Technically, signal noise, ghosting, all sorts of weird artifacts, and 60Hz hum happen on the digital lines, too. Good thing they just don't matter, as the 0s and 1s are still distinguishable.:-)
I agree. Over 10 years ago I was running 2048x1536 on a high quality CRT, and that cost only $300.
The T221s were cheaper before, but they've become more sought out and so the prices have been flying back up. But hey, they did debut for $18,000, and then dropped down to about $8,000, so that's still a steal!:-P
I'll never understand the fear of height in resolutions. They keep increasing the horizontal, but also actively _decrease_ the vertical resolutions (I'm running 3840x2400 per display). It'll get to the point where we're going to have 10,000*16 displays soon.:-P
I've been able to score a couple of IBM T221 monitors. 3840x2400 in 22", which comes out to 204dpi iirc. It takes some funky finagling and specific video cards to get it all set up, but if you can get it to work, it's really rewarding.
It's the only piece of computing hardware I've come across where the phrase "They don't make them like this anymore" actually applies.
However, what we truly need is an adoption of a dirty-rectangle update display interface, and hardware scaling on the display itself (so it can run upscaled video overlays without pushing full res at full framerate). However, with full-screen animations of tablet interfaces becoming the norm, instead of desktop-like 2d windows with only partial changes per refresh, that might not mitigate much anymore.
Cat's out of the bag. Pandora's box has been opened.
You think you can limit your child's access to the internet? They'll get around anything you set up, anything your school sets up, or just go over to their friend's house where they've already gotten around it or weren't restricted in the first place.
Kids are vehement explorers, and if there's a place to explore they will do so. The only way to prevent them from doing so is to get their interests legitimately focused on exploring something else. (or drug/brainwash them)
This is just plain part of the discovery of what works & what doesn't work socially that people have to go through in order to grow up. And I say "people", not "children", as many adult-aged people still haven't shown any signs of social maturity.:-P
And exactly how do you find someone with passion in software? That would be the one who has his own personal side-projects going, projects outside of work that he can showcase. It's not that those projects have to be perfectly executed, but if they've shown personal improvement and a willingness to learn about various software techniques in order to pursue their interests, then they've shown their passion.
And funny enough, that sounds awfully close to TFS.
I got a great "in" talking about my Commodore 64 programming, with understanding of assembly-level operating system requirements. I had nothing to actually showcase, but having actually written something I could talk about concrete understanding and examples while making it clear that I'm not BSing.
So as long as your understanding can be showcased, there's not necessarily a hard requirement to be able to actually put the software in somebody's hands, as many of TFS's examples lead.
I might be naive, but isn't by getting a job you get the experience?
Yes, that's naive. If somebody isn't exploring programming on their own time, well before college graduation, then they don't have the interest in the field to maintain their skills and follow the industry. There are no barriers to creating your own experience in software.
Now, there's a fair amount of work in the industry that allows "cogs in the machine" to just do their thing and the company gets by. But in many cases, the software people need to be their own researchers, analysts, and engineers. This does require a strong interest and drive in a person that very clearly manifests in what they do outside of work.
I always bring up the car-related analogy of a mechanic who's been tinkering under the hood of a car since he's been 13, or somebody who decided to take automotive classes purely because it seemed like a stable career choice, and still doesn't do any mechanic work outside of his employment. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the former will be far superior at what he does.
What disappoints me is the 16:9 displays instead of 16:10. I don't follow Macs often, but last time I checked (might have missed a version or two), they had the taller displays while most PC equipment was already short-screen.
The war against monitor height is appalling. If they want to add width, fine. But they're changing the aspect ratio solely by removing vertical pixels.
"Have" does not sound like "of", even when unstressed. What is being confused is "would've" vs "would of", the former obviously being a contraction of "would have".
There is a big lack of real work place based class work.
Historically, university is/was supposed to be about academia, research, and all the stuff that is ahead of the curve and not in industry yet, and the fundamentals that industry is based on but doesn't directly deal with. Trade school, apprenticeships, colleges, and the like were about the real-world training of the work force.
Nowadays, the common jobs are requiring university degrees, even though what the workers are called to do has nothing to do with "University" focus. Is that a problem of the university itself, or a problem of misapplied expectations of university degrees and a diminishing opinion of trade schools?
The full Transformer setup has a keyboard and a touchpad, as well as USB for plugging in whatever you want. I doubt they'll sell many lone tablets without the dock; having seen the UK prices, I'd guesstimate about 75 USD more for the keyboard attachment bundle.
For portable use, you'll probably just be browsing docs or taking quick notes, so it's not that big of a deal.
Sure, she figured out *one* device. When you've got half a dozen of them around, and all the apps inside them have different input methods, it becomes frustrating and annoying even if you can successfully navigate them.
The only real sensible non-intrusive human power generation I've seen was based on catching your knee joint as it extended to take the next step.
Normally when you extend your leg out, your muscles "catch" your lower leg so you don't snap it out against the joint's limit. By having a device hinged on your knee to slow your shin down instead, you do only half of that cycle of work, and also generate some electrical power at the same time.
Oh, right. When we had one of those (I think it was a G5), we always said "That sure is a nice case", as it absolutely genuinely was, but also in contrast that nothing else worked on the box.;-)
Re: the iPhone sales, are you saying that a large number of people _didn't_ swarm to it because it was now fashionable to own an iPhone? I know a number of people who swarmed out to buy one, only to get rid of it some months later for some combination of cost reduction and better features elsewhere.
Actually, something similar is happening with the pricing of the iPad. They locked in prices and large item quantities before the prices started going up, and now everybody wanting to compete simply can't source components for as cheaply as Apple did.
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Or, from what I recall from an older hullabaloo from Thailand:
"Bhumibol Adulyadej has a foot for a face"
I don't know, he could be a great guy. But this weird cult mentality situation deserves to be mocked.
Technically, signal noise, ghosting, all sorts of weird artifacts, and 60Hz hum happen on the digital lines, too. Good thing they just don't matter, as the 0s and 1s are still distinguishable. :-)
I agree. Over 10 years ago I was running 2048x1536 on a high quality CRT, and that cost only $300.
The T221s were cheaper before, but they've become more sought out and so the prices have been flying back up. But hey, they did debut for $18,000, and then dropped down to about $8,000, so that's still a steal! :-P
I'll never understand the fear of height in resolutions. They keep increasing the horizontal, but also actively _decrease_ the vertical resolutions (I'm running 3840x2400 per display). It'll get to the point where we're going to have 10,000*16 displays soon. :-P
I've been able to score a couple of IBM T221 monitors. 3840x2400 in 22", which comes out to 204dpi iirc. It takes some funky finagling and specific video cards to get it all set up, but if you can get it to work, it's really rewarding.
It's the only piece of computing hardware I've come across where the phrase "They don't make them like this anymore" actually applies.
However, what we truly need is an adoption of a dirty-rectangle update display interface, and hardware scaling on the display itself (so it can run upscaled video overlays without pushing full res at full framerate). However, with full-screen animations of tablet interfaces becoming the norm, instead of desktop-like 2d windows with only partial changes per refresh, that might not mitigate much anymore.
Cat's out of the bag. Pandora's box has been opened.
You think you can limit your child's access to the internet? They'll get around anything you set up, anything your school sets up, or just go over to their friend's house where they've already gotten around it or weren't restricted in the first place.
Kids are vehement explorers, and if there's a place to explore they will do so. The only way to prevent them from doing so is to get their interests legitimately focused on exploring something else. (or drug/brainwash them)
"Serious threats"! :rolleyes:
This is just plain part of the discovery of what works & what doesn't work socially that people have to go through in order to grow up. And I say "people", not "children", as many adult-aged people still haven't shown any signs of social maturity. :-P
Isn't throttling a better solution than capping?
And exactly how do you find someone with passion in software? That would be the one who has his own personal side-projects going, projects outside of work that he can showcase. It's not that those projects have to be perfectly executed, but if they've shown personal improvement and a willingness to learn about various software techniques in order to pursue their interests, then they've shown their passion.
And funny enough, that sounds awfully close to TFS.
I got a great "in" talking about my Commodore 64 programming, with understanding of assembly-level operating system requirements. I had nothing to actually showcase, but having actually written something I could talk about concrete understanding and examples while making it clear that I'm not BSing.
So as long as your understanding can be showcased, there's not necessarily a hard requirement to be able to actually put the software in somebody's hands, as many of TFS's examples lead.
I might be naive, but isn't by getting a job you get the experience?
Yes, that's naive. If somebody isn't exploring programming on their own time, well before college graduation, then they don't have the interest in the field to maintain their skills and follow the industry. There are no barriers to creating your own experience in software.
Now, there's a fair amount of work in the industry that allows "cogs in the machine" to just do their thing and the company gets by. But in many cases, the software people need to be their own researchers, analysts, and engineers. This does require a strong interest and drive in a person that very clearly manifests in what they do outside of work.
I always bring up the car-related analogy of a mechanic who's been tinkering under the hood of a car since he's been 13, or somebody who decided to take automotive classes purely because it seemed like a stable career choice, and still doesn't do any mechanic work outside of his employment. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the former will be far superior at what he does.
They say cheaper, but do they list the price anywhere? I didn't see it in TFA nor on Aeryon's website, just "Request a Quote".
The year of Linux on the desktop must first come to pass.
What disappoints me is the 16:9 displays instead of 16:10. I don't follow Macs often, but last time I checked (might have missed a version or two), they had the taller displays while most PC equipment was already short-screen.
The war against monitor height is appalling. If they want to add width, fine. But they're changing the aspect ratio solely by removing vertical pixels.
"Have" does not sound like "of", even when unstressed. What is being confused is "would've" vs "would of", the former obviously being a contraction of "would have".
There is a big lack of real work place based class work.
Historically, university is/was supposed to be about academia, research, and all the stuff that is ahead of the curve and not in industry yet, and the fundamentals that industry is based on but doesn't directly deal with. Trade school, apprenticeships, colleges, and the like were about the real-world training of the work force.
Nowadays, the common jobs are requiring university degrees, even though what the workers are called to do has nothing to do with "University" focus. Is that a problem of the university itself, or a problem of misapplied expectations of university degrees and a diminishing opinion of trade schools?
I'd guesstimate about 75 USD more for the keyboard attachment bundle.
RFTA, you retard. It's 150 USD. Sheesh, where do these people come from?
The full Transformer setup has a keyboard and a touchpad, as well as USB for plugging in whatever you want. I doubt they'll sell many lone tablets without the dock; having seen the UK prices, I'd guesstimate about 75 USD more for the keyboard attachment bundle.
For portable use, you'll probably just be browsing docs or taking quick notes, so it's not that big of a deal.
It was listed as $1.375 billion, but was actually only $0.975 billion after formatting.
Sure, she figured out *one* device. When you've got half a dozen of them around, and all the apps inside them have different input methods, it becomes frustrating and annoying even if you can successfully navigate them.
It should be "no longer _mated_ with her wireless..." but then I realize that's no less of an innuendo.
Hey, I bounce my leg all the time, you insensitive clod!
The only real sensible non-intrusive human power generation I've seen was based on catching your knee joint as it extended to take the next step.
Normally when you extend your leg out, your muscles "catch" your lower leg so you don't snap it out against the joint's limit. By having a device hinged on your knee to slow your shin down instead, you do only half of that cycle of work, and also generate some electrical power at the same time.
[The PowerMac case]
Oh, right. When we had one of those (I think it was a G5), we always said "That sure is a nice case", as it absolutely genuinely was, but also in contrast that nothing else worked on the box. ;-)
Re: the iPhone sales, are you saying that a large number of people _didn't_ swarm to it because it was now fashionable to own an iPhone? I know a number of people who swarmed out to buy one, only to get rid of it some months later for some combination of cost reduction and better features elsewhere.
Actually, something similar is happening with the pricing of the iPad. They locked in prices and large item quantities before the prices started going up, and now everybody wanting to compete simply can't source components for as cheaply as Apple did.