"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." -- Philip Greenspun
I look at it this way; perhaps you can explain the flaw in my thinking (below are not assertions, but assumptions):
Assume I have a 2400 dpi photo. I print this at 133 lpi halftone on a 2400 dpi printer. It looks fine.
Now I downsample the photo to 1200 dpi and print it again at 133 lpi on the same printer. Can I see a difference between this an the 2400dpi photo? most likely not, because the photo is still at a mcuh higher res than can be expressed at 133 lpi.
Continue downsampling until we find the photo dpi which corresponds to a visible change in quality when printed at 133lpi on a 2400 dpi printer.
used to be (no longer, alas), you could tape the prepaid return mailer from snail-mail spam to a brick, and have the spammer incur huge return mail shipping charges.
Don't you lose a lot of resolution when printing out to a line-screen format like a magazine (*)? Isn't medium/large format film overkill in this situation?
(*) let me restate that assertion as a question: what is the effective resolution of a "typical" glossy magazine photo, as measured in dpi (pixels, not lines)?
moz/thunderbird are the worst imap email clients in the world, appart from all the others.
They suck; the others just suck more.
All I want is an imap client which allows me to fsking reset my connection; one that believes me when I tell it that it is out of sync with the server and should purge all cached data and rebuild from scratch.
Should this be hard?
For some reason I must be the only one with this complaint because apparently making the client pretty and skinnable is more important.
that says max res is 1280x1024, but max addressable is 1600x1200. I guess that means that the monitor will downsample 1600x1200 signals to the native res.
I always shop at tiger, but end up buying from newegg because the total price is always lower....
so to bring this back on topic, always shop in parallel, and compare the final, shipping included price. You also need to factor in the whole rebate question. I typically am lazy, so will go for +10% in order to avoid a mail-in.
This is late, and probably a faq, but is how do you deploy these apps?
I've only seen xul used in browser extensions, which have to be installed using xpi packages, and god help you if you want to uninstall one... hardly user friendly.
is there some "net install" or "zero install" so you just grab an applet from a webpage and go?
note that freedom to crop is constrained by the resolution of the lens (not the sensor). Have a 5mp file taken through a plastic lens, and about the only thing you can do with it is to down-sample it to try to get a decent image (although this is better done in camera, before compression and bayer-pattern compensation).
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'course, it would be easy to develop an in-house compiler that speaks a different dialect and then transcode the source to that dialect.
By controlling the compiler, you can allow people access to the source while forcing them to buy your binaries.
Of course, a suitably motivated programmer could deduce the semantics of the language and retranscode it to the original language.
Hrm. I read about it first in "Indistinguishable from magic" by forward. 'course, he could have heard about it from McCarthy: I don't recall.
1) perhaps the shader can be obfuscated (unsure whether it is "rich" enough for this to be worthwhile).
2) it should be easy to spot rip-offs, then.
The basic idea can still be stolen, so yours was a very insightful observation.
I dunno what it is about thunderbird, but I find that it gets out of sync with the server much more easily than mozilla mail.
and when it gets out of sync, there is no way to get it reset state apart from a restart.
I loved the idea of it, but in my experience thunderbird blows chunks. Gave up after about two week's of trying to get it to work reliably.
Since others like it, it must be the particular combination of thunderbird, the imap implementation, and the network inbetween that Just Doesn't Work.
rip, mix, _burn_
for those who missed it.
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp." -- Philip Greenspun
/ took way too long to google
I thought all digicams did, appart from the low-end or super-compact.
yes.
many things I like about python, but dynamically declared variables and lack of proper lexical scoping are gigantic detractions.
eps is friggin' turing complete.
it is a fantastic final format, ready for printing, but it makes a crap file format, in that it has no declarative value: it is an executable.
This means that in order to be useful you need to have semantically meaningful coments in the file.
I hardly think that comparing an EF and L lens is fair. Of course the L will be more expensive.
no. or at least not all the way.
I look at it this way; perhaps you can explain the flaw in my thinking (below are not assertions, but assumptions):
Assume I have a 2400 dpi photo. I print this at 133 lpi halftone on a 2400 dpi printer. It looks fine.
Now I downsample the photo to 1200 dpi and print it again at 133 lpi on the same printer. Can I see a difference between this an the 2400dpi photo? most likely not, because the photo is still at a mcuh higher res than can be expressed at 133 lpi.
Continue downsampling until we find the photo dpi which corresponds to a visible change in quality when printed at 133lpi on a 2400 dpi printer.
This is the number I was looking for above.
Does that make sense?
thanks, but still a bit confused, so can you summarize?
What is the effective dpi resolution of a halftone color picture on a glossy magazine page (call it 8x11 inches)?
I realize the monochrome text is very sharp, and has the 2400 dpi effective rez, but that's not what I'm curious about.
does a 133lpi halftone screen =~ 133 dpi? or should I read your example to mean that 133lpi ~= 60dpi?
used to be (no longer, alas), you could tape the prepaid return mailer from snail-mail spam to a brick, and have the spammer incur huge return mail shipping charges.
I'm not sure I understand why.
Don't you lose a lot of resolution when printing out to a line-screen format like a magazine (*)? Isn't medium/large format film overkill in this situation?
(*) let me restate that assertion as a question: what is the effective resolution of a "typical" glossy magazine photo, as measured in dpi (pixels, not lines)?
ya. like that old sawhorse about democracy:
moz/thunderbird are the worst imap email clients in the world, appart from all the others.
They suck; the others just suck more.
All I want is an imap client which allows me to fsking reset my connection; one that believes me when I tell it that it is out of sync with the server and should purge all cached data and rebuild from scratch.
Should this be hard?
For some reason I must be the only one with this complaint because apparently making the client pretty and skinnable is more important.
Much of python's slowness comes from its meta programming ability: variables and class members basically HAVE to be implemented by hashtables.
If you're willing to give up the dynamic nature and instead settle for scheme-y features, it could run a whole lot faster.
hrm.
that says max res is 1280x1024, but max addressable is 1600x1200. I guess that means that the monitor will downsample 1600x1200 signals to the native res.
Javascript is a language not an api.
It's actually quite capable; quite pythonesque in its dynamicicty.
[ok, I get the joke... but]
well, if you're chasing 5 nines, you only get 315 seconds downtime a year.
I always shop at tiger, but end up buying from newegg because the total price is always lower. ...
so to bring this back on topic, always shop in parallel, and compare the final, shipping included price. You also need to factor in the whole rebate question. I typically am lazy, so will go for +10% in order to avoid a mail-in.
Hotspot profiling came from Smalltalk.
I thought that was self.
even C compilers?
This is late, and probably a faq, but is how do you deploy these apps?
... hardly user friendly.
I've only seen xul used in browser extensions, which have to be installed using xpi packages, and god help you if you want to uninstall one
is there some "net install" or "zero install" so you just grab an applet from a webpage and go?
(leaving aside the untrusted code issue)
note that freedom to crop is constrained by the resolution of the lens (not the sensor). Have a 5mp file taken through a plastic lens, and about the only thing you can do with it is to down-sample it to try to get a decent image (although this is better done in camera, before compression and bayer-pattern compensation).
just like sectors on old ms-dos disks. You can undelete a file until it's sectors have been overwritten.