There is, to my knowledge, nothing unconventional about Bitstream Vera Sans/DejaVu Sans. Perhaps it has some agressive kerning pairs, but there is nothing remotely like a monospace font about it.
It looks like a bastard child of Apple's Lucida Grande and Microsoft's Tahoma, achieving the looks of neither. Apple's font looks refined, Microsoft's looks business-like and restrained...and GNOME and KDE have this horrible midway cross between them. It's nasty. Don't even get me started on Luxi Sans, the old X11 attempt at Lucida Grande (Luxi Serif is nice, Luxi Sans needs to die painfully).
IMHO, obviously.
Here you sound ignorant. Perhaps you are thinking of applications based on ten- or fifteen-year-old toolkits.
No, open up KDE on the default Plastik theme. It looks foul. Pixelated widgets are the order of the day. The colour of the buttons is different from that of the background, but not different enough to make an impact, just different enough that it looks like the developer just tried to approximate the colour of the background while choosing the button colour but was too lazy to find the hex triplet for the background colour. (Why, as an aside, do KDE devs choose absolutely horrible themes as their defaults? I mean, KDE is nice and all, but christ from hell first Keramik, a theme which genuinely deserves to be erased from the planet entirely, then Plastik.)
Now, compare these to OS X. Buttons and other widgets are anti-aliased. They look natural. The colour is appreciably different from that of the background. It's simply better designed, although to be fair OS X, unlike KDE, has the benefit of a shitload of paid UI designers.
Windows XP, for what it's worth, is just as bad as KDE in this regard, I'm not sure if Vista is any better.
I have no idea what you're saying here. How black a black is is determined by your hardware, not your operating system. (I suspect you might be referring to the Mac's media centre thing, but in that case I have no idea how it's relevant to the discussion. And Carsten Haitlzer's media centre is similarly slick.)
Well, yeah. Seriously, like the GP suggested, go try out a Mac some time. Play around with Front Row for a bit, notice the neat entrance effect. Open up Safari and notice how dialogue boxes slide down like sheets of paper from a printer. Try Expose. Notice how, unlike with the xcomposite drop shadows, OS X's actually resize snappily. I hate to sound like a fanboy, but OS X makes Beryl look like an absolute pile of shit in comparison. GNOME and KDE aren't even in the same league, for christ's sake.
Dunno if it's related, but whenever my mobile phone goes off and it's next to my iPod, the volume goes absolutely haywire (which on in-ear headphones, as you can imagine, isn't fun).
Makes long train journeys into a long game of eardrum russian roulette, I swear.
Maybe it's just the crowd you hang with/get emails from. Certainly, the non-techie users I see around here are mostly using Hotmail, and if not that then Yahoo. GMail doesn't even come into the equation.
You can buy the whole album (at least in the UK) for £4.74, which for an album of 97 sound effects isn't that bad.
Anyway, who could live with only one or two fart noises?;) I'm thinking of getting this now; it'll simulate commercial radio when I'm listening to my iPod... in between every couple of songs, some asshole will start making inappropriate and grating noises.
Was he now? I seem to recall him having any number of popular songs, and having a lasting legacy upon rock music (and many other kinds of music to boot). Sure, he had only one charting song, but his influence remains with us today. Same goes for bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd...
Taking a real example, Toni Basil, on the other hand, released precisely one popular song and buggered off into obscurity afterwards, and had very little influence (beyond a pisspoor cover of Mickey by a British pop tart who also buggered off into obscurity (or at least, to Nickelodeon UK)). Or the Baha Men. Those are true one hit wonders.
Music is one of the most ancient artforms, yeah. So are plays (movies are, at heart, basically elaborate plays). The ability to record THAT only became available in the last century, as well. Movies can, also, get their revenue from being "played" "live"...ever heard of cinemas?
No, I don't think I'll give you the benefit of the doubt like the grandparent did.
Really. There's a generation divide here that's huge: those who understand electronic publication and those that don't.
Except this is about people who understand the difference between "electronic publication" and "distributing other peoples' work for nothing" and those that don't.
You appear, as ever, to fall into the latter category.
Vista Will Rape Your Children, Kill Families, Give AIDS To Pets from the cats-and-dogs-living-together dept.
XTRMNTR writes:
I got Vista installed the other day and it made my kids cry by raping them with chairs. Also the next morning I found out that its restrictive DRM, which eats up processor cycles even when it's not eating processor cycles at all, had murdered my family, and that my pets had started showing reduced immune functions, having somehow contracted HIV, probably from copying Apple. Vista sucks blah blah blah blah...
-- There's a proverb about horses, beating and the horses being all still and not at all breathy. Slashdot editors would do well to look into that. And no, I'm not a Microsoft fanboi.
It depends what kind of cease and desist it is. You can send a pissy letter from a legal firm with three names on its letterhead, which has very little legal value other than "if you don't stop kicking me in the shin, I will crack you in the head with this rock and you'll bleed everywhere". That's one type of C&D.
The other type can be ordered by a judge, and is a little more legally risky. Failing that, an injunction is rather painful to ignore.
His passing brings some hope of change and that is what we celebrate.
Yeah, great, he's dead, yay! Now we can sort out copyright laws.
Chrissake...he's not Ceausescu or Stalin or someone else who has caused intense suffering (beyond the typical Slashbot "suffering" of DRM) and performed insane abuses of human rights (again, beyond DRM) on a mass scale, someone who truly does deserve their death to be celebrated, and truly DID have their death celebrated. He was just a little bit too militant about copyright. I see no reason to dance on his grave and/or gain hope from that.
You talk about him precisely like he WAS a Ceausescu/Stalin. It's very, very worrying.
I haven't sat on a jury yet, as I get dismissed right there. They don't want people with brains.
No, they want someone who can actually do jury duty without making a fuss about how he's the only one who can think for himself in a room full of clueless sheep. The reason you got dismissed is because you were being deliberately obstructive, obnoxious even, for no real reason.
You sound like you're trying to roleplay some kind of House M.D. fanfic. It's quite worrying.
Greenpeace prints their literature on paper, after all.
This makes me laugh, actually. I'm a member of the UK's Green Party (not for any specific environmental reason, just for the rest of their policies) and every couple of months or so they send me through a massive bundle of magazines and such which I...don't do anything with, and have to throw away.
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Seconded. Someone call a waaaahhh-mbulance for him.
"Oh noes I can't buy things without allowing the companies who make them to promote their products!!! WAAAH!!!"
where is mi error. ;) ....no. Must resist...temptation.
There is, to my knowledge, nothing unconventional about Bitstream Vera Sans/DejaVu Sans. Perhaps it has some agressive kerning pairs, but there is nothing remotely like a monospace font about it.
It looks like a bastard child of Apple's Lucida Grande and Microsoft's Tahoma, achieving the looks of neither. Apple's font looks refined, Microsoft's looks business-like and restrained...and GNOME and KDE have this horrible midway cross between them. It's nasty. Don't even get me started on Luxi Sans, the old X11 attempt at Lucida Grande (Luxi Serif is nice, Luxi Sans needs to die painfully).
IMHO, obviously.
Here you sound ignorant. Perhaps you are thinking of applications based on ten- or fifteen-year-old toolkits.
No, open up KDE on the default Plastik theme. It looks foul. Pixelated widgets are the order of the day. The colour of the buttons is different from that of the background, but not different enough to make an impact, just different enough that it looks like the developer just tried to approximate the colour of the background while choosing the button colour but was too lazy to find the hex triplet for the background colour. (Why, as an aside, do KDE devs choose absolutely horrible themes as their defaults? I mean, KDE is nice and all, but christ from hell first Keramik, a theme which genuinely deserves to be erased from the planet entirely, then Plastik.)
Now, compare these to OS X. Buttons and other widgets are anti-aliased. They look natural. The colour is appreciably different from that of the background. It's simply better designed, although to be fair OS X, unlike KDE, has the benefit of a shitload of paid UI designers.
Windows XP, for what it's worth, is just as bad as KDE in this regard, I'm not sure if Vista is any better.
I have no idea what you're saying here. How black a black is is determined by your hardware, not your operating system. (I suspect you might be referring to the Mac's media centre thing, but in that case I have no idea how it's relevant to the discussion. And Carsten Haitlzer's media centre is similarly slick.)
Well, yeah. Seriously, like the GP suggested, go try out a Mac some time. Play around with Front Row for a bit, notice the neat entrance effect. Open up Safari and notice how dialogue boxes slide down like sheets of paper from a printer. Try Expose. Notice how, unlike with the xcomposite drop shadows, OS X's actually resize snappily. I hate to sound like a fanboy, but OS X makes Beryl look like an absolute pile of shit in comparison. GNOME and KDE aren't even in the same league, for christ's sake.
Dunno if it's related, but whenever my mobile phone goes off and it's next to my iPod, the volume goes absolutely haywire (which on in-ear headphones, as you can imagine, isn't fun).
Makes long train journeys into a long game of eardrum russian roulette, I swear.
Maybe it's just the crowd you hang with/get emails from. Certainly, the non-techie users I see around here are mostly using Hotmail, and if not that then Yahoo. GMail doesn't even come into the equation.
You can buy the whole album (at least in the UK) for £4.74, which for an album of 97 sound effects isn't that bad.
;) I'm thinking of getting this now; it'll simulate commercial radio when I'm listening to my iPod... in between every couple of songs, some asshole will start making inappropriate and grating noises.
Anyway, who could live with only one or two fart noises?
Jimi Hendrix was a one-hit wonder.
Was he now? I seem to recall him having any number of popular songs, and having a lasting legacy upon rock music (and many other kinds of music to boot). Sure, he had only one charting song, but his influence remains with us today. Same goes for bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd...
Taking a real example, Toni Basil, on the other hand, released precisely one popular song and buggered off into obscurity afterwards, and had very little influence (beyond a pisspoor cover of Mickey by a British pop tart who also buggered off into obscurity (or at least, to Nickelodeon UK)). Or the Baha Men. Those are true one hit wonders.
Music is one of the most ancient artforms, yeah. So are plays (movies are, at heart, basically elaborate plays). The ability to record THAT only became available in the last century, as well. Movies can, also, get their revenue from being "played" "live"...ever heard of cinemas?
No, I don't think I'll give you the benefit of the doubt like the grandparent did.
or is it a fix to this permanent virginity-debuff we all seem to have ?
I'm sorry, who's this "we"?
You think GIMP on Windows is bad? You should see the absolute unbridled horror of GIMP on Mac OS X. It's an atrocity.
Really. There's a generation divide here that's huge: those who understand electronic publication and those that don't.
Except this is about people who understand the difference between "electronic publication" and "distributing other peoples' work for nothing" and those that don't.
You appear, as ever, to fall into the latter category.
from the cats-and-dogs-living-together dept.
XTRMNTR writes:
-- There's a proverb about horses, beating and the horses being all still and not at all breathy. Slashdot editors would do well to look into that. And no, I'm not a Microsoft fanboi.
Do you know why there is no law regulating the intake of air by human beings? not because it is unmoral, but because it is unenforceable.
Or, rather, because it's stupid and has no useful purpose. Try again.
It depends what kind of cease and desist it is. You can send a pissy letter from a legal firm with three names on its letterhead, which has very little legal value other than "if you don't stop kicking me in the shin, I will crack you in the head with this rock and you'll bleed everywhere". That's one type of C&D.
The other type can be ordered by a judge, and is a little more legally risky. Failing that, an injunction is rather painful to ignore.
If deciding who can share and publish is not a free speech issue, I'm not sure what is.
Nobody's stopping you sharing and publishing, you just can't do it with P2P.
And I'd like to wager that a lot of college students using P2P aren't all that interested in sharing and publishing stuff of their own, thanks.
Link to 4chan. I dare you.
His passing brings some hope of change and that is what we celebrate.
Yeah, great, he's dead, yay! Now we can sort out copyright laws.
Chrissake...he's not Ceausescu or Stalin or someone else who has caused intense suffering (beyond the typical Slashbot "suffering" of DRM) and performed insane abuses of human rights (again, beyond DRM) on a mass scale, someone who truly does deserve their death to be celebrated, and truly DID have their death celebrated. He was just a little bit too militant about copyright. I see no reason to dance on his grave and/or gain hope from that.
You talk about him precisely like he WAS a Ceausescu/Stalin. It's very, very worrying.
It take a little bit of editing your xorg.conf file
Say no more!
And Apple copied BSD.
(Wait...that actually happened. Shit.)
This is flamebait WHY, exactly?
Enough with the useless laws, let's start up public executions.
This idea sounds sane and reasonable. An eye for a nasal hair, that's the spirit!
I haven't sat on a jury yet, as I get dismissed right there. They don't want people with brains.
No, they want someone who can actually do jury duty without making a fuss about how he's the only one who can think for himself in a room full of clueless sheep. The reason you got dismissed is because you were being deliberately obstructive, obnoxious even, for no real reason.
You sound like you're trying to roleplay some kind of House M.D. fanfic. It's quite worrying.
They didn't coin that particular phrase. IIRC it was originally used by commentators to describe the 1984 UK Labour Party manifesto.
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Greenpeace prints their literature on paper, after all.
This makes me laugh, actually. I'm a member of the UK's Green Party (not for any specific environmental reason, just for the rest of their policies) and every couple of months or so they send me through a massive bundle of magazines and such which I...don't do anything with, and have to throw away.
Quite ironic, really.