The only faults ebooks have right now is that even basic typesetting is almost entirely non-existent on them. Things that could be done automatically by the ereader -- things you don't realize you want until you don't have them, like paragraph-optimized justification, automatic hyphenation, preventing lone paragraph lines on page boundaries, hanging punctuation, and ligatures -- aren't there. Ebooks are displayed either with left-aligned text or with an obnoxiously-spacious justification.
LaTeX does what you want (you can change page size with a recompile of the source), but it has DRM issues (who needs an ereader as an expensive dvi viewer?). Also, is it the fault of the ereader, or of the ebook format(s)?
Keep the piece of hardware in the user's hands simple and non configurable so they can't screw it up. An appliance instead of a tempermental, albeit flexible computer.
Is this really how we want to deal with students?
But with the added capability of being a standalone ebook reader, media consumption device and web browser.
Again, is this a good thing? Don't students "consume" enough media already?
Fewer employees, yes, but "staff" is a mass term (unless you mean something a shepherd carries).
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I'd like to redraw part of the form that asks about pregnancies if the sex chosen earlier is 'male'. We all know males do not get pregnant for example.
It doesn't include drivers for the HP CP Color Laserjet 2025dn. Of course, to get it working on Ubuntu 9.10, I had to actually connect the USB cable from the laptop to the printer. After that, it took Ubuntu 2 entire seconds to autoconfigure. Oh, the horror! As for getting my webcam to work in Ubuntu, it was even easier. It autoconfigured on setup, whereas on Windows 7 I had to download the drivers manually.
Which human readable text? The point of trying to brute force a one-time pad encoded message (without having access to the pad itself) is that any message of the same length is just as possible. How do you determine the actual message from all of the other possible messages of the same length?
Try looking at General Relativity a bit more closely. Results are the same either way.
One can mathematically correct for the differences by invoking pseudo-forces such as the Coriolis Effect, but that doesn't change the underlying physics.
The essence of General Relativity is that a non-inertial (accelerating) frame of reference is identical to an inertial frame of reference within a gravitational field--curved paths in Euclidean space become straight paths in gravity-warped space.
No. What gravitational field would explain the rotation of an object on the Equator? You can treat the paths of freely falling objects as geodesics in curved space time (within limits), but you cannot treat objects traveling along nongeodesics as freely falling.
If one treated a point on the Equator as an inertial reference frame, then many stars would be travelling at superluminal speeds with respect to that reference frame.
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Publishers might consider the lack of DRM to be an issue.
I would imagine that such a device would disable shell escapes and lock down the other features.
LaTeX does what you want (you can change page size with a recompile of the source), but it has DRM issues (who needs an ereader as an expensive dvi viewer?). Also, is it the fault of the ereader, or of the ebook format(s)?
I like LaTeX, but I don't know if I can type fast enough to includes diagrams while an instructor is lecturing.
Keep the piece of hardware in the user's hands simple and non configurable so they can't screw it up. An appliance instead of a tempermental, albeit flexible computer.
Is this really how we want to deal with students?
But with the added capability of being a standalone ebook reader, media consumption device and web browser.
Again, is this a good thing? Don't students "consume" enough media already?
Fewer employees, yes, but "staff" is a mass term (unless you mean something a shepherd carries).
I'd like to redraw part of the form that asks about pregnancies if the sex chosen earlier is 'male'. We all know males do not get pregnant for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy#Pregnancy_among_intersex_and_transgender_people
You may wish to reconsider.
Engelbart used a mouse before 1970.
Gee, this won't hurt the US, will it?
But you could ask that of Wine as a whole.
It doesn't include drivers for the HP CP Color Laserjet 2025dn. Of course, to get it working on Ubuntu 9.10, I had to actually connect the USB cable from the laptop to the printer. After that, it took Ubuntu 2 entire seconds to autoconfigure. Oh, the horror! As for getting my webcam to work in Ubuntu, it was even easier. It autoconfigured on setup, whereas on Windows 7 I had to download the drivers manually.
But what happens when Wine supports DirectX directly? Granted, it's a work in progress.
http://www.winehq.org/site/status/directx
Native clients will always run faster than Wine.
Why?
Which human readable text? The point of trying to brute force a one-time pad encoded message (without having access to the pad itself) is that any message of the same length is just as possible. How do you determine the actual message from all of the other possible messages of the same length?
But is the universe infinite "now"?
The earth's geodetic and frame-dragging effects are far too small to geometrize away the acceleration of an object on the earth's Equator.
"E si pur mouve" - true. More so in light of the above experiment - even if Galileo never said it ;)
I thought Bruno said it.
The privileged reference frames of General Relativity are the freely falling ones.
The earth is rotating with respect to the geodesics of General Relativity.
You can do a coordinate transformation where your spatial coordinates don't change over time. Nevertheless, you aren't standing still.
That is the difference between math and physics. One can coordinatize spacetime in lots of ways, but it doesn't make them physically significant.
No. You can specify a freely falling reference frame as a geodesic, but not all frames are freely falling.
Try looking at General Relativity a bit more closely. Results are the same either way.
One can mathematically correct for the differences by invoking pseudo-forces such as the Coriolis Effect, but that doesn't change the underlying physics.
The essence of General Relativity is that a non-inertial (accelerating) frame of reference is identical to an inertial frame of reference within a gravitational field--curved paths in Euclidean space become straight paths in gravity-warped space.
No. What gravitational field would explain the rotation of an object on the Equator? You can treat the paths of freely falling objects as geodesics in curved space time (within limits), but you cannot treat objects traveling along nongeodesics as freely falling.
If one treated a point on the Equator as an inertial reference frame, then many stars would be travelling at superluminal speeds with respect to that reference frame.
Of course, Doyle is perhaps not the best expert on such matters.
Does Steve Jobs actually permit boring conference rooms at Apple headquarters? It doesn't seem his style.