To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
C is demonstrably false, as I'm about two feet away from the screen I'm using at this very moment. D is demonstrably false, as many sane people buy larger screens.
Existing 1080p quality can't be discerned as better by someone sitting 10 feet away on a couch looking at a 42" TV. Going past 1080p has no value whatsoever unless you're talking about insanely huge screens or impractically close viewing.
A: Existing 1080p quality can't be discerned as better by someone sitting 10 feet away on a couch looking at a 42" TV B: Going past 1080p has no value whatsoever unless you're talking about insanely huge screens or impractically close viewing
You're implying: C: 42" is insanely huge.
My answer is: C is demonstrably false, as I'm about two feet away from the screen I'm using at this very moment. D is demonstrably false, as many sane people buy larger screens.
I suggest you rethink your position replacing distance and size by field of vision. Your previous statement would turn into "an field of vision over n degrees is useless". To which I'd answer "Anything less than my entire FoV is not enough."
Can someone tell me why these financial institutions are never forced to compensate the *individuals* that suffer from these events?
Because in capitalism the power is in the money and financial institutions have more money than individuals. You could as well ask for an explanation on why kings were not forced to compensate peasants in feudalism.
The society where all individuals are equal doesn't exist. For as much as we know, it would have other inequalities and problems, but we cannot be sure because it doesn't exist and never has.
It's taking a while to teach editing to the dolphins with their new Minority Report-style interfaces.
Also, between the data caps and the slow GPU progress, there's almost no band left. And the NSA is using most of that to monitor Chancellor Merkel's mobile phone, which, coincidentally, is powered by a silicon supercapacitor.
How hard would it be to write a program to find vulnerable boxes and force a patch via the exploit?
Compared to what? It's significantly easier than testing all one by one to check if they are vulnerable.
It might be harder than transferring a small amount of money to the administrator in exchange for root access. In that scenario, the exploit would serve as an alibi for the admin to switch prison for just being fired, in case the entry was discovered; thus reducing the bribe amount.
They could plant their dicks in the ground, for as much as I care, as long as they did develop the technology necessary to reach the planet, land, do their business, lift off, come back, and land safely (waiting in orbit for another ship to recover them is ok too).
The flag is just a little prettier for the media. After all, you're going to do gold plaques to immortalize and commemorate the moment. I'm not sure many people would hang in their walls a golden plaque of an astronaut planting his dick in Mercury.
And we still haven't planted a flag in every planes in our solar system.
I find it sad that humanity stopped expanding as soon as it became a bit hard. And I don't think it's relatively harder now for us to expand than it was a thousand years ago.
I'd agree with you but for one reason. There are two kinds of buyers for electronic devices: A - Those who don't know better. B - Those who do.
Group A could buy with no more information that the labels on the box but they wouldn't be able to differentiate between the "Official" USB Compliant label and a different but similar one.
Group B could see the icon is not the official one, but they would probably know about a piece of hardware that destroys USB ports without needing the "Official" USB Compliant label.
Somehow, you survive being disconnected and it really is a refreshing change to "pushback"
I get disconnected when I'm scuba diving. I'd be ready to pay quite a sum to not be disconnected one of the few moments in my life where being stuck for half an hour could kill me.
I'd rather be physically connected at all times. I can use my own brain to disconnect if I want/need to.
Download the USB-IF Trademark License Agreement and Usage Guidelines for the USB-IF Logo. The license agreement must be signed to access Logo artwork and obtain the right to use the Logo with products that pass USB-IF compliance testing.
The agreement necessary for gaining access to the graphics approved for linking to the usb.org web site are also available.
"Minding about" does not equal "imposing one's view".
I don't like to live in a world where some people would post beheadings on their facebook for any but a very few reasons. However, I don't believe myself to be the judge of decency with the right to tell other people what they should or shouldn't share with their (and that's the key word) friends.
Newsflash: big corps, health care providers, governments... have 1 competent and responsible employee for 100 hacks in their employ.
At first I was scared of being one of the hacks. Then I was scared I might be the one competent employee. Then I understood that was just an estimation and that the real ratio in a specific corporation could be +-1/100.
For politics there's the alternative: "If a conclusion depends on the politician being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the politician already took into account and dismissed in favor of another one that includes more cash in his pocket."
One lesson I learned from the game of Go: "If a conclusion depends on the experts being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the experts already took into account and dismissed as part of their reasoning."
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If the width of my screen is 1.5 meters
If you could have a cheap screen as big and resistant as your wall (a wall that projects an image). How much resolution would you want on that screen?
Now consider that what's expensive for you might be cheap for someone else.
To make full use of that resolution ("Retina" quality, i.e. indistinguishable pixels) at a viewing distance of 10ft you'd need a screen 150" screen. That's 8ft wide 4ft6in tall.
Still much smaller than an average wall.
I am lost, what was D again?
(fricking greater-than/less-than signs interpreted as markups...)
...wtf...
Oh, ffs! I get it now.
C:.[UNDER]10 feet is impractically close
D: [OVER]42" is insanely huge.
I meant
C: 42" is insanely huge.
C is demonstrably false, as I'm about two feet away from the screen I'm using at this very moment.
D is demonstrably false, as many sane people buy larger screens.
Existing 1080p quality can't be discerned as better by someone sitting 10 feet away on a couch looking at a 42" TV. Going past 1080p has no value whatsoever unless you're talking about insanely huge screens or impractically close viewing.
A: Existing 1080p quality can't be discerned as better by someone sitting 10 feet away on a couch looking at a 42" TV
B: Going past 1080p has no value whatsoever unless you're talking about insanely huge screens or impractically close viewing
You're implying:
C: 42" is insanely huge.
My answer is:
C is demonstrably false, as I'm about two feet away from the screen I'm using at this very moment.
D is demonstrably false, as many sane people buy larger screens.
I suggest you rethink your position replacing distance and size by field of vision. Your previous statement would turn into "an field of vision over n degrees is useless". To which I'd answer "Anything less than my entire FoV is not enough."
Can someone tell me why these financial institutions are never forced to compensate the *individuals* that suffer from these events?
Because in capitalism the power is in the money and financial institutions have more money than individuals. You could as well ask for an explanation on why kings were not forced to compensate peasants in feudalism.
The society where all individuals are equal doesn't exist. For as much as we know, it would have other inequalities and problems, but we cannot be sure because it doesn't exist and never has.
Yeah. You laugh now, but one day they'll manage to reduce the interval to minus 6.5h and publish the dup hours before the fact has even happened.
(btw: That's what we need from Minority Report; not the HUD)
Be a little patient.
It's taking a while to teach editing to the dolphins with their new Minority Report-style interfaces.
Also, between the data caps and the slow GPU progress, there's almost no band left. And the NSA is using most of that to monitor Chancellor Merkel's mobile phone, which, coincidentally, is powered by a silicon supercapacitor.
Dwarf fortress in an Evil area where everything keeps reanimating is harder.
Nonsense. Unless you self-impose a challenge that reduces your starting inventory, FUN can be averted for decades.
If the Evil area is over a glacier and you didn't embark an anvil, on the other hand ...
How hard would it be to write a program to find vulnerable boxes and force a patch via the exploit?
Compared to what? It's significantly easier than testing all one by one to check if they are vulnerable.
It might be harder than transferring a small amount of money to the administrator in exchange for root access. In that scenario, the exploit would serve as an alibi for the admin to switch prison for just being fired, in case the entry was discovered; thus reducing the bribe amount.
His tiny, weak, god moved his post to fist position.
I'm yet to see a mightier display by any of the "official" gods.
The only coherent position is to immediately adopt godlikeobserverism as the one true religion.
what's so great about planting flags?
They could plant their dicks in the ground, for as much as I care, as long as they did develop the technology necessary to reach the planet, land, do their business, lift off, come back, and land safely (waiting in orbit for another ship to recover them is ok too).
The flag is just a little prettier for the media. After all, you're going to do gold plaques to immortalize and commemorate the moment. I'm not sure many people would hang in their walls a golden plaque of an astronaut planting his dick in Mercury.
And we still haven't planted a flag in every planes in our solar system.
I find it sad that humanity stopped expanding as soon as it became a bit hard. And I don't think it's relatively harder now for us to expand than it was a thousand years ago.
I'd agree with you but for one reason. There are two kinds of buyers for electronic devices:
A - Those who don't know better.
B - Those who do.
Group A could buy with no more information that the labels on the box but they wouldn't be able to differentiate between the "Official" USB Compliant label and a different but similar one.
Group B could see the icon is not the official one, but they would probably know about a piece of hardware that destroys USB ports without needing the "Official" USB Compliant label.
Somehow, you survive being disconnected and it really is a refreshing change to "pushback"
I get disconnected when I'm scuba diving. I'd be ready to pay quite a sum to not be disconnected one of the few moments in my life where being stuck for half an hour could kill me.
I'd rather be physically connected at all times. I can use my own brain to disconnect if I want/need to.
Replying to myself, in case someone else is interested, it's just about the logo:
Start using the USB Logo Now!
Download the USB-IF Trademark License Agreement and Usage Guidelines for the USB-IF Logo. The license agreement must be signed to access Logo artwork and obtain the right to use the Logo with products that pass USB-IF compliance testing.
The agreement necessary for gaining access to the graphics approved for linking to the usb.org web site are also available.
What does it imply not being certified as USB compliant?
If you have USB and people use it and it works and reviewers use it and just say "it has USB"...
What I mean is: Is it forbidden by law to say "It's got USB" if it's not certified as USB compliant?
"19th-century English textile artisans" "identified with: the desire to resist constant connectivity and step back from the online world."?
I can't but praise their forward thinking and foretelling skill.
"Minding about" does not equal "imposing one's view".
I don't like to live in a world where some people would post beheadings on their facebook for any but a very few reasons. However, I don't believe myself to be the judge of decency with the right to tell other people what they should or shouldn't share with their (and that's the key word) friends.
I wouldn't mind. I don't have friends who'd do such thing.
If you have many friends who would like to post rape videos and snuff films maybe it's your problem and not everybody else's.
Newsflash: big corps, health care providers, governments... have 1 competent and responsible employee for 100 hacks in their employ.
At first I was scared of being one of the hacks. Then I was scared I might be the one competent employee. Then I understood that was just an estimation and that the real ratio in a specific corporation could be +-1/100.
"Some" covers from "one" to "all".
For politics there's the alternative:
"If a conclusion depends on the politician being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the politician already took into account and dismissed in favor of another one that includes more cash in his pocket."
Are these people dim-witted?
One lesson I learned from the game of Go: "If a conclusion depends on the experts being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the experts already took into account and dismissed as part of their reasoning."
This applies to a lot of fields of science.