Yeah, I can't imagine having 3 of these... 1 takes up a good amount of desk real estate as it is, I got my Dell 3008 refurbished for about $1200 I think a year and a half ago with full warranty, etc.
Vector fonts (and graphics) as used in publishing are rendered using the software's own rendering pipeline independent of the OS, complete with its own anti-aliasing.
As a result, these applications don't suffer from the same issues as text rendered elsewhere in the operating system using GDI or GDI+.
1) On windows (not sure about other OS's), both monitors share the same cleartype configuration. Consequently, all monitors would have to be portrait whereas the most frequent configuration I see where I work (aside from dual landscape) is a one landscape and one portrait.
2) While you can configure cleartype to work with portrait monitors, it doesn't work as well for most cleartype tuned fonts. Portrait monitors with cleartype provide greater y-resolution, where as the fonts were tuned for increased x-resolution.
Ideally you could buy monitors tuned for portrait display with rotated sub-pixels, or a new sub-pixel layout that provided equal improvements in portrait and landscape could be developed.
Or you can just buy a 30" 2560x1600 screen and marvel at all those tiny pixels
The problem I've always had with rotating a monitor 90 degrees is that you loose the ability to use cleartype since the sub-pixels are no longer stacked correctly. To some people this doesn't matter much, but when looking at code all day, the right font and proper smoothing makes a world of a difference.
Sounds like promising research, but I'm confused by why the cost of the microscope is prominently displayed in both the press release and TFS. Is $225,000 considered cheap or expensive for a microscope these days?
Or no specs at all. The last thing I want as an engineer is someone to come to me with their own solution they want me to implement.
Good software engineers enjoy solving tough problems. So present them with the problems you are trying to solve and let them come up with their own solutions
*No find-as-you-type - I didn't realize how much I used this in FF until it's not there
ctrl-f allows for inline "find-as-you-type" searching. Unless you are referring to something different. I actually like the way Chrome's inline search works better than firefox due to the way it marks off on the scrollbar where the instances appear.
To an extent yes... and the memory bloat may or may not be indicative of the final result, but 171 concurrent threads is an absurdly large number of threads given what the browser is actually doing, and given the added complexity of threaded code, that number scares me from the standpoint of stability.
Just as a quick sanity check, Firefox currently only has 17 threads running. Opened up a few more tabs and it seemed to hover around 19. closed the tabs and it dropped back down to 17 after a little bit.
not true at all... i exclusively fly jetblue when at all possible for exactly those reasons. Often times it IS cheaper... but even when its not I fly it for the convenience of seats that actually have room from my legs, courteous staff and xm radio / direct tv on the flight. I don't think I'm alone in this either
In all fairness, he said create a single color gradient, implying we are only concerned with one channel, so the 64 shades of red, green, or blue is correct.
It aways makes me feel kinda bad for the Microsoft developers that worked for years on Vista... Truth is, its not horrible, just lackluster. But it still has to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled "The Most Disappointing Product of the Year"
I've repeatedly asked for a slider in the newsfeed to disable application "updates"... The best alternative I could find was a firefox plugin called Boost that can eliminate the ads and hide all applications. Combine that with BlockSite to block Beacon, and you should be good to go.
Ultimately I agree with you... I've been purchasing music legally for a number of years in CD, downloads and vinyl form for the harder to find things, and additionally, I subscribe to Rhapsody for the more mainstream music. There is no real reason to download music illegally.
That said, the issue is more to do with the quality of music. Its still quite common to have cd's with one good track and the rest of them being complete garbage. If thats the case, you are asking people to essentially buy the one song they want on cd for $15... now thats severely inflated. Considering, particularly, that i haven't heard anything on the radio that has compelled me to buy a cd in years.
Ultimately, I think the market should dictate the price of goods. Supply and demand and all that jazz. Except that there is no shortage of supply in the digital age, and therefore there is no material value. If a cd is good, I'll buy it. Plain and simple. If its not, then I won't. But to me what the market seems to be saying is two things.
1) The music we are downloading has no real value and it isn't worth paying for.... but there is still some demand, so we'll just steal it. The real solution would be to give people a compelling reason to pay.
2) We want lots of music, and different music, from different albums.... if you added up the number of albums you'd have to buy it would be several hundred dollars. That is outside of the impulse buy range now.
The music industry needs to collapse on itself (including clear channel and mtv) and then perhaps we can get a fresh start and some new talent
This is of course assuming that you are able to find the book in-store. The last 9 books I bought from amazon were either by-order only or out of print.
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Yeah, I can't imagine having 3 of these... 1 takes up a good amount of desk real estate as it is, I got my Dell 3008 refurbished for about $1200 I think a year and a half ago with full warranty, etc.
I assume he was referring to the 30" lcd's that run at 2560x1600 resolution... which are awesome for the record
...and if you read the specs from the manufacturers website, they also list 285, 300 and 345 in various places
Vector fonts (and graphics) as used in publishing are rendered using the software's own rendering pipeline independent of the OS, complete with its own anti-aliasing.
As a result, these applications don't suffer from the same issues as text rendered elsewhere in the operating system using GDI or GDI+.
It works relatively well except for two points:
1) On windows (not sure about other OS's), both monitors share the same cleartype configuration. Consequently, all monitors would have to be portrait whereas the most frequent configuration I see where I work (aside from dual landscape) is a one landscape and one portrait.
2) While you can configure cleartype to work with portrait monitors, it doesn't work as well for most cleartype tuned fonts. Portrait monitors with cleartype provide greater y-resolution, where as the fonts were tuned for increased x-resolution.
Ideally you could buy monitors tuned for portrait display with rotated sub-pixels, or a new sub-pixel layout that provided equal improvements in portrait and landscape could be developed.
Or you can just buy a 30" 2560x1600 screen and marvel at all those tiny pixels
The problem I've always had with rotating a monitor 90 degrees is that you loose the ability to use cleartype since the sub-pixels are no longer stacked correctly. To some people this doesn't matter much, but when looking at code all day, the right font and proper smoothing makes a world of a difference.
Sounds like promising research, but I'm confused by why the cost of the microscope is prominently displayed in both the press release and TFS. Is $225,000 considered cheap or expensive for a microscope these days?
Just don't attempt to use anything with AJAX
Or no specs at all. The last thing I want as an engineer is someone to come to me with their own solution they want me to implement.
Good software engineers enjoy solving tough problems. So present them with the problems you are trying to solve and let them come up with their own solutions
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With your right hand on the wall you'd keep walking in a circle... with your left hand on the wall you'd find the exit
Except they didn't... Vista drivers work fine in the alpha, and that isn't expected to change
*No find-as-you-type - I didn't realize how much I used this in FF until it's not there
ctrl-f allows for inline "find-as-you-type" searching. Unless you are referring to something different. I actually like the way Chrome's inline search works better than firefox due to the way it marks off on the scrollbar where the instances appear.
To an extent yes... and the memory bloat may or may not be indicative of the final result, but 171 concurrent threads is an absurdly large number of threads given what the browser is actually doing, and given the added complexity of threaded code, that number scares me from the standpoint of stability. Just as a quick sanity check, Firefox currently only has 17 threads running. Opened up a few more tabs and it seemed to hover around 19. closed the tabs and it dropped back down to 17 after a little bit.
not true at all... i exclusively fly jetblue when at all possible for exactly those reasons. Often times it IS cheaper... but even when its not I fly it for the convenience of seats that actually have room from my legs, courteous staff and xm radio / direct tv on the flight. I don't think I'm alone in this either
My bad... the summary was already fixed when I originally read it
methinks you meant attorneys general. what is the point of /. having editors if they don't edit?
Perhaps because National Association of Attorneys General is the correct phrase http://www.naag.org/
In all fairness, he said create a single color gradient, implying we are only concerned with one channel, so the 64 shades of red, green, or blue is correct.
It aways makes me feel kinda bad for the Microsoft developers that worked for years on Vista... Truth is, its not horrible, just lackluster. But it still has to burn a little to have the reason you came to work for the past 5 years be labeled "The Most Disappointing Product of the Year"
I've repeatedly asked for a slider in the newsfeed to disable application "updates"... The best alternative I could find was a firefox plugin called Boost that can eliminate the ads and hide all applications. Combine that with BlockSite to block Beacon, and you should be good to go.
Ultimately I agree with you... I've been purchasing music legally for a number of years in CD, downloads and vinyl form for the harder to find things, and additionally, I subscribe to Rhapsody for the more mainstream music. There is no real reason to download music illegally. That said, the issue is more to do with the quality of music. Its still quite common to have cd's with one good track and the rest of them being complete garbage. If thats the case, you are asking people to essentially buy the one song they want on cd for $15... now thats severely inflated. Considering, particularly, that i haven't heard anything on the radio that has compelled me to buy a cd in years. Ultimately, I think the market should dictate the price of goods. Supply and demand and all that jazz. Except that there is no shortage of supply in the digital age, and therefore there is no material value. If a cd is good, I'll buy it. Plain and simple. If its not, then I won't. But to me what the market seems to be saying is two things. 1) The music we are downloading has no real value and it isn't worth paying for.... but there is still some demand, so we'll just steal it. The real solution would be to give people a compelling reason to pay. 2) We want lots of music, and different music, from different albums.... if you added up the number of albums you'd have to buy it would be several hundred dollars. That is outside of the impulse buy range now. The music industry needs to collapse on itself (including clear channel and mtv) and then perhaps we can get a fresh start and some new talent
This is of course assuming that you are able to find the book in-store. The last 9 books I bought from amazon were either by-order only or out of print.