Extract from a web page I have about ghostscript, which can be obtained from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/:
Ghostscript is freeware postscript viewing and rendering software available for most platforms. The viewing software goes by different names on different operating systems. For Unix/VMS platforms, use gv, MSWindows use GSView and on MacOS, use Mac GS Viewer. You will need to configure your web browser so that the application/postscript MIME type will launch the postscript viewer when you click on a link. Typically, this under a heading ``Applications'' or ``Helpers'' in the preferences, or options panel of the browser. You may also use ghostscript to print postscript files on a wide variety of non-postscript printers, such as the cheap ink/bubble jet printers available today. Ghostscript will also handle PDF files, so you may wish to set your browser to use it for the application/pdf MIME type instead of using Adobe's Acroread software. The main advantage in doing this is the superior user interface of the viewer software. The main disadvantage is occasionally PDF documents are not compatible with ghostscript, but are with Acroread. Even more occasionally, however, PDF documents are incompatible with Acroread, but can be viewed with Ghostscript! George Levy wrote: > > Stephen Paul King wrote:[SPK] > > > It is trivial to show that TM's can not give rise to consciousness for the >simple > > reason that consciousness is not "pre-specifiable" in its behaviour. Have you read > > Peter Wegner's papers about this? > > and from a previous post: > [SPK] > > > I agree. But could you get into detail on the nature of "allowed"? > > What is the constraint? (I think that all that is needed is the weak anthropic >principle > > > but I could be missing something.) I think that we should consider the rule > > "All is allowed that is not Forbidden" (by logical contradiction) instead of the >usual > notion > > " All is forbidden that is not allowed" (by prespecification, e.g. a priori >algorithms) > > Peter Wegner has done a lot of research on this issue: > > > http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pw/papers/math1.ps > > > > I can't read his paper because my software doesn't accept PS File format... I have >Adobe > but this doesn't seem to help... Do you have any suggestions? > > George > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Russell Standish Director High Performance Computing Support Unit, Phone 9385 6967 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 Fax 9385 6965 Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room 2075, Red Centre http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
