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Tools & Surprises For a Tech Book Author? 325

Posted by kdawson on Sunday December 21, 2008 @03:46PM from the chisel-and-clay-tablet dept.

Fubari writes "I have questions for those of you who have written books: what writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right (so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and has not worked well for you? So far I have thought of needs like chapter/section management, easy references to figures (charts, diagrams, source code), version control (check in/check out parts like chapters, figures, etc.), and index generation. I would also welcome advice about what I don't know enough to ask about. Did you encounter any surprises that you wish you had known about back when you started out?"

Comment Re:Um, not so much of a newsflash (Score 1) 733

by Begs on Tuesday April 15, 2008 @12:59AM (#23074164) Attached to: Brain Study Calls Free Will Into Question

You have a problem in the concept of omniscience. Omniscience means knowing all that is knowable. If you have free will, what you will do in any given circumstance is not necessarily knowable to a certainty. Omniscience is knowing to a certainty that which is knowable.

It is the same with omnipotence. Can god make a rock so heavy that he/she can't lift it? That's just a paradox of language; not doable.

All these linguistic paradoxes are actually the outlines of our reality. God's reality maybe a superset of our own.

BTW, I don't much believe... God can think and choose what he/she wants. Thank God (or whatever) I can think and choose what I want.

P.S. God can't make a square-circle either. It doesn't make God less than omnipotent. Since God probably doesn't exist, it probably makes no difference.

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