Peter Selinger's Potrace could probably be a good start. He links to a dude who uses Potrace in conjunction with a few other tools to create stained glass. He also links to one of my projects, although he calls it pocopo instead of pacopo. I don't think that pacopo is what you're looking for although it may give you some ideas.
I doubt that removing spelling or grammatical errors would result in a change of tone, as most people wouldn't notice the absence of errors-- as a wanabee designer I'm reminded constantly that the wrong typeface is uncomfortable to read at best and glaringly obvious at worst. The best typefaces (for body copy, at least) are transparent, as are type designs-- they're meant to convey meaning and not draw attention to themselves. Which is what spelling errors do.
We didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, and I guess the reason for that is because it was in the real northern California as opposed to "central California"-- I hear the people who live in Eureka, Humboldt, &c are sort of touchy about that...
Wow. I'd swear that's Mark Mothersbaugh doing the music. Is it true? I'm still angry that I can't buy a Crash Bandicoot soundtrack-- say what you will about the series but the music was great.
Maybe I ought to ask the biggest DEVO fan in the universe-- he ought to know.
It looks like those pictures were shot on film-- the ones of the board (without the caped youngster) are particualrly nice. Way to go, dude-- keepin' the film alive...
References have been made to the ability to surf pr0n with no hands and whatnot, but for any technology to be successful, doesn't the adult industry (or military, i guess) have to figure out a way to make money off of it?
Space travel is nice and all, but DVDs, VCRs, the IntarWeb &c. have mostly been made accessible (and affordable) via the helping hand of prurient e-commerce, right?
Maybe./ ought to collectively reccommend to a select few pr0n magnates that mind-controlled DVDs would be a worthwhile investment, then we'd start to see some real results...
To be really useful, the notifiaction ought to take into account the temp of the beer (if it's room temp, it's probably not being actively drunk-- abandoned/empty/etc), weird angles on the bar table, and (most importantly) time (if it's 1:45, there are going to be a whole lot of beeping pitchers, but only a few will need refilling-- and those few will have to be refilled asap).
The time thing is probably the most important-- maybe prioritize based on previous purchases or your local ABC laws, etc.
I think you might mean 80 proof vodka-- 80% would be 160 proof. I didn't see any 160 proof booze when I was there, and I highly suspect even if they made it they'd have a hard time importing it into the US (where I happen to be).
I was hanging out with Polish folks too, and I don't think they were holding out on me.
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You'd think they would have set up bittorrents beforehand.
...and hosted them on a different server. They'd still be able to track Slashdot visitors, and they wouldn't have to replace their erstwhile server.
If you want to set everything you read in outline blackletter type, I certainly won't stop you. The thing is, I think, that the web and printed material are pretty different-- you can style your web pages all day long and if someone wants to read your page with their own style sheet there's not much you can do.
Books are set according to the (inexact and often misused) science of typesetting, and ought to retain the formatting, which is one of the advantages of PDF, right? There's no question about how your document is going to look to someone else. Naturally they can copy/paste and make their own version, but clearly it would be for their own convenience or their own improvement on typesetting that you (or I) have bungled somehow.
And I do think that changing the type and/or formatting can change the meaning (or spirit) of the work-- black/oblique/condensed faces have markedly different feels, which can influence meaning, however subtly.
For the record, I don't think people ought to be prevented from fiddling with the type in their documents, I just think that the typesetter's efforts shouldn't be overlooked. Naturally, it'd great for people whose sight isn't that great or have other requirements for reading, but at a certain point it becomes important whether to use Univers or Minion.
choose binding options, paper quality, paper dimensions, font & font size
I'm not sure that's a good idea. Book designers make decisions about a lot of that stuff, and selecting a typeface for a printed work ought to "honor and elucidate" (Bringhurst) the work. If you set the Diary of Anne Frank in blackletter type, not only have you made it nearly illegible but have also violated the spirit of the work (depending on the specific blackletter-- but you get the idea). Unless it's a postmodern exercise, in which case never mind.
Which is not to say that there aren't poorly designed books, but most people aren't qualified to set type-- especially body copy.
Not to mention that it would screw up either the page numbering, or formatting, or both.
As we were taught in ID class, you're able to support a simple logo/ID if you have the money to push it-- as brands get more literal, they more accurately describe the product.
In most cases, as a small or underfunded project/company, you need to have something that reflects what your company does-- think "Joe's Photography Studio" or whatever. If it was called JPS worldwide and had a logo with a stylized walnut, you wouldn't know what the hell it was, whereas Nike can get away with it because they've got the bucks to cement the correlation between their icon and the product.
I just saw a video of Paul Rand, who argued that one of the primary qualifications of good (graphic) design was usability-- it had a funny sequence where he was wandering through a hardware store (I think it was shot in the 80s) and making fun of some of the gadgets.
Design with function at the forefront was also an idea espoused by these guys, who some of you may have heard of.
Snide, maybe. Facetious, sure. Possibly worthwhile-- I thought so. I mean it's not like I tried to sneak a goatse link in or anything, and I don't work for UZR either.
Offtopic (as this is) I could even see, but an offhanded remark about another 3D thing that is tertiarily related with a disclaimer hardly merits a troll, in my opinion.
Better you should actually make some 3d objects with your digital pictures. I've used this and while I'm sure that it's more of a pain in the ass than the EZ-3D gadget advertised here, it's pretty cool.
And in the interest of full disclosure, that's my review there...
Third, there's people who actually go out and write the worms and start spreading them. These people really are criminals. They're not cute hackers; they are criminals, and we are trying to work very closely with law enforcement to make sure that these criminals are found and brought to justice. The threat of jail must be a deterrent to these hackers, because even if all of us do a perfect job on behalf of all of our customers, there's still going to be somebody who can figure out some way to get through. And no more should it be allowed to create huge damage by sending a worm across the Internet than it would be to blow up a bomb in a building that didn't have any people in it. It's a serious crime, and we are working with law enforcement on this, as if it's a serious crime, and pushing for prosecution.
With that kind of context on what the ecosystem looks like, let's get back to the pain points that were highlighted in the video.
Pain Points? What kind of video were they showing?
You still need those pixels to display stuff, but SVG is a much more elegant way to store image data which needs to be reused a lot.
Designers have been using vector graphics for years in programs like Illustrator, and as an aspiring designer, I'm overjoyed to see SVG catching on, as it will make vesctor graphics human (and text editor)-readable, which makes automation a lot easier. Need an object repeated 1000 times for a background? Whip up a script instead of pasting it and rotating or scaling while dealing with Illustrator (or Freehand, or whatever).
The nice thing is that Adobe is supporting SVG in a number of ways already. I just finished a typography project using SVG (and Illustrator), and I'm pretty stoked. It would have taken me days just to draw it by hand, not to mention figuring out where everything should go beforehand.
A flexible data bus in Sensatex's SmartShirt prototype carries signals from various sensors plugged into connectors in the shirt to a controller at the waist. An optical fiber woven through the shirt can detect penetration by a bullet.
I'm not sure I'd need sensors on my shirt to be able to tell if it had been penetrated by a bullet-- unless I was far enough away from my shirt, and then I'd wonder why it was getting shot at.
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Peter Selinger's Potrace could probably be a good start. He links to a dude who uses Potrace in conjunction with a few other tools to create stained glass. He also links to one of my projects, although he calls it pocopo instead of pacopo. I don't think that pacopo is what you're looking for although it may give you some ideas.
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I doubt that removing spelling or grammatical errors would result in a change of tone, as most people wouldn't notice the absence of errors-- as a wanabee designer I'm reminded constantly that the wrong typeface is uncomfortable to read at best and glaringly obvious at worst. The best typefaces (for body copy, at least) are transparent, as are type designs-- they're meant to convey meaning and not draw attention to themselves. Which is what spelling errors do.
Sort of a parallel, don't you think?
We didn't feel anything here in San Francisco, and I guess the reason for that is because it was in the real northern California as opposed to "central California"-- I hear the people who live in Eureka, Humboldt, &c are sort of touchy about that...
Wow. I'd swear that's Mark Mothersbaugh doing the music. Is it true? I'm still angry that I can't buy a Crash Bandicoot soundtrack-- say what you will about the series but the music was great.
Maybe I ought to ask the biggest DEVO fan in the universe-- he ought to know.
It looks like those pictures were shot on film-- the ones of the board (without the caped youngster) are particualrly nice. Way to go, dude-- keepin' the film alive...
References have been made to the ability to surf pr0n with no hands and whatnot, but for any technology to be successful, doesn't the adult industry (or military, i guess) have to figure out a way to make money off of it?
./ ought to collectively reccommend to a select few pr0n magnates that mind-controlled DVDs would be a worthwhile investment, then we'd start to see some real results...
Space travel is nice and all, but DVDs, VCRs, the IntarWeb &c. have mostly been made accessible (and affordable) via the helping hand of prurient e-commerce, right?
Maybe
To be really useful, the notifiaction ought to take into account the temp of the beer (if it's room temp, it's probably not being actively drunk-- abandoned/empty/etc), weird angles on the bar table, and (most importantly) time (if it's 1:45, there are going to be a whole lot of beeping pitchers, but only a few will need refilling-- and those few will have to be refilled asap).
The time thing is probably the most important-- maybe prioritize based on previous purchases or your local ABC laws, etc.
While I appreciate your points-- and could relate them to any number of trades-- I have to wonder if there will be any solution, ever.
I mean, cars have been around for a while now, right? Mechanics aren't appreciated any more now then they were 5 or 10 years ago, as far as I know.
For the record, I'm neither programmer nor mechanic-- I cut fish for a living. And your points apply there too.
Although it was treated like comic relief, there was a cross-dressing scene in FF7... That was a pretty big game, as far as I recall.
I hope Edge is similar to the way Next Generation was-- I sure miss that magazine.
Oh. I just noticed that Edge is published by the UK arm of Future. Oh, well. Maybe they'll do a US version.
I think you might mean 80 proof vodka-- 80% would be 160 proof. I didn't see any 160 proof booze when I was there, and I highly suspect even if they made it they'd have a hard time importing it into the US (where I happen to be).
I was hanging out with Polish folks too, and I don't think they were holding out on me.
You'd think they would have set up bittorrents beforehand.
...and hosted them on a different server. They'd still be able to track Slashdot visitors, and they wouldn't have to replace their erstwhile server.
If you want to set everything you read in outline blackletter type, I certainly won't stop you. The thing is, I think, that the web and printed material are pretty different-- you can style your web pages all day long and if someone wants to read your page with their own style sheet there's not much you can do.
Books are set according to the (inexact and often misused) science of typesetting, and ought to retain the formatting, which is one of the advantages of PDF, right? There's no question about how your document is going to look to someone else. Naturally they can copy/paste and make their own version, but clearly it would be for their own convenience or their own improvement on typesetting that you (or I) have bungled somehow.
And I do think that changing the type and/or formatting can change the meaning (or spirit) of the work-- black/oblique/condensed faces have markedly different feels, which can influence meaning, however subtly.
For the record, I don't think people ought to be prevented from fiddling with the type in their documents, I just think that the typesetter's efforts shouldn't be overlooked. Naturally, it'd great for people whose sight isn't that great or have other requirements for reading, but at a certain point it becomes important whether to use Univers or Minion.
Which is not to say that there aren't poorly designed books, but most people aren't qualified to set type-- especially body copy.
Not to mention that it would screw up either the page numbering, or formatting, or both.
As we were taught in ID class, you're able to support a simple logo/ID if you have the money to push it-- as brands get more literal, they more accurately describe the product.
In most cases, as a small or underfunded project/company, you need to have something that reflects what your company does-- think "Joe's Photography Studio" or whatever. If it was called JPS worldwide and had a logo with a stylized walnut, you wouldn't know what the hell it was, whereas Nike can get away with it because they've got the bucks to cement the correlation between their icon and the product.
I just saw a video of Paul Rand, who argued that one of the primary qualifications of good (graphic) design was usability-- it had a funny sequence where he was wandering through a hardware store (I think it was shot in the 80s) and making fun of some of the gadgets.
Design with function at the forefront was also an idea espoused by these guys, who some of you may have heard of.
Snide, maybe. Facetious, sure. Possibly worthwhile-- I thought so. I mean it's not like I tried to sneak a goatse link in or anything, and I don't work for UZR either.
Offtopic (as this is) I could even see, but an offhanded remark about another 3D thing that is tertiarily related with a disclaimer hardly merits a troll, in my opinion.
Jeez.
Better you should actually make some 3d objects with your digital pictures. I've used this and while I'm sure that it's more of a pain in the ass than the EZ-3D gadget advertised here, it's pretty cool.
And in the interest of full disclosure, that's my review there...
There is a torrent for the dyne:bolic distribution.
Don't know about Ogg.
Boy, that Ballmer's a wordy fella.
You still need those pixels to display stuff, but SVG is a much more elegant way to store image data which needs to be reused a lot.
Designers have been using vector graphics for years in programs like Illustrator, and as an aspiring designer, I'm overjoyed to see SVG catching on, as it will make vesctor graphics human (and text editor)-readable, which makes automation a lot easier. Need an object repeated 1000 times for a background? Whip up a script instead of pasting it and rotating or scaling while dealing with Illustrator (or Freehand, or whatever).
The nice thing is that Adobe is supporting SVG in a number of ways already. I just finished a typography project using SVG (and Illustrator), and I'm pretty stoked. It would have taken me days just to draw it by hand, not to mention figuring out where everything should go beforehand.
A flexible data bus in Sensatex's SmartShirt prototype carries signals from various sensors plugged into connectors in the shirt to a controller at the waist. An optical fiber woven through the shirt can detect penetration by a bullet.
I'm not sure I'd need sensors on my shirt to be able to tell if it had been penetrated by a bullet-- unless I was far enough away from my shirt, and then I'd wonder why it was getting shot at.
I nominate Mandrake. I'm a Slackware user myself, but two(!) of my buddies just switched from MS to Mandrake and they were both very impressed.
Plus I think Mandrake could use the support right about now.
Uh, no. I sort of forgot to mention that in my first post. Although I guess it's possible that OSX could try to configure it anyway.
No problems here with my 4x5 Wacom Graphire-- 10.2.8, G4 Sawtooth 450 etc.
No USB mouse action for me, either.