Archive for September, 2006

Hermes-0.9.11 released

Friday, September 8th, 2006

This version managed to convert 160 out of the first 254 from a month of arxiv/math articles, a ratio of 0.63.
The articles drawing diagrams or pictures (e.g. using the xy package or similar) were not convertible by this version of Hermes, and I don’t plan on adding support for them anytime soon.
The rest is fixable […]

paying to be made freely available

Friday, September 8th, 2006

Oxford University Press Releases Open Access Results: “Oxford Open, which launched in July 2005, gives authors the option of paying for their research to be made freely available online immediately upon publication in the participating journals”.
First, in my opinion, this is not open-access, I already explained why. Briefly, this model is, in fact, an […]

liftul

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Citesc, în lift, lista obişnuită de reguli pe care’o găseşte românu’ de la bloc:
1. este interzis să…
2. este interzis să…
3. este interzis să…
A rămas un iz feudal în atitudinea asta, fiecare nene cu slujbă are drept de popă peste neaveniţi (plătitori):”este interzis să…”. Într’un oraş pe bune, ai găsi o altfel de atitudine: “nu băga […]

maintenant

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Nâdiya, Vers Les Etoiles. Souhaite que tu aies été là.