The problem is not LaTeX, but TeX itself: it is fundamentally geared toward rendering text as glyphs at a specific size, then grouping those together to make lines, and arranging lines to paragraphs. That is all it ever does, and it is fantastic at doing it.
LaTeX is simply the *wrong* tool for the job of writing ebooks in epub and mobi, which need to have a dynamic document flow. LaTeX makes a very static, brittle document flow, because it was meant to. That was a feature, not a flaw.
What we need is a good workflow from one source format (like restructuredtext, markdown, etc.) into multiple good output formats (LaTeX/PDF, mobipocket / Kindle, epub, HTML). The closest I know of is Sphinx, but its epub output is in its infancy, and it has no support for the mobi / azw formats yet.
If this is properly designed, this shouldn't be too big of a deal. The only time I've ever had a CPU go bad is when it is improperly cooled.
Besides, think of how many billions of transistors are being used in, say, your memory? Or any other integrated circuits we have? If a single chip on your memory dies, does the whole stick die? Of course!
This is just taking this kind of concept to another level. Look at old memory architectures: 8088s used to have dozens of memory chips to support 256K+ of memory, and they worked fine. Today this is typically accomplished with 8 or 16 chips on a DIMM, but nothing is there to stop us from 32 (which I have a few of), 64, etc.
CPUs are a similar game, it's just that synchronizing more processors is a bit more difficult than memory, since memory accesses are much easier to parallelize.
Sure, it's a bit more difficult, and will decrease yield, but the idea is far from new or dangerous.
I have to use Java. It is the biggest, most complete and usable language that I can use on my Windows workstation, my Mac OS X laptop, or my Linux / UNIX servers with no problems. Perl, etc are not quite robust enough for serious OO development, in my experience (Python might be making it, but not quite for me).
If you just want to get a job, they are both pretty good, but I would bet that C# will land more jobs now than Java. However, what is important is that job 10, 15 years from now. You need to develop more long term skills. Programming languages are just a tool.
I have been using the non-Plus model of this case for many months now and I love it (we also have a few of the Plus models around in the office now, and they are even better).
The biggest annoyance with the case comes into play when installing dual Xeons: the Lian-Li case is threaded for metric M3 screws, but stock Xeon heatsinks (as well as the Supermicro sink that I prefer) use English units, which don't fit in the M3 sockets.
In order to use dual Xeon heasinks, it is necessary to drill out the threading on the heatsink and use 25mm M3 screws.
Annoying as this is, we still use this case exclusively.
The pricing is $199 for a desktop box, and between $620-$750 per CPU for servers, depending on how many you have.
Also, the license says that this is for binaries only (not the source).
I'm wondering if this would just breed resistance to having body parts susceptible to sonic disruption.
I bet on Mosquito Slashdot they are thinking, if we started killing humans by ripping out their lungs, maybe in a few generations they might develop a resistance to lung removal.
Anyone here ever play Lords of Cyberspace? If I recall correctly, it was only available for MajorBBS/WorldNet systems, and so I have found very few BBSs that still carry it (one, in fact, but it is extremely lagged).
It was a simple door game, with a small 30x10 text window in the upper left that you navigated around, and some stats on the right. Your mission was to hack as many systems as possible, get your level up to 30, and find the ?three? keys to let you try to get into Valhalla and destroy the Divine Document. You get money and experience through hacking into systems, destroying programs, selling/destroying sensitive documents, and going on special hacking missions. It was kind of a Gibson novel meets a text MUD.
I would love to see this game revived, and I have even managed to find a demo copy floating around the internet, but I have never been able to find the company or the author of it. It was distributed by Adept Communications, and made by Muinet. I believe they also created a game called Sword of Chaos, but I never played it.
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The problem is not LaTeX, but TeX itself: it is fundamentally geared toward rendering text as glyphs at a specific size, then grouping those together to make lines, and arranging lines to paragraphs. That is all it ever does, and it is fantastic at doing it.
LaTeX is simply the *wrong* tool for the job of writing ebooks in epub and mobi, which need to have a dynamic document flow. LaTeX makes a very static, brittle document flow, because it was meant to. That was a feature, not a flaw.
What we need is a good workflow from one source format (like restructuredtext, markdown, etc.) into multiple good output formats (LaTeX/PDF, mobipocket / Kindle, epub, HTML). The closest I know of is Sphinx, but its epub output is in its infancy, and it has no support for the mobi / azw formats yet.
If this is properly designed, this shouldn't be too big of a deal. The only time I've ever had a CPU go bad is when it is improperly cooled.
Besides, think of how many billions of transistors are being used in, say, your memory? Or any other integrated circuits we have? If a single chip on your memory dies, does the whole stick die? Of course!
This is just taking this kind of concept to another level. Look at old memory architectures: 8088s used to have dozens of memory chips to support 256K+ of memory, and they worked fine. Today this is typically accomplished with 8 or 16 chips on a DIMM, but nothing is there to stop us from 32 (which I have a few of), 64, etc.
CPUs are a similar game, it's just that synchronizing more processors is a bit more difficult than memory, since memory accesses are much easier to parallelize.
Sure, it's a bit more difficult, and will decrease yield, but the idea is far from new or dangerous.
I have to use Java. It is the biggest, most complete and usable language that I can use on my Windows workstation, my Mac OS X laptop, or my Linux / UNIX servers with no problems. Perl, etc are not quite robust enough for serious OO development, in my experience (Python might be making it, but not quite for me).
If you just want to get a job, they are both pretty good, but I would bet that C# will land more jobs now than Java. However, what is important is that job 10, 15 years from now. You need to develop more long term skills. Programming languages are just a tool.
I have been using the non-Plus model of this case for many months now and I love it (we also have a few of the Plus models around in the office now, and they are even better). The biggest annoyance with the case comes into play when installing dual Xeons: the Lian-Li case is threaded for metric M3 screws, but stock Xeon heatsinks (as well as the Supermicro sink that I prefer) use English units, which don't fit in the M3 sockets. In order to use dual Xeon heasinks, it is necessary to drill out the threading on the heatsink and use 25mm M3 screws. Annoying as this is, we still use this case exclusively.
The pricing is $199 for a desktop box, and between $620-$750 per CPU for servers, depending on how many you have. Also, the license says that this is for binaries only (not the source).
I bet on Mosquito Slashdot they are thinking, if we started killing humans by ripping out their lungs, maybe in a few generations they might develop a resistance to lung removal.
Yeah Evolution!
Anyone here ever play Lords of Cyberspace? If I recall correctly, it was only available for MajorBBS/WorldNet systems, and so I have found very few BBSs that still carry it (one, in fact, but it is extremely lagged).
It was a simple door game, with a small 30x10 text window in the upper left that you navigated around, and some stats on the right. Your mission was to hack as many systems as possible, get your level up to 30, and find the ?three? keys to let you try to get into Valhalla and destroy the Divine Document. You get money and experience through hacking into systems, destroying programs, selling/destroying sensitive documents, and going on special hacking missions. It was kind of a Gibson novel meets a text MUD.
I would love to see this game revived, and I have even managed to find a demo copy floating around the internet, but I have never been able to find the company or the author of it. It was distributed by Adept Communications, and made by Muinet. I believe they also created a game called Sword of Chaos, but I never played it.