Remember, guys, for doctors, your symptoms are a matter of trial and error. The usual way to treat people is to go through every medication until you find one that helps.
Which is why when traditional medicine fails, people say "it was the wrong cure", but when an alternative method fail people say "it's the method which is ineffective". And there is such a strong bias against alternative medicine it's dismissed as either placebo effect or wrong diagnosis. (Which is kind of grotesque when you consider that with traditional medicine wrong diagnosis is usually the cause of problems, not the solution.)
Some people will say "slippery slope", and others will declare that the phrase is a fallacy. As a shortcut description of the probably course of events, "slippery slope" is just fine. In this case:
1: Billboards watch people.
2: These billboards are more popular and are put into more common use.
3: Information from a billboard cam is subpoenaed.
4: Some bright young chap in politics notices that (a) There are cameras everywhere that could be used to observe the populace, (b) The information from these cameras isn't in use, and (c) He is up for re-election soon and needs some dirt on his opponent.
5: This politician will make a bill to monitor the billboards. Anyone in opposition will be "soft on crime", "unwilling to monitor dangerous criminals", and "must be hiding something."
6: Sooner or later, Minority Report.
You're wrong on #6: it's 1984. Minority Report used people with ESP powers, 1984 used 'TV screens' to monitor the populace.
Wrong metaphor. We're not asking for assembling instructions, we're asking for fruition instructions. If you still want to hold to the assembling metaphor, it's like getting an extremely complex (and disassembled) appliance at IKEA, but not getting assembling instructions in your language.
The Samsung YP-U[123] (BTW, don't import one from the US; the US firmware has no support for Ogg Vorbis) devices seems to be quite easy to get hold of all over Europe; I bet you can find that one in Italy as well. But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Apart from the fact that iPod bought after summer 2007 can't load Rockbox, there's a bazzilion players out there that play Ogg Vorbis and FLAC right out of the box.
Opera has been doing this kind of stuff (the specific things discussed in the patent, I mean, not the patent trolling itself) since they got heavily into the mobile business anyway. Opera Mini, specifically, was officially launched on 2006-01-24, which is before that patent was filed. Earlier releases, which already used methods and apparati addressed by this patent, were already deployed in 2005.
Were the specs exactly the same? I found that spec'ing Dells to match the HP offers (something which you cannot do in reverse because HP doesn't offer customization like Dell does) results in lower prices, although the difference is not always significant. In fact, all the rest being equal, I can usually get a higher resolution monitor and 9-cells battery (as opposed to the 6-cells batteries offered by HP) for the same price.
(Additionally, Dell and Apple seems to be the only one offering US keyboards in Italy, and Dell costs WAY less than Apple for the same specs.)
Funny, two weeks ago I installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my father's laptop and I didn't need to use the console to set up the nVidia video card using binary drivers. I didn't download the latest one from the websites, but if the nVidia package requires the console, complain to nVidial: since the distributions have no problem doing it via the GUI, it's obviously the mfgr's fault there.
The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
Abusing the clutch like that will shorten its life (you'll soon notice the clic/clac sound on disengage/engage starts getting louder and louder as the bearings grow weaker), so before doing that please check that replacing it isn't going to cost you more than what you've been sparing in fuel.
While paying all the teachers more would work great, schools aren't a profit industry, which means there's no cash reserves to do that with, nor can you simply raise prices. Education reform needs to work with what is available, not what you wish you had.
Public education IS a profit industry, but the profits are long-to-very-long-term, which is why it doesn't get enough money attention in nations that adopt the "maximize medium-to-short term profit" even at the expense of the long-term health and wealth of the nation itself.
Paradoxically, those same nations see no problem in spending trillions of dollars into the military, which is not exactly what one would call a 'profit industry' by any means...
PgUp/Down used to scroll by pagefuls (as opposed to screenfuls) in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. (One of the many reasons WP turned out to be incompatible with the CUA keyboard standard set by MS and IBM.)
Luckily governments across the world have realized the need for basic research. They have provided universities and other public research institutions with practically unlimited funds, without making demands that the research must lead to products or patents.
Have they? Which governments across the world are you talking about here specifically? Because the situation in Italy is becoming untenabled and I'm looking for options on where to move to.
And this is the reason why we have to keep forcing OEMs to refund: if they have to keep paying twice (Microsoft *and* the customer) they'll be pushed into understanding that giving the choice to the customer to only pay for hardware is the best solution in the long run.
I was going to suggest the same: ConTeXt almost surely fixes many of LaTeX's shortcomings, from package inclusion nightmare to image inclusions. However, ConTeXt is not as widespread as LaTeX is, meaning you'd have more troubles finding the right command for the right task, and it is still "stuck in the '80s" with the compiler idea and whatnot, so it doesn't solve all of the OP's issues with LaTeX.
Who follows the TeX world closely knows that a number of new steps are being taken, from the already mentioned XeTeX to luatex and the libification of many programs. I see these as significant steps towards the renewal of TeX towards the introduction of a full-featured, scriptable but with GUI available, typesetting system.
In my opinion, LyX or something like LyX is what the OP needs. Yes, it's "just" a front-end to LaTeX, but so what? Would he really care what's "under the hood" if the frond-end took care of things such as getting the proper image format, solving package incompatibilities and easying table layout?
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Remember, guys, for doctors, your symptoms are a matter of trial and error. The usual way to treat people is to go through every medication until you find one that helps.
Which is why when traditional medicine fails, people say "it was the wrong cure", but when an alternative method fail people say "it's the method which is ineffective". And there is such a strong bias against alternative medicine it's dismissed as either placebo effect or wrong diagnosis. (Which is kind of grotesque when you consider that with traditional medicine wrong diagnosis is usually the cause of problems, not the solution.)
Poorly written HTML should NOT crash a browser.
Some people will say "slippery slope", and others will declare that the phrase is a fallacy. As a shortcut description of the probably course of events, "slippery slope" is just fine. In this case: 1: Billboards watch people. 2: These billboards are more popular and are put into more common use. 3: Information from a billboard cam is subpoenaed. 4: Some bright young chap in politics notices that (a) There are cameras everywhere that could be used to observe the populace, (b) The information from these cameras isn't in use, and (c) He is up for re-election soon and needs some dirt on his opponent. 5: This politician will make a bill to monitor the billboards. Anyone in opposition will be "soft on crime", "unwilling to monitor dangerous criminals", and "must be hiding something." 6: Sooner or later, Minority Report.
You're wrong on #6: it's 1984. Minority Report used people with ESP powers, 1984 used 'TV screens' to monitor the populace.
That's why he whistles on it, you insensitve clod!
That should probably read âoeyou insensitive coldâ.
That should probably read "you insensitive cold!"
True. Also, /. should support UTF-8.
Wrong metaphor. We're not asking for assembling instructions, we're asking for fruition instructions. If you still want to hold to the assembling metaphor, it's like getting an extremely complex (and disassembled) appliance at IKEA, but not getting assembling instructions in your language.
That's why he whistles on it, you insensitve clod!
That should probably read âoeyou insensitive coldâ.
The Samsung YP-U[123] (BTW, don't import one from the US; the US firmware has no support for Ogg Vorbis) devices seems to be quite easy to get hold of all over Europe; I bet you can find that one in Italy as well. But I'd recommend trying to find a Cowon iAudio instead (possibly by ordering it online). Less bugs in the Ogg Vorbis support plus support for Ogg FLAC.
Ah, excellent, thanks for the info.
Apart from the fact that iPod bought after summer 2007 can't load Rockbox, there's a bazzilion players out there that play Ogg Vorbis and FLAC right out of the box.
Are there? I can't find any here in Italy.
Only because you're not the one being invaded, nor the one actually doing it.
It would if the Dell computer didn't come with windows Vista
Opera has been doing this kind of stuff (the specific things discussed in the patent, I mean, not the patent trolling itself) since they got heavily into the mobile business anyway. Opera Mini, specifically, was officially launched on 2006-01-24, which is before that patent was filed. Earlier releases, which already used methods and apparati addressed by this patent, were already deployed in 2005.
(OTOH, the kernel metaphor was way better, and more to the point, so good for me I was just joking.)
(Additionally, Dell and Apple seems to be the only one offering US keyboards in Italy, and Dell costs WAY less than Apple for the same specs.)
You must be new here. Good metaphors only have cars in them.
Funny, two weeks ago I installed Kubuntu 8.04 on my father's laptop and I didn't need to use the console to set up the nVidia video card using binary drivers. I didn't download the latest one from the websites, but if the nVidia package requires the console, complain to nVidial: since the distributions have no problem doing it via the GUI, it's obviously the mfgr's fault there.
I still think the hammer was a better idea.
As in "Don't use it so that nobody will ever want to get close enough to you to transmit an STD"?
The key is to drive a manual transmission and to hold in the clutch whenever you can(especially downhill) so that the car coasts(runs at idle) as much as possible.
Abusing the clutch like that will shorten its life (you'll soon notice the clic/clac sound on disengage/engage starts getting louder and louder as the bearings grow weaker), so before doing that please check that replacing it isn't going to cost you more than what you've been sparing in fuel.
Public education IS a profit industry, but the profits are long-to-very-long-term, which is why it doesn't get enough money attention in nations that adopt the "maximize medium-to-short term profit" even at the expense of the long-term health and wealth of the nation itself.
Paradoxically, those same nations see no problem in spending trillions of dollars into the military, which is not exactly what one would call a 'profit industry' by any means ...
'nuff said.
Opera has always had tabs above the address bar (so, really, Google is doing nothing new in this regard).
PgUp/Down used to scroll by pagefuls (as opposed to screenfuls) in WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS. (One of the many reasons WP turned out to be incompatible with the CUA keyboard standard set by MS and IBM.)
Luckily governments across the world have realized the need for basic research. They have provided universities and other public research institutions with practically unlimited funds, without making demands that the research must lead to products or patents.
Have they? Which governments across the world are you talking about here specifically? Because the situation in Italy is becoming untenabled and I'm looking for options on where to move to.
And this is the reason why we have to keep forcing OEMs to refund: if they have to keep paying twice (Microsoft *and* the customer) they'll be pushed into understanding that giving the choice to the customer to only pay for hardware is the best solution in the long run.
Indeed. Considering Microsoft track history, it's very unlikely they'll ever follow standards without corrupting them to ensure vendor lock-in.
Who follows the TeX world closely knows that a number of new steps are being taken, from the already mentioned XeTeX to luatex and the libification of many programs. I see these as significant steps towards the renewal of TeX towards the introduction of a full-featured, scriptable but with GUI available, typesetting system.
In my opinion, LyX or something like LyX is what the OP needs. Yes, it's "just" a front-end to LaTeX, but so what? Would he really care what's "under the hood" if the frond-end took care of things such as getting the proper image format, solving package incompatibilities and easying table layout?