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Metro might work on a tablet and a phone, but to act as if the desktop will stop to exist is crazy! This can't be serious! Is this some long-played joke?
Are they that desperate or just in dire need of attention?

Until they fix it, this is my view on the matter.

http://i.imgur.com/avgcv.jpg

These 240,000 metric tons of nutritional assistance... surely these will be cakes?

Sorry, I will not be impressed until you reword and reformat your story so that it does this, too: http://i.imgur.com/akaAE.jpg

Run these by them as well:

FACT: guitardood engages in unprotected anal intercourse with homosexual men in airport bathrooms.

FACT: guitardood contracted a rare form of syphilis by fellating the tailpipe of a 1994 Ford Escort that causes him to whine endlessly on online forums.

FACT: guitardood is, oh, about 15 years old. And seriously needs a haircut.

http://i.imgur.com/gqcL2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/rtUGR.jpg

here's a screenshot, the lower VLC 2 window is at minimum size already http://i.imgur.com/1wEyJ.png

It'll address that resolution, sure, but it won't display it. I own one such Trinitron. The aperture grille pitch is about 1 pixel wide at 1600x1200. To meet the Nyquist sampling condition, the electron beams must be defocused to at least half that. The resolution of a 1600x1200 LCD is effectively greater than that of a 1600x1200 CRT. Furthermore, the LCD can use subpixel rendering.

Test it yourself: generate images consisting of alternating lines at 1 pixel spacing, and display them at 1:1 scaling on your CRT.

I believe there are a few android devices that have their DPI very close to the iphone 4/4s. I'm pretty sure there's at least one that is higher. Anyway, there is a reason why having a higher DPI is better. It makes everything A LOT clearer. Text becomes much easier to read. This picture compares the iPhone 3GS and an iPhone 4. If you can't see the difference or why one is better, then you should check your eyesight.

Since the sources in TFA are being slashdotted, I did a Google search for "heartland institute leak" to find other sources.

First Google ad? RSA Data Loss Prevention XD

http://i.imgur.com/tUgjG.jpg

I mentioned previously -- see post http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2671969&cid=39046335

The letter in question was

http://i.imgur.com/ajaYt.jpg

I noticed you had some complaints regarding Zynga's game "Dream Heights". I'm sorry they copied you like that. That's not cool. It sure looks like they're huge gans of yours. Though it looks like you guys are huge fans of someone too. There's a game called "Corporation Inc." I'm sure you've heard of it. It was pretty popular a few months back.

It's a bit similar to your game "Tiny Tower", only it was released 4 months prior to the release of your game. I wouldn't say "Tiny Tower" is a copy of Corporation Inc., I'd say its more of an elaboration or continuation, it could easily be called "Corporation Inc 2". Tiny Tower is has a lot of different features and gameplay, but the core it seems a bit familiar.

In fact, "Corporation Inc.", Zynga's "Dream Heights" and your "Tiny Tower" are all quite similar to SimTower, which Corporation Inc. credits in their flash game. I don't own your game. So I don't know if you give credit to anyone for your "inspiration", but I certainly hope you did (especially since you're upset with Zynga for being overly "inspired" by you.)

It's not just you guys or Zynga. It's quite common in the App market. Everyone does it. Even "Angry Birds" (possible the most popular app out there) was quite "inspired" by flash games, particular a game called "Crush the Castle" designed by Chris Condon and Joey Betz. It was released 7 months before Angry Birds. They made a killing by replicated a flah game that was already popular (which is quite the trend now.)

Please, don't get me wrong. I think it's great that these types of games are gaining popularity due to the success of the smart phone. Just please don't pretend like you're the victim. I don't know anybody who has any respect for Zynga, and if you want anyone to have respect for you guys at Nimblebit, don't whine about these things over the internet. Leave your fans to do your dirty work.

Sincerely,
drumcowski

And this letter ... http://i.imgur.com/ajaYt.jpg

In fact, "Corporation Inc.", Zynga's "Dream Heights" and your "Tiny Tower" are all quite similar to SimTower, which Corporation Inc. credits in their flash game. I don't own your game. So I don't know if you give credit to anyone for your "inspiration"

Sincerely,
drumcowski

"Unless you've got a 32" TV you sit 18" from"

Well........ stand is more like it, but whatever! Gimme more resolution! My old Trinitron CRT had more resolution (and higher refresh rates!)

My browser is Desktop and my OS is Unknown ... on an iPhone...

Romney edges Santorum in conservatives' straw poll

Gingrich plunges, Santorum surges

If you think this wasn't an avenue for pedophilia, I leave you with this post from a self-admitted pedophile on Reddit, admitting that he masturbated to pictures on /r/jailbait and other "outlets" on Reddit that are now banned.

The guy seems honest enough. I think he needs help. I may not be a physician but everything I've read points to sexual deviance being hardwired in the brain. He needs to seek out a good psychiatrist who can help him suppress those feelings.

The reason is that while he may be claiming not to harm children, he is viewing material where children were (psychologically) harmed during the production of the material. Maybe he's not raping little girls, but he is providing demand, and the suppliers are harming children.

That right there is the core reason why possession of child pornography is illegal in the United States. It supports a despicable industry.

At around 1:30 into the video you can see this in the background: http://i.imgur.com/J2SZ1.jpg
I can't imagine what else passes for autism therapy in former Soviet bloc countries.

The subreddit was called /r/preteen_girls.

If you think this wasn't an avenue for pedophilia, I leave you with this post from a self-admitted pedophile on Reddit, admitting that he masturbated to pictures on /r/jailbait and other "outlets" on Reddit that are now banned.

I mean photos like : http://imgur.com/d4Ymc dont qualify as CP do they? cause thats what most of the content was
Oh, and thanks SA for pushing people who watched photos minors willing took and posted of themselves towards the darker parts of the net where actual children would be being exploited for photos

We don't release the funds until we verify the campaign. If the campaign is not legitimate, we return the money. [...] At the same time, we check it from our end. We just don't put up a barrier in the sign up process.

That explains it.

Aaah yes, because photographers actually use those colors...

We sure do.

oh wait, we don't

You mean you don't

and even the best cameras couldn't capture them anyway.

Are you sure you're even referring to the same thing I am, here?

I'm not talking about the color profile (or even CMYK work, as OP did), but about bit depth. The cameras will, of course, always only be able to capture what their color filters, sensors, etc. allow to be capture. If I'm hoping to capture IR with my camera, I'll want to remove the filter that blocks most of that first (or get a camera that lets it be flipped out of the way on demand). That is completely unrelated to the bit depth, however. With 8bpc there are 'only' 256 levels for each of the R, G and B channels. That may seem like a lot - until you start doing post processing; then you're going to wish you had a bit more to work with. Many cameras in RAW capture mode will capture 10bit (1024 levels), 12bit or even 14 bit. Even that 10bit is a lot nicer to work with.
And that's just in the capture - the reason you'd want 16bit in the software is so that those 10bpc values don't keep getting re-converted to 10bit values while working with the file, accumulating error as you go (aspects of GEGL looks promising on this front, but for other reasons). You still do that in 16bit, but the error is much smaller.

No point really as the human eye cannot discern them.

Except that it can. See: http://i.imgur.com/NCeAi.png
( If you can't see it at all, your vision may be impaired. If it stands out like a sore thumb, you may be viewing it on an LCD monitor that has shoddy mapping from 8 bit to its native (such as 5/6/5bit))

Granted, in straight photography without any post-processing work, the nature of the capture method imbues a natural type of dither (in the form of noise) to the image that breaks up any patterns that would make it obvious.

Out of the entire list, you found the one feature that is actually completely and utterly useless and made an issue about it.

I think other replies, and a quick Google search, would prove you wrong about whether or not it is useless - however, it may be useless to you.

That said, you pointed out that it is in the snapshots, so anybody who wants it can get it from those - but to the average user 'The GIMP' is the current stable offering.

P.S. If I had to pick anything out of The GIMP that I find lacking, it would be the transform tools rather than bit depth issues - but that's getting addressed in a future version and I happily use The GIMP in favor of e.g. Photoshop most of the time.

And of course, there's the problem that actually trying to get to know the woman, no matter how superficially, gives a worse reaction than other approaches.

http://i.imgur.com/jk4xT.jpg

i would not trust most of the internet, especially facebook, myspace, twitter, and google & yahoo

I opened it in Paint, and there was no right-click copy

http://i.imgur.com/mtebr.png

If you want to lie successfully about problems with Windows use the usual slashdot way of doing it. Here are few examples.

I was doing X and it did not work.

I cant get X to work at all.

I tried to do X but it kept on bluescreening.

X is too slow.

X is too buggy.

Whatever you do, *DO NOT* give people ways to reproduce the problem, or they will find out that you are lying.

http://i.imgur.com/M3G7f.png The math there is a little old, and SSD prices have come down some.

Wow... Just wow...

http://i.imgur.com/M3G7f.png The math there is a little old, and SSD prices have come down some.

Well, you are quite right in that Apple's claims don't have enough merits when it comes to the "screens with black borders around them" produced by most of the manufacturers they are suing.

But Samsung... Samsung is in a different league. They, and onlythey, are blatantly copying Apple in many aspects of their products. Look for example at these pictures. That's much more than a "screen with a black borders around them". It's the exact shape and almost exact size of the AC adapter (though not the color), the packaging, the cables, the shape, size and plugging mechanism of the proprietary connector at the non-USB end of that cable, some of the apps that come with the system.

Again: when it comes to LG, Motorola, and HTC it is pretty much all about Apple claiming to own the design of a "screen with a black borders around them". When it comes to Samsung, there's much more than that.

Newt. He'd be the best US President that China ever had.

http://imgur.com/dNSXS ;)

Oh boy, you want too much :)
It seems the water is mixed until you look closer, this explains why one hand is hot and the other cold: http://i.imgur.com/UBbU9.jpg

When you realise that in the 1700's (very) rich Brits were after the fall of the Roman empire the first in over a 1000 years to build a system with piped water.
Now we're nearly 300 years on and they are the last to have proper mixing taps :)

Here is a pretty good video of how he has gained ground.

So what you are saying, OCG, is that attempting to avoid a licencing fee by using a similar but different piece of "intellectual property" should be illegal?

Like I said, if there existed examples of common red London bus/b&w Big Ben artwork before 2006, then that would constitute prior art, and the plaintiff shouldn't have won. However, TFA says that the defendant could not provide dates for the examples he offered.

Apple Computer agrees with you. As you know, they own flat glassy tablets with rounded corners. Don't try to avoid patent licencing by making similar but different tablets...

Apple isn't suing over glassy tablets with rounded corners. It's the overall combination of similar design elements that obviously came from Jonathan Ive's design studio which no tablets or smartphones looked like previously: the exact same black border with the same spacing, the same chrome back with just enough peeking over the sides to frame the black front, the same hardware dimensions, the same earpiece slit, the same software icon grid with in many cases the exact same icons...I mean, come on. That entire combination of so many visual and behavioral similarities is clearly a design copy.

Take a look at these iOS devices and you can all the industrial design elements that the copies incorporate to resemble the originals as closely as possible. It's not just simple variations but complete recreations, without having done the design work that Apple had to go through to come up with them (Jobs probably had a whip). There weren't smartphones or tablets that looked like those devices before Apple put those designs out on the market.

And by the way, the previous link is a trick. Those are Toshiba devices, not iOS devices. You literally can't tell the difference from the picture. That's how much of a clone they are. So I don't blame Apple at all for going after competitors who just repackage their work, especially because, as has been mentioned before around here, if the knock-offs are poorly made or faulty in some way, it can actually damage Apple's brand because the devices are intentionally made to look so similar.

Haw-haw, get it, because Apple sues everybody for nothing, right?

This is totally not a rip-off!

Neither is this!

Or this!

Yep, Apple totally has no right to be suing anybody for stealing their design work.

Haw-haw, get it, because Apple sues everybody for nothing, right?

This is totally not a rip-off!

Neither is this!

Or this!

Yep, Apple totally has no right to be suing anybody for stealing their design work.

Haw-haw, get it, because Apple sues everybody for nothing, right?

This is totally not a rip-off!

Neither is this!

Or this!

Yep, Apple totally has no right to be suing anybody for stealing their design work.

"I have no reason to think the 60 watt-replacement LEDs would be any different."

3w of heat from a 6w LED bulb isn't going to do much trapped in a small area.

http://i.imgur.com/IgTLH.png

There's a design meant for enclosed locations.

i saw this on TFA: http://imgur.com/8zkSC (so much general shittiness)

I've done a quick sketch of this object using MS Paint:

https://imgur.com/Y0npI

Seems a bit dodgy to punish websites for hosting banner ads when your company takes out banner ads. It's entirely possible they are filtering based upon the source of ads as well and placing their 'paying' ad customers higher than sites which utilize competing services...

Couldn't find any pictures of the aliens, but I did locate schematics of the exploration vehicle: http://i.imgur.com/gER2w.jpg

That site is completely covered in ads !

imgur.com/A026P

Here's a start. As far as I know, donating to the EFF also helps people fight the lawsuits.

Over movies & music.

Check this out...

http://imgur.com/pPDak

It's not enough to kill them (the world would be a much better place w/o the riaa & mpaa), but it might roll some heads, the kind that need rolling.

I'll be able to show my all in one toilet!!! http://i.imgur.com/fdJDV.jpg See you there! :D

Well said AC! It reminds me of this grid of "How programming fanboys see each other"; Visual Studio deserves it's own column, each picture that of a tinka-toy.

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Okay, regardless of how Apple prettified the design that originally came to OS X via Konfabulator - this is being overlaid on a window. Here's a novel idea - if you want to know what the weather is like, instead of looking at a weather widget... LOOK OUT THE DAMN WINDOW!

I remember Konfabulator, I tried it once. I then tried Dashboard after Apple introduced it. Then I noticed that Yahoo! bought out Konfabulator in an attempt to bring the concept to Windows, and now Windows 7 has widgets. Bottom line... they're pretty, but all basically useless. I'd load up one or two, look at them for a few minutes... then never look at them again.

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Okay, regardless of how Apple prettified the design that originally came to OS X via Konfabulator - this is being overlaid on a window. Here's a novel idea - if you want to know what the weather is like, instead of looking at a weather widget... LOOK OUT THE DAMN WINDOW!

I remember Konfabulator, I tried it once. I then tried Dashboard after Apple introduced it. Then I noticed that Yahoo! bought out Konfabulator in an attempt to bring the concept to Windows, and now Windows 7 has widgets. Bottom line... they're pretty, but all basically useless. I'd load up one or two, look at them for a few minutes... then never look at them again.

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Never change, Samsung.

The Apple Weather app looks like the weather presentation has looked when PRINTED in different Swedish NEWSPAPERS from cirka 1980 (ever since Swedish newspapers started to be printed in colour). Similar weather presentations was used by Swedish Television when it was still broadcasted in monochrome; Sweden switched to colour TV broadcasts in 1970. I'm not claiming it is a Swedish invention, this kind of weather display may have been used and invented in some other country/-ies decades before it become common in Swedish media. I'm just pointing out that there is a much larger and diverse world outside the boarders of the country you live in.

Just because some "innovation" is brought to the publics attention by some company in USA, that doesn't mean that company invited it. Most (all?) US companies are copycats by nature (and Apple in particular is a pure copyist), usually decades behind how stuff is done in other countries (and usually the US consumer has less to choose from when it comes to different gadgets doing the same thing, differently, US companies like to standardise on one way for a consumer product to work, to avoid that their consumer will get confused (like early automobiles steered by reins), while most companies operatinh outside USA take for granted that their consumers are intelligent enough to understand that different products might achieve the same end result, even if they need to be handled/interpreted differently). Unlike companies in other countries, US companies like to imply that they invented the things they market, even when they didn't. Because the US population like to live in isolation from the (scary/insignificant/...) world outside USA (when was the last time you visited a foreign website? one that was not in English?), US companies can get away with this kind of shenanigans without getting caught.

The window itself is seriously awesome. But the weather app is a direct rip-off of OS X's weather widget. There's seriously no other way to design a weather app but how Apple did in 2005?

Never change, Samsung.

The Apple Weather app looks like the weather presentation has looked when PRINTED in different Swedish NEWSPAPERS from cirka 1980 (ever since Swedish newspapers started to be printed in colour). Similar weather presentations was used by Swedish Television when it was still broadcasted in monochrome; Sweden switched to colour TV broadcasts in 1970. I'm not claiming it is a Swedish invention, this kind of weather display may have been used and invented in some other country/-ies decades before it become common in Swedish media. I'm just pointing out that there is a much larger and diverse world outside the boarders of the country you live in.

Just because some "innovation" is brought to the publics attention by some company in USA, that doesn't mean that company invited it. Most (all?) US companies are copycats by nature (and Apple in particular is a pure copyist), usually decades behind how stuff is done in other countries (and usually the US consumer has less to choose from when it comes to different gadgets doing the same thing, differently, US companies like to standardise on one way for a consumer product to work, to avoid that their consumer will get confused (like early automobiles steered by reins), while most companies operatinh outside USA take for granted that their consumers are intelligent enough to understand that different products might achieve the same end result, even if they need to be handled/interpreted differently). Unlike companies in other countries, US companies like to imply that they invented the things they market, even when they didn't. Because the US population like to live in isolation from the (scary/insignificant/...) world outside USA (when was the last time you visited a foreign website? one that was not in English?), US companies can get away with this kind of shenanigans without getting caught.