I am not aware of any word processor that would insert an actual minus glyph when the 'minus' key is pressed. In this instance, the author explicitly specified a minus codepoint.
You're probably right. As soon as I hit 'Submit' I regretted having used the term 'sign'. It's better to distinguish between keycaps, scancodes, character codes and glyphs.
Addendum:
It turns out the author used the minus sign instead of the hyphen. That (a) looks wrong on the page, (b) breaks screen readers, (c) confuses readability scores and (d) makes this not news.
Actually, it looks like Amazon is the typography police. For whatever reason, the book seems to use en-dashes instead of hyphens (check the preview on Amazon). That is an abomination. Where the message changed from "please replace en-dashes with hyphens" to "don't use hyphens" is anyone's guess.
And just like back then, they can still only recognise up to two points (or more accurately, two corners of a rectangle, with no way of knowing which two. But that's probably enough for a zoom or rotate gesture.)
It's still commonly used in digital whiteboards, e.g. in classrooms. There are even companies that retrofit IR touch frames on non-interactive displays. It's finally dying in that market because Microsoft now requires full multitouch capability for modern Windows compatibility.
I wouldn't know if all birches produce xylitol but I guess it's possible if they are related. In Finland sap is collected from both of the common varieties, the silver birch (Betula pendula) and the downy birch (Betula pubescens), of which the latter gives more sap. There is a third native birch variety, the dwarf birch (Betula nana), but it's tiny so it wouldn't be much good for collecting sap.
You may be more correct than you think.
Birch sap contains xylitol, the sugar that's actually good for your teeth. It's still used in chewing gum, especially (and almost exclusively) in Finland where it was first discovered but increasingly in other countries as well. Find it in a supermarket near you.
Gutenberg already uses OCR. Has for a decade at least.
Indeed it has. And as their scanning FAQ explains, they recommend you buy an OCR software package. I'm all for having the right tools for the job, even if it means going non-OSS, but if these packages are available for free, it encourages more people to participate. Surely that's a good thing?
No, no, no. The bird flu doesn't have to evolve, it just has to mutate, and since President Bush has seen all three X-Men movies, he acknowledges this possibility.
I know this is a joke, but it's a good point nonetheless.
To quote this fine article:
There are at least three independent processes that, when taken together, form our idea of evolution. These are replication, variation, and selection. Replication is essentially reproduction. Variation refers to the random changes-typically mutations-arising in offspring, making them different from their parents. Selection refers to the process whereby those individuals best adapted to their environment tend to be the ones that survive, passing on their genes. These three processes occur every day in nature, and it is their cumulative effect that we call evolution.
So, Bush believes in mutation, that is, variation. I believe he also believes in replication, as long as people can figure out how to do it without their teachers telling them. In essence, then, the only part about evolution that Bush does not buy is selection.
Then again, Bush becoming a president is some powerful evidence against survival of the fittest.
"Companies must register their corporate name or trading name, or some form of abbreviation. For example, Telecom Cook Islands Ltd. has registered "telecom.co.ck" as their domain name."
"The Domain Name Registration maintenance fee for organisations or individuals who do not reside in the Cook Islands is US$150.00 for 2 years registration."
There seems to be a kind of a geographical divide between VHDL and Verilog, the latter being more popular in the US. There are many more Verilog tools than VHDL. Sure, you can get some VHDL to Verilog converters but that doesn't really solve the problem.
For my course in VHDL last year, I completed the courseworks using GHDL for simulation and GTKWave 2 to view the waveforms. The combination was fine for my purpose but I can imagine it failing with more complex projects. For synthesis I can choose from tools by Altera, Xilinx and Synplicity, although that wasn't necessary for the coursework.
I was actually thinking of simply switching to Verilog. One language doesn't really offer any advantages over the other anyway.
The invisible red ball is floating in a green love with very loud lemon flavour.
If you're gonna argue about grammar, at least get it right. "Love" is an uncountable noun so you can't use an indefinite article in front of it. See this, for example.
um... last I checked a half liter was larger than a pint. A liter is larger than a quart and a pint is half a quart but if you don`t believe, http://www.i4at.org/lib2/metric.htm
scroll a bit down, a pint is.47 liters so really if brits are switching for that reason, you got some deeper problems than I want to go into.
Yet another reason to go metric. FWIW, the grandparent was referring to the UK pint which is 0.568 litres, not to the American 0.472 litre one. See http://www.drinksmixer.com/guide/1-4-1.php.
That reminds me, how come a country as small Finland is capable of producing two world class Formula One drivers (Mika Häkkinen and Kimi Raikkonen) and a world class rally car driver (Tommi Makkinen) among others?
I think the rally driver bit can be explained by the fact that the countryside is full of small gravel roads which, in addition, are covered in snow and ice half of the year. The kids who are unfortunate enough to live there have nothing else to do so they end up driving around in old non-licensed cars. There even exists a term for these cards: peltoauto (field card). I never heard the word before I went to the army and actually met people from the Finnish periphery (kind of a tautology...)
F1 is more of a mystery. The drivers seem to be coming from places with paved roads. Go-karting? Anyway, we have produced more than those two F1 drivers (I'd argue any F1 driver is by definition a world class driver): Keke Rosberg (1982 world champion), Mika Hakkinen, J.J. Lehto, Mika Salo, and Kimi Raikkonen.
What happens when someone ports it to Windows and someone else releases the PizzaBlaster worm?
I think you mean Pizza Worm, the ultimate, omnidirectional Caterpillar-style game with gen-u-wine SoundBlaster/GUS sound. Best ever. (Hi, Zorlim!) It's even open source now. Anyone care to make a Linux port?
Yeah, and what quality results they are. Okay, the first one is linux.com, which is to be expected. The second one points to http://home.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml, a private, retired home page of little relevance and less use. The only Linux distribution listed is Red Hat.
Google, on the other hand, lists linux.org, linux.com and most major distributions (although not my distro of choice) in the top ten. Now, which list of ten items do you think would benefit the Linux-curious (=anybody enough of a beginner to search for simply 'linux') more?
Overall, I've noticed that I very rarely need to check results 11-20 when Googling.
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I am not aware of any word processor that would insert an actual minus glyph when the 'minus' key is pressed. In this instance, the author explicitly specified a minus codepoint.
You're probably right. As soon as I hit 'Submit' I regretted having used the term 'sign'. It's better to distinguish between keycaps, scancodes, character codes and glyphs.
So, on a standard US keyboard, is this sign a minus or a hyphen?: -
It's a hyphen. A standard keyboard layout has no minus sign, not even in the keypad. The author of the book explicitly specified a Unicode minus sign wherever a hyphen should've been because "I try to avoid using direct ascii hash codes because some ereaders can misinterpret them"
Addendum: It turns out the author used the minus sign instead of the hyphen. That (a) looks wrong on the page, (b) breaks screen readers, (c) confuses readability scores and (d) makes this not news.
Actually, it looks like Amazon is the typography police. For whatever reason, the book seems to use en-dashes instead of hyphens (check the preview on Amazon). That is an abomination. Where the message changed from "please replace en-dashes with hyphens" to "don't use hyphens" is anyone's guess.
That's exactly what I tried to say: "or more accurately, two corners of a rectangle, with no way of knowing which two."
And just like back then, they can still only recognise up to two points (or more accurately, two corners of a rectangle, with no way of knowing which two. But that's probably enough for a zoom or rotate gesture.)
It's still commonly used in digital whiteboards, e.g. in classrooms. There are even companies that retrofit IR touch frames on non-interactive displays. It's finally dying in that market because Microsoft now requires full multitouch capability for modern Windows compatibility.
It's a Ponzi scheme! Pyramid! Tulips! Pet rocks!
Tim Minchin put it best: to assume that a one-in-a-million thing is a miracle is to massively underestimate the total number of things there are.
"MIT Develops Holographic, Glasses-Free 3D TV"? Only if by "holographic" you mean "not holographic"
In case anyone's interested, there seems to be a nice sap-collecting-howto, with pictures, here.
I wouldn't know if all birches produce xylitol but I guess it's possible if they are related. In Finland sap is collected from both of the common varieties, the silver birch (Betula pendula) and the downy birch (Betula pubescens), of which the latter gives more sap. There is a third native birch variety, the dwarf birch (Betula nana), but it's tiny so it wouldn't be much good for collecting sap.
You may be more correct than you think. Birch sap contains xylitol, the sugar that's actually good for your teeth. It's still used in chewing gum, especially (and almost exclusively) in Finland where it was first discovered but increasingly in other countries as well. Find it in a supermarket near you.
Indeed it has. And as their scanning FAQ explains, they recommend you buy an OCR software package. I'm all for having the right tools for the job, even if it means going non-OSS, but if these packages are available for free, it encourages more people to participate. Surely that's a good thing?
Then again, Bush becoming a president is some powerful evidence against survival of the fittest.
These people do.
For my course in VHDL last year, I completed the courseworks using GHDL for simulation and GTKWave 2 to view the waveforms. The combination was fine for my purpose but I can imagine it failing with more complex projects. For synthesis I can choose from tools by Altera, Xilinx and Synplicity, although that wasn't necessary for the coursework.
I was actually thinking of simply switching to Verilog. One language doesn't really offer any advantages over the other anyway.
If you're gonna argue about grammar, at least get it right. "Love" is an uncountable noun so you can't use an indefinite article in front of it. See this, for example.
I think the rally driver bit can be explained by the fact that the countryside is full of small gravel roads which, in addition, are covered in snow and ice half of the year. The kids who are unfortunate enough to live there have nothing else to do so they end up driving around in old non-licensed cars. There even exists a term for these cards: peltoauto (field card). I never heard the word before I went to the army and actually met people from the Finnish periphery (kind of a tautology...)
F1 is more of a mystery. The drivers seem to be coming from places with paved roads. Go-karting? Anyway, we have produced more than those two F1 drivers (I'd argue any F1 driver is by definition a world class driver): Keke Rosberg (1982 world champion), Mika Hakkinen, J.J. Lehto, Mika Salo, and Kimi Raikkonen.
Google, on the other hand, lists linux.org, linux.com and most major distributions (although not my distro of choice) in the top ten. Now, which list of ten items do you think would benefit the Linux-curious (=anybody enough of a beginner to search for simply 'linux') more?
Overall, I've noticed that I very rarely need to check results 11-20 when Googling.
Tell me, does this involve Microsoft's decision not to issue any patches for a month?
In Soviet Microsoft, posts take YOU down.