Alas, the Microsoft Office rendering engine Mac OS X is sadly disappointing as well. Especially when you look at the Cocoa text objects and their absolutely beautiful typographics. I'd be embarrassed if my company was asking for money in exchange for products whose text and other associated aesthetics are so plainly ugly compared to what the bundled tools give you for free.
Events like that are prime opportunities for socialization. That's when high school kids are supposed to have the high quality interactions they remember for the rest of their life. One more frag isn't going to be that memorable in the long run for your kid.
I think you missed my point: If the distros are flooded by crummy fonts, people will use them. In OpenOffice, ApplixWare, KOffice, etc. What they will produce will look crummy, and Linux will look unprofessional.
The first browser was written on NEXTSTEP (WWW.app) by Tim Berners-Lee, as his protocol was nice, but needed a browser. Mosaic was written by Marc Andreessen (sp?) for some other platform.
So add three times as many letters that are just little squares? "Well, your honor, the original font had sixty characters. This one has 241 characters, so it's more than 25% changed."
I use those three 95% of the time. They're just beautiful, versatile fonts. I'll use other things for decorative text or titles, but Times and Helvetica are the bulk of what I use in design.
And that's part of the reason that non-professional fonts are going to be really hard to do well. I don't much like the tone of the previous poster, but a beautiful font is a work of art on the order of a marble sculpture, not a fingerpainting. What concerns me is that if the community is flooded with really bad Times knockoffs, people won't know the difference (people are amazingly font-ignorant,) and we'll be flooded by some absolutely awful-looking work (OpenOffice, etc.) that make Linux users looks like hacks.
That is quite possibly the dumbest, most useless, most incorrect website I've ever seen. And it's ugly. Wow. The things people see fit to put in the Internet.
Um, sorry to be contrary, but the user should be allowed to store as much in his INBOX as the quota permits. If the IMAP server goes to hell as a result of normal use, I'd think that that's the failure of the IMAP server.
Are you sure? To me, it seems like "Voyager with darker sets" so far. They haven't been limited by their technology once, not once has their moralizing and humanness not saved them, and otherwise everything is just too pleasant. How hard would it be to write a plot that isn't completely resolved by the end of the episode? Or have some real characterization. So far, the most endearing and interesting part of the show is that the captain has a dog.
What the hell is wrong with people? Wesley wasn't a bad character. He had his annoying moments (largely in the earlier years,) and I'm not entirely certain I ever believed he was as brilliant as the scripts made him out to be, but he was a reasonable part of the show.
And Wil Wheaton isn't Wesley Crusher. He's a seemingly levelheaded, decent guy. I wish people could get past their hangups and insecurities and be nice people.
Some of the least educated people I know come out of my university every year. They can program like heck, but try and have a conversation with them about anything else, and, well, why bother? I'm not being derogatory, but to be an effective person, a breadth of knowledge really does make a difference.
Yea--that's the point of standards. Mixing in a cleaner batch makes it largely the same as the next batch down the line. If it doesn't make you sick and doesn't make it taste bad, what's the problem? People are always talking about chicken heads in McNuggets and cow eyes in hamburgers, but you know what? I don't much care. They taste good and I can reasonably rely on the FDA to make sure they won't kill me (or to tell me within a reasonable amount of time that I'm going to die from what I ate.)
People are consistently missing my point. I'm not talking about average Joe End User or Average Joe Works-At-Fortune-500-Company. I'm talking about Unaverage Sylvester who is a complete wirehead, has five PCs without the case covers on (and thinks that that makes them cooler), lusts after Mac OS X, thinks Bill Gates really is a Borg, and still dual boots, while simultaneously posting to/. about the complete evil of the latest Windows Media EULA. If it's that bad, chuck it! When I made the decision in 1998 that Win98 was complete inadequate for me, I formatted my drives and installed Red Hat. Then I installed Debian. I was one of those wireheads, but I went for the whole deal. Sometimes it was inconvenient, but I made do. End of story. Not much more to say than if you think you're a big shot, walk the walk, don't just buy the t-shirt.
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That's even more disturbing :)
Um, not to be contrary, but that was precisely on-topic.
Alas, the Microsoft Office rendering engine Mac OS X is sadly disappointing as well. Especially when you look at the Cocoa text objects and their absolutely beautiful typographics. I'd be embarrassed if my company was asking for money in exchange for products whose text and other associated aesthetics are so plainly ugly compared to what the bundled tools give you for free.
(Interesting personal fencing analysis.)
Events like that are prime opportunities for socialization. That's when high school kids are supposed to have the high quality interactions they remember for the rest of their life. One more frag isn't going to be that memorable in the long run for your kid.
I really don't care who wrote it, but whomever did so didn't do it for/on a NeXT. That was my point.
I think you missed my point: If the distros are flooded by crummy fonts, people will use them. In OpenOffice, ApplixWare, KOffice, etc. What they will produce will look crummy, and Linux will look unprofessional.
The first browser was written on NEXTSTEP (WWW.app) by Tim Berners-Lee, as his protocol was nice, but needed a browser. Mosaic was written by Marc Andreessen (sp?) for some other platform.
I had my address changed, and it was convenient and pleasant.
So add three times as many letters that are just little squares? "Well, your honor, the original font had sixty characters. This one has 241 characters, so it's more than 25% changed."
I use those three 95% of the time. They're just beautiful, versatile fonts. I'll use other things for decorative text or titles, but Times and Helvetica are the bulk of what I use in design.
Comic Sans is an infection that has taken over amateur design. I'm glad if anything is done that retards its corruption of just another person.
When I see business signs nowadays in Comic Sans, I want to go in and lecture the storeowners.
And that's part of the reason that non-professional fonts are going to be really hard to do well. I don't much like the tone of the previous poster, but a beautiful font is a work of art on the order of a marble sculpture, not a fingerpainting. What concerns me is that if the community is flooded with really bad Times knockoffs, people won't know the difference (people are amazingly font-ignorant,) and we'll be flooded by some absolutely awful-looking work (OpenOffice, etc.) that make Linux users looks like hacks.
You still get the modern white ones with a new Mac.
That is quite possibly the dumbest, most useless, most incorrect website I've ever seen. And it's ugly. Wow. The things people see fit to put in the Internet.
Don't forget the two hour airsickness puking recovery time before the troops would be ready for action.
Um, sorry to be contrary, but the user should be allowed to store as much in his INBOX as the quota permits. If the IMAP server goes to hell as a result of normal use, I'd think that that's the failure of the IMAP server.
Are you sure? To me, it seems like "Voyager with darker sets" so far. They haven't been limited by their technology once, not once has their moralizing and humanness not saved them, and otherwise everything is just too pleasant. How hard would it be to write a plot that isn't completely resolved by the end of the episode? Or have some real characterization. So far, the most endearing and interesting part of the show is that the captain has a dog.
Are you sure she was trying? That movie was so bad, the MST3k was unwatchable.
What the hell is wrong with people? Wesley wasn't a bad character. He had his annoying moments (largely in the earlier years,) and I'm not entirely certain I ever believed he was as brilliant as the scripts made him out to be, but he was a reasonable part of the show.
And Wil Wheaton isn't Wesley Crusher. He's a seemingly levelheaded, decent guy. I wish people could get past their hangups and insecurities and be nice people.
Some of the least educated people I know come out of my university every year. They can program like heck, but try and have a conversation with them about anything else, and, well, why bother? I'm not being derogatory, but to be an effective person, a breadth of knowledge really does make a difference.
Honey, that ain't literature.
I trust that he's pretty slipeery.
Yea--that's the point of standards. Mixing in a cleaner batch makes it largely the same as the next batch down the line. If it doesn't make you sick and doesn't make it taste bad, what's the problem? People are always talking about chicken heads in McNuggets and cow eyes in hamburgers, but you know what? I don't much care. They taste good and I can reasonably rely on the FDA to make sure they won't kill me (or to tell me within a reasonable amount of time that I'm going to die from what I ate.)
Haven't these sorts of things been around for a while? I recall "3D" mice being advertised years ago.
People are consistently missing my point. I'm not talking about average Joe End User or Average Joe Works-At-Fortune-500-Company. I'm talking about Unaverage Sylvester who is a complete wirehead, has five PCs without the case covers on (and thinks that that makes them cooler), lusts after Mac OS X, thinks Bill Gates really is a Borg, and still dual boots, while simultaneously posting to /. about the complete evil of the latest Windows Media EULA. If it's that bad, chuck it! When I made the decision in 1998 that Win98 was complete inadequate for me, I formatted my drives and installed Red Hat. Then I installed Debian. I was one of those wireheads, but I went for the whole deal. Sometimes it was inconvenient, but I made do. End of story. Not much more to say than if you think you're a big shot, walk the walk, don't just buy the t-shirt.
Sorry for the flaminess of my tone.