My monitor has ONE BIG PIXEL. It ain't easy to use but I get by.
Is it lit orange all the time? Be sure you're sitting down, because once you press the button with a small circle and a vertical line through it, you're going to be blown away by what appears on the large dark flat surface you've so far been using to stick post-it notes on (pull them off first).
You are part of the problem, you know that? These 1920x1080 monitors are a terrible, terrible rip-of and one should never buy one.
It's funny, because I figured that this was what this story was going to be about, how the 1920x1080 resolution is going to be a sticking point, with LCDs larger costing significantly more due to lower comparative volume.
Anyway, you make many unwarranted assumptions as well. First off, this monitor was a loaner I had been given while another was being "repaired". After many visits and no repair, I had the option of buying this loaner that I knew worked perfectly with my machine, or buying another new monitor with possible problems. I chose one I knew worked. Second, my machine doesn't support any higher resolution than 1920x1080 (and the real official resolution was just 1280x1024, but I hacked the video driver data tables to work with this one; the system only has 4MB of VRAM anyway, just enough for 16-bit color at this resolution). I had considered getting a 1920x1200 at the very least, but there's no way any of my current machines will support it. I suppose your solution would be to buy more machines, but then why the hell do I have to buy a new computer and disrupt my current workflow just because I'm replacing a monitor?
I don't really see a solution to the 1920x1080 sticking point, unfortunately. I predict that they'll continue to be cheaper than larger ones, due to greater volume and them supporting HD resolution. But sheesh, you're calling a 1920x1080 monitor a sad joke for a computer monitor? Have you taken a look at what most people are using these days? It's a lot smaller than that.
Probably because you didn't have your settings done right, or ran at 60hz, or ran at the wrong resolution.
Or because you're making unwarranted assumptions. I ran at 1152x870 at 75 Hz. I had tried 1280x960 and 1280x1024 (both at 75 Hz as well) and the text was more blurry than I could tolerate. So perhaps it was just an average monitor (Dell P990, using a Trinitron CRT). Using the same machine, I am able to drive a 1920x1080 LCD via VGA, with a checkerboard test pattern looking sharp and perfect. Now you can draw conclusions without making so many assumptions. I don't appreciate the condescending tone of your reply, BTW.
I went from an 1152x768 19" CRT to a 1920x1080 21.5" LCD and I've never looked back. It's amazing how much of a difference it makes to have room to open several source code windows or documents at once. I was concerned that the ~110 dpi would be a problem, but I've had no problem reading things. Compared to my CRT, everything is so much clearer. I've been in heaven for the past several months.
Pfft, the people in power can never do anything wrong. Printing lots of new money is obviously a good thing when they do it, but bad when a crook does it.
Yeah, around the time of the N64, manuals started getting unenjoyable to read. At that point, instead of a nice clean layout, they started putting dark background images on every page, and crappy game screenshots. Earlier manuals from the NES/SNES era are still fun to read, due to the simpler layout. It's like reading an assembly language manual for a processor (good examples are Zelda: Link's Awakening original non-color version, Survival Kids, even Metal Gear Solid 3 has a fairly nice manual).
It's OK, they still provide an online version. It's actually quite short:
Thank you for purchasing this Ubisoft game! Please note that since we have your money now, we don't give a shit about you anymore. You probably won't even be able to get this game to start, thanks to our PRM (profit rights management) system, so go find something else to do.
What about this: you give your credit card number to a store for certain purchase, and they purchase dozen of other things on the same credit card for you ("Yes, sir, we truly believe you need all those things, it's all for your own good!")
I'm sorry, none of that makes any sense. Can you put it in terms of cars?
And further, it's not like the researchers didn't have the opportunity to ask for permission to study these other things. It could be that they figured the answer would be "no", which would just put them further in the wrong.
Did that research find that such activities reduce cognitive decline, or that people who engage in such activities tend to have less cognitive decline? The latter doesn't tell use whether it's the activities that reduce decline, or something else which is both the cause of less decline and people doing activities. I hate it when studies that find correlations between X and Y are reported as finding that X causes Y (or Y causes X, depending on who is making up these causation relations).
So long as the POS software was running only the POS software on the terminal with the DB hosting on another machine/server, it was great. But as soon as you coupled POS + DB on the same terminal, lag started to be noticed. It was still acceptable, but it would take 3 seconds to create a new ticket vs. less than a second on a 2.8Ghz P4.
y doesn't have every programmer rewrite the same library do you?
Thanks, we hadn't realized this form of sharing. I'm typing up a proposal now to end this form of internal cheating. Tomorrow, everyone will be writing his own libraries, starting with strcpy.
Seriously, the bad guys already have it, so enlist the help of the security community to improve it.
The code was stolen, so they're going to have to rewrite it from scratch. You'd think Google would have had a backup somewhere, but maybe they stole that too.
Gizmodo couldn't even say what the screen resolution was, because all it does it ask to be re-imaged with software Gizmodo doesn't have access to install.
What prevented them from taking a close-up picture of the screen (along with a known length object) and counting pixels?
As Feynman said "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." This was with regards to the Colombia disaster. Here was a case of faking up the science to support the conclusion that was wanted, which was that things were safe. Well, all that was for naught, as the reality was it was NOT safe and blew the fuck up.
And the PR aspect is that it can't be made safe without ending shuttle missions. Someone in the chain doesn't want to accept this fact.
You must be one of those hippie coders who never trims his hair. In the real world, we always avoid using outside code or libraries. Only code we've written passes our quality standards. These schools are right to teach students that collaboration and reuse are cheating, because they are! Now excuse me, a customer has found yet another bug in our software today, so I need to see if I can fix it.
A couple of my coworkers were talking recently about Kindles and iPads. I told them about the DRM. Neither of them knew what DRM stood for, so I had to explain.
I hope you told them the accurate version, Digital Restrictions Management, rather than the intended whitewash version, Digital Rights Management.
Duh, everyone knows that cows have been walking on inclined treadmills for 8 hours a day since the 1950s, when they realized how good it would be for their figure. At first it was a few cows, but the fad swept heards everywhere until they were all on a fitness craze that hasn't ended. Now they're just hooking generators up to those treadmills.
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Is it lit orange all the time? Be sure you're sitting down, because once you press the button with a small circle and a vertical line through it, you're going to be blown away by what appears on the large dark flat surface you've so far been using to stick post-it notes on (pull them off first).
It's funny, because I figured that this was what this story was going to be about, how the 1920x1080 resolution is going to be a sticking point, with LCDs larger costing significantly more due to lower comparative volume.
Anyway, you make many unwarranted assumptions as well. First off, this monitor was a loaner I had been given while another was being "repaired". After many visits and no repair, I had the option of buying this loaner that I knew worked perfectly with my machine, or buying another new monitor with possible problems. I chose one I knew worked. Second, my machine doesn't support any higher resolution than 1920x1080 (and the real official resolution was just 1280x1024, but I hacked the video driver data tables to work with this one; the system only has 4MB of VRAM anyway, just enough for 16-bit color at this resolution). I had considered getting a 1920x1200 at the very least, but there's no way any of my current machines will support it. I suppose your solution would be to buy more machines, but then why the hell do I have to buy a new computer and disrupt my current workflow just because I'm replacing a monitor?
I don't really see a solution to the 1920x1080 sticking point, unfortunately. I predict that they'll continue to be cheaper than larger ones, due to greater volume and them supporting HD resolution. But sheesh, you're calling a 1920x1080 monitor a sad joke for a computer monitor? Have you taken a look at what most people are using these days? It's a lot smaller than that.
Or because you're making unwarranted assumptions. I ran at 1152x870 at 75 Hz. I had tried 1280x960 and 1280x1024 (both at 75 Hz as well) and the text was more blurry than I could tolerate. So perhaps it was just an average monitor (Dell P990, using a Trinitron CRT). Using the same machine, I am able to drive a 1920x1080 LCD via VGA, with a checkerboard test pattern looking sharp and perfect. Now you can draw conclusions without making so many assumptions. I don't appreciate the condescending tone of your reply, BTW.
I went from an 1152x768 19" CRT to a 1920x1080 21.5" LCD and I've never looked back. It's amazing how much of a difference it makes to have room to open several source code windows or documents at once. I was concerned that the ~110 dpi would be a problem, but I've had no problem reading things. Compared to my CRT, everything is so much clearer. I've been in heaven for the past several months.
Pfft, the people in power can never do anything wrong. Printing lots of new money is obviously a good thing when they do it, but bad when a crook does it.
Yeah, around the time of the N64, manuals started getting unenjoyable to read. At that point, instead of a nice clean layout, they started putting dark background images on every page, and crappy game screenshots. Earlier manuals from the NES/SNES era are still fun to read, due to the simpler layout. It's like reading an assembly language manual for a processor (good examples are Zelda: Link's Awakening original non-color version, Survival Kids, even Metal Gear Solid 3 has a fairly nice manual).
Thank you for purchasing this Ubisoft game! Please note that since we have your money now, we don't give a shit about you anymore. You probably won't even be able to get this game to start, thanks to our PRM (profit rights management) system, so go find something else to do.
Copyright (C) 2010 Ubisoft.
I'm sorry, none of that makes any sense. Can you put it in terms of cars?
And further, it's not like the researchers didn't have the opportunity to ask for permission to study these other things. It could be that they figured the answer would be "no", which would just put them further in the wrong.
Apple and Nintendo have always seemed like sister companies, each in their own fields.
We've got a problem in sector 6B of the RDF. Two failures in close succession. A team has been dispatched.
Did that research find that such activities reduce cognitive decline, or that people who engage in such activities tend to have less cognitive decline? The latter doesn't tell use whether it's the activities that reduce decline, or something else which is both the cause of less decline and people doing activities. I hate it when studies that find correlations between X and Y are reported as finding that X causes Y (or Y causes X, depending on who is making up these causation relations).
That's why they call it POS software.
I believe Childs is the very topic we're discussing, is it not?
Thanks, we hadn't realized this form of sharing. I'm typing up a proposal now to end this form of internal cheating. Tomorrow, everyone will be writing his own libraries, starting with strcpy.
So if I make a copy of your Slashdot post without your consent, I have stolen it (even though the post will still be on Slashdot)?
The code was stolen, so they're going to have to rewrite it from scratch. You'd think Google would have had a backup somewhere, but maybe they stole that too.
What prevented them from taking a close-up picture of the screen (along with a known length object) and counting pixels?
And the PR aspect is that it can't be made safe without ending shuttle missions. Someone in the chain doesn't want to accept this fact.
Bah, I have a genuine Lolex watch.
You must be one of those hippie coders who never trims his hair. In the real world, we always avoid using outside code or libraries. Only code we've written passes our quality standards. These schools are right to teach students that collaboration and reuse are cheating, because they are! Now excuse me, a customer has found yet another bug in our software today, so I need to see if I can fix it.
I hope you told them the accurate version, Digital Restrictions Management, rather than the intended whitewash version, Digital Rights Management.
Duh, everyone knows that cows have been walking on inclined treadmills for 8 hours a day since the 1950s, when they realized how good it would be for their figure. At first it was a few cows, but the fad swept heards everywhere until they were all on a fitness craze that hasn't ended. Now they're just hooking generators up to those treadmills.
I take it this "Life Recorder" device is incompatible with us Slashdot geeks, due to its requirements. No point in having nothing to record.