I think it is possible to get Word documents looking "just so" and with all the bits in all the right places on most computers (you're never going to get Word to look right on all computers), but you have to know that package like the back of your hand. I've recently got much more intimate with Word and its fields, styles, breaks and all sorts - probably just as long as it would have taken to learn TEX - just so that I could produce decently formatted reports and papers with proper numbering systems for pages and sections.
I know that the bundles used for the upper layers of MacOS rely on the Cocoa (NeXTStep) libraries, but couldn't something similar be done for Darwin? At least that way packages would be compatible between teh Desktop and CLI versions of the OS.
New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com) is a UK magazine that fulfils a similar role to Scientific American - it reports on the latest results in many different journals and includes features by scientific journalists who generally provide a few choice references. The aim is not to act as an 'accredited, peer-reviewed journal', but to inform interested parties over a wide range of scientific issues.
That's daft. If Burger King have offices/stores in the US (as they patently do), they should register the burgerking.co.us domain. That site could contain a link to the parent company if they are not based in the US. The bit about needing county and state is a little silly.
I'm sure they already own trademarks and such-like in the US that would allow them to register that domain under most of the schemes that are proposed to ease conflicts.
Isn't this effectively what my.mp3.com was doing? It's likely that a fair number of the books offered as e-texts will have paper counterparts that you could also buy. If you pay for the online version, would it still cost the same to be sent a paper copy, or would they only charge for the cost of printing and postage (P+P)? If you've paid for the book to be delivered, would there still be the charge to access an online text?
However - the BBC report (here) has finally got the right idea! I mailed them a few times after hearing about the Napster "web site" being used to download MP3s and the report above has changed to reflect the actual situation. Yes!
'K. IA(most certainly)NAL. I'm not well versed in all of this to discuss it in great depth, but I think that the firearms thing does depend greatly on culture (which, of course, is becoming more and more influenced by US culture across the globe).
As far as rights, the Monarch signed the Magna Carta, giving certain rights to the people of Britain. The rest of the law and the sitting of parliament is, however a pleasure of the Queen.
Euroland doesn't all have 80% tax rates, and I certainly prefer having firearms outlawed. The first amendment doesn't mean a lot in Britain, since our law is embodied in centuries of legal precedent. It works pretty much like a constitution, but it needs a history of more than a couple of hundred years to gather momentum. Sure, there are some odd laws, but it doesn't give us half the problems that the US legal system seems to suffer.
1 - HOW DARE YOU?! NASA is certainly not made up of useless engineers. They are world acknowledged leaders in several areas of space science. Rockwell and Boeing et al. are others in the states, and Ariane and all the others around also lead in some fields, but don't suggest that NASA engineers couldn't get jobs elsewhere.
2 - The Russian contribution to the ISS and space research in general isn't always in funds. They also have brains there (something that can't always be said of ACs) and Russian engineers can produce just as good technology as anyone else's. The atmospheric recycling tech that Russia has is waaay better than NASAs, simply because the Russians have been pushing extended stay space stations for so long. They know how to do that sort of thing.
Is it just me, or do others also think that, every time a government gets anywhere further with manned exploration, they fumble the initiative? We could have been doing this sort of thing twenty years ago, but for the sudden lack of glamour that was driving Apollo. Then NASA spends billions and billions on the shuttle, which turned out not to fulfil any of the design objectives fully.
I'm not sure how we could have done better, though, since the alternative would be to open it up to private enterprise. Whoops - there goes public usefulness - they just want to screw you out of more money.
Yet here the USA today, with over 230 million people, all governed under one Constitution.
Indeed, but I think the states system works so well because each state still has some (limited) freedom. You give the big global-style decisions to big government, and make sure they have nothing to do with local stuff. It's all a matter of perspective.
OK - it all depends on how you value it at the time. I once sat down and was very happy to read the thick and meaty Lord of the Rings over a Christmas holiday from school. That was a satisfying thing to do, and it was nice to have the feel of the book.
I also play the violin, and they have their own smell as well - from the rosin on the bow to the varnish on the wood. At the same time I have also made electric violins that don't quite feel the same. They're great for things you wouldn't usually put a violin in, though.
What I appear to be striving towards is that, for a lot of people, it doesn't matter most of the time, but I agree that books should be around for when it does.
OK - I'll bite. It might be marked as offtopic, but I think it is somewhat relevant to the discussion at hand to talk about convergence here.
The point of all the digital "content" (there are far too many buzz words floating around at the moment) is that, eventually, you don't have to worry about the hard drive failing, or not being able to hold the book in your hands.
PDAs and Laptops appear to be converging on a middle ground, with extras at both ends - you have the very basic "notepad, calendar and address book", stretching to the full-featured laptop that kicks the butt of most desktop PCs. In the middle you have a device that is probably a bit more capable than the current Palms, has high storage capacity on devices other than hard disks, and ideally replaces the current LCD technology with something that doesn't make your eyes strain after two hours.
What you have then is worthy of taking on a bus or train and reading a book on. Benefit as well: you can download another book later, and save them on your central server at home later. Feel like reading a magazine? The display is probably big enough to show you an A$-size image.
The fridge-connected-to-the-firewall bit is about intelligently ordering new goods when the old ones run out, or go off. It's all about making your life easier, and your access to information a whole lot less painful than the means currently employed.
Personally I think we've got a long way to go (especially with the portable screen), but at some point in the next five or ten years, these things may become reality. Then the rich can get life easier for a bit, until it filters down to us mortals.
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I think it is possible to get Word documents looking "just so" and with all the bits in all the right places on most computers (you're never going to get Word to look right on all computers), but you have to know that package like the back of your hand. I've recently got much more intimate with Word and its fields, styles, breaks and all sorts - probably just as long as it would have taken to learn TEX - just so that I could produce decently formatted reports and papers with proper numbering systems for pages and sections.
Well, in RGBA, that works out as a fairly opaque dirty pink.
I know that the bundles used for the upper layers of MacOS rely on the Cocoa (NeXTStep) libraries, but couldn't something similar be done for Darwin? At least that way packages would be compatible between teh Desktop and CLI versions of the OS.
"yotta 10^24 (septillion/trillion)"
Now we're in trouble - imagine explaining to a PHB what a yobibyte is. "Can you assure me that this yobby-bite is not going to vandalise the office?"
New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com) is a UK magazine that fulfils a similar role to Scientific American - it reports on the latest results in many different journals and includes features by scientific journalists who generally provide a few choice references. The aim is not to act as an 'accredited, peer-reviewed journal', but to inform interested parties over a wide range of scientific issues.
That's daft. If Burger King have offices/stores in the US (as they patently do), they should register the burgerking.co.us domain. That site could contain a link to the parent company if they are not based in the US. The bit about needing county and state is a little silly.
I'm sure they already own trademarks and such-like in the US that would allow them to register that domain under most of the schemes that are proposed to ease conflicts.
Isn't this effectively what my.mp3.com was doing? It's likely that a fair number of the books offered as e-texts will have paper counterparts that you could also buy. If you pay for the online version, would it still cost the same to be sent a paper copy, or would they only charge for the cost of printing and postage (P+P)? If you've paid for the book to be delivered, would there still be the charge to access an online text?
Absolutely. Unfortunately, no moderator points at the moment...
...Well, it made me laugh :-)
Depends whether you want a crack in the body or the heatshield...
However - the BBC report (here) has finally got the right idea! I mailed them a few times after hearing about the Napster "web site" being used to download MP3s and the report above has changed to reflect the actual situation. Yes!
'K. IA(most certainly)NAL. I'm not well versed in all of this to discuss it in great depth, but I think that the firearms thing does depend greatly on culture (which, of course, is becoming more and more influenced by US culture across the globe).
As far as rights, the Monarch signed the Magna Carta, giving certain rights to the people of Britain. The rest of the law and the sitting of parliament is, however a pleasure of the Queen.
It seems to work, though.
*ahem*troll*ahem*
Euroland doesn't all have 80% tax rates, and I certainly prefer having firearms outlawed. The first amendment doesn't mean a lot in Britain, since our law is embodied in centuries of legal precedent. It works pretty much like a constitution, but it needs a history of more than a couple of hundred years to gather momentum. Sure, there are some odd laws, but it doesn't give us half the problems that the US legal system seems to suffer.
Didn't we go through this the other day in the How dependant...? story?
riaa.org works now...
Nah - ask yourself "What would Brian Boitano do?"
Someone's been waiting for this story to pop up for a while... :)
Two points here:
1 - HOW DARE YOU?! NASA is certainly not made up of useless engineers. They are world acknowledged leaders in several areas of space science. Rockwell and Boeing et al. are others in the states, and Ariane and all the others around also lead in some fields, but don't suggest that NASA engineers couldn't get jobs elsewhere.
2 - The Russian contribution to the ISS and space research in general isn't always in funds. They also have brains there (something that can't always be said of ACs) and Russian engineers can produce just as good technology as anyone else's. The atmospheric recycling tech that Russia has is waaay better than NASAs, simply because the Russians have been pushing extended stay space stations for so long. They know how to do that sort of thing.
Is it just me, or do others also think that, every time a government gets anywhere further with manned exploration, they fumble the initiative? We could have been doing this sort of thing twenty years ago, but for the sudden lack of glamour that was driving Apollo. Then NASA spends billions and billions on the shuttle, which turned out not to fulfil any of the design objectives fully.
I'm not sure how we could have done better, though, since the alternative would be to open it up to private enterprise. Whoops - there goes public usefulness - they just want to screw you out of more money.
Now that would make work more interesting! Mod this up, chaps :)
That would be a fairly unarguable reccomendation on whether cybersquatting is acceptable or not :)
Yet here the USA today, with over 230 million people, all governed under one Constitution.
Indeed, but I think the states system works so well because each state still has some (limited) freedom. You give the big global-style decisions to big government, and make sure they have nothing to do with local stuff. It's all a matter of perspective.
OK - it all depends on how you value it at the time. I once sat down and was very happy to read the thick and meaty Lord of the Rings over a Christmas holiday from school. That was a satisfying thing to do, and it was nice to have the feel of the book.
I also play the violin, and they have their own smell as well - from the rosin on the bow to the varnish on the wood. At the same time I have also made electric violins that don't quite feel the same. They're great for things you wouldn't usually put a violin in, though.
What I appear to be striving towards is that, for a lot of people, it doesn't matter most of the time, but I agree that books should be around for when it does.
OK - I'll bite. It might be marked as offtopic, but I think it is somewhat relevant to the discussion at hand to talk about convergence here.
The point of all the digital "content" (there are far too many buzz words floating around at the moment) is that, eventually, you don't have to worry about the hard drive failing, or not being able to hold the book in your hands.
PDAs and Laptops appear to be converging on a middle ground, with extras at both ends - you have the very basic "notepad, calendar and address book", stretching to the full-featured laptop that kicks the butt of most desktop PCs. In the middle you have a device that is probably a bit more capable than the current Palms, has high storage capacity on devices other than hard disks, and ideally replaces the current LCD technology with something that doesn't make your eyes strain after two hours.
What you have then is worthy of taking on a bus or train and reading a book on. Benefit as well: you can download another book later, and save them on your central server at home later. Feel like reading a magazine? The display is probably big enough to show you an A$-size image.
The fridge-connected-to-the-firewall bit is about intelligently ordering new goods when the old ones run out, or go off. It's all about making your life easier, and your access to information a whole lot less painful than the means currently employed.
Personally I think we've got a long way to go (especially with the portable screen), but at some point in the next five or ten years, these things may become reality. Then the rich can get life easier for a bit, until it filters down to us mortals.
Why would you choose anything else for your render-farm?
Because frankly, Linux is a pig to do things with.