War of the Virtual Worlds - Transcript

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David Lawrence: Yeah well not tiles but there were little pieces of type and you would put them into a little device that would squeeze them together and then you would put actual lade in between the lines which is where the word lading comes from and you would have to do everything backwards and look at it make sure it was perfect and you would probably end up making business cards or something. But I remember doing that and thinking about the fact that those were called font cases and that the actual typeface itself can you know you can have a bold typeface. You can have an oblique, condensed all these things. All of those things make up a font but that is sort of being bastardized by the computing community where you say individual fonts are styles of a typeface. So it can be confusing but a font is generally a family and different weights are in different cases so I guess you would separate those out. But fonts are really easy to use these days, in the old days they were not. It was not easy to get a new, you had to worry about what type of printer you had. You had to worry about whether or not it was post script or not post script.

Max: DCL type one, type*

David Lawrence: Yeah HPGL, remember HPGL the Graphics Language from Hewlett Packard, so now most of that is obviated with True Type and you have Microsoft and Adobe and Apple to thank for that. That was one of the very first things where both companies Microsoft and Apple got together and said okay let*s not mess around here, let*s make this right.

Max: Why, because of some issue with Adobe?

David Lawrence: No.

Max: Because Adobe was the typeface leader.

David Lawrence: Because I think the typeface designers got together and said don*t mess with us. You know the guy that they had they are creating Verdana and Trebuchet and that was these type designer said look I will work with you. His name*s Stone, whatever his name is. He said I will work with you but don*t mess around with Apple, make it right, do it right and so then he created the most readable font ever for screens and that was Verdana. Verdana was designed specifically to be able to be read on a screen from the furthest distance. And it took me about 3 months to actually do all of the iWork necessary to make that happen. So its very interesting story it's cool Google fun lets see what happens to Google. Verdana design Thomas I think is his first name. I don*t remember his last name but it wasn*t Stone it was something else. There is a whole story on the Microsoft side about how Verdana was created and it*s really a fascinating story. It*s all designed to look good on a screen. Its 24 minutes past the hour that is this hour*s Geek Speak font. 180039 online is our telephone number back to the calls.

David Lawrence: Okay so jot down Tuesday 12 Noon Pacific, 3 Eastern, 2 Central in the afternoon this Tuesday July 5th that is when Wil Wheaton*s book *Just a Geek* the audio version is going to be released through our website and its an exclusive, its only through www.10quicksteps.com. You will be able to get *Just a Geek* the audio version either in digital download mp3 or in a two CD set, its two package, two boxes. It*s actually about nine CDs?

Voice: Nine CDs including the bonus audio which has a good closing thing and have some loopers in it which I have to got to kick out of.

David Lawrence: So the book is Wil Wheaton*s March from the moment he decided that he was going to quit Star Trek Next Generation because he didn*t want to end up like William Shatner all the way through his decision in his *30s to question whether or not that was the right thing to do. And in that way he*s created a family, how he*s had this love/hate relationship with Star Trek. But also about his life as a Geek working with computers being a well known blogger but eventually being a well known activist online and so on. Its just a fascinating read and now it*s a fascinating listen as of Tuesday at noon it will be available at www.10quicksteps.com. You can go there now and you can send e-mail through the front page of the site and say hey let me know when this book is released on audio and you can do that. There you go. 180039 online is our telephone number 18003966546 lets go to Brad. Brad you are online tonight with David Lawrence hello.

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