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  1. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    Maybe a 5.2" phone. Check out the Galaxy Note.

    Also I might want to hook it up to my tv via HDMI. My tv is a higher resolution.

  2. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    What fact was that?
    You setup a strawman, that I meant SVGs for local use on the phone in realtime, and knocked it over.

    If you don't want to be accused of trolling, try a less trollish username.

  3. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    On the Rezound that resolution is fine, but on a device like the Note 1920x1080 would be great. On my Nexus it is already a bit too low.

    If this one is NT based it should be able to support single core CPUs just fine.

  4. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 4, Informative

    To make it even faster you can generate the ones for common display sizes at build time. The device can even delete the files that do not match resolutions it supports during install to save local storage space.

  5. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The SVGs only need to be turned into rasters at install time, storage is cheap. The display resolution is not going to change after that.

    Try less trolling and more thinking.

  6. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pixel perfect positioning is brain dead. I regularly laugh at ones who attempt to do such things with webpages. PROTIP: YOUR FONTS MIGHT NOT BE MY FONTS!

    WP seems very well designed to not need it. The simple tiles would scale very well to any resolution. I would have thought this forward looking design was for that very purpose.

  7. Re:Can't complain. on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    You knew that going in though. Getting a skinned and carrier branded android device means you will lag behind or have to run 3rd party roms.

    WinPhone will not have 3rd party roms to let you do that.

  8. Re:Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I still don't really get this. If I was put in charge of such a thing, I would be looking at making everything 2d SVGs or similar. So long as the ratios stay fairly similar it should not be such a huge deal to support a lot of different display sizes.

  9. Re:Won't work on current phones? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I agree that it seems very odd.

    Why would you care how many cores it has? Not like having an OS that can use 1-XXX cores is a new thing.

  10. Why such a low maximum resolution? on Windows Phone 8 Officially Unveiled · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why would you limit the max res like that?

    Why not design it to scale from the very beginning so you don't have to hack it on later?

    Why they could not support smp from the beginning had me wondering as well.

  11. Re:Malware Bad - Extortion Attempts Okay on Google Detects 9500 Malicious Sites Per Day · · Score: 1

    You might want to mention that when applying for jobs then.

  12. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    I can naturally do it, it does not hurt anyone. It is a far more natural right than restricting my actions to enrich you. Nothing I do costs you anymore than you already invested.

    My boss can take a copy of my time, much like I can copy things. It has nothing to do with being intangible, only that it is free to copy. If you can copy time, that would be pretty neat.

    There is no cost to you if I copy your work. You still have it and my copy cost you nothing.

    I am entitled to copy anything I like. Your labor is the same if I copy it or not.

  13. Re:Malware Bad - Extortion Attempts Okay on Google Detects 9500 Malicious Sites Per Day · · Score: 1

    Is your name so uncommon that it matters?
    Do you look that much like this thug?

  14. Re:Neat cover ... on Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet · · Score: 1

    I feel bad for you that your family has such poor vision.

    e-peen has nothing to do with it.

  15. Re:False assumptions from gatekeepers on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    It is immoral to take away my natural right to copy just to offer you a way to control something intangible.

    Feel free to ask, and be prepared for me to say no to compensating you if I want.

    My boss is taking something from me in that case, time. He can make all the copies of that he likes though.

  16. Re:I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I have compositing turned off and it still tears.

    If Nvidia is supposedly providing a working driver, it should work with X11 compositing.

  17. Re:I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I saw that article and will be trying that. I prefer to just use the in distribution drivers.

  18. Re:I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I have vsync turned on. I just looked at nvidia-settings.

  19. Re:"nouveau" is the blank-screen-driver on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Pretty much constant. I am not using Compiz either, XFCE on ubuntu. Supposedly I can almost fix it if I turn off compositing, then enable vsync and page flipping in nvidia-settings. Flash videos will still tear.

    I am so glad that only one of my computers has an Nvidia card. I used to swear by them, but these days even fairly modern games will run on intel GPUs and I think I might just live with less shiny and convert over to them 100%.

  20. Re:"nouveau" is the blank-screen-driver on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Does that have any tearing?
    I have a GTX460 and am getting terrible tearing. I never had that issue with my old 7600GT.

  21. Re:It Is Positive on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    The macbook air in front of me has an intel GPU.

  22. Re:I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    I have disabled compositing and enabled vsync. I will check to see if I have page flipping enabled.

    How in 2012 you have a driver that does not work with xrandr and you claim it works I cannot understand.

  23. Re:I'd agree with them on that.. on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: -1, Troll

    So he should cripple himself and other developers to make a proprietary vendor happy?

    FUCK YOU, if you don't want to get your code in the tree figure it out yourself.

  24. I used to agree on NVIDIA Responds To Linus Torvalds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These days I have a GTX460 and I get tearing all the damn time. I have turned off compositing, I have turned it on, I have switched to xfce I have tried gnome3.

    I hear the Open driver would fix this. If you can't even stop the tearing, then let someone else write your drivers.

  25. Re:Ok... on StatCounter Blasts Microsoft's Claim About IE Still Being the Number 1 Browser · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That seems about right for linux desktop market share. Who is claiming it is not?

    Now claiming that includes all the servers out there can't be right.