Actually, if you know Word well enough to use stylesheets effectively, it's quite easy to use. Full screen mode makes the UI go away, and Word still has options to effectively shut down wysiwyg and let you focus on the content (draft mode with blue background).
The major shortcoming remains the limit on document length. My experience with Word 2007 - creating an investment proposal with lots of pictures (charts/graphs), referencable captions for said pictures, numbered heads and subheads, appendices with tables and more pictures, a fair amount of cross-references -- well, Word started dragging at the 100 page mark. Next time I called document services and got them to prepare the final report.
> Oh, that's right! Presentation matters - and has always mattered.
It doesn't matter *to the extent of giving non-TeX papers a summary zero grade*, unless the course was a equation-heavy one that Word's equation editor stumbled over (or a TeX/LaTeX course!). Ordinarily this teacher should be looking at either disciplinary action or a lawsuit.
It would be interesting to find out what course this was about, and see a sample of the TeX work handed in, so that we all (not just TeX fans) could figure out just how indispensable TeX was in this siutation.
As a matter of general principle, teachers shouldn't be able to insist on the tools used. I know Word well enough that I can produce some *very* readable things with it (Especially after Word 2007, whose equation editor is much improved). Why do I have to learn TeX in the context of a non-TeX course to satisfy some teacher's ego again?
This is just as stupid as second-grade teachers insisting that their pupils "learn" Word, instead of learning general Word-processing skills.
What have the Romans ever given us in return?
-- The aqueduct.
-- And the sanitation! All right, I'll grant you that the aqueduct and the sanitation are two things that the Romans have done...
-- And the roads...
-- Irrigation...
-- Medicine... Education... Health...
-- And the wine...
-- Public baths!
-- And it's safe to walk in the streets at night now. All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
-- Brought peace! What!? Oh... Peace, yes... shut up!
Someone should really update this for the internet. And immortalize this idiot's name as the dunce who asked the question...
> Delta Vega being within sight of Vulcan? Please. Uhura being of a similar age to Kirk?
Okay, at this point you're grasping at minor details. Look, you can't do a reboot without breaking a few eggs. Thank your stars Uhura didn't end up becoming a white male in this reboot (*cough*BSG*cough*).
This was an 'origin story'. The story therefore was (a) showing the cast coming together and (b) introducing this universe. What more do you expect in an origin story?
The Federal Response Stages pretty much assume a pandemic will break out overseas. The page you linked to defines "stage 4" as "first human case in North America". Pretty sure this has happened already?
According to TFA, the machine will get its questions as machine-readable text. The other human contestants will get it as text and audio. Also, the machine will not be connected to the internet.
Waving arms *alone* is inefficient. We evolved fingers for a reason. I hope someone works on a combination of eye tracking + finger and hand gesture recognition. I'd really like to control GUIs by just waving my fingers...
> Why do Star Trek producers keep going backward in time?
Great question, pity it was posed by an AC -- I'd love to see a good discussion about this. I've heard theories about how we as a generation are not forward-looking (or starry eyed optimists) like the folks in the 60s or even the 90s. This may be true -- we have religious fundies of various stripes and a bad-ass economy to worry about.
But my private theory is that the Trek universe simply ran out of room for exciting new storylines, making people care less about future Trek extrapolations.
After all, TNG's morality plays and utopianism are nice, but they were not the main reason people saw Star Trek. The lifeblood of any series is dramatic conflict, and by the time Voyager and Nemesis ends, there's very little dramatic conflict left in the Trek universe. How many "Enterprise visits planet-of-the-week and gets into trouble" episodes can you then do?
> touching BBC article where a village farmer complained that he > was losing his country so Westerners could drive in their cars.
Touching, yes. Accurate, not so much. Subsidence is a far bigger problem than global warming for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's geography (two very large rivers combining into a huge-ass delta) mean that it'd be prone to flooding and submergence. And its location means it'll be tornado-bait for every other tornado in the Bay of Bengal.
Global warming will probably play a part, but not as much as you might think. For centuries, coastal countries have been subjected to this sort of thing. A particularly good example from South Asia is the submerged city of Dwarka off the coast of Gujarat.
> How anyone can think that's a bad thing is beyond my comprehension.
If he was a socialist, it wouldn't be a bad thing. But Obama isn't, by any reasonable definition, and attempts to describe him as one are a smear tactic.
>> I don't know about you, but I like some >> civility in my politics. Maybe I'm being naive, >> but then I voted for a guy who sort of shares my >> beliefs, and gave a classy shout-out to his losing opponent >> (and the Republican party, incidentally, >> by reminding them of what they once stood for) today.
> If you were honest about wanting civility in politics > then you would not have voted Republican since their whole > MO is screeching hatred and epithets. "Your either with us > or against us".
Geez, is everyone here stuck in a 2000/2004 time-warp?
Quick, re-read what I posted and then tell me whom I voted for.
I just received a very gracious call from Senator McCain. He fought long and hard in this campaign, and he's fought even longer and harder for the country he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine, and we are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.... Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House - a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity.
> Is Obama perfect? No, he's human like the rest of us, but > we're *FAR* better off with him than freakin' McCain/Palin...
Oh yeah. I totally agree. But what gets me is this urge -- on both sides -- to call the other guy names: 'evil' or 'traitor' or 'communist' or 'socialist' or whatever. That really, really pisses me off.
I don't know about you, but I like some civility in my politics. Maybe I'm being naive, but then I voted for a guy who sort of shares my beliefs, and gave a classy shout-out to his losing opponent (and the Republican party, incidentally, by reminding them of what they once stood for) today.
Now if only more of his fans on Slashdot show the same civility...
> It is juvenile to think someone is evil because they use a > different text editor.
Most folk on/. know it's juvenile. Those who accuse their political opponents of being evil usually don't. Hint: if your political opponent was truly evil, you probably wouldn't be around. Just ask some Zimbabweans who dared oppose Mugabe and were found in a ditch with their limbs torn off.
> It is just clarity to see evil in someone who will bring > suffering to millions of people.
By that measure FDR would qualify as "evil" - his policies (including the US' insistence on the gold standard long after other nations abandoned it) extended the Depression for the US for at least 6 years and caused suffering to millions of people.
"Evil" is a loaded word. Sending people to Siberia to starve and die is evil. Sending jews and gays to bake in Polish camp ovens is evil.
If you think McCain is evil, you're deluded _and_ are cheapening the meaning of the word.
> Voting for ambigious, platitudinous "change" is nothing > more than making a blank canvas out of a guy that it's > soothing to vote for...especially given that the guy in question can deliver impressive, lofty speeches.
However, Obama has shown a lot of discipline and organizational skill in conducting his campaign. That counts for something. And I (and I guess many others) were just not ready to reward the Republicans with a 3rd term after (especially) the last two years.
McCain isn't the antichrist. Not by a long shot. And I said this as an Obama supporter. He's served this country (more honorably than many senators) for a long time.
When will you get it into your head that your your political opponent isn't automatically evil incarnate? That may work for vi-vs-emacs and Apple-vs-MS wars on/., but it's just juvenile in the real world.
FWIW, my 2c are that the better candidate won. But this is not a landslide by any means -- despite massive turnout, 47% chose McCain. It's great that Obama acknowledged these people and and said he's going to be their president, too. Quite a change from the divisiveness of the past.
Science-fiction writer John Scalzi had an excellent reality check about an Obama administration I urge all Obama supporters to read. If you're realistic about the man, great. If you're hoping for the moon -- well, this might just save you a lot of disappointment later.
Doing the wrong thing because you're afraid of getting sued is no excuse. In fact, given that lawyers have gotten very good at crafting EULAs, I'd be astonished if Apple and AT&T lawyers couldn't craft something that'd absolve them for 3rd party app faults.
Blocking Opera is just another in a long line of examples of Apple's control-freakery.
Yup, but the military (and offshoots like the DARPA) gives us a lot of very cool technology.
Look, I respect what the Indians and Chinese are doing, more power to them, let's get some competition into space-faring.
But it's also true that they're essentially using 40-year old tech. Like it or not, public money will only come your way if you're doing cool new stuff, not just going to the moon again and again without anything concrete to show for it. Which is why I hope NASA gets its Mars mission underway soon.
you can't control scripts... make the user bound to the control of the webmaster, who typically controlled by a business or corporation that is only in it for the money and will infringe on rights of users without any form of conscience or compassion.
Wow, that does sound like Javascript == the new slavery. Dude, you forgot your Valium.
Seriously, re Chrome, it doesn't have an extension API yet because it's a very early feature-incomplete beta. But 'remixing' the web has always been possible even with IE, thanks to filtering proxies like Proxomitron. So don't get your panties in a bunch, okay?
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Actually, if you know Word well enough to use stylesheets effectively, it's quite easy to use. Full screen mode makes the UI go away, and Word still has options to effectively shut down wysiwyg and let you focus on the content (draft mode with blue background).
The major shortcoming remains the limit on document length. My experience with Word 2007 - creating an investment proposal with lots of pictures (charts/graphs), referencable captions for said pictures, numbered heads and subheads, appendices with tables and more pictures, a fair amount of cross-references -- well, Word started dragging at the 100 page mark. Next time I called document services and got them to prepare the final report.
> Oh, that's right! Presentation matters - and has always mattered.
It doesn't matter *to the extent of giving non-TeX papers a summary zero grade*, unless the course was a equation-heavy one that Word's equation editor stumbled over (or a TeX/LaTeX course!). Ordinarily this teacher should be looking at either disciplinary action or a lawsuit.
It would be interesting to find out what course this was about, and see a sample of the TeX work handed in, so that we all (not just TeX fans) could figure out just how indispensable TeX was in this siutation.
As a matter of general principle, teachers shouldn't be able to insist on the tools used. I know Word well enough that I can produce some *very* readable things with it (Especially after Word 2007, whose equation editor is much improved). Why do I have to learn TeX in the context of a non-TeX course to satisfy some teacher's ego again?
This is just as stupid as second-grade teachers insisting that their pupils "learn" Word, instead of learning general Word-processing skills.
Someone should really update this for the internet. And immortalize this idiot's name as the dunce who asked the question...
> Delta Vega being within sight of Vulcan? Please. Uhura being of a similar age to Kirk?
Okay, at this point you're grasping at minor details. Look, you can't do a reboot without breaking a few eggs. Thank your stars Uhura didn't end up becoming a white male in this reboot (*cough*BSG*cough*).
This was an 'origin story'. The story therefore was (a) showing the cast coming together and (b) introducing this universe. What more do you expect in an origin story?
Alternatively, disable the Beta Index (and D2 while you're at it), or keep the Beta Index but disable "Auto more" in user prefs.
The Federal Response Stages pretty much assume a pandemic will break out overseas. The page you linked to defines "stage 4" as "first human case in North America". Pretty sure this has happened already?
According to TFA, the machine will get its questions as machine-readable text. The other human contestants will get it as text and audio. Also, the machine will not be connected to the internet.
Waving arms *alone* is inefficient. We evolved fingers for a reason. I hope someone works on a combination of eye tracking + finger and hand gesture recognition. I'd really like to control GUIs by just waving my fingers...
Is that the animated series? I've only seen TOS + the films, and bits of TNG, DS9 and VOY when I could catch them on TV.
> Why do Star Trek producers keep going backward in time?
Great question, pity it was posed by an AC -- I'd love to see a good discussion about this. I've heard theories about how we as a generation are not forward-looking (or starry eyed optimists) like the folks in the 60s or even the 90s. This may be true -- we have religious fundies of various stripes and a bad-ass economy to worry about.
But my private theory is that the Trek universe simply ran out of room for exciting new storylines, making people care less about future Trek extrapolations.
After all, TNG's morality plays and utopianism are nice, but they were not the main reason people saw Star Trek. The lifeblood of any series is dramatic conflict, and
by the time Voyager and Nemesis ends, there's very little dramatic conflict left in the Trek universe. How many "Enterprise visits planet-of-the-week and gets into trouble" episodes can you then do?
@seatbelts:
They apparently now have handrails to keep from falling.
> touching BBC article where a village farmer complained that he
> was losing his country so Westerners could drive in their cars.
Touching, yes. Accurate, not so much. Subsidence is a far bigger problem than global warming for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's geography (two very large rivers combining into a huge-ass delta) mean that it'd be prone to flooding and submergence. And its location means it'll be tornado-bait for every other tornado in the Bay of Bengal.
Global warming will probably play a part, but not as much as you might think. For centuries, coastal countries have been subjected to this sort of thing. A particularly good example from South Asia is the submerged city of Dwarka off the coast of Gujarat.
I recommend AVG to people who don't want to pay for antivirus. Despite the rap it gets on /. it's way better than McAfee/Norton.
For those who can pay for antivirus, check out Eset's NOD32. Simple, stays out of your way and has some seriously impressive reviews.
Yeah, you're right, sorry. I said Polish because I saw them in Poland.
> How anyone can think that's a bad thing is beyond my comprehension.
If he was a socialist, it wouldn't be a bad thing. But Obama isn't, by any reasonable definition, and attempts to describe him as one are a smear tactic.
>> I don't know about you, but I like some
>> civility in my politics. Maybe I'm being naive,
>> but then I voted for a guy who sort of shares my
>> beliefs, and gave a classy shout-out to his losing opponent
>> (and the Republican party, incidentally,
>> by reminding them of what they once stood for) today.
> If you were honest about wanting civility in politics
> then you would not have voted Republican since their whole
> MO is screeching hatred and epithets. "Your either with us
> or against us".
Geez, is everyone here stuck in a 2000/2004 time-warp?
Quick, re-read what I posted and then tell me whom I voted for.
Hint:
> Is Obama perfect? No, he's human like the rest of us, but
> we're *FAR* better off with him than freakin' McCain/Palin...
Oh yeah. I totally agree. But what gets me is this urge -- on both sides -- to call the other guy names: 'evil' or 'traitor' or 'communist' or 'socialist' or whatever. That really, really pisses me off.
I don't know about you, but I like some civility in my politics. Maybe I'm being naive, but then I voted for a guy who sort of shares my beliefs, and gave a classy shout-out to his losing opponent (and the Republican party, incidentally, by reminding them of what they once stood for) today.
Now if only more of his fans on Slashdot show the same civility ...
> It is juvenile to think someone is evil because they use a
> different text editor.
Most folk on /. know it's juvenile. Those who accuse their political opponents of being evil usually don't. Hint: if your political opponent was truly evil, you probably wouldn't be around. Just ask some Zimbabweans who dared oppose Mugabe and were found in a ditch with their limbs torn off.
> It is just clarity to see evil in someone who will bring
> suffering to millions of people.
By that measure FDR would qualify as "evil" - his policies (including the US' insistence on the gold standard long after other nations abandoned it) extended the Depression for the US for at least 6 years and caused suffering to millions of people.
"Evil" is a loaded word. Sending people to Siberia to starve and die is evil. Sending jews and gays to bake in Polish camp ovens is evil.
If you think McCain is evil, you're deluded _and_ are cheapening the meaning of the word.
> Voting for ambigious, platitudinous "change" is nothing ...especially given that the guy in question can deliver impressive, lofty speeches.
> more than making a blank canvas out of a guy that it's
> soothing to vote for
However, Obama has shown a lot of discipline and organizational skill in conducting his campaign. That counts for something. And I (and I guess many others) were just not ready to reward the Republicans with a 3rd term after (especially) the last two years.
McCain isn't the antichrist. Not by a long shot. And I said this as an Obama supporter. He's served this country (more honorably than many senators) for a long time.
When will you get it into your head that your your political opponent isn't automatically evil incarnate? That may work for vi-vs-emacs and Apple-vs-MS wars on /., but it's just juvenile in the real world.
FWIW, my 2c are that the better candidate won. But this is not a landslide by any means -- despite massive turnout, 47% chose McCain. It's great that Obama acknowledged these people and and said he's going to be their president, too. Quite a change from the divisiveness of the past.
Science-fiction writer John Scalzi had an excellent reality check about an Obama administration I urge all Obama supporters to read. If you're realistic about the man, great. If you're hoping for the moon -- well, this might just save you a lot of disappointment later.
Doing the wrong thing because you're afraid of getting sued is no excuse. In fact, given that lawyers have gotten very good at crafting EULAs, I'd be astonished if Apple and AT&T lawyers couldn't craft something that'd absolve them for 3rd party app faults.
Blocking Opera is just another in a long line of examples of Apple's control-freakery.
> Here in the US, we're developing our military
Yup, but the military (and offshoots like the DARPA) gives us a lot of very cool technology.
Look, I respect what the Indians and Chinese are doing, more power to them, let's get some competition into space-faring.
But it's also true that they're essentially using 40-year old tech. Like it or not, public money will only come your way if you're doing cool new stuff, not just going to the moon again and again without anything concrete to show for it. Which is why I hope NASA gets its Mars mission underway soon.
Wow, that does sound like Javascript == the new slavery. Dude, you forgot your Valium.
Seriously, re Chrome, it doesn't have an extension API yet because it's a very early feature-incomplete beta. But 'remixing' the web has always been possible even with IE, thanks to filtering proxies like Proxomitron. So don't get your panties in a bunch, okay?