Posted on 03/11/2002 3:41:28 PM PST by Timesink
Time for a "DNR" (Do Not Resuscitate) order for Salon.
That's what I was thinking. Investing in liberal internet rags ought to be outside of the company's charter.
Eh ? Postscript & PDF standards are state of the art.
If Adobe pumped money into Salon, well that is some CFO/boardroom f*ck-up.
But the software/eng side of Adobe is top-notch.
Dr. John Warnock has served as a Director of Salon since August 2001. He was a founder of Adobe Systems and has been its Chairman of the Board since April 1989. Since September 1997, he has shared the position of Adobe Chairman of the Board with Charles M. Geschke. Dr. Warnock served as Chief Executive Officer of Adobe from 1982 through December 2000. In December 2000, Dr. Warnock assumed the role of Chief Technical Officer in addition to that of Chairman of the Board. Dr. Warnock received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah.
I mean, anything else would just be unfair and CFR is all about fairness.
I don't do business with companies that support socialist insanity.
Yeah the article shows that Lexus is focused on its image.
If/when you call ask 'em if they support cartoons about assassinating President Bush, selling porn/erotica, supporting kiddie porn, and liberal hate speech. Is that the image Lexus wants?
Everyone! Ping this to yourself as a reminder, and call 'em in the morning!
1-800-255-3987
Call 'em! Help defund the left.
Actually, the Postscript standard is pretty good in a lot of ways. Only two significant complaints I have about the design of Postscript 1.0:
BTW, if anyone here does Postscript, one useful trick when using miter joins is to draw on at each acute miter join a very short line perpendicular to the bisector of the join angle. For example, if drawing part of a shape (100,10)-(0,0)-(100,-10), draw it as (100,10)-(0,0.001)-(0,-0.001)-(100,-10). This will give a miter joint nicely cliped at the stroke width (a type of joint it would have been nice if Adobe had provided to begin with.
One difficulty, though, with this style of synthetic join is that there's no practical way to apply it to anything other than by explicitly coding it every place it's used [due, in part, due to the other issue].
If one gets the definition of a built-in function and puts it into an executable array, Postscript will execute it if it encounters it in that array. If one does the same with the definition of a user-defined function, however, Postscript will, upon encountering it simply push a copy on the stack rather than executing it.
While this may seem a minor technical issue, it prevents effective redefinition of primitives like 'lineto'; attempts to redefine primitives will break code which attempts to use 'bind'. Since most code intended for speed uses 'bind' to enhance performance, such a limitation imposes major compatibility limitations for any attempted 'emulation' of the built-in primitives.
BTW, GhostScript provides facilities for avoiding this limitation, but they are incompatible with standard Postscript.
Even ignoring Salon's politics, do the shareholders of Adobe ever think they're going to see the $500k again from a company whose stock is trading at $0.14 on the small cap market, down 95+% from its high?
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