> - It's my understanding that sans-serif fonts (i.e. Arial, Verdana) are easier to read on screen than serif fonts (like the one you are currently using). The reverse is true for printed matter.
I agree with your comments, however the website uses the browser's default fonts. In this case the font choice is up to the user. Of course it is a good idea to specify san-serif in the stylesheet for the online version and serif for the printable version.
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Don't forget to bear in mind the accessibility guidelines http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
They could improve the chance of sucess by using pre-written well established software. I recommend "Mars lander" availiable on the acorn electron introductory cassette
the PDF version looks like the output from ps2pdf.
ps2pdf will sometimes convert text to high-resolution bitmapped fonts rather than to embedded outline fonts. Currently, this will always occur when the PostScript file uses CID-keyed or double-byte fonts, when the input file uses kshow, or in some cases if it uses fonts with non-standard encodings; it may occur in other cases as well.
The birthday paradox is suprising. It is a good example of how bad humans are at calculating probabilities.
Ask everybody in the workshop to shout out their birthday (day, not year) one at a time, and ask people to raise their hand if they have the same birthday. In a class of 30, the chance of a coincidence is 70% example, explaination.
There is a 50% chance that two people out of a group of 23 will share a birthday.
If noone shares a birthday you may look silly though:-)
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there is a shockwave plugin avilable that works with Mozilla and Konqueror (that I know of).
Where can you download it from? Macromedia only provide a flash player for linux and not a shockwave player on their site.
Why
Why Not?
What possible use can this serve?
Non
Wasting hundreds of watts
True, you do not want everyone to do it.
> - It's my understanding that sans-serif fonts (i.e. Arial, Verdana) are easier to read on screen than serif fonts (like the one you are currently using). The reverse is true for printed matter.
I agree with your comments, however the website uses the browser's default fonts. In this case the font choice is up to the user. Of course it is a good idea to specify san-serif in the stylesheet for the online version and serif for the printable version.
ps
Don't forget to bear in mind the accessibility guidelines http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
.. power units, fans, floppy drives, switches ...
floppy drives? They are living in a dream world with pixes, leprechauns and eskimos
Remember to bring a boat. You will find it difficult to cross the pacific walking.
They could improve the chance of sucess by using pre-written well established software. I recommend "Mars lander" availiable on the acorn electron introductory cassette
There is in British english too. (The way wot I speak it).
That reminds me of the Lard of the dance simpsons epsode where Homer drools over the grease farming potential of the youth working at Krusty Burger
Its not free in the FSF sense but intel do a f95 compiler which is free for personal use on linux (x86 or itanic only).
The g95 project is developing a free f95 compiler but it is not ready yet: http://g95.sourceforge.net/
the PDF version looks like the output from ps2pdf.
ps2pdf will sometimes convert text to high-resolution bitmapped fonts rather than to embedded outline fonts. Currently, this will always occur when the PostScript file uses CID-keyed or double-byte fonts, when the input file uses kshow, or in some cases if it uses fonts with non-standard encodings; it may occur in other cases as well.
The birthday paradox is suprising. It is a good example of how bad humans are at calculating probabilities.
:-)
Ask everybody in the workshop to shout out their birthday (day, not year) one at a time, and ask people to raise their hand if they have the same birthday. In a class of 30, the chance of a coincidence is 70% example, explaination.
There is a 50% chance that two people out of a group of 23 will share a birthday.
If noone shares a birthday you may look silly though