The internet will never replace speaking with a live person, and retrieving information that way.
We are born depending upon live human beings for training and information dissemination. (Thanks Mom and Dad for sharing all that knowledge!) To a certain extent, we never outgrow this need for direct human intervention to learn.
Ask a live person a question, and they can sometimes answer the question you're asking with your body language. They go on tangents. They are focussed 100% on your interaction, and if they're not, you can take them to task.
Talk to your neighbours. They tell you information you never knew you needed to know. They are also interacting with the same environment at the same time, which is invaluable contextual information to know when answering a question.
Need information about what is wrong with your body? Get a doctor to touch and poke at it. Human interaction is required.
The internet is a great information resource, but it's limited. It can't touch you and it isn't in your environment.
Generating documentation in multiple formats from a single source document. Need online help and printed help, but don't want to change documents in two places when the program changes? Enter XML.
Controlling input for documents. Slap a form on the front, and get structured output out the back. Easy.
Change tracking and document management. Much easier to track changes when a file is stored in a text (not binary) format. You can even use the same source control as the programmers (ClearCase), or you could graduate to the clusterfuck known as Documentum.
and that's just off the top of my head. It's an enterprise solution to an enterprise problem, not meant for Joe Average on the desktop. But if you are managing thousands of pages of constantly changing documents edited by multiple users, XML is worth the hype.
State Rep. Doug Erickson visited Vancouver, B.C., transportation officials working on public-private partnerships; the B.C. government has cut road maintenance staff from 8,000 to 1,400 in 10 years by contracting the work.
The BC government is going broke. Their new idea to raise road revenues in a public-private partnership is to sell a public highway to a private corporation, then allow the private corporation to charge usury tolls at a ridiculous profit. The public gets an initial cash windfall, then loses out horribly.
Also note that Vancouver is a silly place to visit if you want to check out highways: there is no highway into downtown.
Methinks they scored some of the high-quality BC bud, then they thought up this loser of an idea.
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The internet will never replace speaking with a live person, and retrieving information that way.
We are born depending upon live human beings for training and information dissemination. (Thanks Mom and Dad for sharing all that knowledge!) To a certain extent, we never outgrow this need for direct human intervention to learn.
Ask a live person a question, and they can sometimes answer the question you're asking with your body language. They go on tangents. They are focussed 100% on your interaction, and if they're not, you can take them to task.
Talk to your neighbours. They tell you information you never knew you needed to know. They are also interacting with the same environment at the same time, which is invaluable contextual information to know when answering a question.
Need information about what is wrong with your body? Get a doctor to touch and poke at it. Human interaction is required.
The internet is a great information resource, but it's limited. It can't touch you and it isn't in your environment.
use apache FOP.
it's not without its bugs, but it works
http://xml.apache.org/fop/It's also good for the following:
and that's just off the top of my head. It's an enterprise solution to an enterprise problem, not meant for Joe Average on the desktop. But if you are managing thousands of pages of constantly changing documents edited by multiple users, XML is worth the hype.
The BC government is going broke. Their new idea to raise road revenues in a public-private partnership is to sell a public highway to a private corporation, then allow the private corporation to charge usury tolls at a ridiculous profit. The public gets an initial cash windfall, then loses out horribly.
Also note that Vancouver is a silly place to visit if you want to check out highways: there is no highway into downtown.
Methinks they scored some of the high-quality BC bud, then they thought up this loser of an idea.