TeX, LaTeX and Friends - 2012-11-16 (page 2 of 2)

Marco Daniel

8:00 PM

English

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel It's a good plan. :) My good practice sessions were with Monty Python. :)

Stephan Lehmke

@MarcoDaniel But beware; half the actors speakt with a heavy german accent ;-)

Marco Daniel

@StephanLehmke LOL

@PauloCereda Here are my favorites ;-) youtube.com/watch?v=xks2Wmbl-9A&feature=related

Stephan Lehmke

@MarcoDaniel Wow, this is the most stupid thing I ever saw. It's a parody (like Goldmember) I hope?

Is it a movie adaption of some computer game?

Marco Daniel

@StephanLehmke I'm curious about it.

@StephanLehmke I don't know

Paulo Cereda

8:10 PM

The last movie I watched in German was Der Untergang.

No subtitles.

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda I have never seen this movie.

Paulo Cereda

And the last movie I watched in Italian was La vita è bella, with Roberto Benigni. :)

I won't talk about Brazilian movies, we only have most recently violent movies like Elite Troop, City of God...

tohecz

Back! :) Happy and completely exhausted.

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda I don't know any of this movies ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel I think City of God is quite famous abroad. :)

Stephan Lehmke

8:17 PM

@MarcoDaniel Seems to be...

Iron Sky

Iron Sky is a 2012 Finnish-German-Australian comic science fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko. It tells the story of Nazi Germans who, after being defeated in 1945, fled to the Moon where they built a space fleet to return in 2018 and conquer Earth. Iron Sky comes from the makers of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning and was produced by Tero Kaukomaa of Blind Spot Pictures and Energia Productions, co-produced by New Holland Pictures and 27 Films, and co-financed by numerous individual supporters; Samuli Torssonen was responsib...

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Famous isn't reason for me ;-) E.g. I have never seen Titanic ;-) because I know the end ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel LOL

@MarcoDaniel: can I suggest a movie? :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Of course

Paulo Cereda

O Auto da Compadecida

O Auto da Compadecida ("The Act of Compassion", released in English as A Dog's Will) is a 2000 Brazilian comedy film, directed by Guel Arraes, with a screenplay by Arraes and Adriana Falcão. It is based on the 1955 play of almost the same name by Ariano Suassuna, with elements of The Ghost and the Sow, and Torture of a Heart, plays both also by Suassuna. Synopsis The plot concerns the adventures of João Grilo (Matheus Nachtergaele) and Chicó (Selton Mello), the most cowardly of men. Both struggle for daily bread and go through several episodes fooling all of the small town they live in...

Marco Daniel

@StephanLehmke Ok I paid 4,99€ for trash ;-)

Paulo Cereda

8:20 PM

A very funny yet touching movie. :)

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda I like funny movies

Stephan Lehmke

Did anybody see Cloud Atlas?

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Look for it, it's amazing. :) Another good jewel from our country is (also comedy) "Lisbela e o prisioneiro".

@StephanLehmke I heard about it. :) Is it good?

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda This movie isn't available via iTunes :-(

Stephan Lehmke

@PauloCereda No idea. The critics seem to be divided between "good adaption" and "nice pictures, lame story" ;-)

I'll probably go to the cinema next week.

Marco Daniel

8:29 PM

@StephanLehmke For Germans it's difficult to answer this question with yes ;-) Whether You went to cinema yesterday or you had downloaded the movie somewhere ;-)

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Netflix arrived in my region, but I don't like to watch movies. :)

Stephan Lehmke

Haven't read the book though. Maybe better that way. But I loved the interview with the Wachowskis on the promotion site ;-)

@MarcoDaniel Well I think this is the type of movie where cinema is the only option ;-)

Gnintendo

I need to install vanilla TeX Live today >.<

Marco Daniel

@StephanLehmke Unfortunately

Canageek

@StephanLehmke I have Asperger's, which makes me prefer the technically correct solution over the easy to use one. I understand this isn't always practical, but yes, I would prefer to pay more for software written in C or C++ that runs quickly, but took longer to develop then get a cheap piece written in Adobe AIR that takes 30 seconds to boot.

Marco Daniel

8:33 PM

@PauloCereda First time I hear Netflix

Oh NO: Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.

Canageek

@StephanLehmke Yes, yes I did. I quite liked it, my movie buff brother did not, as he felt it was confused and that there wasn't anything he hadn't seen done better in another movie.

Nicola Talbot

@esmitex It may be that the extra vertical spacing is a result of the change in typearea. It's possible that the narrower margins used by default by KOMA are resulting in a different page break which is spreading out the vertical glue. You could try using the typearea or geometry package to adjust the margins back to the defaults used by article.

Stephan Lehmke

@MarcoDaniel Probably another GEMA conspiracy...

Paulo Cereda

@MarcoDaniel Oh my! Something that Brazil has that Germany doesn't? THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING!

@StephanLehmke LOL I was gonna say that. :)

Nicola Talbot

@PauloCereda How about "The Great Hat Chase" for a title?

Marco Daniel

8:35 PM

@StephanLehmke It's a big conspiracy

Canageek

@StephanLehmke And yes, I do plan on being in academia rather then industry in (small) part because of this.

Marco Daniel

@PauloCereda Indeed we have 2012 ;-) --

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot Oh very nice! :)

Stephan Lehmke

@Canageek You know PhDComics, don't you? You absolutely need to be the guy on the right side of the table ;-)

tohecz

Well, I'm really tired, so good night. And since you speak about movies: Have a nice sleep, like Tom Cat:

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Paulo Cereda

8:39 PM

@tohecz Good night, Tom! :)

tohecz

@PauloCereda thanks, have a good rest of your Friday!

Canageek

@StephanLehmke Dr. Smith? Give me 10 years, I'm filing my official grad school application today. (Already been accepted by the prof, just have to fill out the paperwork)

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot: I must say I'm enjoying KOMA so far. :) It's quite easy to follow the setup. :)

Nicola Talbot

@PauloCereda :-) They make for a good set of classes to use in tutorials. We use them in the UK TUG training day.

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot A very nice set! :) I'm currently using scrreprt. :)

Stephan Lehmke

8:53 PM

@PauloCereda I just looked at listal.com/list/must-see-brazilian-films

I think I never saw a Brazilian film :-(

Peter Grill

@DavidCarlisle Ok, so if you are going to play dirty and answer math questions using tables, I can answer a table question using math!! :-) If the OP goes for it I might be able to steal a green tick from you: Center long column title.

Stephan Lehmke

Have to go home; bye.

Paulo Cereda

@StephanLehmke I'd suggest "A dog's will", "Central station", "City of God", and "Olga" (not in the list). :)

@StephanLehmke Good bye, Stephan! :)

egreg

9:13 PM

@kan The proof is online

Paulo Cereda

@egreg Were the margins too short? :)

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doncherry

@DavidCarlisle: Can you, as author of grfguide, (or somebody else!) enlighten us if it's somehow possible to set the scale option in \usepackage{graphicx}\setkeys{Gin}{scale=0.75}? See tex.stackexchange.com/a/83025/4012

egreg

@PauloCereda It's just a rewriting of what I said in the chatroom @kan had opened some days ago.

Paulo Cereda

10:10 PM

@egreg Ah. :)

@egreg: Nice proof, by the way. :)

David Carlisle

10:29 PM

@doncherry yes you can set any key (I'll look at the qn)

@doncherry er well most keys:-)

egreg

10:48 PM

@kan Hi kan! You can download the two page document from my home page. It's in English. :)

kan

@egreg Thank you so much... I am reading the same! I am really grateful that you have spent time typesetting it for me!!

@egreg Oh, thank you. I shall do it immediately.

Done!

Paulo Cereda

@egreg: May I add the proof is beautifully typeset. :)

Jonas Stein

How can I improve my question tex.stackexchange.com/questions/83037/… ?

kan

@egreg Your proof offers insight into the whole Gauss-Jordan Elimination... Thanks a bunch. I am grateful to you.

egreg

@kan I believe it's very important to notice that in row-equivalent matrices the linear relations between columns are exactly the same.

kan

10:59 PM

@egreg certainly... that is why I told you that your proof was insightful...

egreg

@kan Which is not very surprising, after all, since they can represent the same linear map with respect to different bases in the codomain.

Paulo Cereda

Gauss FTW!

egreg

@PauloCereda A man of some ingenuity. :)

Paulo Cereda

@egreg "Class, I want you to sum all numbers from 0 to 100". Gauss did it in 3 minutes. :)

kan

@egreg I am lost on this remark. Can you please explain?

Nicola Talbot

11:06 PM

Sigh And there was me thinking I was answering an easy question with that KOMA answer.

egreg

@kan If B=FA with F invertible, then B is the matrix associated to the multiplication by A (from R^n to R^m) with respect to the basis of R^m consisting of the columns of F. So the linear relations between vectors which are the images of some vectors in R^n must hold the same independently of the basis used to represent them

kan

@egreg Won't that be B = AF rather than FA?

egreg

@kan Oh, it can be, but it makes no difference. :)

kan

@egreg Then, I follow! :-)

egreg

@PauloCereda It wasn't really so simple. E. T. Bell reports that the sums the poor pupils had to do were more complicated: something like 81297 + 81495 + 81693 + ... + 100899 (100 terms differing by 198 from the next). But the principle is exactly the same.

Paulo Cereda

11:19 PM

@egreg Oh I knew the story with an "easier" sum. :) Thankfully Gauss knew what he was doing. :)

Gosh, I got 7 upvotes for suggesting enumitem. :)

egreg

Actually the source is wrong, because the 100th term should be 81495+99*198=101097. But it's still just a couple of multiplications and a division by 2.

@PauloCereda Which is correct, but the problem is very probably in the fact that the OP uses French babel.

kan

@egreg but the first term is 81297, not 81495. :-)

egreg

@kan Ah, right! I took the wrong number!

Paulo Cereda

@egreg oh my, that was a very clever insight! :) I'll upvote your answer in about 35 minutes. :)

percusse

11:42 PM

@PauloCereda CoD game sounds perfect. I've just came from the last Bond movie so I'm in the mood :)

Paulo Cereda

@percusse Cool! How was it?

percusse

@PauloCereda Well I won't comment on it to keep the mystery flow but I liked it. I have a very normal expectation from Bond movies :)

But Adele's song and the intro is just amazing.

Paulo Cereda

@percusse Ah. :) Who's the Bond girl? :)

percusse

@PauloCereda A good gal :)

Paulo Cereda

@percusse :P

percusse

11:45 PM

@PauloCereda Seriously it's very easy to give away spoilers so I should just shut up

@PauloCereda It's fun to see it in the theater.

Paulo Cereda

@percusse I won't watch it so soon, so feel free to tell us everything you know. :)

percusse

But I would like to discuss this book with a few bond girls alright

which has also great typesetting too.

@PauloCereda Well, only rumor I heard is that this is his last Bond movie and the plot is also similar with a few twists on the way :)

Paulo Cereda

ooh!

@percusse IMHO Daniel Craig is quite emotionless, like a male version of Kristen Stewart. No more Bond's like Pierce Brosnan, Roger Moore or Timothy Dalton. If I were the owner of the JB franchise, I'd go with... wait for it... Samuel L. Jackson as 007.

- "What does Miss Moneypenny look like?"

Nicola Talbot

My word, it's nearly midnight! I lost track of the time editing a chapter involving explosions and a daring rescue.

I think I ought to svn commit and go to bed.

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot Stay a little longer. :)

svn is evil. :P

Nicola Talbot

11:56 PM

@PauloCereda Hmm. OR has recruited the forces of svn on a diabolical plot --- no, stop getting distracted I don't need another story wedging itself into my head!

Paulo Cereda

@NicolaTalbot James Bond soundtrack playing the background

Nicola Talbot

@PauloCereda :-)

percusse

@PauloCereda I think this emotionless figure is better suited for a man kills someone every 5 minutes :) Pierce Brosnan was kind of a man lacking tuna fish.

Paulo Cereda

@percusse LOL I agree with that. :)

percusse

@PauloCereda Samuel Jackson reminded me of a meme but I don't know if I can find it.

Nicola Talbot

11:59 PM

@percusse Tuna fish with lasers - no that was mutant sea bass, wasn't it?

percusse

@NicolaTalbot ninja turtles I guess :)

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