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Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved

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On 9/8/15 4:09 PM, Nasty Name-calling jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> That is a very puerile linkage, spamming ass hat.
>
> How to design fonts for readablity has been well known for a very long
> time, ass hole, and the majority of problems with fonts is the invention
> of the PC and the resulting craze for fonts for all occasions used by
> half wits with absolutely no sense of prior art.
>
> Speed reading was taught in high school over a half a century ago and
> seems to be something that for some reason has fallen out of fashion.
>
> It is fairly trivial to learn how to speed read and doesn't take that
> long to learn, you spamming piece of shit.


   The jimp *really needs to attend those anger management* classes.
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   New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important
   inventions can be improved
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-technology-to-break-the-speed-barrier-of-reading/


> I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our
> four cats and my father’s immense personal library of some 3000
> books. My father designed books for a living, and he revered them.
> His books were everywhere in the apartment, covering every possible
> surface in the house, the radiators and toilet tanks included. To my
> father, these books were objects of art: beautiful to hold, beautiful
> to look at, and beautiful to read.
>
> Though my father’s outsized romance with books didn’t entirely rub
> off on me, he did instill in me an appreciation for the book as a
> technological invention, a remarkable piece of engineering whose
> importance is arguably like none other ever devised. And yet, given
> that at its core reading is nothing more than a tool, engineered
> around a set of compromises and constraints, it’s far from perfect.
>
> Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient
> scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now —
> has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were
> relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our
> information age. When books were scarce, and few people could read,
> the fact that some inherent flaw in the design of reading may have
> hindered reading was not much of a concern. But today, in an era of
> computers —where it is possible to instantly download virtually any
> book ever published and read it on a device we carry in our pockets—
> what limits our reading is the capacity of the brain to absorb the
> available content.  The problem of our millennium is that we simply
> can’t seem to get the information into our minds fast enough to
> satisfy our needs.
>
> What may have seemed like a good design idea for reading a millennium
> ago, may not be such a good idea today. Take for example the shape
> and spacing of letters. In the centuries before the printing press
> was invented, it took scribes an inordinate amount of time to pen a
> book. Therefore, the need to work quickly likely influenced the
> design of our letter shapes, as these were formed to make their
> drawing by hand as fluid and rapid as possible. Other design
> constraints we inherited from the past, no longer relevant today,
> relate to the high cost of materials. Parchment was expensive. So
> letters were designed to compress and cram the symbols on a page — so
> much so that spacing and even punctuation came to be omitted and had
> to be introduced in the 12th Century to facilitate reading.

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New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 15:35 -0500
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:09 +0000
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:20 -0500
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 14:37 -0700
        Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:52 +0000
          Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-09-09 05:43 -0700
      Re: Spamming ass hat repastes crap jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-08 21:46 +0000
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity's most important inventions can be improved "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 16:39 -0700
  Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-08 18:57 -0500
    Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-09 02:24 +0000
      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 21:38 -0500
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      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:02 -0400
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      Re: New research suggests that one of humanity’s most important inventions can be improved benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 23:27 -0400
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