TNR is a newspaper font. It is made to print on a very rough printing process and take a lot of punch because newspaper printing pressees are more of the rough and ready type. And just as rough and ready people and devices tend not be elegant, neither is Times.
Garamond is much more elegant font. I am a Garamond man myself for general typesetting. It looks MUCH better for reading than Times. Try the Garamond variety Sabon sometimes. Bitstream (ke, Corel) sells it as "Elegant Garamon" (I think)
Backups deal with 4 situations, in the order of most importance:
a) Oh my god, I deleted the file!!!! or its variant Oh my god, the file is corrupt!!! b) Oh my god, the hard disk crashed!!! c) Oh my god, the entire computer is ruined by some electric failure, taking the disk with it!!! d) Oh my god, the plqce burned down taking the computer, disk and files with it!!!
a) is what causes 95% of file restores. Mirroring is useless here. A mirror of a deleted file is still deleted. b) covers most of the rest of the 5%, and mirroring helps here. c) seldomly happens, and mirroring does not help. This is why you make tape backups away from the computer. d) is probably rare, but this is why you have off-site backups or at least keep your tapes in a fireproof safe.
See how often mirroring helps? Not that much, actually.
Yes, this is because of digital printing technology, which gives you the ability to print things on your laser printer, something that took LOTs of work in the old days to product dimilar quality.
This is not necessarily bad, the ability to print things has been democratized to the point where everyone can do it.
The bad part is that everything is now printed in Arial or even worse, Times new Roman. That is a newspaper font, for gods sake! This is truly sad, that such an ancient and beautiful art has been debased by the one thing that put it in the hands of most prople.
Until the day I own a theatre sized room, a 15 Speaker THX setup and a projection screen 50 square meters I hope not! Some movies are quite frankly muuuuuuuuch better in a theater. Have you ever seen one of the Starwars films in a real theater?
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Sigh. I wish sometimes that you American would understand one simple thing about China. China has a veeeeeeery long historical memory, going back 4000 years. The US has a history going back, what? 350 years? China has had the rather interesting thing that, despite differences in language everyone in the country could read the script for more than a thousand years. It has had an interesting unifying force on the country and the Chinese sens of history simply goed back waaaaay longer.
> Half of working-age adults are not employed full-time.
They can still afford a better lifestyle than 100 years ago despite that. Perhaps the whole thing that people predicted in the early 20th centure of the age of leasure where people will work much less is coming true?be
And if your think about it all those engineers marketing droids and government agents get paid more than potato pickers. The difference is that the farmer does not get to pay for them (mostly)
I must honestly say the research part I have not thought of. BUt its probably true. Pity that tha patient has to pay fot it though, but then "We are now changing you into a lab rat but hey! its free!" is probably not going to lift his spirits or anything:)
In Java the code that gets called when you click a button is not in the button object itself. Normally a button (or any other control, but lets stick to buttons here) controls something else. So if I have a widget whichh flashes when I press a button the code that gets run belongs in the widge,t not in the button.
In Java it works like this: The button has a addEventListener methond which the widget calls. The button maintains a list of all other objects interested in the event and calls them in a row when it happens.
This is very cool because it decouples the UI from the code that actually does the work, which is how it should be.
Have you ever made a VPN where a mobile client connects to Monowall? ITs easy to let it connect but how do you route? I need the remote client to have one ip address on the inside. With SSH sentinel would be hjust great.
Yeah, and a boatload of work and the fact that you have to open en box and mess around with a screwdriver to short out pins when you cock up the flash and and and. Been there done that. The linksys is great but its not the nirvana everyone says. The one thing that would make is totally loco would be to replace the on-board flash with a removable CompactFlash socket. Soekris and WRAP both have this. It really makes it better to run in an emergency.
The problem is that there is this tendency to claim that a life is totally priceless and that we must spend all the money we can to prolong it. This is all very noble, but there is a point where it becomes pointless.
Think about it this way. You spend 15% of your income on medical insurance. You will, on average, blow 60% of that money in the last 5 years of your life? Is it really, really a good idea to blow 15% of your LIFE INCOME to prolong your life statistically for 5 years? While your sick in any case?
I know this is a harsh and difficult way of looking at it, but when medical science reaches the point where the system is bankrupt becauseof extremely expensive treatments to prolong life for rare cases we really need, as a society, start to confront this basica question.
I know damn well there is no fixed answer here. My wife is a doctor. But still, we need to confront that question, and the "no, life is priceless" argument is a dodge. Spending a million bucks to keep someone on a machine for 6 months is money that could, quite frnankly, been spent somewhere else to feed children.
We also had a laser link between two buildings for a few years and it was always embarassing to tell people that I could not answer emails because of fog.
No to mention that my Y2K problem occurred because on the day before Y2K we had a hurricane which blew the one laser out of alignment which broke quite a few things.
I can second the Corel suggestion. I have a CD4 CDROM which only runs on Windows 3.1. But the fonts are great although they have non-standard names. Corel licensed the collection from Bitstream and the fonts are very very good. The problem is, as I said that some of the fonts have weird names. That has to do with strange copyright laws in the US regarding fonts (You can copyright the name of a font but not the letterforms or something like that). But the fonts are still the same, and it includes several classics such as Sabon, Optima, Garamond (in many variations), Melior, Futura, Kabel, Univers and quite a few others.
But forthe love of all that is holy do invest in some fonts. Just pay the money. $35 for a Multiple Master font from fonts.com (for 5 licenses) is not that much. And the quality is so much better than these cheap 10000 font ripoff CD's that you see floating around.
Incidentally CorelDraw also has very useful cliparts (as in maps and flags and common signs and things like that) which are worth having. There is also the whole slew of stupid characters but when you want a well-rendered biohazard sign or a flag of some state Corel is your ticket. The old versions are ultra cheap and Corel Draw iteslef is actually quite a good program.
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TNR is a newspaper font. It is made to print on a very rough printing process and take a lot of punch because newspaper printing pressees are more of the rough and ready type. And just as rough and ready people and devices tend not be elegant, neither is Times.
Garamond is much more elegant font. I am a Garamond man myself for general typesetting. It looks MUCH better for reading than Times. Try the Garamond variety Sabon sometimes. Bitstream (ke, Corel) sells it as "Elegant Garamon" (I think)
Backups deal with 4 situations, in the order of most importance:
a) Oh my god, I deleted the file!!!! or its variant Oh my god, the file is corrupt!!!
b) Oh my god, the hard disk crashed!!!
c) Oh my god, the entire computer is ruined by some electric failure, taking the disk with it!!!
d) Oh my god, the plqce burned down taking the computer, disk and files with it!!!
a) is what causes 95% of file restores. Mirroring is useless here. A mirror of a deleted file is still deleted.
b) covers most of the rest of the 5%, and mirroring helps here.
c) seldomly happens, and mirroring does not help. This is why you make tape backups away from the computer.
d) is probably rare, but this is why you have off-site backups or at least keep your tapes in a fireproof safe.
See how often mirroring helps? Not that much, actually.
Yes, this is because of digital printing technology, which gives you the ability to print things on your laser printer, something that took LOTs of work in the old days to product dimilar quality.
This is not necessarily bad, the ability to print things has been democratized to the point where everyone can do it.
The bad part is that everything is now printed in Arial or even worse, Times new Roman. That is a newspaper font, for gods sake! This is truly sad, that such an ancient and beautiful art has been debased by the one thing that put it in the hands of most prople.
Or your mother in-law programs your cars and it accidentally stop right in front of a train.
Until the day I own a theatre sized room, a 15 Speaker THX setup and a projection screen 50 square meters I hope not! Some movies are quite frankly muuuuuuuuch better in a theater. Have you ever seen one of the Starwars films in a real theater?
Sigh. I wish sometimes that you American would understand one simple thing about China. China has a veeeeeeery long historical memory, going back 4000 years. The US has a history going back, what? 350 years? China has had the rather interesting thing that, despite differences in language everyone in the country could read the script for more than a thousand years. It has had an interesting unifying force on the country and the Chinese sens of history simply goed back waaaaay longer.
I can write a webserver in 2 lines:
#!/bin/bash
apache
See! Easy!
Well, according to Google Wollman was caught sodomizing a dolphin! Pretty impressive work there!
O yeah that jogged some memories!
Perhaps the fact that I HAVE those memories makes me unemployable!
PDF in browsers is almost invariably the Adobe Plugin's problem. That thing is scary
Yes. In Haiti you cn find CowboyNeal Voodoo dolls. The priests use them to practice their l33t n33dl3 sk1llz.
> Half of working-age adults are not employed full-time.
They can still afford a better lifestyle than 100 years ago despite that. Perhaps the whole thing that people predicted in the early 20th centure of the age of leasure where people will work much less is coming true?be
And if your think about it all those engineers marketing droids and government agents get paid more than potato pickers. The difference is that the farmer does not get to pay for them (mostly)
Amazing what legitimately beating your wife can do for you mood, eh? I have two friend who met in Judo and its the same for them.
Herpes is caused by a virus and its not treatable. The symptoms are. Sometimes
Sometimes yes, but you can never know precisely because of the uncertainty.
I must honestly say the research part I have not thought of. BUt its probably true. Pity that tha patient has to pay fot it though, but then "We are now changing you into a lab rat but hey! its free!" is probably not going to lift his spirits or anything :)
In Java the code that gets called when you click a button is not in the button object itself. Normally a button (or any other control, but lets stick to buttons here) controls something else. So if I have a widget whichh flashes when I press a button the code that gets run belongs in the widge,t not in the button.
In Java it works like this: The button has a addEventListener methond which the widget calls. The button maintains a list of all other objects interested in the event and calls them in a row when it happens.
This is very cool because it decouples the UI from the code that actually does the work, which is how it should be.
Have you ever made a VPN where a mobile client connects to Monowall? ITs easy to let it connect but how do you route? I need the remote client to have one ip address on the inside. With SSH sentinel would be hjust great.
Yeah, and a boatload of work and the fact that you have to open en box and mess around with a screwdriver to short out pins when you cock up the flash and and and. Been there done that. The linksys is great but its not the nirvana everyone says. The one thing that would make is totally loco would be to replace the on-board flash with a removable CompactFlash socket. Soekris and WRAP both have this. It really makes it better to run in an emergency.
And a Serial port for emergencies.
Actually, sadly, there is a problem with that.
The problem is that there is this tendency to claim that a life is totally priceless and that we must spend all the money we can to prolong it. This is all very noble, but there is a point where it becomes pointless.
Think about it this way. You spend 15% of your income on medical insurance. You will, on average, blow 60% of that money in the last 5 years of your life? Is it really, really a good idea to blow 15% of your LIFE INCOME to prolong your life statistically for 5 years? While your sick in any case?
I know this is a harsh and difficult way of looking at it, but when medical science reaches the point where the system is bankrupt becauseof extremely expensive treatments to prolong life for rare cases we really need, as a society, start to confront this basica question.
I know damn well there is no fixed answer here. My wife is a doctor. But still, we need to confront that question, and the "no, life is priceless" argument is a dodge. Spending a million bucks to keep someone on a machine for 6 months is money that could, quite frnankly, been spent somewhere else to feed children.
Well, they certainly have the tools to do that analyis in-house
We also had a laser link between two buildings for a few years and it was always embarassing to tell people that I could not answer emails because of fog.
No to mention that my Y2K problem occurred because on the day before Y2K we had a hurricane which blew the one laser out of alignment which broke quite a few things.
I can second the Corel suggestion. I have a CD4 CDROM which only runs on Windows 3.1. But the fonts are great although they have non-standard names. Corel licensed the collection from Bitstream and the fonts are very very good. The problem is, as I said that some of the fonts have weird names. That has to do with strange copyright laws in the US regarding fonts (You can copyright the name of a font but not the letterforms or something like that). But the fonts are still the same, and it includes several classics such as Sabon, Optima, Garamond (in many variations), Melior, Futura, Kabel, Univers and quite a few others.
But forthe love of all that is holy do invest in some fonts. Just pay the money. $35 for a Multiple Master font from fonts.com (for 5 licenses) is not that much. And the quality is so much better than these cheap 10000 font ripoff CD's that you see floating around.
Incidentally CorelDraw also has very useful cliparts (as in maps and flags and common signs and things like that) which are worth having. There is also the whole slew of stupid characters but when you want a well-rendered biohazard sign or a flag of some state Corel is your ticket. The old versions are ultra cheap and Corel Draw iteslef is actually quite a good program.
It also reduces that "washed out" look!