Apple tries to render the font as precisely as possible.
Microsoft tries to hammer the font into sub-pixels as much as possible. You end up with deformed fonts and edges that are way too sharp.
I have read the arguments for both and in someways the MS one does make sense - still I prefer the look of Safari
I thought FF and Safari used the same text rendering, on Snow Leopard at least?
Yeah I think you are right (I have them open side-by-side) but I know that MS takes a different approach to rendering than Apple, and I prefer the Apple way
All FTP clients I use are 100% compatible with the FTP standard.
Just recently I had issues with an embedded device that had a built-in FTP client. It worked perfectly when connected to the MS XP FTP server, and it worked perfectly when connected to a FileZilla FTP server running on Win 7. But it failed miserably with talking to the MS Win 7 FTP server. Tech support claimed the issue was that their system was not tested with Win7. I'm not deep enough into the FTP RFC's to know who was ultimately at fault, but I am still shaking my head as after all it is simply FTP!
The process assumes that a keyboard is less handy than a touch-rotate-touch-release. In short, this is doomed to fail because I must memorize things. It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.
Nah, I think its more along the lines of a Carlos Mencia "Deet de Dee"
we chose to go to the movies rather than watch something on Netflix not because of wanting to see a film in 3D, but because there is a new theatre in town - Cinebistro You have to be over 21 to buy a ticket, they serve food and alcohol at your seat in the theatre and they treat you like adults. *That* is an experience that will bring me back to going to theatres, not some 3D gimmick.
There is a solution to this, you know. We can be completely free of politicians: http://metagovernment.org/
I read through that and then laughed my head off. Collectives do not scale past the number of people you can personally know. Been there, done that and yes I do have a T-shirt.
You seem to be missing the point. I wrote my own summary and included a direct quote from the linked article. The "editor" chose to re-write the DIRECT QUOTE and changed it make it US centric but in doing so made it no longer a DIRECT QUOTE
Just wait for Prop 19 to get passed and people start failing drug tests for work - "Oh year I forgot to tell you that I flew to CA just before I had this mandatory work drug test"
That's what incited the country's only civil war. Urban and rural citizens have vastly different expectations of government. Their fight is to control the state first and the federal government second.
Sometimes I think that the US needs another civil war. Its so polarised at the moment its almost amazing that it does hang together as a country.
BTW as per HI. If I was Hawaiian I'd be more than indifferent to the mainland, I'd be pissed off. HI didn't choose to become a state. It was annexed due to business interests playing the US government - or perhaps the other way around.
I mostly agree with your analysis -- except perhaps for the community party.
Back 10 or 12 years ago I saw an issue raised in Pittsburgh where some local politician was complaining that the city was losing tax dollars because the players of the Pittsburgh Steelers were not choosing to live within the bounds of the city. I have lived in a couple of locations where there was a distinction between city and county and in each place I have seen issues like this raised - and that is part of basis for my community comment.
Another reason for it is that politics are carried out at such a local level (ie vote for the local dog catcher - probably a bad example!) so people have to carry divisive political affiliations at that level, and that even though political groups may be nationally based people still carry strong political feelings on a personal basis and feel to be members of a political community (sor of like being members of an online community). I have had a couple of "friends" with conservative leanings stop talking to me because I am not of their political persuasion - even though I can't even vote here!
Interesting, I've heard lots of people describe Germans that way in contrast to Americans having a strong national identity.
That may be a bias between looking from the inside vs looking from the outside
I certainly don't think of myself of North Carolinian or Georgian despite spending years in both. Identification with and focus on local issues though might be more true to some degree in that we actually have the potential to change things at that level where nationally we can't have much affect and internationally, even less.
That may be true. Opting out of greater things is easier to do. I'll have to ponder that.
But it also has to do with the fact that we have states rather than provinces like pretty much all the other nations
And I think that is the key thing - Americans don't believe in their country. To me the squabbles over interstate commerce and the collection of sales tax vs self reporting of use tax are one indication of that.
btw, it annoys me to no end when some foreigner complains on Slashdot about how some comment is USA-centric. Sure, the internet is international, but when I go to a British website I don't complain about how it's UK-centric. I love that so many foreigners post on Slashdot; I've learned quite a bit from them, especially when the story is about their home country; but don't get annoyed when comments on a political story use the pronoun 'we' to refer to 'the American people.'
As a foreigner who posts here and has had stories accepted here I feel somewhat eligible to respond to this comment. I will do so with an example of what I have experienced.
I saw an article in a newspaper in my home country (of which English is the native language), made a submission with a direct quote from the linked text. The submission was accepted and published on/. but the kicker was that spelling in the direct quote was converted to US English.
It is this sort of lack of respect that brings forth the things you are complaining about.
You may say that./ is a US centric website. Yes I agree it was a US based creation but I suspect that a significant amount of readership is non-US based and a huge number of stories are non US related, so I feel that complaining about foreigners saying what they do is a bit off base.
What is "prop 19" - it is nowhere on my state's ballot. I suppose this is a micro version of all the non-USA people complaining Slashdot is too USA centric talks. You are too whatever-state-you're-in centric.
I know this is getting off topic but after having lived in the US for several years I feel that **in general** Americans think of themselves on order of as being members of their local community (and that political affiliation sits around this level), followed by being a resident of their state, followed by being citizens of their country, and finally members of the world community. So that local "issues" take precedence over more encompassing issues, even if those more encompassing issues are more important. This sometimes gives me the impression that the people born here don't think of themselves as being citizens of their country first and foremost, but rather only consider it when it affects other, more closely held beliefs,
Note that this is a generalization and opinion of a foreigner in the US and is meant to be taken with a grain of salt.
<sobbing level="softly">I don't want to go back to carrying gender changes, null modems, 9/15 pin changers as well as worrrying about DCE/DTE and handshaking..... </sobbing>
Not vote multiple times, but if the people of the assembled group wanted to base their vote on a collective decision, then there isn't anything that should stop such a thing.
Hey, he's not saying we should kill the old people. More maybe that's impolite to vote for something you probably won't live to see the effects of.
Then perhaps I would suggest that with some experience and more common sense he might learn to get his message across in a more understandable manner, rather than an outburst of incoherent rage.
get back to your rocking chair on your porch so you can yell at me about being on your lawn. stop trying to run things.
Yet by some strange twist of fate, you too will someday be a "fuckin old person". Perhaps then you might consider that the society that Logan ran from is not one to be idolized.
It quotes a translation from a Dutch press release that says "about two years" after Windows 7. Since when did "about" suddenly become a definite statement of a release time frame??
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Apple tries to render the font as precisely as possible. Microsoft tries to hammer the font into sub-pixels as much as possible. You end up with deformed fonts and edges that are way too sharp.
I have read the arguments for both and in someways the MS one does make sense - still I prefer the look of Safari
I thought FF and Safari used the same text rendering, on Snow Leopard at least?
Yeah I think you are right (I have them open side-by-side) but I know that MS takes a different approach to rendering than Apple, and I prefer the Apple way
All FTP clients I use are 100% compatible with the FTP standard.
Just recently I had issues with an embedded device that had a built-in FTP client. It worked perfectly when connected to the MS XP FTP server, and it worked perfectly when connected to a FileZilla FTP server running on Win 7. But it failed miserably with talking to the MS Win 7 FTP server. Tech support claimed the issue was that their system was not tested with Win7. I'm not deep enough into the FTP RFC's to know who was ultimately at fault, but I am still shaking my head as after all it is simply FTP!
For all the flak IE gets, it's actually a great browser..
I don't mind IE at all, and use FF daily too. However I much prefer the text rendering of Safari on both PC and Mac
Using almost letter like gestures to type in text.
The process assumes that a keyboard is less handy than a touch-rotate-touch-release. In short, this is doomed to fail because I must memorize things. It's probably easier for us to all learn Morse, and just have a deet da dee deet festival.
Nah, I think its more along the lines of a Carlos Mencia "Deet de Dee"
we chose to go to the movies rather than watch something on Netflix not because of wanting to see a film in 3D, but because there is a new theatre in town - Cinebistro You have to be over 21 to buy a ticket, they serve food and alcohol at your seat in the theatre and they treat you like adults. *That* is an experience that will bring me back to going to theatres, not some 3D gimmick.
How did the previous American Civil War depolarize the US? 145 years after it ended there are still Confederate flags and talk of secession.
Well it did vent a lot of feelings! But I was more thinking a civil war used to split the country up into 2 separate countries.
There is a solution to this, you know. We can be completely free of politicians: http://metagovernment.org/
I read through that and then laughed my head off. Collectives do not scale past the number of people you can personally know. Been there, done that and yes I do have a T-shirt.
You seem to be missing the point. I wrote my own summary and included a direct quote from the linked article. The "editor" chose to re-write the DIRECT QUOTE and changed it make it US centric but in doing so made it no longer a DIRECT QUOTE
Just wait for Prop 19 to get passed and people start failing drug tests for work - "Oh year I forgot to tell you that I flew to CA just before I had this mandatory work drug test"
That's what incited the country's only civil war. Urban and rural citizens have vastly different expectations of government. Their fight is to control the state first and the federal government second.
Sometimes I think that the US needs another civil war. Its so polarised at the moment its almost amazing that it does hang together as a country.
BTW as per HI. If I was Hawaiian I'd be more than indifferent to the mainland, I'd be pissed off. HI didn't choose to become a state. It was annexed due to business interests playing the US government - or perhaps the other way around.
I mostly agree with your analysis -- except perhaps for the community party.
Back 10 or 12 years ago I saw an issue raised in Pittsburgh where some local politician was complaining that the city was losing tax dollars because the players of the Pittsburgh Steelers were not choosing to live within the bounds of the city. I have lived in a couple of locations where there was a distinction between city and county and in each place I have seen issues like this raised - and that is part of basis for my community comment.
Another reason for it is that politics are carried out at such a local level (ie vote for the local dog catcher - probably a bad example!) so people have to carry divisive political affiliations at that level, and that even though political groups may be nationally based people still carry strong political feelings on a personal basis and feel to be members of a political community (sor of like being members of an online community). I have had a couple of "friends" with conservative leanings stop talking to me because I am not of their political persuasion - even though I can't even vote here!
Interesting, I've heard lots of people describe Germans that way in contrast to Americans having a strong national identity.
That may be a bias between looking from the inside vs looking from the outside
I certainly don't think of myself of North Carolinian or Georgian despite spending years in both. Identification with and focus on local issues though might be more true to some degree in that we actually have the potential to change things at that level where nationally we can't have much affect and internationally, even less.
That may be true. Opting out of greater things is easier to do. I'll have to ponder that.
But it also has to do with the fact that we have states rather than provinces like pretty much all the other nations
And I think that is the key thing - Americans don't believe in their country. To me the squabbles over interstate commerce and the collection of sales tax vs self reporting of use tax are one indication of that.
btw, it annoys me to no end when some foreigner complains on Slashdot about how some comment is USA-centric. Sure, the internet is international, but when I go to a British website I don't complain about how it's UK-centric. I love that so many foreigners post on Slashdot; I've learned quite a bit from them, especially when the story is about their home country; but don't get annoyed when comments on a political story use the pronoun 'we' to refer to 'the American people.'
As a foreigner who posts here and has had stories accepted here I feel somewhat eligible to respond to this comment. I will do so with an example of what I have experienced.
I saw an article in a newspaper in my home country (of which English is the native language), made a submission with a direct quote from the linked text. The submission was accepted and published on /. but the kicker was that spelling in the direct quote was converted to US English.
It is this sort of lack of respect that brings forth the things you are complaining about.
You may say that ./ is a US centric website. Yes I agree it was a US based creation but I suspect that a significant amount of readership is non-US based and a huge number of stories are non US related, so I feel that complaining about foreigners saying what they do is a bit off base.
What is "prop 19" - it is nowhere on my state's ballot. I suppose this is a micro version of all the non-USA people complaining Slashdot is too USA centric talks. You are too whatever-state-you're-in centric.
I know this is getting off topic but after having lived in the US for several years I feel that **in general** Americans think of themselves on order of as being members of their local community (and that political affiliation sits around this level), followed by being a resident of their state, followed by being citizens of their country, and finally members of the world community. So that local "issues" take precedence over more encompassing issues, even if those more encompassing issues are more important. This sometimes gives me the impression that the people born here don't think of themselves as being citizens of their country first and foremost, but rather only consider it when it affects other, more closely held beliefs,
Note that this is a generalization and opinion of a foreigner in the US and is meant to be taken with a grain of salt.
<sobbing level="softly">I don't want to go back to carrying gender changes, null modems, 9/15 pin changers as well as worrrying about DCE/DTE and handshaking ..... </sobbing>
(can't remember the actual source) I heard that last year or so that Zynga made (grossed?) something like $240 million from Farmville et al.
Not vote multiple times, but if the people of the assembled group wanted to base their vote on a collective decision, then there isn't anything that should stop such a thing.
Did you just invent unions?
Hey, he's not saying we should kill the old people. More maybe that's impolite to vote for something you probably won't live to see the effects of.
Then perhaps I would suggest that with some experience and more common sense he might learn to get his message across in a more understandable manner, rather than an outburst of incoherent rage.
get back to your rocking chair on your porch so you can yell at me about being on your lawn. stop trying to run things.
Yet by some strange twist of fate, you too will someday be a "fuckin old person". Perhaps then you might consider that the society that Logan ran from is not one to be idolized.
It quotes a translation from a Dutch press release that says "about two years" after Windows 7. Since when did "about" suddenly become a definite statement of a release time frame??
So what laser did they use in the 1800's?
Obviously you missed the recent event where the universe was replaced with something even more stranger.
But after a short glance I still couldn't see if this is a "per computer" basis for the country or simply a "total pwned" basis.