Since I ceased to be a civil servant about 5 years ago I've almost lost the ability to sign my name! Then I was signing at least 3 letters a day. Now I sign things about once a month - I do write with a biro nearly every day but only handwritten receipts. I actually write a substantial amount on pottery compared to that on paper.
I'm glad I taught myself to touch type (kinda) when I left Uni.
Better than the linux store, where you have to build the whole store yourself. If you don't like the pot holes in the parking area, they say you can fix them yourself.
Finding out that the potholes haven't been repaired because everyone's inside enjoying the free beer... win!
[dialog] "Singing another line from this song will cause a copyright violation; your operating systems DRM has enabled you to avoid this violation. Continuing to sing, disabling the microphone or turning off the computer will require you to re-authenticate windows, this is for your own protection.
You can be assured it's there - note I don't blame the person for lying "beats starving".
It's a tricky one though as to whether it's better to deny them the call-centre jobs or not (by affirmative action in choosing/ pressing companies not to use foreign call centres).
Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. [...]
Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist.
I looked at the source you mentioned first, it didn't support your statement, I asked for expansion. Nor did I say they didn't exist, nor even that I'd looked in the right places. I've been trawling around lots of sites looking for pre-Christian images of haloes as everyone says they were widely used by everybody in depictions all over before CE. Yours is the first hint of actually imagery.
It's the best I've seen however, a good find, dating from 300BCE around Persia. I'd want to see other instances of "haloes" in the Persian culture of the time to be convinced on this, as like I said I think it's just a picture of a headpiece.
And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link [http://home.comcast.net/~taoistresource/art_halo.html] in the "quoted source" you complain about.
You did say "according to this page" and not "according to links on this page". Obviously being an illiterate makes it hard for me to check your post to be sure, perhaps you could do that?
Buddhist art and writings don't appear to exist from before about 100-200AD the canon of Buddhist lore being passed down orally since 400BCE. Whilst that link shows images it doesn't date the images, so establishing a date from them is impossible. They appear mainly to be Thangka which date from a Nepalese influence in 600AD.
The greek image of apollo is one I know, it's about 200AD IIRC (certainly post-Christian). The others look like standard depictions of Helios, being the sun after all, they're more than likely CE. The naive image at the bottom is similar in showing gods of the Sun, Dawn and Morning Star, that they should be shining is not necessarily a depiction of deity/holiness but a simple reflection of their purpose - but they'd be relevant if dated early.
You must not have worked with Indians before, they are just as good if not better then most American Workers, today.
All the ones I speak to in India are liars.
Guy on phone: "Hello, my name is Gordon" Me: "Then how come you can't pronounce it?" Guy: "We are calling from 3, your phone supplier, do you have contract at the moment" Me: "If you're my supplier, you tell me" Guy: "I'm sorry.." Me: [HUP].
Beats starving to death for sure. If they didn't start the call by lying to me they'd stand a chance of me listening.
According to this wikipedia page the concept was used earlier in a lot of other historical religious art too before becoming bastardized by pop culture's somewhat clumsy literal interpretation.
There are no certain dates for haloes given in the Wikipedia article prior to the 1st Century AD. Only a sun disk is shown, which is clearly different to a halo in appearance and purpose.
Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. Indeed after several hours I can't find a single image of haloes that is BCE.
I'm going to guess the USA-ian components were specified in non-metric (do you call them Imperial in the US?) and converted to metric for production by the Taiwanese. Rounding errors mean all US plumbing is in metric but 1mm out with respect to the Russian components. Thus, seals leak, etc..
Meanwhile why do they need a seat? Footstraps would do wouldn't they? I'd have thought you had a tube that using a personal adaptor snugs up between your ass cheeks and seals over your anus - as you crap you press a suction button to remove the faeces. Ditto for the piss tube sealing over your urethra. Deposit to an airlocked unit, extract and clean air and water, eject. Granted the water purifier will be bulky, but that toilet unit is huge.
No, I have no clue what I'm on about, this is teh internetz, whaddya expect?
Yeah, and half the websites out there will stop rendering then. Sadly, the vast majority of them don't need javascript to do their job, but such is the epic lame that is the average web programmer.
Or maybe most web programmers don't want to spend a lot of time and money supporting the 1% of users out there that don't have or disable JavaScript.
I'm just sayin'.
I'm finding a lot of sites now using javascript for simple image display. Not even progressively enhancing a basic grid with jQuery, just a simple 3x2 grid (or whatever) of images. Javascript for that, really?
I'm a web designer. I can't understand the rationale for such a design choice.
Any such copying is illegal in the UK , there is no "backup" exclusion for copyright. The only fair-use type objections are for news reporting, education and parody. It's also illegal to record a show off the TV for any reason other than time-shifting in the UK; if you watch it twice you broke the law!
Yes, it's moronic. No, you're not likely to be prosecuted.
If I download a picture, let's say something by Dayvid LeMmon (yes that's a real name, http://www.dayvidlemmon.com/ ), then when I insert a photo of my own into a document I can't simply select "Dayvid LeMmon" from a drop down list to make my photo take on the distinctive style of LeMmon.
With fonts I can download a font and use it to automatically change my texts appearance to take on the distinctive style of the font author. Fonts and image differ in their nature and attitudes to fonts and images differ too.
To apply one of Dan Zadorozny's styles to a section of text takes 2 clicks of the mouse. To apply LeMmon's style to my images requires LeMmon to retake them (yes that could be taken by someone else or mocked up on photoshop the point is far more effort).
Fantasy (also monospace) is one of the generic font types available already - see eg http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style (section: "Setting the font family") from 2002.
[w]eb designers seem to care more about how the page looks than what it's there for. 99% of the time this is used it will be used badly.
I don't rely on the web design I do to make a living (yet). Which means I can be a bit more forceful with my clients in telling them that their idea of using, say, yellow comic sans text on a purple background with circular menu buttons is a hideous idea. Many designers, in my (admittedly limited) experience are constrained by clients taste. Clients have terrible taste in fonts, ergo I agree with your last statement.
[I]t puts less burden on the end user to decipher the page and access it's[sic] content if [...] pages dont[sic] differ from each other in too many ways.
And if you think the only reason for changing fonts is 'pretty looking documents', you've misunderstood the function of typography.
Typography can be used to aid readability but overall it's used to make stuff look pretty. That may not be the sole purpose of typographic design but it is an overriding theme of the majority of fonts. Having @font-face isn't suddenly going to mean that more readable fonts are used, nor even more emotively proper fonts (those that aid to carry the contextual emotion is what I mean).
I'm with the parent. Though I've long wished I could easily include different fonts in a low impact and accessible way (no sIFR, etc.) I do believe that in general a proliferation of fonts will reduce the overall readability of the internet and hence degrade slightly it's benefit as an information resource. It will look prettier in many cases.
Having a Hollywood studio "restore" the footage is going to provide wonderful ammunition for the conspiracy nuts, as they now get to claim that even if the tapes were real, you have no way of knowing if the restored information is genuine or inserted.
The iPhone Armstrong uses to communicate with Collins (pictured drinking new Pepsi, wearing a Snorg-tee whilst playing on his DS), that's inserted...
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Since I ceased to be a civil servant about 5 years ago I've almost lost the ability to sign my name! Then I was signing at least 3 letters a day. Now I sign things about once a month - I do write with a biro nearly every day but only handwritten receipts. I actually write a substantial amount on pottery compared to that on paper.
I'm glad I taught myself to touch type (kinda) when I left Uni.
Better than the linux store, where you have to build the whole store yourself. If you don't like the pot holes in the parking area, they say you can fix them yourself.
Finding out that the potholes haven't been repaired because everyone's inside enjoying the free beer ... win!
Happy birthday to you!
[dialog] "Singing another line from this song will cause a copyright violation; your operating systems DRM has enabled you to avoid this violation. Continuing to sing, disabling the microphone or turning off the computer will require you to re-authenticate windows, this is for your own protection.
You can be assured it's there - note I don't blame the person for lying "beats starving".
It's a tricky one though as to whether it's better to deny them the call-centre jobs or not (by affirmative action in choosing/ pressing companies not to use foreign call centres).
Just because you looked in the wrong place doesn't mean they don't exist.
I looked at the source you mentioned first, it didn't support your statement, I asked for expansion. Nor did I say they didn't exist, nor even that I'd looked in the right places. I've been trawling around lots of sites looking for pre-Christian images of haloes as everyone says they were widely used by everybody in depictions all over before CE. Yours is the first hint of actually imagery.
The pictures from Taq-e Bostan (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taq-e_Bostan, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithra, http://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/1/10/ArdashirII_.jpg) are either Ardashir I or II. I again can't find a better image but if you notice each of the old-king, new-king and priest wear crowns/helms with what appears to be a fabric band (ribbon) extending down, on the right 2 images this comes down in drapes from the central crown on the left images it appears to hang from the ray-like crown (reminiscent of Aztec headdresses, http://images.travelpod.com/users/mebiner/2.1230803220.elaborate-aztec-headdress.jpg). In the other images Ardashir's crown appears to have an ostrich feather or similar. It seems a leap to suppose that only one of the crowns depicted is an artistic device.
The fabric pieces can be seen best in images like http://flickr.com/photos/37514330@N00/3202629664 [or http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16084455.jpg%5D which unfortunately doesn't include the priest (Izad Mithra, or in the Taq-e Bostan page it's said to be Izad Bahram; Izad being the Zoroastrian form of Yazata which means "worshipful" and some render as "god").
It's the best I've seen however, a good find, dating from 300BCE around Persia. I'd want to see other instances of "haloes" in the Persian culture of the time to be convinced on this, as like I said I think it's just a picture of a headpiece.
And you suck at reading too, if you didn't even follow the link [http://home.comcast.net/~taoistresource/art_halo.html] in the "quoted source" you complain about.
You did say "according to this page" and not "according to links on this page". Obviously being an illiterate makes it hard for me to check your post to be sure, perhaps you could do that?
Buddhist art and writings don't appear to exist from before about 100-200AD the canon of Buddhist lore being passed down orally since 400BCE. Whilst that link shows images it doesn't date the images, so establishing a date from them is impossible. They appear mainly to be Thangka which date from a Nepalese influence in 600AD.
The greek image of apollo is one I know, it's about 200AD IIRC (certainly post-Christian). The others look like standard depictions of Helios, being the sun after all, they're more than likely CE. The naive image at the bottom is similar in showing gods of the Sun, Dawn and Morning Star, that they should be shining is not necessarily a depiction of deity/holiness but a simple reflection of their purpose - but they'd be relevant if dated early.
Hindu art is full of haloes, eg http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl2503/stories/20080215250306500.htm the end of that page shows a Jaina shrine from 900AD. "Hindu art" by T. Richard Blurton states that imagery of Vishnu appeared in the "early centuries AD
200m - sounds like with a decent parabolic dish and a dose of WEP-cracking software and you could have free broadband.
Don't forget to get permission first, YMMV!
Nigeria is totally on the Right side.
You bigotted Northern-Hemispherist you always putting the North at the top, you think you're so special.
I call Raciest on you.
You must not have worked with Indians before, they are just as good if not better then most American Workers, today.
All the ones I speak to in India are liars.
Guy on phone: "Hello, my name is Gordon" .."
Me: "Then how come you can't pronounce it?"
Guy: "We are calling from 3, your phone supplier, do you have contract at the moment"
Me: "If you're my supplier, you tell me"
Guy: "I'm sorry
Me: [HUP].
Beats starving to death for sure. If they didn't start the call by lying to me they'd stand a chance of me listening.
According to this wikipedia page the concept was used earlier in a lot of other historical religious art too before becoming bastardized by pop culture's somewhat clumsy literal interpretation.
There are no certain dates for haloes given in the Wikipedia article prior to the 1st Century AD. Only a sun disk is shown, which is clearly different to a halo in appearance and purpose.
Your comment appears to say that haloes were widely used in pre-Christian religious depictions. That is not established in your quoted source. Indeed after several hours I can't find a single image of haloes that is BCE.
I'll grab my pitchfork, you get the scythe, meet me at the old barn and bring everyone you can find.
IE6 will die.
I'm going to guess the USA-ian components were specified in non-metric (do you call them Imperial in the US?) and converted to metric for production by the Taiwanese. Rounding errors mean all US plumbing is in metric but 1mm out with respect to the Russian components. Thus, seals leak, etc..
Meanwhile why do they need a seat? Footstraps would do wouldn't they? I'd have thought you had a tube that using a personal adaptor snugs up between your ass cheeks and seals over your anus - as you crap you press a suction button to remove the faeces. Ditto for the piss tube sealing over your urethra. Deposit to an airlocked unit, extract and clean air and water, eject. Granted the water purifier will be bulky, but that toilet unit is huge.
No, I have no clue what I'm on about, this is teh internetz, whaddya expect?
Yeah, and half the websites out there will stop rendering then. Sadly, the vast majority of them don't need javascript to do their job, but such is the epic lame that is the average web programmer.
Or maybe most web programmers don't want to spend a lot of time and money supporting the 1% of users out there that don't have or disable JavaScript.
I'm just sayin'.
I'm finding a lot of sites now using javascript for simple image display. Not even progressively enhancing a basic grid with jQuery, just a simple 3x2 grid (or whatever) of images. Javascript for that, really?
I'm a web designer. I can't understand the rationale for such a design choice.
is Becquerel-be-gone taken?
You're probably thinking of Silver Halides which are turned into silver metal in photographic methods; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_halide.
Silver is relatively inert but will oxidise over time. Witness the black staining on old silver [plated] cutlery.
Any such copying is illegal in the UK , there is no "backup" exclusion for copyright. The only fair-use type objections are for news reporting, education and parody. It's also illegal to record a show off the TV for any reason other than time-shifting in the UK; if you watch it twice you broke the law!
Yes, it's moronic. No, you're not likely to be prosecuted.
It's more akin to the move from <blink> to Macromedia Flash IMO.
If I download a picture, let's say something by Dayvid LeMmon (yes that's a real name, http://www.dayvidlemmon.com/ ), then when I insert a photo of my own into a document I can't simply select "Dayvid LeMmon" from a drop down list to make my photo take on the distinctive style of LeMmon.
With fonts I can download a font and use it to automatically change my texts appearance to take on the distinctive style of the font author. Fonts and image differ in their nature and attitudes to fonts and images differ too.
To apply one of Dan Zadorozny's styles to a section of text takes 2 clicks of the mouse. To apply LeMmon's style to my images requires LeMmon to retake them (yes that could be taken by someone else or mocked up on photoshop the point is far more effort).
Kerning even.
Was Trainwreck an obtuse reference to tracking?
Oh what am I saying I'm a web-developer how could I possibly know anything about fonts?
Fantasy (also monospace) is one of the generic font types available already - see eg http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style (section: "Setting the font family") from 2002.
Isn't this what Apple just did with video formats for HTML5 though.
MS - we won't support TTF, we're using our own format, EOT.
Apple - we won't support Ogg Vorbis, we're using our own format, H.264.
[w]eb designers seem to care more about how the page looks than what it's there for. 99% of the time this is used it will be used badly.
I don't rely on the web design I do to make a living (yet). Which means I can be a bit more forceful with my clients in telling them that their idea of using, say, yellow comic sans text on a purple background with circular menu buttons is a hideous idea. Many designers, in my (admittedly limited) experience are constrained by clients taste. Clients have terrible taste in fonts, ergo I agree with your last statement.
[I]t puts less burden on the end user to decipher the page and access it's[sic] content if [...] pages dont[sic] differ from each other in too many ways.
And if you think the only reason for changing fonts is 'pretty looking documents', you've misunderstood the function of typography.
Typography can be used to aid readability but overall it's used to make stuff look pretty. That may not be the sole purpose of typographic design but it is an overriding theme of the majority of fonts. Having @font-face isn't suddenly going to mean that more readable fonts are used, nor even more emotively proper fonts (those that aid to carry the contextual emotion is what I mean).
I'm with the parent. Though I've long wished I could easily include different fonts in a low impact and accessible way (no sIFR, etc.) I do believe that in general a proliferation of fonts will reduce the overall readability of the internet and hence degrade slightly it's benefit as an information resource. It will look prettier in many cases.
Having a Hollywood studio "restore" the footage is going to provide wonderful ammunition for the conspiracy nuts, as they now get to claim that even if the tapes were real, you have no way of knowing if the restored information is genuine or inserted.
The iPhone Armstrong uses to communicate with Collins (pictured drinking new Pepsi, wearing a Snorg-tee whilst playing on his DS), that's inserted ...
"Dude, it's not like we can't just go to the moon again!"
I assumed they dismantled the film studio after the first one ...
Perhaps he was only 15 when he published Principia but said he was 44 so people took his maths geekery seriously. ;0)>