> [MMORPGs connect to a central server] so verifying that the user's CD key is unique can be done without much fuss
They don't even bother doing that other than once to confirm that particular key hasn't been used before to create an account. After that, you can log in anywhere with just your account name.
Yes, but the whole purpose for the double space, to give a wider separation that's easier on the eye, does not evaporate when you introduce proportional space fonts. Furthermore, even though font definition languages allow for you to specify context-sensitive kerning info, such that a '.' followed by a space could have extra space added, in practice nobody actually does this. Hence sentences all miss this.
And we know that renderers like browsers are smart enough to add extra space because they forcibly remove it if you manually type two spaces! I don't want some browser writer deciding there should be one space after a period because it's a proportional font -- add the damned extra space because that's what looks better.
> Note that it's a bit like the WoW equipment sets too:
Shouldn't chimeras be banned for cheating? For including all the powers and abilities of two classes in one character? Not just half-assed versions as per standard crossover classes, but the full blown range.
> Here's one thought for you: Splash Conception [wikipedia.org]. A.k.a., anal > sex is not 100% reliable as birth control. It only takes one drop of sperm > on reaching the vulva, and the spermatozoa's mobility takes it from there.
Impregnation through the anus is also possible in extreme cases. I recall an episode of Phil Donahue just before Oprah killed him off, where he had on a woman who was "the first woman to graduate from some all male academy". Turns out "he" was actually a she, not discovered until after graduation. She had a penis, but no testicles, and the pee hole and vaginal opening were rotated about up inside her ass.
She looked female, "felt" female, and was genetically female, and decided to "switch" to live that way. She preferred other girls, and her girlfriend said they had "fun" with her little thingie, I forget the pet name they gave to it.
The even more interesting part was that her mother was exactly the same way (implying it was a stable genetic mutation) and that her dad never noticed it because they always turned out the lights! The mother was not there as the daughter was also accusing her of sexual abuse, and Phil wouldn't go into it since she was not there to defend herself.
Hmmm. Let's put on our powerful comic book writer thinking caps and apply all the fearesome, brute thought power that goes into writing a comic book.
Hmmm... >:-(
I've got it!
It's a giant bolt that holds the planet from splitting in two and letting an ancient demon out!
No, Superman! Get away! I know Lex Luthor told you the only place to get the antidote for Lois was inside there. Don't do it!
Ding - Fries are done! Ding - Fries are done! Ding - Fries are done!
Hulk could beat Superman! Oh yeah? Well Superman turned this giant bolt! Oh yeah? Well, Hulk punched and destroyed an asteriod twice the size of Earth! Oh yeah? Well, this bolt head alone is four times the size of Earth! And the whole bolt is hundreds of times its size! Oh yeah? I would indeed like an apple pie with that. Here you go, sir.
And what this guy just got done explaining was why it might not apply -- does the license require source code if you do not sell the product, but merely lease it?
Exactly. How can you sort the truth from baldfaced lies? Indeed, some aren't even "baldfaced", i.e. obvious.
In fact, I was making sweet love to Angelina Jolie and Anne Hathaway in a 3-way the other day, and she told me she couldn't believe the crap that was out there about her -- tabloids are now printing rumors that bloggers are making up.
That's fine, but a "law firm paying bloggers to lie that a birth control patch is killing people" is just unconscionable smarmy stacked on top of smarmy.
People in that law firm, and their bloggers, need to go to jail.
Of course, no competition will arise if Sanyo drives way up the cost of its TVs.:rollseyes
"But Sanyo can drive them back down."
Yes, exactly.
As for video games, they are already in that boat as each brand is its own natural monopoly. They deserve every penny they can suck out of game players.
Well, if dinosaur bones were planted by the Devil, as was the evidence of a super-ancient world and of an asteroid strike and mass dieoff, I suppose it makes sense to plant fake evidence that some dinosaurs burrowed and survived the asteroid.
> some of his comments are almost laughably off-target ('OS/2 is the way of the future!').
And by "laughably off-target", you of course mean "astoundingly on-target". He wasn't out from under the wing of IBM at the time. That IBM might shrug him off and "do the OS themselves" was not an unassailably improbable concept. So continue sucking up to IBM until, like the proverbial frog in a pot of water, it doesn't recognize the water has gotten too warm.
Actually, there's some argument to be made that intelligence evolved to allow the organism to operate more efficiently. That it was more about finding the lazy, quick way to do something, working and developing much faster than via tens of thousands of generations of built-in instinct.
> The current typographic standard dictates that two spaces are only used when the > selected font is monospaced, like Courier, Monaco, or the terminal font. When > using a proportionally spaced font, the second space is unnecessary.
Properly formatted proportional fonts. You are the 30th person to bring up this point to me, and no one gets it.
The reason for the additional spacing is to give the eye an aid -- to differentiate the space at the end of the sentence from the smaller amount of space between words.
I have yet to see a stream formatter (including all known web browsers) that properly add a little additional space at the end of a sentence.
Don't say "proportional fonts build in space" -- they do, but it's the same space as between words, so it has no bearing on a little extra space at the end of a sentence, useful for the above reason.
Don't say "monospace fonts etc." because the same rule that applies to proportional applies to monospace -- you could just as easily have the same space between words as you do after a sentence -- one space.
Why have more than one space for monospace fonts, but only a single space for proportional fonts?
Secondly, why strip it out in web pages?
The same argument that applies to monospace -- eases the eye -- applies to proportional.
My desk is a sty -- I clean it up once every six months or year when they threaten me at work.
And yet, I'm the one who writes up full-blown how-to documents on how to do a complete build of our 12,000+ file project, how to do integrations, how to do this or that. And they come to me to solve the worst of the problems, when the factory has a problem, or the customer is purple in the face over something.
It might not be about saving time = more productivity. It might be that people of such a mind are just better workers because they're smarter.
For example, their minds might not view trivialities such as a clean desk as being important.
It's been decades since psychologists noted highly intelligent people tended to disdain rules as being set up for the common man.
Higner intelligence --> more clutter and, coincidentally, more productive, better work.
But it would require higher intelligence to see that link, rather than just presuming some first-order connection between clutter and doing a better job.
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> [MMORPGs connect to a central server] so verifying that the user's CD key is unique can be done without much fuss
They don't even bother doing that other than once to confirm that particular key hasn't been used before to create an account. After that, you can log in anywhere with just your account name.
All I have to say is I pity Serenity in the next online poll. If one out of 1000 Star Wars fans decides to take revenge, it's all over.
So you're probably glad they dubbed in James Earl Jones' voice?
Exactly! Judas "gave up the good" for a small bag of silver.
Jar-jar "gave up the good" because he's a stupid bag of seegeeeye.
And the captain fights the entire fight in a Lay-Z-Fish command chair recliner.
Yes, but the whole purpose for the double space, to give a wider separation that's easier on the eye, does not evaporate when you introduce proportional space fonts. Furthermore, even though font definition languages allow for you to specify context-sensitive kerning info, such that a '.' followed by a space could have extra space added, in practice nobody actually does this. Hence sentences all miss this.
And we know that renderers like browsers are smart enough to add extra space because they forcibly remove it if you manually type two spaces! I don't want some browser writer deciding there should be one space after a period because it's a proportional font -- add the damned extra space because that's what looks better.
> Note that it's a bit like the WoW equipment sets too:
Shouldn't chimeras be banned for cheating? For including all the powers and abilities of two classes in one character? Not just half-assed versions as per standard crossover classes, but the full blown range.
Male and female? Cheater! Ban them!
> Here's one thought for you: Splash Conception [wikipedia.org]. A.k.a., anal
> sex is not 100% reliable as birth control. It only takes one drop of sperm
> on reaching the vulva, and the spermatozoa's mobility takes it from there.
Impregnation through the anus is also possible in extreme cases. I recall an episode of Phil Donahue just before Oprah killed him off, where he had on a woman who was "the first woman to graduate from some all male academy". Turns out "he" was actually a she, not discovered until after graduation. She had a penis, but no testicles, and the pee hole and vaginal opening were rotated about up inside her ass.
She looked female, "felt" female, and was genetically female, and decided to "switch" to live that way. She preferred other girls, and her girlfriend said they had "fun" with her little thingie, I forget the pet name they gave to it.
The even more interesting part was that her mother was exactly the same way (implying it was a stable genetic mutation) and that her dad never noticed it because they always turned out the lights! The mother was not there as the daughter was also accusing her of sexual abuse, and Phil wouldn't go into it since she was not there to defend herself.
Hmmm. Let's put on our powerful comic book writer thinking caps and apply all the fearesome, brute thought power that goes into writing a comic book.
Hmmm... >:-(
I've got it!
It's a giant bolt that holds the planet from splitting in two and letting an ancient demon out!
No, Superman! Get away! I know Lex Luthor told you the only place to get the antidote for Lois was inside there. Don't do it!
Ding - Fries are done!
Ding - Fries are done!
Ding - Fries are done!
Hulk could beat Superman! Oh yeah? Well Superman turned this giant bolt! Oh yeah? Well, Hulk punched and destroyed an asteriod twice the size of Earth! Oh yeah? Well, this bolt head alone is four times the size of Earth! And the whole bolt is hundreds of times its size! Oh yeah? I would indeed like an apple pie with that. Here you go, sir.
Most nerds do have to purchase their boxes.
Wait for it...ah, nevermind.
And what this guy just got done explaining was why it might not apply -- does the license require source code if you do not sell the product, but merely lease it?
Or not rip .mp3s from store-bought CDs and share them around, after opening several layers of boxes with (c) all over them, for that matter.
Exactly. How can you sort the truth from baldfaced lies? Indeed, some aren't even "baldfaced", i.e. obvious.
In fact, I was making sweet love to Angelina Jolie and Anne Hathaway in a 3-way the other day, and she told me she couldn't believe the crap that was out there about her -- tabloids are now printing rumors that bloggers are making up.
That's fine, but a "law firm paying bloggers to lie that a birth control patch is killing people" is just unconscionable smarmy stacked on top of smarmy.
People in that law firm, and their bloggers, need to go to jail.
Of course, no competition will arise if Sanyo drives way up the cost of its TVs. :rollseyes
"But Sanyo can drive them back down."
Yes, exactly.
As for video games, they are already in that boat as each brand is its own natural monopoly. They deserve every penny they can suck out of game players.
Where are all the journalists?
...
1) Find out who the bloggers work for
2) Publish this to embarass the corporations
3) They get fired
4)
5) Profit!
Well, if dinosaur bones were planted by the Devil, as was the evidence of a super-ancient world and of an asteroid strike and mass dieoff, I suppose it makes sense to plant fake evidence that some dinosaurs burrowed and survived the asteroid.
Logic!
> some of his comments are almost laughably off-target ('OS/2 is the way of the future!').
And by "laughably off-target", you of course mean "astoundingly on-target". He wasn't out from under the wing of IBM at the time. That IBM might shrug him off and "do the OS themselves" was not an unassailably improbable concept. So continue sucking up to IBM until, like the proverbial frog in a pot of water, it doesn't recognize the water has gotten too warm.
Marge Simpson: A Stargate movie?!?!? Now I've heard everything!
Investigator: So why did New York just blow up again?
RFID License Plate Politician: Our system was flawless except for someone stealing a good one.
Actually, there's some argument to be made that intelligence evolved to allow the organism to operate more efficiently. That it was more about finding the lazy, quick way to do something, working and developing much faster than via tens of thousands of generations of built-in instinct.
> The current typographic standard dictates that two spaces are only used when the
> selected font is monospaced, like Courier, Monaco, or the terminal font. When
> using a proportionally spaced font, the second space is unnecessary.
Properly formatted proportional fonts. You are the 30th person to bring up this point to me, and no one gets it.
The reason for the additional spacing is to give the eye an aid -- to differentiate the space at the end of the sentence from the smaller amount of space between words.
I have yet to see a stream formatter (including all known web browsers) that properly add a little additional space at the end of a sentence.
Don't say "proportional fonts build in space" -- they do, but it's the same space as between words, so it has no bearing on a little extra space at the end of a sentence, useful for the above reason.
Don't say "monospace fonts etc." because the same rule that applies to proportional applies to monospace -- you could just as easily have the same space between words as you do after a sentence -- one space.
Why have more than one space for monospace fonts, but only a single space for proportional fonts?
Secondly, why strip it out in web pages?
The same argument that applies to monospace -- eases the eye -- applies to proportional.
> `Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.`
Man, I love Hathaway! She's so hot with that long black hair, creamy white skin, and big red lips.
> Anyone familiar with the Mayan Calendar? December 21, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Calendar) Coincidence?"
Dilbert: Watch out! The year 2000 is coming! People think bad things are gonna happen. What do we learn from this?
Dogbert: That God uses a base 10 counting system and hates big round numbers?
Dilbert: It sounds stupid when you say it.
My desk is a sty -- I clean it up once every six months or year when they threaten me at work.
And yet, I'm the one who writes up full-blown how-to documents on how to do a complete build of our 12,000+ file project, how to do integrations, how to do this or that. And they come to me to solve the worst of the problems, when the factory has a problem, or the customer is purple in the face over something.
It might not be about saving time = more productivity. It might be that people of such a mind are just better workers because they're smarter.
For example, their minds might not view trivialities such as a clean desk as being important.
It's been decades since psychologists noted highly intelligent people tended to disdain rules as being set up for the common man.
Higner intelligence --> more clutter and, coincidentally, more productive, better work.
But it would require higher intelligence to see that link, rather than just presuming some first-order connection between clutter and doing a better job.