Font geek to the rescue (again)! As far as I know, it is Helvetica Neue, but it is boldfaced and italicized, with character spacing condensed a little more than usual. That, and their "O" has a weird chip taken out of it -- I don't know why anyone would want to replicate that bizarre oddity though...
BTW -- I believe I mentioned to you before that your sig quote is by George Box... It would be nice if he were properly referenced!
Re:I love the punk kids....
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You neglected to mention how they left you at the line when the light turned green... Hehe, just joking around -- Harleys don't really ride comfortably at speeds above 45 MPH anyway.:^)
From what I have heard, there is some real stuntwork in T3... According to a recent interview with Arnold, he cracked a couple ribs doing a stunt because he slammed into a misplaced I-beam in a building he was being dragged through. I think T3 has a lot more real explosions and effects than a lot of other movies out there nowadays.
This whole champagne and ink thing reminds me of one of the weirder stories in the fortune files:
The General disliked trying to explain the highly technical inner workings of the U.S. Air Force.
"$7,662 for a ten cup coffee maker, General?" the Senator asked.
In his head he ran through his standard explanations. "It's not so," he thought. "It's a deterrent." Soon he came up with, "It's computerized, Senator. Tiny computer chips make coffee that's smooth and full-bodied. Try a cup."
The Senator did. "Pfffttt! Tastes like jet fuel!"
"It's not so," the General thought. "It's a deterrent."
Then he remembered something. "We bought a lot of untested computer chips," the General answered. "They got into everything. Just a little mix-up. Nothing serious."
Then he remembered something else. It was at the site of the mysterious B-1 crash. A strange smell in the fuel lines. It smelled like coffee. Smooth and full bodied...
Yeah, I figured it wasn't either Arial or Helvetica, but I doubted that it would matter for just making a T-shirt.:^)
Hey, we should start an "under 1000 UID" club... Our UIDs would all be at least 99.85% smaller than the newest UIDs just being created today. I just got a reply from maelstrom (UID #638) to one of my posts a couple days ago... He's a potential member. A cursory glance at a "friends of friends" list produces the following other candidates:
caferace (442) Clifton Wood (213) frank (245) jandrese (485) Jeremiah Cornelius (137) kathleen (570) lars (72) mosch (204) Pathwalker (103) RatBastard (949) Robogoatgruff (20) samzenpus (5) Skyshadow (508) Tim (686) Unxmaal (231) Wakko Warner (324)
Font geek to the rescue! May I refer you to my post? The word "Slashdot" is in Coliseo, and the "News for Nerds" part appears to be in Arial or Helvetica.
Upon looking at the Toshiba laptop picture on Toshiba's website, I noticed it looks very much like the Apple ][ series computers from twenty years ago... It looks about as portable as one as well...:^) The Toshiba laptop should be officially called a "luggable", just like the original heavy portable computers were called...
I don't think the 970 will ever scale down well for laptop usage, it's from a family of CPUs with no power considerations to worry of.
You should read this article when you have a chance... It seems that the prospects aren't as bad as they originally appeared. Plus, IBM is supposedly scaling down to a 0.9 micron fab process (from 0.13 micron) on their PPC970s early next year, which should reduce power consumption and heat dissipation a fair bit. These are interesting times...
It's a matter of the signal to noise ratio... A few years back, the amount of "noise" on slashdot was minimal... Nowadays we have the moderation system to deal with this issue, but it still doesn't approach the quality and quantity of "signal" of the pre-User ID slashdot... Back then you could read everyone's comments and get very little noise. I guess it's kinda like what happened to usenet over the years....
I don't know of too many companies that have the following business plan:
1. Make product 2.... 3. Privacy!
All humor aside, I think it's time we just start over. We need an Internet2 (wait... already taken -- Internet3!) that only allows individuals and well-behaved companies onto it... Either that, or we could just move back to Gopher...
Yeah, I was always hoping that there would be another community to come along that was about the same size (and intelligence level) as the pre-User ID slashdot... Sadly that hasn't happened (to my knowledge). Kuro5hin was a good start, but it quickly became overly political... Macslash has gained some steam, but it still doesn't seem to have the amount of people that Slashdot had before implementing user IDs -- that, and they are Mac only. Do you know of any that discuss general technology issues?
Just to add one more little anecdotal tidbit to my nostalgic posting, I wanted to mention that before user IDs were created on Slashdot, you could enter in any name and email address that you wanted... People would routinely spoof as "Bill Gates" and write these funny posts... Other people would spoof as "Steve Jobs" and so on. It made the "Gates on Linux" stories that much more fun.:^)
Speaking as someone who has been reading Slashdot before Rob Malda created user IDs here (no joke), I can agree with your "ultimate dupe" statement... There have probably been more articles about what Gates and Microsoft have said about Linux than any other story here. Each time, it is presented with a little bit different perspective, but not by much.:^)
I noticed on the floor model, top-end Powermac G4 at a CompUSA yesterday, somebody had loaded up Netscape 4.7 in Classic Mode under OS X... I hope most people don't consider this the only way to get Netscape on OS X! Yikes...
I have had a house-based MP3 server running over NFS for years now... My solution has been to have a stereo near each computer that has local ethernet access, and just run the output from each computer's sound card to the stereo next to it. I have customized shell scripts for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X that take the best advantage of the system's ps, mpg123 and kill programs -- if you would like a copy (and instructions for use), email me.
While this setup allows for independent songs to be played on each system (which is great for most purposes), there are times when you want to play the same song on each system -- in essence, creating a "concert" around your house. To do this, I set up Icecast on a Linux machine, gave it all of the MP3s to play, and then connect to it from each other computer via mpg123. This approach does work, but the result is less than excellent -- each connection can be timed up to a second or so off from the other ones, which creates a really weird echo effect in the house. While this can be fun for a little while (standing between two stereos you get a "live" effect from studio material), it gets old real quick.
My proposed solution to this would be find a low-power FM transmitter that you can hook up to one machine -- play MP3s from a soundcard into the FM transmitter, then tune each other stereo to the FM frequency that the transmitter is using. I must admit that I haven't tried this, so I don't know how well it would work -- I do know that the signal would sound synchronized because radio waves travel at the speed of light. I know that Griffin Technology makes the iTrip, which is an FM transmitter specifically made for Apple's iPod. It claims to only have a 10-30 foot range though (limited by FCC regulations), so I'm not sure how well it would work. I'm sure there's a company or two out there that makes a low-power FM transmitter that would work well on any output source, in any situation.
The last time I tried outputting to the sound card directly like that, it nearly killed my stereo... If you don't send just the right sound sample (isn't it something like signed 8kHz, 8-bit mono?), it comes out of the sound card in a terrible screech. The Linux kernel gods may have improved upon this since the last time I tried it, but I imagine it would be impossible to really improve on it unless they only supported playing sound samples with headers.
Damn straight. Audacity has saved my butt a number of times -- great work guys!
Apple's iSight camera has a closeable lens
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I'm sure other web cameras have this feature as well, but Apple iSight web camera has a closeable lens... A nice touch, given the current state of affairs we are living in right now (one that B.Ga claims doesn't exist)...
Similar story at CNN Europe
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CNN Europe recently ran a similar story about Orwell's dystopian vision, and whether or not it has "come true" or not by now... Not much of the story is new for us that like to wear tin foil hats though...:^)
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Don't feel too bad -- somebody recently corrected my sig as well... :^) Apparently I had the words "out" and "nature" transposed.
Font geek to the rescue (again)! As far as I know, it is Helvetica Neue, but it is boldfaced and italicized, with character spacing condensed a little more than usual. That, and their "O" has a weird chip taken out of it -- I don't know why anyone would want to replicate that bizarre oddity though...
BTW -- I believe I mentioned to you before that your sig quote is by George Box... It would be nice if he were properly referenced!
You neglected to mention how they left you at the line when the light turned green... Hehe, just joking around -- Harleys don't really ride comfortably at speeds above 45 MPH anyway. :^)
From what I have heard, there is some real stuntwork in T3... According to a recent interview with Arnold, he cracked a couple ribs doing a stunt because he slammed into a misplaced I-beam in a building he was being dragged through. I think T3 has a lot more real explosions and effects than a lot of other movies out there nowadays.
I knew something didn't look right. Thanks for the correction!
Yeah, I figured it wasn't either Arial or Helvetica, but I doubted that it would matter for just making a T-shirt. :^)
Hey, we should start an "under 1000 UID" club... Our UIDs would all be at least 99.85% smaller than the newest UIDs just being created today. I just got a reply from maelstrom (UID #638) to one of my posts a couple days ago... He's a potential member. A cursory glance at a "friends of friends" list produces the following other candidates:
caferace (442)
Clifton Wood (213)
frank (245)
jandrese (485)
Jeremiah Cornelius (137)
kathleen (570)
lars (72)
mosch (204)
Pathwalker (103)
RatBastard (949)
Robogoatgruff (20)
samzenpus (5)
Skyshadow (508)
Tim (686)
Unxmaal (231)
Wakko Warner (324)
Yeah, it looks like Coliseo is a free knock-off of Koloss... Font piracy seemed to become rampant as soon as Windows supported TrueType. :^)
Font geek to the rescue! May I refer you to my post? The word "Slashdot" is in Coliseo, and the "News for Nerds" part appears to be in Arial or Helvetica.
The typeface that Slashdot uses in its current logo is called Coliseo and can be downloaded here... A sample image of the font is here.
Upon looking at the Toshiba laptop picture on Toshiba's website, I noticed it looks very much like the Apple ][ series computers from twenty years ago... It looks about as portable as one as well... :^) The Toshiba laptop should be officially called a "luggable", just like the original heavy portable computers were called...
You should read this article when you have a chance... It seems that the prospects aren't as bad as they originally appeared. Plus, IBM is supposedly scaling down to a 0.9 micron fab process (from 0.13 micron) on their PPC970s early next year, which should reduce power consumption and heat dissipation a fair bit. These are interesting times...
It's a matter of the signal to noise ratio... A few years back, the amount of "noise" on slashdot was minimal... Nowadays we have the moderation system to deal with this issue, but it still doesn't approach the quality and quantity of "signal" of the pre-User ID slashdot... Back then you could read everyone's comments and get very little noise. I guess it's kinda like what happened to usenet over the years....
I don't know of too many companies that have the following business plan:
...
1. Make product
2.
3. Privacy!
All humor aside, I think it's time we just start over. We need an Internet2 (wait... already taken -- Internet3!) that only allows individuals and well-behaved companies onto it... Either that, or we could just move back to Gopher...
Yeah, I was always hoping that there would be another community to come along that was about the same size (and intelligence level) as the pre-User ID slashdot... Sadly that hasn't happened (to my knowledge). Kuro5hin was a good start, but it quickly became overly political... Macslash has gained some steam, but it still doesn't seem to have the amount of people that Slashdot had before implementing user IDs -- that, and they are Mac only. Do you know of any that discuss general technology issues?
Just to add one more little anecdotal tidbit to my nostalgic posting, I wanted to mention that before user IDs were created on Slashdot, you could enter in any name and email address that you wanted... People would routinely spoof as "Bill Gates" and write these funny posts... Other people would spoof as "Steve Jobs" and so on. It made the "Gates on Linux" stories that much more fun. :^)
Speaking as someone who has been reading Slashdot before Rob Malda created user IDs here (no joke), I can agree with your "ultimate dupe" statement... There have probably been more articles about what Gates and Microsoft have said about Linux than any other story here. Each time, it is presented with a little bit different perspective, but not by much. :^)
I noticed on the floor model, top-end Powermac G4 at a CompUSA yesterday, somebody had loaded up Netscape 4.7 in Classic Mode under OS X... I hope most people don't consider this the only way to get Netscape on OS X! Yikes...
Better yet, Microsoft paid you to claim it was a conspiracy theory, so that everyone here won't believe it. :^)
I have had a house-based MP3 server running over NFS for years now... My solution has been to have a stereo near each computer that has local ethernet access, and just run the output from each computer's sound card to the stereo next to it. I have customized shell scripts for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X that take the best advantage of the system's ps, mpg123 and kill programs -- if you would like a copy (and instructions for use), email me.
While this setup allows for independent songs to be played on each system (which is great for most purposes), there are times when you want to play the same song on each system -- in essence, creating a "concert" around your house. To do this, I set up Icecast on a Linux machine, gave it all of the MP3s to play, and then connect to it from each other computer via mpg123. This approach does work, but the result is less than excellent -- each connection can be timed up to a second or so off from the other ones, which creates a really weird echo effect in the house. While this can be fun for a little while (standing between two stereos you get a "live" effect from studio material), it gets old real quick.
My proposed solution to this would be find a low-power FM transmitter that you can hook up to one machine -- play MP3s from a soundcard into the FM transmitter, then tune each other stereo to the FM frequency that the transmitter is using. I must admit that I haven't tried this, so I don't know how well it would work -- I do know that the signal would sound synchronized because radio waves travel at the speed of light. I know that Griffin Technology makes the iTrip, which is an FM transmitter specifically made for Apple's iPod. It claims to only have a 10-30 foot range though (limited by FCC regulations), so I'm not sure how well it would work. I'm sure there's a company or two out there that makes a low-power FM transmitter that would work well on any output source, in any situation.
The last time I tried outputting to the sound card directly like that, it nearly killed my stereo... If you don't send just the right sound sample (isn't it something like signed 8kHz, 8-bit mono?), it comes out of the sound card in a terrible screech. The Linux kernel gods may have improved upon this since the last time I tried it, but I imagine it would be impossible to really improve on it unless they only supported playing sound samples with headers.
Damn straight. Audacity has saved my butt a number of times -- great work guys!
I'm sure other web cameras have this feature as well, but Apple iSight web camera has a closeable lens... A nice touch, given the current state of affairs we are living in right now (one that B.Ga claims doesn't exist)...
CNN Europe recently ran a similar story about Orwell's dystopian vision, and whether or not it has "come true" or not by now... Not much of the story is new for us that like to wear tin foil hats though... :^)
So, can you SPOT BOB with it? Maybe Spot and Bob can play together, because I want nothing to do with either of them.