I added a new element type for typographical examples for my book on LaTeX, and it only took a few minutes
Wait a second... you're writing a book on LaTeX using DocBook?
Does not compute...
Shouldn't you be using LaTeX to write a book on LaTeX?
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4. I 'hire' (read: give the honor of doing my research) master's students to run my experiments / write code.
5. I 'hire' (read: give the honor of doing my research) phd students to draw conclusions on those experiments
Whenever I helped my professor with his research, I always shared co-author credit on his publications, hence no plagiarism. I would imagine this is standard practice throughout the world.
Mr. Montalban was probably the most significant Latino in Star Trek.
I assume you're referring to the characters, not the actors, since you cite Chekov as a Russian. Khan was not Latino; he was a Sikh from northern India.
All such software must deal with one 23 hour day an one 25 hour day each year.
I don't know of any software for which this is a problem. The standard practice is to keep track of time in UTC, where there's no concept of Daylight Saving Time. Dealing with a DST change is equivalent to and no more difficult than a time zone change.
A typical result would be something on the order of: "Left school. Side door. Went to car. Got in. Went home." How in the nine hells did they ever earn a high school diploma?
I dunno, that example has something of an Emily Dickinson flavor to it. She may be teaching the next Robert Grenier or Aram Saroyan.
I think we need, at the very least, to set up reliable archiving before we can tackle any other citation questions raised by the nature of the Web. Perhaps a central, trustworthy source could copy a single page at request along and add metadata (date/time of archival, etc.), and then cite that?
The OLPC crowd has made it clear from the start that their intent was never to provide kids with a computer. Their intent was to provide access to information.
This is not true. The OLPC mission statement says nothing about access to information.
If this were in fact their goal, providing a laptop to each and every child is a ridiculously inefficient and overpriced solution. It would be far cheaper, and perhaps more effective, to instead improve school libraries, many of which are virtually non-existent in the developing world. Simply adding more books, periodicals, and a few standard desktop computers with Internet access would greatly improve children's access to information, without the enormous cost of providing each child with a laptop.
Hey, if you don't like what is in snow leopard, no one is forcing you to pay for it. Just wait for the next release you do feel is worth the money.
It's not that simple. Many applications now require 10.4, and a growing number already require 10.5. Apple does its best to encourage such requirements, presumably in an effort to boost sales of OS X upgrades. So yes, in effect, they do force you to pay for it!
Well, for one thing, if you use unusual fonts or special symbols, you can never be 100% sure that the reader on the other end will see them properly.
This is not true. The PDF format was designed specifically to prevent this kind of problem. When generating a PDF file, you can package up any non-standard fonts with it, allowing all readers to see your document exactly as you intended.
PDF should include an option for graphically rendering fonts which the user doesn't have installed.
if I didn't have buy the mp3 at full price because I thought it was overpriced, but then download it later from a friend because he has it results in a zero loss for all involved parties
I've never understood this logic. Even if I ignore the fact that you feel entitled to get something for free just because it's overpriced, how can you claim zero loss for all parties? If the song is overpriced, then that means there's a fair price at which you'd buy the song, and this price is the amount of loss suffered by the song's provider. It may be a small loss, but it's certainly not zero.
FTFA: "Despite their new problems with the monkeys, it is a criminal offence to harm or kill any of them, so the besieged villagers must figure out a way to outwit the monkeys instead."
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
Wait a second... you're writing a book on LaTeX using DocBook?
Does not compute...
Shouldn't you be using LaTeX to write a book on LaTeX?
Whenever I helped my professor with his research, I always shared co-author credit on his publications, hence no plagiarism. I would imagine this is standard practice throughout the world.
"with it's clueless and campy marketing style" --> " with its clueless and campy marketing style"
I assume you're referring to the characters, not the actors, since you cite Chekov as a Russian. Khan was not Latino; he was a Sikh from northern India.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Noonien_Singh
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Khan_Noonien_Singh
No, he's right. Apple has officially released Java 1.6 for OS X to all users. It's not a developer-only release.
Dig around? It's right there on the page you linked to!
Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 2 delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java SE 6
I don't know of any software for which this is a problem. The standard practice is to keep track of time in UTC, where there's no concept of Daylight Saving Time. Dealing with a DST change is equivalent to and no more difficult than a time zone change.
I dunno, that example has something of an Emily Dickinson flavor to it. She may be teaching the next Robert Grenier or Aram Saroyan.
I think we need, at the very least, to set up reliable archiving before we can tackle any other citation questions raised by the nature of the Web. Perhaps a central, trustworthy source could copy a single page at request along and add metadata (date/time of archival, etc.), and then cite that?
The Internet Archive is already pretty much what you describe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knick_Knack
I think you lost half the battle...
"it's awesome Street View technology" --> "its awesome Street View technology"
This is not true. The OLPC mission statement says nothing about access to information.
If this were in fact their goal, providing a laptop to each and every child is a ridiculously inefficient and overpriced solution. It would be far cheaper, and perhaps more effective, to instead improve school libraries, many of which are virtually non-existent in the developing world. Simply adding more books, periodicals, and a few standard desktop computers with Internet access would greatly improve children's access to information, without the enormous cost of providing each child with a laptop.
It's already been done.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/20/world/20071020_JAPAN_SLIDESHOW_index.html
Forth understand hard not is!
This is not true. The PDF format was designed specifically to prevent this kind of problem. When generating a PDF file, you can package up any non-standard fonts with it, allowing all readers to see your document exactly as you intended.
It already does! It's called font embedding.
I hate to be a pedantic jerk, but you misspelled pedantic.
Actually, it looks like the Preview app in OS X 10.5 will now auto-reload PDFs when they change on disk.
If you do, feel free to use my Reload Preview Document script as a starting point.
Nope, but I did find these: Steady Stream Hydrology, Fluid Transfer Products, and of course the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines. Just think of the confusion if all these companies got together and sued somebody.
Pascal isn't native code. Pascal compilers may compile the language to native code, but Java compilers can do that, too.
It's a reference to this episode of Star Trek: TNG.
I've never understood this logic. Even if I ignore the fact that you feel entitled to get something for free just because it's overpriced, how can you claim zero loss for all parties? If the song is overpriced, then that means there's a fair price at which you'd buy the song, and this price is the amount of loss suffered by the song's provider. It may be a small loss, but it's certainly not zero.
FTFA: "Despite their new problems with the monkeys, it is a criminal offence to harm or kill any of them, so the besieged villagers must figure out a way to outwit the monkeys instead."