I experience synesthesia myself, although it is relatively benign and it was only when other people told me they did not have similar sensory perception that I realised it was not universal, or even common.
I get very vivid colour perception from tastes and smells. I mean very vivid. And the colours by no means often match the visible colour of the food/drink/whatever. Sometimes they do, especailly for strong, pure, natural flavours. For example, oranges test a slightly orange-tinged yellow. Apples tend to be red, even when the skin is green. Meats tend to be a kind of mucky swirl. It's very odd.
But I can attest that these perceptions are very real.
I have a LAN party every other month, and there are MANY athletes that show up to these events, but even a "jock" is going to pick on or beat up the computer club geeks on a regular basis.
Dammit, are American schools really generally that bad? I mean, we get that impression from imported TV but I always assumed it was an exaggeration to make shows more interesting
My experience at school, here in the UK, was that being overly interested in academic or 'geeky' matters certainly earned few friends - except like-minded people. A minority of others would pick on us, but very rarely physically - schools simply don't stand for it. At least, not the kind of schools that have more than one geek per year.
I would say that such activities really do earn no friends among the 'fashionable' or 'mainstream' crowd, but would you rather have a few good friends who you really got on with, or be another anonymous face in the crowd?
Speaking as a coder proficient in multiple languages, in an environment where as a team we cover many many areas and languages of experience, I would say this does not happen.
The reason being not that management lacks any bias, but simply that management don't tell us what to use - they trust us techies to make such decisions accurately. It's part of our job...
It's quite possible to license graphics under any free or open source license. There are several interpretations then of what is 'source' and what is 'compiled', but they add up to the same thing. The most sane form (IMHO) of what is 'source' and what is 'compiled' is that any image *file* is source (as it is friendly to edit with normal tools) if it is in a standard format, preferably something raw like XPM or BMP. The picture as printed, or shown on display, is the 'compiled' output.
Think about it - otherwise how do GPL games (like freeciv) work?
< Likewise, just because the Penguin Classic you're eyeing has a title from the ninteenth century doesn't mean that the particular typography of the book is out of copyright. Only when you hold in your hand a book whose author, and the copyright holder of anything cited "used with permission", has been seventy years dead, can you use extracts from that book, and even then only if you make it yourself.
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If all that is copyright is the typography, then one can feel free to use the text, just not *images* of the text. After all, the text is seperate from the typography. Furthermore, even if a book is fully copyrighted, you are entirely allowed to use short excerpts for certain purposes.
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I experience synesthesia myself, although it is relatively benign and it was only when other people told me they did not have similar sensory perception that I realised it was not universal, or even common.
I get very vivid colour perception from tastes and smells. I mean very vivid. And the colours by no means often match the visible colour of the food/drink/whatever. Sometimes they do, especailly for strong, pure, natural flavours. For example, oranges test a slightly orange-tinged yellow. Apples tend to be red, even when the skin is green. Meats tend to be a kind of mucky swirl. It's very odd.
But I can attest that these perceptions are very real.
And I have never taken any hallucinogens.
I have a LAN party every other month, and there are MANY athletes that show up to these events, but even a "jock" is going to pick on or beat up the computer club geeks on a regular basis.
Dammit, are American schools really generally that bad? I mean, we get that impression from imported TV but I always assumed it was an exaggeration to make shows more interesting
My experience at school, here in the UK, was that being overly interested in academic or 'geeky' matters certainly earned few friends - except like-minded people. A minority of others would pick on us, but very rarely physically - schools simply don't stand for it. At least, not the kind of schools that have more than one geek per year.
I would say that such activities really do earn no friends among the 'fashionable' or 'mainstream' crowd, but would you rather have a few good friends who you really got on with, or be another anonymous face in the crowd?
Speaking as a coder proficient in multiple languages, in an environment where as a team we cover many many areas and languages of experience, I would say this does not happen.
The reason being not that management lacks any bias, but simply that management don't tell us what to use - they trust us techies to make such decisions accurately. It's part of our job...
Sam
It's quite possible to license graphics under any free or open source license. There are several interpretations then of what is 'source' and what is 'compiled', but they add up to the same thing. The most sane form (IMHO) of what is 'source' and what is 'compiled' is that any image *file* is source (as it is friendly to edit with normal tools) if it is in a standard format, preferably something raw like XPM or BMP. The picture as printed, or shown on display, is the 'compiled' output.
Think about it - otherwise how do GPL games (like freeciv) work?
-- Sam<
Likewise, just because the Penguin Classic you're eyeing has a title from the ninteenth century doesn't mean that the particular typography of the book is out of copyright. Only when you hold in your hand a book whose author, and the copyright holder of anything cited "used with permission", has been seventy years dead, can you use extracts from that book, and even then only if you make it yourself.
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If all that is copyright is the typography, then one can feel free to use the text, just not *images* of the text. After all, the text is seperate from the typography. Furthermore, even if a book is fully copyrighted, you are entirely allowed to use short excerpts for certain purposes.