I guess viewing a censored web for less money is a step in the right direction but it seems to me the the Australian government officials are a bigger problem for web access there than the telcos.
They talked about this during a segment of Talk of the Nation Science Friday (on NPR) last week. It was a pretty interesting discussion. They also talked about how you could make a battery from some microbes, a fishtank, some mud, and graphite rods... pretty cool...
Think about it:
All postings to this GPS system get moderated (and then the moderations get meta-moderated of course). The higher a message is modded, the higher priority it is, or perhaps the more space it occupies.
Isn't this how the rest of the world is going too though? With all the fundementalism on one side and then the libertarianism on the other?
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By primitive I meant the formatting of the output. I can't believe that I've been using jade and missed docbook2pdf though. I'm going to go try that right away.
I regularly use both the linux and windows versions of the tools (depending on if i'm at home or work) and have seen no real differences in the output of either.
In my opinion, DocBook (http://www.docbook.org) would offer you the mose flexibility in terms of document content and output options. What might work even better for you would be to have your own format, possibly your own XML DTD, that you'd edit the source in, and then process it (via XSLT in the case of your own XML DTD) to get docbook formatted XML. At that point you'd be able to produce any kind of output you'd like (print, web, online help).
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What do you use to get PDF output from DocBook, everything that I've tried still seems a little primitive.
I don't know about everyone else, but I never used the assembly instructions from a Lego set. I chose which sets I would get for my b-day / x-mas based on the cool parts included, not the suggested assembly. I totally disagree that Lego is a like a prefab model kit. The only people that I know that do use the instructions are adults who wish they were still imaginative children but just aren't. Besides, who claims that Lego is supposed to make you a better engineer? I think Lego helped my creativity and my sense of spacial manipulation more than my mechanical engineering. Is this a bad thing?
I will admit that it was pretty cool when my dad gave me the left-overs of his Erector set, and that I would have probably gotten more out of it if I had more components.
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Audio is available here:
Talk of the Nation (02.07.11)
Weekend Edition (02.07.14)
The Talk of the Nation show was pretty interesting and probably worth a listen if you have a few extra minutes.
(Luckily I allowed to link to npr.org w/o getting permission first now)
Damnit!
Now I have to use my last week of vacation for the year.
I see there's an adaptor that allows it to play in most current cd players.
This would be sweet if it worked in my car.
You couldn't find a better thread to post this in?
I guess viewing a censored web for less money is a step in the right direction but it seems to me the the Australian government officials are a bigger problem for web access there than the telcos.
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They talked about this during a segment of Talk of the Nation Science Friday (on NPR) last week. It was a pretty interesting discussion. They also talked about how you could make a battery from some microbes, a fishtank, some mud, and graphite rods... pretty cool...
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(you can listen to it in RealAudio)
Think about it:
All postings to this GPS system get moderated (and then the moderations get meta-moderated of course). The higher a message is modded, the higher priority it is, or perhaps the more space it occupies.
Isn't this how the rest of the world is going too though? With all the fundementalism on one side and then the libertarianism on the other?
By primitive I meant the formatting of the output. I can't believe that I've been using jade and missed docbook2pdf though. I'm going to go try that right away.
I regularly use both the linux and windows versions of the tools (depending on if i'm at home or work) and have seen no real differences in the output of either.
In my opinion, DocBook (http://www.docbook.org) would offer you the mose flexibility in terms of document content and output options. What might work even better for you would be to have your own format, possibly your own XML DTD, that you'd edit the source in, and then process it (via XSLT in the case of your own XML DTD) to get docbook formatted XML. At that point you'd be able to produce any kind of output you'd like (print, web, online help).
What do you use to get PDF output from DocBook, everything that I've tried still seems a little primitive.
Actually, I think that one has a lot to do with PHP, leave MySQL out of it.
I don't know about everyone else, but I never used the assembly instructions from a Lego set. I chose which sets I would get for my b-day / x-mas based on the cool parts included, not the suggested assembly. I totally disagree that Lego is a like a prefab model kit. The only people that I know that do use the instructions are adults who wish they were still imaginative children but just aren't. Besides, who claims that Lego is supposed to make you a better engineer? I think Lego helped my creativity and my sense of spacial manipulation more than my mechanical engineering. Is this a bad thing?
I will admit that it was pretty cool when my dad gave me the left-overs of his Erector set, and that I would have probably gotten more out of it if I had more components.