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Fucking ARIAL
Oct. 24th, 2005 07:39 pmI've just spent twenty minutes trying to download a copy of Arial Unicode for my Japanese dictionary on my brand new (really old) tablet.
Microsoft is afraid you'll like, pirate Arial and do nasty things to it. Like rape the letters that have holes in them or whatever it is you stinkin' pirates do. Pirating all the time.
So Arial Unicode is only available with Works, and can't be downloaded from their website.
The tablet has some ancient, bizarre version of Works installed, but it somehow apparently didn't come with the font. I have a newer copy of Works sitting here, and the library has the very newest one, if I wanted to walk over there - but the tablet doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I can't install either of them.
So in short, I have, theoretically, legal access to three separate copies of the damn font, but I can't use them. I feel justified looking for other places to download it - actually, it doesn't even occur to me yet that I need any justification, I mean, this is *Arial* we're talking about.
But Microsoft has apparently sent C&D's to every website that was offering the download. I just checked a couple of BitTorrent search engines. Didn't find anything, of couse.
And so then it kind of hit me - I was just reduced to trying to download an illicit copy of FUCKING ARIAL off of BitTorrent. And I FAILED. And I wasted TWENTY MINUTES of my time TRYING and FAILING to acquire ARIAL.
Which Microsoft is afraid that PEOPLE ARE GOING TO STEAL FROM THEM WITHOUT *PAYING* OH THEIR POOR BAAAAABY.
ARIAL.
If I ever meet Bill Gates, I am going to kick that stupid little wuss-face so *hard*.
Microsoft is afraid you'll like, pirate Arial and do nasty things to it. Like rape the letters that have holes in them or whatever it is you stinkin' pirates do. Pirating all the time.
So Arial Unicode is only available with Works, and can't be downloaded from their website.
The tablet has some ancient, bizarre version of Works installed, but it somehow apparently didn't come with the font. I have a newer copy of Works sitting here, and the library has the very newest one, if I wanted to walk over there - but the tablet doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, so I can't install either of them.
So in short, I have, theoretically, legal access to three separate copies of the damn font, but I can't use them. I feel justified looking for other places to download it - actually, it doesn't even occur to me yet that I need any justification, I mean, this is *Arial* we're talking about.
But Microsoft has apparently sent C&D's to every website that was offering the download. I just checked a couple of BitTorrent search engines. Didn't find anything, of couse.
And so then it kind of hit me - I was just reduced to trying to download an illicit copy of FUCKING ARIAL off of BitTorrent. And I FAILED. And I wasted TWENTY MINUTES of my time TRYING and FAILING to acquire ARIAL.
Which Microsoft is afraid that PEOPLE ARE GOING TO STEAL FROM THEM WITHOUT *PAYING* OH THEIR POOR BAAAAABY.
ARIAL.
If I ever meet Bill Gates, I am going to kick that stupid little wuss-face so *hard*.
