
Since most accidents seem to occur on take off and landing, just do what I do: Open the door before landing and jump out. If indeed most accidents do occur on take off and landing, I figure I double my chances of survival by eliminating one of them. In fact, it's saved me quite a few times, and it seems to be mostly on landing that the airplanes I travel on have run into trouble. Seems like every time I jump out, the airplane crashes right after, and the FAA later reveals it to be due to sudden and drastic catastrophic cabin depressurization.
Maybe I'm just biased because of the memories of the effects of certain psychotropics while being a passenger in a speeding car.
You only *thought* it was speeding. You were, in reality, only going seven miles per hour. Seven.
I can't be the only one who pictured this taking place with Phil Hartman as the Caveman Lawyer...
This is something I was thinking about yesterday when watching something on TV about the extinction of some of the huge mammals. Is it possible that quite a few of the dinosaurs survived the asteroid impact for quite awhile, but were slowly led to extinction by the more adaptive animals such as birds* and mammals out competing them? A lot of the stuff I've read always makes it seems like happened in a blink of the eye, but I've wondered if it could have been much more gradual than is often implied.
* In this context I'm making a distinction between dinosaurs and what we commonly think of as birds.
When new storage methods arrive, it's not like the other ones will stop working immediately and prevent you from transferring the data to a new storage method.
I think the best method is not necessarily to plan on storing data on a single medium for many years, but to have an archiving system in which many redundant copies are continually checked and backed up again, to new storage mediums as they become available.
Well, I have to wonder if it was a "friendly" looking frown face, if MORE people might have helped. That is, if it looked distressed and lost, but still cute, if people would have taken pity on it and helped it on it's way.
In the middle of a snowstorm, and uphill both ways?
That's been my observation as well. Most people simply prefer to turn off the monitor when walking away for awhile. In fact, it seems some people seem to think turning off the monitor IS turning off the computer. For the rest of the people, they seem to just turn off the monitor because it's much quicker and easier than a full shut down then boot up.
Because at least here in the US, precedent in law can be a big thing. If there's been a precedent set, it's often enough to go through with a case, no matter how absurd or how ridiculous. I don't know if it's a "well they did it before, so the decision isn't mine" mentality or what, but precedent is often taken into consideration in unusual situations (or at least I believe that's the case).
I'm fully aware of that. Notice I didn't say we've moved on from ray tracing to GI. I said we've moved on from "SIMPLE" ray tracing - the operative word being "simple". Perhaps I should have been more clear and said "we've moved on from just basic raytracing to more advanced and accurate methods of ray tracing", but I figured my point was clear enough.
Er, I'm an idiot. I wasn't thinking, and realized just after hitting 'submit' you were just providing another example, apologies good sir.
Wouldn't that fall under "light reflected and refracted by a curved object"? Isn't a telescope lens just that? Or is there something else going on I'm not aware of?
I assume you're kidding, but for the uninitiated: Caustics also refers to light reflected and refracted by a curved object. Think the pattern of light cast by a glass on your desk, or thrown off by a ring sitting on a surface.
Being a 3D artist (mostly just a modeler and texture artist, but sometimes a generalist), I'm happy to see work like this being done. It seems like only yesterday I was waiting hours or all night for simple ray traced scenes.
While it may be underwhelming to some, I'm more than happy to see people working on this kind of tech. Sure, we've moved on from just "simple" ray tracing to using things like GI, etc, but in time we'll have that in real time as well. Some apps are already doing some tricks to enable real time GI and other tricks. (the key word being tricks, since they're not totally physically accurate). Obviously real time will always lag behind, but I look forward to the future.
Watching them fall down, bleed, and get carried away in a stretcher -- not so funny.
Hot Shots! would beg to differ.