> Ideally, the end of a sentence in the middle of a paragraph shouldn't jump out at you visually
This contradicts what you just said about proportionally spaced typefaces adding space after the period as part of the period (and, hence, you only need "one" space typed, not two.) And that monospace typewriters simulated this using two forced spaces.
So it sounds like this "flow in the middle of a paragraph" is a recent development. Otherwise, how would the 2-space type rule come about? Had typing classes done this pointlessly, not understanding it only applied...where? Certainly not to the end of the paragraph itself since a CR is there.
I've always felt that Linux's vaunted security would be in shambles if it were installed on hundreds of millions of computers, and were thus under savage assault by thousands of hackers Hell-bent on profiting from scams.
> Fedora recently started bundling Tomcat with their distros as an > installable option...Anyone who has ever installed Tomcat knows how valuable that is.
You sick mother f***er! Why would you want that Scientology Elron crap installed on your computer?!?!? >:(
Well, kudos to Slashdot -- their pet love, Linux, is the subject of a topic right before this one, questioning whether it's really secure, pro-developer, etc.
I've always maintained that if Linux were on hundreds of millions of computers, and were thus the target of savage security assaults by thousands of hackers Hell-bent on making a profit from it supporting scams, that it would be suffering a worse fate than Windows.
Now how well that discussion develops, I don't know. But a fresh look at the core religion is at least honest. Other religions could learn a thing or two. Mac, we're looking at you!
People still don't get it. With a little mini-fridge next to the couch, you still have to bend over at the waist to get the beer.
This system, if tuned properly, would launch it right to you with nothing but a finger press and an arm movement. And it would still take less time than opening a mini-fridge door. Hence even a mini fridge on the end table such that you needn't bend over to use it would still lose out. Even if it took the same amount of time, it's time spent more or less motionless rather than opening and closing the mini fridge door.
Still, this is all amateur time. The real drunks will have dispensing spiggots with hoses attached to coolers right at the sofa. Just wrap your lips around the spiggot and suck in some cold gulps.
> The Washington Times reports that Homeland Security has developed and > is testing a new computer system called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, > Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement)
They renamed it this after they realized an unfortunate problem with the previous name, Analyze Static States For Understanding Citizen Knowledge.
Removing the extra space would probably lessen typing by a few percent at most. And it's done via the thumb -- is this involved in the RSI syndrome? Unlike the finger tendons, which do pass through the bulk of the wrist bones where RSI occurs, the thumb kind of works its way around the outside.
As for "we have WYSIWYG now", well, WYSIWYG is just an arbitrary display. The double spaces was for the purpose of giving the eye an additional visual cue. A WYSIWYG that does not add extra spacing (if you check, you will see it's just a normal single space more or less) is a poorly written one by a lazy programmer who was never exposed to "stream formatting" principles.
In other words, "we have WYSIWYG now, which doesn't use or need it" is completely missing the point. WYSIWYG is improperly built because it does not do this extra spacing. If you don't understand what I mean, you don't understand "stream formatting". In stream formatting, when you get to the end of a sentence, regardless of punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point) you add additional spacing to make the sentence separation more obvious. Thus you should only enter one space as data (or better yet, none!) after a period, and let the display render it properly.
That's right, peeps. You should type no spaces after the punctuation at the end of a sentence, if you want to be technical about it. A WYSIWYG that forces you to type one (or else it shows none) but that strips out the extra one if you type two is not WYSIWYG! And it is not a stream formatter. It is an abomination that deserves death. All incompetent inferior programmers should die like pigs in Hell, you substandard losers! >:(:)
Physics? Ok, nerds. Here's some movie laws of sociology that do not apply.
1. Nerds are not good looking
2. Nerds are not cool with the ladies
3. Nerds do not "get the girls"
4. No hot babe is gonna have a "moment" when you stare into each other's eyes and fall in love with you. As you lean in, she'll go "ick" and put up the palm of her hand. As if!
5. If a nerd actually saves the planet in reality, the hot girl will still go with the hairy, sweaty janitor.
6. If you finally get so ticked off you take a swing at the big bully, he beats the crap out of you again, anyway.
7. The hot girl laughs at you and starts giving the bully head while you cry and crawl off in search of pr0n.
The wall could be made of a composite of various rock and mortar types, some of which could spark when jammed together hard. Hence a lead bullet strikes it, causing it to shatter a little bit locally, driving some of the wall's pieces against each other, causing the spark you see.
Nah, easier than that. Just play the junk and see viewers leave in droves, along with "this boring half hour mandated by your Congressman, name XYZ, up for re-election in just four short months."
Seriously. If they can't charge for advertising, they have no incentive to search out "good" independents, and suddenly you have a de facto NPR clone playing something some toker deems Worthy. Hence they actually have an incentive to search out, or "allow", to avoid looking complicit, boring content to get on the air along with said disclaimer in hopes of getting it overturned.
Oh, your congressman wouldn't cave. I mean the other guy's.
the protons, flung outward with energies up to 100 TeV by the intense magnetic fields near the event horizon, as they make a random walk through the plasma environment. It can take thousands of years for them to travel 10 light-years from the black hole, where they collide with lower-energy protons to form pions. These decay into gamma radiation emanating from a torus-shaped region around the central object.
Or so it appears, according to the subatomic particles God set in motion "already on their way", when creating the universe 6000 years ago.
More than that, it is separated from the vehicle information bus (e.g. CAN, J-1850) by a separate, simple processor. You can't get anywhere near the car's bus with a complex 32 bit processor with gigundo software that could crash and cause problems. (Embedded folk, of "Oh, our 16 bit processor has tons of RAM for this project -- 16k!" fame.)
What do you mean? Apple *invented* the 3.5mm minijack.
I can't believe people are still trotting out this tired old line. Apple licensed Xerox's 1/4 inch jack technology, made a few tweaks and shipped it in a smaller footprint.
I.e. Apple *invented* the 3.5mm minijack.
Henry Ford didn't invent the car. He didn't invent the assembly line. He didn't invent mass production. He just brought the three together, which any old body could do.
Nobody designs cards for driving. Heck, nobody designs cards for drivers (software), except, I suppose, a few custom one-offs done by spy departments for insertion in bad guy's computers by Bond work-alikes.
> Anyone who delves into breaking down simple problems instead of recalling from rote learning is just being lazy
I never bothered, for example, learning the formula to conver Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice-versa. I know what the relationship is, and just re-derive it as necessary (which has been maybe 4 times in my life.) In this sense I know it a lot more deeply than someone who has merely memorized the formulae.
Based on this test, it's clear that the period, properly, has no space (beyond very minimal) as part of its kerning or built in spacing, either before or after it.
I've edited the proportional fonts we use on various embedded products to alter the kerning tables (contextual, e.g. i after f you back up the i one or two pixels, but not for any other letters) and inherent character widths ('1' is always as wide as '2' and any other digit, even in proportional fonts, say, to make multidigit numbers line up vertically).
I've never seen '.' have any such thing. There's no way a stream formatter, i.e. displayer, could know how to separate out the '.' in 123.456 from the '.' in the sentences "I gave him 123. 456 dogs were lying there."
You'd have to use manually entered spaces. But in that case, you're back to having just one space after a . and before the next sentence, which looks wierd.
So I reject the whole house of cards this theory is built on -- until someone wants to write an HTML display system that stream-formats properly, the HTML should not take it upon itself to delete double spaces. (Though that may be a function of the slashdot database storage system, I have nevertheless seen it happen on BBCode type BBS pages too.)
Slashdot Mirror
From TFA:
> The Department of Energy is mindful of this. It has told the two Berkeley researchers
> it will respond to their study in coming weeks.
Yes, they will "respond", if ya know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink.
> Ideally, the end of a sentence in the middle of a paragraph shouldn't jump out at you visually
This contradicts what you just said about proportionally spaced typefaces adding space after the period as part of the period (and, hence, you only need "one" space typed, not two.) And that monospace typewriters simulated this using two forced spaces.
So it sounds like this "flow in the middle of a paragraph" is a recent development. Otherwise, how would the 2-space type rule come about? Had typing classes done this pointlessly, not understanding it only applied...where? Certainly not to the end of the paragraph itself since a CR is there.
So just where did the extra space rule apply?
> Raelian Institute of Ufology is has a first rate Ufology degree
And McDonald's has a degree in Hamburgerology. I'm sure it's first rate, too. What's your point?
Hypothesis made. Let's put it to the test.
I've always felt that Linux's vaunted security would be in shambles if it were installed on hundreds of millions of computers, and were thus under savage assault by thousands of hackers Hell-bent on profiting from scams.
> Fedora recently started bundling Tomcat with their distros as an
> installable option...Anyone who has ever installed Tomcat knows how valuable that is.
You sick mother f***er! Why would you want that Scientology Elron crap installed on your computer?!?!? >:(
Oh wait. I thought you said Tomkat. n/m.
Well, kudos to Slashdot -- their pet love, Linux, is the subject of a topic right before this one, questioning whether it's really secure, pro-developer, etc.
I've always maintained that if Linux were on hundreds of millions of computers, and were thus the target of savage security assaults by thousands of hackers Hell-bent on making a profit from it supporting scams, that it would be suffering a worse fate than Windows.
Now how well that discussion develops, I don't know. But a fresh look at the core religion is at least honest. Other religions could learn a thing or two. Mac, we're looking at you!
People still don't get it. With a little mini-fridge next to the couch, you still have to bend over at the waist to get the beer.
This system, if tuned properly, would launch it right to you with nothing but a finger press and an arm movement. And it would still take less time than opening a mini-fridge door. Hence even a mini fridge on the end table such that you needn't bend over to use it would still lose out. Even if it took the same amount of time, it's time spent more or less motionless rather than opening and closing the mini fridge door.
Still, this is all amateur time. The real drunks will have dispensing spiggots with hoses attached to coolers right at the sofa. Just wrap your lips around the spiggot and suck in some cold gulps.
Unless your family has 56 people in it.
> The Washington Times reports that Homeland Security has developed and
> is testing a new computer system called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination,
> Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement)
They renamed it this after they realized an unfortunate problem with the previous name, Analyze Static States For Understanding Citizen Knowledge.
> Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations, the ASTRO
Hehe, their name, when you take the first letters, spells "Astro"! What are the odds of that?
Removing the extra space would probably lessen typing by a few percent at most. And it's done via the thumb -- is this involved in the RSI syndrome? Unlike the finger tendons, which do pass through the bulk of the wrist bones where RSI occurs, the thumb kind of works its way around the outside.
:)
As for "we have WYSIWYG now", well, WYSIWYG is just an arbitrary display. The double spaces was for the purpose of giving the eye an additional visual cue. A WYSIWYG that does not add extra spacing (if you check, you will see it's just a normal single space more or less) is a poorly written one by a lazy programmer who was never exposed to "stream formatting" principles.
In other words, "we have WYSIWYG now, which doesn't use or need it" is completely missing the point. WYSIWYG is improperly built because it does not do this extra spacing. If you don't understand what I mean, you don't understand "stream formatting". In stream formatting, when you get to the end of a sentence, regardless of punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point) you add additional spacing to make the sentence separation more obvious. Thus you should only enter one space as data (or better yet, none!) after a period, and let the display render it properly.
That's right, peeps. You should type no spaces after the punctuation at the end of a sentence, if you want to be technical about it. A WYSIWYG that forces you to type one (or else it shows none) but that strips out the extra one if you type two is not WYSIWYG ! And it is not a stream formatter. It is an abomination that deserves death. All incompetent inferior programmers should die like pigs in Hell, you substandard losers! >:(
Physics? Ok, nerds. Here's some movie laws of sociology that do not apply.
1. Nerds are not good looking
2. Nerds are not cool with the ladies
3. Nerds do not "get the girls"
4. No hot babe is gonna have a "moment" when you stare into each other's eyes and fall in love with you. As you lean in, she'll go "ick" and put up the palm of her hand. As if!
5. If a nerd actually saves the planet in reality, the hot girl will still go with the hairy, sweaty janitor.
6. If you finally get so ticked off you take a swing at the big bully, he beats the crap out of you again, anyway.
7. The hot girl laughs at you and starts giving the bully head while you cry and crawl off in search of pr0n.
What?
The wall could be made of a composite of various rock and mortar types, some of which could spark when jammed together hard. Hence a lead bullet strikes it, causing it to shatter a little bit locally, driving some of the wall's pieces against each other, causing the spark you see.
> Screw fining them. Revoke their broadcast licenses. The spectrum "belongs" to the public.
...and if you re-elect me, I promise to prevent Britney, Christina, and classic hits stations from playing the Monkeys and John Denver!
Congressman:
One November later...
Congressman: Anybody wanna hire an insider lobbyist? Cheap!
Nah, easier than that. Just play the junk and see viewers leave in droves, along with "this boring half hour mandated by your Congressman, name XYZ, up for re-election in just four short months."
Seriously. If they can't charge for advertising, they have no incentive to search out "good" independents, and suddenly you have a de facto NPR clone playing something some toker deems Worthy. Hence they actually have an incentive to search out, or "allow", to avoid looking complicit, boring content to get on the air along with said disclaimer in hopes of getting it overturned.
Oh, your congressman wouldn't cave. I mean the other guy's.
Or so it appears, according to the subatomic particles God set in motion "already on their way", when creating the universe 6000 years ago.
Dumbass scientists. >:(
More than that, it is separated from the vehicle information bus (e.g. CAN, J-1850) by a separate, simple processor. You can't get anywhere near the car's bus with a complex 32 bit processor with gigundo software that could crash and cause problems. (Embedded folk, of "Oh, our 16 bit processor has tons of RAM for this project -- 16k!" fame.)
> Remember when people designed cards for driving
Nobody designs cards for driving. Heck, nobody designs cards for drivers (software), except, I suppose, a few custom one-offs done by spy departments for insertion in bad guy's computers by Bond work-alikes.
"...and if cars were like computers, they'd crash twice a day, yet, for some reason, nobody would find this odd."
Oh. My. God. It's finally come full circle.
> Anyone who delves into breaking down simple problems instead of recalling from rote learning is just being lazy
I never bothered, for example, learning the formula to conver Celsius to Fahrenheit and vice-versa. I know what the relationship is, and just re-derive it as necessary (which has been maybe 4 times in my life.) In this sense I know it a lot more deeply than someone who has merely memorized the formulae.
Principle: Tell me, is the class moving too slowly for you?
Bart: Lord, no!
Based on this test, it's clear that the period, properly, has no space (beyond very minimal) as part of its kerning or built in spacing, either before or after it.
:(
I've edited the proportional fonts we use on various embedded products to alter the kerning tables (contextual, e.g. i after f you back up the i one or two pixels, but not for any other letters) and inherent character widths ('1' is always as wide as '2' and any other digit, even in proportional fonts, say, to make multidigit numbers line up vertically).
I've never seen '.' have any such thing. There's no way a stream formatter, i.e. displayer, could know how to separate out the '.' in 123.456 from the '.' in the sentences "I gave him 123. 456 dogs were lying there."
You'd have to use manually entered spaces. But in that case, you're back to having just one space after a . and before the next sentence, which looks wierd.
So I reject the whole house of cards this theory is built on -- until someone wants to write an HTML display system that stream-formats properly, the HTML should not take it upon itself to delete double spaces. (Though that may be a function of the slashdot database storage system, I have nevertheless seen it happen on BBCode type BBS pages too.)
The struggle continues.
Let's test that theory.
Here is a period with one space after it, I type the space. Here is the second sentence.
Here is a period where I type no spaces after it.Here is the second sentence.
Here is the period embedded in numbers 123.456.