Because your OS gets it wrong? Points have nothing to do with pixels. A font that is 12 points will have a box height of 1/6th of an inch, if your OS is drawing it correctly.
The problem is your OS is broken and it assumes that it is always displaying at 96dpi (or if you're on an older mac, 72dpi). I don't know of any lcds that are displaying as low as 96dpi in their native resolution. Most are around 115 right now.
Gnome auto-detects your DPI, Vista lets you change from 96 to 120 or to a custom value if you wish. OSX forces you to be at 100dpi, but they've been promising resolution independence for a few years now.
Not every image should have an alt tag anyway. Or do you think "upper right rounded corner grey on black" is something a blind person would be interested in.
You're assuming the $600 mini is as good as my $400 HP. It isn't. The HP has an nvidia video card, 300 gig HD and an AMD64. It also has niceties like 6-in-1 card reader and a lightscribe dvd burner.
Stubborn sysadmins. Think about how much spam would be eliminated if you forced the from address to be the same server that was actually delivering the email.
If my email address is bob@example.com, the only machine that should be allowed to send mail proclaiming to be from example.com is example.com.
But noooo.. sysadmins demand the ability to forge the from address. It's a *feature*.
By that token, no OS is ready for "the masses". Half the games out there won't run on my windows machine due to hardware and copyprotection issues. The ones that do run won't "just work" I have to install patches that came out before the software even hit the shelves.
PC Gaming isn't nearly the deciding factor it once was. A big hit on the PC sells 100k copies. A big hit on the consoles is 10 times as many.
yes, I'm a conspiracy theorist, but it's tough not to be in this case
You're looking at the wrong conspiracy then. Look at how much FUD IBM has been responsible for. Look at the total nonsense that IBM has ordered PJ to spout out.
IBM is waging a war against OOXML and winning with outright lies because everyone on slashdot already hates microsoft.
Any rational review of the "standard," will show that it is incomplete, non-specific, and completely worthless as a blue print on how to implement a document reader for a document.
The same could be said of ODF. It is even more vague, with multiple developers coming out and saying that the spec isn't well defined and that they have to use OpenOffice's sourcecode as a definitive source.
Yes, it would take years for two teams to implement a 6000+ page standards doc, only to have them come back and ask what "autoSpaceLikeWord95" is supposed to mean.
That is spelled out in detail in the standards doc. Time for you to buy some new FUD.
The current fashion is to say "250 OK" and then silently delete the message later, which is wrong.
Since SMTP is defective by design, this is an acceptable response. Doing anything else allows spammers to confirm valid accounts using dictionary attacks.
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So when you kill your wife, make sure no one sees you and that you bury the gun with her.
Boom.. you'll never be convicted.
That's because you aren't on the jury and didn't actually sit through the full trial.
Neither did I, which is why I won't say whether or not he's guilty.. I (and you) don't have all the facts.
Because your OS gets it wrong? Points have nothing to do with pixels. A font that is 12 points will have a box height of 1/6th of an inch, if your OS is drawing it correctly.
The problem is your OS is broken and it assumes that it is always displaying at 96dpi (or if you're on an older mac, 72dpi). I don't know of any lcds that are displaying as low as 96dpi in their native resolution. Most are around 115 right now.
Gnome auto-detects your DPI, Vista lets you change from 96 to 120 or to a custom value if you wish. OSX forces you to be at 100dpi, but they've been promising resolution independence for a few years now.
Section 508 only applies to government websites.
Not every image should have an alt tag anyway. Or do you think "upper right rounded corner grey on black" is something a blind person would be interested in.
Our numbers say different, and that's the only number that matters to us.
According to our stats, 94.1% of our users are on broadband. The average for sites that use omniture for site tracking is 91.1%
Resolution should have no bearing on the font size.
12pt font is 12pts no matter what resolution you're running at.
You're assuming the $600 mini is as good as my $400 HP. It isn't. The HP has an nvidia video card, 300 gig HD and an AMD64. It also has niceties like 6-in-1 card reader and a lightscribe dvd burner.
My vista capable machine was $400. Came with 2 gigs of ram and runs vista just fine.
It really isn't. I have over 20 pink floyd albums ripped as 192 Kbps mp3s. My Pink Floyd folder is 1.23 GB on disk.
I'm pretty sure God can indeed change the laws of physics.
Stubborn sysadmins. Think about how much spam would be eliminated if you forced the from address to be the same server that was actually delivering the email.
If my email address is bob@example.com, the only machine that should be allowed to send mail proclaiming to be from example.com is example.com.
But noooo.. sysadmins demand the ability to forge the from address. It's a *feature*.
Email is broken by design.
By that token, no OS is ready for "the masses". Half the games out there won't run on my windows machine due to hardware and copyprotection issues. The ones that do run won't "just work" I have to install patches that came out before the software even hit the shelves.
PC Gaming isn't nearly the deciding factor it once was. A big hit on the PC sells 100k copies. A big hit on the consoles is 10 times as many.
I think that in order for linux to be really ready, someone has to suck it up, and include mp3 and dvd playing out of the box.
Stop playing it safe and force Fraunhofer's hand. Make them come out as bad guys and demand you remove mp3 support.
I understand there are scary legal reasons for not having mp3/dvd support.. but as a user, I don't care what they are.
http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/02/04/got-fud-here-s-a-guide-for-the-perplexed.aspx
There's a good summary.
You're looking at the wrong conspiracy then. Look at how much FUD IBM has been responsible for. Look at the total nonsense that IBM has ordered PJ to spout out.
IBM is waging a war against OOXML and winning with outright lies because everyone on slashdot already hates microsoft.
How will the CEO click the link on the printout his secretary made for him?
I think the real question is, *can* Apple stop it?
They stopped the cloning back in the 90s because the clones *needed* to have Apple's ROMs installed. That's not the case anymore.
Basically, Apple has no right to stop Pystar from selling this.
Delete QuickTime (not just the player) and OSX will die a horrible death. Same with WebKit and all the other things that Apple *bolts* onto the OS.
That's like asking how can multiple video formats exist. There are plenty of competing standards.
The same could be said of ODF. It is even more vague, with multiple developers coming out and saying that the spec isn't well defined and that they have to use OpenOffice's sourcecode as a definitive source.
That is spelled out in detail in the standards doc. Time for you to buy some new FUD.
The ODF standard allows for binary blobs too.
I thought military used red on black so you don't lose your night eyes.
red on black is NOT easy on the eyes, as anyone who's owned a virtual boy can tell you.
Since SMTP is defective by design, this is an acceptable response. Doing anything else allows spammers to confirm valid accounts using dictionary attacks.
You know how long its been since I worried about application software screwing with my OS?
I don't even worry about it on my WM6 phone... if my application locks the thing up, I hit the reset button and sync a new version over.
The idea that iPhone developers shouldn't be testing applications on their regular phones speaks very poorly of Apple, not iPhone developers.