Not really, I follow it rather closely, and nothing you said disputes my assertion about their technology and in fact you seem to just repeat me while using a blatant ad-hominem attack on my knowledge of Chinese joint-ventures. And, by the way, your argument about cost has nothing to do with this discussion. I not talking about the *cost* of the system; I am talking about the technology used in the system and its indigenous quality (or lack thereof).
Nice try! Your high school's debate and forensics club would love you to join them.
By "Chinese High-Speed Train" we mean those trains built in partnership with Siemens, Bombardier, Alstom, and Kawasaki. As joint-venture partnerships, China has been disingenuously referring to this foreign equipment as "indigenous" trains.
For example, Changchun Railway Vehicles' rolling stock is built under a joint-venture with Bombardier. Bombardier also has a joint-venture with Sifang Power Transportation. There's nothing "indigenous" about these systems. To save face, token modifications are made to make these systems seem more indigenous than they really are. That is not to say China does not improve upon them, they do, but they are all licensed designs from outside of China.
More interesting to the USA is that China is licensing "its" technology to General Electric for the California High-Speed Rail system.
Does Google log an advertisement impression for each keystroke? That doesn't seem fair to charge advertisers for advertisements that only appear for a split-second as you type. I wonder what the FTC thinks about that.
This works until you try one of the new Windows Vista fonts designed specifically for ClearType. These fonts are: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel, and Cariadings. In my other post on this topic I describe how these fonts look so good in Windows Vista (and later) but so badly in Freetype of any configuration. There are ClearType-specific hints in these fonts that Freetype simply does not use which makes these fonts so nice in Windows but nowhere else.
Yes, I have tried that configuration, but as I tried to say earlier, there are hinting instructions inside each font that control Cleartype's subpixel renderer, and Freetype does not use them. It controls much more than doing the technique you describe. These hints control, among other things, the grid-fitting and other aspects of the rasterizer to closely control how the fonts are displayed on the screen for best visual sharpness at the expense of perfect shapes, as well as filtering the rendered glyph to mitigate "color fringing."
Your comment is helpful but it's important to understand that the special, proprietary Cleartype hinting is what makes Cleartype what it is. The hints are applied for each glyph. The technique you're describing is a generic, broad application of one of these techniques. The Cleartype hints are the "secret sauce" that makes Cleartype work so well on the screen in Windows Vista and later.
This is correct, but not a complete story. The most important parts of Cleartype fonts are not just the subpixel rendering but that these fonts include special hinting instructions in each font to control the subpixel renderer. Those special hinting instructions are what makes Cleartype work as well as it does, and Freetype does not do this.
These hinting instructions are not and, to hear the Freetype folks say it, will never will be implemented by Freetype. Not only are these hints proprietary and patented but they are also entirely undocumented.
Cleartype fonts in Freetype, like the new fonts that appeared with Windows Vista, look nothing like they do in Windows. I have treid every configuration of Freetype using any combination of bytecode, slight/medium/strong autohinter, the "unpatented" subpixel renderer, and antialias. Try it yourself. You'll need an understanding of the Fontconfig library to try it out.
Cleartype isn't just about subpixel rendering. To think that is to miss the point of what Cleartype is all about.
In fact, I was talking about spidering, the automatic crawling of the web. This isn't something Yahoo was doing. Yahoo was creating a human-generated directory.
O'Keefe is CEO of EADS North America who is in the third-time's-a-charm rebid of the next-generation US Air Force tanker being fiercely sought by Boeing and EADS. Northrop Grumman pulled out (but EADS filled in) to use Airbus jets. US Aerospace was also bidding, using Russian Antonov jets.
You could write a pretty good conspiracy thriller based on today's unfortunate development in this long air tanker saga.
I really wanted to keep using Thunderbird and help solve all its problems like the annoying lowercase buttons and intractable indexing feature. I really even tried to tolerate installing 26 extensions to fix all that I and others thought was wrong with Thunderbird, but I have to sadly admit that I gave up and use Squirrelmail exclusively now.
Again, you are looking at the EPA's web site, and the environment is not the original intent of HOV legislation. It was added-on many years later, most notably in Virginia who fight it ever time it comes up for renewal. Politically, it was a nice extra justification for having HOV lanes and in a very small number of states the clean/special fuel provision was added to the protest of highway planners.
As for quoting my sources, here is one that mentions the optional exceptions that states may allow, and it is a very new provision. HOV lanes in Virginia, for example, are over forty years old. You'll note the DOT's web site says "may" allow clean/special fuel, not "must," for states "choosing to allow exceptions."
HOV is for CONGESTION not for ENVIRONMENT. This is why for many years you could not build an extra lane on an interstate highway without building at least one of them as HOV. Of course, this so-called regulation was promptly disregarded in the New York City metropolitan area along whose left lanes on I-287 you can see the abandoned HOV signs and faded diamonds on their new left lanes.
But, seriously folks, HOV was always intended for congestion relief, not "clean/special fuel." This is why Virginia fights the hybrid-on-HOV law every time it expires. HOV was not originally intended to have anything to do with the environment, just congestion.
It depends on the market, for sure. Here in the Washington DC area, AT&T is the combined 1900 MHz AT&T and 850 MHz Cingular. The service has provided superior voice coverage, moved to the higher-coverage 850 MHz band, with data in the 1900 MHz band. People tend to notice problems more on the voice network so it's top-notch here in DC.
On the other side of things, the New York City market is where AT&T coverage suffers. In the past, T-Mobile and Cingular created a network called "GSM Partners" which created a powerful, market-saturating 1900 MHz network for Cingular and T-Mobile, while the also-ran AT&T competed with a spotty, pathetic 1900 MHz network with hardly any 850 MHz coverage. When Cingular and AT&T merged, that network was required to be divested to sole owner T-Mobile. As a result, T-Mobile is solid coverage in New York City, but AT&T is a pathetic, spotty player.
It really depends on where you live. Los Angeles market has a similar situation. Here in DC, we love our AT&T network with solid 850 MHz voice and 1900 MHz data. It's too bad it's not so good in NYC and other markets.
As long as a canonical driver list is provided so we can get Ubuntu to work properly, who cares if they don't sell them with Ubuntu. I haven't seen enough of these Window-less computers that were any cheaper than the Windows Home versions were.
Matte actually has an opaque effect when the reflection is bright enough. Oddly enough, the same lighting is not opaque on a glossy screen surface. What's great about glossy is that if you have polarized glasses the reflection can be cancelled out if you're lucky.
What we really need is a pair of untinted, polarized glasses that allow you to rotate the lenses to cancel out the reflections on that glossy screen, much like a polarized filter on a camera lens can do.
One of my colleagues' former jobs was to index the photograph archives of an international police organization. He spoke about some unspeakable crime scene photos that he took years to get over. The mere descriptions of the photos also took *us* years to get over.
Apple has a different philosophy comparted to how almost everyone else renders fonts on the screen. Apple wants it to be perfectly shaped, but that's not possible even on today's high-res screens (including the so-called 'retina' display on the iPhone 4), so not only do they anti-alias it, but they also use subpixel rendering, and they do it even where it doesn't make sense (like dead-center between scanlines). The result is not pleasing to me due to annoying, fuzzy artifacts on its fonts but it's pleasing to Mac and iOS fans.
The closest way I get this effect using Freetype is by re-building the freetype library with the patented subpixels enabled. Note that this is not enabled by default in Fedora (because subpixel rendering is also patented) but it is enabled in Ubuntu. In ftoption.h, the option is: #define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
Then, specify "Slight hinting" which will use the really amazing Freetype autohinter (not the bytecode hinter) in the Appearance...Fonts...Details section. The option in fonts.conf (if you use it) is "hintslight" like this: <match target="font"><edit mode="assign" name="hintsyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit></match>
This causes Freetype to endeavor to display the fonts a close as the actual font's metrics will allow, disregarding hints. Unlike Mac and iOS it will still try to avoid doing things that don't make sense like placing a line in the dead center of the space between scanlines on smaller point sizes. Ever since Apple started antialiasing everything I thought of it as a cop-out to really solving the problem of displaying fonts on the screen. I still think Microsoft had the right idea with Cleartype: make it look crispy perfect on the screen even if it is not perfectly shaped. Apple is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
I, for one, would like the option of using Apple's font renderer, heck, even Microsoft's, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Or, for that matter, Adobe's Cooltype, or the one that Sun's Java VM used to use from before it went open-source.
No!! What you say is not true in any way, and your "Informative" moderation should be removed.
ICQ's systems had been merged with AIM systems in the early 2000s. They both now use the *same* protocol, OSCAR, and the ICQ clients that don't use OSCAR are gatewayed into the OSCAR systems. I am telling you this because I've seen it with my own eyes as a developer at AOL.
ICQ *is* AIM. In addition, you *can* talk to ICQ users from AIM accounts.
Why your kind of misinformation is marked "Informative" is beyond belief.
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Not really, I follow it rather closely, and nothing you said disputes my assertion about their technology and in fact you seem to just repeat me while using a blatant ad-hominem attack on my knowledge of Chinese joint-ventures.
And, by the way, your argument about cost has nothing to do with this discussion. I not talking about the *cost* of the system; I am talking about the technology used in the system and its indigenous quality (or lack thereof).
Nice try! Your high school's debate and forensics club would love you to join them.
By "Chinese High-Speed Train" we mean those trains built in partnership with Siemens, Bombardier, Alstom, and Kawasaki. As joint-venture partnerships, China has been disingenuously referring to this foreign equipment as "indigenous" trains.
For example, Changchun Railway Vehicles' rolling stock is built under a joint-venture with Bombardier. Bombardier also has a joint-venture with Sifang Power Transportation. There's nothing "indigenous" about these systems. To save face, token modifications are made to make these systems seem more indigenous than they really are. That is not to say China does not improve upon them, they do, but they are all licensed designs from outside of China.
More interesting to the USA is that China is licensing "its" technology to General Electric for the California High-Speed Rail system.
Does Google log an advertisement impression for each keystroke? That doesn't seem fair to charge advertisers for advertisements that only appear for a split-second as you type. I wonder what the FTC thinks about that.
A-ha! So *this* is the real reason Steve Jobs won't allow Flash on the iPhone and iOS devices.
This works until you try one of the new Windows Vista fonts designed specifically for ClearType. These fonts are: Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel, and Cariadings. In my other post on this topic I describe how these fonts look so good in Windows Vista (and later) but so badly in Freetype of any configuration. There are ClearType-specific hints in these fonts that Freetype simply does not use which makes these fonts so nice in Windows but nowhere else.
Yes, I have tried that configuration, but as I tried to say earlier, there are hinting instructions inside each font that control Cleartype's subpixel renderer, and Freetype does not use them. It controls much more than doing the technique you describe. These hints control, among other things, the grid-fitting and other aspects of the rasterizer to closely control how the fonts are displayed on the screen for best visual sharpness at the expense of perfect shapes, as well as filtering the rendered glyph to mitigate "color fringing."
Your comment is helpful but it's important to understand that the special, proprietary Cleartype hinting is what makes Cleartype what it is. The hints are applied for each glyph. The technique you're describing is a generic, broad application of one of these techniques. The Cleartype hints are the "secret sauce" that makes Cleartype work so well on the screen in Windows Vista and later.
Thanks.
This is correct, but not a complete story. The most important parts of Cleartype fonts are not just the subpixel rendering but that these fonts include special hinting instructions in each font to control the subpixel renderer. Those special hinting instructions are what makes Cleartype work as well as it does, and Freetype does not do this.
These hinting instructions are not and, to hear the Freetype folks say it, will never will be implemented by Freetype. Not only are these hints proprietary and patented but they are also entirely undocumented.
Cleartype fonts in Freetype, like the new fonts that appeared with Windows Vista, look nothing like they do in Windows. I have treid every configuration of Freetype using any combination of bytecode, slight/medium/strong autohinter, the "unpatented" subpixel renderer, and antialias. Try it yourself. You'll need an understanding of the Fontconfig library to try it out.
Cleartype isn't just about subpixel rendering. To think that is to miss the point of what Cleartype is all about.
In fact, I was talking about spidering, the automatic crawling of the web. This isn't something Yahoo was doing. Yahoo was creating a human-generated directory.
This Farmville player is asking you for a PEA IN HIS LUNG for his farm!
I think Webcrawler would disagree that search engines did not exist when Yahoo started.
Furthermore, Yahoo wasn't spidering until they licensed Inktomi in the late 1990s and eventually bought them outright in 2002.
Every little bit of history helps.
O'Keefe is CEO of EADS North America who is in the third-time's-a-charm rebid of the next-generation US Air Force tanker being fiercely sought by Boeing and EADS. Northrop Grumman pulled out (but EADS filled in) to use Airbus jets. US Aerospace was also bidding, using Russian Antonov jets.
You could write a pretty good conspiracy thriller based on today's unfortunate development in this long air tanker saga.
I really wanted to keep using Thunderbird and help solve all its problems like the annoying lowercase buttons and intractable indexing feature. I really even tried to tolerate installing 26 extensions to fix all that I and others thought was wrong with Thunderbird, but I have to sadly admit that I gave up and use Squirrelmail exclusively now.
Sigh.
Again, you are looking at the EPA's web site, and the environment is not the original intent of HOV legislation. It was added-on many years later, most notably in Virginia who fight it ever time it comes up for renewal. Politically, it was a nice extra justification for having HOV lanes and in a very small number of states the clean/special fuel provision was added to the protest of highway planners.
As for quoting my sources, here is one that mentions the optional exceptions that states may allow, and it is a very new provision. HOV lanes in Virginia, for example, are over forty years old. You'll note the DOT's web site says "may" allow clean/special fuel, not "must," for states "choosing to allow exceptions."
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/safetealu/factsheets/hov.htm
HOV is for CONGESTION not for ENVIRONMENT. This is why for many years you could not build an extra lane on an interstate highway without building at least one of them as HOV. Of course, this so-called regulation was promptly disregarded in the New York City metropolitan area along whose left lanes on I-287 you can see the abandoned HOV signs and faded diamonds on their new left lanes.
But, seriously folks, HOV was always intended for congestion relief, not "clean/special fuel." This is why Virginia fights the hybrid-on-HOV law every time it expires. HOV was not originally intended to have anything to do with the environment, just congestion.
First reviewer: "Great material but nothing you can't read for free."
Yup, sounds about right.
Sorry, but last month called. It wants its old meme back.
I'm not so sure since my local Amiga retailer had CD32 machines for sale among the A3000, A4000, and A1200 machines.
One megabyte of "Chip" Memory made me fall in love. Custom chips and the Blitter were decades ahead of everyone else.
I kind of agree. You can't get blood out of stone. Bandwidth costs money. Net neutrality is the reason for these knee-jerk actions by ISPs.
It depends on the market, for sure. Here in the Washington DC area, AT&T is the combined 1900 MHz AT&T and 850 MHz Cingular. The service has provided superior voice coverage, moved to the higher-coverage 850 MHz band, with data in the 1900 MHz band. People tend to notice problems more on the voice network so it's top-notch here in DC.
On the other side of things, the New York City market is where AT&T coverage suffers. In the past, T-Mobile and Cingular created a network called "GSM Partners" which created a powerful, market-saturating 1900 MHz network for Cingular and T-Mobile, while the also-ran AT&T competed with a spotty, pathetic 1900 MHz network with hardly any 850 MHz coverage. When Cingular and AT&T merged, that network was required to be divested to sole owner T-Mobile. As a result, T-Mobile is solid coverage in New York City, but AT&T is a pathetic, spotty player.
It really depends on where you live. Los Angeles market has a similar situation. Here in DC, we love our AT&T network with solid 850 MHz voice and 1900 MHz data. It's too bad it's not so good in NYC and other markets.
As long as a canonical driver list is provided so we can get Ubuntu to work properly, who cares if they don't sell them with Ubuntu. I haven't seen enough of these Window-less computers that were any cheaper than the Windows Home versions were.
Matte actually has an opaque effect when the reflection is bright enough. Oddly enough, the same lighting is not opaque on a glossy screen surface. What's great about glossy is that if you have polarized glasses the reflection can be cancelled out if you're lucky.
What we really need is a pair of untinted, polarized glasses that allow you to rotate the lenses to cancel out the reflections on that glossy screen, much like a polarized filter on a camera lens can do.
One of my colleagues' former jobs was to index the photograph archives of an international police organization. He spoke about some unspeakable crime scene photos that he took years to get over. The mere descriptions of the photos also took *us* years to get over.
This kind of thing is not good for anyone.
Apple has a different philosophy comparted to how almost everyone else renders fonts on the screen. Apple wants it to be perfectly shaped, but that's not possible even on today's high-res screens (including the so-called 'retina' display on the iPhone 4), so not only do they anti-alias it, but they also use subpixel rendering, and they do it even where it doesn't make sense (like dead-center between scanlines). The result is not pleasing to me due to annoying, fuzzy artifacts on its fonts but it's pleasing to Mac and iOS fans.
The closest way I get this effect using Freetype is by re-building the freetype library with the patented subpixels enabled. Note that this is not enabled by default in Fedora (because subpixel rendering is also patented) but it is enabled in Ubuntu.
In ftoption.h, the option is:
#define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
Then, specify "Slight hinting" which will use the really amazing Freetype autohinter (not the bytecode hinter) in the Appearance...Fonts...Details section. The option in fonts.conf (if you use it) is "hintslight" like this:
<match target="font"><edit mode="assign" name="hintsyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit></match>
This causes Freetype to endeavor to display the fonts a close as the actual font's metrics will allow, disregarding hints. Unlike Mac and iOS it will still try to avoid doing things that don't make sense like placing a line in the dead center of the space between scanlines on smaller point sizes. Ever since Apple started antialiasing everything I thought of it as a cop-out to really solving the problem of displaying fonts on the screen. I still think Microsoft had the right idea with Cleartype: make it look crispy perfect on the screen even if it is not perfectly shaped. Apple is an example of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
I, for one, would like the option of using Apple's font renderer, heck, even Microsoft's, on Fedora or Ubuntu. Or, for that matter, Adobe's Cooltype, or the one that Sun's Java VM used to use from before it went open-source.
No!! What you say is not true in any way, and your "Informative" moderation should be removed.
ICQ's systems had been merged with AIM systems in the early 2000s.
They both now use the *same* protocol, OSCAR, and the ICQ clients that don't use OSCAR are gatewayed into the OSCAR systems.
I am telling you this because I've seen it with my own eyes as a developer at AOL.
ICQ *is* AIM. In addition, you *can* talk to ICQ users from AIM accounts.
Why your kind of misinformation is marked "Informative" is beyond belief.