i wrote a draft of a paper recently and my supervisor demanded me to switch it over to MS Word so she could edit it. this is an electrical engineering paper. anyway, so i had to run the latex2rtf conversion. The conversion went well except whenever there were equations. Neither abiword nor openoffice writer were able to display all the equations. One software displayed some, some displayed the other.
and MS Word? it displayed NONE.
[tangent]She claims that it's more efficient to get work done with that format, which I think is complete bullshit. Wasting all the time doing text formatting and making sure it opens properly in other word software is more efficient? It's not like this is the first paper she'll be publishing anyway. What a bunch of bull. In latex, all you need to do is include the IEEE template and everything's done for you automagically.[/tangent]
how about having adsense links from people's pages that directly link to selected news events in google news?
i know blogger now is now inviting its users to include google targeted ads in their page. a lot of people blog about current events, say the presidential election. the blog would have targeted ads aiming towards a list of news sites that are related that may, or may not share the same views as the person that wrote the blog.
the article's basically a typical CEO interview. A lot of "I'm the pioneer; I'm God" type of arrogance that you often see in any typical EE Times interviews. Basically he's just using "outsourcing", which sounds negative, into "[is just our way of expansion because we're starting to have higher demand of our products overseas, and we need our man power there to do production and support]". It's just another way of him to say that his company's products are doing well and because [they're "customer oriented"] (damn I hate these stupid business-type buzzwords) they need to have the man-power there to provide the support of their (uhh.. again) "solutions".
Well I see he's a pretty good speaker... in turning something negative and make it seem positive, but in the end it's the company that benifits, not us, the north-american engineers.
For the record, I'm working my ass off in my Masters EE program (takes longer to finish in Canadian schools than US,) and I really hope I'll be able to find some decent employment when I finish within this academic year... Unless I can find full-time employment in my field, I wouldn't want to do a PhD. fulltime.
my university recently purchased something like 8 new labs filled with these monitors, and I havent noticed any sort of the lag mentioned in the article. at home i use a samsung syncmaster 172N and i dont notice any of that either. I think it's best to have the monitor exchanged...
fyi, the new school computers run P4 2.8C and my home computer runs P4 3.0C -- but i doubt this has anything to do with my "lack" of lag...
I purchased a ATI 9200SE card for $80 canadian just one month ago - works well in linux, and no problems with the opensource drivers - perhaps a few small tweaks in XF86Config-4 if you want GL or any sort of 3D, but all this can be found easily on google.
128M is enough for me to do any sort of applications, and is suitable for all my N64 emulator games, tuxracer, etc.
One thing though, is that the card is AGP8x, but X is only able to support up to 4x for all cards.
Tell me about it. My department just purchased a lab full of new computers - P4 2.8GHZ, 1GB RAM... the highlight being these new Dell 20.1" FP2001 LCDs...
Analog RGB, Digital DVI-D TMDS, S-Video, Composite Video... not to mention the ability to rotate to portrait view... sadly, they didn't even install the drivers to enable rotating. why get a monitor like that when you dont all its features?
but i agree with a lot of/.ers, my own machine is a 3.0C with except 7200RPM drives and 512MB RAM. performance difference is very noticable.
seems like most people's comments' about target audience of the webpage directly related to the stats - but personally, most of the electrical/computer engineers and computer science majors (even masters students) flat out REFUSE to use - or even try out firefox. That kind of attitude's just sickening. What's the point of installing anti-spyware software if you continue to run IE and outlook? For whatever reason, some of them even claim that firefox is only for geeks, just like the way they would say about linux.
would anyone know if it contains x.org packages? it would be nice to try for us to try out on a debian/debian-based distro without the need of compiling anything or risking breaking the system:)
how this benifits google until the next version of windows (IE) comes out people can start using the toolbar so that should M$ decide to lock out google in their next version of windows, the users used to having the toolbar around is going to continue to use google, despite anything M$ does implicitly.
sorry about my ignorance (I've never used x.org before)
Will x.org be included in official debian anytime soon? currently i think xfree4.3 is debian unstable.
for the new functions (probably not transparency in this case), are any of them going to be implemented using 3D dri/ gl instructions so that it'll take advantage of today's video cards?
I use the ones provided with XFree86 and/or from DRI. Runs like a charm. I don't bother with those binaries at all.
Same here, I got my 9200SE running with DRI - but unfortunately I could only get it running up to AGP4x, not 8x, which is the card's max capability. Apparently, X doesn't support anything above 4x. You can set the AGP mode as option AGPmode below. The default, unfortunately is 1x. Unbelievable.
the local cable company videotron has download quota limit, but primus canada does not have any download limit. so I use primus DSL for internet access. (offtopic: bell canada recently took away their download limit because too many customers cancelled their services after complaining about that. Me and many of my friends once got charged over $90 for downloading over the limit without even being notified.)
but using dsl means i still have to pay $34 to bell per month for the phone line.
also videotron requires to sign a contract. being a student that's expected to finish up my degree soon, i'd say no thanks.
there's this stereotype that all asian men are desperate people. The entire culture is surrounded about finding/having boyfriends/girlfriends. Every track on every asian CD, especially the ones you find in hong kong have this same theme, and every TV "drama" has the same themes. In both highschool and college, it seems that meeting someone is their ONLY purpose of existence. When you meet up with friends or family relative members that you haven't seen in a long while, 3 sentences within the conversation is ALWAYS whether you have a boyfriend/girlfriend yet.
Sad, yet true, but disturbingly annoying
well now, this phone comes out.... what can i say!
With the success of that tomagotchi years ago, and linking up with the stereotype... seems like they've found the answer!
1. Find way to exploit desperate asians 2. Come out with Virtual Girlfriend on the phone 3. Profit!!!
They will probably get the user interface right like they have in the past: lightweight, intuitive, attractive, instead of the bloated, confusing and fugly interface of ICQ.
you should consider licq for linux. the best icq client on ANY platform bar none:)
Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim....Or licq if you're an icq user. It's by far the best icq client on any platform out there - even better than the official AOL/Mirabilis ones.
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funny that you mentioned that.
i wrote a draft of a paper recently and my supervisor demanded me to switch it over to MS Word so she could edit it. this is an electrical engineering paper. anyway, so i had to run the latex2rtf conversion. The conversion went well except whenever there were equations. Neither abiword nor openoffice writer were able to display all the equations. One software displayed some, some displayed the other.
and MS Word? it displayed NONE.
[tangent]She claims that it's more efficient to get work done with that format, which I think is complete bullshit. Wasting all the time doing text formatting and making sure it opens properly in other word software is more efficient? It's not like this is the first paper she'll be publishing anyway. What a bunch of bull. In latex, all you need to do is include the IEEE template and everything's done for you automagically.[/tangent]
more here
Excellent Latex front-end Programs
MS office available without the need to run crossover office or vmware
The much more responsive GUI of course
GUI features (expecially eXpose)
Unix based - i can use a decent command line
Apps like firefox and thunderbiard are also available on that platform
Why I wouldn't
I'll have to PAY for an OS . Don't need to do that with linux. (I don't have windows on my computer at all)
Everything is customizable, and configurable by editing an ascii-txt file
tuxracer? :D
how about having adsense links from people's pages that directly link to selected news events in google news?
i know blogger now is now inviting its users to include google targeted ads in their page. a lot of people blog about current events, say the presidential election. the blog would have targeted ads aiming towards a list of news sites that are related that may, or may not share the same views as the person that wrote the blog.
i use visio for my diagrams to be exported in EPS for use in myh latex documents. interestingly enough, M$ removed the eps export functionalities...
the article's basically a typical CEO interview. A lot of "I'm the pioneer; I'm God" type of arrogance that you often see in any typical EE Times interviews. Basically he's just using "outsourcing", which sounds negative, into "[is just our way of expansion because we're starting to have higher demand of our products overseas, and we need our man power there to do production and support]". It's just another way of him to say that his company's products are doing well and because [they're "customer oriented"] (damn I hate these stupid business-type buzzwords) they need to have the man-power there to provide the support of their (uhh.. again) "solutions".
Well I see he's a pretty good speaker... in turning something negative and make it seem positive, but in the end it's the company that benifits, not us, the north-american engineers.
For the record, I'm working my ass off in my Masters EE program (takes longer to finish in Canadian schools than US,) and I really hope I'll be able to find some decent employment when I finish within this academic year... Unless I can find full-time employment in my field, I wouldn't want to do a PhD. fulltime.
my university recently purchased something like 8 new labs filled with these monitors, and I havent noticed any sort of the lag mentioned in the article. at home i use a samsung syncmaster 172N and i dont notice any of that either. I think it's best to have the monitor exchanged...
fyi, the new school computers run P4 2.8C and my home computer runs P4 3.0C -- but i doubt this has anything to do with my "lack" of lag...
I purchased a ATI 9200SE card for $80 canadian just one month ago - works well in linux, and no problems with the opensource drivers - perhaps a few small tweaks in XF86Config-4 if you want GL or any sort of 3D, but all this can be found easily on google.
128M is enough for me to do any sort of applications, and is suitable for all my N64 emulator games, tuxracer, etc.
One thing though, is that the card is AGP8x, but X is only able to support up to 4x for all cards.
Tell me about it.
/.ers, my own machine is a 3.0C with except 7200RPM drives and 512MB RAM. performance difference is very noticable.
My department just purchased a lab full of new computers - P4 2.8GHZ, 1GB RAM... the highlight being these new Dell 20.1" FP2001 LCDs...
Analog RGB, Digital DVI-D TMDS, S-Video, Composite Video... not to mention the ability to rotate to portrait view... sadly, they didn't even install the drivers to enable rotating. why get a monitor like that when you dont all its features?
but i agree with a lot of
actually when i read blue at first i thought "playskool colors"...
very nice. too bad debian doesnt have x.org packages available yet. what's the icon theme you are using in your screenshot?
seems like most people's comments' about target audience of the webpage directly related to the stats - but personally, most of the electrical/computer engineers and computer science majors (even masters students) flat out REFUSE to use - or even try out firefox. That kind of attitude's just sickening. What's the point of installing anti-spyware software if you continue to run IE and outlook? For whatever reason, some of them even claim that firefox is only for geeks, just like the way they would say about linux.
miserable.
would anyone know if it contains x.org packages? it would be nice to try for us to try out on a debian/debian-based distro without the need of compiling anything or risking breaking the system :)
the tweak that enables a longer search bar beside the address bar no longer works.
Before, the tweak involves adding the following lines to userChrome.css:
#search-container {
-moz-box-flex: 100 !important;
}
Now, the bar's location does seem to change (left anchor), but the width is just the same.
This happens on both windows and linux versions.
how this benifits google
until the next version of windows (IE) comes out people can start using the toolbar so that should M$ decide to lock out google in their next version of windows, the users used to having the toolbar around is going to continue to use google, despite anything M$ does implicitly.
Will x.org be included in official debian anytime soon? currently i think xfree4.3 is debian unstable.
for the new functions (probably not transparency in this case), are any of them going to be implemented using 3D dri/ gl instructions so that it'll take advantage of today's video cards?
since we're on the subject of what people would do in bad breakup situtations with technology...
this is another example you would all enjoy. i just couldn't laugh my head off watching it.
psycho girl
Same here, I got my 9200SE running with DRI - but unfortunately I could only get it running up to AGP4x, not 8x, which is the card's max capability. Apparently, X doesn't support anything above 4x. You can set the AGP mode as option AGPmode below. The default, unfortunately is 1x. Unbelievable.
i still have my phone line because:
the local cable company videotron has download quota limit, but primus canada does not have any download limit. so I use primus DSL for internet access. (offtopic: bell canada recently took away their download limit because too many customers cancelled their services after complaining about that. Me and many of my friends once got charged over $90 for downloading over the limit without even being notified.)
but using dsl means i still have to pay $34 to bell per month for the phone line.
also videotron requires to sign a contract. being a student that's expected to finish up my degree soon, i'd say no thanks.
all in all, i'm keeping my phone line.
there's this stereotype that all asian men are desperate people. The entire culture is surrounded about finding/having boyfriends/girlfriends. Every track on every asian CD, especially the ones you find in hong kong have this same theme, and every TV "drama" has the same themes. In both highschool and college, it seems that meeting someone is their ONLY purpose of existence. When you meet up with friends or family relative members that you haven't seen in a long while, 3 sentences within the conversation is ALWAYS whether you have a boyfriend/girlfriend yet.
Sad, yet true, but disturbingly annoying
well now, this phone comes out.... what can i say!
With the success of that tomagotchi years ago, and linking up with the stereotype... seems like they've found the answer!
1. Find way to exploit desperate asians
2. Come out with Virtual Girlfriend on the phone
3. Profit!!!
They will probably get the user interface right like they have in the past: lightweight, intuitive, attractive, instead of the bloated, confusing and fugly interface of ICQ.
:)
you should consider licq for linux. the best icq client on ANY platform bar none
The porn industry was buzzing today over the next generation sex toy.
i tch"
;)
The girl at the end of the clip totally made me perk when she said, "come in and play"... with the accent and everything...
Then a series of words flashing on the screen:
"Punch"
"Swing"
"Block"
"Bounce"
"Sw
I'm sure that one particular verb we're all thinking of "inserts well" into the above sequence
it'll be interesting to see whether Komposé, aka éxpose clone will make it into the next version of KDE...
hey, everything slashdot's webpage needs
ironically, this is posted by the "founder"!
Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim. ...Or licq if you're an icq user. It's by far the best icq client on any platform out there - even better than the official AOL/Mirabilis ones.