A4 is pretty typical for magazines. Although once they are bound and trimmed they are smaller than a sheet of A4 paper. A-format, B-format and C-format are all possible. The A format for mass market paperbacks is 110mm x 178mm which is quite a bit smaller than A4's 210mm x 297mm. But if you remember that a book binding would fold the paper in half and make an A4 into an A5 (148 mm x 210 mm) then the size makes a lot more sense. Quite a bit of trimming occurs as well, if you didn't have to trim at all a B6 would be 125 mm x 176 mm which is similar to the 110 mm x 178 mm size that I quoted above. (but I don't think anyone would like the results of a book that isn't trimmed)
80x28 is roughly A4 aspect ratio, assuming your font is 8x16. If you have a squarer font it works out differently. (9x16 would be ~80x32). Of course if you use a larger window then it might be 100x35 or 120x42. These all seem like reasonable terminals to me. at least in a landscape orientation.
If your screen is portrait and you fullscreen your terminal, well that's going to be more like 80x56 with my tall VGA font example. (I think) not a deal breaker and maybe nice for a shell window but not my preference for text editing.
A4 landscape is like two A5 portraits. I think that's what I'd like to see. Instead of 16:9 more like 13:9 (approximate, for easy comparison). There are some real advantages to being able to view two pages side-by-side. Either from the same document, like you would with a traditional book, or by having two pages from different documents visible at the same time. Which some of us might have done while studying college by laying one open book on top of another.
Now you have to ask why people read paper in portrait rather than landscape. Is it because it is easier on the eyes, or because it's easier to hold a physical book? If it's the latter then we probably don't need to apply the same constraints to modern equipment.
Every rotatable laptop screen I've dealt with totally freaking sucks. I'd rather have fewer hinges and other fiddly mechanisms. Trackpads do suck, but so does holding your arm in front of you for hours and trying to look at things while your hands are in the way.
Eventually we'll just wear some goggles and the clamshell form factor will die. We might have keyboards for quite some time but the need for a screen that folds on top of your keyboard might be nearing the end. Some people act like we're 5 years away from that, I'm less optimistic and I think it's closer to 20 years. But I do believe the demise of clamshells to be inevitable.
The problem is mostly solved - send people text and images, and they will send them back. In the past we did this with e-mail, IRC, FTP, and USENET.
So I just need to go on USENET to find my highschool and college classmates? My cousins' wives are likely to post pictures of my little cousins on IRC? hrmm somehow I think you missed the point.
Mine sits on my desk charging about 99% of the time. I usually don't realize how short the battery life has gotten until I that rare occasion when I need a laptop in a meeting. Replacing the battery made all the difference, and I'll see if in another year or two if the problem repeats itself.
So the proposal is: Nobody pays taxes anymore. But the government prints money to redistribute wealth to the poor?
That would theoretically hurt people with large savings accounts, like a middle class retirement account. A wealthy person would move assets out of currency that is under moderate inflation and into investments. That's not to say anyone with an IRA or 401K couldn't also move their retirement into investments as well.
It's especially handy if you owe credit card bills. You get to pay back with inflated dollars. Not that the inflation will be significant against the 22% APR you find with credit cards these days.
It should be possible to do analysis on changes that have occurred in cells over a short period of time and infer a future mode of failure. Don't ask me how specifically because I'm not a battery chemist.
I would like to see: * replaceable battery - even if a 3rd party has to carefully open the case for me. I don't replace my watch batteries myself either. * headphone jack - wired headphones tend to just work, are easy to borrow and easy to link up to other equipment. * industry standard charge port - having special connectors for various generations of Apple devices versus various generations of Android devices is a real pain. Providing power to charge a LiPO doesn't take 5 competing standards. (of course Apple makes a lot of money on licensing accessories, but as a consumer I don't really care about protecting Apple's revenue) * WiFi screen casting. FairPlay vs Widevine vs PlayReady. Really I want one standard for all phones so that my phone can work with TVs at friends' and family's house. (Widevine is probably the cheapest to license and most widely available thanks to Android)
I still have SCCS setup on two systems. I used to keep all my DNS configs in RCS, but I've switch them over to Git a few years ago. And I hacked a MUD's back-end text database to co/ci with RCS, which made it easier to track down what people have built or altered. But I'm not geezer enough to go on about the virtues of RCS.
Having a scratch area by combining RCS and Subversion is equivalent to staging a change in Git. So it might be worthwhile to just switch to Git, Hg or Fossil. And with P4 you can create change lists without applying them to your branch, but you need network access to do that.
I suspect it's typical Google culture where perfect is the enemy of good enough. They resisted encrypting Chrome passwords for so long because they felt that storing passwords locally was insecure. But somehow forgot that storing clear text passwords is even worse.
I can run OMEMO over XMPP. I wonder if, with the right phone software, OMEMO could tunnel over SMS as well. Might be worthwhile to research.
My cell phone works when the power is out. The towers have back up power.
Nothing works after there has been an earthquake (I'm in California) because the land lines and cell phones are both swamped with calls. So I'm not convinced there is a perfect solution for reliable emergency service.
To be fair I don't think we have tried a real experiment.
But before an experiment there needs to be a complete theory that we can model and make predictions on aspects of the model. That we can't even do that means to me that UBI is barely more than an optimistist's dream. Maybe UBI will bring us closer to a utopia, maybe it won't. But I will remain skeptical until I see see some theories and some predictions that come out of that.
That said, I don't think the current system is working either. Too many people slip through the cracks of the system. Too much suffering. I demand a solution that works, not just try things at random and hope the results are good.
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No land-based civilization could exist without wheels.
Probably not necessary in an Amazon River fishing village where you might have trouble finding unobstructed paths for your carts.
My money is on a civilization of nomadic performing troupes so small that you can't see them.
A4 is pretty typical for magazines. Although once they are bound and trimmed they are smaller than a sheet of A4 paper. A-format, B-format and C-format are all possible. The A format for mass market paperbacks is 110mm x 178mm which is quite a bit smaller than A4's 210mm x 297mm. But if you remember that a book binding would fold the paper in half and make an A4 into an A5 (148 mm x 210 mm) then the size makes a lot more sense. Quite a bit of trimming occurs as well, if you didn't have to trim at all a B6 would be 125 mm x 176 mm which is similar to the 110 mm x 178 mm size that I quoted above. (but I don't think anyone would like the results of a book that isn't trimmed)
My terminal windows are never going to be A4
80x28 is roughly A4 aspect ratio, assuming your font is 8x16. If you have a squarer font it works out differently. (9x16 would be ~80x32). Of course if you use a larger window then it might be 100x35 or 120x42. These all seem like reasonable terminals to me. at least in a landscape orientation.
If your screen is portrait and you fullscreen your terminal, well that's going to be more like 80x56 with my tall VGA font example. (I think) not a deal breaker and maybe nice for a shell window but not my preference for text editing.
A4 landscape is like two A5 portraits. I think that's what I'd like to see. Instead of 16:9 more like 13:9 (approximate, for easy comparison). There are some real advantages to being able to view two pages side-by-side. Either from the same document, like you would with a traditional book, or by having two pages from different documents visible at the same time. Which some of us might have done while studying college by laying one open book on top of another.
Now you have to ask why people read paper in portrait rather than landscape. Is it because it is easier on the eyes, or because it's easier to hold a physical book? If it's the latter then we probably don't need to apply the same constraints to modern equipment.
Every rotatable laptop screen I've dealt with totally freaking sucks. I'd rather have fewer hinges and other fiddly mechanisms. Trackpads do suck, but so does holding your arm in front of you for hours and trying to look at things while your hands are in the way.
Eventually we'll just wear some goggles and the clamshell form factor will die. We might have keyboards for quite some time but the need for a screen that folds on top of your keyboard might be nearing the end. Some people act like we're 5 years away from that, I'm less optimistic and I think it's closer to 20 years. But I do believe the demise of clamshells to be inevitable.
Yeah, my wife does this.
A Roomba doesn't have enough sass to truly replace Rosey the Robot.
Notably in the Jetsons people didn't normally buy household robots, they rented them. Perhaps that's a business model still worth exploring.
The problem is mostly solved - send people text and images, and they will send them back. In the past we did this with e-mail, IRC, FTP, and USENET.
So I just need to go on USENET to find my highschool and college classmates? My cousins' wives are likely to post pictures of my little cousins on IRC? hrmm somehow I think you missed the point.
Mine sits on my desk charging about 99% of the time. I usually don't realize how short the battery life has gotten until I that rare occasion when I need a laptop in a meeting. Replacing the battery made all the difference, and I'll see if in another year or two if the problem repeats itself.
And if I said it was a Dell laptop you wouldn't have said a word.
I think it's interesting that a Tesla doesn't need a new battery, but a laptop does.
So the proposal is: Nobody pays taxes anymore. But the government prints money to redistribute wealth to the poor?
That would theoretically hurt people with large savings accounts, like a middle class retirement account. A wealthy person would move assets out of currency that is under moderate inflation and into investments. That's not to say anyone with an IRA or 401K couldn't also move their retirement into investments as well.
It's especially handy if you owe credit card bills. You get to pay back with inflated dollars. Not that the inflation will be significant against the 22% APR you find with credit cards these days.
Don't worry, the middle class will pay with their tax dollars. HOORAY CAPITALISM
It should be possible to do analysis on changes that have occurred in cells over a short period of time and infer a future mode of failure. Don't ask me how specifically because I'm not a battery chemist.
Which lasts about 18 minutes after two years of charge-discharge cycles.
Because the ideal replacement is going to be zero cost and zero profit.
It's time for "silicon valley investors" to step aside and let grassroots developers solve this problem.
If profit can be had and they don't do it, then shareholders will come after them with lawyers.
I would like to see:
* replaceable battery - even if a 3rd party has to carefully open the case for me. I don't replace my watch batteries myself either.
* headphone jack - wired headphones tend to just work, are easy to borrow and easy to link up to other equipment.
* industry standard charge port - having special connectors for various generations of Apple devices versus various generations of Android devices is a real pain. Providing power to charge a LiPO doesn't take 5 competing standards. (of course Apple makes a lot of money on licensing accessories, but as a consumer I don't really care about protecting Apple's revenue)
* WiFi screen casting. FairPlay vs Widevine vs PlayReady. Really I want one standard for all phones so that my phone can work with TVs at friends' and family's house. (Widevine is probably the cheapest to license and most widely available thanks to Android)
I still have SCCS setup on two systems. I used to keep all my DNS configs in RCS, but I've switch them over to Git a few years ago. And I hacked a MUD's back-end text database to co/ci with RCS, which made it easier to track down what people have built or altered. But I'm not geezer enough to go on about the virtues of RCS.
Having a scratch area by combining RCS and Subversion is equivalent to staging a change in Git. So it might be worthwhile to just switch to Git, Hg or Fossil. And with P4 you can create change lists without applying them to your branch, but you need network access to do that.
I started making a playlist of it that repeats it several times, but I'm having trouble being in the same room while it is playing.
People are not good at anything.
What's important is that we all believe we are better than average.
You can travel billions of miles on the Earth's surface without revisiting any point.
Now slightly more than 7 means almost 8?
7.16x is not closer to 8x than 7x.
I suspect it's typical Google culture where perfect is the enemy of good enough. They resisted encrypting Chrome passwords for so long because they felt that storing passwords locally was insecure. But somehow forgot that storing clear text passwords is even worse.
I can run OMEMO over XMPP. I wonder if, with the right phone software, OMEMO could tunnel over SMS as well. Might be worthwhile to research.
My cell phone works when the power is out. The towers have back up power.
Nothing works after there has been an earthquake (I'm in California) because the land lines and cell phones are both swamped with calls. So I'm not convinced there is a perfect solution for reliable emergency service.
To be fair I don't think we have tried a real experiment.
But before an experiment there needs to be a complete theory that we can model and make predictions on aspects of the model. That we can't even do that means to me that UBI is barely more than an optimistist's dream. Maybe UBI will bring us closer to a utopia, maybe it won't. But I will remain skeptical until I see see some theories and some predictions that come out of that.
That said, I don't think the current system is working either. Too many people slip through the cracks of the system. Too much suffering. I demand a solution that works, not just try things at random and hope the results are good.