That typo would be exactly as easy to spot in a proportional font because it happens at the beginning of a line where all will be lined up. If you add stuff to the beginnings of each line to put the text farther out, it will line up in a monospaced font only if you have exactly the same number of characters before the common text. That will happen either by chance, in which case any editing will undo the chance, or by artificially padding out lines with oddball spaces, in which case you will be putting in a lot of work which will be a pain to maintain.
Monospaced fonts have their purposes, but your example is not one of them.
And a regular printed book is somehow more accessible to the blind? Hell, a blind person can't even tell if the book is right side up or not, let alone what page they are on.
No, it means the iPhone is best at determining finger position and movement. Zoom a picture, rotate, or just select a position within a text file or an icon, and the iPhone will do a better job than the others.
It also means you didn't RTFA and only posted to get publicity for your half baked opinion.
How much machine language programming do you do? Assembler? Do you use system calls for file I/O, do you roll your own TCP/IP protocol because standards are for wimps and you can get more speed without all that packet overhead? I think not. I think you are a wannabe elite.
I for one welcome our new programming partners, the unwashed masses, the hoi poloi. The more people write their own programs for their own needs, the more time I can spend on writing more challenging programs that rise to the top.
Sounds to me like you are not particularly skilled, that you want to feel elite, and it is easier for you to do so by keeping others out of your priesthood than by becoming better.
While I share the general dislike for Microsoft, it doesn't change that/. is very biased against Microsoft at the same time.
Did your post actually have some information while still being developed in your brain, and only became content-free once typed in? The unquoted part has no content either, first complaining that releasing document is treated as evil, then admitting it was only released under duress. But it is the quoted sentence that really shines with its meaninglessness.
Most people share the general dislike of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Benedict Arnold, and Captain Hook. That doesn't make it worth commenting on as if all bias is politically incorrect.
Just because something is disliked doesn't make it bias.
It's a greenhouse. It has no heaters other than concentrating the sun's warmth. Have you and the moderators lost all sense of reality, forgotten what words mean, gone cuckoo?
Every time I think I've met and accounted for those idiots who confound my idiot-proof programs, I find that nature is preparing the batch right under my nose.
In general terms, right wingers would prefer communist over fascist because they think fascist is a slur on the right in general, and leftists are the reverse.
However, in a very real sense, communists actually pretended to have high moral principles of power to the people. Of course this was all theory and no practice, but at least they could make that fuzzy claim.
Fascists never had this. Their closest theoretical principle was power to the nation as controlled by its rulers.
People of all stripes will have reason to argue with this summary, but they are into theories, not practice. My little summary is how they differ in practical implementation.
Thus the term "fascist" as an insult means someone with no principles other than "power to me, screw the people." "Communist" as an insult, aside from the rabid USian cold war leftovers, means someone who would grab your property in the name of the people, ie, a fascist who pretends to be wearing sheep's clothing in the name of the people. Fascists always pretend to be wearing wolf's clothing in the name of the country.
Wheter they be fascists, communists, authoritarian, dictatorial, or any other name you can think of, it all comes down to them wanting to run your life because you are incompetent and not to be trusted.
No, it is not laxer. It puts you at the mercy of one central key server. At best, if some company goes bankrupt, their key might disappear from the server. At worst, some employee gets pissed and deletes all of them. Maybe they have backups, maybe they don't, but you are at their mercy.
It doesn't matter how the central key server is set up, it is a single point of failure. Any change in corporate mindset, ownership, laws, technology, *anything*, ruins it for everybody, and I will not buy a movie or music or game if I don't have control over it.
It's one thing to worry about keeping copies via backup or worrying about transferring to each new computer I buy. But those are my problems and I can deal with them. Having my collection at the mercy of a bunch of corporate shills or the government is another matter entirely.
So what is the punishment for exceeding constitutional limits on the punishment meted out?
You see, that's the problem here. Many other punishments have been ruled unconstitutional for being excessive, including fines and jail time all out of proportion. It's blatantly obvious to most people that millions of dollars for sharing music is excessive.
Let's suppose the appeal wins the day and the fine is declared excessive. Do you think any of the RIAA executives are going to be punished for all the previously collected fines? Do you think that's fair? Do you think they perhaps ought to grow up and pay the fine for actually getting caught?
It's like you broke up with your car and then go crying it back when it has found a new owner, while you're having no luck finding another car.
It's like you broke up with your parents and then go crying back when they have found a new tenant, while you're having no luck finding another basement.
Not only does dumping free food depress the prices the farmers can get for what they do grow, thus making it not worth their while to try and feed themselves, but it doesn't address the problem they have without free food of getting what they do grow to market and storing it for bad times.
We not only do harm by discouraging them from growing anything by undercutting their prices, what little good we otherwise do does not help them distribute what they would grow if we weren't discouraging them.
It's a double whammy, the ultimate do-gooder example of the law of unintended consequences.
IANAX but I think you are mistaken. Cell towers communicate via microwave relay to central stations, and those communicate to each other and the outside world using some kind of networking. I doubt that cell networks connect with landlines anywhere except the final connection to the switched telephone network.
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That typo would be exactly as easy to spot in a proportional font because it happens at the beginning of a line where all will be lined up. If you add stuff to the beginnings of each line to put the text farther out, it will line up in a monospaced font only if you have exactly the same number of characters before the common text. That will happen either by chance,
in which case any editing will undo the chance, or by artificially padding out lines with oddball spaces, in which case you will be putting in a lot of work which will be a pain to maintain.
Monospaced fonts have their purposes, but your example is not one of them.
And a regular printed book is somehow more accessible to the blind? Hell, a blind person can't even tell if the book is right side up or not, let alone what page they are on.
You didn't read the FA. The complaint is that the navigation menus etc are not included in the text-to-speech converter.
No, DLP is one mirror per pixel, right? This is one scanning laser per display. It has to be far enough back to reach all edges.
The comparison to old CRTs is the first thing I thought of, and the few initial "luggables" with them were by no means laptops.
So if I write that Hitler, Stalin, Mao killed millions of people, my writing is biased?
No, it means the iPhone is best at determining finger position and movement. Zoom a picture, rotate, or just select a position within a text file or an icon, and the iPhone will do a better job than the others.
It also means you didn't RTFA and only posted to get publicity for your half baked opinion.
How much machine language programming do you do? Assembler? Do you use system calls for file I/O, do you roll your own TCP/IP protocol because standards are for wimps and you can get more speed without all that packet overhead? I think not. I think you are a wannabe elite.
I for one welcome our new programming partners, the unwashed masses, the hoi poloi. The more people write their own programs for their own needs, the more time I can spend on writing more challenging programs that rise to the top.
Sounds to me like you are not particularly skilled, that you want to feel elite, and it is easier for you to do so by keeping others out of your priesthood than by becoming better.
While I share the general dislike for Microsoft, it doesn't change that /. is very biased against Microsoft at the same time.
Did your post actually have some information while still being developed in your brain, and only became content-free once typed in? The unquoted part has no content either, first complaining that releasing document is treated as evil, then admitting it was only released under duress. But it is the quoted sentence that really shines with its meaninglessness.
Most people share the general dislike of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Benedict Arnold, and Captain Hook. That doesn't make it worth commenting on as if all bias is politically incorrect.
Just because something is disliked doesn't make it bias.
We'll put it in the second edition.
In an appendix.
Near the back.
It's a greenhouse. It has no heaters other than concentrating the sun's warmth. Have you and the moderators lost all sense of reality, forgotten what words mean, gone cuckoo?
Every time I think I've met and accounted for those idiots who confound my idiot-proof programs, I find that nature is preparing the batch right under my nose.
Maybe I'm a luddite.
Is luddite "I know what's good for other people" in busybody-speak?
If you don't like it, don't watch it. If you don't like it and it doesn't harm you, it is none of your business if it becomes more prevalent.
Communists are atheists. How can their god damn them if he doesn't exist?
Fuckin' fascists and their fuckin' fascist gods, always damning outside their religion.
In general terms, right wingers would prefer communist over fascist because they think fascist is a slur on the right in general, and leftists are the reverse.
However, in a very real sense, communists actually pretended to have high moral principles of power to the people. Of course this was all theory and no practice, but at least they could make that fuzzy claim.
Fascists never had this. Their closest theoretical principle was power to the nation as controlled by its rulers.
People of all stripes will have reason to argue with this summary, but they are into theories, not practice. My little summary is how they differ in practical implementation.
Thus the term "fascist" as an insult means someone with no principles other than "power to me, screw the people." "Communist" as an insult, aside from the rabid USian cold war leftovers, means someone who would grab your property in the name of the people, ie, a fascist who pretends to be wearing sheep's clothing in the name of the people. Fascists always pretend to be wearing wolf's clothing in the name of the country.
Wheter they be fascists, communists, authoritarian, dictatorial, or any other name you can think of, it all comes down to them wanting to run your life because you are incompetent and not to be trusted.
No, it is not laxer. It puts you at the mercy of one central key server. At best, if some company goes bankrupt, their key might disappear from the server. At worst, some employee gets pissed and deletes all of them. Maybe they have backups, maybe they don't, but you are at their mercy.
It doesn't matter how the central key server is set up, it is a single point of failure. Any change in corporate mindset, ownership, laws, technology, *anything*, ruins it for everybody, and I will not buy a movie or music or game if I don't have control over it.
It's one thing to worry about keeping copies via backup or worrying about transferring to each new computer I buy. But those are my problems and I can deal with them. Having my collection at the mercy of a bunch of corporate shills or the government is another matter entirely.
No, if you set the right clickees in preferences, mods take effect as soon as you slide off the mod menu.
So what is the punishment for exceeding constitutional limits on the punishment meted out?
You see, that's the problem here. Many other punishments have been ruled unconstitutional for being excessive, including fines and jail time all out of proportion. It's blatantly obvious to most people that millions of dollars for sharing music is excessive.
Let's suppose the appeal wins the day and the fine is declared excessive. Do you think any of the RIAA executives are going to be punished for all the previously collected fines? Do you think that's fair? Do you think they perhaps ought to grow up and pay the fine for actually getting caught?
Steve Jobs, is that you? -- Bill, green with envy
It's like you broke up with your car and then go crying it back when it has found a new owner, while you're having no luck finding another car.
It's like you broke up with your parents and then go crying back when they have found a new tenant, while you're having no luck finding another basement.
Mr. Yacoob should read up on what Mr. Williams does for a living and why he was on Mr. Letterman's show.
Not only does dumping free food depress the prices the farmers can get for what they do grow, thus making it not worth their while to try and feed themselves, but it doesn't address the problem they have without free food of getting what they do grow to market and storing it for bad times.
We not only do harm by discouraging them from growing anything by undercutting their prices, what little good we otherwise do does not help them distribute what they would grow if we weren't discouraging them.
It's a double whammy, the ultimate do-gooder example of the law of unintended consequences.
It's in the last line of the moderators' guidelines ...
Friends don't let Friends cite Wikipedia.
Nine out of Ten professors give automatic F's to students who cite Wikipedia in their papers.
Ten out of Ten English grammar professors give automatic Fs to students who put apostrophes in plurals.
IANAX but I think you are mistaken. Cell towers communicate via microwave relay to central stations, and those communicate to each other and the outside world using some kind of networking. I doubt that cell networks connect with landlines anywhere except the final connection to the switched telephone network.
rich guys still like to flaunt their Porsche's, Maserati's and Aston Martin's
... you'd be flaunting your's like there's no tomorrow.