The scene they added (by dubbing Han's Greedo conversation onto the scene) is too close in time to the Greedo scene. It's definitely noticable that Han is basically repeating himself.
Too bad there wasn't a way to put the scene in with new dialog. As it is, I agree they should have left it out, I was just pointing out that the scene wasn't really new to the Special Editions.:-)
I don't know if this was in the original script or not, but in the novel "Star Wars" (released before RotJ) Jabba does confront Han in the hanger bay. Of course, as described, he's completely different than the Jabba we see in RotJ, he's in some sort of a container of liquid. I distinctly remember that he is described as jumping up and spinning around in surprise, because he and his crew of thugs are facing the Falcon and he calls out "We've got you surrounded" and then Han says from behind him "If so, you're facing the wrong way."
I don't remember the exact wording or author (a well-known Sci-Fi author... Alan Dean Foster?) and the book is at home, but the idea that Jabba confronts Han in the hanger bay is much older than the special editions.
I bought a car (BMW Z3) through them during their initial period (when they still did everything themselves) and got the car for a good bit less than invoice. Since it was a car with no rebates and a low manufacturer to dealer kickback, I got a pretty good deal. What I really liked: I went to the dealership to pick up my car and signed two pieces of paper and drove off. I spent about 20 minutes there, and ten of them were devoted to the "talk-through" in the car where they explain all the features.
I was in the market for another car last summer and checked them out again. As you surmise, they are more of a dealer referral site now. However, they will still give you an upfront quote and handle all the paperwork. We wound up buying our PT cruiser through Cars Direct, and again paid under invoice. Of course it wasn't as good a deal as the first time around (because Daimler/Chrysler has significant kickbacks).
Anyway, if you want to buy a new car, and want to get in and out of the dealership in minimum time without the hassle of negotiating, it's not a bad bet. (Note: I'm not affiliated with Cars Direct in any way, just a satisfied customer.)
This is anecdotal, but this "XP is stable now" is something I'm not buying. Here goes:
I have four boxes here in my office, a six-month-old, high-end Dell Windows box, my Powerbook, a Dell 2800 running VMware ESX Server, and a Dell 2800 running Ubuntu (crazy, I know, but the 2800 was what was available).
My servers only reboot when I need to document startup behavior. Since I'm doing work that involves explaining how to build drivers for ESX, which includes info on installing and starting ESX, that means an occasional reboot. Initiated by me. At this time, (after about six months) neither server has required a restart for any other reason.
My Powerbook has been rebooted three times since I bought it. Each time was after installing a system update for OSX.
The Windows XP box I reboot at least once a week. Sometimes this is because of an update. Usually it's because a progam locks up and refuses to be killed, and no, the Task Manager can't kill it either. When that happens, the only way to get the application to restart is to reboot, and since I can't do my job without email and publishing applications, I have to reboot. While this is obviously caused by the application, the OS should be able to kill any userland program completely.
Windows XP may have eliminated the BSOD that we all love to mock, but "stable" it isn't, IME.
Whenever anyone says "violence never solves anything" I always remember the part in Starship Troopers where the History and Moral Philosophy teacher says "Perhaps you could tell that to the Carthagians..."
I know it sounds like this is a done deal to you, but despite the "it's just IT work" responses, my advice is to put up every obstacle you can... get legal in on it, make estimates (or wild guesses) about how much this is going to cost, and fight 'til your last breath.
Everything that goes wrong after you (or a tech) touches the machine is going to be your fault, whether it is or not. At some point, you are going to be asked to help someone with a lot of internal clout, this will come to pass, and you will be out of a job. It doesn't matter if there's no possible connection between installing a video driver and the malfunction of the LAN card, because these days logic is the last resort.
I well remember working my way through college as an electrician for a company serving Beverly Hills, and let me tell you, we got calls where someone would say "your guys installed a light and now my toilet won't flush" and they were serious. This is a lose-lose if ever there was one.
Soldiers in a recognized hazardous area get "danger pay" (don't recall the exact name as it's been a while), but I'm always surprised by what people think about danger pay. When I was in the gulf the first time around, danger pay amounted to $220 per month. AFAIK, there's no special pay for being stationed overseas.
Fans of Starship Troopers (the novel) may recall when Rico is undergoing his MI testing and there are both physical and psychological portions . I always liked the part where he says "I don't understand what they can learn about you from having a secretary jump up on her desk and yell 'Snake!'"
I'd like to see tests a little more along these lines. Like maybe in the middle of the interview, smoke starts coming under the conference room door, or the interviewer pretends to be having a stroke. Or both? Or perhaps someone runs by the room yelling "There's a maniac with an axe in the server room!"?
I used to work for Trend Micro, which is just down the block from Apple (on De Anza) and I don't recall there being a lot of industrial places nearby (within a mile) that they could have purchased. Anyone know if which side of De Anza this is on? I keep thinking that it might be behind the current campus on the east side (there are some industrial buildings over there) because the west side is faily residential.
When they were a computer noob (for those who started out with Windows) how did they get their questions answered? They asked the guy in the next cube, or a friend, or the know "Power User" for help. If you don't know how to create a particular formula in Excel, you ask an Excel-knowledgeable person.
With Windows users, the set of people who have your answer runs the gamut from people who just learned what you want to know (who are interested in sharing it) to long-time power users who are used to being asked obscure questions about Windows applications. Heck, I once interviewed at a company where the position they were advertising was actually a "Office Expert" position. The interviewer wanted to know if I was willing to be the MS Office tech support guy--which is not the position I applied for:-)
When you ask a question on a Linux forum (or IRC, or mailing list) you are almost certainly dealing with a smaller group who is less used to answering "noob" questions than your average Windows user. Not only that, but the population tend to include a higher proportion of geeks, who aren't known for being the most socially adept. In that sense, you're asking your question of an elite group, not used to answering them. And you can expect some responses that may seem like snobbery.
1. Autocross is a few hundred dollars, assuming you have the right car. (I do) 2. Guns can be bought with minimal hassle (even here in California) and take it to a range if you're willing to pay, or a public shooting area (these are usually located in National Forrest areas here in California) 3. Swords can be bought (I own several) and for a modest amount of money you can either take fencing lessons
None of these "sports" (if you will) is necessarily dangerous, assuming you have the right equipment and exercise a reasonable amount of care.
Every geek should try all four! (Guitar, autocross, shooting, and fencing)
The solution to 'thousands of people injured by an encounter with a retard' isn't reducing a vehicle's capabilities by installing some "limiter" that prevents the driver from taking a turn "too fast." If it were, we could pretty much completely eliminate all driving fatalities by restricting cars to a top speed of 3 mph, forcing drivers to make only right-hand turns, and requiring a monthly driving test. The solution is personal responsibility. There should be severe consequences for retards who injure people. Anything else is the Patriot Act: well, someone somewhere _might_ be using an NGO to support terrorists, so let's bug all the offices of every NGO in the country.
I don't think it could work, but I always liked Heinlein's proposed solution in "Number of the Beast" (I think) where the person who ran over a pedestrian and then drove away was himself run over and then required to wait for medical attention the exact amount of time that the original victim had to wait.
Why is it that on slashdot, your solution is "insightful" if you want to control how other people drive, but you're a -1 Troll if you want to place limitations on p0rn on the Internet? Can you say "double standard"?
"Only the employees can close out the tickets" so I'm thinking you believe this is really going to help. I've seen tickets go unclosed for many, many months. Heck, I once saw a trouble ticket that was almost two years old.
Saying "only an employee can say when the problem is fixed" is not the same as saying "we will fix problems to the employee's satisfaction in a reasonable timeframe."
I'd love to believe the hype, but human nature being what it is (in India as everywhere) my guess is that this is going to be just like every other over-hyped management fad of the last 30 years
I think that you're right--there's a certain "geeky elitism" that prevails on Slashdot. But to a certain extent, that's part of the value of Slashdot: because many posters subscribe to the general idea that rational discussion and interesting points (from an intellectual POV) are the important thing, you often get comments that are well thought out (with flames and trolls hopefully modded down). On slashdot, I see links to interesting information in the comments--links that sometimes make me re-think ideas I have, links that provide interesting information, and even links to things I'm interested in purchasing. While there are flames (and Beowulf clusters of in Soviet Russia jokes) I'd say about 75% of what I see on slashdot is interesting to me on some level.
About 90% of what I've seen on myspace is not just uninteresting, it makes me want to put my eyes out with a fork. It's not its popularity that makes slashdot readers think that myspace is crap. It's that what you see in general IS crap (if you don't have an account--I've heard people with accounts say they have a different perspective). If you can't see a difference between 10 million poorly written, badly formatted, blinking, flashing, OMG Ponies myspace pages and the articles and comments on slashdot, I'm not sure how to help you.
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...for non-history buffs, during the French Revolution, the government of France renamed all the months. If I recall correctly, it lasted less than two years. And it makes reading about events during the Revolution amusing, as all the dates have both the "Revolutionary" and "Julian" dates listed.
Centralized power generation would seem to be (in some cases) better because the efficiency of the generator increases. But there are losses in transmission that also come into play. I don't know exactly how great these are, but common sense says that getting the power from the generator to the user is less and less efficient the further way the user is.
Of course, there's a "transmission cost" for fossil fuels that includes piping it from wells to the gulf, sending it across the ocean in a tanker, piping it to the refinery and trucking it to the stations.:-)
I can understand the draw of tiny fliers being used for various "search and rescue" (or surveillance) purposes. It's frequently easier and safer to send a remote device to find people before sending in the human teams. I can even see some anti-crime benefits; tiny flyer looks into building where hostages are being held to determine how many bad guys there are.
But this thing is a plane, so it's a bad choice. It's not much use in the great outdoors if it's very small, because the lightest gust of wind is going to send it 50' off course. Besides, the need to maintain forward progress to ensure lift is going to make a fixed-wing aircraft a tool of limited use, except maybe for buzzing drunk schoolmates at the annual picnic.
Much more interesting are tiny helicopters (like the one I have, see here. Once these get down to a couple of inches total size, then I can see them being useful.
I've installed Ubuntu three times now to see if I could get Windows off the one non-gaming machine left in my house that's still running it. So far, no luck. Several problems I've been able to solve myself, but there were a couple of glaring issues that made me think I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine for a noob.
First, the support for USB devices is spotty. I've got four or five different USB tools that I regularly use (WiFi, Bluetooth, Card reader, USB key, etc.) and only the USB key was recognized right off. Since Ubuntu relies on network connectivity for getting drivers, I had to go through the annoying process of finding a USB WiFi driver on my PowerBook and then moving it over. Not good. You'd think that an OS that practially requires a network connection to be useful would provide the widest possible array of network device drivers, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
The most egregious error, though, was the hardware device database tool. Tabbing through the controls on the dialog boxes allows you to edit the dialog box text. Just as an info point: you shouldn't be able to edit the interface text in a modal dialog box. That's a Bad Thing®. Worse, could someone explain why you can't use the keyboard to select options in the mouse dialog? How exactly am I supposed to tell you I'm having trouble with my serial mouse if I have to use a mouse to select an option other than "works fine"? Sigh.
I really want to like Ubuntu. I have an install at work that I use when I want to fiddle around with Unix text files in an easy way. But I don't think it's to the point where I could give someone a CD and tell them "have fun". Too bad, because I have some less tech-savvy folks I would love to help.
For one thing, a lot of people who don't really have "drawing skills" are now able to more easily produce things on the computer and publish them for the world to see. There's an upside and a downside to this, of course. The disadvantage is that you now see a lot of stuff--especially on the web--done by people who obviously have no artistic ability, and it's terrible. Sometimes this means that people who would have either given up on art or been forced to improve stay lazy. The advantage is that folks who lack the motor control skills to do drawings (who for instance, can't draw a straight line) can now express themselves with drawing tools.
Lots of folks have noted that the important thing in art isn't the skill of drawing or painting, but seeing. This can't be over-emphasized. If you can't see something (really see it, in the sense that art instructors mean) then you can't draw it. In my opinion, as long as learning the software doesn't detract from learning what's important, then there's no harm in using it. The underlying principles of light and shadow, or composition, for instance, are just as important in a Painter project as in a watercolor.
When I was in the army, I spent about 8 months working in a "drafting" shop that produced all kinds of media. Most of what we did was "traditional" (I can still remember cutting out Pantone bits to color overhead projector slides) but computers were being introduced. We never saw them as anything more than another tool--something that was good at a certain set of tasks, but not a universal solution to every design problem. I do distinctly remember excitement that we could produce brochure pages without setting them up on the camera.
I also see areas where technology can help make things easier from a technical standpoint (if that makes sense). I am doing a mural in our gameroom, and instead of working from small print and using a grid (which I've done before) I can just use a projector to put the image on the wall at 50x, and then trace the outlines. That will wind up saving me quite a few hours of work doing the transfer from print to wall. That's not a bad thing.
Dunno what this guy was using to put the text together, but "professional" writing apps sometimes apply ligatures to "fi" and my guess is that when it was "ported" to HTML, the ligatures were translated to an f and i with a space following.
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The scene they added (by dubbing Han's Greedo conversation onto the scene) is too close in time to the Greedo scene. It's definitely noticable that Han is basically repeating himself.
:-)
Too bad there wasn't a way to put the scene in with new dialog. As it is, I agree they should have left it out, I was just pointing out that the scene wasn't really new to the Special Editions.
in the hanger bay...
I don't know if this was in the original script or not, but in the novel "Star Wars" (released before RotJ) Jabba does confront Han in the hanger bay. Of course, as described, he's completely different than the Jabba we see in RotJ, he's in some sort of a container of liquid. I distinctly remember that he is described as jumping up and spinning around in surprise, because he and his crew of thugs are facing the Falcon and he calls out "We've got you surrounded" and then Han says from behind him "If so, you're facing the wrong way."
I don't remember the exact wording or author (a well-known Sci-Fi author... Alan Dean Foster?) and the book is at home, but the idea that Jabba confronts Han in the hanger bay is much older than the special editions.
I bought a car (BMW Z3) through them during their initial period (when they still did everything themselves) and got the car for a good bit less than invoice. Since it was a car with no rebates and a low manufacturer to dealer kickback, I got a pretty good deal. What I really liked: I went to the dealership to pick up my car and signed two pieces of paper and drove off. I spent about 20 minutes there, and ten of them were devoted to the "talk-through" in the car where they explain all the features.
I was in the market for another car last summer and checked them out again. As you surmise, they are more of a dealer referral site now. However, they will still give you an upfront quote and handle all the paperwork. We wound up buying our PT cruiser through Cars Direct, and again paid under invoice. Of course it wasn't as good a deal as the first time around (because Daimler/Chrysler has significant kickbacks).
Anyway, if you want to buy a new car, and want to get in and out of the dealership in minimum time without the hassle of negotiating, it's not a bad bet. (Note: I'm not affiliated with Cars Direct in any way, just a satisfied customer.)
This is anecdotal, but this "XP is stable now" is something I'm not buying. Here goes:
I have four boxes here in my office, a six-month-old, high-end Dell Windows box, my Powerbook, a Dell 2800 running VMware ESX Server, and a Dell 2800 running Ubuntu (crazy, I know, but the 2800 was what was available).
Windows XP may have eliminated the BSOD that we all love to mock, but "stable" it isn't, IME.
Whenever anyone says "violence never solves anything" I always remember the part in Starship Troopers where the History and Moral Philosophy teacher says "Perhaps you could tell that to the Carthagians..."
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It is funny... not as funny as the first time I read it, but funny.
I know it sounds like this is a done deal to you, but despite the "it's just IT work" responses, my advice is to put up every obstacle you can... get legal in on it, make estimates (or wild guesses) about how much this is going to cost, and fight 'til your last breath.
Everything that goes wrong after you (or a tech) touches the machine is going to be your fault, whether it is or not. At some point, you are going to be asked to help someone with a lot of internal clout, this will come to pass, and you will be out of a job. It doesn't matter if there's no possible connection between installing a video driver and the malfunction of the LAN card, because these days logic is the last resort.
I well remember working my way through college as an electrician for a company serving Beverly Hills, and let me tell you, we got calls where someone would say "your guys installed a light and now my toilet won't flush" and they were serious. This is a lose-lose if ever there was one.
Where the guy tells IT he can't fax a document and it turns out he's been holding it up to the screen. Now it will work!
Soldiers in a recognized hazardous area get "danger pay" (don't recall the exact name as it's been a while), but I'm always surprised by what people think about danger pay. When I was in the gulf the first time around, danger pay amounted to $220 per month. AFAIK, there's no special pay for being stationed overseas.
That's right behind Valco. I wonder how much worse the traffic around there will be... I come down Homestead almost every day.
Fans of Starship Troopers (the novel) may recall when Rico is undergoing his MI testing and there are both physical and psychological portions . I always liked the part where he says "I don't understand what they can learn about you from having a secretary jump up on her desk and yell 'Snake!'"
I'd like to see tests a little more along these lines. Like maybe in the middle of the interview, smoke starts coming under the conference room door, or the interviewer pretends to be having a stroke. Or both? Or perhaps someone runs by the room yelling "There's a maniac with an axe in the server room!"?
I used to work for Trend Micro, which is just down the block from Apple (on De Anza) and I don't recall there being a lot of industrial places nearby (within a mile) that they could have purchased. Anyone know if which side of De Anza this is on? I keep thinking that it might be behind the current campus on the east side (there are some industrial buildings over there) because the west side is faily residential.
When they were a computer noob (for those who started out with Windows) how did they get their questions answered? They asked the guy in the next cube, or a friend, or the know "Power User" for help. If you don't know how to create a particular formula in Excel, you ask an Excel-knowledgeable person.
:-)
With Windows users, the set of people who have your answer runs the gamut from people who just learned what you want to know (who are interested in sharing it) to long-time power users who are used to being asked obscure questions about Windows applications. Heck, I once interviewed at a company where the position they were advertising was actually a "Office Expert" position. The interviewer wanted to know if I was willing to be the MS Office tech support guy--which is not the position I applied for
When you ask a question on a Linux forum (or IRC, or mailing list) you are almost certainly dealing with a smaller group who is less used to answering "noob" questions than your average Windows user. Not only that, but the population tend to include a higher proportion of geeks, who aren't known for being the most socially adept. In that sense, you're asking your question of an elite group, not used to answering them. And you can expect some responses that may seem like snobbery.
1. Autocross is a few hundred dollars, assuming you have the right car. (I do)
2. Guns can be bought with minimal hassle (even here in California) and take it to a range if you're willing to pay, or a public shooting area (these are usually located in National Forrest areas here in California)
3. Swords can be bought (I own several) and for a modest amount of money you can either take fencing lessons
None of these "sports" (if you will) is necessarily dangerous, assuming you have the right equipment and exercise a reasonable amount of care.
Every geek should try all four! (Guitar, autocross, shooting, and fencing)
The solution to 'thousands of people injured by an encounter with a retard' isn't reducing a vehicle's capabilities by installing some "limiter" that prevents the driver from taking a turn "too fast." If it were, we could pretty much completely eliminate all driving fatalities by restricting cars to a top speed of 3 mph, forcing drivers to make only right-hand turns, and requiring a monthly driving test. The solution is personal responsibility. There should be severe consequences for retards who injure people. Anything else is the Patriot Act: well, someone somewhere _might_ be using an NGO to support terrorists, so let's bug all the offices of every NGO in the country.
I don't think it could work, but I always liked Heinlein's proposed solution in "Number of the Beast" (I think) where the person who ran over a pedestrian and then drove away was himself run over and then required to wait for medical attention the exact amount of time that the original victim had to wait.
Why is it that on slashdot, your solution is "insightful" if you want to control how other people drive, but you're a -1 Troll if you want to place limitations on p0rn on the Internet? Can you say "double standard"?
I'm opposed to both ideas.
"Only the employees can close out the tickets" so I'm thinking you believe this is really going to help. I've seen tickets go unclosed for many, many months. Heck, I once saw a trouble ticket that was almost two years old.
Saying "only an employee can say when the problem is fixed" is not the same as saying "we will fix problems to the employee's satisfaction in a reasonable timeframe."
I'd love to believe the hype, but human nature being what it is (in India as everywhere) my guess is that this is going to be just like every other over-hyped management fad of the last 30 years
for the dupe!
I think that you're right--there's a certain "geeky elitism" that prevails on Slashdot. But to a certain extent, that's part of the value of Slashdot: because many posters subscribe to the general idea that rational discussion and interesting points (from an intellectual POV) are the important thing, you often get comments that are well thought out (with flames and trolls hopefully modded down). On slashdot, I see links to interesting information in the comments--links that sometimes make me re-think ideas I have, links that provide interesting information, and even links to things I'm interested in purchasing. While there are flames (and Beowulf clusters of in Soviet Russia jokes) I'd say about 75% of what I see on slashdot is interesting to me on some level.
About 90% of what I've seen on myspace is not just uninteresting, it makes me want to put my eyes out with a fork. It's not its popularity that makes slashdot readers think that myspace is crap. It's that what you see in general IS crap (if you don't have an account--I've heard people with accounts say they have a different perspective). If you can't see a difference between 10 million poorly written, badly formatted, blinking, flashing, OMG Ponies myspace pages and the articles and comments on slashdot, I'm not sure how to help you.
...for non-history buffs, during the French Revolution, the government of France renamed all the months. If I recall correctly, it lasted less than two years. And it makes reading about events during the Revolution amusing, as all the dates have both the "Revolutionary" and "Julian" dates listed.
Centralized power generation would seem to be (in some cases) better because the efficiency of the generator increases. But there are losses in transmission that also come into play. I don't know exactly how great these are, but common sense says that getting the power from the generator to the user is less and less efficient the further way the user is.
:-)
Of course, there's a "transmission cost" for fossil fuels that includes piping it from wells to the gulf, sending it across the ocean in a tanker, piping it to the refinery and trucking it to the stations.
Much more interesting are tiny helicopters (like the one I have, see here. Once these get down to a couple of inches total size, then I can see them being useful.
I've installed Ubuntu three times now to see if I could get Windows off the one non-gaming machine left in my house that's still running it. So far, no luck. Several problems I've been able to solve myself, but there were a couple of glaring issues that made me think I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine for a noob.
First, the support for USB devices is spotty. I've got four or five different USB tools that I regularly use (WiFi, Bluetooth, Card reader, USB key, etc.) and only the USB key was recognized right off. Since Ubuntu relies on network connectivity for getting drivers, I had to go through the annoying process of finding a USB WiFi driver on my PowerBook and then moving it over. Not good. You'd think that an OS that practially requires a network connection to be useful would provide the widest possible array of network device drivers, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
The most egregious error, though, was the hardware device database tool. Tabbing through the controls on the dialog boxes allows you to edit the dialog box text. Just as an info point: you shouldn't be able to edit the interface text in a modal dialog box. That's a Bad Thing®. Worse, could someone explain why you can't use the keyboard to select options in the mouse dialog? How exactly am I supposed to tell you I'm having trouble with my serial mouse if I have to use a mouse to select an option other than "works fine"? Sigh.
I really want to like Ubuntu. I have an install at work that I use when I want to fiddle around with Unix text files in an easy way. But I don't think it's to the point where I could give someone a CD and tell them "have fun". Too bad, because I have some less tech-savvy folks I would love to help.
For one thing, a lot of people who don't really have "drawing skills" are now able to more easily produce things on the computer and publish them for the world to see. There's an upside and a downside to this, of course. The disadvantage is that you now see a lot of stuff--especially on the web--done by people who obviously have no artistic ability, and it's terrible. Sometimes this means that people who would have either given up on art or been forced to improve stay lazy. The advantage is that folks who lack the motor control skills to do drawings (who for instance, can't draw a straight line) can now express themselves with drawing tools.
Lots of folks have noted that the important thing in art isn't the skill of drawing or painting, but seeing. This can't be over-emphasized. If you can't see something (really see it, in the sense that art instructors mean) then you can't draw it. In my opinion, as long as learning the software doesn't detract from learning what's important, then there's no harm in using it. The underlying principles of light and shadow, or composition, for instance, are just as important in a Painter project as in a watercolor.
When I was in the army, I spent about 8 months working in a "drafting" shop that produced all kinds of media. Most of what we did was "traditional" (I can still remember cutting out Pantone bits to color overhead projector slides) but computers were being introduced. We never saw them as anything more than another tool--something that was good at a certain set of tasks, but not a universal solution to every design problem. I do distinctly remember excitement that we could produce brochure pages without setting them up on the camera.
I also see areas where technology can help make things easier from a technical standpoint (if that makes sense). I am doing a mural in our gameroom, and instead of working from small print and using a grid (which I've done before) I can just use a projector to put the image on the wall at 50x, and then trace the outlines. That will wind up saving me quite a few hours of work doing the transfer from print to wall. That's not a bad thing.
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(or is that two words? Intercaps are always confusing)
Dunno what this guy was using to put the text together, but "professional" writing apps sometimes apply ligatures to "fi" and my guess is that when it was "ported" to HTML, the ligatures were translated to an f and i with a space following.
But that's just a guess