"This is obviously a jab at the concept of business process patents. It is a common practive today, and thus has a great deal of prior art to invalidate it."
Haven't we seen enough things where there was prior art and the patent was granted anyway?
I worked at a manufacturor of PC graphics cards in the 80s and we were hit with the "xor cursor" patent troll. I dug up the appropriate prior art but was told "they only want 15K, tektronix hp and sony have paid. We will to; it's cheaper".
The marketing dorks are gonna shit themseleves, they love that ugly turd Verdana.
I remember one moron marketdroid yelling at me once saying I didn't know anything about typefaces and real professionals use Verdana.
Never mind I created comp.fonts, had a prototype Postscript printer, actually PAID for Type one fonts 20 years ago and have more typeface catalogs (some 1000 page volumes going back to the 18th) century than you can shake a stick it.
Ding dong Verdana's dead. Pardon me while I do a little happy dance here.
Somehoe I don't see Premiere as a web app being something terribly practical.
I'd be happy if somebody convinced Keith to put Pixelsight back.
There's no inherant advanage to me to have Photoshop as a web app. As a actually usable tool it simply can't compare to a piece of client side software.
Type 1 faces *scale*. You'd be hard pressed to use anything else for film output (2500 dpi+) on a Linotronic.
But their weekness is they don't look as good on lower resolution devices like computer screens. That's where the other technologies that are hand tuned have a slight edge.
BMW has won the 24 hours of Nürburgring race 16 times. In fact, BMW won the event 12 out of 15 times from 1984 to 1998 in machines ranging from the BMW 6 Series Coupe to the BMW M3. http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/racing/nurburgring.htm
These are all modified race cars. In the real world BMW's seem to have a reliability edge over Porsches. At least that's what I've seen. YMMV.
"I've even seen LEOs on interstates that were so stupid as to sit on the side of the road with two other cruisers, *get out of their vehicle* and point at people to try to pull them over, using the other two to pursue the people who ignored or never noticed those idiots. "
Once in Tradfic School in California we had a cop tell us flat out to ignore them. "if they want you, they'll come get you. Otherwise just ignore them".
Yeah you can use your tranny. But consider: brakes are a helluva lot cheaper and easier to replace than a tranny.
Onr thing though, if you do use your brakes A LOT on a big hill and there's a stop sign at the bottom, DO NOT sit there. The (potentially) cherry red rotors will cool down at a differert rate than the part of the rotor under the pads. Keep moving, albeing slowly so they cool down evernly.
If you've ever had warped rotors, dollars to donuts this is why they became warped.
"That M5 likely would stop from 100 MPH in in under 200 feet Awesome. So now he just has to make sure to stay 200ft behind any other vehicle at all times. Think he actually did that? Nah, me neither. "
He's following a CAR not a brick well. That is, what he's following is moving. And unelss it's another M5 it won't be able to stop as quickly as the M5 can.
The UK, Yurrup and are different. In Yurrup you can drive for three hours, always be in "a small town" and go through three different countries.
Here in Ontario you can drive for three days and still be in Ontario. Drive another day and you get to the next provence. It'll take you a week to cross the country.
"The Wikipedia article on Antisocial personality disorder quotes the DSM diagnositic critera. Their actions definitely meet two of the them: failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest reckless disregard for safety of self or others
Two others may be met: deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another
For a diagnosis of APD, though, there needs to be "evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years", and of course we don't know their childhood. (But the ICD criterea are a little looser, with conduct disorder at a young age being suportive of a diagnosis but not necessary.) But regardless of whether a clinical diagnosis is appropriate, it's certainly accurate to refer to the behavior as "sociopathic"."
My daughter is doing psych and regails in telling me everything she's learned. Sociopathy is her favorite.
You're way off base here. There's a long history of criteria that need to be bet in order to be qualified as a sociopath. Torturing animals while young and the lack of any ability to love are just two that are absent from this case, "doctor".
As for "failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest" anybody that regularly speeds one mile over the limit or snokes pot has sociopathic tendancies?
That's about one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. It would be more accurate to say "some perfectly notmal people so things that are one of the (7? 10?) DSM-IV diagnostic criteria of sociopathy."
"So the car definitely hit with more energy than it would have had, had the drivers obeyed the rules. "
So? If they'd being going half the speed in that Porsche the couple would still have paid with their lives for their error. Uncle Chuck strikes again.
There's a few cars (Mercedes, Volvo) that are quite hard to die in. I've seen a W126 chassis Benz slam into the back of an 18 wheeler then get hit by an 18 wheeler in a nasty fog incident in California's grapevine - a constant source of multi car pileups. The Benz owner simply opened the door, got out of his now accordianed car (albeit with a nearly death-proof passenger compartment) and as a paramedic help carry away the bodies of poeple who drive Japanese cars and were killed for their poor automotive choice. over a dozen bodies that day.
I own/run mbz.org (see the video there "why we drive these cars") and know thousands of people. Very very few are wealthy and I'd hazard to say 99% of these people drive the cars not beause they're "Engineered like no other car in the world" or because they're comfortable or reliable or a status symbol, they drive them because it's really really hard to die in them. In running this site for over a decade now and with about 3000 subscribers there have been a handful of people who have been hit. In EVERY case the car sacrified itself like it's supposed to and the owner opened the door (Mercedes doors are different and almsot always open after even the worst accident) and walked away. The only person I've heard die in a Mercedes was Diana. She didn't have her seatbelt on. Stupid.
One of my good friends was t-boned at 60 in a W126 chassis MB. He walked away. Any other car (except maybe a volvo) and he'd have been killed outright. Things like a Lotus or Vette with a thin fibreglas skin between you and the red-light-runner (as in this example) simply mean there's even less of you after the fact. They just hose you off the road.
My ex liked SUVs and every time she took the kids out in it I worried. When she took the Benz I knew they had a very veru small chance of dying no matter what kind of stupidity occured. I'm not wealthy by any stretch - these cars last nearly forever and a (dcently maintained) 10 or 5 year old MB is barely broken in, cheap and cheap to run. I don't get the Volvo thing, parts for those Swedish meatballs are 3X what Benz parts are.
You fuck up in a little vw, you're gonna die. Sorry. Any collision over 30mph that hits the door is gonna kill you. The speed in this case was simply not relevant if it was over 30. And this was a highway.
"10%? What kind of roads do you drive on that have stop signs and 60 mph speed limits? "
The road I live on for one. And people speed. Trucks speed. Big 18 wheel tandem trailer trucks carrying full loads of logs speed.
Around here "watch out for the other guy" isn't just advice and it's taken very very seriously. This is a (very) rural area.
4 years ago a women backed out of a church pakring lot on xmas eve and was killed by somebody in a van doing the speed limit. The women just doidn't bother looking. Racer or no racer, you're just gonna die if you do that around here. The optinion of the "ever so colorful" locals here was not "poor woman" but "Dumb. You don't do that. She needed killin'"
I understand you soft city folk may see things different'.
First, I've hit 3 deer that came out of absolute nowhere. One at 50 one at 80. You're fucked either way. Note that 50 was *below* the speed limit where I was.
The claim that speed kills is an appeal to amotion. There's plenty of cases where you don't need speed to be dead. I live on a busy highway and I've seen people pull away from my place without looking behind the,
Even going the speed limit 45 mph here, a tandem traier logging truck is gonna ruin your day. He can't react, move or stop.
If it was my mum (oh, wait, it was) I'd rather have a safe high speed driver doing 140 barrelling down on her inattentive ass than a logging truck doing under the speed limit. The beamer can go around her.
Again, in spite of all your rhetoric the safety record of these rallies speaks for itself. There's only been one fatality when a porsche going 6 miles over the limit wiped out an old guy who ran a stop sign.
When yoy run a stop sign onto a highway you can be killed just as easily by a civic doing the speed limit, it was just happenstance that that it was a gumballer. An frankly he'd have a better shot at going around the idiot that ignored the stop sign than you or I - having a more responsive car and faster reflexes (good racers have faster reflexces than the average person).
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Just a guess, but wouldn't it be easier to go after others if you have the (assuming they prevail) winning precedent in hand?
"This is obviously a jab at the concept of business process patents. It is a common practive today, and thus has a great deal of prior art to invalidate it."
Haven't we seen enough things where there was prior art and the patent was granted anyway?
I worked at a manufacturor of PC graphics cards in the 80s and we were hit with the "xor cursor" patent troll. I dug up the appropriate prior art but was told "they only want 15K, tektronix hp and sony have paid. We will to; it's cheaper".
Is it just me that finds it deliciously ironic that in an article about web fonts we have to use pdfs to look at them?
*cough*NeWS*cough*thewebisbroken*cough*.
They removed the other ones? (Verdana et al)
Really?
The marketing dorks are gonna shit themseleves, they love that ugly turd Verdana.
I remember one moron marketdroid yelling at me once saying I didn't know anything about typefaces and real professionals use Verdana.
Never mind I created comp.fonts, had a prototype Postscript printer, actually PAID for Type one fonts 20 years ago and have more typeface catalogs (some 1000 page volumes going back to the 18th) century than you can shake a stick it.
Ding dong Verdana's dead. Pardon me while I do a little happy dance here.
Somehoe I don't see Premiere as a web app being something terribly practical.
I'd be happy if somebody convinced Keith to put Pixelsight back.
There's no inherant advanage to me to have Photoshop as a web app. As a actually usable tool it simply can't compare to a piece of client side software.
Convince me otherwise, Adobe.
Type 1 faces *scale*. You'd be hard pressed to use anything else for film output (2500 dpi+) on a Linotronic.
But their weekness is they don't look as good on lower resolution devices like computer screens. That's where the other technologies that are hand tuned have a slight edge.
"Actually, the Microsoft Typography people are pretty good" "
They're actually not bad, even Chuck Bigelow's Lucida has been supplanted. It was the first typeface designed for computer displays.
Anybody know who the MS typeface people are?
There's an interview with Hermann Zapf someplace where he talked about ripoffs of typeface design that I thought was a real eye opener.
:-)
Can't find it at the moment, but somebody should did it up. It's an interesting +5 read
"7,8,9,10,10.1, ... 10.8, 10.9, 10.91, 10.92, ... 10.991, 10.992, ... 10.99999999 "
If it were really Knuth it would be:
1, 2, 3, 4, 10 I'll do the rest later.
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I see you've read "HTML for lawyers".
"then along came Rubens who only painted fat chicks "
They're not fat they're Ruebenesque.
" Ever been to the 24 hours of Daytona? The pits were littered with blown BMW straight sixes by the end. A 911 won. "
What year?
BMW won:
1976, 1983, 1988, 1989
http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/racing/history/drivers.htm
BMW has won the 24 hours of Nürburgring race 16 times.
In fact, BMW won the event 12 out of 15 times from 1984 to 1998 in machines ranging from the BMW 6 Series Coupe to the BMW M3.
http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/racing/nurburgring.htm
These are all modified race cars. In the real world BMW's seem to have a reliability edge over Porsches. At least that's what I've seen. YMMV.
Sounds a bit over complicated. You just tow it to 30 and put it in gear, even an automayic diesel will start this way.
This is the preferred way of starting one that just won't start otherwise.
"I've even seen LEOs on interstates that were so stupid as to sit on the side of the road with two other cruisers, *get out of their vehicle* and point at people to try to pull them over, using the other two to pursue the people who ignored or never noticed those idiots. "
Once in Tradfic School in California we had a cop tell us flat out to ignore them. "if they want you, they'll come get you. Otherwise just ignore them".
Anyone that crushes an F40 should be dragged behind an M5 coast to coat at 90 mph.
There's no good reason to do this, ever. It's just pinheadedly spiteful.
The Porsche is much less of a threat.
The SUV will usually start.
" You'll grow a sense of humour right out your ass when this fuckwit kills someone you love. "
Well, maybe. But they may take out an ex, too.
Yeah you can use your tranny. But consider: brakes are a helluva lot cheaper and easier to replace than a tranny.
Onr thing though, if you do use your brakes A LOT on a big hill and there's a stop sign at the bottom, DO NOT sit there. The (potentially) cherry red rotors will cool down at a differert rate than the part of the rotor under the pads. Keep moving, albeing slowly so they cool down evernly.
If you've ever had warped rotors, dollars to donuts this is why they became warped.
"Two words: tire blowout. "
Three words: Run flat tires.
"That M5 likely would stop from 100 MPH in in under 200 feet
Awesome. So now he just has to make sure to stay 200ft behind any other vehicle at all times. Think he actually did that? Nah, me neither. "
He's following a CAR not a brick well. That is, what he's following is moving. And unelss it's another M5 it won't be able to stop as quickly as the M5 can.
That changes the dynamics somewhat.
The UK, Yurrup and are different. In Yurrup you can drive for three hours, always be in "a small town" and go through three different countries.
Here in Ontario you can drive for three days and still be in Ontario. Drive another day and you get to the next provence. It'll take you a week to cross the country.
Well, MOST people, anyway.
"The Wikipedia article on Antisocial personality disorder quotes the DSM diagnositic critera. Their actions definitely meet two of the them:
failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
reckless disregard for safety of self or others
Two others may be met:
deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another
For a diagnosis of APD, though, there needs to be "evidence of conduct disorder with onset before age 15 years", and of course we don't know their childhood. (But the ICD criterea are a little looser, with conduct disorder at a young age being suportive of a diagnosis but not necessary.) But regardless of whether a clinical diagnosis is appropriate, it's certainly accurate to refer to the behavior as "sociopathic"."
My daughter is doing psych and regails in telling me everything she's learned. Sociopathy is her favorite.
You're way off base here. There's a long history of criteria that need to be bet in order to be qualified as a sociopath. Torturing animals while young and the lack of any ability to love are just two that are absent from this case, "doctor".
As for "failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest" anybody that regularly speeds one mile over the limit or snokes pot has sociopathic tendancies?
That's about one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. It would be more accurate to say "some perfectly notmal people so things that are one of the (7? 10?) DSM-IV diagnostic criteria of sociopathy."
"So the car definitely hit with more energy than it would have had, had the drivers obeyed the rules. "
So? If they'd being going half the speed in that Porsche the couple would still have paid with their lives for their error. Uncle Chuck strikes again.
There's a few cars (Mercedes, Volvo) that are quite hard to die in. I've seen a W126 chassis Benz slam into the back of an 18 wheeler then get hit by an 18 wheeler in a nasty fog incident in California's grapevine - a constant source of multi car pileups. The Benz owner simply opened the door, got out of his
now accordianed car (albeit with a nearly death-proof passenger compartment) and as a paramedic help carry away the bodies of poeple who drive Japanese cars and were killed for their poor automotive choice. over a dozen bodies that day.
I own/run mbz.org (see the video there "why we drive these cars") and know thousands of people. Very very few are wealthy and I'd hazard to say 99% of these people drive the cars not beause they're "Engineered like no other car in the world" or because they're comfortable or reliable or a status symbol, they drive them because it's really really hard to die in them. In running this site for over a decade now and with about 3000 subscribers there have been a handful of people who have been hit. In EVERY case the car sacrified itself like it's supposed to and the owner opened the door (Mercedes doors are different and almsot always open after even the worst accident) and walked away. The only person I've heard die in a Mercedes was Diana. She didn't have her seatbelt on. Stupid.
One of my good friends was t-boned at 60 in a W126 chassis MB. He walked away. Any other car (except maybe a volvo) and he'd have been killed outright. Things like a Lotus or Vette with a thin fibreglas skin between you and the red-light-runner (as in this example) simply mean there's even less of you after the fact. They just hose you off the road.
My ex liked SUVs and every time she took the kids out in it I worried. When she took the Benz I knew they had a very veru small chance of dying no matter what kind of stupidity occured. I'm not wealthy by any stretch - these cars last nearly forever and a (dcently maintained) 10 or 5 year old MB is barely broken in, cheap and cheap to run. I don't get the Volvo thing, parts for those Swedish meatballs are 3X what Benz parts are.
You fuck up in a little vw, you're gonna die. Sorry. Any collision over 30mph that hits the door is gonna kill you. The speed in this case was simply not relevant if it was over 30. And this was a highway.
"10%? What kind of roads do you drive on that have stop signs and 60 mph speed limits? "
The road I live on for one. And people speed. Trucks speed. Big 18 wheel tandem trailer trucks carrying full loads of logs speed.
Around here "watch out for the other guy" isn't just advice and it's taken very very seriously. This is a (very) rural area.
4 years ago a women backed out of a church pakring lot on xmas eve and was killed by somebody in a van doing the speed limit. The women just doidn't bother looking. Racer or no racer, you're just gonna die if you do that around here. The optinion of the "ever so colorful" locals here was not "poor woman" but "Dumb. You don't do that. She needed killin'"
I understand you soft city folk may see things different'.
It's no that simple.
First, I've hit 3 deer that came out of absolute nowhere. One at 50 one at 80. You're fucked either way. Note that 50 was *below* the speed limit where I was.
The claim that speed kills is an appeal to amotion. There's plenty of cases where you don't need speed to be dead. I live on a busy highway and I've seen people pull away from my place without looking behind the,
Even going the speed limit 45 mph here, a tandem traier logging truck is gonna ruin your day. He can't react, move or stop.
If it was my mum (oh, wait, it was) I'd rather have a safe high speed driver doing 140 barrelling down on her inattentive ass than a logging truck doing under the speed limit. The beamer can go around her.
Again, in spite of all your rhetoric the safety record of these rallies speaks for itself. There's only been one fatality when a porsche going 6 miles over the limit wiped out an old guy who ran a stop sign.
When yoy run a stop sign onto a highway you can be killed just as easily by a civic doing the speed limit, it was just happenstance that that it was a gumballer. An frankly he'd have a better shot at going around the idiot that ignored the stop sign than you or I - having a more responsive car and faster reflexes (good racers have faster reflexces than the average person).