Maybe I'm blind, but antialiasing on any font larger than 6pts at 120dpi sucks. My eyes wig-out and crave the sharp contrast of a well-hinted font. I'll take bad kerning over blurriness any day (and yes, my display is configured correctly...)
Does anyone know of a way to turn off the antialiasing in freetype or Cleartype? It seems silly to require antialiasing alongside subpixel rendering.
The need to run this stuff on Linux rather than accept nice clean sharp fonts is a downside. I haven't played much with the feature on the Linux side, can it be turned off on a font-by-font basis? It would be nice to turn antialiasing on for "fancy" fonts, and turn it off on well-hinted fonts.
How are you monitoring the memory usage in Windows? After booting, Windows XP will agressively swap out unused resources and allocate substantial amounts of RAM for drive caching.
It's tough to figure out what Windows is really "using". I suppose I could try booting Knoppix (without a ramdisk) and WinXP side by side in VMWare to compare how small the footprint can get. I recall Knoppix won't even load KDE without 70MB or so free. I figured that out recently when booting Knoppix with 128MB of RAM.
How much RAM does it take to get a system tray icon to appear in Gnome or KDE?
Linux on the Desktop can nearly match Windows feature for feature now, but it can no longer claim low resource requirements while doing so.
IMHO, Mozilla or even firefox is a heavier app than IE. Once running, they're faster (to a trained eye) but sometimes, when pulling out of swap, they will still slug along.
No, the reason to go with Mozilla or Firefox is not performance. It, for me, is everything from reasonable error messages, to being able to control the junk which finds its way on to my machine, to standards compliance.
I once went to buy alcohol with my girlfriend's credit card. No really, she asked me to!
When I signed the slip, I signed with my signature. The cashier checked the signatures fairly carefully.
Now despite the fact that the card has a woman's name on it, despite the fact that our signatures are wildly different, despite the fact that there was no attempt at forgery, the cashier didn't think it was a forgery.
Is it even illegal if you, with their authorization, use somebody else's card and sign your own name?
The only thing I could say to their bennefit is her and I have the same first initials in our signatures.
The U.K. takes banking a lot more seriously than anywhere in North America, and probably more seriously than anywhere in Europe.
The tellers seem to take great pride in the U.K. at denying people service or making them fill out dozens of forms (which are no doubt copied to the parishes of all members of your family tree, out to and including your great grandparents.
Where I am, the tellers behave like McDonald's employees. "Would you like a GIC with that?"
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There's more than a grain of truth to that. Even business and industry leaders cling to the academic community.
Most academics have enough sense to know that there are things more important than intelligence.
For passenger vehicles, I think they're a gimmick. The cost hardly justifies the fuel efficiency, and the fuel efficiency is worse on the highway. Emissions are an advantage, but the waste from the battery disposal makes even that questionable.
Now for city busses.. the noise bennefits alone are worth it, never mind the obvious reduction in real thick breathable black diesel polution.
Google could solve this with a snap of its fingers. They're already searching online papers, they just need to devise a way to bill people for reading paid content and distribute payments to the papers. Subscription or pay-as-you-go online credits might work.
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So you agree, it's sexist, and your response is to justify it!
People can earn one hell of a lot more respect by leading by example. These sexist programs are shameful insults to the women who've worked hard to work above me and alongside me.
Do you really think I don't have male friends in many fields who have trained, studied and despite their "societal advantages" find themselves unemployable?
Windows is well suited to working full screen because when Unix workstations had pricey 19" xterms, Windows had 14" monitors with 640x480 VGA.
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"If you don't mind, I'd like to see these studies for myself, because I don't trust you to report what they say accurately. Cite please."
78% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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..."but I really want to keep getting an undeserved privilege, not for any personal merits, but just because I happened to be born the right gender/race/nationality/whatever..."
How isn't that sexist and racist? And don't give me that racist/sexist crap that "because you're a white male, you don't know racism or sexism"
You don't know me and you're making assumptions. I've spent every day of my life since before I was in highschool deeply involved with technology, and I'm watching special programs being created to foster development of particular students and peers to the exclusion of others based on their gender.
Excluding based on their gender.
They won't let men in.
It's sexist.
It IS sexist.
I'm not saying that "nobody knows the hardships of being a white male", I'm saying that plain and simply, these programs and practices are OBVIOUSLY sexist.
Programs which refuse women would not be tolerated. Why are programs which refuse men tolerated?
"Also, please don't follow up with a post saying that all of the positions of power were held by men without some substantiating evidence. Put a link with a stat in it or something."
Yeah, as a guy, I'm sick of this kind of blatently sexist statement. I'm also sick of openly sexist "women in technology" programs at work and among the general population.
The only reason I can think that somebody would discriminate against me in such sessions would be because they've assumed that, being a man, I have a problem sitting in a seminar with women. Now that's blatently sexist.
I don't hear much of an outcry about a shortage of men in nursing or teaching... but there are certainly shortages and one could argue that equal representation of gender actually makes a difference in those fields for patient comfort and to set rolemodels for children.
Let's get more female welders and die makers. Those fields are overwhelmingly male-occupied and pay well.
Oh but wait, there's an implicit sexist assumption that women are only good at office work... What crap.
The problem with using the "extra" embryos is a thin-edge-of-the-wedge one. At first, if the "extras" are serving a bennefit, people will go to great lengths not to resolve the problem of "extras".
It may even go as far as using "extras" as an argument in support taking "extras" out of the equation regarding efficiency. I.e. increasing the number of "extras" is no longer a measure of our ineffectiveness because they're being used purposefully.
I despise these "moral" arguments though. They're inevitably religion v.s. science v.s. capitalism. Or tradition v.s. logic v.s. profit.
I suppose I'm saying that scienctists need to consider carefully the value to human kind when such "extras" strongly pique the interest of capitalists.
Emotions aren't rational, they're chemical. As immensely stupid as it might sound, if you're not eating properly, sleeping well, and getting exercise, that might be a good place to start.
You should probably mention your feelings to a therapist. The social stigma regarding mental illness is horrible, but you shouldn't let that stop you if you're not happy and you think something's wrong. They can also help with permanent chemical imbalances which are part of clinical depression.
"Please. Show me a single feature in WordPerfect that's law-oriented and that isn't in Word"
I would give it to you, but the macro I use to import that paragraph was designed for Office 95, and I couldn't get a license for it with my new machine. Our I.T. Department is hiring a VB.net developer, so it will be a few months before this problem is rectified.
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Anonymous coward tries BBC writing, finds grammatical errors.
Notice that his ad makes good use of white space, lacks grammatical errors and is generally well composed?
He should take up journalism or something!
Maybe I'm blind, but antialiasing on any font larger than 6pts at 120dpi sucks. My eyes wig-out and crave the sharp contrast of a well-hinted font. I'll take bad kerning over blurriness any day (and yes, my display is configured correctly...)
Does anyone know of a way to turn off the antialiasing in freetype or Cleartype? It seems silly to require antialiasing alongside subpixel rendering.
The need to run this stuff on Linux rather than accept nice clean sharp fonts is a downside. I haven't played much with the feature on the Linux side, can it be turned off on a font-by-font basis? It would be nice to turn antialiasing on for "fancy" fonts, and turn it off on well-hinted fonts.
How are you monitoring the memory usage in Windows? After booting, Windows XP will agressively swap out unused resources and allocate substantial amounts of RAM for drive caching.
It's tough to figure out what Windows is really "using". I suppose I could try booting Knoppix (without a ramdisk) and WinXP side by side in VMWare to compare how small the footprint can get. I recall Knoppix won't even load KDE without 70MB or so free. I figured that out recently when booting Knoppix with 128MB of RAM.
Yeah, there's the ramdisk again.
How much RAM does it take to get a system tray icon to appear in Gnome or KDE?
Linux on the Desktop can nearly match Windows feature for feature now, but it can no longer claim low resource requirements while doing so.
IMHO, Mozilla or even firefox is a heavier app than IE. Once running, they're faster (to a trained eye) but sometimes, when pulling out of swap, they will still slug along.
No, the reason to go with Mozilla or Firefox is not performance. It, for me, is everything from reasonable error messages, to being able to control the junk which finds its way on to my machine, to standards compliance.
I once went to buy alcohol with my girlfriend's credit card. No really, she asked me to!
When I signed the slip, I signed with my signature. The cashier checked the signatures fairly carefully.
Now despite the fact that the card has a woman's name on it, despite the fact that our signatures are wildly different, despite the fact that there was no attempt at forgery, the cashier didn't think it was a forgery.
Is it even illegal if you, with their authorization, use somebody else's card and sign your own name?
The only thing I could say to their bennefit is her and I have the same first initials in our signatures.
The U.K. takes banking a lot more seriously than anywhere in North America, and probably more seriously than anywhere in Europe.
The tellers seem to take great pride in the U.K. at denying people service or making them fill out dozens of forms (which are no doubt copied to the parishes of all members of your family tree, out to and including your great grandparents.
Where I am, the tellers behave like McDonald's employees. "Would you like a GIC with that?"
There's more than a grain of truth to that. Even business and industry leaders cling to the academic community.
Most academics have enough sense to know that there are things more important than intelligence.
You sir, are going to get a wedgie.
For passenger vehicles, I think they're a gimmick. The cost hardly justifies the fuel efficiency, and the fuel efficiency is worse on the highway. Emissions are an advantage, but the waste from the battery disposal makes even that questionable.
Now for city busses.. the noise bennefits alone are worth it, never mind the obvious reduction in real thick breathable black diesel polution.
It sounds to me more like somebody lying to inflate her ego.
But that chip is weird.
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:h7sCqBKO0YEJ: www.topoint.cc/eng_topoint/profile.htm+Topoint&hl= en
Hey, they're "inglorious in plagiarizing"
Don't forget customs brokerage and the occasional secondary shipping charge for customs to intercept, find nothing and send it on its way.
Why does he have nine fingers?
The rest of the traffic represents a token minority.
Google could solve this with a snap of its fingers. They're already searching online papers, they just need to devise a way to bill people for reading paid content and distribute payments to the papers. Subscription or pay-as-you-go online credits might work.
So you agree, it's sexist, and your response is to justify it!
People can earn one hell of a lot more respect by leading by example. These sexist programs are shameful insults to the women who've worked hard to work above me and alongside me.
Do you really think I don't have male friends in many fields who have trained, studied and despite their "societal advantages" find themselves unemployable?
Windows is well suited to working full screen because when Unix workstations had pricey 19" xterms, Windows had 14" monitors with 640x480 VGA.
"If you don't mind, I'd like to see these studies for myself, because I don't trust you to report what they say accurately. Cite please."
78% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
..."but I really want to keep getting an undeserved privilege, not for any personal merits, but just because I happened to be born the right gender/race/nationality/whatever..."
How isn't that sexist and racist? And don't give me that racist/sexist crap that "because you're a white male, you don't know racism or sexism"
You don't know me and you're making assumptions. I've spent every day of my life since before I was in highschool deeply involved with technology, and I'm watching special programs being created to foster development of particular students and peers to the exclusion of others based on their gender.
Excluding based on their gender.
They won't let men in.
It's sexist.
It IS sexist.
I'm not saying that "nobody knows the hardships of being a white male", I'm saying that plain and simply, these programs and practices are OBVIOUSLY sexist.
Programs which refuse women would not be tolerated. Why are programs which refuse men tolerated?
"Also, please don't follow up with a post saying that all of the positions of power were held by men without some substantiating evidence. Put a link with a stat in it or something."
Yeah, as a guy, I'm sick of this kind of blatently sexist statement. I'm also sick of openly sexist "women in technology" programs at work and among the general population.
The only reason I can think that somebody would discriminate against me in such sessions would be because they've assumed that, being a man, I have a problem sitting in a seminar with women. Now that's blatently sexist.
I don't hear much of an outcry about a shortage of men in nursing or teaching... but there are certainly shortages and one could argue that equal representation of gender actually makes a difference in those fields for patient comfort and to set rolemodels for children.
Let's get more female welders and die makers. Those fields are overwhelmingly male-occupied and pay well.
Oh but wait, there's an implicit sexist assumption that women are only good at office work... What crap.
"While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
Equal and opposite?
The problem with using the "extra" embryos is a thin-edge-of-the-wedge one. At first, if the "extras" are serving a bennefit, people will go to great lengths not to resolve the problem of "extras".
It may even go as far as using "extras" as an argument in support taking "extras" out of the equation regarding efficiency. I.e. increasing the number of "extras" is no longer a measure of our ineffectiveness because they're being used purposefully.
I despise these "moral" arguments though. They're inevitably religion v.s. science v.s. capitalism. Or tradition v.s. logic v.s. profit.
I suppose I'm saying that scienctists need to consider carefully the value to human kind when such "extras" strongly pique the interest of capitalists.
Well that sucks :-)
You do realize you're saing you know your depression is chronic and irrational.
If you were giving yourself advice, what would you tell you to do?
Emotions aren't rational, they're chemical. As immensely stupid as it might sound, if you're not eating properly, sleeping well, and getting exercise, that might be a good place to start.
You should probably mention your feelings to a therapist. The social stigma regarding mental illness is horrible, but you shouldn't let that stop you if you're not happy and you think something's wrong. They can also help with permanent chemical imbalances which are part of clinical depression.
It's hard to make that first step.
"Please. Show me a single feature in WordPerfect that's law-oriented and that isn't in Word"
I would give it to you, but the macro I use to import that paragraph was designed for Office 95, and I couldn't get a license for it with my new machine. Our I.T. Department is hiring a VB.net developer, so it will be a few months before this problem is rectified.
Why upgrade if your current software works?