In the USA, the glyph shapes of physical (cast metal) fonts is not protected IP.
However, the same shape in a digital font *is* protected IP.
I've always wondered what the legal situation would be if you cloned the appearance of a given font available digitally in metal, then digitised your metal font.
"What are you talking about "leaves" for? Do you know what "leaves" means? I majored in college for botany. Leaves doesn't mean what you think. Go do a Google search for leaves. Come back to me when you know what even basic English. "
I Google searched "definition:leave", and the example given was
v 1: go away from a place;...[e.g.] "The ship leaves at
midnight"...
2: go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or
forgetfulness;...
4: leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;...
5: move out of or depart from; "leave the room";...
6: make a possibility or provide opportunity for;... [e.g.]
"This leaves no room for improvement";...
11: have left or have as a remainder;... [e.g.] "19 minus 8 leaves 11"
None of these are botanical; many are consistent with the use the original poster was making.
Next time you slag someone off for not knowing English, try not to do it while shooting yourself in the foot quite so badly.
Citing Gimp as an example of ease-of-use just indicates why Linux pretty much doesn't have ease-of-use. Linux devotees don't even know what it is, never mind how to provide it.
Of course, in the case of an ISP like the example at hand, that money is coming out of the subscription fees that the customer is paying you and your employer every single month.
You and your employer are costing the caller a lot more money than he is 'costing' you. And he has a reasonable expectation that part of the money you are costing him is there to cover customer support. Not get-the-customer-off-the-line-the-fastest. Which is hardly ever the same thing.
The dirt on it after cooking is either crusty, brittle and easily removed mechanically (e.g. melted cheese solids that bake on to the surface)or solidified grease and fat (or a matrix material composed of particles of the former embedded in a sea of the latter).
I find the best way to clean one of these is not to wash it, but instead:
Let it cool down.
Remove any large brittle stuff with a plastic spatula.
Switch on the grill. (Yes, I said on). Obviously, for any readers in litigious USA, I mean this only for GF grill users who have successfully gained a certificate in GF grill-cleaning from a suitably qualified training provider. This method is not to be used by uncertified GF grill cleaners, except wholly at their own risk.
Get a wad of kitchen roll, and wipe the grease off. This is now easy to do as most of it is still solid, but the stuff actually attached to the grill surface is now melting.
That looks suspiciously like a web-page you've written!
Pretty please, could we have an all-on-one-page, no frames version, so I can read it easily on my PDA?
Many thanks.
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True - but I am excited that there is a language that I can leap straight to from Smalltalk, without feeling I'm losing significant amounts of the niceness of Smalltalk.
Plus, I get all the regexp power of Perl, and a substantial part of the Windows-ness of Smalltalk MT.
Remember, Dave Thomas (the PragmaticProgrammer who co-wrote the first English-language Ruby book, and who helps promote Ruby to the English speaking world) is a Smalltalker.
Leaping back and forth between Ruby and Smalltalk is, IMO, far more straightforward than the back and forth from Smalltalk to Ruby's obvious rivals.
That said, I'm still humming and hawing between Ruby and Smalltalk MT for my Next Big Thingtm
Because most of the developers for Linux are bought-in to the 'RTFM! you ignoramus' culture.
Often they: do not have any UI design skills; do not even realise that UI design is a learnable skillset; do not place any importance on providing support, for people less familiar with the application than they are, to learn the application (after all they know how it works having only spent n hours/days/weeks creating the application - so if it's not obvious to a user how it works, then the usr must be stooopid.
So it's a combination of arrogance, ignorance, lack of empathy and the blindness to new-user problems that comes from being an expert user of the software you're building.
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Smalltalk is a language which manages to be expressive, but without the amount of syntax that Ruby has.
I'm a Smalltalk-er who likes Ruby for its Smalltalk-eyness.
After all, here are 5 lines of Ruby code that give the count of unique IP numbers listed from a webserver logfile which downloaded a particular file from the server
Ruby code: anIpNum = Regexp.new(/[0-9.]+/)
aFile = File.open('D:/Savant/copyOfGeneral.txt')
aDicti onary = Hash.new
aFile.each_line { | line | aDictionary[line.slice(anIpNum)] = 1 if line.include?("plastic_1.1_lite-UMLtool-fw.exe") }
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In the USA, the glyph shapes of physical (cast metal) fonts is not protected IP.
However, the same shape in a digital font *is* protected IP.
I've always wondered what the legal situation would be if you cloned the appearance of a given font available digitally in metal, then digitised your metal font.
"What are you talking about "leaves" for? Do you know what "leaves" means? I majored in college for botany. Leaves doesn't mean what you think. Go do a Google search for leaves. Come back to me when you know what even basic English. "
...[e.g.] "The ship leaves at ... ... ... [e.g.] ... [e.g.] "19 minus 8 leaves 11"
I Google searched "definition:leave", and the example given was
v 1: go away from a place;
midnight"
2: go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or
forgetfulness;...
4: leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking;...
5: move out of or depart from; "leave the room";
6: make a possibility or provide opportunity for;
"This leaves no room for improvement";...
11: have left or have as a remainder;
None of these are botanical; many are consistent with the use the original poster was making.
Next time you slag someone off for not knowing English, try not to do it while shooting yourself in the foot quite so badly.
Citing Gimp as an example of ease-of-use just indicates why Linux pretty much doesn't have ease-of-use. Linux devotees don't even know what it is, never mind how to provide it.
People listen to him because he (with help) managed to produce a GPL'd OS kernel where Stallman and the FSF (with help) failed dismally.
"the US is basically Number 1 at just about everything"
/is/ best at getting its inhabitants to believe it is the best. And at greenhouse gas emissions per person. I'm sure at other things, too.
Apart from educational achievement of its kids, amount of press freedom, GDP per person, productivity per worker per hour, gdp growth per annum...
It
"You cost me and my employer money."
Of course, in the case of an ISP like the example at hand, that money is coming out of the subscription fees that the customer is paying you and your employer every single month.
You and your employer are costing the caller a lot more money than he is 'costing' you. And he has a reasonable expectation that part of the money you are costing him is there to cover customer support. Not get-the-customer-off-the-line-the-fastest. Which is hardly ever the same thing.
Ignorance != Stupidity
You implying that this situation doesn't exist at the moment? If it does exist at the moment, then whoever currently pays the bill would continue to.
If it doesn't exist at the moment, this whole article and thread would not have arisen.
And fighting against selling non-Microsoft machines for much longer than that.
Remember, both Japan and Germany declared war on the USA, and not vice versa.
Euro English, or at least EU English, is British English.
Of course, 1 degree Kelvin == 1 degree Celsius...
Both senses of 'mad' persist in the UK to this day.
I find the best way to clean one of these is not to wash it, but instead:
Obviously, for any readers in litigious USA, I mean this only for GF grill users who have successfully gained a certificate in GF grill-cleaning from a suitably qualified training provider. This method is not to be used by uncertified GF grill cleaners, except wholly at their own risk.
According to any english course you will ever take, that makes the 'i' a long 'i'
Except that Linux is a Finnish word adopted into common English use.
You do realise your sig actually claims that there are 6,000 P.E. teachers who themselves each have an I.Q. of 6,000?
Is that really what you meant?
Except that the IP owner who could sue ... went belly up several years ago!
After all, this is a civil, not a criminal matter surely?
That looks suspiciously like a web-page you've written!
Pretty please, could we have an all-on-one-page, no frames version, so I can read it easily on my PDA?
Many thanks.
True - but I am excited that there is a language that I can leap straight to from Smalltalk, without feeling I'm losing significant amounts of the niceness of Smalltalk.
Plus, I get all the regexp power of Perl, and a substantial part of the Windows-ness of Smalltalk MT.
Remember, Dave Thomas (the PragmaticProgrammer who co-wrote the first English-language Ruby book, and who helps promote Ruby to the English speaking world) is a Smalltalker.
Leaping back and forth between Ruby and Smalltalk is, IMO, far more straightforward than the back and forth from Smalltalk to Ruby's obvious rivals.
That said, I'm still humming and hawing between Ruby and Smalltalk MT for my Next Big Thingtm
Because most of the developers for Linux are bought-in to the 'RTFM! you ignoramus' culture. Often they: do not have any UI design skills; do not even realise that UI design is a learnable skillset; do not place any importance on providing support, for people less familiar with the application than they are, to learn the application (after all they know how it works having only spent n hours/days/weeks creating the application - so if it's not obvious to a user how it works, then the usr must be stooopid. So it's a combination of arrogance, ignorance, lack of empathy and the blindness to new-user problems that comes from being an expert user of the software you're building.
Smalltalk is a language which manages to be expressive, but without the amount of syntax that Ruby has.
:= Regexp new: '[0-9.]+' .
:= File open: 'copyOfGeneral.txt' .
:= Dictionary new .
.
I'm a Smalltalk-er who likes Ruby for its Smalltalk-eyness.
After all, here are 5 lines of Ruby code that give the count of unique IP numbers listed from a webserver logfile which downloaded a particular file from the server
Ruby code:
anIpNum = Regexp.new(/[0-9.]+/)
aFile = File.open('D:/Savant/copyOfGeneral.txt')
aDicti onary = Hash.new
aFile.each_line { | line | aDictionary[line.slice(anIpNum)] = 1 if line.include?("plastic_1.1_lite-UMLtool-fw.exe") }
puts aDictionary.size
and the equivalent Smalltalk
anIpNum
aFile
aDictionary
aFile each:
[ | eachLine |
eachLine include: 'plastic'
ifTrue: [ aDictionary at: anIpNum put: 1 ]
]
aDictionary size
Of course, in Smalltalk-80 there isn't a standard Regexp class, so I'd have to find one.
But I hope you all agree that Ruby's syntax is not too far off Smalltalk's elegance in this example.
p.s. Apologies for the formatting, but until I selected 'Code', Slashdot's lameness filter kept rejecting this post...