Seriously, if someone voluntarily decides to go live in an banana republic shithole that does not count as "incarceration". Removal of his freedom of action is the whole point of that word, "incarceration". The idea is that he does not get to decide what he does, or at least very limited.
Fonts have very specific technological application. I once saw a font that was specifically designed for maps but I can't find the link now. There was an example on the site and it looked really readable.
The map fonts are very specifically designed for legibility in very small sizes.
Fonts are a technology. It is an interesting tech, because there is a lot of art involved, but they are still a technology to enable people to read words. And with any technology there are a many trade-offs for different use cases. And they have a loooooooong history, primarily drive by the tech that was available back then.
For instance, the font used to highway signage was painstakingly designed to enable a driver at high speed to see and read a road sign at the maximum distance possible. This was meticulously tested at the Federal Test Road in Texas.
The problem is the glare of headlights shining on the sign, which blurs the letterforms. The typeface has a large X-height and the counters (the spaces in the font) are as big as possible to minimize the impact of the blurring.
It means that fonts like these (Vectora and Interstate are prime examples) are good for signage but make crummy normal headline fonts for corporate brochures.
Another example: Time New Roman does not have ver fine details because it was explicitly designed for newsprint in the 30s and printers in those days for newspapers were printed on rough, cheap paper and printed very fast so the letterforms need to be robust. This is also why Adobe used it for PostScript. Times was also explicitly designed with a narrower running width so as to put more words on a line, thereby saving paper and ink.
There are also the very fint details of fonts involving ink trapping and the fact that the lines are thinner in the design than they look because the ink flowed around the printed letter, in effect blurring it (a problem that laser printers do not really have).
And then the whole can of worms of different cultural and technological impact that fonts have. Fonts were desgned in specific places and times this process was driven by the technology available at that time. You see different fonts in use in France (lots of old thin Modernist fonts) Switzerland (Helvetica and Univers everywhere) and the USA.
Arial is much more ubiquitous than Helvetica, but it has the advantage that all the characters have the same width so you can basically replace the font directly.
And since Helvetica was licensed to ADOBE for use in PostScript means Helvetica is also used as one of the standard fonts (Times New Roman is the other one) in PDF, which is very ubiquitous. Times was chosen because the first laser printers were very rough and the font was designed for newspaper print in the 30s during, an application where speed of printing took precedence over quality. Times was explicitly designed for rough and ready printers in the old times and when the first rough and ready digital laser printer came out it was a good choice. This was achieved by not having and fine details in the characters that would get lost or damaged by rough paper and ink (and low-res laser toner). It was also designed with a smaller running width so that you could fit more words per line.
I imagine Helvetica was chosen for similar reasons.
Apple then later licensed the PDF imaging tech from Adobe and thus, indirectly, from Monotype but there was no exclusive anything. But since they used an embedded version of PDF/Postscript (and still do) they have to pass some licensing fees to MonoType.
I have an actual arrythmia. I am probably alive cause my wife happens to be a doctor, saw the symptoms, had a stethoscope with her and told me to get my ass to the expert with an ECG RIGHT NOW. And the episode repeated with me being directly plugged into the ethernet for three weeks.
I would have volunteered any day of the week, and I already have a Kardia. Having the thing permanently attached would be a godsend.
And Apple did not breach privacy laws, nothing was done without anybodyâ(TM)s consent.
If you think it is Ok to withhold medical data from medical professionals because bla bla privacy bla bla I will laugh at you when you lie dying in the street and yell at the emergency responder that he should leave you heart alone, the rythm stays there.
That is not really a ârewriteâ(TM) as Spolsky meant it. Going from Text to Web is really a new system. âRewritingâ(TM) there means ending in up with a new implementation of the same thinyg for no good reason
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Seriously, if someone voluntarily decides to go live in an banana republic shithole that does not count as "incarceration". Removal of his freedom of action is the whole point of that word, "incarceration". The idea is that he does not get to decide what he does, or at least very limited.
> She would have hung, drawn and quartered him.
Good. He deserves that, but it would be faster to just shoot the bastard.
Orange Halo with a large black hole in the middle? Yeah, the model fits... it does, it does...
Fonts have very specific technological application. I once saw a font that was specifically designed for maps but I can't find the link now. There was an example on the site and it looked really readable.
The map fonts are very specifically designed for legibility in very small sizes.
Too much fuss. Mr Robot Overlord wants to know who you are, he shoves a needle into you and check up on the DNA.
Avenir and Avenir Next are the replacements for Futura, fonts widely used by me personally
No, chiefly because it is the default Sans on PostScript/PDF which is what Apple uses widely on MacOS/X
Adobe has one of the most competent digital typography teams on the planet.
I am going to visit the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp on Friday where the original dies for Garamond are displayed.
Fonts are a technology. It is an interesting tech, because there is a lot of art involved, but they are still a technology to enable people to read words. And with any technology there are a many trade-offs for different use cases. And they have a loooooooong history, primarily drive by the tech that was available back then.
For instance, the font used to highway signage was painstakingly designed to enable a driver at high speed to see and read a road sign at the maximum distance possible. This was meticulously tested at the Federal Test Road in Texas.
The problem is the glare of headlights shining on the sign, which blurs the letterforms. The typeface has a large X-height and the counters (the spaces in the font) are as big as possible to minimize the impact of the blurring.
It means that fonts like these (Vectora and Interstate are prime examples) are good for signage but make crummy normal headline fonts for corporate brochures.
Another example: Time New Roman does not have ver fine details because it was explicitly designed for newsprint in the 30s and printers in those days for newspapers were printed on rough, cheap paper and printed very fast so the letterforms need to be robust. This is also why Adobe used it for PostScript. Times was also explicitly designed with a narrower running width so as to put more words on a line, thereby saving paper and ink.
There are also the very fint details of fonts involving ink trapping and the fact that the lines are thinner in the design than they look because the ink flowed around the printed letter, in effect blurring it (a problem that laser printers do not really have).
And then the whole can of worms of different cultural and technological impact that fonts have. Fonts were desgned in specific places and times this process was driven by the technology available at that time. You see different fonts in use in France (lots of old thin Modernist fonts) Switzerland (Helvetica and Univers everywhere) and the USA.
You hate a group of people because they use a specific typeface? What else triggers you?
We could but the issue of the Emoji font is still unresolved. Do you want you Emojis in Helvetica or Arial? Times? Garamond? Comic Sams?
Arial is much more ubiquitous than Helvetica, but it has the advantage that all the characters have the same width so you can basically replace the font directly.
And since Helvetica was licensed to ADOBE for use in PostScript means Helvetica is also used as one of the standard fonts (Times New Roman is the other one) in PDF, which is very ubiquitous. Times was chosen because the first laser printers were very rough and the font was designed for newspaper print in the 30s during, an application where speed of printing took precedence over quality. Times was explicitly designed for rough and ready printers in the old times and when the first rough and ready digital laser printer came out it was a good choice. This was achieved by not having and fine details in the characters that would get lost or damaged by rough paper and ink (and low-res laser toner). It was also designed with a smaller running width so that you could fit more words per line.
I imagine Helvetica was chosen for similar reasons.
Apple then later licensed the PDF imaging tech from Adobe and thus, indirectly, from Monotype but there was no exclusive anything. But since they used an embedded version of PDF/Postscript (and still do) they have to pass some licensing fees to MonoType.
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I have an actual arrythmia. I am probably alive cause my wife happens to be a doctor, saw the symptoms, had a stethoscope with her and told me to get my ass to the expert with an ECG RIGHT NOW. And the episode repeated with me being directly plugged into the ethernet for three weeks.
I would have volunteered any day of the week, and I already have a Kardia. Having the thing permanently attached would be a godsend.
And Apple did not breach privacy laws, nothing was done without anybodyâ(TM)s consent.
If you think it is Ok to withhold medical data from medical professionals because bla bla privacy bla bla I will laugh at you when you lie dying in the street and yell at the emergency responder that he should leave you heart alone, the rythm stays there.
The obesity comes from eating more food bought with the extra money
Yes the Irish has that reputation and see what happened in the famine
Exactly. All we need to visit the stars is to catch us some of them black holes, bring them here, close to earth and away we go!
What is wrong with this picture? Why so dark? Who switched the light off??
No Trump said US made 2G is better than Chinese made 7G
That is not really a ârewriteâ(TM) as Spolsky meant it. Going from Text to Web is really a new system. âRewritingâ(TM) there means ending in up with a new implementation of the same thinyg for no good reason
Good. Serves the bastard
Actually most external keyboards for an iPad is better than the MacBook keyboard. Mouse for iPad might be useful
I am a Mac user but my surface pro logs me in when I look at the screen. That is better then fingerprint
The IBorgEye is planned for 2021. Only monoscopic in v1.0. V2 will be Stereo
You should check the specs. NASA is planning to replace Hubble with a few astronauts with these puppies. Can see to the edge of the universe.
And v3 can do IR and UV
Agree. The only thing between me and an upgrade is that crap thin keyboard. I can live with the Touch Bar
So is my 2013 model. And I schlep it around every single day