Oh I know, I made that device. It wasn't very good.
People use 700 MHz Raspberry Pi as their "desktop". Not a lot of people, but some are using it. Having huge specs doesn't really make something a desktop or not. (all of these are still more powerful than my first desktop computer)
There are billions of Apple customers in even colder climates.
Really? Billions? Think about what you are saying. How many people do you think are in Outer Mongolia? You need several countries the size of Russia to make even one billion let alone billions, plural.
Motorola Atrix from 2011 was an Android phone that would run a Linux desktop (X11) when you plugged it into an external monitor. And there was a dock for the Atrix that gives you keyboard, display and extra battery. The Atrix dock did not sell well and a lot of hobbyists picked them up at a discount and rewired them for their own projects, mostly into Raspberry Pi laptops.
How did the FBI investigate cases when most people didn't carry small computers on them all the time? I'm not really that concerned about what is effectively a blip of about 20 years where where personal devices were valuable evidence. We still solved crimes before this and we'll still solve crimes after this.
The alternative to encrypting every phone is rampant identity theft, and given that the government is happy to bail out credit agencies and banks but not help your average taxpaying victim has already drawn the lines for this battle.
No, that's not plain nor simple. Each viewer has the choice to view messages at the threshold they desire. Everyone posting here agrees to the system was have here. If you do not agree, you are free to operate your own forum somewhere else.
PS - starting off-topic discussion will get you modded down. That means most people won't see your post, I will still see it because I frequently have mod points and spend them cleaning house.
is like suggesting we should stop writing fiction, making movies, drawing pictures, or making sculptures for the same reason.
I think you've grasped the original point. There is always room for artistic interpretation or changes in aesthetics. But the functionality of type faces is something that isn't likely to be improved a recently developed font face. I think it's fair to assume that a company that has been in the business of Business Machines for about 100 years is looking for a functional typeface for manuals, clearly visible advertisements, etc. They should probably be considering a font suitable for road signs so they can plaster big blue ads on billboards.
PS - also nobody yet called me out on the fallacy in my original post. Classic moving the goalposts. My earlier post assumes that doing a new type face is done only if there is something meaningful to contribute. It's possible IBM has nothing meaningful to contribute to the technology of the printed word or to the artistic aspects of typography. IBM might simply want a font to have a font of their own. Probably feels left out that Ubuntu and Android have their own typefaces.
That's terrible if you're a energy company. What you want is for energy usage to go down but billing to go up. Here in California I feel like I use less energy each year but my power bill goes up a little bit more each year.
Solar is nice and worth talking about because most residential homes can add solar panels at a net savings. But there are a wide variety of viable renewable energy sources, and we will want an infrastructure composed of a good mix of them.
The statement should have read: Helvetica, a font closely associated with the Mac OS by people outside of the graphics design industry, including Apple's own fans.
As solid of a rebuttal as I've seen. But typefaces are centuries old technology. It's a problem that has been solved and well studies. The problems that a typeface solves are not problems that change rapidly. A 19th century typeface can be considered quite readable and elegant to our modern eyes, and why shouldn't it, the 19th century is still well in the modern era.
If IBM wants to spend their money to enhance our artistic world
An astounding point of view on the craft of technical writing. And I strongly disagree that manuals are art. The expression of facts is philosophically different than artistic expression and has a different value to society at large.
It is none of your business
This is a web forum and we've established that this is the topic of conversation. Everyone gets to weigh in and play at armchair graphics designer.
Factory workers, service clerks, and drivers that don't think and don't sleep and don't talk back and don't try to unionize? Sounds like the current technology level of pseudo-AI has lots of real work applications.
The whole "AI" moniker is misleading, but hierarchical learning and machine learning is very real and currently available technology. Making a machine that allows one person to replace the jobs of 10 is nothing new to our society, and that is what we face today with the new so-called "AI". We'll be able to train some software to do something, make 10 copies and have 1 person monitor them remotely. In the future you will only have to hire 1 person to manage 3 short order kitchens that staff 3-8 people each. And a diner's kitchen staff is replaced by a business-to-business service (and also a SaaS at the same time, because someone is running the deep learning stack and selling the data sets for training).
$ echo -n "It is very difficult to be concise and have something worth saying at the same time. That is why almost all of the tweets I have read seem rather dumb." | wc -c 151
I suppose you're right. Or at least you've exceeded your 140 character limit; it's a subjective matter if what you said was worth saying.
Before the wide use of smart phones (remember Twitter was out before the iPhone), there were limits to the early version of the SMS protocol used. Depending on carrier and network but typically the maximum individual short message size was 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters. If you're one of those, like me, who still sends Tweets using SMS (rather than MMS which can be a bit finicky on Android devices), you'll still run into these limits.
But the users, audience, and content is pretty well versed in the 140 character limit. And while many people try to make multiple tweets to explain some thought in a rambling way, most of the well-shared re-tweets are concise statements and fit in well with the theory behind sound bites. Also, look at this very post if you want to want an example of a long winded ramble of the kind that really doesn't exist on Twitter but is commonplace on Slashdot.
Do you have any proof that "perversion and corrupt[ion]" is something that spreads or is contagious? That a stray thought harms children? Or is this just your own feeling and personal belief and we can safely ignore further comments on this topic?
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IBM ThinkPad 701c "butterfly" keyboard
Oh I know, I made that device. It wasn't very good.
People use 700 MHz Raspberry Pi as their "desktop". Not a lot of people, but some are using it. Having huge specs doesn't really make something a desktop or not. (all of these are still more powerful than my first desktop computer)
Samsung was the first to market with a heated phone defroster. Perhaps the only example of actual creativity from Samsung.
There are billions of Apple customers in even colder climates.
Really? Billions? Think about what you are saying. How many people do you think are in Outer Mongolia? You need several countries the size of Russia to make even one billion let alone billions, plural.
Motorola Atrix from 2011 was an Android phone that would run a Linux desktop (X11) when you plugged it into an external monitor. And there was a dock for the Atrix that gives you keyboard, display and extra battery. The Atrix dock did not sell well and a lot of hobbyists picked them up at a discount and rewired them for their own projects, mostly into Raspberry Pi laptops.
The FBI assumes there is some kind of dark web of solo spree killers.
How did the FBI investigate cases when most people didn't carry small computers on them all the time? I'm not really that concerned about what is effectively a blip of about 20 years where where personal devices were valuable evidence. We still solved crimes before this and we'll still solve crimes after this.
The alternative to encrypting every phone is rampant identity theft, and given that the government is happy to bail out credit agencies and banks but not help your average taxpaying victim has already drawn the lines for this battle.
That is censoring a post, plain and simple.
No, that's not plain nor simple. Each viewer has the choice to view messages at the threshold they desire. Everyone posting here agrees to the system was have here. If you do not agree, you are free to operate your own forum somewhere else.
PS - starting off-topic discussion will get you modded down. That means most people won't see your post, I will still see it because I frequently have mod points and spend them cleaning house.
is like suggesting we should stop writing fiction, making movies, drawing pictures, or making sculptures for the same reason.
I think you've grasped the original point. There is always room for artistic interpretation or changes in aesthetics. But the functionality of type faces is something that isn't likely to be improved a recently developed font face. I think it's fair to assume that a company that has been in the business of Business Machines for about 100 years is looking for a functional typeface for manuals, clearly visible advertisements, etc. They should probably be considering a font suitable for road signs so they can plaster big blue ads on billboards.
PS - also nobody yet called me out on the fallacy in my original post. Classic moving the goalposts. My earlier post assumes that doing a new type face is done only if there is something meaningful to contribute. It's possible IBM has nothing meaningful to contribute to the technology of the printed word or to the artistic aspects of typography. IBM might simply want a font to have a font of their own. Probably feels left out that Ubuntu and Android have their own typefaces.
That's terrible if you're a energy company. What you want is for energy usage to go down but billing to go up. Here in California I feel like I use less energy each year but my power bill goes up a little bit more each year.
Solar is nice and worth talking about because most residential homes can add solar panels at a net savings. But there are a wide variety of viable renewable energy sources, and we will want an infrastructure composed of a good mix of them.
The statement should have read: Helvetica, a font closely associated with the Mac OS by people outside of the graphics design industry, including Apple's own fans.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
As solid of a rebuttal as I've seen. But typefaces are centuries old technology. It's a problem that has been solved and well studies. The problems that a typeface solves are not problems that change rapidly. A 19th century typeface can be considered quite readable and elegant to our modern eyes, and why shouldn't it, the 19th century is still well in the modern era.
If IBM wants to spend their money to enhance our artistic world
An astounding point of view on the craft of technical writing. And I strongly disagree that manuals are art. The expression of facts is philosophically different than artistic expression and has a different value to society at large.
It is none of your business
This is a web forum and we've established that this is the topic of conversation. Everyone gets to weigh in and play at armchair graphics designer.
Words have meaning. Ignoring their meaning out of ignorance takes us on the path to a dead language.
Michigan is also a place full of rednecks on snowmobiles. It's a land of contradictions. (and corrupt city governments)
"In 1846 Michigan became the first state in the Union, as well as the first English-speaking government in the world to abolish the death penalty."
Factory workers, service clerks, and drivers that don't think and don't sleep and don't talk back and don't try to unionize? Sounds like the current technology level of pseudo-AI has lots of real work applications.
The whole "AI" moniker is misleading, but hierarchical learning and machine learning is very real and currently available technology. Making a machine that allows one person to replace the jobs of 10 is nothing new to our society, and that is what we face today with the new so-called "AI". We'll be able to train some software to do something, make 10 copies and have 1 person monitor them remotely. In the future you will only have to hire 1 person to manage 3 short order kitchens that staff 3-8 people each. And a diner's kitchen staff is replaced by a business-to-business service (and also a SaaS at the same time, because someone is running the deep learning stack and selling the data sets for training).
I've not had any problems with the 140 char limit.
example: Here's my easy to understand paper that proves climate change. http://someurl/ #notahoax #climatechange
there, that's one way you could change the world with a tweet.
$ echo -n "It is very difficult to be concise and have something worth saying at the same time. That is why almost all of the tweets I have read seem rather dumb." | wc -c
151
I suppose you're right. Or at least you've exceeded your 140 character limit; it's a subjective matter if what you said was worth saying.
Animate GIFs of my latest novella? That's sure to get me followers and re-tweets.
Before the wide use of smart phones (remember Twitter was out before the iPhone), there were limits to the early version of the SMS protocol used. Depending on carrier and network but typically the maximum individual short message size was 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters.
If you're one of those, like me, who still sends Tweets using SMS (rather than MMS which can be a bit finicky on Android devices), you'll still run into these limits.
But the users, audience, and content is pretty well versed in the 140 character limit. And while many people try to make multiple tweets to explain some thought in a rambling way, most of the well-shared re-tweets are concise statements and fit in well with the theory behind sound bites. Also, look at this very post if you want to want an example of a long winded ramble of the kind that really doesn't exist on Twitter but is commonplace on Slashdot.
Yet your post and my response fits easily into that limit.
Yea, if you lift your finger off you have to start over. Serious innovation there.
Do you have any proof that "perversion and corrupt[ion]" is something that spreads or is contagious? That a stray thought harms children? Or is this just your own feeling and personal belief and we can safely ignore further comments on this topic?