A TV from 20 years ago is 40 kg of leaded glass that overscans like a motherfucker and has phosphor dots so big you can see them without putting your face to the screen. The raster size and geometry is generally not adjustable, though it is sorely needed. It accepts only RF modulated video input with zero noise immunity. Interlacing.
You have a PC. Why not just get a 100 ft HDMI cable? You could probably get one of those for less than the cost of a standalone box, even if you did buy local (foolhardy as it is).
Maple has a feature that lets you draw symbols with the mouse and select the corresponding function from a menu. This is unfathomably useful, and a far superior interface to the TI method of remembering which sub-menu contains the desired function, and then trying to deduce the syntax with no online manual.
Consider the following: six terminal emulator windows will fit on a 1920x1200 pixel monitor. A user wants to change the title of one of them. Which makes more sense?
1) User moves their mouse toward the window they want to affect, opens the terminal menu, hits 'set title', and enters the title they want for that window.
2) User moves their mouse to a distant and totally unrelated part of the screen, opens the terminal menu, hits 'set title', and enters the title they want for that window. Which actually became the title of another terminal window, which the user did not want to change, because that window had focus at the time.
Skinflinting on screen real estate at the expense of intuitive placement and behavior only makes sense on 4 inch 800x480 pixel screen.
I'm up in arms about the OSX user experience. What dumbass could possibly think it a good idea to put the application menus in the far top left of the screen, no matter how many applications are open, how large their windows are, or where they are located? Apple has managed to build a machine with a 2560x1440 pixel screen and a user interface that breaks down in any other use case than 'single application, maximzed'.
I'd think it was funny if Canonical wasn't trying to imitate it.
Just put the OCR'd text in a side channel with the image, as PDF does. Then you get a searchable, copyable document, andd preserve the original formatting and avoid the need for extremely low error rate.
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TV's should last about 20 years.
A TV from 20 years ago is 40 kg of leaded glass that overscans like a motherfucker and has phosphor dots so big you can see them without putting your face to the screen. The raster size and geometry is generally not adjustable, though it is sorely needed. It accepts only RF modulated video input with zero noise immunity. Interlacing.
No thanks.
And TVs were just getting up to respectable resolution and adding PC compatible inputs.
We were well on the way to a convergence between real screens and 'televisions' and now they start with this bullshit. Alas, you're probably right.
You have a PC. Why not just get a 100 ft HDMI cable? You could probably get one of those for less than the cost of a standalone box, even if you did buy local (foolhardy as it is).
Just start your important file names with an underscore or something.
Windows UI has hidden filename extensions by default for years.
Which has been enabling social engineering attacks for years. I am shocked that they still think this is a good idea.
That's bullshit. They make you pay attention to babysitting that could be done by an 8051 instead of the speed and direction of travel of the vehicle.
Silverlight video that was posted to the Skype website
And so it begins.
I hate this sort of bullshit. How many times have you seen 802.3ab NICs advertised as "2000 Mb/s!"
Maple has a feature that lets you draw symbols with the mouse and select the corresponding function from a menu. This is unfathomably useful, and a far superior interface to the TI method of remembering which sub-menu contains the desired function, and then trying to deduce the syntax with no online manual.
Actually, they do. And it's pretty obvious that a student used the calculator when you get answers like 0.707...
What's wrong with forced sterilization?
What? What sort of overclock could possibly affect the voltage seen by a drive, either on power or signal lines?
Or, perhaps, "It's okay to break dumb rules if you can get away with it."
Or, "It's okay to lie about your age on the internet."
Both of which are good lessons that need to be taught.
Why again are we spending the majority of health care expenses on the last 6 months of life?
Because people receiving medical treatment tend to die.
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See me after class.
Bloom filter.
Not to mention non-linear.
Consider the following: six terminal emulator windows will fit on a 1920x1200 pixel monitor. A user wants to change the title of one of them. Which makes more sense?
1) User moves their mouse toward the window they want to affect, opens the terminal menu, hits 'set title', and enters the title they want for that window.
2) User moves their mouse to a distant and totally unrelated part of the screen, opens the terminal menu, hits 'set title', and enters the title they want for that window. Which actually became the title of another terminal window, which the user did not want to change, because that window had focus at the time.
Skinflinting on screen real estate at the expense of intuitive placement and behavior only makes sense on 4 inch 800x480 pixel screen.
Yes. Like the one you just asked.
Take your hipster-ass corporate (ass-corporate?) buzzwords and get the fuck out.
Best if pronounced, 'Jag-yoo-ahhr'.
But the Pinto is a joke. "Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now!"
I'm up in arms about the OSX user experience. What dumbass could possibly think it a good idea to put the application menus in the far top left of the screen, no matter how many applications are open, how large their windows are, or where they are located? Apple has managed to build a machine with a 2560x1440 pixel screen and a user interface that breaks down in any other use case than 'single application, maximzed'.
I'd think it was funny if Canonical wasn't trying to imitate it.
Just put the OCR'd text in a side channel with the image, as PDF does. Then you get a searchable, copyable document, andd preserve the original formatting and avoid the need for extremely low error rate.
Does wget still return the proper exit code?