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Comment LaTex but why? (Score 1) 918

by kavehkh (#24380585) Attached to: Modern LaTeX Replacement?
Side note: I use LaTeX and have persuaded people from Humanities to use it. I also use LyX because it can save me time but if it breaks I can always look under the hood. Once in a while I get a problem with my LyX installations on ubuntu or vista but they take at most an hour to fix.

I am very happy with LaTeX [my job involves math] but I think it is a little bit of an overkill. You see... Why do I have to use LaTeX to write a simple report (no math, mind you) that looks good? I think this is the main question. I honestly don't know why output from both Word and Open Office look so ugly compared to TeX?

Even if you want to maintain WYSIWYG, can't we have an option for publication quality pdf/ps output? I think developers of office application are more concerned with the average grandmas and bosses than me.
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Scoble Bites The Hand That Fed Him 178

Posted by Zonk from the define-sucks dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Times Online points out a post that Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, put up on his site recently. In essence, Scoble has moved 180 degrees from his former blogging tone, saying that 'Microsoft Sucks'. More specifically, he is highly critical of Microsoft's online policy. In Scoble's words: 'Microsoft's Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that's in it to win then I don't get it. ... Microsoft isn't going away. Don't get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the Internet? Come on. This isn't winning. Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where's the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo's Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?) That's how you win.'"

Feed Green Dream: Shrink-Wrapped Trash (wired.com)

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TransLoad America is building a new garbage disposal system that wraps refuse in plastic and moves it by rail. The ultimate goal? Turning landfills into fuel cells. By Alexander Gelfand.


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P2P File Sharing Ruining Physical Piracy Business 192

Posted by Zonk from the innovate-or-die dept.
TorrentFreak has a short post up talking with a former physical data pirate, who sold his wares in flea markets and made buckets of money in the 90s. By the end of the last decade, his money flow had dried up, and he places the blame squarely on the shoulders of P2P file sharing. "Tony is very clear about why his rags to riches story has gone back to rags again. 'File-sharing, P2P - call it what you like. When you asked a customer why he wasn't buying anything, 9 times out of 10 it was BitTorrent this, LimeWire that ...' P2P is a very powerful machine and although Tony could see that his operation was feeling its effects, he admits that he sat back and did nothing about it and consequently, his business has paid the ultimate price. Other industries affected by P2P should take note: Don't be a Tony. Overhaul your business model. Quickly." One would imagine overseas media sellers will have similar issues, as P2P networks become more common outside of the Western world.

Feed Study: Gamers Make Bad Drivers (wired.com)

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German psychologists caution people who play car-racing games -- when they get behind the wheel of real cars, racy gamers are more likely to drive like maniacs. In Bodyhack.


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