What bugs me the most about OO is the degree to which it unfairly overshadows other OS office aps. A lot of people state that the lack of a comprehensive suite of office aps is a major point that keeps them from switching to linux. Linux advocates will then point out the existence of OO. The problem is that OO sucks. It's slow, clunky, and font handling is nothing short of bizzare.
What else is there? Koffice has been improving greatly in the background. I use it for most all of my classwork. When I'm submitting somthing for publication I'll write it in Lyx. I've had fewer MS office compatability problems with kword than with OO writer.
I've not used them, but Aplix office and Hancom office are out there too.
Ted is an awesome little word processor which can work with rtf documents and export to.pdf.
Gnumeric is the best basic spreadsheet I've seen.
I really don't see what the big deal is about OO.
I know a couple of these guys.
They are older than dirt and use their seniority to flaunt university anti-smoking policies. One history prof of mine has a "designated smoking area" sign on his door. The stench of pipe smoke and french cigarettes fills the whole office well. Inside his office is a huge free-standing ash tray, a couple ancient but comfortable chairs, a coffee pot, and multiple cookie jars. He encorages students to come into his office, smoke, and listen to him ramble. It's hard to tell if he's talking about the Persian wars or his own military service in Korea, as he goes back and forth between the two without notice. It's still quite entertaining.
I'm assuming that the new procs must have some kind of support for the evil bit.
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'"The worst fad has been these stupid little robots," said Minsky. "Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's really shocking."'"
This is why those of us who study AI in philosophy programs don't take the CS AI people seriously. They tend to be more concerned with the gadgets than the theory.
Well, I had no problem duel booting Mandrake and OS 9 on a 400mhz imac. Pretty much all you do is use Mac OS's disk partitioning tools to set up a HFS(?) partition for MacOS, install Mac0S, then boot to your linux CD and let it take it from there. Yellowdog and Mandrake should both install themselves to an empty partition without giving a damn what else you have on the disk. I don't know about debian, gentoo, slackintosh, etc. I found myself stuck with a Mac as the only machine I had access to at home (it's the gf's, she decorated the room in matching bondi blue to match) and had to figure out some way to run lyx on it so I could get some work done. I didn't want to bother with figuring out the open firmware stuff so I went with the auto-everything distros. Worked like a charm!
Try Reichenbach's "From Copernicus to Einstein." It's an awesome history of physics that's under 200 pages.
Another book that sounds exactly like what you're looking for is Alan Wolf's "Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for non-scientists."
I'd also suggest reading lots of science fiction. You can learn more about physics from reading David Brin than you can in an intro university physics class.
Klyx is majorly out of date. Lyx, from which is spun off, is still being activly developed. I use it for all my acedemic writing. Check it out: http://www.lyx.org
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What bugs me the most about OO is the degree to which it unfairly overshadows other OS office aps. A lot of people state that the lack of a comprehensive suite of office aps is a major point that keeps them from switching to linux. Linux advocates will then point out the existence of OO. The problem is that OO sucks. It's slow, clunky, and font handling is nothing short of bizzare. What else is there? Koffice has been improving greatly in the background. I use it for most all of my classwork. When I'm submitting somthing for publication I'll write it in Lyx. I've had fewer MS office compatability problems with kword than with OO writer. I've not used them, but Aplix office and Hancom office are out there too. Ted is an awesome little word processor which can work with rtf documents and export to .pdf.
Gnumeric is the best basic spreadsheet I've seen.
I really don't see what the big deal is about OO.
I know a couple of these guys. They are older than dirt and use their seniority to flaunt university anti-smoking policies. One history prof of mine has a "designated smoking area" sign on his door. The stench of pipe smoke and french cigarettes fills the whole office well. Inside his office is a huge free-standing ash tray, a couple ancient but comfortable chairs, a coffee pot, and multiple cookie jars. He encorages students to come into his office, smoke, and listen to him ramble. It's hard to tell if he's talking about the Persian wars or his own military service in Korea, as he goes back and forth between the two without notice. It's still quite entertaining.
I'm assuming that the new procs must have some kind of support for the evil bit.
'"The worst fad has been these stupid little robots," said Minsky. "Graduate students are wasting 3 years of their lives soldering and repairing robots, instead of making them smart. It's really shocking."'"
This is why those of us who study AI in philosophy programs don't take the CS AI people seriously. They tend to be more concerned with the gadgets than the theory.
The gif/jpeg wouldn't be viewable by blind users using screen readers. If a bot can't read it, neither can a blind person.
Well, I had no problem duel booting Mandrake and OS 9 on a 400mhz imac. Pretty much all you do is use Mac OS's disk partitioning tools to set up a HFS(?) partition for MacOS, install Mac0S, then boot to your linux CD and let it take it from there. Yellowdog and Mandrake should both install themselves to an empty partition without giving a damn what else you have on the disk. I don't know about debian, gentoo, slackintosh, etc. I found myself stuck with a Mac as the only machine I had access to at home (it's the gf's, she decorated the room in matching bondi blue to match) and had to figure out some way to run lyx on it so I could get some work done. I didn't want to bother with figuring out the open firmware stuff so I went with the auto-everything distros. Worked like a charm!
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Try Reichenbach's "From Copernicus to Einstein." It's an awesome history of physics that's under 200 pages.
Another book that sounds exactly like what you're looking for is Alan Wolf's "Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for non-scientists."
I'd also suggest reading lots of science fiction. You can learn more about physics from reading David Brin than you can in an intro university physics class.
Klyx is majorly out of date. Lyx, from which is spun off, is still being activly developed. I use it for all my acedemic writing. Check it out: http://www.lyx.org