"is hotter than most stars and only 1,200 Kelvin (about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than our own sun." Well, that all depends on where you take the Sun's temperature, or the temperature of any star. They're all hugely hotter near their core, because that's where the fusion is going on--as in 15 million degrees Celsius (or Kelvin, at that temp the diff between Celsius and Kelvin is negligible) at the Sun's core. (The Sun's corona is also much hotter.) I don't know whether the core of this planet is hotter or cooler than its surface, but it's presumably not hot enough to cause fusion. If it were hot enough for that, by definition it would be a star, not a planet.
That's what the early Arabic fonts did, but those who know Arabic well (I don't) tell me it didn't look good. And that's the Naskh style, which Arabic and many other languages that use Perso-Arabic script use. There's also the Nasta'liq style, which is still more calligraphic, and much harder to encode as a font. Urdu and Punjabi use Nasta'liq, and maybe others as well. (Persian used to.) Indeed, it wasn't long ago (a decade?) that some Urdu newspapers were written out by calligraphers before being printed by photo-offset. (I hope I have my terms right...)
BTW, SIL (an international missionary organization that does Bible translation) has produced many free fonts (you may even have heard of the "SIL Font License", which some other free fonts use). Because Bible translation is usually done for pre-literate or newly literate cultures, the Andika font (https://www.sil-lead.org/blog/2013/8/18/andika). I don't know how it compares with Comic Sans in your list of desiderata, though.
For the record, SIL produces a wide variety of other fonts, including Cyrillic, Greek and fonts for other non-Roman scripts (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php). They're Beta testing a Nasta'liq font--if you know anything about Nasta'liq, you probably know that it's one of the hardest styles in the world to typeset. SIL (through a former member, Jonathan Kew) is also the creator of XeTeX (now maintained by others).
And to your point: commercial vehicles (I'm thinking semis, not sure about others) probably do long hauls. The driver opens the door every few hundred miles (or is it longer?) to fuel up, or load/unload cargo. Whereas I open the door every 10 miles on the average, because that's how long my commute is.
Another thing that seems to wear out to some extent is the driver's window, assuming you open it in mild weather. (I do, I guess some people just turn on the AC.) The driver's window on my Prius started rattling at about 100k miles; pushing the 'up' button would push it up and stop the rattle for a few seconds, but then it would start again. I'm guessing slop in the gears after being used a lot. And really that's true of any moving part in the car; if it's used, eventually it's going to wear out. Granted, cars last a lot longer now than they did in the 50s or even the 70s, but they don't last forever.
Thanks for the explanation! Oh, and my computer is a home computer, not any organization's computer that needs to be managed. IMO, this management thing should have come turned off out of the box, preferably with a hardware switch for security. If someone's managing a bunch of computers and needs this capability, they could jolly well go in and turn it on.
Also, I'll go on record as saying Intel ought to hire you to write lucid explanations for them. Thanks again!
Agreed. Already I can't tell when a Microsoft Office app has focus; it looks like in this New World editor, I won't be able to tell when *any* app has focus.
I did manage to change the awful Win10 color scheme a bit, but no matter what I do, the default button in dialogs (usually the OK button) comes out with a washed out blue font on a slightly more washed out blue background. I have to guess which button does what.
The Intel-recommended "mitigation" until the patch is released involves "Unprovisioning clients". What the ___ does that mean? They provide software to do it, but what exactly are the effects? (And yes, I did a web search, but it was unenlightening.) There is a wikipedia article here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... on "provisioning", but it talks about seven different kinds of provisioning, and it's not clear which one the Intel doc is talking about. Nor is it clear from reading that article what the effects of UNprovisioning would be. Loss of ability to go on the web? Inability to download antivirus updates? Is it reversible, when the fix from Intel comes out? (and if a computer is "unprovisioned", can you even get the fix from Intel when it comes out?)
What does that have to do with the article? If you're going to complain about him, at least do it somewhere relevant. Otherwise you look like a (worse) fool.
That's because you (and I) belong to those hoi poloi, whereas they belong to the o oo.
Well, that fell flat. When I previewed the above, the Greek letters in the last two words went away (leaving the 'o', which are visually identical to the omicron). As someone has remarked in his sig line, \. just doesn't do Unicode. For the record, the words are (rough breathing) omicron iota, pi omicron lambda omicron iota.
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"is hotter than most stars and only 1,200 Kelvin (about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than our own sun." Well, that all depends on where you take the Sun's temperature, or the temperature of any star. They're all hugely hotter near their core, because that's where the fusion is going on--as in 15 million degrees Celsius (or Kelvin, at that temp the diff between Celsius and Kelvin is negligible) at the Sun's core. (The Sun's corona is also much hotter.) I don't know whether the core of this planet is hotter or cooler than its surface, but it's presumably not hot enough to cause fusion. If it were hot enough for that, by definition it would be a star, not a planet.
That's what the early Arabic fonts did, but those who know Arabic well (I don't) tell me it didn't look good. And that's the Naskh style, which Arabic and many other languages that use Perso-Arabic script use. There's also the Nasta'liq style, which is still more calligraphic, and much harder to encode as a font. Urdu and Punjabi use Nasta'liq, and maybe others as well. (Persian used to.) Indeed, it wasn't long ago (a decade?) that some Urdu newspapers were written out by calligraphers before being printed by photo-offset. (I hope I have my terms right...)
It was supposed to be named Cosmic Sense, but somewhere along the line a comedian got a hold of it...
Handwriting? What's that?
BTW, SIL (an international missionary organization that does Bible translation) has produced many free fonts (you may even have heard of the "SIL Font License", which some other free fonts use). Because Bible translation is usually done for pre-literate or newly literate cultures, the Andika font (https://www.sil-lead.org/blog/2013/8/18/andika). I don't know how it compares with Comic Sans in your list of desiderata, though.
For the record, SIL produces a wide variety of other fonts, including Cyrillic, Greek and fonts for other non-Roman scripts (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php). They're Beta testing a Nasta'liq font--if you know anything about Nasta'liq, you probably know that it's one of the hardest styles in the world to typeset. SIL (through a former member, Jonathan Kew) is also the creator of XeTeX (now maintained by others).
Oh, those young people! They should do something wholesome, like rock and roll.
"Worse"? What is this "worse"?
And to your point: commercial vehicles (I'm thinking semis, not sure about others) probably do long hauls. The driver opens the door every few hundred miles (or is it longer?) to fuel up, or load/unload cargo. Whereas I open the door every 10 miles on the average, because that's how long my commute is.
Another thing that seems to wear out to some extent is the driver's window, assuming you open it in mild weather. (I do, I guess some people just turn on the AC.) The driver's window on my Prius started rattling at about 100k miles; pushing the 'up' button would push it up and stop the rattle for a few seconds, but then it would start again. I'm guessing slop in the gears after being used a lot. And really that's true of any moving part in the car; if it's used, eventually it's going to wear out. Granted, cars last a lot longer now than they did in the 50s or even the 70s, but they don't last forever.
And the dents.
We have to wait eight years for that?
Privyet, tovarish!
Planet of the Apes?
Thanks for the explanation! Oh, and my computer is a home computer, not any organization's computer that needs to be managed. IMO, this management thing should have come turned off out of the box, preferably with a hardware switch for security. If someone's managing a bunch of computers and needs this capability, they could jolly well go in and turn it on.
Also, I'll go on record as saying Intel ought to hire you to write lucid explanations for them. Thanks again!
And why do you think Microsoft was able to patch this *before* the exploit was leaked by Shadow Brokers?
I've been using computers for fifty years. I've seen many good things come in that time. The Ribbon was not one of them.
One word: Amen!
Agreed. Already I can't tell when a Microsoft Office app has focus; it looks like in this New World editor, I won't be able to tell when *any* app has focus.
I did manage to change the awful Win10 color scheme a bit, but no matter what I do, the default button in dialogs (usually the OK button) comes out with a washed out blue font on a slightly more washed out blue background. I have to guess which button does what.
Q: Soviet Union is most progressive country in world, pravda?
A: Of course! Life was already better yesterday than it's going to be tomorrow!
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Your *other* left!!!
I wish someone living in Antarctica were on this thread...
Really? I could do that by unplugging the cable...
The Intel-recommended "mitigation" until the patch is released involves "Unprovisioning clients". What the ___ does that mean? They provide software to do it, but what exactly are the effects? (And yes, I did a web search, but it was unenlightening.) There is a wikipedia article here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
on "provisioning", but it talks about seven different kinds of provisioning, and it's not clear which one the Intel doc is talking about. Nor is it clear from reading that article what the effects of UNprovisioning would be. Loss of ability to go on the web? Inability to download antivirus updates? Is it reversible, when the fix from Intel comes out? (and if a computer is "unprovisioned", can you even get the fix from Intel when it comes out?)
What does that have to do with the article? If you're going to complain about him, at least do it somewhere relevant. Otherwise you look like a (worse) fool.
"Languages that require non-ascii characters have been tried": In case anyone is interested, one of these was APL (at least in some versions).
That's because you (and I) belong to those hoi poloi, whereas they belong to the o oo.
Well, that fell flat. When I previewed the above, the Greek letters in the last two words went away (leaving the 'o', which are visually identical to the omicron). As someone has remarked in his sig line, \. just doesn't do Unicode. For the record, the words are (rough breathing) omicron iota, pi omicron lambda omicron iota.
"There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years."
--Prof. Henry Higgins
(http://www.musictory.it/musica/Rex+Harrison/Why+Can%27t+The+English%3F)