Apple never called it a "retinal display". They call it the Retina Display. It's a marketing name. They said exactly how many ppi it has, so I have a hard time seeing how anyone feels misled by their claims.
Apple also has a line of monitors called Cinema Display. Perhaps the scientists should waste their time trying to determine if these monitors could actually be used in movie theaters.
Did you even read the article you are replying to? The finder knew who the owner was, made no attempt to return it to him, and turned around and sold it to the highest bidder!
He found a cell phone that was logged into the owner's facebook page. It would have taken him one minute to send the owner a message saying that he had his phone and how to contact him, or that he left it with the bar's lost and found. This is what a reasonable person would have done.
Linux ain't System/36 or MPE or any other mainframe OS. And show me one linux app that's written in COBOL.
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We had a booth at a recent LinuxWorld. Lots of people would walk by, do a double-take, and ask us, "COBOL on Linux?" Yep, believe it!
Chris, I've seen you on The Screen Savers several times, and I think you do a very good job talking about Linux. The one thing that sticks out in my memory about your appearances is that the fonts you are using on that laptop are just terrible! They're blocky, aliased, and just plain ugly.
Now, I am well aware that the fonts have no bearing on the quality of the operating system, but newbies will be put off by the less than attractive fonts. It's so easy to set this stuff up that you should never show Linux in anything less than a first-rate configuration.
If you can't upgrade your installation to use AA fonts, then either reinstall with RH 8.0, or get someone to loan you another laptop you can keep in TV-ready condition.
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Apple never called it a "retinal display". They call it the Retina Display. It's a marketing name. They said exactly how many ppi it has, so I have a hard time seeing how anyone feels misled by their claims.
Apple also has a line of monitors called Cinema Display. Perhaps the scientists should waste their time trying to determine if these monitors could actually be used in movie theaters.
Did you even read the article you are replying to? The finder knew who the owner was, made no attempt to return it to him, and turned around and sold it to the highest bidder!
He found a cell phone that was logged into the owner's facebook page. It would have taken him one minute to send the owner a message saying that he had his phone and how to contact him, or that he left it with the bar's lost and found. This is what a reasonable person would have done.
Shameless plug: Acucorp, Inc. makes COBOL development/runtime systems that run on pretty much any UNIX-like system, including Linux. We have lots of customers running on Linux from plain old PCs on up to the IBM S/390.
We had a booth at a recent LinuxWorld. Lots of people would walk by, do a double-take, and ask us, "COBOL on Linux?" Yep, believe it!
Chris, I've seen you on The Screen Savers several times, and I think you do a very good job talking about Linux. The one thing that sticks out in my memory about your appearances is that the fonts you are using on that laptop are just terrible! They're blocky, aliased, and just plain ugly.
Now, I am well aware that the fonts have no bearing on the quality of the operating system, but newbies will be put off by the less than attractive fonts. It's so easy to set this stuff up that you should never show Linux in anything less than a first-rate configuration.
If you can't upgrade your installation to use AA fonts, then either reinstall with RH 8.0, or get someone to loan you another laptop you can keep in TV-ready condition.