The solution: use a graphical frontend to LaTeX: LyX! http://www.lyx.org/ - With LyX you can type your equations graphically with LaTeX keyboard shortcuts (and LyX's own), as quickly and easily as you would with LaTeX but with no mistakes.
Well, the first test for a new TLD is usually this.
Was I suprised when I got the reply "There is no sex.museum". Then where are all those banners pointing at?
Better still, you can simply make all dirs in your webserver except those to be indexed not world-readable, and NEVER put secret data in your public web area anyway.
It's not an OS - It's a way of life. I guess you are the kind of person who buys Nike and Disney. You don't realise that the corporations are out to get you. The corporations run your life, and are buying all your rights. If you don't act soon, there won't be anything left of your rights.
Given that, Linux is recommended from a simple capitalisic productivity point of view. It's counter-productive to waste hours trying to bypass some Windows "smart" "feature", or working like Microsoft thinks you want to work, instead of how you want to work. The more time you spend using your computer, the more productive you would be with a limitless OS, and a limitless point-of-view (a.k.a open source).
[TO THE MODERATOR: Just to make clear, he was referring to his own post not mine]
1) Gaming compatibility. There simply is no alternative to using a
Microsoft OS if you want to be able to play the vast majority of games that
have been made for the PC in the last 20 years. Sure, you can run *most* DOS
games in DR-DOS--but not all of them, and at any rate you'd still have to boot
a Windows variant to play all the Windows games. Some Windows games will work
under WINE, but the vast majority will not. Hence, as someone with a very huge
collection of games spanning 20 years, many of which I actually like to play
rather than just have sit there, I need to use a Microsoft OS. Linux will never
cut it in that department unless the Win9x codebase is opened, which is of
course very unlikely.
In my home net I have a linux PC and a WinXP machine. I have recently bought
several games from Loki, and guess what- now my Linux PC is used mostly for
games. Much more than the XP PC which only runs a few older (for us) games that
we already completed
Many game vendors are starting to realize the advantages of Linux for gaming
and release their games for Linux as well as Windows. By buying games for
Linux, you support the Linux world and fight Microsoft. By pirating Microsoft
Windows but paying for Windows software you signal to the companies that
they should release their software only for Windows, thus supporting
Microsoft.
2) Application compatibility and continuity. Because Windows has been the
dominant platform for many years, people like me are used to using certain
applications for certain jobs--they work well for us and we aren't interested
in changing to a new OS and trying to find an equivalent which probably is not
there in the same fashion. This is especially true since so many Linux apps are
enigmatically named (how are we supposed to find them in the first place?) and
not geared for GUI users. Most end users like me have no desire to leave a
well-mapped-out GUI app with buttons and menus in intuitive places and
universal shortcuts (most Windows apps or Mac apps conform to the same shortcut
key layouts--Linux apps often do not) for a Linux app that isn't very
intuitively layed out because it either caters mostly to CLI users or was coded
by CLI users who didn't really put thought into layout for GUI
folk.
Productivity studies have shown that a well-traided CLI user is much more
productive than the respective well-trained GUI user. This is simply because
it's faster for the brain to type a command than to precisely point and click
several menus with the mouse. You aren't typing with your mouse, are you?
With that said, Linux does have intuitive GUIs and even lets you simulate
Windows for various tasks. Learning the names of apps is quite trivial and can
be done in a few minutes, and it's always good to learn your tools throughly
before using them. You have been using an OS for begginers. It is time to
evolve to a more advanced OS, to a system that does what you want it do,
and not what it wants.
Anyone knows instantly what Media Player does--it plays media, like movies and
sounds. Great. But how is an end user supposed to know what xanim does?
Have you tried Mplayer?
Better name for you? It's also a much better app for media playing.
My time is too valuable to waste learning.
But your time is so unvaluable to waste on using your tools sub-optimally.
Think on how much time you waste by not knowing keyboard shortcuts, or by
rebooting your system and restoring data after a crash, or by reading/. for
that matter:)
I need ACDSee for viewing pictures, and I won't even touch that crap that comes
built-in to WinXP for doing so.
I need Photoshop for image editing--The Gimp is okay, and I can do some
script-fu with it that I can't under Photoshop, but it isn't as powerful in
most respects, is more clunky and difficult to use, and lacks CMYK color
separation which is a must for many graphic artists
Hmmm.... Image|Mode|Decompose...|CMYK. Was that so hard?
3) Compatibility with the outside world. This isn't important to everyone.
Indeed, even Mac users get used to a certain amount of non-interoperability.
But to some of us it's damn important. I'm not talking about just the whole
Office.doc thing, either--an awful lot of media is Windows-only, for example.
There are codecs which will never be available on Linux, but I have no problem
finding them for Windows. Why should I put up with not being able to use a film
clip, when I could have done so with Windows?
If you are talking about "Windows Media Player", then just use
Mplayer, which supports almost
all Media Player codecs. If you are talking about Quicktime, why should you use
a non-portable codec? If you are referring to RealPlayer, there is a linux
version
available.
Again, not everyone cares, but some of us do. There are some pretty strange
and obscure file formats that have been developed over the years, but almost
alays there is software for Windows which will handle it. The same just can't
be said for Linux, or to a large extent for Mac. That's not to say closed and
hard-to-deal-with formats are good--I always try to use open and
readily-available formats that anyone can use or view. But there are a lot of
people out there who don't do the same and there are also a lot of legacy files
to be dealt with.
Actually, quite a lot of 'obscure' formats are supported in the standard apps
available on Linux, such as ImageMagick.
Which obscure formats have you had problems with?
B) Chasing Amy uses (pirated) Windows. Microsoft gets no money from him.
Whatever he produces and sends over the net is cross-platform.
But now - Chasing Amy pays for Windows software, which triggers more
windows software to be produced, thus making it even harded for people
such as Chasing Amy to switch to Linux, and increasing Micro$oft's monopoly.
In addition, Chasing Amy finds a job somewhere, and his employer is required
to purchase a M$ license for him, thus giving money directly to Microsoft.
It's all about market share. By using windows you increase the amount of
licenses that will be sold, either by not influencing people not to buy windows,
or by using purchased versions of Windows in public places and at work, or even
by purchasing Windows software and games instead of Linux software and games,
thus dragging Loki to bankrupcy and making
game developers think developing for Linux is a bad idea.
In either case, the results are the same. Whether I use Linux or not has no
bearing at all on anything external to my box. Internally it makes sure that I
can use media and documents I wouldn't be able to use with Linux, and it
maintains my use of the apps I am familiar with. Externally the world doesn't
know or care what I have on my box, as long as whatever I produce is
cross-platform--which it is.
Not quite. Your browser identifies itself as running under Windows (I hope
you're not using the junky MSIE), which gets counted by web survey companies,
and then leads to decisions to abandon Linux as a target.
The fact that you use non-portable documents instead of banning those
who produce them and instructing them to switch to a portable format increaes
the Microsoft monopoly, because those who produce those documents now 'know'
that it's OK to send you (and therefore anyone) those documents. This will lead
to more non-portable documents, and thus more people using Windows, some paying
for it.
Not exactly. E-bay is a private corporation. They're not required to allow you to sell anything.
Same goes to purchasing a new PC. The vendor can bundle anything she wants. The news is that you CAN sell your OEM version of [Insert name of crappy OS here] no matter what the EULA says.
Until you move over to the Windows world, where it's Alt-F4. Just as fast, but there's that little internal lookup function, where you have to think "wait, I'm in a MS program, it's not Ctrl-W, it's Alt-F4". Now, once that info's availible, then it's easy to close the other windows (Alt-Tab, Alt-F4, repeat), but the first 500 times you do it, you have to remember what you are doing. And then, when you switch to another system, you have to remember what the command is there. I'd be appalled if there was a little counter that counted how much time I wasted typing "ls" at an MS-DOS command prompt, or DIR at a bash prompt.
You can solve this by using KDE, so Alt-F4 still works, and aliasing dir to ls and vice versa on both machines.
Also, you can trivially use only one desktop OS....
Actually, it does line up.
In greenwich they have museum about longitude measurment, and they have there a GPS device (turned on) and it shows almost 000 latitude (almost because it's a few meters away from the line itself).
In other news, GPS have been announced as circumvention devices under the DMCA, due to the fact that some copyright protection method has been annouced to use ionic iterference...
everyone will still get 99% of their predictions wrong...
... but they will only mention the 1% that they got right to the complete astonishment of their audience.
Machine translation in 0-30 years?! As a person involved in these topics, I can say that 30 years ago people thought this could be solved in 30 years. We are today almost as far away as we were 30 years ago, and I think that there's no way of this being a realitiy in less than 100 years.
To do correct machine translation you have to fully model the world and knowledge. Translation (for humans) is a tedious job, requiring a lot of research and artistic-like choice of words.
I think that we will sooner have machines writing their own novles than full machine transtaltion. The problem is just too hard.
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Try this too:
If a page is called '.txt' and mime-type is text/plain, MSIE will *still* treat it as HTML, if it "looks like" HTML source.
See this for example, or if you want to be naughtier, try this for a crash.
The solution: use a graphical frontend to LaTeX: LyX! http://www.lyx.org/ - With LyX you can type your equations graphically with LaTeX keyboard shortcuts (and LyX's own), as quickly and easily as you would with LaTeX but with no mistakes.
However I think he is male, thus drastically reducing the salary for that profession.
Simple, Download yourself a decent Linux distribution or maybe one for beginners and start using a stable system for a change.
A) Grow up.
B) Get a job.
Yeah I know -1 Flamebait, -1 Troll
You could also try this for a joke:
Where is the museum? (click for reply)
Well, the first test for a new TLD is usually this.
Was I suprised when I got the reply "There is no sex.museum". Then where are all those banners pointing at?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Better still, you can simply make all dirs in your webserver except those to be indexed not world-readable, and NEVER put secret data in your public web area anyway.
It's not an OS - It's a way of life. I guess you are the kind of person who buys Nike and Disney. You don't realise that the corporations are out to get you. The corporations run your life, and are buying all your rights. If you don't act soon, there won't be anything left of your rights.
Given that, Linux is recommended from a simple capitalisic productivity point of view. It's counter-productive to waste hours trying to bypass some Windows "smart" "feature", or working like Microsoft thinks you want to work, instead of how you want to work. The more time you spend using your computer, the more productive you would be with a limitless OS, and a limitless point-of-view (a.k.a open source).
[TO THE MODERATOR: Just to make clear, he was referring to his own post not mine]
In my home net I have a linux PC and a WinXP machine. I have recently bought several games from Loki, and guess what- now my Linux PC is used mostly for games. Much more than the XP PC which only runs a few older (for us) games that we already completed
Many game vendors are starting to realize the advantages of Linux for gaming and release their games for Linux as well as Windows. By buying games for Linux, you support the Linux world and fight Microsoft. By pirating Microsoft Windows but paying for Windows software you signal to the companies that they should release their software only for Windows, thus supporting Microsoft.
Productivity studies have shown that a well-traided CLI user is much more productive than the respective well-trained GUI user. This is simply because it's faster for the brain to type a command than to precisely point and click several menus with the mouse. You aren't typing with your mouse, are you?
With that said, Linux does have intuitive GUIs and even lets you simulate Windows for various tasks. Learning the names of apps is quite trivial and can be done in a few minutes, and it's always good to learn your tools throughly before using them. You have been using an OS for begginers. It is time to evolve to a more advanced OS, to a system that does what you want it do, and not what it wants.
Have you tried Mplayer? Better name for you? It's also a much better app for media playing.
But your time is so unvaluable to waste on using your tools sub-optimally. Think on how much time you waste by not knowing keyboard shortcuts, or by rebooting your system and restoring data after a crash, or by reading /. for
that matter :)
Have you ever tried GQview? It works real well.
Hmmm.... Image|Mode|Decompose...|CMYK. Was that so hard?
If you are talking about "Windows Media Player", then just use Mplayer, which supports almost all Media Player codecs. If you are talking about Quicktime, why should you use a non-portable codec? If you are referring to RealPlayer, there is a linux version available.
Actually, quite a lot of 'obscure' formats are supported in the standard apps available on Linux, such as ImageMagick. Which obscure formats have you had problems with?
But now - Chasing Amy pays for Windows software, which triggers more windows software to be produced, thus making it even harded for people such as Chasing Amy to switch to Linux, and increasing Micro$oft's monopoly. In addition, Chasing Amy finds a job somewhere, and his employer is required to purchase a M$ license for him, thus giving money directly to Microsoft. It's all about market share. By using windows you increase the amount of licenses that will be sold, either by not influencing people not to buy windows, or by using purchased versions of Windows in public places and at work, or even by purchasing Windows software and games instead of Linux software and games, thus dragging Loki to bankrupcy and making game developers think developing for Linux is a bad idea.
Not quite. Your browser identifies itself as running under Windows (I hope you're not using the junky MSIE), which gets counted by web survey companies, and then leads to decisions to abandon Linux as a target.
The fact that you use non-portable documents instead of banning those who produce them and instructing them to switch to a portable format increaes the Microsoft monopoly, because those who produce those documents now 'know' that it's OK to send you (and therefore anyone) those documents. This will lead to more non-portable documents, and thus more people using Windows, some paying for it.
Please stop now before this gets out of hand! Aaaaghh!
Or it may get out of band, not hand...
It's just what you wanted.... pyramids etc.
CS + Archeology!
You can then get a job studying old XT, DRAGON-32 and COMMODORE-64 machines...
Actually, Prolog constants should be lowercase:
:- works_for (X,microsoft).
? - can (microsoft_employees, code)
rocks (this_ruling).
cannot (X,code)
Not exactly. E-bay is a private corporation. They're not required to allow you to sell anything.
Same goes to purchasing a new PC. The vendor can bundle anything she wants. The news is that you CAN sell your OEM version of [Insert name of crappy OS here] no matter what the EULA says.
These will be read many many years from now.... :)
Until you move over to the Windows world, where it's Alt-F4. Just as fast, but there's that little internal lookup function, where you have to think "wait, I'm in a MS program, it's not Ctrl-W, it's Alt-F4". Now, once that info's availible, then it's easy to close the other windows (Alt-Tab, Alt-F4, repeat), but the first 500 times you do it, you have to remember what you are doing. And then, when you switch to another system, you have to remember what the command is there. I'd be appalled if there was a little counter that counted how much time I wasted typing "ls" at an MS-DOS command prompt, or DIR at a bash prompt.
You can solve this by using KDE, so Alt-F4 still works, and aliasing dir to ls and vice versa on both machines.
Also, you can trivially use only one desktop OS....
This movie is disrtibuted by Disney. Try watching it in "alternative" ways that don't get money into Disney's pockets.
:)
Yes, I'm a Karma whore...
Well, that's the demo. In the real thing they'll switch the default. WIN3.1 let you see your file extentions by default. WIN9x does not.
Oops, I meant longitude. Sorry...
Actually, it does line up.
In greenwich they have museum about longitude measurment, and they have there a GPS device (turned on) and it shows almost 000 latitude (almost because it's a few meters away from the line itself).
"circumvent ionic interface"...
In other news, GPS have been announced as circumvention devices under the DMCA, due to the fact that some copyright protection method has been annouced to use ionic iterference...
everyone will still get 99% of their predictions wrong...
... but they will only mention the 1% that they got right to the complete astonishment of their audience.
Machine translation in 0-30 years?! As a person involved in these topics, I can say that 30 years ago people thought this could be solved in 30 years. We are today almost as far away as we were 30 years ago, and I think that there's no way of this being a realitiy in less than 100 years.
To do correct machine translation you have to fully model the world and knowledge. Translation (for humans) is a tedious job, requiring a lot of research and artistic-like choice of words.
I think that we will sooner have machines writing their own novles than full machine transtaltion. The problem is just too hard.