Font files are essentially code executed by a rasterizer, and the code is copyrighted by Adobe.

So far not Project Gutenburg or Mutopia for typefaces just yet.

I should rephrase. Nothing is gained by using IPA instead of audio signatures because they represent the same context. Think of an IPA character as essentially an audio signature.

Translating to IPA doesn't move you any closer to translating to your target script.

Concepts != language

You do not use any language structures (syntactic, phonological,semantic) in your life that an average 5-7 yr child has not already acquired. This is established in pretty much all literature on language acquisition.

After all, there is a lot that biomedical scientists talk about that I don't understand at all. Still, my language faculty remains intact.

Yeah, but I can distribute the copies I buy off him any way I like.

I can't do with Adobe fonts.

slashdot.xxx - Babes of Slashdot

Think of the possibilities (or don't)

Well Soccer Mom's should care what other countries do if other countries don't enforce the .xxx domain.

Hiding away good old Apple Pie American porn while letting the dirty Eurotrash variety pass through seems a bit stupid, doesn't it?

That's because those sites have a self-motivated reason to attach to those domains.

The rules around .edu and .mil etc concern keeping unwanted sites OUT of the domain, not forcing certain site in.

Cool, so if you put it up for free, you don't need the .xxx domain?

Only the uneducated parent.

There are responsible porn sites that play nice with filters and have entry pages without explicit conent. Then there are other sites which are not so charitable. The sites that play nice will always play nice, and the sites that don't will still be sneaky.

Anyway, when was the last time you randomly stumbled upon some porn? You have more of a chance seeing boobs at a football game than through Googling for your class assignment.

Except that before the web there WERE a variety of fonts.

There wasn't one particular font called "newspaper". And newspapers and books all used different fonts for various reasons.

What's a amazing is that so many of the fonts are basically just re-creations of typefaces that are certainly out of copyright.

The original "Calson" font mentioned in the article is at least 200 hundred years old, yet there are a number of Calson offering, like from Adobe, costing some $45 bucks.

Sounds like the "open source software is just for hobbyist" argument.

If free fonts are crap, that just means that the "free-model" hasn't yet taken hold in font design, or that no one is really that interested in fonts.

There are plenty of free things of high quality that are ridiculously more complex than fonts. An operating system kernel for one.

It's amazing how you can take someone out of context even while providing the full quotation.

Is it so hard to comprehend that if you really need serious privacy, NO major search engine provider in the world will give you that?

And this doesn't refute anything. Just because they may be forced into handing over data doesn't mean they won't put up a fight. Which is exactly what Google does, and exactly the opposite of Yahoo and MS, who are very pliable in their dealings with governments.

Watch a medical show with doctors or legal shows with lawyers. Hell, thing of the cop shows and how reflective they are OF THE COPS.

It's entertainment, and it plays to a certain expectation of how certain things functions.

*Execptions made for the Wire/Oz etc.

High throughput doesn't imply high random seek times.

In fact, a device with high sequential throughput will often suffer from poor random access performance.