OO Writer is a nice product, and it's getting better; it's open and free. But has many bugs and many rough edges. In particular, I miss a good regular expression engine for search-n-replace; its limitation to paragraphs doesn't allow you to search things as: "empty paragraph after a paragraph not ending with a dot", or "two consecutive empty paragraphs". That sucks. I ended editing the xml ouput in some cases.
I can't recommend Latex (except for mathematical content) or DocBook, though I have used both (I wrote my doctoral thesis with Latex, and I appreciate -even love- its strengths) But when text and layout is the thing, WYSIWYG is a must for me, I believe that the process of writing and proof-reading must be one. And don't tell about Lyx or some other gui (docbook doesnt even have some decent free gui, AFAIK), when there is some "compilation" involved, when I cant' just click on a word on the final page and just add a letter -with ZERO task-switching- I feel my writing productivity goes down badly.
And, as some other have commented, while I don't particularly like Ms Word, it deserves consideration , in many respects it is more polished than OO... sadly.
The title of the paper is just: "Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping".
It only remains to traverse the small gap from "illusion" to "fact" to render the title at Slashdot (and at the Washington Post) true.
In other news: a person was triggered to have the illusion of having been transported to Jupiter. Hence, the sentence "A man was trasported to Jupiter" should be considered -at least approximately- true.
The experiment might be of interest, I don't dispute that; but come on.
Wake me up when the "swapped mind" is able to command the other body.
The venerable Duda & Hart book on pattern clasification: its old first edition was focused on probabilistic (bayesian) aproach, but new edition is very different, gives a broad view of pattern clasification and learning techniques, including neural networks.
Planned for the next release:
- shout() : similar to print(), but appends three exclamation signs
- htmlshout() : similar to shout, but surround the string with <b></b> tags
Actually, I like Perl, but orthogonality has never been one of its strong points. It seems that it's getting worse.
Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization And after that, you can read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_key.
The debate about surrogate (or artificial) keys against intelligent (or natural) keys is an old one, and both have their points. But the truth is that modern practice tends to favour the former (specially if the natural keys are composite). Not only RoR, the majority of ORM around there (in particular, Hibernate, the most successful one) clearly favours surrogate keys.
'Only a moron could believe that there is nothing wrong with a sentence which can be grammatically parsed as valid and comprehensible but which is so long and twisted that only after thirty words, a lot of comas and conjunctions, you can deduce its structure and realize that its beginning was an appositive instead of the subject', is an affirmation that I would not fully approve.
Spanish is my first language, and I am very glad to note that this time the designers seem to have paid more attention to "foreign" (i.e. : non ascii) characters.
In particular, the opening exclamation-interrogation signs, in the previous font set (Verdana, Georgia, Tahoma) were just horrible, they were above the baseline making them almost equal to an 'i' letter. See for example here. They were ok in TimesNewRoman and Arial, though. And they are nice in this C-set. Bravo.
I don't think any of the sellers expects someone to buy that.
More on the joking line, I'd say.
The FA points at that ("It is a kind of protest and joke at the same time") though the Slashdot summary deleted out the "joke" mention... (the story seemed less irrelevent in that way, I guess)
BTW, I live in Argentina.
...Gandalf faced and suffered death; and came back or was sent back, as he says, with enhanced power. But though one may be in this reminded of the Gospels, it is not really the same thing at all. The Incarnation of God is an infinitely greater thing than anything I would dare to write. Here I am only concerned with Death as part of the nature, physical and spiritual, of Man, and with Hope without guarantees.
In short: Aslan certainly "is" Christ. Gandalf is not.
Tolkien disliked allegory. C. S. Lewis didn't.
In the past, many slashdot users have complained that this or that article has basically the same information as a past article, differing only in the title. They call that a "dupe".
This is not the case here. Here the titles are also the same.
"Spirited away" is my favourite (it's somewhat over-rich, though, and does puzzle many viewers)
Among the others (the full list from studio Ghibli is here) I prefer the "contemplative" (slow paced) ones: Totoro, Kiki and Porco Rosso. Those who prefer the "active" ones (epic, action) should chose Mononoke, Nausicaa and Laputa. In fact, the preferences among Miyazaki's fans vary wildly. See for example here.
Mod the parent up.
No RLE in JPEG.
Perhaps the confussion arises because the JPEG algorithm is designed so that (prior to the final huffman coding) long zero-valued sequences are favored. But this does not imply that a RLE is used: a standard lossless coding (huffman, arithmetic) compress well these constant-valued sequences.
Einstein probably put it best when he said:
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
He said it ? Where ? Book, edition, page and paragraph, please ?
I read somewhere (where ? well... perhaps I'm just inventing it)
that the fake quotes that
abound in Internet are evenly shared among
Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Einstein.
I guess that, here in Slashdot, there is a login bias towards Einstein
Celebrity has its shortcomings, for sure
To be presumed responsible of so many "clever sayings"... it must be a hard thing.
I really hate to having to guess (from the url)
the year of an old post.
Please, show the year in the post date.
It's just 4 chars, man!
Am I missing something ?
It seems that security is taken seriously at Google.
From the Outlook settings instructions:
# Highlight 'pop.gmail.com' under 'Account,' and click 'Properties.' # Click the 'Advanced' tab. # Check the box next to 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' under 'Outgoing Mail (SMTP).' # Enter '465' in the 'Outgoing mail (SMTP):' field. # Check the box next to 'This server requires a secure connection (SSL)' under 'Incoming mail (POP3).' The port will change to 995.
But, if I'm not mistaken, Suse Enterprise Server 9 requires a license to use YOU (YaST Online Update) to download updates and patches. And that's not free (
nor cheap for me... but of course, it's an "enterprise" "server").
I wonder what are the terms of the license in this (Dell) case.
Slashdot Mirror
OO Writer is a nice product, and it's getting better; it's open and free.
But has many bugs and many rough edges.
In particular, I miss a good regular expression engine for search-n-replace; its limitation to paragraphs doesn't allow you to search things as: "empty paragraph after a paragraph not ending with a dot", or "two consecutive empty paragraphs". That sucks. I ended editing the xml ouput in some cases.
I can't recommend Latex (except for mathematical content) or DocBook, though I have used both (I wrote my doctoral thesis with Latex, and I appreciate -even love- its strengths) But when text and layout is the thing, WYSIWYG is a must for me, I believe that the process of writing and proof-reading must be one.
And don't tell about Lyx or some other gui (docbook doesnt even have some decent free gui, AFAIK), when there is some "compilation" involved, when I cant' just click on a word on the final page and just add a letter -with ZERO task-switching- I feel my writing productivity goes down badly.
And, as some other have commented, while I don't particularly like Ms Word, it deserves consideration , in many respects it is more polished than OO... sadly.
The title of the paper is just: "Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping". It only remains to traverse the small gap from "illusion" to "fact" to render the title at Slashdot (and at the Washington Post) true.
In other news: a person was triggered to have the illusion of having been transported to Jupiter. Hence, the sentence "A man was trasported to Jupiter" should be considered -at least approximately- true.
The experiment might be of interest, I don't dispute that; but come on. Wake me up when the "swapped mind" is able to command the other body.
The venerable Duda & Hart book on pattern clasification: its old first edition was focused on probabilistic (bayesian) aproach, but new edition is very different, gives a broad view of pattern clasification and learning techniques, including neural networks.
If your developers are mindless enough not to validiate user input then at least use stored procedures.
... and, don't forget the most important: forbid the end users to employ dangerous words in their "security question" answers. Hey, how cool is that?
(You can find this and other amusing samples of anti sql-injection techniques by dumb developers at WTF)
... or give a look at Dirvish. It uses rsync and keeps full snapshots using hardlinks for unachanged files. Works like a charm for me.
... here (Argentina). When you use the word "Billion" for a global audience, please be aware that is means different things in different countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Planned for the next release:
- shout() : similar to print(), but appends three exclamation signs
- htmlshout() : similar to shout, but surround the string with <b></b> tags
Actually, I like Perl, but orthogonality has never been one of its strong points.
It seems that it's getting worse.
Boy, this is getting tiring.
The debate about surrogate (or artificial) keys against intelligent (or natural) keys is an old one, and both have their points. But the truth is that modern practice tends to favour the former (specially if the natural keys are composite). Not only RoR, the majority of ORM around there (in particular, Hibernate, the most successful one) clearly favours surrogate keys.
'Only a moron could believe that there is nothing wrong with a sentence which can be grammatically parsed as valid and comprehensible but which is so long and twisted that only after thirty words, a lot of comas and conjunctions, you can deduce its structure and realize that its beginning was an appositive instead of the subject', is an affirmation that I would not fully approve.
Spanish is my first language, and I am very glad to note that this time the designers seem to have paid more attention to "foreign" (i.e. : non ascii) characters.
In particular, the opening exclamation-interrogation signs, in the previous font set (Verdana, Georgia, Tahoma) were just horrible, they were above the baseline making them almost equal to an 'i' letter. See for example here. They were ok in TimesNewRoman and Arial, though. And they are nice in this C-set. Bravo.
I don't think any of the sellers expects someone to buy that. More on the joking line, I'd say. The FA points at that ("It is a kind of protest and joke at the same time") though the Slashdot summary deleted out the "joke" mention... (the story seemed less irrelevent in that way, I guess) BTW, I live in Argentina.
In the past, many slashdot users have complained that
this or that article has basically the same information
as a past article, differing only in the title.
They call that a "dupe".
This is not the case here.
Here the titles are also the same.
"Spirited away" is my favourite (it's somewhat over-rich, though, and does puzzle many viewers)
Among the others (the full list from studio Ghibli is here) I prefer the "contemplative" (slow paced) ones:
Totoro, Kiki and Porco Rosso. Those who prefer the "active" ones (epic, action) should chose Mononoke, Nausicaa and Laputa.
In fact, the preferences among Miyazaki's fans vary wildly. See for example here.
mind you
Mod the parent up. No RLE in JPEG. Perhaps the confussion arises because the JPEG algorithm is designed so that (prior to the final huffman coding) long zero-valued sequences are favored. But this does not imply that a RLE is used: a standard lossless coding (huffman, arithmetic) compress well these constant-valued sequences.
I read somewhere (where ? well... perhaps I'm just inventing it) that the fake quotes that abound in Internet are evenly shared among Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Einstein. I guess that, here in Slashdot, there is a login bias towards Einstein
Celebrity has its shortcomings, for sure To be presumed responsible of so many "clever sayings"
I really hate to having to guess (from the url) the year of an old post. Please, show the year in the post date. It's just 4 chars, man! Am I missing something ?
From the Outlook settings instructions:
But, if I'm not mistaken, Suse Enterprise Server 9 requires a license to use YOU (YaST Online Update) to download updates and patches.
And that's not free ( nor cheap for me... but of course, it's an "enterprise" "server").
I wonder what are the terms of the license in this (Dell) case.