If your antialiasing is blurry, then it's just not the right one for you.
Proper antialiased fonts are NOT blurry, and ARE easier to read than their blocky counterparts.
The reason screenshots of subpixel antialiasing look like shit is because you aren't using the same display to see them. If I took a screenshot of my 1600x1200 laptop screen, and you display it on your 1600x1200 monitor, the fonts will look crappy to you, because the subpixel rendering is tuned to the exact screen I have, and requires an LCD to boot. Even if you have a 1600x1200 LCD, it may not look the way it looks to me, because different LCDs display things different ways; that's why there are ways to tune the rendering to look right on your display.
"While I think anti-aliased fonts are wonderful most of the time, I believe most developers will agree they are not so great in terminal windows or when viewing source code."
That's because the fonts in X are fugly, and the antialiasing is not the greatest.
Proper antialiased fonts w/ subpixel smoothing on a digital LCD, with good fonts to start with produce something so easy on the eyes you wouldn't WANT to program on anything else.
IF you have a 1600x1200 laptop, I recommend setting XP to 120dpi instead. Yes, the fonts get larger, and some things are a bit out of whack due to bad programming.. but I assure you the increased resolution combined with cleartype makes things look sweeeeeet.
Also, if you use Acrobat Reader (which uses it's own font rendering engine), make sure you go into the settings and turn on CoolType to get similar results.
Well, most users I know who have windows Xp and a laptop can certainly tell if cleartype is turned off once it has been turned on.
I run a 1600x1200, 15.1" lcd with Cleartype, and with Windows set to 120DPI. I can't believe I'm saying it, but the fonts are leagues better looking than any other system I can get my hands on. Microsoft did something right.
This is so easy to read and so smooth looking, I've actually given up using an X desktop whenever possible. I would rather edit in Codewright in windows than work with the ugly fonts in X. IT's that much easier to read and easier on the eyes.
This is the first system I've ever had where I can really say the fonts look georgeous.
That was exactly my point. Not all situations. Saying "Sun is failing" because cheap intel hardware beats there machine is rediculous; there are situations where the uptime and speed of an E15k or the like simply cannot be matched by cheap intel clusters.
I don't know how, but we need some kind of standard for internet service.
When someone buys internet service, it should be like phone service; a set standard of protocols, and a class of service (how bandwidth is allocated). This should be made clear from the beginning.
Your telephone company doesn't tell you who you can phone and who you can't, but they cna tell you how much it will cost to call different places, and they are required to keep this somewhat clear.
Practices no ISP should be using:
1) Filtering incoming traffic.
- I pay for access to the internet; not parts of it
2) Transparent HTTP proxies that you can't turn off. This would be fine if they were truly transparent, but many try to resolve the domain in the headers. This is a problem. What if I'm not using the same dns system as them. I've been accessing some sites in development using a hosts file entry only, and the transparent proxy refuses to fetch the page because it thinks it doesn't exist)
3) Filtering incoming or outgoing ports and protocols.
Alternative solutions:
1) Make bandwidth more expensive. Provide proxies and such as a way to REDUCE your expense (use our proxy, and the bandwidth you use will be added to your total at 50% off). They could even make money on this.
2) Don't tell me what I can and can't do, just charge me for it accordingly. The ISP should not care if I run a mail server or a dns server; they should only care about their traffic.
3) Offer filtering and such as optional services for users. Let them turn them off and on at will. It's fine to filter common things to prevent problems with your users, but let me turn it off if I want to.
This brings back memories. I remember working at an isp way back when and the server room was so bad that you could basically lean on the rats nest of wiring like it was a makeshift hammock.
Walking around behind the racks meant being completely aware of which line you put tension on, lest it knock some connector not fastened down out of place.
Right. So we shouldn't actually ban something until someone dies because of it? No. We minimize risk.
The potential risk of you using your cellular phone during a process invovling thousands of gallons of jet fuel underneath hundreds of people outweights whatever personal greedy reasons you have for deciding to use it.
You say RF energy cannot cause gas to explode. It can head up food in your microwave, and it can cause electric currents in metals. Those currents can cause sparks. Granted, the power of a cllular phone is several hundred times less than that of your microwave oven, but still. yes it's unlikely; but it's safer for you to just durn off the damn phone.
The more people that use it, the higher the danger. Sure, what you say is *probably* true.. but I would just as soon have the guy who does something the airline specifically asks him not to do for safety reasons fly on his own damn private jet; not one on which my life and the lives of a couple hundred other people who are playing by the rules the airlines politely asked us to follow are endangered because some guy thinks he knows better than the airlines.
I was parked on a runway, and we were refueling... special stop due to bad weather. Everyone was on the aircraft. Normally, you don't do this; it's dangerous.
They specifically asked, twice, very clearly, for NOBODY to use their cellular phone, because we were refuelling the aircraft. People had to unbuckle their seatbelts, and all the aircraft doors had to be open, in case evacuation was needed. You could smell the jet fuel.
So of course some guy starts talking on his phone. That was the last place I wanted to be; not because I thought the phone was dangerous, but because there was a truckload of jet fuel next to me and we had been specifically asked not to use cellular phones until after the refuelling was finished.
Does everyone miss that MS will have XML, certainly.. and they will have tons of proprietary data in between those xml tags, that they are under no obligation to document for anyone.
You will be able to see the structure of the file, but not make sense of it.
One one hand, we have those who want unix. For them, most current linux distributions are okay... the less graphical and messy, the better. Those are the ones who like stability and control.
Now, those who want an integrated desktop the likes of Windows... the sacrifices required to make that system easy to use for the target audience are the same sacrifices that make us think of windows as unstable and unreliable; standard users with too many rights, automated configuration tools that hide things from us, and possibly break if we tweak what's under the hood too much.
And if you had contacted them and said "I am the copyright owner; these people are selling unauthorized copies of my work".. they would have yanked the auction, and probalby done nothing to verify that you are the copyright holder.
That's the point.
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No excuse? so now you are dictating what a musician has to deliver?
Why should they be penalized for offering a CDR?
Maybe they don't have $300 kicking around to spare. Maybe they have to do them one at a time, on demand.
With regard to publishing stuff online, the dmca requires the ISP to first notify the alleged violator, who can then choose to write back and declare he is NOT violating, at which point the ISP must keep his work online.
The point of the DMCA in this regard is to make sure the ISP cannot turn a blind eye to what's going on; it does not make them judge & jury. If the violator responds with a proper letter, the ISP is absolved, and it's up to a court.
Now, this isn't an ISP hosting content.... but there must be some law, in the lad of capitalism, that prevents ebay from interfering in your profitmaking for no legal reason.
The 15.1" LCD on my laptop is HELLISHLY good looking.
Gimme a break.You can talk about latency and whatnot, but I guarantee a gamer won't notice a degradation in his gameplay due to a good LCD screen nowadays. I would rather look at my LCD anyday; especially when rendering systems take into account the sub-pixel control they can use.
As for colors.. yes, that's an issue, and one that will affect graphic artists for sure... but only those who need to move color into the real world (film, print). Those doing computer only will have to put up with display mechanisms that use lcds anyway.. so it's moot.
Smaller isp's dont'cache info from larger ones... most dns servers simply use the root servers directly. There is no heirarchy beyond that with regards to caching.
It is heirarchial with regards to namespace, but not so much with regards to lookups.
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If your antialiasing is blurry, then it's just not the right one for you.
Proper antialiased fonts are NOT blurry, and ARE easier to read than their blocky counterparts.
The reason screenshots of subpixel antialiasing look like shit is because you aren't using the same display to see them. If I took a screenshot of my 1600x1200 laptop screen, and you display it on your 1600x1200 monitor, the fonts will look crappy to you, because the subpixel rendering is tuned to the exact screen I have, and requires an LCD to boot. Even if you have a 1600x1200 LCD, it may not look the way it looks to me, because different LCDs display things different ways; that's why there are ways to tune the rendering to look right on your display.
"While I think anti-aliased fonts are wonderful most of the time, I believe most developers will agree they are not so great in terminal windows or when viewing source code."
That's because the fonts in X are fugly, and the antialiasing is not the greatest.
Proper antialiased fonts w/ subpixel smoothing on a digital LCD, with good fonts to start with produce something so easy on the eyes you wouldn't WANT to program on anything else.
Cleartype only really works if you are using an LCD, btw... and it depends on how the LCD screen is constructed.
Also, have you gone to the proper MS site and tuned your cleartype settings?
Tune Cleartype
IF you have a 1600x1200 laptop, I recommend setting XP to 120dpi instead. Yes, the fonts get larger, and some things are a bit out of whack due to bad programming.. but I assure you the increased resolution combined with cleartype makes things look sweeeeeet. Also, if you use Acrobat Reader (which uses it's own font rendering engine), make sure you go into the settings and turn on CoolType to get similar results.
Really.
Well, most users I know who have windows Xp and a laptop can certainly tell if cleartype is turned off once it has been turned on.
I run a 1600x1200, 15.1" lcd with Cleartype, and with Windows set to 120DPI.
I can't believe I'm saying it, but the fonts are leagues better looking than any other system I can get my hands on. Microsoft did something right.
This is so easy to read and so smooth looking, I've actually given up using an X desktop whenever possible. I would rather edit in Codewright in windows than work with the ugly fonts in X. IT's that much easier to read and easier on the eyes.
This is the first system I've ever had where I can really say the fonts look georgeous.
That was exactly my point. Not all situations.
Saying "Sun is failing" because cheap intel hardware beats there machine is rediculous; there are situations where the uptime and speed of an E15k or the like simply cannot be matched by cheap intel clusters.
with POP3 functionality.
Everything else will be "Planned for the future" and they will be recruiting programmers.
I don't know how, but we need some kind of standard for internet service.
When someone buys internet service, it should be like phone service; a set standard of protocols, and a class of service (how bandwidth is allocated). This should be made clear from the beginning.
Your telephone company doesn't tell you who you can phone and who you can't, but they cna tell you how much it will cost to call different places, and they are required to keep this somewhat clear.
Practices no ISP should be using:
1) Filtering incoming traffic.
- I pay for access to the internet; not parts of it
2) Transparent HTTP proxies that you can't turn off. This would be fine if they were truly transparent, but many try to resolve the domain in the headers. This is a problem. What if I'm not using the same dns system as them. I've been accessing some sites in development using a hosts file entry only, and the transparent proxy refuses to fetch the page because it thinks it doesn't exist)
3) Filtering incoming or outgoing ports and protocols.
Alternative solutions:
1) Make bandwidth more expensive. Provide proxies and such as a way to REDUCE your expense (use our proxy, and the bandwidth you use will be added to your total at 50% off). They could even make money on this.
2) Don't tell me what I can and can't do, just charge me for it accordingly. The ISP should not care if I run a mail server or a dns server; they should only care about their traffic.
3) Offer filtering and such as optional services for users. Let them turn them off and on at will. It's fine to filter common things to prevent problems with your users, but let me turn it off if I want to.
Is there an x86 based machine that can outperform, say, a Sun Enterprise 15k?
Okay
well obviously you guys know more than the airlines do about what's safe and what's not.
This brings back memories.
I remember working at an isp way back when and the server room was so bad that you could basically lean on the rats nest of wiring like it was a makeshift hammock.
Walking around behind the racks meant being completely aware of which line you put tension on, lest it knock some connector not fastened down out of place.
Right. So we shouldn't actually ban something until someone dies because of it? No.
We minimize risk.
The potential risk of you using your cellular phone during a process invovling thousands of gallons of jet fuel underneath hundreds of people outweights whatever personal greedy reasons you have for deciding to use it.
You say RF energy cannot cause gas to explode.
It can head up food in your microwave, and it can cause electric currents in metals. Those currents can cause sparks. Granted, the power of a cllular phone is several hundred times less than that of your microwave oven, but still. yes it's unlikely; but it's safer for you to just durn off the damn phone.
The more people that use it, the higher the danger. Sure, what you say is *probably* true.. but I would just as soon have the guy who does something the airline specifically asks him not to do for safety reasons fly on his own damn private jet; not one on which my life and the lives of a couple hundred other people who are playing by the rules the airlines politely asked us to follow are endangered because some guy thinks he knows better than the airlines.
I was parked on a runway, and we were refueling... special stop due to bad weather. Everyone was on the aircraft. Normally, you don't do this; it's dangerous.
They specifically asked, twice, very clearly, for NOBODY to use their cellular phone, because we were refuelling the aircraft. People had to unbuckle their seatbelts, and all the aircraft doors had to be open, in case evacuation was needed. You could smell the jet fuel.
So of course some guy starts talking on his phone. That was the last place I wanted to be; not because I thought the phone was dangerous, but because there was a truckload of jet fuel next to me and we had been specifically asked not to use cellular phones until after the refuelling was finished.
Does everyone miss that MS will have XML, certainly.. and they will have tons of proprietary data in between those xml tags, that they are under no obligation to document for anyone.
You will be able to see the structure of the file, but not make sense of it.
That's what I'd do, if I was ms.
One one hand, we have those who want unix. For them, most current linux distributions are okay... the less graphical and messy, the better.
Those are the ones who like stability and control.
Now, those who want an integrated desktop the likes of Windows... the sacrifices required to make that system easy to use for the target audience are the same sacrifices that make us think of windows as unstable and unreliable; standard users with too many rights, automated configuration tools that hide things from us, and possibly break if we tweak what's under the hood too much.
Because most of us think installing a base, bare system is where you start, and then you just add packages by hand with apt as you want/need them.
It may not be intuitive for you, but it sure is handy.
Generally a debian user doesn't add a package until it's needed; this cuts down on the clutter of packages on a system.
And if you had contacted them and said "I am the copyright owner; these people are selling unauthorized copies of my work".. they would have yanked the auction, and probalby done nothing to verify that you are the copyright holder.
That's the point.
No excuse? so now you are dictating what a musician has to deliver?
Why should they be penalized for offering a CDR?
Maybe they don't have $300 kicking around to spare. Maybe they have to do them one at a time, on demand.
With regard to publishing stuff online, the dmca requires the ISP to first notify the alleged violator, who can then choose to write back and declare he is NOT violating, at which point the ISP must keep his work online.
The point of the DMCA in this regard is to make sure the ISP cannot turn a blind eye to what's going on; it does not make them judge & jury. If the violator responds with a proper letter, the ISP is absolved, and it's up to a court.
Now, this isn't an ISP hosting content.... but there must be some law, in the lad of capitalism, that prevents ebay from interfering in your profitmaking for no legal reason.
I'm not implying you don't know your analog.
The parent post was talking about vertical resoltion.
Isn't what? A pure science? Define science?
Political science is about applying scientific methods to politics.
Economic Science is about applying scientific methods to economics.
Scsi drive price has nothing to do with the fact that it's scsi, technically.
It's only because of the market segment that's interested in it.
The only reason ide drives aren't built to the same standards as scsi drives is the market isn't interested in it.
For the same reason, that relatively cheap unreliable scsi drives are not made.. because nobody is interested in them.
Discrete changes of amplitude on a horizontal line would give you horizontal resolution.
The number of lines on an analog TV is fairly clear.. there are only so many visible scanlines.
This can equate precisely to # of digital lines.
I think you are talking about columns (horizontal resolution)
Well.. I'm a fairly hardcore gamer.
The 15.1" LCD on my laptop is HELLISHLY good looking.
Gimme a break.You can talk about latency and whatnot, but I guarantee a gamer won't notice a degradation in his gameplay due to a good LCD screen nowadays. I would rather look at my LCD anyday; especially when rendering systems take into account the sub-pixel control they can use.
As for colors.. yes, that's an issue, and one that will affect graphic artists for sure... but only those who need to move color into the real world (film, print). Those doing computer only will have to put up with display mechanisms that use lcds anyway.. so it's moot.
Programming is not computer science....
what am I missing?
Smaller isp's dont'cache info from larger ones... most dns servers simply use the root servers directly. There is no heirarchy beyond that with regards to caching.
It is heirarchial with regards to namespace, but not so much with regards to lookups.