Try HTML-Kit with the HTML Tidy plug-in. It cleans up All that word crap quite nicely. However, you still gotta tweak it after that to make it look nice.
You know if someone would just reverse engineer MS' implementation of RTF, I think you'd see THAT as the de facto standard. It shouldn't be that hard to do since is 99% clear text.
All development and estimation methodologies are going to rely on human
estimation at some point. A realistic Work Breakdown Structure diagram
needs to be drilled down until the tasks are less than 5% of the total project
time. Even still, the estimates of those tasks are still going to be based
on human perceptions of how long that particular task will take to accomplish.
The estimates of each individual task may be inaccurate especially if they
involve doing something that's never been done before. This is
where the errors crop up. It's those tasks that I agree can't be predicted
with a high level of accuracy.
However, this doesn't imply that you shouldn't try to plan your project instead
of diving right in with coding. There are plenty of tasks that can be
predicted accurately. Even if they do take longer than you expected, at
least you broke the project into small chunks. You can manage the slip on
a week-long task much easier rather than try to do damage control after a month
of development and no results. Furthermore, if your milestones aren't met
on the dates you predicted and they aren't on the critical path, you can let
them slide without impacting the project. If you never plotted out the
project beforehand, you'd never know.
Conventional?! Hell no. They were revolutionary. No one thought of putting a cartoon in a prime time slot since the Flintstones with "adult" themes and jokes. Yeah sure, those episodes seem tame now, but back then it was groundbreaking stuff.
I can still remember the controversy over the Bart Simpson "Underachiever and proud of it" t-shirts.
Fox needed to hold onto ANY show that was even mildly successful. Don't get me wrong, I loved "Married with Children," but any other network would have cancelled it when the Seven character was introduced.
Fortunately, they rebounded and got past that rough spot.
Fox shows were given the ability to get a cult following (like the X-Files)
simply because Fox had little else of value to broadcast. Remember the
Simpson's episode with Troy McClure displaying a diagram of Fox's weekly lineup:
"Simpsons", "X-Files", and "???" all over the
place?
If a show can't "self-correct" itself and at least find a niche
audience, fox will cancel them swiftly. The trick with Fox broadcasting is
to find a hook and develop it quickly before you get shit-canned.
BTW, this isn't a criticism of Fox broadcasting methods. If ST:TOS was on
Fox instead of NBC, it would still be on the air.
I've been looking up in Google how random number generators (RNG) are
made. What comes up are a lot of discussions regarding RNGs in encryption
schemes. The goal there is to make sure you CAN'T determine the seed based
on the output and the algorithm. However, what I'm looking for is the
reverse. I WANT to find a RNG where I can find a seed for an arbitrary
random number.
What if:
I had 65,535 different "reversible" RNG algorithms that I use to
generate seeds from. I find the shortest (or most compressible) seed and
store that with the index to the algorithm I need to reproduce the "almost
random" string of data.
I have no idea if any of this is feasible (probably not). I'm just trying
to brainstorm what the Zeo guys have come up with.
I don't get it. I've seen "dream" systems before, but what's the tie in with Linux?
I mean, a fast system is a fast system. Who cares what OS you're running?
Oh wait. I see. This is the best system you can get with peripherals
that have Linux drivers. Well, that narrows it down a bit.
There are a list of active trademarks used generically as well as a list of defunct ones here:
http://rinkworks.com/words/eponyms.shtml
Hmmm... I never knew "Aspirin" was a trademark.
...has never been to an urban DMV location. I went to one to replace my "misplaced" driver's license during my lunch hour. (I gave my license to a security guard to get into a secure building and the numbskull gave it to someone else.) I found out that the DMV in NY gives out special "non-driver" driver's licenses to people who DON'T (or can't) drive. Since this was a poor urban area, I was the only one there in line for a "driver's" licence. The other hundred people on line were just there to get what amounted to an official NY State ID card.
Wasn't there something about the Germans mistakenly believing they needed heavy water? I think there was a book/movie made about the US sinking the German ship that was carrying their heavy water supply.
Quite frankly, I'll be shocked if someone DOESN'T try to hack the TiVO protocol once the USB ethernet adapter comes out. There's gotta be a way to get the TV Listings off of Yahoo and send them to your TiVo.
Laptop?! Who would want this for their laptop? Most users are
happy with the built in sound card. Anyone in the "professional"
world is going to balk at this due to the lack of inputs they need for their
high-end applications. This baby is going to my desktop computer!
Now maybe I can run a long enough USB cable from my home entertainment center and FINALLY have crystal clear audio from my computer's MP3 database!
The included remote control cinches the deal!
Here are my questions:
What's the maximum length of a USB cable? Can it go 50 feet?
Can I have this AND an internal sound card in the same computer? If so, can I have multiple installations of apps like Winamp to be programmed to use the audio outputs of this device exclusively?
That way I can play music/games on my computer speakers via an internal sound card and my wife can play mp3s in the living room.
I take back my earlier claim. The formula for PI really is a compression
algorithm. It's just that there are only a limited set of data strings that are
compressible by similarly simple algorithms. If you wanted to compress 3.14109265398979...,
you would have to throw in an exception for the unPI'ish digit. The less
"Pi-like" the data set, the less you would gain by using such an
algorithm.
Let's expand on this. Let's say there are a bunch of numbers interspersed
throughout the string that make it different from pi. What if you took the
XOR of the binary sequence you were trying to compress with that of the pi
sequence? You would get a hell of a lot of zeroes with some ones wherever there was difference between the two sequences. The XOR
data would be highly compressible due to the redundancy in the XOR
sequence. Tack that onto the formula for pi.
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Try HTML-Kit with the HTML Tidy plug-in. It cleans up All that word crap quite nicely. However, you still gotta tweak it after that to make it look nice.
You know if someone would just reverse engineer MS' implementation of RTF, I think you'd see THAT as the de facto standard. It shouldn't be that hard to do since is 99% clear text.
Yeah, it's a lot worse than when I was paying the WordPerfect tax years ago.
I recommend using FrontPage instead of Word. That way Microsoft doesn't make any "tax" money off of you.</sarcasm>
I wonder what the anti-virus apps think of it when they try to scan it for macro viruses? :)
Now all I need is an easy to use WYSIWYG HTML+CSS2 word processor and I'll be in business.
Unicode? Not every e-mail program (or even text editor for that matter) can handle Unicode. It's a two-byte format that is NOT ASCII compatible.
All development and estimation methodologies are going to rely on human estimation at some point. A realistic Work Breakdown Structure diagram needs to be drilled down until the tasks are less than 5% of the total project time. Even still, the estimates of those tasks are still going to be based on human perceptions of how long that particular task will take to accomplish. The estimates of each individual task may be inaccurate especially if they involve doing something that's never been done before. This is where the errors crop up. It's those tasks that I agree can't be predicted with a high level of accuracy.
However, this doesn't imply that you shouldn't try to plan your project instead of diving right in with coding. There are plenty of tasks that can be predicted accurately. Even if they do take longer than you expected, at least you broke the project into small chunks. You can manage the slip on a week-long task much easier rather than try to do damage control after a month of development and no results. Furthermore, if your milestones aren't met on the dates you predicted and they aren't on the critical path, you can let them slide without impacting the project. If you never plotted out the project beforehand, you'd never know.
"Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this is that Northern Light's public search engine is fated for destruction later this month."
According to fuckedcompany.com, they will be converting their search-engine service to a paid-only model.
Conventional?! Hell no. They were revolutionary. No one thought of putting a cartoon in a prime time slot since the Flintstones with "adult" themes and jokes. Yeah sure, those episodes seem tame now, but back then it was groundbreaking stuff. I can still remember the controversy over the Bart Simpson "Underachiever and proud of it" t-shirts.
Fox needed to hold onto ANY show that was even mildly successful. Don't get me wrong, I loved "Married with Children," but any other network would have cancelled it when the Seven character was introduced. Fortunately, they rebounded and got past that rough spot.
Fox shows were given the ability to get a cult following (like the X-Files) simply because Fox had little else of value to broadcast. Remember the Simpson's episode with Troy McClure displaying a diagram of Fox's weekly lineup: "Simpsons", "X-Files", and "???" all over the place?
If a show can't "self-correct" itself and at least find a niche audience, fox will cancel them swiftly. The trick with Fox broadcasting is to find a hook and develop it quickly before you get shit-canned.
BTW, this isn't a criticism of Fox broadcasting methods. If ST:TOS was on Fox instead of NBC, it would still be on the air.
I've been looking up in Google how random number generators (RNG) are made. What comes up are a lot of discussions regarding RNGs in encryption schemes. The goal there is to make sure you CAN'T determine the seed based on the output and the algorithm. However, what I'm looking for is the reverse. I WANT to find a RNG where I can find a seed for an arbitrary random number.
What if:
I had 65,535 different "reversible" RNG algorithms that I use to generate seeds from. I find the shortest (or most compressible) seed and store that with the index to the algorithm I need to reproduce the "almost random" string of data.
I have no idea if any of this is feasible (probably not). I'm just trying to brainstorm what the Zeo guys have come up with.
Okay, but WHY is it superior? From the examples shown, it looks like an inferior JavaDoc clone to me. Who cares if it does formats other than HTML?
I don't get it. I've seen "dream" systems before, but what's the tie in with Linux? I mean, a fast system is a fast system. Who cares what OS you're running?
Oh wait. I see. This is the best system you can get with peripherals that have Linux drivers. Well, that narrows it down a bit.
This looks great, but why not just use Javadoc? Javadoc works with C++ too as long as you keep the comment your code the same way.
vogg orbis?
How about a way to moderate freeloaders as "foes" and people who share as "friends" on Gnutella? That ought to work out real well!
There are a list of active trademarks used generically as well as a list of defunct ones here: http://rinkworks.com/words/eponyms.shtml Hmmm... I never knew "Aspirin" was a trademark.
...has never been to an urban DMV location. I went to one to replace my "misplaced" driver's license during my lunch hour. (I gave my license to a security guard to get into a secure building and the numbskull gave it to someone else.) I found out that the DMV in NY gives out special "non-driver" driver's licenses to people who DON'T (or can't) drive. Since this was a poor urban area, I was the only one there in line for a "driver's" licence. The other hundred people on line were just there to get what amounted to an official NY State ID card.
Wasn't there something about the Germans mistakenly believing they needed heavy water? I think there was a book/movie made about the US sinking the German ship that was carrying their heavy water supply.
How are they certain Heisenberg was in Copenhagen AND he was there in 1941 at the same time?
Snorky.
Now that cable companies are moving to digital cable boxes, why not make a hybrid unit like they did with the satelite service?
Quite frankly, I'll be shocked if someone DOESN'T try to hack the TiVO protocol once the USB ethernet adapter comes out. There's gotta be a way to get the TV Listings off of Yahoo and send them to your TiVo.
Gilmore Girls?! Will & Grace?! Yeesh! I guess TiVo isn't the only way to expose your embarrasing TV viewing habits.
Here are my questions:
I take back my earlier claim. The formula for PI really is a compression algorithm. It's just that there are only a limited set of data strings that are compressible by similarly simple algorithms. If you wanted to compress 3.14109265398979..., you would have to throw in an exception for the unPI'ish digit. The less "Pi-like" the data set, the less you would gain by using such an algorithm.
Let's expand on this. Let's say there are a bunch of numbers interspersed throughout the string that make it different from pi. What if you took the XOR of the binary sequence you were trying to compress with that of the pi sequence? You would get a hell of a lot of zeroes with some ones wherever there was difference between the two sequences. The XOR data would be highly compressible due to the redundancy in the XOR sequence. Tack that onto the formula for pi.