[Ar-list] Re: Ar-list digest, Vol 1 #8 - 2 msgs

[horza]

so no one had any problem with my interpretation of finding the time it 
takes to accomplish something via continuous form test?


> From: Carter Butts <ctb@andrew.cmu.edu>
>
> For my part, I'm a Linux user, so Word is not optimal for me.
> Personally, I use LaTeX these days for just about everything for which
> ASCII is overly limiting, but distributing LaTeX files is probably
> nonoptimal for others.  One possibility would be to use HTML, since this
> is A) universal, and B) fairly readily recoded into other, more
> layout-friendly, languages.  Or you could just offer us PDFs, and we
> could send you our notes as text.  Do others have thoughts on this?

I still like TeX/LaTeX, although perhaps--since it's so easy to turn 
dvi's into pdf's anyway--pdf should be our format.



> From: W Isaac Carroll <icarroll@pobox.com>
>
> Well, I don't (yet) know LaTeX (though it has been a wishful thought of
> mine). However, I am fond of LyX, so maybe I'll get that working. In any
> event, the content is much more important than the presentation, so for
> now I'll just post stuff in text and make it pretty later.

actually hand coding plain TeX isn't that hard...  not that I'm very 
good at it yet, but it's not difficult.

>
> Karim, the new look for the AR web site is very spifty. Keep up the good
> work.

definitely have to agree there.  keep up the good work!

>
> I have run into a problem in my Matrix RG: There is no good reason for 
> the
> Machines to keep humans around in the Matrix. I originally thought that 
> it
> would be enough to say they keep humans around because they need 
> hardware
> to run their AIs on, but I've come to feel that that explanation doesn't
> hold water. So I'm left with an uncomfortable decision: Do I give some
> hokey reason why they keep humans around? Or do I leave it unexplained?
> Neither one sits well with me.
>
> Anyone have any good ideas?

didn't they say in the movie that the humans were the power generators 
that kept the machines going?



Love,
Ira