Are you perhaps too young to remember that it was Quark (well, DTP in general) that indirectly fucked up the aesthetics of so much of the print media sphere? For every Emigre magazine DTP enabled, there were seven thousand eyesore subway ads put together by people who thought that owning a copy of Quark made them "designers." Ooo, horizontal type scaling, neato!
Before DTP, there may have been less innovative, bold experimentation in print design, but at least the mundane, quotidian stuff that's 95% of what we're surrounded by every day was done by actual professionals who knew what they were doing.
I can't make a nice layout. The people who can do that can't use latex the way I do.[...] [D]o not underestimate the value of latex+unix tools.
It should go without saying that when discussing layout software, the ability to "make a nice layout" is paramount. Using LaTeX is akin to writing postscript by hand. Sure, it's possible, and it may satisfy your inner nerd, but you won't be meeting any deadlines.
ICANN has done such a shitty job of administering the system we'd have been better off just sticking to IP numbers. Why bother to come up with a rational scheme just to immediately dump all over it? When was the last time.net meant "ISP" and.org meant "noncommercial organization?" (Answer: About seventeen minutes after RFC1591 was published.)
Oh, but at least we have ".museum" now! How did we ever get along without that?
Bad analogy. If you buy a legitimate copy from an authorized reseller who subsequently loses his authorization it doesn't affect the legitimacy of your copy.
There are limits. I don't think you're allowed to sell rat poison called "Aspirin," even though aspirin is a generic mark. You could, however, market acetaminophen with the claim that it "works just like Aspirin only stronger," which is a closer analogy to the way Apple is using the term "Unix."
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
All of Apple's current keyboards are ergonomic hazards, unless you perhaps have really small hands or have replaced your hands with cybernetic limbs...
Or perhaps unless you have learned to type properly. Wrist support should be a non-issue since one shouldn't be resting one's wrists to begin with. Having learned to type on an IBM Selectric, I don't particularly care for the amount of key travel or the lack of clickiness on Apple's (or most anyone else's) keyboards, (especially my iBook -- and don't get me started on the upside-down W on the M key...) but that's more personal taste than ergonomics.
Left out? Hardly. More like he's an experienced victim of it: Turner Entertainment has been part of Time Warner for going on seven years now, although Ted Turner himself resigned as vice chairman at the beginning of this year after AOLTW posted the biggest corporate loss in history (98.7 billion dollars.)
It's not Nigerians-as-spammers but spammers-as-Nigerians. I've never heard of the cricket and whitebread business, so it's not "on-par" with the fried chicken stereotype. But if Africans eating cricket sandwiches is a known thing, then okay, score one point for you, although I think you're making too much of it.
As for poverty being a "sterotype..." wow, are you ever confused. Maybe making fun of an impoverished nation isn't the most kindhearted thing to do, but saying that poverty and toilets are "indelably [sic] linked... to the African race" is the only real racism here.
Leaving aside the issue of conflating "stereotype" with "racism," could you please -- once your knee stops jerking uncontrollably -- point out exactly where you see a racial stereotype on that page?
I live in NYC, and I've seen people try squatting the best they can, but I don't see much leeway given by the law there.
Actually, some leeway was finally given last summer when eleven Lower East Side squats were legitimized by the city. Not exactly a Fair Use doctrine for real estate, but certainly a step in the right direction.
Like boiling lobsters, you just raise the temperature a tiny bit at a time and people don't realize they're being baked.
That's frogs. A lobster couldn't get out of the slowly heating pot even if it did realize what was happening. A frog could jump out but doesn't. Anyway, lobsters are properly thrown into a rolling boil.
"...the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) manages franchise agreements for 21 separate fiber-optic companies..."
"Other suggestions in the report said that excess fiber capacity built as a consequence of city funding should be open to third parties at competitive wholesale rates."
Nobody's nationalizing (or even municipalizing) anything. Lines laid under contract are exactly what's being discussed.
Verizon is in the picture not because anyone wants to take over their property, but because they've been getting a sweetheart deal from the city; the City Council wants to open the bidding for its telcom contracts while leveraging all that underutilized fiber at the city's disposal. Instead of soliciting bids for full service, laying new lines, etc, they'd be soliciting bids to provide services over that existing fiber. Hopefully those contracts will carry obligations to provide free public service as well, the same way real estate development permits are often contingent on the developer providing public park space or low-income units or expanding a subway station.
There is even a building with the old bell labs logo still on that is visual from the brooklynn bridge. I believe that one is owned by AT&T today and yes they also laid hundreds of miles of fiber there as well.
No, that's been replaced with Verizon's hideous logo for some time now, and it was Bell Atlantic and Nynex before that. Unless you're thinking of a different building than I am...
"As a film student and special effects guru-type, I can only say thank god for this..."
BZZZZZZT!!! *Red Flag*
Well, what kind of student calls himself a guru?
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There is no "American Comics Approval Code" legislation and there never was. The Comics Code Authority was an institution created voluntarily by the comics industry in response to the Senate hearings occasioned by Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent." It was loathesome and cowardly self-censorship, but it wasn't a law.
These things are still out there waiting to be given to budding young nerds (although budding chemistry nerds may be out of luck,) you just have to look a little harder now that Radio Shack makes all their money selling Compaqs and Sprint cell phones.
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Before DTP, there may have been less innovative, bold experimentation in print design, but at least the mundane, quotidian stuff that's 95% of what we're surrounded by every day was done by actual professionals who knew what they were doing.
It should go without saying that when discussing layout software, the ability to "make a nice layout" is paramount. Using LaTeX is akin to writing postscript by hand. Sure, it's possible, and it may satisfy your inner nerd, but you won't be meeting any deadlines.
Oh, but at least we have ".museum" now! How did we ever get along without that?
Bad analogy. If you buy a legitimate copy from an authorized reseller who subsequently loses his authorization it doesn't affect the legitimacy of your copy.
There are limits. I don't think you're allowed to sell rat poison called "Aspirin," even though aspirin is a generic mark. You could, however, market acetaminophen with the claim that it "works just like Aspirin only stronger," which is a closer analogy to the way Apple is using the term "Unix."
That would have been pretty fucking stupid since there isn't a Windows version of Quark 6 yet, and the previous version came out for Mac first.
Most InDesign users wouldn't be sending out InDesign format documents to prepress, they'd be sending PDFs.
Somebody please rescind this gentleman's license to use the English language posthaste.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Or perhaps unless you have learned to type properly. Wrist support should be a non-issue since one shouldn't be resting one's wrists to begin with. Having learned to type on an IBM Selectric, I don't particularly care for the amount of key travel or the lack of clickiness on Apple's (or most anyone else's) keyboards, (especially my iBook -- and don't get me started on the upside-down W on the M key...) but that's more personal taste than ergonomics.
I know you're trying to be clever and all, but, uh: video tape, measuring tape, plumber's tape, bubble tape... There are plenty of nonsticky tapes.
Left out? Hardly. More like he's an experienced victim of it: Turner Entertainment has been part of Time Warner for going on seven years now, although Ted Turner himself resigned as vice chairman at the beginning of this year after AOLTW posted the biggest corporate loss in history (98.7 billion dollars.)
As for poverty being a "sterotype..." wow, are you ever confused. Maybe making fun of an impoverished nation isn't the most kindhearted thing to do, but saying that poverty and toilets are "indelably [sic] linked... to the African race" is the only real racism here.
Leaving aside the issue of conflating "stereotype" with "racism," could you please -- once your knee stops jerking uncontrollably -- point out exactly where you see a racial stereotype on that page?
Actually, some leeway was finally given last summer when eleven Lower East Side squats were legitimized by the city. Not exactly a Fair Use doctrine for real estate, but certainly a step in the right direction.
That's frogs. A lobster couldn't get out of the slowly heating pot even if it did realize what was happening. A frog could jump out but doesn't. Anyway, lobsters are properly thrown into a rolling boil.
"Other suggestions in the report said that excess fiber capacity built as a consequence of city funding should be open to third parties at competitive wholesale rates."
Nobody's nationalizing (or even municipalizing) anything. Lines laid under contract are exactly what's being discussed.
Verizon is in the picture not because anyone wants to take over their property, but because they've been getting a sweetheart deal from the city; the City Council wants to open the bidding for its telcom contracts while leveraging all that underutilized fiber at the city's disposal. Instead of soliciting bids for full service, laying new lines, etc, they'd be soliciting bids to provide services over that existing fiber. Hopefully those contracts will carry obligations to provide free public service as well, the same way real estate development permits are often contingent on the developer providing public park space or low-income units or expanding a subway station.
No, that's been replaced with Verizon's hideous logo for some time now, and it was Bell Atlantic and Nynex before that. Unless you're thinking of a different building than I am...
Yeah, real insightful.
Greasel-fueled engines sound great in theory, but those things are a lot harder to kill than they look.
Well, what kind of student calls himself a guru?
There is no "American Comics Approval Code" legislation and there never was. The Comics Code Authority was an institution created voluntarily by the comics industry in response to the Senate hearings occasioned by Frederic Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent." It was loathesome and cowardly self-censorship, but it wasn't a law.
These things are still out there waiting to be given to budding young nerds (although budding chemistry nerds may be out of luck,) you just have to look a little harder now that Radio Shack makes all their money selling Compaqs and Sprint cell phones.
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