All code in Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" is presented in a proportional-width font: "At first glance, this presentation style will seem 'unnatural' to programmers accustomed to seeing code in constant-width fonts. However, proportional-width fonts are generally regarded as better than constant-width fonts for presentation of text. Using a proportional-width font also allows me to present code with fewer illogical line breaks. Furthermore, my experiments show that most people find the new style more readable after a short while."
Not only is the font proportional, but it's bold, italic, and serif as well. Now, reading a textbook is of course pretty different from editing on-screen, but I remember reconsidering some of my habits after reading that book. That code ain't hard to read.
My dirt-cheap Brother DCP-130C came with full cartridges. I guess that's because the fixed costs of producing two lines of ink for the same printers are too high. HP, Epson and Canon sell a lot more printers and ink.
The downside to this printer is that it refuses to print anything, even plain b/w, once one colour cartridge is empty. I fooled it with a piece of black tape.
"Scrolling the text sideways"? It doesn't sound like you ever tried a decent mobile browser, like Opera Mini. It reflows text and resizes images to fit your little 3 inch window. For a whole lot of sites out there, neat and simple tricks like that work brilliantly.
As for the rise of web apps that the article brings up, that's where a mobile browser like Opera Mini falls short.
It could be be an advantage for the colour blind, too. If text is tagged "important" instead of "red" or "bold", then it can render blue for koreans and bold for colour blinds. This means you cannot blame it on software anymore; you should have clicked the "important" button, not what you thought was "red".
No. They are links in the distribution chain. They store one recent instance of the page, and pass that on for efficiency reasons. That's a far cry from re-publishing pages on different websites, or re-publishing content that has long since been changed or withdrawn.
You're describing the distribution chain, which necessarily implies "copying", technically speaking. You're quite right - the copyright owner doesn't control the entire distribution chain. I said that this kind of copying shouldn't be confused with re-publishing copies.
(Yeah, I know she's pushing a stupid contract - that's not my point at all.)
Please don't confuse copies for legitimate/necessary technical reasons with the act of actually publishing copies.
Put a license on your work if you want to allow others to make copies. Open source, Creative Commons, etc. is wonderful stuff, but it's not the default. The default is copyright law.
I do of course recognise that Archive.org is mostly harmless. Were it an opt-in service, I'd have no quibbles.
Oh, sure it's useful! As an opt-in service, Archive.org would be brilliant. I wouldn't even mind if they kept a non-public archive of websites, so that they could publish years of history once a site owner opted in. Publishing all that content without permission is, however, very much a breach of copyright.
She shouldn't confuse matters by talking about that stupid contract. Regular copyright laws suffice: Archive.org does not have permission to re-publish anyone's content just because there's no robots.txt.
Crawling for indexing is fair use. Caches and proxies might be fair enough. Re-publishing content, like Archive.org does, is way past fair use.
Technically speaking, yeah, sure it's a "copy". You don't have the copyright for it, so you're not allowed to re-publish it. That's what Archive.org is doing.
Archive.org doesn't only crawl and index like a search engine, but it re-publishes other sites' content. Archive.org doesn't only offer one recently cached instance of the site, like proxies and Google's cache, but it publishes a row of snapshots from different times.
Archive.org is a flagrant breach of copyright, and most certainly should be opt-in. The lady in the story should have a strong case.
robots.txt is merely a convention. Absence of that file doesn't allow anyone to break copyright.
It sounds like you're talking about Lisp, not the Perl I know, with all that changing everything talk. I still haven't seen how to programmatically modify Perl code, extend Perl's syntax, etc., but to a Lisper, that's all daily routine. Molding the language to fit your purpose is very good Lisp advice.
Hi, Slashdot. I'd just like to point out that there's a significant difference between "Europe" and "EU". Please don't redefine "European". That's newspeak. Thanks.
Good. Never create anything that resembles Lisp unless it's another Lisp dialect. Lispers love Lisp's syntax (or lack of syntax), as it's vital in making the entire language as extremely flexible as it is. They'd be disappointed to find a Lisp that wasn't Lisp after all.
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Count them, or compare them to eachother?
All code in Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" is presented in a proportional-width font: "At first glance, this presentation style will seem 'unnatural' to programmers accustomed to seeing code in constant-width fonts. However, proportional-width fonts are generally regarded as better than constant-width fonts for presentation of text. Using a proportional-width font also allows me to present code with fewer illogical line breaks. Furthermore, my experiments show that most people find the new style more readable after a short while."
Not only is the font proportional, but it's bold, italic, and serif as well. Now, reading a textbook is of course pretty different from editing on-screen, but I remember reconsidering some of my habits after reading that book. That code ain't hard to read.
My dirt-cheap Brother DCP-130C came with full cartridges. I guess that's because the fixed costs of producing two lines of ink for the same printers are too high. HP, Epson and Canon sell a lot more printers and ink.
The downside to this printer is that it refuses to print anything, even plain b/w, once one colour cartridge is empty. I fooled it with a piece of black tape.
Since when does ping measure distance?
"Scrolling the text sideways"? It doesn't sound like you ever tried a decent mobile browser, like Opera Mini. It reflows text and resizes images to fit your little 3 inch window. For a whole lot of sites out there, neat and simple tricks like that work brilliantly.
As for the rise of web apps that the article brings up, that's where a mobile browser like Opera Mini falls short.
Already? Wow, thanks ...
M-x longlines-mode
It could be be an advantage for the colour blind, too. If text is tagged "important" instead of "red" or "bold", then it can render blue for koreans and bold for colour blinds. This means you cannot blame it on software anymore; you should have clicked the "important" button, not what you thought was "red".
"could revolutionize how food is grown in the US"
Is US soil very different from what we have elsewhere, or does this company just have low ambitions?
They've been sailing the same oceans for far longer than they've been driving.
"For long"? 5 years and counting here. It's just like running Linux with no anti-virus. Crazy, I know, but I like living on the edge!
Not to mention the Nike Air. I'm embarrassed to admit I paid over $50 some years back...
No. They are links in the distribution chain. They store one recent instance of the page, and pass that on for efficiency reasons. That's a far cry from re-publishing pages on different websites, or re-publishing content that has long since been changed or withdrawn.
You're describing the distribution chain, which necessarily implies "copying", technically speaking. You're quite right - the copyright owner doesn't control the entire distribution chain. I said that this kind of copying shouldn't be confused with re-publishing copies.
(Yeah, I know she's pushing a stupid contract - that's not my point at all.)
Please don't confuse copies for legitimate/necessary technical reasons with the act of actually publishing copies.
Put a license on your work if you want to allow others to make copies. Open source, Creative Commons, etc. is wonderful stuff, but it's not the default. The default is copyright law.
I do of course recognise that Archive.org is mostly harmless. Were it an opt-in service, I'd have no quibbles.
Oh, sure it's useful! As an opt-in service, Archive.org would be brilliant. I wouldn't even mind if they kept a non-public archive of websites, so that they could publish years of history once a site owner opted in. Publishing all that content without permission is, however, very much a breach of copyright.
She shouldn't confuse matters by talking about that stupid contract. Regular copyright laws suffice: Archive.org does not have permission to re-publish anyone's content just because there's no robots.txt.
Crawling for indexing is fair use. Caches and proxies might be fair enough. Re-publishing content, like Archive.org does, is way past fair use.
Archive.org re-publishes other sites' content. That's breaking copyright, period.
robots.txt is a nice convention, but its absence doesn't allow anyone to break copyright. Where does that idea come from??
Technically speaking, yeah, sure it's a "copy". You don't have the copyright for it, so you're not allowed to re-publish it. That's what Archive.org is doing.
Indeed. I hope she wins.
Archive.org doesn't only crawl and index like a search engine, but it re-publishes other sites' content. Archive.org doesn't only offer one recently cached instance of the site, like proxies and Google's cache, but it publishes a row of snapshots from different times.
Archive.org is a flagrant breach of copyright, and most certainly should be opt-in. The lady in the story should have a strong case.
robots.txt is merely a convention. Absence of that file doesn't allow anyone to break copyright.
It sounds like you're talking about Lisp, not the Perl I know, with all that changing everything talk. I still haven't seen how to programmatically modify Perl code, extend Perl's syntax, etc., but to a Lisper, that's all daily routine. Molding the language to fit your purpose is very good Lisp advice.
I don't really agree. I rarely run any application full-screen. The menu bar is the one thing that gets crowded on my 12".
Hi, Slashdot. I'd just like to point out that there's a significant difference between "Europe" and "EU". Please don't redefine "European". That's newspeak. Thanks.
They've done the same kind of research at the Kiruna site for the last, well, 40 years...
Good. Never create anything that resembles Lisp unless it's another Lisp dialect. Lispers love Lisp's syntax (or lack of syntax), as it's vital in making the entire language as extremely flexible as it is. They'd be disappointed to find a Lisp that wasn't Lisp after all.