Works now, at least. However, Google only caches the first 108k of any file so it's truncated. Also, the original file has some javascript in it that tries to force the original frameset (on the original server) to load -- so disable javascipt if that happens.
There's a working mirror here.
If the article is right in saying that the machines are using human minds to monitor their fusion power plants, presumably the machines are somewhat lacking in processing power. Why then, can they create a computer generated world to occupy humans minds to distract them from their monitoring of the fusion plants.
Yes, it's only slightly less absurd than the "body heat energy" explanation given in the film.
Human brains may indeed be wonderful parallel processing units, but as for monitoring the stability of fusion reactions, I think that you'd need something much faster -- that operates in microseconds or less, not milliseconds which is about the best we could manage. Nerve impulses just don't travel fast enough. Not to mention the immense processing power needed to generate the virtual reality is going to be of a similar if not higher order of complexity than the fusion problem.
I think the machines don't need people at all. Consider a robot, constrained to follow Asimov's Three Laws. It might well conclude that the best way to protect humanity as a whole (from itself as much as external threats) was to put them into a totally controlled virtual world.
I believe you can tell fontconfig not to use the
artificial obliquing if you want to.
Well, yes, that removes the faked italics, but doesn't give you real ones. It's necessary to have distinguishable italics, so if you use these fonts at all you'd have to leave it on.
The local newspaper for the last five years, since their last redesign, has indiscriminately used obliqued and italic -- sometimes within the same article. Obviously no one at the newspaper even notices. But to me it's like fingernails on a blackboard. And working in DTP, I'd consider it a disaster should obliqued text be used in a printed book (even worse than using typewriter quotes instead of real ones).
My understanding is that there was (is?) a concern that books printed with a particular font could be considered a derivative work (of that font).
To begin with, copyright of fonts is pretty limited, and where it does exist, does not extend to the printed form (i.e., what ends up on paper, as opposed to the digital file).
However, this story may have a germ of truth as related to fonts embedded in digital files (PDFs mainly, though I believe you can do it with Word too). Many font licenses, if read literally, forbid such embedding -- and that's why there is a "embedding" bit in TrueType that is supposed to tell applications not to embed it. Fortunately, this is almost universally ignored in practice.
IIRC, this was the motivation behind the naming of Apple's fonts. Rather than paying royalties to Linotype for their fonts, Apple created their own, and mimiced the names. Thus, Geneva from Helvetica, New York from Times, etc.
No, the Mac "city" fonts were all bitmap screen fonts. There were no screen vector fonts for the desktop -- this was before Truetype or ATM . When Adobe brought out ATM it was usually bundled with Adobe versions of Helvetica, Times, etc.
Later Truetype versions of the city fonts, Chicago in particular, were made, as people had a sentimental attachment to them. Also, Truetype screen fonts are often basically bundles of bitmaps for common sizes, and look crappy at non-standard sizes.
-- It took me a while to get how you derive "New York" from "Times"; then I remembered the NYT. Of course, the original "Times" font was designed for The Times of London.
Re: Vera fonts status...
by jg on Wednesday, April 16 @ 13:58:57 EST
No Serif italic or bold italic for the time being. Sorry.
Jim Lyles is pretty happy (as happy as one can be) about the artificial obliquing that Xft/ Fontconfig will perform,
so you can get something that looks like it in applications
like mozilla.
- Jim
I'm guessing because font design costs money, good-looking real italics are harder to make than roman type
Well, obviously it is about money. It does take time and thought to make any font. But, having dabbled in fonts for a while, I don't think italics in general are "harder" than roman to design. They're more fluid, being based on a script form and often a designer indulges himself a bit and makes the italic a little more fanciful than the roman.
In any case, I hope and pray that true italic companions are in the works. But seeing as they are in the public domain, quite likely we will see some contributed by the community, though Truetype hinting (which is what makes them look good at screen resolution) is somewhat of a black art.
Very disappointing to see that the serif form has only a regular and bold form, no true italics, so your screenshot shows the loathsome synthetic oblique version -- ie, just distorted the roman, no changes in letterform. Most true italic fonts have distinctive forms for "a", "g", "f". So I'll be sticking to Times or Georgia for my screen fonts. I really HATE it when the OS messes with my fonts -- if there's no real italics, don't give me ersatz
...but, what Werner Von Braun did was not considered unlawful. In Germany his rocket development was probably considered his duty and was seen as patriotic from the German perspective.
He was working on civilianb rockets before the war. The Nazis ordered him to work on weapons -- it was obvious the alternative would have been imprisonment at best. He did try to stand up to the SS (who were running the project), and came very close to being killed, only saved by them estimating him as indispensible. It's still a matter of dispute how aware he was of the Jewish slave labour used to make the rockets.
Hard to imagine him being considered a war criminal, as the Allies were incinerating cities (notably Dresden) with bombs, causing massively more civilian deaths than the V weapons ever did.
Given that Kevin Mitnick didn't have any problem with "social engineering" (lying) to get what he wanted, I would guess that if you employed him, you'd want to keep an eye on him.
There are many jobs where you are obligated to lie to get ahead (car salesman, telemarketer, politician, hairdresser....). In fact just about any job that requires you to persuade people or flatter them. It's all a matter of degree. I worked for a very dishonest guy who lied and prevaricated to stay ahed of his debts; and whie I was there I sometimes had to back him up. Made me feel sick and slimy.
"Jason Hunke, a spokesman for Allen's project [said] the goal of SFX would be to entertain and educate the public about the place of science fiction in our culture. 'As a genre, it's much broader than just Star Wars or Star Trek, he said."
SF is a literary subgenre first and foremost. There are plenty of toy shops and themeparks for movie and TV "sci-fi". (I enjoyed Star Wars and some Trek, but having a museum for that? Maybe they could collaborate with Macdonalds University of Hamburgerology.)
I've heard that if you read it, it's SF but if you watch it, it's Sci-Fi. Is this true? I know some people who get upset if you call a book Sci-Fi.
It's a bit like "black", "negro", "coloured". Indistinguishable in definition, but at different times it has had different implications. Big media tends to use "sci-fi", and usually in a way that makes it seem equivalent to comic books (not that there's anything wroing with them). Personally, I'd use "sci-fi" to refer to Trek, Star Wars etc (movies, books, toys), and SF for something that relies less on explosions and make-up, such as books by Neil Stephenson, Arthur Clarke, Niven, etc.
Though chrisd wrote "NYTimes online was the only one carrying the story according to Google News, so this is all you get.", yes, if searching for "paul allen sci fi", but if you try "paul allen project", "paul allen science" for instance, you find a few others. And it's NOT MOVIES. It's about "literature":
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Paul Allen... is expected to announce today his plans to build a Seattle facility to celebrate science-fiction literature in the same way his Experience Music Project honors popular music....
Jason Hunke, a spokesman for Allen's project management and investment firm Vulcan Inc., declined to identify the author or confirm any specific plans for the project beyond its location. But he did say the goal of SFX would be to entertain and educate the public about the place of science fiction in our culture. "As a genre, it's much broader than just 'Star Wars' or 'Star Trek,' " he said.
Another story at The Seattle Times:
"The "Science Fiction Experience," or SFX, will "celebrate the broadest and most dynamic genre of our time, capture our imagination, offer new perspectives on society and culture, and invite us to ponder the universe's infinite possibilities," according to a statement from Allen's projects and investments company, Vulcan Inc... Details will be provided at a morning news conference with Allen, Seattle Center director Virginia Anderson, EMP's CEO Robert Santelli and a surprise 'award-winning, best-selling' science-fiction writer. Seattle Center spokeswoman Beau Fong said the new facility will be in the space that formerly housed the EMP's Artist's Journey, a virtual-reality amusement-park-style ride. It featured a computer-generated James Brown hosting a block party titled Funk Blast. It was supposed to be one of the museum's hallmark features but quietly closed in January."
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119.
Just noticed the article continues to say "Writers like those transfixed Mr. Allen when he was young. He said he was a small child when he stumbled on a book called "Spaceship Galileo" and has been "a huge fan" of science fiction ever since.". So the focus may indeed be literary, or at least one can hope.
(I'd bet that the book was actually Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo.)
Plans call for a hall of fame for science-fiction heroes, another hall shaped like the interior of a spaceship and a third that would commemorate terrifying aliens and other evil creatures. SFX's advisory board includes the science-fiction writers Greg Bear, Ray Bradbury, Octavia Butler and Arthur C. Clarke.
This only mentions literary SF (the authors), though it's almost certain the "heroes" and "aliens" would have many media creations (almost wrote "cretins" there, Freudian slip). There are/. topic logos for "Books" and "Media". Oddly, there are separate logos for "Star Wars", Lord of the Rings", "The Matrix", but no inclusive "SF" logo.
Encryption is useless if your keys are compromised. From the RFC:
* If the information being intercepted is encrypted by the service provider and the service provider has access to the keys, then
the information MUST be decrypted before delivery to the LEA or
the encryption keys MUST be passed to the Law Enforcement Agency
to allow them to decrypt the information.....
* Content Encryption: If the intercept content is encrypted and
the service provider has access to the encryption keys (e.g.,
receives keys in Session Description Protocol for Voice over
IP), then the keys can be sent via IRI. It is, however,
possible for end-users to exchange keys by some other means
without any knowledge of the service provider in which case
the service provider will not be able to provide the keys.
Now what do you propose to do with the 95% of spam that originates from outside of the U.S.?
If I could eliminate all the spam I get that originates in the US, I would have 95% less spam. I get MMFs asking me to send money to American morons, cable TV decoders for Americn TVs, credit cards "only valid in the USA", etc. How the assholes sending it routed it via overseas servers is irrelevant. The problem is in America. The "spam kings" are all American.
Unfortunately Senator Alston does not seem to appreciate that we are connected to the rest of the world
Yes he does:
The report concedes that difficulties identifying spammers and the lack of jurisdiction over offshore spammers means legislation alone will not solve the problem.
It recommends Australia work with other countries to combat spam, citing the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network as a good model for co-operation.
Question: could/would Symantec join in this suit, or better still bring copyright violation and (ahem)piracy charges against this fool?
I thought that these Norton disks were actually old OEM ones (ie, real disks, originally bundled, or intended to be bundled) with PCs. That's not piracy, if it were you can be sure Symantec would have gone after them for that long ago.
. Now, if everyone would stop pretending they're experts on the constitution and free speech and everyone got serious about attacking spam'ers, it would be alot more constructive than posting "dupe, dupe" cries.
No amount of tough talk against spammers here will make any difference in the real world (I did like the snail mail DOS on the spammer that arose from the story here a few monthhs ago though). But one hopes that embarrassing the editors by pointing out their unprofessionalism might motivate them into giving a shit, though that is looking unlikely too.
Re:They are not just going after the spammers
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AOL Sues Spammers
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· Score: 2, Interesting
They can get 500 P.O boxes
Then they're into mail fraud, and if across state lines they have broken a lot more serious laws and risk real jail time when they come to collect the mail or deposit the cheques.
Re:May as well be the first to say it
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AOL Sues Spammers
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· Score: 1
AOL Sues Five Spam Companies
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday April 15, @08:15PM from the 300-a-day-and-rising dept. sugapablo writes "AOL has filed lawsuits against five spamming companies, seeking damages in the millions for unwanted email. As the AP reports, AOL hasn't actually figured out who all the defendants are though, filing the lawuits against some "John Does" and attempting to "subpoena service providers and others to try to track down the spammers"."
Slashdot Mirror
Works now, at least. However, Google only caches the first 108k of any file so it's truncated. Also, the original file has some javascript in it that tries to force the original frameset (on the original server) to load -- so disable javascipt if that happens. There's a working mirror here.
Yes, it's only slightly less absurd than the "body heat energy" explanation given in the film.
Human brains may indeed be wonderful parallel processing units, but as for monitoring the stability of fusion reactions, I think that you'd need something much faster -- that operates in microseconds or less, not milliseconds which is about the best we could manage. Nerve impulses just don't travel fast enough. Not to mention the immense processing power needed to generate the virtual reality is going to be of a similar if not higher order of complexity than the fusion problem.
I think the machines don't need people at all. Consider a robot, constrained to follow Asimov's Three Laws. It might well conclude that the best way to protect humanity as a whole (from itself as much as external threats) was to put them into a totally controlled virtual world.
Well, yes, that removes the faked italics, but doesn't give you real ones. It's necessary to have distinguishable italics, so if you use these fonts at all you'd have to leave it on.
The local newspaper for the last five years, since their last redesign, has indiscriminately used obliqued and italic -- sometimes within the same article. Obviously no one at the newspaper even notices. But to me it's like fingernails on a blackboard. And working in DTP, I'd consider it a disaster should obliqued text be used in a printed book (even worse than using typewriter quotes instead of real ones).
An audio CD is basically just a WAV file. In both cases, a lot of work goes into creating the artwork, though the cost of reproduction is negligible.
Except it's not really a "set", as there are no serif italics.
To begin with, copyright of fonts is pretty limited, and where it does exist, does not extend to the printed form (i.e., what ends up on paper, as opposed to the digital file).
However, this story may have a germ of truth as related to fonts embedded in digital files (PDFs mainly, though I believe you can do it with Word too). Many font licenses, if read literally, forbid such embedding -- and that's why there is a "embedding" bit in TrueType that is supposed to tell applications not to embed it. Fortunately, this is almost universally ignored in practice.
No, the Mac "city" fonts were all bitmap screen fonts. There were no screen vector fonts for the desktop -- this was before Truetype or ATM . When Adobe brought out ATM it was usually bundled with Adobe versions of Helvetica, Times, etc.
Later Truetype versions of the city fonts, Chicago in particular, were made, as people had a sentimental attachment to them. Also, Truetype screen fonts are often basically bundles of bitmaps for common sizes, and look crappy at non-standard sizes.
-- It took me a while to get how you derive "New York" from "Times"; then I remembered the NYT. Of course, the original "Times" font was designed for The Times of London.
Well, obviously it is about money. It does take time and thought to make any font. But, having dabbled in fonts for a while, I don't think italics in general are "harder" than roman to design. They're more fluid, being based on a script form and often a designer indulges himself a bit and makes the italic a little more fanciful than the roman.
In any case, I hope and pray that true italic companions are in the works. But seeing as they are in the public domain, quite likely we will see some contributed by the community, though Truetype hinting (which is what makes them look good at screen resolution) is somewhat of a black art.
Very disappointing to see that the serif form has only a regular and bold form, no true italics, so your screenshot shows the loathsome synthetic oblique version -- ie, just distorted the roman, no changes in letterform. Most true italic fonts have distinctive forms for "a", "g", "f". So I'll be sticking to Times or Georgia for my screen fonts. I really HATE it when the OS messes with my fonts -- if there's no real italics, don't give me ersatz
He was working on civilianb rockets before the war. The Nazis ordered him to work on weapons -- it was obvious the alternative would have been imprisonment at best. He did try to stand up to the SS (who were running the project), and came very close to being killed, only saved by them estimating him as indispensible. It's still a matter of dispute how aware he was of the Jewish slave labour used to make the rockets.
Hard to imagine him being considered a war criminal, as the Allies were incinerating cities (notably Dresden) with bombs, causing massively more civilian deaths than the V weapons ever did.
There are many jobs where you are obligated to lie to get ahead (car salesman, telemarketer, politician, hairdresser....). In fact just about any job that requires you to persuade people or flatter them. It's all a matter of degree. I worked for a very dishonest guy who lied and prevaricated to stay ahed of his debts; and whie I was there I sometimes had to back him up. Made me feel sick and slimy.
"Jason Hunke, a spokesman for Allen's project [said] the goal of SFX would be to entertain and educate the public about the place of science fiction in our culture. 'As a genre, it's much broader than just Star Wars or Star Trek, he said."
SF is a literary subgenre first and foremost. There are plenty of toy shops and themeparks for movie and TV "sci-fi". (I enjoyed Star Wars and some Trek, but having a museum for that? Maybe they could collaborate with Macdonalds University of Hamburgerology.)
It's a bit like "black", "negro", "coloured". Indistinguishable in definition, but at different times it has had different implications. Big media tends to use "sci-fi", and usually in a way that makes it seem equivalent to comic books (not that there's anything wroing with them). Personally, I'd use "sci-fi" to refer to Trek, Star Wars etc (movies, books, toys), and SF for something that relies less on explosions and make-up, such as books by Neil Stephenson, Arthur Clarke, Niven, etc.
Paul Allen... is expected to announce today his plans to build a Seattle facility to celebrate science-fiction literature in the same way his Experience Music Project honors popular music....
Jason Hunke, a spokesman for Allen's project management and investment firm Vulcan Inc., declined to identify the author or confirm any specific plans for the project beyond its location. But he did say the goal of SFX would be to entertain and educate the public about the place of science fiction in our culture.
"As a genre, it's much broader than just 'Star Wars' or 'Star Trek,' " he said.
"The "Science Fiction Experience," or SFX, will "celebrate the broadest and most dynamic genre of our time, capture our imagination, offer new perspectives on society and culture, and invite us to ponder the universe's infinite possibilities," according to a statement from Allen's projects and investments company, Vulcan Inc... Details will be provided at a morning news conference with Allen, Seattle Center director Virginia Anderson, EMP's CEO Robert Santelli and a surprise 'award-winning, best-selling' science-fiction writer. Seattle Center spokeswoman Beau Fong said the new facility will be in the space that formerly housed the EMP's Artist's Journey, a virtual-reality amusement-park-style ride. It featured a computer-generated James Brown hosting a block party titled Funk Blast. It was supposed to be one of the museum's hallmark features but quietly closed in January."
All RFCs are written like that:
Just noticed the article continues to say "Writers like those transfixed Mr. Allen when he was young. He said he was a small child when he stumbled on a book called "Spaceship Galileo" and has been "a huge fan" of science fiction ever since.". So the focus may indeed be literary, or at least one can hope. (I'd bet that the book was actually Heinlein's Rocket Ship Galileo.)
If I could eliminate all the spam I get that originates in the US, I would have 95% less spam. I get MMFs asking me to send money to American morons, cable TV decoders for Americn TVs, credit cards "only valid in the USA", etc. How the assholes sending it routed it via overseas servers is irrelevant. The problem is in America. The "spam kings" are all American.
Yes he does:
He may an arsehole but not a complete idiot.I thought that these Norton disks were actually old OEM ones (ie, real disks, originally bundled, or intended to be bundled) with PCs. That's not piracy, if it were you can be sure Symantec would have gone after them for that long ago.
No amount of tough talk against spammers here will make any difference in the real world (I did like the snail mail DOS on the spammer that arose from the story here a few monthhs ago though). But one hopes that embarrassing the editors by pointing out their unprofessionalism might motivate them into giving a shit, though that is looking unlikely too.
Then they're into mail fraud, and if across state lines they have broken a lot more serious laws and risk real jail time when they come to collect the mail or deposit the cheques.