Seems like they're only creating times-like fonts, from the FAQ:
6. Will the STIX Fonts have a general appearance that I will recognize?
Yes. The STIX Fonts will be a "Times compatible" font set. They will resemble the basic Windows Times New Roman(TM) or Adobe Times(TM) font appearance. All such font sets are derived from the original Monotype set designed by Victor Lardent under Stanley Morison's direction for the Times of London in 1932.
I personally like Arial best, for most purposes, but this is a good effort anyway; the fonts distributed with most distros suck big time. A good Times font would be a good start.
I only wonder if they will distribute it under a true free license (FSF-free). If they won't, I wonder if Debian will include them in the main distro.
It doesn't matter as long as you don't accelerate too quickly, I guess. Btw - did you know people raised the same point you just did about cars: "what? 60 km/h - no man can survive that!".
Yeah, let's put all the British media in one big company - huray for corporatism!
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Here in the Netherlands television and radio broadcast is semi-funded by the government too - there are some commercials, but only in between programs. This actually makes them more independant - they can do and say what they want _and_ they don't have to care about money or commercial interests that much.
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>by Anonymous Coward (...)
>Anybody else have the guts to admit (...)
Erm... maybe I am missing something here? Looks like you don't even have the guts to post under your own name...
mass of H (and anti-H): 1,00797 u When an anti-H gets annihilated, that breaks up an H too, so, mass converted at annihilation: 2*1,00797 = 2,01594 u
E=mc^2 1u = 1,66054 * 10^-27 kg
E = 2,01594*1,66054*(10^-27)*c^2 = 1,00356995*10^-10 J for one atom. They say they have a few thousand atoms, say they have, 10.000, that would result in 1,00356995*10^-6 J of mass to be 'converted' to 'pure' energy. For comparision: a lightbulb uses about 40W = 40 J/s. I don't know how quick the annihilation would be, but with this little energy released, I guess you won't blow up that much; no loud bang...unless the universe collapses, that is:)
But.. uhm.. I skipped science classes quite often (it was easy), so don't pin me down on this;)
And er.. pretty please mod me up a little... need some karma... some punk modded one reaction at -1, just after I signed up... now all my reactions appear at 0.
Whow... this one blew me right off of my chair.
I think this is the first thing I see that can beat the command line...
It is so totally unix: small apps that can do what they're good at, no useless stuff. Quick small and stable.
Really nice to see they don't seem to feel the need to write everything in C.
I don't really think Philips is going to introduce it's own copy protection scheme - they sold Seagram (record-company) some years ago. Naturally, they were barking about going back to core-business, but I think they forsaw that there would be less profit to make in this sector.
A think I'm not sure about - doesn't Philips make money on every CD-R sold, as they're holding the patent on the CD?
I don't know why those "audio" cd-r's Philips sells are that expensive in the US - they certainly weren't in the Netherlands - not even when they were introduced.
So... would they use winelib to do the port?
Maybe forcing MS to really document and open up all their 'standards', file formats etc. would be a better way to go.
btw: Removing IE from windows wouldn't help unless they'd really cut it loose from windows explorer (the file manager) and rewrote all their stinking IE-objects and widgets to work without all those IE-dll's. Just removing iexplore.exe won't help.
And manufacturers too should be able to use windows "light".
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Exactly, that's the way to do it! Another solution like this one that always works for me: shutdown -h now -- that should keep 'em out!
You mean like: let's go get us some oil-reserves in the middle east _again_?
Seems like they're only creating times-like fonts, from the FAQ:
6. Will the STIX Fonts have a general appearance that I will recognize?
Yes. The STIX Fonts will be a "Times compatible" font set. They will resemble the basic Windows Times New Roman(TM) or Adobe Times(TM) font appearance. All such font sets are derived from the original Monotype set designed by Victor Lardent under Stanley Morison's direction for the Times of London in 1932.
I personally like Arial best, for most purposes, but this is a good effort anyway; the fonts distributed with most distros suck big time. A good Times font would be a good start.
I only wonder if they will distribute it under a true free license (FSF-free). If they won't, I wonder if Debian will include them in the main distro.
It doesn't matter as long as you don't accelerate too quickly, I guess.
Btw - did you know people raised the same point you just did about cars: "what? 60 km/h - no man can survive that!".
Yeah, let's put all the British media in one big company - huray for corporatism!
[offtopic] Here in the Netherlands television and radio broadcast is semi-funded by the government too - there are some commercials, but only in between programs. This actually makes them more independant - they can do and say what they want _and_ they don't have to care about money or commercial interests that much. [/offtopic]
oh wait.. kids, I have a nice assignment for you here:
28th of march + 4 days is...
Nice, now let me post the first piss-off-the-first-post post.
Sucker.
>by Anonymous Coward (...) >Anybody else have the guts to admit (...) Erm... maybe I am missing something here? Looks like you don't even have the guts to post under your own name...
hmmm... so the space part was cancelled... is the shooting still on? Just kidding :)
Well.. we all had science in school, didn't we?
...unless the universe collapses, that is :)
;)
mass of H (and anti-H): 1,00797 u
When an anti-H gets annihilated, that breaks up an H too, so,
mass converted at annihilation: 2*1,00797 = 2,01594 u
E=mc^2
1u = 1,66054 * 10^-27 kg
E = 2,01594*1,66054*(10^-27)*c^2 =
1,00356995*10^-10 J for one atom.
They say they have a few thousand atoms, say they have, 10.000, that would result in 1,00356995*10^-6 J of mass to be 'converted' to 'pure' energy.
For comparision: a lightbulb uses about 40W = 40 J/s.
I don't know how quick the annihilation would be, but with this little energy released, I guess you won't blow up that much; no loud bang
But.. uhm.. I skipped science classes quite often (it was easy), so don't pin me down on this
And er.. pretty please mod me up a little... need some karma... some punk modded one reaction at -1, just after I signed up... now all my reactions appear at 0.
Whow... this one blew me right off of my chair.
I think this is the first thing I see that can beat the command line...
It is so totally unix: small apps that can do what they're good at, no useless stuff. Quick small and stable.
Really nice to see they don't seem to feel the need to write everything in C.
I Really dig this.
Am I missing something here or is this just a giant waste of resources?
I don't really think Philips is going to introduce it's own copy protection scheme - they sold Seagram (record-company) some years ago. Naturally, they were barking about going back to core-business, but I think they forsaw that there would be less profit to make in this sector.
A think I'm not sure about - doesn't Philips make money on every CD-R sold, as they're holding the patent on the CD?
I don't know why those "audio" cd-r's Philips sells are that expensive in the US - they certainly weren't in the Netherlands - not even when they were introduced.
So... would they use winelib to do the port?
Maybe forcing MS to really document and open up all their 'standards', file formats etc. would be a better way to go.
btw: Removing IE from windows wouldn't help unless they'd really cut it loose from windows explorer (the file manager) and rewrote all their stinking IE-objects and widgets to work without all those IE-dll's. Just removing iexplore.exe won't help.
And manufacturers too should be able to use windows "light".