I don't know about Japanese, but I never had any problem whatsoever with Chinese in LaTeX, and since the name of the package I use is CJK, which stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, I don't see why Japanese would be any more difficult than Chinese. For me, it just worked straight out of the box, with TeTeX on Debian system, and both MikTeX and TeXLive on Windows.
From a purely practical point of view, because we live in a "Windows World," it would serve the kids best to know their way around it. It would be a disservice to them to make them use Macs or Linux boxes and breed ignorance to the real world.
I have heard this argument many times, including when a bunch of parents at my daughters school ganged up together and basically forced the school to ditch their fully equipped Max lab and replace it with Gateways, using exactly tis line of reasonning.
This would make sence if it were a highschool, where lot of kids start working immediately after graduation, but it makes absolutely no sense for 5th graders. By the time they graduate and start working, who knows which operating system will be most common, and how it is going to compare to current systems. I am willing to bet that the differences between Microsoft's system today and 8 years down the road will be bigger than the differences between Windows and let's say KDE now.
Well, if he wants to quote health concerns as a reason not to spend money on a campus-wide wifi, he cannot very well allow people to set up their own routers, can he?
The article makes it obvious he was trying to be a big hero at a town hall meeting.
I didn't read the article, but my guess is people (board of trustees, students, parents, press or somebody) were bothering him and asking why the college doesn't have wifi. They don't have the money for it, so he invented that reason.
This attitude seems to be very common among college students: I cannot get C! I spent so much time studying! I did so much work in this class! I deserve an A! You mean you don't give any points for effort?
Years ago we knew that the first casualty of Linux would be the proprietary Unix companies.
In fact, that was the whole idea of the GNU project. Why do you thing they call it "GNU is not UNIX"? At the time the GNU project started, Microsoft wasn't in the picture yet, definitely not on the server. Both GNU and Microsoft basically had the same goal: replace the mess that were proprietary unices. Each had very different approach and different philosophy, but similar goals. In what we are seing now is both of them pretty much succeeding.
There is nothing wrong with creating PDF files that are intended primarily for screen viewing, including dynamic contents. They are still portable, meaning they will view the same regardless of your platform (theoretically - in fact many pdf viewers do not support many of the dynamic features). You can even print them, without the dynamic contents.
I use internet plenty, I do fair amount of web surfing, connect to my work "net drive", upgrade my distro, download and install new software, get articles from on-line journals,... - all on dialup. I want broadband, it would be great to have broadband, but with assistant professor salary, three kids, house and car payments, student loans etc, I just cannot afford broadband. I mean I could actually afford it, but there are beter ways to spend the money.
I addition to that, all companies in the area where I live seem to charge for each computer connected to the net, and with three computers that adds up to quite a bit. I find their price for one connected computer too high, and with three, they can just go and...
This guy is actually ok. He is not talking about that stupid MDI/SDI thing. If you have read his whole post, you would know that he has some very specific suggestions for UI improvement, and that the suggestions actually make sense.
The problem is that every time somebody mentions GIMP, there is always 1000 idiots coming out of the woodwork and screeming that GIMP should have a windows like MDI interface, and consequently when somebody has an intelligent UI suggestion, nobody even listens.
Of course they do! They drink the real Budweiser, which, after all, is an old German beer.
About your sig: I have actually seen this on a student's exam:
\frac{\infty}{2} = \rotatebox{90}{\mbox{4}}
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Ehm, wrong on all counts. Budweiser is not American beer, it is not made by American brewer, it is not founded by Americans. It is Czech beer, made in Czech brewer, founded by Germans. Oh, you are talking about that...whatever you call it... I didn't know you guys call that "beer".
It's not going to run "in wine". They are linking it with winelib to make it into a native Linux application without having to completely rewrite it. Winelib provides the interface between Windows API and Linux API. It is similar to porting Unix applications to Windows using Cygwin.
That's a good point. I am pretty sure that if he was a valuable employee, they would just tell him the cut the playing time down. They were going to fire him anyway, and this was just an excuse. A stupid one, I must say. Or it may well be some office politics, he got into somebodys way or something.
I demand that my alternative theory of gravity be taught in physics and science classes across the nation as an alternative to the currently accepted "law" of gravity, which, after all, is only a theory.
Here is a brief description of my theory of gravity, which explains some observable phenomena much better than the commonly accepted "law".
First you have to understand that it is not true that things always fall down. What is actually happening is that things fall both down and up, with equal probability. Therefore the sequence of all "falls" in the history of the universe is a random sequence of "ups" and "downs". As every truly random sequence, it contains long strings where frequency of "downs" is much higher than frequency of "ups". We happen to live during one such string, so it appears to us as if things were always falling down. In fact, things still sometimes fall up, however, with very high probability it happens somewhere where nobody can observe it (ocean, deserts, mountains,...). In the case somebody actually does observe it, he or she will most likely think they were hallucinating, because we are all brainwashed by the so called "law" of gravity, which, in fact, is only a theory. Even if they actually pay attention to it, nobody will believe them that they saw something fall up, and if they insist, they are most likely going to end up in a mental institution. That explains why there seems to be no experimental evidence of things falling up. But we all know from our experience that things sometimes just simply mysteriously disappear!
My theory of gravity explains many unexplained mysteries. Let's look for example at the extinction of dinosaurs. The explanation is very simple: they fell up! You see, what happens when an animal started to fall up? It tries to saves itself from flying off into the space, or course, so it grabs onto something, like a tree or a bush or a rock. When the animal is a small mammal or an insect, it will hold on, crawl back to the earth, and survive. But when a giant dinosaur grabs onto a tree, both the dinosaur and the tree will end up in the cold emptiness of space. That also explains why we cannot find any large deposits of dinosaur skeletons from the extinction period. There are not any, most of the skeletons are up there somewhere, floating towards Aplha Centauri.
As you can see, my theory of gravity is at least as good, if not better, as the commonly accepted "law" (which is really just a theory), and I demand that it is included into the science curriculum at our schools.
I am surprised they didn't talk about speed. Latency and shot to shot. Every consumer level dicital camera I have tried so far was incredibly slow compared to a cheap film camera. I would buy new camera every two years if it was significantly faster.
I am not sure, but I would guess that if you have it parked on a privat land, they can't go in, but if they stop you on a public road, they can search the whole damn thing.
I call bullshit. Your view of the world is too simplisitic. Researchers should do research and leave the politics to the politicians.
I call bullshit on that. Nobody should leave politics to the politicians. Politics is something we all need to be involved in to some extend. Leave politics to the politicians and soon all you can do is complain about abuse of power, corruption, and dictatorship (and you better not complain to loud).
I don't know how it is in California, but in some countries, they cannot search your person nor your residence, but that doesn't apply to your car. Which means that when they stop you, they cannot search you nor your bag that you happen to be holding in your hand, but they can go through your car and take it completely apart if they want to.
I think you have a point here. My wife and I are coaching a DI team at a local school. Most of the kids on the team always talk about how they love to watch TV, play their video games, listen to their ipods etc, but then they always beg if they can come to our house more often to work on their DI project, which involves writing a play, creating costumes and props etc, sowing, cuting cardboard, gluing things with glue gun, painting, etc. After all that talk about how great this or that game or TV show is, they seem to actually prefer cuting and painting cardboard boxes.
I don't know why, but I usually die much faster when playing nethack with graphical tiles. Maybe it's because I am just used to look at the bottom of the screen for all my status info, and when it is somewhere else interspread with whole bunch if icons and picture, I find it harder to concentrate on. So I don't pay attention to what's going on, and die.
I have seen couple of those. Back in 1980's, a group from the Institute of Mathematical Linguistics ai the Charles University at Prague was developing two such systems, one for translation from English to Czech and one from Czech to Russian. I worked on the second one. The system analyzed structure of each sentence, using grammar rules supported by a dictnionary, then translated it to a sort of internal representation, which was then translated (again using bunch of grammar rules supported by a dictionary) into the target language. At that time, it did not keep track of context between sentences, but it was certainly capable to decide whether a word was a noun, a verb, etc in many cases using the position and/or context withing each sentence. Even if blue and blew were spelled the same, the system would have no trouble distinguishing them in the sentence we were discussing. The system at that time was certainly not capable of translation on the fly, but it was used quite successfully for translating of computer manuals and other technical texts.
I have conversations with people in China all the time via Skype, and they don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo! They know that their parents lost a sibling during the cultural revolution, but they have no idea that Mao's body count is well into the tens of millions.
Or maybe they just don't tell you, in the case someone is listening?
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I don't know about Japanese, but I never had any problem whatsoever with Chinese in LaTeX, and since the name of the package I use is CJK, which stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, I don't see why Japanese would be any more difficult than Chinese. For me, it just worked straight out of the box, with TeTeX on Debian system, and both MikTeX and TeXLive on Windows.
From a purely practical point of view, because we live in a "Windows World," it would serve the kids best to know their way around it. It would be a disservice to them to make them use Macs or Linux boxes and breed ignorance to the real world.
I have heard this argument many times, including when a bunch of parents at my daughters school ganged up together and basically forced the school to ditch their fully equipped Max lab and replace it with Gateways, using exactly tis line of reasonning.
This would make sence if it were a highschool, where lot of kids start working immediately after graduation, but it makes absolutely no sense for 5th graders. By the time they graduate and start working, who knows which operating system will be most common, and how it is going to compare to current systems. I am willing to bet that the differences between Microsoft's system today and 8 years down the road will be bigger than the differences between Windows and let's say KDE now.
Well, if he wants to quote health concerns as a reason not to spend money on a campus-wide wifi, he cannot very well allow people to set up their own routers, can he?
What exactly is a "rich media application"?
How's wifi different than any other radio signal?
It costs the college money to implement, they don't have the money, so they are looking for any excuse so they won't look bad for not having it.
The article makes it obvious he was trying to be a big hero at a town hall meeting.
I didn't read the article, but my guess is people (board of trustees, students, parents, press or somebody) were bothering him and asking why the college doesn't have wifi. They don't have the money for it, so he invented that reason.
This attitude seems to be very common among college students: I cannot get C! I spent so much time studying! I did so much work in this class! I deserve an A! You mean you don't give any points for effort?
Years ago we knew that the first casualty of Linux would be the proprietary Unix companies.
In fact, that was the whole idea of the GNU project. Why do you thing they call it "GNU is not UNIX"? At the time the GNU project started, Microsoft wasn't in the picture yet, definitely not on the server. Both GNU and Microsoft basically had the same goal: replace the mess that were proprietary unices. Each had very different approach and different philosophy, but similar goals. In what we are seing now is both of them pretty much succeeding.
There is nothing wrong with creating PDF files that are intended primarily for screen viewing, including dynamic contents. They are still portable, meaning they will view the same regardless of your platform (theoretically - in fact many pdf viewers do not support many of the dynamic features). You can even print them, without the dynamic contents.
I use internet plenty, I do fair amount of web surfing, connect to my work "net drive", upgrade my distro, download and install new software, get articles from on-line journals, ... - all on dialup. I want broadband, it would be great to have broadband, but with assistant professor salary, three kids, house and car payments, student loans etc, I just cannot afford broadband. I mean I could actually afford it, but there are beter ways to spend the money.
I addition to that, all companies in the area where I live seem to charge for each computer connected to the net, and with three computers that adds up to quite a bit. I find their price for one connected computer too high, and with three, they can just go and...
This guy is actually ok. He is not talking about that stupid MDI/SDI thing. If you have read his whole post, you would know that he has some very specific suggestions for UI improvement, and that the suggestions actually make sense.
The problem is that every time somebody mentions GIMP, there is always 1000 idiots coming out of the woodwork and screeming that GIMP should have a windows like MDI interface, and consequently when somebody has an intelligent UI suggestion, nobody even listens.
Of course they do! They drink the real Budweiser, which, after all, is an old German beer.
About your sig: I have actually seen this on a student's exam:
\frac{\infty}{2} = \rotatebox{90}{\mbox{4}}
Ehm, wrong on all counts. Budweiser is not American beer, it is not made by American brewer, it is not founded by Americans. It is Czech beer, made in Czech brewer, founded by Germans. Oh, you are talking about that ...whatever you call it... I didn't know you guys call that "beer".
It's not going to run "in wine". They are linking it with winelib to make it into a native Linux application without having to completely rewrite it. Winelib provides the interface between Windows API and Linux API. It is similar to porting Unix applications to Windows using Cygwin.
That's a good point. I am pretty sure that if he was a valuable employee, they would just tell him the cut the playing time down. They were going to fire him anyway, and this was just an excuse. A stupid one, I must say. Or it may well be some office politics, he got into somebodys way or something.
I demand that my alternative theory of gravity be taught in physics and science classes across the nation as an alternative to the currently accepted "law" of gravity, which, after all, is only a theory.
...). In the case somebody actually does observe it, he or she will most likely think they were hallucinating, because we are all brainwashed by the so called "law" of gravity, which, in fact, is only a theory. Even if they actually pay attention to it, nobody will believe them that they saw something fall up, and if they insist, they are most likely going to end up in a mental institution. That explains why there seems to be no experimental evidence of things falling up. But we all know from our experience that things sometimes just simply mysteriously disappear!
Here is a brief description of my theory of gravity, which explains some observable phenomena much better than the commonly accepted "law".
First you have to understand that it is not true that things always fall down. What is actually happening is that things fall both down and up, with equal probability. Therefore the sequence of all "falls" in the history of the universe is a random sequence of "ups" and "downs". As every truly random sequence, it contains long strings where frequency of "downs" is much higher than frequency of "ups". We happen to live during one such string, so it appears to us as if things were always falling down. In fact, things still sometimes fall up, however, with very high probability it happens somewhere where nobody can observe it (ocean, deserts, mountains,
My theory of gravity explains many unexplained mysteries. Let's look for example at the extinction of dinosaurs. The explanation is very simple: they fell up!
You see, what happens when an animal started to fall up? It tries to saves itself from flying off into the space, or course, so it grabs onto something, like a tree or a bush or a rock. When the animal is a small mammal or an insect, it will hold on, crawl back to the earth, and survive. But when a giant dinosaur grabs onto a tree, both the dinosaur and the tree will end up in the cold emptiness of space. That also explains why we cannot find any large deposits of dinosaur skeletons from the extinction period. There are not any, most of the skeletons are up there somewhere, floating towards Aplha Centauri.
As you can see, my theory of gravity is at least as good, if not better, as the commonly accepted "law" (which is really just a theory), and I demand that it is included into the science curriculum at our schools.
I am surprised they didn't talk about speed. Latency and shot to shot. Every consumer level dicital camera I have tried so far was incredibly slow compared to a cheap film camera. I would buy new camera every two years if it was significantly faster.
I am not sure, but I would guess that if you have it parked on a privat land, they can't go in, but if they stop you on a public road, they can search the whole damn thing.
I call bullshit. Your view of the world is too simplisitic. Researchers should do research and leave the politics to the politicians.
I call bullshit on that. Nobody should leave politics to the politicians. Politics is something we all need to be involved in to some extend. Leave politics to the politicians and soon all you can do is complain about abuse of power, corruption, and dictatorship (and you better not complain to loud).
I don't know how it is in California, but in some countries, they cannot search your person nor your residence, but that doesn't apply to your car. Which means that when they stop you, they cannot search you nor your bag that you happen to be holding in your hand, but they can go through your car and take it completely apart if they want to.
I think this is definitely one of the most interesting points in the article.
I think you have a point here. My wife and I are coaching a DI team at a local school. Most of the kids on the team always talk about how they love to watch TV, play their video games, listen to their ipods etc, but then they always beg if they can come to our house more often to work on their DI project, which involves writing a play, creating costumes and props etc, sowing, cuting cardboard, gluing things with glue gun, painting, etc. After all that talk about how great this or that game or TV show is, they seem to actually prefer cuting and painting cardboard boxes.
I don't know why, but I usually die much faster when playing nethack with graphical tiles. Maybe it's because I am just used to look at the bottom of the screen for all my status info, and when it is somewhere else interspread with whole bunch if icons and picture, I find it harder to concentrate on. So I don't pay attention to what's going on, and die.
I have seen couple of those. Back in 1980's, a group from the Institute of Mathematical Linguistics ai the Charles University at Prague was developing two such systems, one for translation from English to Czech and one from Czech to Russian. I worked on the second one. The system analyzed structure of each sentence, using grammar rules supported by a dictnionary, then translated it to a sort of internal representation, which was then translated (again using bunch of grammar rules supported by a dictionary) into the target language. At that time, it did not keep track of context between sentences, but it was certainly capable to decide whether a word was a noun, a verb, etc in many cases using the position and/or context withing each sentence. Even if blue and blew were spelled the same, the system would have no trouble distinguishing them in the sentence we were discussing. The system at that time was certainly not capable of translation on the fly, but it was used quite successfully for translating of computer manuals and other technical texts.
I have conversations with people in China all the time via Skype, and they don't even know that Mao killed more Chinese than Tojo! They know that their parents lost a sibling during the cultural revolution, but they have no idea that Mao's body count is well into the tens of millions.
Or maybe they just don't tell you, in the case someone is listening?