Oh, I know. I've spent enough time with typefaces to have a good handle on the nuance of the field. In fact, it gives me quite a thrill. And I understand the balance between form and function. I just think that there can be more of a balance -- Verdana simply isn't an appealing font to my eye. Neither is Georgia, for that matter. I appreciated the need for generous character widths and tall x-heights, but they leave me aesthetically flat.
If you care, some fonts that truly curl my toes are Helvetica, Futura, Garamond, Apple's beautiful Hoefler, and Helvetica again. All beautiful, functional fonts. And for truly functional fonts that have great art to them, Monaco and Lucida Grande.
Oh, I know. I've spent enough time with typefaces to have a good handle on the nuance of the field. In fact, it gives me quite a thrill. And I understand the balance between form and function. I just think that there can be more of a balance -- Verdana simply isn't an appealing font to my eye. Neither is Georgia, for that matter. I appreciated the need for generous character widths and tall x-heights, but they leave me aesthetically flat.
If you care, some fonts that truly curl my toes are Helvetica, Futura, Garamond, Apple's beautiful Hoefler, and Helvetica again. All beautiful, functional fonts. And for truly functional fonts that have great art to them, Monaco and Lucida Grande.
The serif faces aren't all that much like Times, really. The roman one is reminiscent of a looser Century Schoolbook, while the bold actually reminds me of Bodoni. It's a nice font, just not that compelling.
The mono face is the most interesting. It reminds me of an interesting fusion of Monaco and Andale Mono. It does the job well, and I might try using it for something where I need a monospaced font.
It is better than Verdana, but I find them both to be quite difficult to read. I can't fathom tolerating the amount of time I spend reading a browser every day if I had to use either of those.
My preferred font is Lucida Grande, followed closely by Helvetica.
Camino is the lamest psuedo-muscle car browser name yet. I can't help but think of the high school football star who's now an insurance salesman and still tells stories about how cool his gym teacher was. And that's really depressing.
Well, that actually makes sense. Lexis-Nexis is a company that successfully created an advanced database system (or technical infrastructure or whatever.) Unless I'm missing some bit of the picture.
My suspicion is that Cheney is the real Clark. Alas, that makes W Santiago, and he didn't end up so well. Nevertheless, the parade of yahoos that keep coming into the administraiton really do remind me of the assorted preposterous Earth officials who were trying to assure everyone that things were perfectly fine.
Am I the only one who finds the name "Camino" to be kinda sleazy? Chimera was fine, but Camino makes me think of some skeezy guy in an ugly, old orange car.
I meant "I'd rather use Camino than Opera" as a bad thing.
I understand how to use hosts files to eliminate ads. (But thank you for providing the instructions, rather than just yelling like some people do.)
My problem with Opera is the giant ad in the toolbar, the fact that it renders websites like crap, that the interface just doesn't act like a Mac program, that the cursors are all non-standard. Basically, if I wanted to use Windows or Linux, I would. I have a Mac and am grateful that there are better programs available to me.
It qualifies as a good thing when I'm in a five ton black car with a white leather interior with my elbow out the window, cruising around like Hunter S. Thompson in Las Vegas.
In my daily driving, the situation would be untenable.
The joy of lolling down the highway in an enormous car seems to be a fairly American indulgence. And it's one which I'm not ashamed to indulge once in a while.:-) The rest of the family doesn't always get it (they're English), but they, too, can enjoy it if the circumstances are right.
My great aunt has a 1972 black El Dorado convertible. Boy do I love driving that thing down the highway. It stretches as far as the eye can see to the front and the back, and the suspension is so smooth, you can't tell that you're on a road at all. The best part is that it takes up the _entire_ lane. What a car.
It has some tough competition. Like "I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly" or "We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there! The film they broadcast to you is a lie! I will take you there and show you . . . IN ONE HOUR!"
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Presicely -- If you sign it again, you have a new contract. So you only sign it once. No need for resignatures.
Oh, I know. I've spent enough time with typefaces to have a good handle on the nuance of the field. In fact, it gives me quite a thrill. And I understand the balance between form and function. I just think that there can be more of a balance -- Verdana simply isn't an appealing font to my eye. Neither is Georgia, for that matter. I appreciated the need for generous character widths and tall x-heights, but they leave me aesthetically flat.
If you care, some fonts that truly curl my toes are Helvetica, Futura, Garamond, Apple's beautiful Hoefler, and Helvetica again. All beautiful, functional fonts. And for truly functional fonts that have great art to them, Monaco and Lucida Grande.
Oh, I know. I've spent enough time with typefaces to have a good handle on the nuance of the field. In fact, it gives me quite a thrill. And I understand the balance between form and function. I just think that there can be more of a balance -- Verdana simply isn't an appealing font to my eye. Neither is Georgia, for that matter. I appreciated the need for generous character widths and tall x-heights, but they leave me aesthetically flat.
If you care, some fonts that truly curl my toes are Helvetica, Futura, Garamond, Apple's beautiful Hoefler, and Helvetica again. All beautiful, functional fonts. And for truly functional fonts that have great art to them, Monaco and Lucida Grande.
The serif faces aren't all that much like Times, really. The roman one is reminiscent of a looser Century Schoolbook, while the bold actually reminds me of Bodoni. It's a nice font, just not that compelling.
The mono face is the most interesting. It reminds me of an interesting fusion of Monaco and Andale Mono. It does the job well, and I might try using it for something where I need a monospaced font.
The rest really aren't all that special.
It is better than Verdana, but I find them both to be quite difficult to read. I can't fathom tolerating the amount of time I spend reading a browser every day if I had to use either of those.
My preferred font is Lucida Grande, followed closely by Helvetica.
Camino is the lamest psuedo-muscle car browser name yet. I can't help but think of the high school football star who's now an insurance salesman and still tells stories about how cool his gym teacher was. And that's really depressing.
They're a Verdana clone. Which is too bad, bacause Verdana just isn't as good a font as it could be.
It's a great move and a nice thing, but it's not the panacea of fonts (like Helvetica is.)
You can get to the Internet by connecting to npr.org.
Well, that actually makes sense. Lexis-Nexis is a company that successfully created an advanced database system (or technical infrastructure or whatever.) Unless I'm missing some bit of the picture.
They'll start by liberating the colony worlds.
My suspicion is that Cheney is the real Clark. Alas, that makes W Santiago, and he didn't end up so well. Nevertheless, the parade of yahoos that keep coming into the administraiton really do remind me of the assorted preposterous Earth officials who were trying to assure everyone that things were perfectly fine.
You've made it to my quote of the day. Well done.
If you're a wealthy northerner playing cowboy for votes or his wealthy northerner son playing cowboy for votes, it's SAD-dim.
We get such quality government officials as Dr. Kissinger.
Actually, the 1936 USSR Constitution is a pretty neat document. Red the first and third articles if you're curious.
Obviously, it was never implemented according to its spirit, but it's still pretty neat.
It's a good thing that anon.penet.fi is already gone or they'd have to shut down again. :-)
Yea, but I think of the wonderful El Camino). :-)
Am I the only one who finds the name "Camino" to be kinda sleazy? Chimera was fine, but Camino makes me think of some skeezy guy in an ugly, old orange car.
I meant "I'd rather use Camino than Opera" as a bad thing.
I understand how to use hosts files to eliminate ads. (But thank you for providing the instructions, rather than just yelling like some people do.)
My problem with Opera is the giant ad in the toolbar, the fact that it renders websites like crap, that the interface just doesn't act like a Mac program, that the cursors are all non-standard. Basically, if I wanted to use Windows or Linux, I would. I have a Mac and am grateful that there are better programs available to me.
It qualifies as a good thing when I'm in a five ton black car with a white leather interior with my elbow out the window, cruising around like Hunter S. Thompson in Las Vegas.
:-) The rest of the family doesn't always get it (they're English), but they, too, can enjoy it if the circumstances are right.
In my daily driving, the situation would be untenable.
The joy of lolling down the highway in an enormous car seems to be a fairly American indulgence. And it's one which I'm not ashamed to indulge once in a while.
My great aunt has a 1972 black El Dorado convertible. Boy do I love driving that thing down the highway. It stretches as far as the eye can see to the front and the back, and the suspension is so smooth, you can't tell that you're on a road at all. The best part is that it takes up the _entire_ lane. What a car.
Because it's ass-ugly, I have to look at ads, and just doesn't feel like a real Mac program. I'd rather use Camino than Opera. No thank you.
You have to select some text first, then click on that text.
It has some tough competition. Like "I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly" or "We have retaken the airport! There are no Americans there! The film they broadcast to you is a lie! I will take you there and show you . . . IN ONE HOUR!"
Like I said, you seem to be getting worked up over something pretty trivial.
What if it's 31 miles because that's the limit of the technology? (i.e., even if you have a really high tower, the signal peters out at 31 miles.)
In any case, I don't care all that much. So good night!
My favorite rate is "time to skeletonize a cow." I'd like to know how long it would take the newer, smaller genome to skeletonize a cow.