Why? Do you know of a tool that provides more milage than OpenSSH while providing pretty darn good security?
Pretty darn good is all we should ask for, anyway, because near-perfect security requires network isolation and those MAC things people bitch about so much.
diff doesn't work well with most human text (as opposed to program text). Because it is line-based it will not give good indications of what changes were made, because most human text is not line-based.
At least with TeX/LaTeX, diff should catch changes in paragraph-sized blocks, because paragraphs are separated by a single blank line. While not on a per-word granularity, it can narrow the scope enough for most tasks.
The per-word diff tools you saw for HTML should work for LaTeX, too--as long as they weren't crippled by being HTML-only.
BTW, how would a tool like Word handle revisions of revisions of revisions in the same file? What about multiple revisions among several people? If Word can't handle these well, then there are still benefits to managing large documents in LaTeX and CVS.
The problem with any WYSIWYG editor is that they promote fiddling with appearance when really the appearance is minor and the content is what matters.
"Print Preview" is much better for when formatting time comes. LaTeX + a Makefile + ghostview is exactly this, for example. WYSIWYG is really just a hangover from the 1990's, unfortunately.
how long did it take photography to be accepted as a fine art?
It's a technical art...like properly tuning an instrument (scientific or musical).
It's a fine art usually in the context of other media, such as a collage (I remember seeing a completely amazing photographic collage that spanned at least 12 feet). Perhaps the amount of labor involved promotes it a bit.
Only among people who can't type. Autocomplete disrupts the flow of writing and thinking so severely that it is among the first features I disable.
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HP is going to look pretty stupid porting HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows to the Superdome Itanium.
It'd be interesting to know if Intel has been completely honest with HP over Itanium and was just stringing HP along, or if the x86-64 was a market force they simply didn't predict or understand well enough. Either way, it really seems Itanium is more obviously a niche processor in light of the already existant and more widely desired x86-64, SPARCv9, and PowerPC CPUs.
If we actually used all the technology we are surrounded with, we would have no time for things that were once considered important. For example, raising children.
rendering images of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits no less.
The steam from the grits turns the generator powering the cluster, so, technically, you are right on track. However, productivity fell through the floor, because this new technology doesn't take into account that the system administrators are lonely men who are now in love with their new power source. You get a little, you give a little, I guess.
I'm amazed by how many people believe in a science? religion? that relies on the idea that the earth is the center of the solar system and everything else, including the sun, revolves around it.
Actually, everything is revolving around everything else, just to varying degrees.
In isolation, two masses will orbit their mutual center of mass, which is a point in space. It only appears that the Earth revolves around the Sun, simply because the Sun is just freakin huge--any wobble of the Sun is lost in a rounding error.
and you accept the premise that it happened without divine intervention
Even this is unnecessary. It is sufficiently arrogant to think we are the only toy world for the god or gods. Without god or gods, then it is sufficiently arrogant to think we are the only world to have evolved. Either way, it is extremely likely there is life on other planets.
Re:Threat to Athlon64: Prescott (not Pentium 4)
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"Right now, the Pentium 4 crushes the UltraSPARC III in performance."
I honestly don't care, because there's more to a computer than SPEC drivel. Quite honestly, I'm suprised you forgot to mention Itanic in your anti-Sun rant, because INTEL-64 will make the multi-billion dollar IA-64 go bye-bye. Have you ever seen several billion dollars seem as if it never existed? Intel may.
BTW, here are the actual competitors for your entertainment:
Itanic 2/Power4/UltraSPARC III
Opteron/PowerPC 970/UltraSPARC IIIi
Pentium 4/Athlon
You see, the people considering the first trio aren't necessarily even considering the second trio, because their needs are different. Fancy that, Mr. Troll.
Yellow Pages don't allow flexible queries, like, potentially, "show me all liquor stores along my route to/from work." If google pushes this far enough, this could be very widely useful for things we struggle to imagine, right now.
Perhaps you should a consider a journalist calling you a conspiracy theorist a compliment?
Much of the "journalism" I see/read/hear lately is utter trash, especially from the big TV and cable networks. The bias there is quite disgusting and appears to be motivated by its entertainment value rather than true newsworthiness (I cite the shark sightings stories, for example--sharks are irrelevant!).
every costarrican child can explain to you why electronic voting in its present form is an invitation to electoral fraud
That's probably because Costa Rican children know more about US civics than the Floridiots do.
The US public school system is terrible, and there is an anti-learning culture among children, here, even when--espeically when--it is a matter of learning about the US Constitution and its implications for freedom. I think a child in the US cares more about getting a grape Slurpee and a video game than their right to criticize public policy. Give'em a choice between the two, my bet is they choose the Slurpee.
THEY SHOULD USE WHATEVER VOTING SYSTEM WORKS THE BEST, NOT THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST "ADVANCED" AND EXPENSIVE.
I highly recommend you never work for the government directly or even indirectly via a contractor. Your enthusiasm would be sucked out of you body in a matter of weeks, followed by months of an emptyness you can't quite put your finger on.
There's a few choice quotes in there regarding these Diebold machines:...
"The machines performed terrifically," said Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election Systems. "The anomaly showed up on the reporting part.":-\...
"Unfortunately, the touch screen machines did away with the ballots, so the only way to do a hand recount is to have the machine print its internal data page by page. Diebold tried to re-create the error in hopes of correcting it. "I wish I had an answer," Urosevich said. In some cases, vote totals changed dramatically.":-(...
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This is getting ridiculous.
Why? Do you know of a tool that provides more milage than OpenSSH while providing pretty darn good security?
Pretty darn good is all we should ask for, anyway, because near-perfect security requires network isolation and those MAC things people bitch about so much.
diff doesn't work well with most human text (as opposed to program text). Because it is line-based it will not give good indications of what changes were made, because most human text is not line-based.
At least with TeX/LaTeX, diff should catch changes in paragraph-sized blocks, because paragraphs are separated by a single blank line. While not on a per-word granularity, it can narrow the scope enough for most tasks.
The per-word diff tools you saw for HTML should work for LaTeX, too--as long as they weren't crippled by being HTML-only.
BTW, how would a tool like Word handle revisions of revisions of revisions in the same file? What about multiple revisions among several people? If Word can't handle these well, then there are still benefits to managing large documents in LaTeX and CVS.
The problem with any WYSIWYG editor is that they promote fiddling with appearance when really the appearance is minor and the content is what matters.
"Print Preview" is much better for when formatting time comes. LaTeX + a Makefile + ghostview is exactly this, for example. WYSIWYG is really just a hangover from the 1990's, unfortunately.
how long did it take photography to be accepted as a fine art?
It's a technical art...like properly tuning an instrument (scientific or musical).
It's a fine art usually in the context of other media, such as a collage (I remember seeing a completely amazing photographic collage that spanned at least 12 feet). Perhaps the amount of labor involved promotes it a bit.
I don't know what tools support this in other formats, like RTF.
TeX/LaTeX are very amenable to diff and VC systems like CVS.
I use it for the few documents I write, and any coding that I might do.
What about ASCII "art" for your website?
Autoformat and Autocomplete are extremely useful.
Only among people who can't type. Autocomplete disrupts the flow of writing and thinking so severely that it is among the first features I disable.
HP is going to look pretty stupid porting HP-UX, OpenVMS and Windows to the Superdome Itanium.
It'd be interesting to know if Intel has been completely honest with HP over Itanium and was just stringing HP along, or if the x86-64 was a market force they simply didn't predict or understand well enough. Either way, it really seems Itanium is more obviously a niche processor in light of the already existant and more widely desired x86-64, SPARCv9, and PowerPC CPUs.
If we actually used all the technology we are surrounded with, we would have no time for things that were once considered important. For example, raising children.
rendering images of Natalie Portman covered in hot grits no less.
The steam from the grits turns the generator powering the cluster, so, technically, you are right on track. However, productivity fell through the floor, because this new technology doesn't take into account that the system administrators are lonely men who are now in love with their new power source. You get a little, you give a little, I guess.
Chinese Fortune Cookie
My favorite: "That wasn't chicken." (seen in a parody photo)
I'm amazed by how many people believe in a science? religion? that relies on the idea that the earth is the center of the solar system and everything else, including the sun, revolves around it.
Actually, everything is revolving around everything else, just to varying degrees.
In isolation, two masses will orbit their mutual center of mass, which is a point in space. It only appears that the Earth revolves around the Sun, simply because the Sun is just freakin huge--any wobble of the Sun is lost in a rounding error.
and you accept the premise that it happened without divine intervention
Even this is unnecessary. It is sufficiently arrogant to think we are the only toy world for the god or gods. Without god or gods, then it is sufficiently arrogant to think we are the only world to have evolved. Either way, it is extremely likely there is life on other planets.
"Right now, the Pentium 4 crushes the UltraSPARC III in performance."
I honestly don't care, because there's more to a computer than SPEC drivel. Quite honestly, I'm suprised you forgot to mention Itanic in your anti-Sun rant, because INTEL-64 will make the multi-billion dollar IA-64 go bye-bye. Have you ever seen several billion dollars seem as if it never existed? Intel may.
BTW, here are the actual competitors for your entertainment:
Itanic 2/Power4/UltraSPARC III
Opteron/PowerPC 970/UltraSPARC IIIi
Pentium 4/Athlon
You see, the people considering the first trio aren't necessarily even considering the second trio, because their needs are different. Fancy that, Mr. Troll.
Yellow Pages don't allow flexible queries, like, potentially, "show me all liquor stores along my route to/from work." If google pushes this far enough, this could be very widely useful for things we struggle to imagine, right now.
That crap must be Primavera
:)
Sorry, guess again
Perhaps you should a consider a journalist calling you a conspiracy theorist a compliment?
Much of the "journalism" I see/read/hear lately is utter trash, especially from the big TV and cable networks. The bias there is quite disgusting and appears to be motivated by its entertainment value rather than true newsworthiness (I cite the shark sightings stories, for example--sharks are irrelevant!).
North Canton, Ohio
North Canton is also the home to the Hoover vacuum cleaner company. Perhaps it's a matter where the technology from North Canton just sucks.
Also, the Diebold HQ in North Canton is pretty dinky...perhaps like their exec's wieners. Gee, that was just too low.
every costarrican child can explain to you why electronic voting in its present form is an invitation to electoral fraud
That's probably because Costa Rican children know more about US civics than the Floridiots do.
The US public school system is terrible, and there is an anti-learning culture among children, here, even when--espeically when--it is a matter of learning about the US Constitution and its implications for freedom. I think a child in the US cares more about getting a grape Slurpee and a video game than their right to criticize public policy. Give'em a choice between the two, my bet is they choose the Slurpee.
THEY SHOULD USE WHATEVER VOTING SYSTEM WORKS THE BEST, NOT THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST "ADVANCED" AND EXPENSIVE.
I highly recommend you never work for the government directly or even indirectly via a contractor. Your enthusiasm would be sucked out of you body in a matter of weeks, followed by months of an emptyness you can't quite put your finger on.
I propose we name it RETRACT: Republican Tally Readjustment and Correction Tool.
Of course the Democrats can employ the sister system: DETRACT.
adding complexity can often increase opportunities to compromise a system
People won't care if you give it a green and blue Fisher-Price GUI. They'll just lap it up like dogs on a steak or a monkey on a swollen ass.
Pretty sad, given our self-imposed idealism about humans being intelligent.
BTW, if all this is true, where's Jimmy Carter? The USA is turning into a high-tech third-world nation, and we probably could use some assistance!
There's a few choice quotes in there regarding these Diebold machines:
"The machines performed terrifically," said Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election Systems. "The anomaly showed up on the reporting part."
"Unfortunately, the touch screen machines did away with the ballots, so the only way to do a hand recount is to have the machine print its internal data page by page. Diebold tried to re-create the error in hopes of correcting it. "I wish I had an answer," Urosevich said. In some cases, vote totals changed dramatically."
I'm just gonna smear big boogers over the canidates I don't like.