The best way to go seems LaTeX->HTML->ePUB. I guess many of your problems do not come from LaTeX itself, but from the fact that the LaTeX code that LyX outputs is... well... not meant for human editing and for further work. (haven't worked with LyX in a while, though -- maybe the quality of the TeX it produces has considerably improved in the meantime).
Well, I also think that naming conventions should be enforced strictly to avoid getting in the user's way.
For instance, there's a "feature" of latin languages (such as Italian, my native language) that can lead to lots of problems if one doesn't stick to the appropriated name conventions: the word order in expressions such as "Foo options" or "Foo settings" is the opposite with respect to English. Therefore, when you want to configure a network card you never know if you have to search "Network" or "Options for Network" or "Settings for Network" or "Instruments for Network", which are alphabetically very far apart. In particular, I find that the old Windows XP's control panel is a hell to browse.
Still, it has always stricken me as peculiar that in the wintertime people spend energy to heat the kitchen up to 20-25 C, and inside it there is a little fridge working as hard as it can to bring the temperature back to exactly the same value as outside.
Not to mention that this refrigerator is typically located just next to the electric cooker...
Shame on Matlab for this, though. Self-growing arrays with better amortized overhead have been around for ages (see any decent C++ vector implementation, for instance).
I am a researcher in Maths. I get paid by an university, so ultimately by the state, and I produce content that is free for everybody to download (at least while they are in preprint form --- we have to deal with greedy journals, too). The quality of the content I produce is assessed by independent peer review. I do not see any problem with this system, it could easily be applied to entertainment as well.
We've been knowing that since 1994 in Italy. I wish some footage of that time's Italian TV was available in English, too. Popular TV shows (think "who wants to be a millionnaire") were regularly interrupted by political ads and statements by the anchorman such as 'Berlusconi will run the country as well as he ran his business, he hasn't fired a single worker in the last X years".
I never thought there was a functional difference between a lone line containing "i++;" "++i;". Of course, for variable assignment it matters, but what's going on under the covers? If you stop and think about it, i++ actually has to return the old value. ++i can destroy that old value and never needs to worry about returning the old value (you can avoid an extra copy).
You need not worry about that anymore nowadays, at least in C and C++. Recent compilers optimize the useless instructions out automatically.
Duh, someone's been playing Dwarf Fortress for too long on that small island. Well, I guess there's not much else to do in the wintertime (disclaimer: it's below -10C where i live now, so I'd better not pull their leg like this).
Most phones that can run apps can also be connected to a pc via USB, allowing full access to their internal memory as an USB mass storage device. So:
1) pwn PC
2) get password
3) next time the user connects its phone, get the secret data used by the app to generate the code (it must be written on the phone's memory, right?)
4) ???
5) profit
Looks like one-and-a-half factor authentication, at most.
I thought the biggest stopper in building OSS 3D drivers were that they usually contain technologies covered by software patents. What happened to the patented parts? Have they been stripped out of this OSS version, with the effect that it is now slower than its closed-source counterpart? Or did they find another way out?
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The best way to go seems LaTeX->HTML->ePUB. I guess many of your problems do not come from LaTeX itself, but from the fact that the LaTeX code that LyX outputs is... well... not meant for human editing and for further work. (haven't worked with LyX in a while, though -- maybe the quality of the TeX it produces has considerably improved in the meantime).
Well, I also think that naming conventions should be enforced strictly to avoid getting in the user's way. For instance, there's a "feature" of latin languages (such as Italian, my native language) that can lead to lots of problems if one doesn't stick to the appropriated name conventions: the word order in expressions such as "Foo options" or "Foo settings" is the opposite with respect to English. Therefore, when you want to configure a network card you never know if you have to search "Network" or "Options for Network" or "Settings for Network" or "Instruments for Network", which are alphabetically very far apart. In particular, I find that the old Windows XP's control panel is a hell to browse.
Still, it has always stricken me as peculiar that in the wintertime people spend energy to heat the kitchen up to 20-25 C, and inside it there is a little fridge working as hard as it can to bring the temperature back to exactly the same value as outside.
Not to mention that this refrigerator is typically located just next to the electric cooker...
What are you speaking of?
Yoda, is that you?
It's not technology: it's a well-known brand and a huge user base.
I'm surprised no one pointed out this link already: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html
Probably the average Slashdot reader needs a RAID-1 metaphor to understand it.
Good point. I think we should name "students" the official SI unit for menial work in academia.
Is the pun on "Csar" intended? If so, my kudos.
Shame on Matlab for this, though. Self-growing arrays with better amortized overhead have been around for ages (see any decent C++ vector implementation, for instance).
Cool, can't wait for the day when some company will make this on our planet, too.
I tried double-clicking on them, but it doesn't work
I am a researcher in Maths. I get paid by an university, so ultimately by the state, and I produce content that is free for everybody to download (at least while they are in preprint form --- we have to deal with greedy journals, too). The quality of the content I produce is assessed by independent peer review. I do not see any problem with this system, it could easily be applied to entertainment as well.
Funny, I read "copyright thief" at first.
We've been knowing that since 1994 in Italy. I wish some footage of that time's Italian TV was available in English, too. Popular TV shows (think "who wants to be a millionnaire") were regularly interrupted by political ads and statements by the anchorman such as 'Berlusconi will run the country as well as he ran his business, he hasn't fired a single worker in the last X years".
Doesn't sound like a big issue -- I've been bending space-time around me since the day when I was born.
You need not worry about that anymore nowadays, at least in C and C++. Recent compilers optimize the useless instructions out automatically.
Yeah, the guy who wrote these answers. Definitely the right person to take lessons from on how not to be a wise ass.
Duh, someone's been playing Dwarf Fortress for too long on that small island. Well, I guess there's not much else to do in the wintertime (disclaimer: it's below -10C where i live now, so I'd better not pull their leg like this).
Most phones that can run apps can also be connected to a pc via USB, allowing full access to their internal memory as an USB mass storage device. So: 1) pwn PC 2) get password 3) next time the user connects its phone, get the secret data used by the app to generate the code (it must be written on the phone's memory, right?) 4) ??? 5) profit Looks like one-and-a-half factor authentication, at most.
well, there goes my evil project of using trained dolphins to solve captchas. Oh well, I can still use chimps. Outside of Spain at least.
I thought the biggest stopper in building OSS 3D drivers were that they usually contain technologies covered by software patents. What happened to the patented parts? Have they been stripped out of this OSS version, with the effect that it is now slower than its closed-source counterpart? Or did they find another way out?
Neat, an Ikea town!
Why is this filed under "hardware"? Is there a real blue wooden box in a datacenter to which my files are sent?