I second that....in fact, if you live in a bigger town (like Denver), chances are there's a distrubution center nearby. My movies get turned around in 1-2 days now that Netflix has added distribution centers...as opposed to nearly a week before they expanded.
Photographer Edward Weston wrote in his notebooks that the thing that is created by the process of art is an artifact. I think that's what we're seeing in the output of a computer: an artifact. That doesn't diminish the artifact's power to evoke an emotional response, but rather makes the distinction that the art is in the process of creation, not in the thing made. You could probably say that the art, in this case, is in the programming that allowed the computer to make the artifact in the first place.
Not that my site is the center of the universe, but my logs tell me msn only just started looking at my pages a few days ago. That migh thave something to do with the incomplete results...
You will probably see third-party companies that support, customize, etc. large installations of peoplesoft/JDE products make a lot more money keeping things going, and getting more business from smaller installs that suddenly realize that a lot of the support base will be going away after five years or so (the upgrade path-life of these products).
So, for the end-user, support will probably still be OK, especially for those people that have huge, CUSTOMIZED installs.
My mom worked for an AlphaMicro Systems dealer in Colorado in the early '80s, and she brought a CBM, and later, a PET, home for her and us to all use. I remember playing some very basic games on it, word processing, and even getting into programming a bit on that huge box.
My brother and I later got further into programming when the VIC-20 and C-64 came out, but I will always think of the PET as my first computer.
The best thing, aside from the thrill of the computing experience, was seeing the autographed photo of William Shatner, holding a PET, with the inscription "Glad to have you on the team" on it.
Uses AppleScript, and basically (i think) does all the Unix commands y'all are taling about elsewhere under an easy-to-use GUI shell, so people like me (who spend about.1% of their time in Terminal, and the rest using the Mac OS GUI) can get their music off of the iPod and back onto their Mac.
By the way, some of us used the iPod as a primary storage device for our music, as we didn't want to hassle with upgrading our old, small 10GB hard drives on our Macs, so THAT's why a utility like this is so important: we wanted to be able to get the music back onto our Macs later on, but store them mainly on the iPod. Why Apple doesn't concede that the iPod is a great portable storage device (for non-music AND music-oriented files) is beyond me....
Grants in and of themselves aren't a solution...but grants directed into something that enriches both the community and the individuals within that community, like, say, an internet-enabled community center, and offering internet service (that the users will still have to PAY to use, by the way)...well, what the heck is wrong with that?
If you object to this, then perhaps you also think that opening up an after-school youth activities program in a predominantly african-american or hispanic urban community?
The values are the same: Bring people together, give individuals something to do other than self-destructive behavior that pervades much (but not all) of the culture of places as diverse as the urban street to the rez....help more people become internet-literate (just as written literacy was so important in the 19th century and visual literacy was so important in the 20th century)...
I could go on. But I won't waste my breath. You're either baiting this thread, or just ignorant. either way, you're entitled to your opinion, even if you're wrong;)
As Axel20010 writes, anyone with a large-format camera and access to a good lab that has a nice laser-based scanner/photoimager can do this trick. Vacuum-based film holders have been on the market for years, too.
what this guy has is a good press agent, which means he'll get recognition and $$ for just making some really plain, dumb landscape of one of my state's more uninteresting 14,000-foot peaks.
I've done graphic design and marketing work for a local big bandwidth aggregator in exchange for DSL and rackspace for my own web and mailhost. Barter is a great way to go, if you don't need actual cash. Most designers I know barter for some of their services, and in turn get great haircuts, concert tickets, sausage, shares at the local gardening co-op, massage, etc. etc.
I think Dish/Echostar erred in not actually asking its customer base if they'd be willing to pay a little more in order to keep the programming so many subscribers watch.
Or maybe they did, and (a) followed their advice, or (b) ignored it.
haven't we all been wearing headphones in the office ever since computers came standard with CD-ROM drives?
Heck, I'll even leave my headphones on when I'm not listening to music, if it will keep that bore from accounting from coming over to my desk to ask me some dumb question or offer up some insipid gossip.
Sometimes I even bob my head to the "music", to reinforce the illusion.
Don't tell me you've never done that before, either....
I think what the articles in the BBC and the earlier one in the NY Times have been reporting on is just the more portable extension of the "go away, I'm ignoring you" persona of the office headphone-wearer.
I enjoyed learning more than I ever thought possible about the evolution of the MacOS, but as a graphic designer, I felt myself wanting to know more about the evolution of the visual interface side, like: what other fonts were designed for the Mac besides Chicago, back in the day? And: why put the "Close" window button in the upper left corner?
we sometimes forget that everything made by our hands is designed by someone. An amazing number of these things are well-designed. The book, for example, or the wristwatch. The problem lies in that there is a lot of mediocre design all around us, too...making us work around the bad design in order to make the thing work. Some designs are cases of form over function, the others are over-engineered, and some are the result of too many focus groups. But things that are well-designed are things to cherish. All hail the TiVo Remote!
How can this be profitable? The same way adding other types of near-intangible value to products raises the PERCEIVED value of a product or service. Sure, hotels may make a little less money (until they quietly raise their room rates) offering WiFi service, but it raises their visibility with the WiFi-savvy traveller. Those folks will be more likely to come back, and tell their friends about the hotel chain, based on their positive experience.
Didn't Volvo do this already, back in the mid-90's? I seem to remember something about a coating on their cars that converted nasty airborne pollutants into nice-smelling fuzzy bunnies or something....
I would agree with the Nokia typographer, who--I assume--is in the business of making type look good on cell phone screens, that Verdana and other sans-serifed fonts are easier to use and view on non-paper, i.e. computer screens and cell phone screens.
I think the main difference is one of resolution: Paper has a huge advantage in resolution...2400dpi on a well-coated, high-quality sheet. Compared to a 72- or 96-dpi screen, paper can use subtle things like serifs to make reading easier to the average reader. With screen resolutions, you have to make letterforms do more with less...serifs are often the first thing to go in the name of legibility.
I am not familiar with that condition. Serifs may indeed hinder readability in that case (maybe the horizontal caps--the serifs--create too much visual noise?); but as a rule, designers are taught to use serifed typefaces for body copy, and sans-serif only in shorter bursts, such as in headlines, or as pull-quotes, etc.
I actually enjoy composing with sans-serif type, over serifed type, despite studies that show the average reader can read serifed type more quickly than sans-serifed type.
At least with a web browser, one can tell the browser to override the code's typeface designation in favor of your own preferred font. That way, it can be Verdana all the time, if you want it.
Verdana is a great face, esp. for use on-screen, as it was designed for that use by Matthew Carter in 1996. I am not a fan of it in print, because so many other great, easily-accessible faces are already available that are so similar. Take Franklin Gothic, for example.
For lots of text-on-paper reading, serifed faces are easier on the eyes, so I can see the arguement for Times. Times, though, was intended for newspaper use (hence the name), not long reports that run in wide columns...AS I've said elsewhere, I think something softer and rounder, like Bembo would have been a better choice.
FWIW, I specify Verdana in all my site designs, because it's the best web-specific face out there. A lot of my designer geek pals do, too.
Well, I guess it is only appropriate that the government waited until the 21st century to abandon a typeface meant to look like a typewriter, in favor of a typeface that is almost synonymous with Microsoft Word.
The choice of 14-point type, too, is interesting: the standard is usually 12 points, but I guess the point size increase is meant to appeal to baby boomers' aging eyes.
For my money, I would have preferred a slightly less stuffy serifed face, like Bembo, or even Goudy. No less official-looking, but rounder and more accessible.
OK, I'd actually have preferred something even more modern, like a sans-serif font such as the emininently readable Gill Sans, but that would be asking too much of the Fed.
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..In Anvil of Stars? On one of those mechanically-manipulated worlds?
I second that....in fact, if you live in a bigger town (like Denver), chances are there's a distrubution center nearby. My movies get turned around in 1-2 days now that Netflix has added distribution centers...as opposed to nearly a week before they expanded.
Photographer Edward Weston wrote in his notebooks that the thing that is created by the process of art is an artifact. I think that's what we're seeing in the output of a computer: an artifact. That doesn't diminish the artifact's power to evoke an emotional response, but rather makes the distinction that the art is in the process of creation, not in the thing made. You could probably say that the art, in this case, is in the programming that allowed the computer to make the artifact in the first place.
Not that my site is the center of the universe, but my logs tell me msn only just started looking at my pages a few days ago. That migh thave something to do with the incomplete results...
You will probably see third-party companies that support, customize, etc. large installations of peoplesoft/JDE products make a lot more money keeping things going, and getting more business from smaller installs that suddenly realize that a lot of the support base will be going away after five years or so (the upgrade path-life of these products).
So, for the end-user, support will probably still be OK, especially for those people that have huge, CUSTOMIZED installs.
My mom worked for an AlphaMicro Systems dealer in Colorado in the early '80s, and she brought a CBM, and later, a PET, home for her and us to all use. I remember playing some very basic games on it, word processing, and even getting into programming a bit on that huge box.
My brother and I later got further into programming when the VIC-20 and C-64 came out, but I will always think of the PET as my first computer.
The best thing, aside from the thrill of the computing experience, was seeing the autographed photo of William Shatner, holding a PET, with the inscription "Glad to have you on the team" on it.
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Uses AppleScript, and basically (i think) does all the Unix commands y'all are taling about elsewhere under an easy-to-use GUI shell, so people like me (who spend about
By the way, some of us used the iPod as a primary storage device for our music, as we didn't want to hassle with upgrading our old, small 10GB hard drives on our Macs, so THAT's why a utility like this is so important: we wanted to be able to get the music back onto our Macs later on, but store them mainly on the iPod. Why Apple doesn't concede that the iPod is a great portable storage device (for non-music AND music-oriented files) is beyond me....
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Grants in and of themselves aren't a solution...but grants directed into something that enriches both the community and the individuals within that community, like, say, an internet-enabled community center, and offering internet service (that the users will still have to PAY to use, by the way)...well, what the heck is wrong with that?
If you object to this, then perhaps you also think that opening up an after-school youth activities program in a predominantly african-american or hispanic urban community?
The values are the same: Bring people together, give individuals something to do other than self-destructive behavior that pervades much (but not all) of the culture of places as diverse as the urban street to the rez....help more people become internet-literate (just as written literacy was so important in the 19th century and visual literacy was so important in the 20th century)...
I could go on. But I won't waste my breath. You're either baiting this thread, or just ignorant. either way, you're entitled to your opinion, even if you're wrong ;)
As Axel20010 writes, anyone with a large-format camera and access to a good lab that has a nice laser-based scanner/photoimager can do this trick. Vacuum-based film holders have been on the market for years, too.
what this guy has is a good press agent, which means he'll get recognition and $$ for just making some really plain, dumb landscape of one of my state's more uninteresting 14,000-foot peaks.
Big Deal.
I've done graphic design and marketing work for a local big bandwidth aggregator in exchange for DSL and rackspace for my own web and mailhost. Barter is a great way to go, if you don't need actual cash. Most designers I know barter for some of their services, and in turn get great haircuts, concert tickets, sausage, shares at the local gardening co-op, massage, etc. etc.
...then the reflected heat might cancel out the loss in solar radiation hitting the surface, eh?
Or maybe they did, and (a) followed their advice, or (b) ignored it.
anyone know for sure?
Heck, I'll even leave my headphones on when I'm not listening to music, if it will keep that bore from accounting from coming over to my desk to ask me some dumb question or offer up some insipid gossip.
Sometimes I even bob my head to the "music", to reinforce the illusion.
Don't tell me you've never done that before, either....
I think what the articles in the BBC and the earlier one in the NY Times have been reporting on is just the more portable extension of the "go away, I'm ignoring you" persona of the office headphone-wearer.
;)
I enjoyed learning more than I ever thought possible about the evolution of the MacOS, but as a graphic designer, I felt myself wanting to know more about the evolution of the visual interface side, like: what other fonts were designed for the Mac besides Chicago, back in the day? And: why put the "Close" window button in the upper left corner?
That cockney bloke set off a pinch, right?
we sometimes forget that everything made by our hands is designed by someone. An amazing number of these things are well-designed. The book, for example, or the wristwatch. The problem lies in that there is a lot of mediocre design all around us, too...making us work around the bad design in order to make the thing work. Some designs are cases of form over function, the others are over-engineered, and some are the result of too many focus groups. But things that are well-designed are things to cherish. All hail the TiVo Remote!
How can this be profitable? The same way adding other types of near-intangible value to products raises the PERCEIVED value of a product or service. Sure, hotels may make a little less money (until they quietly raise their room rates) offering WiFi service, but it raises their visibility with the WiFi-savvy traveller. Those folks will be more likely to come back, and tell their friends about the hotel chain, based on their positive experience.
Didn't Volvo do this already, back in the mid-90's? I seem to remember something about a coating on their cars that converted nasty airborne pollutants into nice-smelling fuzzy bunnies or something....
I would agree with the Nokia typographer, who--I assume--is in the business of making type look good on cell phone screens, that Verdana and other sans-serifed fonts are easier to use and view on non-paper, i.e. computer screens and cell phone screens.
I think the main difference is one of resolution: Paper has a huge advantage in resolution...2400dpi on a well-coated, high-quality sheet. Compared to a 72- or 96-dpi screen, paper can use subtle things like serifs to make reading easier to the average reader. With screen resolutions, you have to make letterforms do more with less...serifs are often the first thing to go in the name of legibility.
Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style is a great introduction to all of this.
I am not familiar with that condition. Serifs may indeed hinder readability in that case (maybe the horizontal caps--the serifs--create too much visual noise?); but as a rule, designers are taught to use serifed typefaces for body copy, and sans-serif only in shorter bursts, such as in headlines, or as pull-quotes, etc.
I actually enjoy composing with sans-serif type, over serifed type, despite studies that show the average reader can read serifed type more quickly than sans-serifed type.
At least with a web browser, one can tell the browser to override the code's typeface designation in favor of your own preferred font. That way, it can be Verdana all the time, if you want it.
For lots of text-on-paper reading, serifed faces are easier on the eyes, so I can see the arguement for Times. Times, though, was intended for newspaper use (hence the name), not long reports that run in wide columns...AS I've said elsewhere, I think something softer and rounder, like Bembo would have been a better choice. FWIW, I specify Verdana in all my site designs, because it's the best web-specific face out there. A lot of my designer geek pals do, too.
Actually, I think Bembo would be even better. Nice and open, rounded letterforms, etc. etc.
Well, I guess it is only appropriate that the government waited until the 21st century to abandon a typeface meant to look like a typewriter, in favor of a typeface that is almost synonymous with Microsoft Word.
The choice of 14-point type, too, is interesting: the standard is usually 12 points, but I guess the point size increase is meant to appeal to baby boomers' aging eyes.
For my money, I would have preferred a slightly less stuffy serifed face, like Bembo, or even Goudy. No less official-looking, but rounder and more accessible.
OK, I'd actually have preferred something even more modern, like a sans-serif font such as the emininently readable Gill Sans, but that would be asking too much of the Fed.