There is at least one place that approximates teaching Western mathematics as it was developed, St. John's College. The students read, discuss, and work through the original texts, including the Principia. Four years of mathematics is part of the compulsory program. Here is a brief description of that part: The Mathematics Tutorial
I'm not sure what you mean by "XML parsing (last time I checked SVG couldn't do that in its authoring tool)"--what is the SVG authoring tool? Sodipodi or such?
The authoring tool--if that means editor--what I use is a text editor--in jEdit, for example, with the dandy XML plug-ins installed (thank y'all who work on all that), the SVG gets parsed & validated against the DTD, keeps things clean--did you mean something else by "XML parsing"?
Your other two points are clear, & largely accurate.
For video--& if you're using Flash as the comparison, I guess you mean synchronized sound and animation--that isn't really part of the intention of SVG's design. For that, look critically to SMIL.
Browser support on the web--aiiee--you got that right, apart from Amaya. Surprised me, how excited I got when Brendan Eich declared native SVG support a priority. Come on, Cairo, come on, come on.
Ha!--a few years ago, acustomer wrote to me, asking that his e-mail address in the database be corrected to the proper case mixture--his sysadmin had told him it was important--I responded to his address, all lower-case--"If that is true, you are not reading this." His reply was gracious.
Well, I don't know--haven't measured speeds & figured out percentages, so I can't say if my ~400 MHz PII box runs faster or slower on Gentoo than it did under Win 98, then Mandrake, then Red Hat, then Debian, then SuSE, but I can measure two things:
1. I've run it longer on Gentoo, and more frequently (no more dual boot) than I did on any previous Linux distribution, probably because:
2. I've learned more about Linux than I did on any of the previous distributions.
So, maybe it isn't faster, but I am, and steadier. That's the advantage I've found--I'm better able to figure out why things don't work--& everywhere, always, something doesn't work in this world (former mechanic).
In the standard scientific/mathematical/biomedical publishing deal, for the more high-impact journals (that is, those whose articles are most frequently cited), the authors do pay--to cover, they say, typesetting, images, etc.
The universities have usually paid three times for an article in a journal to which they subscribe, with salary, grants, and subscriptions.
Here's the earlier report taken from our correspondent, H.G. Wells:
The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet. It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth; and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted,
indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth. This jet of fire had become invisible about a quarter past twelve. He compared it to a colossal puff of flame suddenly and violently squirted out of the planet, "as flaming gases rushed out of a gun."
I participated in this when it started up. It's dead in the water, becalmed, caught in the horse latitudes, so far as I can tell.
For example, take a look at the dates attached to the marked-up texts in this list. A shame--folks were mighty excited.
The Project Gutenberg XML mentioned earlier here was also exciting, but I've been off the mailing list a few years, and am having trouble finding its archives now. Anybody have more luck than me? As I recall, one of the unanswered threads that ran through it was what to do in the TEI headers, since TEI was an attractive choice for a mark-up vocabulary. It is not that obvious how to accommodate the Gutenberg boilerplate and metadata appropriately in the header.
Nice link! About halfway down the page, there are parallel lists of placenames--this is the pair that caught my eye:
Das Altes Land -- Dat Ole Land
This does make the point just how complex linguistic inheritance and influence can be. Haw!
And if you want some tunes to listen to while you look through that, you might try the selections at the PyongYang Metro site.
"We Shall Follow You Forever" is particularly stirring.
Thanks for the link! I told a lot of my friends about that story right after it came out, & now I can show it to them.
I'm surprised I hadn't found a link to it before, because I'm pretty good at searching the Internet, if I might say so myself.
We're looking at decent-sized departmental website set up in PHP-Nuke & wondering whether it will be worth the bother to try for Section 508 compliance. Man, it would be great not to have to worry about this. It would be great just for the changes necessary to be practical. Yeah, this is a real thing.
Kid, don't try this at home.
Slashdot Mirror
It's legal? Damn. All these years I've wasted, pining.
The main thing I find that the folks on that list have in common is that they are all dead. I think I'll keep my mouth shut at work.
Pmp my drive?
There is at least one place that approximates teaching Western mathematics as it was developed, St. John's College. The students read, discuss, and work through the original texts, including the Principia. Four years of mathematics is part of the compulsory program. Here is a brief description of that part:
The Mathematics Tutorial
Where are my damn moderator points when I need them?--what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "XML parsing (last time I checked SVG couldn't do that in its authoring tool)"--what is the SVG authoring tool? Sodipodi or such?
The authoring tool--if that means editor--what I use is a text editor--in jEdit, for example, with the dandy XML plug-ins installed (thank y'all who work on all that), the SVG gets parsed & validated against the DTD, keeps things clean--did you mean something else by "XML parsing"?
Your other two points are clear, & largely accurate.
For video--& if you're using Flash as the comparison, I guess you mean synchronized sound and animation--that isn't really part of the intention of SVG's design. For that, look critically to SMIL.
Browser support on the web--aiiee--you got that right, apart from Amaya. Surprised me, how excited I got when Brendan Eich declared native SVG support a priority. Come on, Cairo, come on, come on.
Ha!--a few years ago, acustomer wrote to me, asking that his e-mail address in the database be corrected to the proper case mixture--his sysadmin had told him it was important--I responded to his address, all lower-case--"If that is true, you are not reading this." His reply was gracious.
I suspect it's the monolithic kernel that appeals to them.
Most folks in a position to ping via ICBM hope that all return packets get dropped.
Well, I don't know--haven't measured speeds & figured out percentages, so I can't say if my ~400 MHz PII box runs faster or slower on Gentoo than it did under Win 98, then Mandrake, then Red Hat, then Debian, then SuSE, but I can measure two things:
1. I've run it longer on Gentoo, and more frequently (no more dual boot) than I did on any previous Linux distribution, probably because:
2. I've learned more about Linux than I did on any of the previous distributions.
So, maybe it isn't faster, but I am, and steadier. That's the advantage I've found--I'm better able to figure out why things don't work--& everywhere, always, something doesn't work in this world (former mechanic).
Makes me happy.
The best line for this is something Mike Cooley, from the Drive-By Truckers, said when a fight broke out at a gig of theirs:
"Whip his ass. Whip his ass. I don't care who wins, just whip his ass."
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres...
(J. Caesar)
Enough to divide into three parts, eh?
In the standard scientific/mathematical/biomedical publishing deal, for the more high-impact journals (that is, those whose articles are most frequently cited), the authors do pay--to cover, they say, typesetting, images, etc.
The universities have usually paid three times for an article in a journal to which they subscribe, with salary, grants, and subscriptions.
There is a bit more after that.
I participated in this when it started up. It's dead in the water, becalmed, caught in the horse latitudes, so far as I can tell.
For example, take a look at the dates attached to the marked-up texts in this list. A shame--folks were mighty excited.
The Project Gutenberg XML mentioned earlier here was also exciting, but I've been off the mailing list a few years, and am having trouble finding its archives now. Anybody have more luck than me? As I recall, one of the unanswered threads that ran through it was what to do in the TEI headers, since TEI was an attractive choice for a mark-up vocabulary. It is not that obvious how to accommodate the Gutenberg boilerplate and metadata appropriately in the header.
Nice link! About halfway down the page, there are parallel lists of placenames--this is the pair that caught my eye:
Das Altes Land -- Dat Ole Land
This does make the point just how complex linguistic inheritance and influence can be. Haw!
Have you tried the XML plug-ins with jEdit? Validate as you go. Also, Eclipse, with XMLBuddy.
I'm in daily debt to the folks who wrote these.
There are more suggestions here that you might be right.
Is this like Frequently-Asked-Magic-8-Ball?
Is that one of the basic protocols for The Difference Engine?
And if you want some tunes to listen to while you look through that, you might try the selections at the PyongYang Metro site.
"We Shall Follow You Forever" is particularly stirring.
Thanks for the link! I told a lot of my friends about that story right after it came out, & now I can show it to them. I'm surprised I hadn't found a link to it before, because I'm pretty good at searching the Internet, if I might say so myself.
Actually, it's true:
Coastline: 3,218 km
if you're traveling by boat, hugging the shore.
And another:
http://www.vorko.pl/
Do they make vacuum cleaners?
Schputz, I don't want to touch.
We're looking at decent-sized departmental website set up in PHP-Nuke & wondering whether it will be worth the bother to try for Section 508 compliance. Man, it would be great not to have to worry about this. It would be great just for the changes necessary to be practical. Yeah, this is a real thing.
Kid, don't try this at home.