On my iBook, I unclip the keyboard, side a sheet of cardboard under it, and tap the corner of it on the cardboard to get rid of larger particles. That way I can leave the keyboard hooked up by it's ribbon cable, and not worry about getting the crap under the keys into the internals of the system. Then, I spray a paper towel with Windex and wipe down the tops of the keys, replace the keyboard, throw out the cardboard and paper towel, and wipe down the rest of the laptop (minus the screen) with more Windex-soaked paper towels. The screen gets a damp microfibre cloth, and the area below the keyboard (around the touchpad) gets wiped down twice, since it always seems to be dirtier than the keyboard.
I picked Calibri because the parent post was talking about it. I've never seen it, myself. I only use Windows at work, and I am not doing a whole lot of work with different fonts.
And if I have some special need, perhaps for a font that sacrifices attractiveness for extreme readability, high contrast, large letters, et cetera (perhaps I can't see very well), I should be able to say "screw your design, I want to be able to read your content!" with an !important rule in my user stylesheet. The flash method eliminates this option.
It is exactly what CSS2 currently implements. I say that is good enough. Users can download and install any font they want. If they don't want the font, they don't have to install it.
Web is a limited medium. You have to design to what the users' computers can display, even going with the lowest common denominator, or providing fallbacks for users with older browsers. You wouldn't say to a book publisher "I want to have the picture on page 42 animated", would you?
Besides, what the user wants is more important than what the designer wants. One of the big problems with the Flash method is that I can't override it with my user stylesheet. This completely defeats the point of a user stylesheet.
A mechanism already exists for using the font that you wish to use in a web site:
Choose a font that you like, and want to use in your web site.
Obtain permission from the font designer to provide the font to your users for download (may be easier said than done, depending on the font).
Provide the font for download, along with a blurb saying something like "There is this great font called X. If you have it installed, you can see this site in its full glory (screenshot link). Download it here (installation/removal instructions link)".
Specify that font, falling back on a similar font that is common among most computers, falling back on a generic font-family such as serif or sans-serif.
This is why you can specify multiple fonts/font families in CSS.
p {font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
It will check for Calibri, and use that if the user has it installed. If not, it will check for Trebuchet, then Helvetica, and finally, if the user has none of those installed, it will fall back to whatever the user has set as the default sans-serif font.
If there is a particular font you like, you can provide it for download (well, if you are ALLOWED to provide it for download, many commercial fonts have to be purchased) on your site, perhaps with a little blurb about how this font is sooooo great you just have to try it. The user can (if she wants) download and install the font, and your site will look the way you intended.
Set a font size, and a font family. You get the fonts the size you intend by default. The user can scale up and down their font sizes, and all the text on the page changes in the same proportion. You get the font style (serif, sans-serif, monospaced, etc) that you want, but it uses whichever font they have set as default for that font family. You can even say "Use Bitstream Vera Sans if they have it. If they don't, then use Helvetica, and if for whatever reason they don't have that, use whatever sans-serif is default". That is a much better solution than embedding all of the text in a Flash movie.
If you want it to look the same on paper as it does on their screen as it does on your screen, there are formats for that: PDF.
Ugh. You mean one will 'win' in the end, and we will get "one desktop to rule them all, one desktop to find them"? No thanks. Give me choice. I, for one, use neither KDE nor Gnome.
I don't have a problem driving while I am talking on a cell phone, but I do have issues talking on a cell phone while driving - I have to ask people to repeat themselves because I don't pay enough attention to the conversation to know what people are talking about all the time.
Just about anywhere, actually. I had some kids get pissed at me in a high school Earth Science class because I got a good grade on an exam, and "messed up the curve". That was in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He was responding to the post before his, which said, "I don't know who those people are, but what about the guys who made significant scientific contributions? Were any of them child prodigies?".
It helps to look at the "posts below your current threshold" link if someone makes a post that seems to make no sense. Sometimes a bit of context can help.
I'm a third-year student in a CS program. So far, I have done Java, C++ (and a little QT along with it), MIPS Assembly, Scheme, a tiny bit of Prolog, and I am currently taking a class, "Introduction to Operating Systems", that covers CPU scheduling, process synchronisation, message passing, and so on. In the same class we did assembly, we built a simple processor in a logic simulation program. I don't know if this is typical of a CS program these days, though. Of course, there was also DFAs, grammars, lambda calculus, etc, and data structures and so forth. I still haven't taken Algorithms, but once I take that, and the group project class, I am pretty much done with the core curriculum.
When I started, the CS1 course was Java-only. I think they now have a CS1 course in C++ as well. Of course, I learned C++ in high school in the AP Computer Science program, which has also since switched to Java.
Regular Bombay, and Faygo tonic. I'm gonna say it's probably the tonic. Bombay isn't the greatest, but it isn't bottom shelf. And I didn't add any lime. Ooops.
I tried a Gin & Tonic once... I didn't like it. The tonic ruins the flavour of the gin. I didn't know tonic water was sweet, but it apparently has corn syrup in it. I'll stick with martinis. Six parts gin, one moment of silence for the vermouth.
I never pay attention to them anyway, so I am not hurting anyone by blocking them.
They annoy me, so I am hurting myself by NOT blocking them.
They waste bandwidth, so I am hurting others by NOT blocking them.
They waste computrons, and, by extension, electricity, thus contributing to global warming... yeah...
I have the technical capability to block them, and, because of the other reasons stated above, I have no reason not to block them, and several reasons to block them.
Apparently so. My family has never had an electric can opener, though. The mechanical ones work just fine, and can be cleaned, unlike the electric versions. I don't really see the point to an electric can opener. It isn't any faster. In fact, I can usually open a can faster with a mechanical can opener.
1) Scan wide swaths of the internet for problems.
2) Find a vulnerable server, and break in.
3) Hack any existing security on said server to bits, leaving it completely open.
4) Offer to fix their security.
5) If they refuse the offer, make them regret their decision by repeating steps 1 through 3 until they call you back.
My family's cabin has a two-track leading to it. While I obviously do not get out of my seat, I can take my hands off the wheel and drive at about 10mph, and the car follows the road perfectly.
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On my iBook, I unclip the keyboard, side a sheet of cardboard under it, and tap the corner of it on the cardboard to get rid of larger particles. That way I can leave the keyboard hooked up by it's ribbon cable, and not worry about getting the crap under the keys into the internals of the system. Then, I spray a paper towel with Windex and wipe down the tops of the keys, replace the keyboard, throw out the cardboard and paper towel, and wipe down the rest of the laptop (minus the screen) with more Windex-soaked paper towels. The screen gets a damp microfibre cloth, and the area below the keyboard (around the touchpad) gets wiped down twice, since it always seems to be dirtier than the keyboard.
That "reflective surface" is the data, so no wonder you weren't able to "slice it off another CD".
Ever eat cheese? Unless you look for special vegetarian cheese, most cheese contains rennet, which is generally made from the stomach lining of cows.
I picked Calibri because the parent post was talking about it. I've never seen it, myself. I only use Windows at work, and I am not doing a whole lot of work with different fonts.
And if I have some special need, perhaps for a font that sacrifices attractiveness for extreme readability, high contrast, large letters, et cetera (perhaps I can't see very well), I should be able to say "screw your design, I want to be able to read your content!" with an !important rule in my user stylesheet. The flash method eliminates this option.
It is exactly what CSS2 currently implements. I say that is good enough. Users can download and install any font they want. If they don't want the font, they don't have to install it.
Web is a limited medium. You have to design to what the users' computers can display, even going with the lowest common denominator, or providing fallbacks for users with older browsers. You wouldn't say to a book publisher "I want to have the picture on page 42 animated", would you?
Besides, what the user wants is more important than what the designer wants. One of the big problems with the Flash method is that I can't override it with my user stylesheet. This completely defeats the point of a user stylesheet.
This is why you can specify multiple fonts/font families in CSS.
p {font-family: Calibri, Trebuchet, Helvetica, sans-serif;}
It will check for Calibri, and use that if the user has it installed. If not, it will check for Trebuchet, then Helvetica, and finally, if the user has none of those installed, it will fall back to whatever the user has set as the default sans-serif font.
If there is a particular font you like, you can provide it for download (well, if you are ALLOWED to provide it for download, many commercial fonts have to be purchased) on your site, perhaps with a little blurb about how this font is sooooo great you just have to try it. The user can (if she wants) download and install the font, and your site will look the way you intended.
Set a font size, and a font family. You get the fonts the size you intend by default. The user can scale up and down their font sizes, and all the text on the page changes in the same proportion. You get the font style (serif, sans-serif, monospaced, etc) that you want, but it uses whichever font they have set as default for that font family. You can even say "Use Bitstream Vera Sans if they have it. If they don't, then use Helvetica, and if for whatever reason they don't have that, use whatever sans-serif is default". That is a much better solution than embedding all of the text in a Flash movie.
If you want it to look the same on paper as it does on their screen as it does on your screen, there are formats for that: PDF.
Well, I guess there is VILE, the vi "finger-feel" emulator for Emacs...
"Emacs"
He said shell, not operating system... Besides, Emacs would be a far better OS if it shipped with a halfway-decent text editor.
"Users will vote with their own desktop."
Ugh. You mean one will 'win' in the end, and we will get "one desktop to rule them all, one desktop to find them"? No thanks. Give me choice. I, for one, use neither KDE nor Gnome.
I don't have a problem driving while I am talking on a cell phone, but I do have issues talking on a cell phone while driving - I have to ask people to repeat themselves because I don't pay enough attention to the conversation to know what people are talking about all the time.
Just about anywhere, actually. I had some kids get pissed at me in a high school Earth Science class because I got a good grade on an exam, and "messed up the curve". That was in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He was responding to the post before his, which said, "I don't know who those people are, but what about the guys who made significant scientific contributions? Were any of them child prodigies?".
It helps to look at the "posts below your current threshold" link if someone makes a post that seems to make no sense. Sometimes a bit of context can help.
I'm a third-year student in a CS program. So far, I have done Java, C++ (and a little QT along with it), MIPS Assembly, Scheme, a tiny bit of Prolog, and I am currently taking a class, "Introduction to Operating Systems", that covers CPU scheduling, process synchronisation, message passing, and so on. In the same class we did assembly, we built a simple processor in a logic simulation program. I don't know if this is typical of a CS program these days, though. Of course, there was also DFAs, grammars, lambda calculus, etc, and data structures and so forth. I still haven't taken Algorithms, but once I take that, and the group project class, I am pretty much done with the core curriculum.
When I started, the CS1 course was Java-only. I think they now have a CS1 course in C++ as well. Of course, I learned C++ in high school in the AP Computer Science program, which has also since switched to Java.
Regular Bombay, and Faygo tonic. I'm gonna say it's probably the tonic. Bombay isn't the greatest, but it isn't bottom shelf. And I didn't add any lime. Ooops.
I tried a Gin & Tonic once... I didn't like it. The tonic ruins the flavour of the gin. I didn't know tonic water was sweet, but it apparently has corn syrup in it. I'll stick with martinis. Six parts gin, one moment of silence for the vermouth.
You got the obvious one.
They'll get there just desserts.
Apparently so. My family has never had an electric can opener, though. The mechanical ones work just fine, and can be cleaned, unlike the electric versions. I don't really see the point to an electric can opener. It isn't any faster. In fact, I can usually open a can faster with a mechanical can opener.
Mine from '84 has that warning.
1) Scan wide swaths of the internet for problems. 2) Find a vulnerable server, and break in. 3) Hack any existing security on said server to bits, leaving it completely open. 4) Offer to fix their security. 5) If they refuse the offer, make them regret their decision by repeating steps 1 through 3 until they call you back.
My family's cabin has a two-track leading to it. While I obviously do not get out of my seat, I can take my hands off the wheel and drive at about 10mph, and the car follows the road perfectly.