I think it is time for the US to declare a state of war against climate change. That's the only way. If there can be armed military conflicts going on against other incorporeal foes like crime, drugs and terrorism, why not climate change... =-P
UHDTV 4K is 3840x2160 (Which really should be called 2160p, if we are to follow the name convention of HDTV) UHDTV 8K is 7680x4320
So a regular Display Port 1.4 port can indeed drive a 4K monitor. But, as you say, it can not drive higher resolutions today.
It would be possible to use the same method that IBM used for their T220 and T221 monitors though. There was no connector that could drive the 3840x2400 resolution in 2001, so they used up to four single link DVI-connectors, sending part of the screen on each connector. This, of course, needed special driver support. But the same thing could be done with Display Port. Use 4 of them to run a 7680x4320 display.
When it comes to desktop monitors, I've got the following impression: Most 21.5" are 1920x1080, about 102 PPI Most 22" are 1680x1050, about 90 PPI Most 23" are 1920x1080, about 96 PPI Most 24" are 1920x1200, about 94 PPI Most cheap 25" to 30" are 1920x1080, though some are 1920x1200, roughly between 74 and 88 PPI Most high end 27" are 2560x1440, about 109 PPI Most high end 30" are 2560x1600, about 101 PPI
So the sweet spots are 21.5", 27" and possibly 30"
That is why one should have a desk that can be adjusted between a stand up desk and a sit down desk. Personally I use my desk in stand up position maybe 10 - 30% of my desk bound working hours. I'm in IT administration and support, so a lot of my time is at my desk. Also, when I use it in stand up mode, I stand on a balance board. It's really great for avoiding back pain, it is good for my damaged knees and right ankle and it makes people baffled, which is something positive in itself. =) Another good thing about standing on a balance board is that you get tired quicker from standing so you don't stand too long in one stretch which might give you other kinds of problems, like plantar fasciitis.
The GPU's themselves probably could support those resolutions on a single monitor if the driver supported it, since they can handle the amount of pixels when spread out on several outputs and displayport supports it. When higher than 2560x1600 monitors becomes available, drivers will surely follow.
WQUXGA (3840×2400) computer monitors, which is a little higher than the 4K UHD resolution (3840 × 2160), has been around for quite a while. For instance the 204 PPI 22 inch IBM monitor T220/T221 from 2001.
Hopefully there will come high density monitors at a price point reachable by us mortals soon, since there seem to be a trend towards high density monitors in mainstream computing. Also, since WQUXGA (barely) fits into the specifications of Displayport, it won't be required to use quad single-link DVI or dual dual-link DVI to support the resolution at reasonable refresh rates any more. =)
A new industry standard would be one way to go, and probably the best. Another solution is to license the XJACK-design. It's a retractable RJ45-connector with a height of about 5mm. Much better solution than idiotic adapters.
Actually, the Apple design-patent regarding their ultrabook laptops is a drop shape, not a wedge shape, so Lenovo should be safe as long as they stick to the excellent Thinkpad tradition of sharp corners.
The weird thing about this is that they seem to have patented the act of looking for a certain pattern, not the method used or the technical implementation of how to look for it. Can you really patent an act?
Both the person who filed the patent and the person who let it pass should be put in jail for life for crimes against humanity... =P
I've found that the best way is to have several options and vary between them.
For instance, at my desktop, I've got a keyboard with a trackpoint, a mouse and a trackball. I have a chair adjusted for ergonomic sitting, a balance board, a height adjustable desk and the monitors are adjusted for a relaxed, upright neck position. I vary between which input device I use and I vary between sitting, standing and standing on the balance board.
On the other hand, at CERN the power used by their computing farm is probably a small trickle compared to what is being pumped into the components of the ring and its detectors.
Personally I think the tie is the most ridiculous piece of clothing that's still in fashion. It should have gone the way of the codpiece a long time ago.
Usually, installation of a trojan in Windows will trigger the UAC. It doesn't request a password like in OS X, but it does require user authorization. Unless, of course, if the loon has disabled UAC because he/she thinks it is inconvenient to be asked for permission before a program is allowed to do something administrative.
Generally, a user who would be at risk of trojans in Windows is also at risk while using OS X.
Taken from the Wikipedia article on UAC, the actions that require permission is:
Running an Application as an Administrator
Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
Installing and uninstalling applications
Installing device drivers
Installing ActiveX controls
Changing settings for Windows Firewall
Changing UAC settings
Configuring Windows Update
Adding or removing user accounts
Changing a user’s account type
Configuring Parental Controls
Running Task Scheduler
Restoring backed-up system files
Viewing or changing another user’s folders and files
Running Disk Defragmenter
On the other hand, online students might be working 10 hours a day while studying. I had much more free time when I was a full time student than I have being a full time employee.
I'm guessing you have your own personal office then. My workplace is in a large office-room shared with 5 other persons. If even one of them is on the phone or is having a conversation with anyone else, it gets hard to concentrate on anything complex. Especially since the volume at which people talk have a tendency to increase when more than one person is talking at the same time, for instance if several people is on the phone at the same time in the same room. If I need to concentrate, I put on a pair of in-ear headphones with non-vocal music and put on a pair of hunting hearing protectors on top. Even though the hearing protection has much better noise dampening than any closed headphone I've ever tried, I still need the music in order to mask out the sound of annoying conversations. Working in a shared, open landscape or cubicle landscape office makes it more or less impossible to be productive without a way of shutting out annoying noise and chatter.
I'm glad that I live in a country where it is illegal for the police, or other government organizations, to incite crime. Like, for instance, trying to get people to do illegal acts by acting like activists, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc. If you get arrested for a crime and it turns out that you were incited to the crime by the police, you can't be prosecuted.
Non-lethal weapon is a bad name for these kind of devices. It's a weapon that torture the victim instead of killing him or her, so they should be called "Torture weapons" instead. Much better description. Would make people less prone to use them unnecessarily.
The best thing about the 486 was that with a small forced air cooler, they could be overclocked by 100%. I ran my 25MHz 486SX at 50MHz. Performance was awesome when running the bus at 50MHz, but not all mainboards or graphics-cards could handle this. In a lot of situations, a SX at 50MHz could outperform a DX2 at 50MHz, simply because the bus ran at 50 instead of 25MHz, like it did with the DX2-chips, even though the SX lacked an FPU. FPUs didn't really become important to mainstream computing until 3D-games became popular.
But this seems more focused on finding the mechanism behind why growing up in a "dirty" environment leads to fewer allergies. Possibly, this could lead to a "cure" for those growing up in unhealthy environments, like having overprotective parents, living in a large city or for other reasons being unable to have a healthy childhood environment. Maybe it is possible to develop something like those yoghurts with bacteria that helps people with an unhealthy or too sterile diet keep a working digestive system but for people who need something to keep them from developing allergies instead.
I've got a certain lamp that burn through bulbs, no matter what kind, at about three - six per year. It is of the bathroom-mounted kind with a built in transformer for a lower-voltage shaver-outlet. My guess is that the built in transformer gives some kind of power spike back to the bulbs either at power on or power off... Really annoying.
The use of the word "War" has inflated in a very hilarious way, especially among retarded politicians. This isn't a war. This is a fight against climate change.
Just like there is no war on terror, only a fight against terrorism.
There's a big difference between a fight and a state of war.
Also, if a large part of the reason why the Ivy Bridge CPU runs hotter is the smaller area of the chip and the changed thermal interface materials, this means that while the new CPU chip might run hotter than the previous one, it doesn't put out more heat. The CPU is hotter but the heat sink is cooler since the energy can't be transferred from the chip to the heat sink fast enough. If this is the case, then Intel need to do something about the CPU package before going to higher frequencies. It also means that people needing the extra heat in their cold rooms would be disappointed since the heat output would be lower, not higher.;-)
There are ways to get glass to be non-reflective too. Personally, I've got matte screen protector films on my Ipad and Iphone instead. Makes the screens much, much more enjoyable. The biggest problem it that, since the diffusing layer is so far from the actual screen due to the thickness of the digitizer/glass in front of the screen, it gets a bit "sparkly" and fuzzy. A small price to pay to get a matte screen though... If there was a good smartphone or tablet on the market with a matte screen as standard, I would switch the same day it was released.
At work I got rid of my 27" Imac and switched to a HP desktop with two matte 21.5" IPS-screens instead, just to get rid of the horrible reflective screen. Looked into getting a 27" matte film to put on the screen first, but they where ridiculously expensive and the "sparkle"-effect is apparently really bad with those.
My first reaction reading the original post was the same. Boycott the OS. It's not very interesting in the first place and if the organizers are going to behave like sociopaths, they don't deserve to have anyone watch or take part in their event.
the man with a pistol on his hip is not the one you need to worry about.
Unless he is drunk, on drugs, mentally unstable, depressed, stupid, incompetent, criminal or angry. In any of those cases, the man with the pistol either on his hip or concealed upon his body or in a bag is definitively something that you need to worry about. Primarily because he has a pistol. The same person without a gun is not harmless but at least he has to stand very close to you in order to harm you and it is much harder for him to harm you in a lethal way or by accident.
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I think it is time for the US to declare a state of war against climate change. That's the only way.
If there can be armed military conflicts going on against other incorporeal foes like crime, drugs and terrorism, why not climate change... =-P
UHDTV 4K is 3840x2160 (Which really should be called 2160p, if we are to follow the name convention of HDTV)
UHDTV 8K is 7680x4320
So a regular Display Port 1.4 port can indeed drive a 4K monitor.
But, as you say, it can not drive higher resolutions today.
It would be possible to use the same method that IBM used for their T220 and T221 monitors though.
There was no connector that could drive the 3840x2400 resolution in 2001, so they used up to four single link DVI-connectors, sending part of the screen on each connector.
This, of course, needed special driver support. But the same thing could be done with Display Port.
Use 4 of them to run a 7680x4320 display.
When it comes to desktop monitors, I've got the following impression:
Most 21.5" are 1920x1080, about 102 PPI
Most 22" are 1680x1050, about 90 PPI
Most 23" are 1920x1080, about 96 PPI
Most 24" are 1920x1200, about 94 PPI
Most cheap 25" to 30" are 1920x1080, though some are 1920x1200, roughly between 74 and 88 PPI
Most high end 27" are 2560x1440, about 109 PPI
Most high end 30" are 2560x1600, about 101 PPI
So the sweet spots are 21.5", 27" and possibly 30"
That is why one should have a desk that can be adjusted between a stand up desk and a sit down desk.
Personally I use my desk in stand up position maybe 10 - 30% of my desk bound working hours. I'm in IT administration and support, so a lot of my time is at my desk.
Also, when I use it in stand up mode, I stand on a balance board. It's really great for avoiding back pain, it is good for my damaged knees and right ankle and it makes people baffled, which is something positive in itself. =)
Another good thing about standing on a balance board is that you get tired quicker from standing so you don't stand too long in one stretch which might give you other kinds of problems, like plantar fasciitis.
The GPU's themselves probably could support those resolutions on a single monitor if the driver supported it, since they can handle the amount of pixels when spread out on several outputs and displayport supports it.
When higher than 2560x1600 monitors becomes available, drivers will surely follow.
WQUXGA (3840×2400) computer monitors, which is a little higher than the 4K UHD resolution (3840 × 2160), has been around for quite a while.
For instance the 204 PPI 22 inch IBM monitor T220/T221 from 2001.
Hopefully there will come high density monitors at a price point reachable by us mortals soon, since there seem to be a trend towards high density monitors in mainstream computing.
Also, since WQUXGA (barely) fits into the specifications of Displayport, it won't be required to use quad single-link DVI or dual dual-link DVI to support the resolution at reasonable refresh rates any more. =)
A new industry standard would be one way to go, and probably the best.
Another solution is to license the XJACK-design.
It's a retractable RJ45-connector with a height of about 5mm.
Much better solution than idiotic adapters.
Actually, the Apple design-patent regarding their ultrabook laptops is a drop shape, not a wedge shape, so Lenovo should be safe as long as they stick to the excellent Thinkpad tradition of sharp corners.
The weird thing about this is that they seem to have patented the act of looking for a certain pattern, not the method used or the technical implementation of how to look for it.
Can you really patent an act?
Both the person who filed the patent and the person who let it pass should be put in jail for life for crimes against humanity... =P
I've found that the best way is to have several options and vary between them.
For instance, at my desktop, I've got a keyboard with a trackpoint, a mouse and a trackball.
I have a chair adjusted for ergonomic sitting, a balance board, a height adjustable desk and the monitors are adjusted for a relaxed, upright neck position.
I vary between which input device I use and I vary between sitting, standing and standing on the balance board.
On the other hand, at CERN the power used by their computing farm is probably a small trickle compared to what is being pumped into the components of the ring and its detectors.
Personally I think the tie is the most ridiculous piece of clothing that's still in fashion.
It should have gone the way of the codpiece a long time ago.
Usually, installation of a trojan in Windows will trigger the UAC. It doesn't request a password like in OS X, but it does require user authorization.
Unless, of course, if the loon has disabled UAC because he/she thinks it is inconvenient to be asked for permission before a program is allowed to do something administrative.
Generally, a user who would be at risk of trojans in Windows is also at risk while using OS X.
Taken from the Wikipedia article on UAC, the actions that require permission is:
Running an Application as an Administrator
Changes to system-wide settings or to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
Installing and uninstalling applications
Installing device drivers
Installing ActiveX controls
Changing settings for Windows Firewall
Changing UAC settings
Configuring Windows Update
Adding or removing user accounts
Changing a user’s account type
Configuring Parental Controls
Running Task Scheduler
Restoring backed-up system files
Viewing or changing another user’s folders and files
Running Disk Defragmenter
On the other hand, online students might be working 10 hours a day while studying.
I had much more free time when I was a full time student than I have being a full time employee.
I'm guessing you have your own personal office then.
My workplace is in a large office-room shared with 5 other persons.
If even one of them is on the phone or is having a conversation with anyone else, it gets hard to concentrate on anything complex.
Especially since the volume at which people talk have a tendency to increase when more than one person is talking at the same time, for instance if several people is on the phone at the same time in the same room.
If I need to concentrate, I put on a pair of in-ear headphones with non-vocal music and put on a pair of hunting hearing protectors on top. Even though the hearing protection has much better noise dampening than any closed headphone I've ever tried, I still need the music in order to mask out the sound of annoying conversations.
Working in a shared, open landscape or cubicle landscape office makes it more or less impossible to be productive without a way of shutting out annoying noise and chatter.
I'm glad that I live in a country where it is illegal for the police, or other government organizations, to incite crime.
Like, for instance, trying to get people to do illegal acts by acting like activists, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc.
If you get arrested for a crime and it turns out that you were incited to the crime by the police, you can't be prosecuted.
Non-lethal weapon is a bad name for these kind of devices.
It's a weapon that torture the victim instead of killing him or her, so they should be called "Torture weapons" instead.
Much better description.
Would make people less prone to use them unnecessarily.
The best thing about the 486 was that with a small forced air cooler, they could be overclocked by 100%.
I ran my 25MHz 486SX at 50MHz. Performance was awesome when running the bus at 50MHz, but not all mainboards or graphics-cards could handle this.
In a lot of situations, a SX at 50MHz could outperform a DX2 at 50MHz, simply because the bus ran at 50 instead of 25MHz, like it did with the DX2-chips, even though the SX lacked an FPU. FPUs didn't really become important to mainstream computing until 3D-games became popular.
But this seems more focused on finding the mechanism behind why growing up in a "dirty" environment leads to fewer allergies.
Possibly, this could lead to a "cure" for those growing up in unhealthy environments, like having overprotective parents, living in a large city or for other reasons being unable to have a healthy childhood environment.
Maybe it is possible to develop something like those yoghurts with bacteria that helps people with an unhealthy or too sterile diet keep a working digestive system but for people who need something to keep them from developing allergies instead.
I've got a certain lamp that burn through bulbs, no matter what kind, at about three - six per year. It is of the bathroom-mounted kind with a built in transformer for a lower-voltage shaver-outlet.
My guess is that the built in transformer gives some kind of power spike back to the bulbs either at power on or power off...
Really annoying.
The use of the word "War" has inflated in a very hilarious way, especially among retarded politicians.
This isn't a war.
This is a fight against climate change.
Just like there is no war on terror, only a fight against terrorism.
There's a big difference between a fight and a state of war.
Also, if a large part of the reason why the Ivy Bridge CPU runs hotter is the smaller area of the chip and the changed thermal interface materials, this means that while the new CPU chip might run hotter than the previous one, it doesn't put out more heat. ;-)
The CPU is hotter but the heat sink is cooler since the energy can't be transferred from the chip to the heat sink fast enough.
If this is the case, then Intel need to do something about the CPU package before going to higher frequencies.
It also means that people needing the extra heat in their cold rooms would be disappointed since the heat output would be lower, not higher.
There are ways to get glass to be non-reflective too.
Personally, I've got matte screen protector films on my Ipad and Iphone instead. Makes the screens much, much more enjoyable.
The biggest problem it that, since the diffusing layer is so far from the actual screen due to the thickness of the digitizer/glass in front of the screen, it gets a bit "sparkly" and fuzzy.
A small price to pay to get a matte screen though...
If there was a good smartphone or tablet on the market with a matte screen as standard, I would switch the same day it was released.
At work I got rid of my 27" Imac and switched to a HP desktop with two matte 21.5" IPS-screens instead, just to get rid of the horrible reflective screen.
Looked into getting a 27" matte film to put on the screen first, but they where ridiculously expensive and the "sparkle"-effect is apparently really bad with those.
My first reaction reading the original post was the same.
Boycott the OS.
It's not very interesting in the first place and if the organizers are going to behave like sociopaths, they don't deserve to have anyone watch or take part in their event.
the man with a pistol on his hip is not the one you need to worry about.
Unless he is drunk, on drugs, mentally unstable, depressed, stupid, incompetent, criminal or angry. In any of those cases, the man with the pistol either on his hip or concealed upon his body or in a bag is definitively something that you need to worry about. Primarily because he has a pistol.
The same person without a gun is not harmless but at least he has to stand very close to you in order to harm you and it is much harder for him to harm you in a lethal way or by accident.