"The arguments against web fonts are mostly legal. Fonts are intellectual property and therefore, the argument goes, cannot be published on the web. Although the legal status of font shapes is uncertain, font names are probably covered by copyright law. As such, fonts are similar to copyrighted images and text."
Impressive, but not a fair comparison. Call me when you can ride in our Canadian winters, carry passengers or any significant amount of cargo. - I can carry a passenger.
- There's quite a bit of room under the seat for storage- enough room to carry my gym bag with a change of clothes. They also make an additional storage trunk that you can attach to the luggage rack.
- What's that all aboot, eh?
Seriously though, we have a ridiculous SUV for when we take the kids to the park and stuff like that. But most of my travel (and most everyone's travel) is simply commuting to and from work. A scooter is simply the most efficient way to do that. Being Canadian, I assume you are some sort of maple leaf farmer, so this doesn't really apply to you.
This was part of the premise of an awesome book called Feed.
In the book, everyone has a neural implant that's called a "feed", that's essentially internet access. The net result of having all the worlds knowledge at your fingertips essentially turns everyone into an immature idiot.
What say you walk around that cloak of secrecy and provide some first hand accounts of Joseph Smith's fraud? This is a good place to start. It's got some first hand accounts in the form of signed letters from people who were actually there.
Seriously. I recently got hired as a designer at a marketing firm. They asked me what computer I wanted, so I opted for a 20" iMac (they had just came out- and I was drawn too their innate sexiness) and it SUCKS. The viewing angle is so narrow that colors at the top of the screen look completely different than colors at the bottom. They are NOT suitable AT ALL for graphic design- which is bizarre because nearly ALL graphic designers use macs!
Maybe CDs sound better than cassette tapes, and technically, they probably sound better than vinyl
A nice freshly pressed 180 gram piece of vinyl on a good quality turntable sounds WAY better than a 44.1/16bit CD. ESPECIALLY if it was recorded on 2" tape, and mixed and mastered on analog. That's why I love Steve Albini.
Obligatory Nyquist Theorem link.
I am a pale vegetarian you insensitive clod!!!
No, really. I am actually a pale vegetarian.
Not that it stops me from kickin' ass and takin' names and stuff.
I'm glad somebody else said it. When I first saw that mLan would cover 90% of the US I imagined playing my keyboard in Fresno through speakers in New York.
Sell it on eBay? You fool!! Don't you know they track those things!? I drove mine out into the country and put a bullet right between the LCD. Only way to be safe.
Nintendo recently came out with data suggesting that 1.2 million of those people were not having fun, and would not play online again in the future, and.2 million of them "accidentally went online and now can not get back offline". See? Nintendo was right to shun online play!
I am in a high school summer school classroom, surrounded by several screaming autistic kids and a few screaming down syndrome kids on a Pentium I running Windows 98.
Currently, one of my students is wearing a firemans hat and rocking back and forth, one of them is throwing books and another one is sitting under a desk grunting.
It goes deeper than that. When consumers where told that CD's sound better than records, and got everybody to throw away all their vinyl, consumers stopped listening to what music actually sounded like. The fact that MP3's are so popular is a testamant to this fact. They're just trading one shitty digital audio standard for another. 16 bit 44.1 is shit. Most DAC's are shit.
*sigh* Maybe I should move to the mountains with Steve Albini and we can start a bitter audio snobs support group.
1. Make sure your gaming computer is in the same room as the TV. Whenever she turns on "American Idol", you can get in an hour of complaint-free play time.
2. Buy a Gamecube and every game with "Party" in the title (Mario Party 5, Warioware Party, etc...). This can turn gaming into a social activity which will help remove some of the negativity around the subject. (What female can resist the charm of the "Protect the cat" mini game on Warioware??)
How about something like a Delta 410 (by M-Audio) hooked up to a computer running some sort of sampler program (Kontact, Gigasampler, or one of a million others). 10 "Play" buttons each send a different MIDI note (easy to do, just hack apart a cheap keyboard), each note mapped to the presentation in the sampler program, but sent to the different outputs, each headset plugged into a different output.
Pro's: easy to maintain, easy to update, minimal cost.
Con's: If you don't know what you are doing it could be difficult to set up (especialy the "Play" button). Computer would need a lot of RAM (depending on length of presentation). With that particular piece of hardware (Delta 410) all outputs would be mono, and also would not be amplified.
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A point of clarification:
"The arguments against web fonts are mostly legal. Fonts are intellectual property and therefore, the argument goes, cannot be published on the web. Although the legal status of font shapes is uncertain, font names are probably covered by copyright law. As such, fonts are similar to copyrighted images and text."
From here.
Cue the purists...
That's my cue!
Oh wait... You're making fun of me.
just as compact disks did for audio, a Blue-ray version of a film often reveals limitations of the original recording.
Token analog vs. digital argument. Analog is superior, blah blah blah, sampling rate, nyquist theorom, etc.
Summary.
You know, I wouldn't feel obligated to post this comment if we just had the option of tagging other peoples comments with "Citation Needed".
- There's quite a bit of room under the seat for storage- enough room to carry my gym bag with a change of clothes. They also make an additional storage trunk that you can attach to the luggage rack.
- What's that all aboot, eh?
Seriously though, we have a ridiculous SUV for when we take the kids to the park and stuff like that. But most of my travel (and most everyone's travel) is simply commuting to and from work. A scooter is simply the most efficient way to do that. Being Canadian, I assume you are some sort of maple leaf farmer, so this doesn't really apply to you.
I ride a 2006 Vino 125 (scooter). It goes around 55 mph, accelerates a lot faster than ~80% of cars out there, and I get 80 mpg.
The new ones supposedly get 96 mpg.
This was part of the premise of an awesome book called Feed. In the book, everyone has a neural implant that's called a "feed", that's essentially internet access. The net result of having all the worlds knowledge at your fingertips essentially turns everyone into an immature idiot.
"Slashdot submitters and editors are apparently no longer capable of distinguishing the Internet from the World-Wide Web"
They ARE the same thing you moron, that's why it's called the INTERWEB. duh.
"Parent should stop dicking around and get something done with professional tools." Oh that's right... I remember why I stopped posting here...
Seriously. I recently got hired as a designer at a marketing firm. They asked me what computer I wanted, so I opted for a 20" iMac (they had just came out- and I was drawn too their innate sexiness) and it SUCKS. The viewing angle is so narrow that colors at the top of the screen look completely different than colors at the bottom. They are NOT suitable AT ALL for graphic design- which is bizarre because nearly ALL graphic designers use macs!
We set our SSID to "Open WIFI" so everyone knows we're sharing on purpose with the hopes that guests will do the same.
You can avoid quirks by making sure you've properly defined your doctype. Don't worry, it's a common mistake.
I am a pale vegetarian you insensitive clod!!! No, really. I am actually a pale vegetarian. Not that it stops me from kickin' ass and takin' names and stuff.
I'm glad somebody else said it. When I first saw that mLan would cover 90% of the US I imagined playing my keyboard in Fresno through speakers in New York.
Sell it on eBay? You fool!! Don't you know they track those things!? I drove mine out into the country and put a bullet right between the LCD. Only way to be safe.
Nintendo recently came out with data suggesting that 1.2 million of those people were not having fun, and would not play online again in the future, and .2 million of them "accidentally went online and now can not get back offline". See? Nintendo was right to shun online play!
I am in a high school summer school classroom, surrounded by several screaming autistic kids and a few screaming down syndrome kids on a Pentium I running Windows 98.
Currently, one of my students is wearing a firemans hat and rocking back and forth, one of them is throwing books and another one is sitting under a desk grunting.
The rest, as I mentioned, are screaming.
It goes deeper than that. When consumers where told that CD's sound better than records, and got everybody to throw away all their vinyl, consumers stopped listening to what music actually sounded like. The fact that MP3's are so popular is a testamant to this fact. They're just trading one shitty digital audio standard for another. 16 bit 44.1 is shit. Most DAC's are shit.
*sigh* Maybe I should move to the mountains with Steve Albini and we can start a bitter audio snobs support group.
A few things that have helped me out...
1. Make sure your gaming computer is in the same room as the TV. Whenever she turns on "American Idol", you can get in an hour of complaint-free play time.
2. Buy a Gamecube and every game with "Party" in the title (Mario Party 5, Warioware Party, etc...). This can turn gaming into a social activity which will help remove some of the negativity around the subject. (What female can resist the charm of the "Protect the cat" mini game on Warioware??)
How about something like a Delta 410 (by M-Audio) hooked up to a computer running some sort of sampler program (Kontact, Gigasampler, or one of a million others). 10 "Play" buttons each send a different MIDI note (easy to do, just hack apart a cheap keyboard), each note mapped to the presentation in the sampler program, but sent to the different outputs, each headset plugged into a different output.
Pro's: easy to maintain, easy to update, minimal cost.
Con's: If you don't know what you are doing it could be difficult to set up (especialy the "Play" button). Computer would need a lot of RAM (depending on length of presentation). With that particular piece of hardware (Delta 410) all outputs would be mono, and also would not be amplified.
Actually, M-Audio does, and they're a major player in the pro/semi-pro-audio market.
I've got a VST plug-in that will do it aotumagically!
r .h tm
http://members.tripod.com/PluginCult/grungelize
Now THAT my friend is progress.
Exlamation point! Question mark? Double exclamation point!! I couldn't help but think if Rush Limbaugh posted on boards it would read a lot like this.