> Why is this even news? It's all well and good for a browser vendor to endorse > a font format, but it's absolutely useless if no foundries will release fonts > in this format.
According to the article some font sellers are already supporting it.
> Wouldn't those pirating an OS be less likely to have infected computers > simply because they would be more likely to be more computer literate > than your average user?
No. They don't install it themselves: they don't even know what an operating system is. They just buy a pc from the shop that has the best prices, is conveniently located, and promises to include all the software they could need.
>...the decision hinges on the assertion that ISP customers have lowered > privacy interests in e-mail because they 'expose to the ISP's employees in > the ordinary course of business the contents of their e-mails.' Fortunately > for everybody, this is not true...
Yes it is. The fact that the employees might be fired for reading the mail does not alter the fact that they have the opportunity to do so. Unencrypted email is no more private than a postcard.
> More importantly, it's then easy to import that data for visualization and > analysis purposes. Data presented as a PDF file is effectively so > inaccessible that it will rarely be extracted for further analysis, meaning > that some gov't functionary becomes responsible for the presentation and > analysis instead of members of the public.
Which is exactly why PDF is what you are going to get (or something even more inaccessible).
No. That's why they deployed it, despite the fact that the antimissile software was still beta. It shot down some Scuds, which is better than the alternative: nothing. It also would have come in handy had Saddam surprised the hell out of everyone and managed to pull off a bomber attack.
> Yup - gaskets, flexible boots and such. But they have limited effectiveness > since there's some sliding action exposed to the nasty elements.
There doesn't have to be except at the wheels.
Gas jets could be used to blow seals clear. Shouldn't take much gas. Or maybe positive pressure on the inside of each seal and a very slightly leaky seal so that there is a constant outward flow of gas or lubricant when the bearing is in motion to carry contaminants away.
A search for "self cleaning seals" gets lots of hits.
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> Why is this even news? It's all well and good for a browser vendor to endorse
> a font format, but it's absolutely useless if no foundries will release fonts
> in this format.
According to the article some font sellers are already supporting it.
> Why are they inventing something new?
Because the font sellers want to collect license fees from every site that uses one of their fonts.
> How long until we see an application (or a web-based application) that does
> exactly this?
I don't think that any significant number of users would bother with such a thing (or even be aware that the possibility exists). Fonts aren't music.
I don't like the idea of more loony fonts, but it's a worthwhile tradeoff if it reduces the number of all-Flash sites.
> ...we'll be stuck with boring typography for years.
We can only hope.
Microsoft has a financial incentive to make people fear running unauthorized copies of Windows.
> Wouldn't those pirating an OS be less likely to have infected computers
> simply because they would be more likely to be more computer literate
> than your average user?
No. They don't install it themselves: they don't even know what an operating system is. They just buy a pc from the shop that has the best prices, is conveniently located, and promises to include all the software they could need.
> ...what is "artificial intelligence"...
Artificial intelligence is whatever it is that machines can't do yet.
> Keep waiting, because the users don't want this. I like my DejaVu Sans and
> prefer to read all my sites in the same readable font of my choice.
Same here.
The article makes it fairly clear that the fonts are to be available only within the browser and even only on pages from a particular domain.
It's ok, I guess, as long as I can turn it off and force the use of my chosen fonts.
Sure. They have no interest at all in reducing their costs.
The engineers who design these things never thought of that. They just aren't as smart as you are.
The same defense applies to pretty much all of these (except maybe CASE).
> ...the decision hinges on the assertion that ISP customers have lowered
> privacy interests in e-mail because they 'expose to the ISP's employees in
> the ordinary course of business the contents of their e-mails.' Fortunately
> for everybody, this is not true...
Yes it is. The fact that the employees might be fired for reading the mail does not alter the fact that they have the opportunity to do so. Unencrypted email is no more private than a postcard.
No, they'd just have to not route 75% or so of them through New York.
I believe that the cable is plowed in close to shore where possible to protect it against nets, anchors, etc.
...but it would be nice to have the landings more widely distributed, especially on the US Atlantic coast.
This has nothing at all to do with the DMCA.
...why do they pee themselves every time they hear word "terror"?
> More importantly, it's then easy to import that data for visualization and
> analysis purposes. Data presented as a PDF file is effectively so
> inaccessible that it will rarely be extracted for further analysis, meaning
> that some gov't functionary becomes responsible for the presentation and
> analysis instead of members of the public.
Which is exactly why PDF is what you are going to get (or something even more inaccessible).
> He may well find that the infinite music is not a continuum.
Or he may just find that crap (i.e., 99.9% of popular music and 100% of the Beatles) is ephemeral.
I thought Ballmer was a song and dance man: "Developers! Developers! Developers!"
The brine is created from a portion of the sea water. They use the sun to heat it and evaporate some of the H2O. This is the primary energy input.
A requirement which would add decades to development time without necessarily eliminating bugs such as this one.
> Did they have another system to put in place?
No. That's why they deployed it, despite the fact that the antimissile software was still beta. It shot down some Scuds, which is better than the alternative: nothing. It also would have come in handy had Saddam surprised the hell out of everyone and managed to pull off a bomber attack.
> Yup - gaskets, flexible boots and such. But they have limited effectiveness > since there's some sliding action exposed to the nasty elements.
There doesn't have to be except at the wheels.
Gas jets could be used to blow seals clear. Shouldn't take much gas. Or maybe positive pressure on the inside of each seal and a very slightly leaky seal so that there is a constant outward flow of gas or lubricant when the bearing is in motion to carry contaminants away.
A search for "self cleaning seals" gets lots of hits.