Have you tried using pstricks to overlay imported graphics (blobs) with text? BTW, 'seminar' is horribly outdated. There are lots of newer slide styles around, like 'prosper', 'beamer' and a few others.
Nuremberg trial was a bit of a 'show trial', since this was victor's justice: Nazi crimes were being investigated, while Soviet not. But nevertheless it was a worthy enterprise, which cannot be said about the idea to put CEO's of Yahoo or possibly Google before The Hague Tribunal. The Tribunal would laugh the accusers off. If there is any institution which could do something about it, it would be the US government: simply pass the law forbidding US companies from yielding to such demands. It's been done in the past, by pushing an embargo on sales of sensitive stuff to the Soviet Block.
As a non-American I have the right to ask stupid questions about American legal system: if lawyers are so expensive, it means there is too few lawyers. Or else the price of their services would drop. America is a free country, so anybody with enough brains can become a lawyer. If the lawyer's profession is so lucrative, many people should want to become one. Am I the only person that thinks something's missing in this picture?
Who does scientific presentations in powerpoint? There's a *lot* of presentation packages for TeX that are quite powerful, and you get quality typesetting instead of the poor immitation MS Powerpoint gives you.
Sure, everybody knows that the Soviet Union was a bastion of freedom, except for those old crooks Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, who kept remindinding us some stupid gulag stuff and the like...
We're talking about a country that had censorship, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary system whatsowever... Jesus Christ, in Moscow in the old times they transported homeless people 100km from the city center as not to spoil the view. What kind of propaganda were you fed on?
If you think that there is no government oppression in Russia, go look up 'Chechenya' and 'Yukos'. Or, find and read the story about how recently Russian government cracked down on vets for using anaesthetics to operate on dogs (they locked them up for 'possession of large quantities of drugs'). Those bastards made vets operate on dogs without anaesthetics.
They both insisted that there was actually more individualism and freedom in the bit of the Soviet Union they had visited than in the US. A lot less material prosperity, perhaps, but more real freedom to be an individual.
These guys obviously didn't have a clue what they were talking about. In the USSR on each hotel floor (I mean hotels available for the ordinary Russians) sat a lady, who recorded everything that was going on on the floor. Hotel rooms were bugged (esp. those for foreigners). Do you know that even now, a Russian citizen cannot just like that move to Moscow? He has to get a permit to stay from the police, or else get arrested. When my sister, who studies archeology, went to Russia last year to dig some ground on the Crimea, she and her fellow students had also to register to the police and were told to what city nearby they can travel, and where not. And it's now, in the past it's been worse.
This isn't true. Americans can visit Poland without a visa, while Polis people have to get a visa to get to the USA, and often get refused. But hey, we're your allies, so U.S. Immigration can treat our citizens like dirt.
Let's bring his accomplices to justice. People who sold him explosives and detonators. But that not's the point, I still think that keeping everybody's fingerprints in a database is an infringement of privacy.
Actually, I read such story in my Polish mainstream newspaper, but we're probably not "western" enough.
I think that the person most interested in spreading such stories around is Alawi himself, 'cause they show him as a really tough guy, and that counts in the Arab world. He's got to match Saddam's legend. In the article I mentioned above reactions of ordinary Iraqis were cited: some were scared, others were impressed. Just like with Saddam, only Alawi goes after the bad guys only.
Actually, an important part of Einstein's special relativity was known before him. That's why we have Lorentz's transformation, not Einstein's, because it was Lorentz who noticed that Maxwell's equations have such an interesting symmetry.
Special relativity was, one could say, waiting to be formulated. It could have been Maxwell, had he lived longer, not Einstein. The special stuff was general relativity, although here one could argue that David Hilbert "could have it" (he was even the first to write down equations known as Einstein's equations). Nevertheless, this was Einstein's truly original idea.
The point I'm making is that it seldom happens in science that a single individual makes a revolution. I would say that a generation makes a revolution (Newton accompanied by Leibnitz, Einstein following Lorentz and Maxwell, accompanied by Hilbert and learning from Riemann, the whole bunch of guys who invented quantum mechanics).
So when they released extended versions of LOTR they still kept something for further release? This is absurd. They could go on like that forever... adding things between DVD releases.
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Have you tried using pstricks to overlay imported graphics (blobs) with text? BTW, 'seminar' is horribly outdated. There are lots of newer slide styles around, like 'prosper', 'beamer' and a few others.
And the freest nation in the world just can't do anything about it?
Nuremberg trial was a bit of a 'show trial', since this was victor's justice: Nazi crimes were being investigated, while Soviet not. But nevertheless it was a worthy enterprise, which cannot be said about the idea to put CEO's of Yahoo or possibly Google before The Hague Tribunal. The Tribunal would laugh the accusers off. If there is any institution which could do something about it, it would be the US government: simply pass the law forbidding US companies from yielding to such demands. It's been done in the past, by pushing an embargo on sales of sensitive stuff to the Soviet Block.
As a non-American I have the right to ask stupid questions about American legal system: if lawyers are so expensive, it means there is too few lawyers. Or else the price of their services would drop. America is a free country, so anybody with enough brains can become a lawyer. If the lawyer's profession is so lucrative, many people should want to become one. Am I the only person that thinks something's missing in this picture?
Who does scientific presentations in powerpoint? There's a *lot* of presentation packages for TeX that are quite powerful, and you get quality typesetting instead of the poor immitation MS Powerpoint gives you.
Sure, everybody knows that the Soviet Union was a bastion of freedom, except for those old crooks Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, who kept remindinding us some stupid gulag stuff and the like...
We're talking about a country that had censorship, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary system whatsowever... Jesus Christ, in Moscow in the old times they transported homeless people 100km from the city center as not to spoil the view. What kind of propaganda were you fed on?
If you think that there is no government oppression in Russia, go look up 'Chechenya' and 'Yukos'. Or, find and read the story about how recently Russian government cracked down on vets for using anaesthetics to operate on dogs (they locked them up for 'possession of large quantities of drugs'). Those bastards made vets operate on dogs without anaesthetics.
Not if it was the abuser (or his buddy) taking pictures, e.g. to put on a website.
No, but if you record all you see than you're acting Orwellian.
They both insisted that there was actually more individualism and freedom in the bit of the Soviet Union they had visited than in the US. A lot less material prosperity, perhaps, but more real freedom to be an individual.
These guys obviously didn't have a clue what they were talking about. In the USSR on each hotel floor (I mean hotels available for the ordinary Russians) sat a lady, who recorded everything that was going on on the floor. Hotel rooms were bugged (esp. those for foreigners). Do you know that even now, a Russian citizen cannot just like that move to Moscow? He has to get a permit to stay from the police, or else get arrested. When my sister, who studies archeology, went to Russia last year to dig some ground on the Crimea, she and her fellow students had also to register to the police and were told to what city nearby they can travel, and where not. And it's now, in the past it's been worse.
This isn't true. Americans can visit Poland without a visa, while Polis people have to get a visa to get to the USA, and often get refused. But hey, we're your allies, so U.S. Immigration can treat our citizens like dirt.
Let's bring his accomplices to justice. People who sold him explosives and detonators. But that not's the point, I still think that keeping everybody's fingerprints in a database is an infringement of privacy.
Actually, I read such story in my Polish mainstream newspaper, but we're probably not "western" enough.
I think that the person most interested in spreading such stories around is Alawi himself, 'cause they show him as a really tough guy, and that counts in the Arab world. He's got to match Saddam's legend. In the article I mentioned above reactions of ordinary Iraqis were cited: some were scared, others were impressed. Just like with Saddam, only Alawi goes after the bad guys only.
Clever guy! http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0406088 paper posted on /.!
Actually, an important part of Einstein's special relativity was known before him. That's why we have Lorentz's transformation, not Einstein's, because it was Lorentz who noticed that Maxwell's equations have such an interesting symmetry.
Special relativity was, one could say, waiting to be formulated. It could have been Maxwell, had he lived longer, not Einstein. The special stuff was general relativity, although here one could argue that David Hilbert "could have it" (he was even the first to write down equations known as Einstein's equations). Nevertheless, this was Einstein's truly original idea.
The point I'm making is that it seldom happens in science that a single individual makes a revolution. I would say that a generation makes a revolution (Newton accompanied by Leibnitz, Einstein following Lorentz and Maxwell, accompanied by Hilbert and learning from Riemann, the whole bunch of guys who invented quantum mechanics).
Somehow nobody wants to ditch the conservation of mass-energy.
And if I report this link as being spammed, will he/you care?
The principle which lies behind determining crystalline structure with X-rays is somewhat older than 1952, so I'd doubt it.
And if humans can understand Goedel's theorem, we must have something qualitatively different than a Turing machine up there.
As von Neumann said, one does not understand math, one gets used to it.
Yep, a theory you can extract out of organic tissue in a school lab.
Did you read their rules on link spamming?
Item 1. shows how far political correctness can go?
Note that the Linux kernel's "odd-tenths, even tenths" scheme does not alter the fundamental convention, but extends it in a sane and beneficial way.
Especially the 2.6 kernels...
LANG=en_US
export LANG
and you're done.
So when they released extended versions of LOTR they still kept something for further release? This is absurd. They could go on like that forever... adding things between DVD releases.
I'm waiting for 'LOTR Director's Cut'.
The same can be done with google: filetype:xls.