Why should an email from my gf look the same as a email from my boss?
it shouldn't! if your girlfriend talks to you the same way your boss does, you need a new girlfriend!
(that or you have a lawsuit against your boss . . . )
voting affects congress similarly to trying to run software on palladium computer:
you ask it to do something, but before it gets done it has to get approved by microsoft and the "content providers"
the AC who replied has it figured out. i only have 2 16meg simms, a few 8meg simms, and a couple 4meg simms. i could use 32meg simms, but i don't have them and considering the rest of the hardware on this computer, i don't intend to spend the money on new ram for an old computer
i am without mmx, and only have 48 mb ram (the board doesn't actually support 168-pin dimms even though it has 2 sockets and 48 is the best i can do with four 72-pin simms).
kde works fine (but slow), but i let gnome go overnight and when i got up the next morning it was STILL on the splash screen, so i gave up on gnome for that computer
good thing ADA doesn't apply to web! what difference should it make if i was in too much of a hurry to brush my teeth this morning or if i happen to have a cavity or two?
in truth i saw ADA in the headline and immediately thought of the american dental association . . .
Dead pixels - The bane of every LCD's existence: the dead pixel. Remember how each pixel on an LCD has its own transistors? Defects and/or premature failure of those transistors results in dead pixels, which can appear as solid white or solid black.
uh yeah . . . my laptop has a pixel that's GREEN all the time, and i think a blue one or two as well.
i suppose these are <voice type="monty python">"not dead yet!"</voice> and are still in the process of dying, though they have been as such for 2 or so years
oops, posted before reading the article, then found this when i actually went to read it:
Resolution scaling - A TFT LCD monitor's maximum resolution refers to the actual number of pixels present on the display. An LCD is really only designed to be run at one particular resolution. If you try to display something at a resolution of 1024x768 on a screen with a maximum resolution of 1280x1024, the display will actually stretch your 1024x768 image over the full 1280x1024 pixels. Stretching requires interpolation, which inevitably degrades image quality, especially noticeable when displaying text. (CRTs, by contrast, are capable of syncing to multiple scan modes and showing multiple resolutions natively.)
One minor area where resolution scaling doesn't exhibit problems is perfect geometric scaling. If, for example, you had an LCD screen whose maximum resolution was 1600x1200, you could display images at 800x600 without experiencing the detrimental effects of image stretching. Because 1600x1200 is exactly four times the resolution of 800x600 in terms of the actual pixels required, a 1600x1200 display simply uses four pixels to represent a single 800x600 pixel.
i'd love to get an lcd even just for the coolness, but i won't give up my dpi! i run my 17" crt at 1600x1200, and at work i have viewsonic vg150b which is a 15" that only goes to 1024x768. how am i to get work done when i can only fit 786,432 pixels on the screen?
of course there's also the cost issue, but still what makes the biggest difference to me is dpi.
another advantage you have with a crt is that a range of resolutions can be supported equally well, but an lcd is stuck with a native resolution and has to fake lower resolutions. of course if i had my 1600x1200 lcd, it would be able to fake 800x600 very well (use 4 native pixels per pixel).
doing 640x480 stretched to 800x600 on my compaq lte5380 with its crazy 256 colors looks HORRIBLE! you can't even read anything on it and i wish there was a way i could default the thing NOT to stretch. of course this isn't as much of a problem if you have more colors, but i don't need more than a pentium 133 for a laptop right now.
how about a combination of the zapper and the power glove from NES? you put on a glove and literally point at the screen. i don't know how you'd click though . . . snap your fingers or something?
if you're really worried about HIPAA, don't use computers! as far as i know, it only applies to electronic information, but then again, i work at a healthcare SOFTWARE company, so most of the worries are on our customers. we don't actually have to be HIPAA compliant, but customers wouldn't want to buy our software if it didn't help them to be.
I get more enjoyment by sitting in my room and watching a grainy pirated copy of "the others"... because no one is talking and interupting my movie!
you, sir, obviously do not have a to watch your grainy pirated movies with. not that we expect slashdotters to have girlfriends . . .
of course i agree with you that watching movies with distractions is incredibly annoying!
Most of the systems calling me now wait until after I say hello before connecting a human to me
this reminds me of the poor-college-student solution my roomate and i used. after one of us said "hello?" we hung up if we didn't get a response right away. of course this often would filter out calls from drunks too . . .
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(that or you have a lawsuit against your boss . . . )
error: pen panic! NOT seeing spots!
interesting--this poster wants to serve some sort of BS dish to US citizens . . .
voting affects congress similarly to trying to run software on palladium computer:
you ask it to do something, but before it gets done it has to get approved by microsoft and the "content providers"
let's gpl congress so that we can all modify the code and prevent all the stupid laws that get passed!
and in a related note, 97% of all statistics are made up.
the AC who replied has it figured out. i only have 2 16meg simms, a few 8meg simms, and a couple 4meg simms. i could use 32meg simms, but i don't have them and considering the rest of the hardware on this computer, i don't intend to spend the money on new ram for an old computer
i am without mmx, and only have 48 mb ram (the board doesn't actually support 168-pin dimms even though it has 2 sockets and 48 is the best i can do with four 72-pin simms).
kde works fine (but slow), but i let gnome go overnight and when i got up the next morning it was STILL on the splash screen, so i gave up on gnome for that computer
but gnome won't run on my pentium 166
in truth i saw ADA in the headline and immediately thought of the american dental association . . .
i suppose these are <voice type="monty python">"not dead yet!"</voice> and are still in the process of dying, though they have been as such for 2 or so years
of course there's also the cost issue, but still what makes the biggest difference to me is dpi.
another advantage you have with a crt is that a range of resolutions can be supported equally well, but an lcd is stuck with a native resolution and has to fake lower resolutions. of course if i had my 1600x1200 lcd, it would be able to fake 800x600 very well (use 4 native pixels per pixel).
doing 640x480 stretched to 800x600 on my compaq lte5380 with its crazy 256 colors looks HORRIBLE! you can't even read anything on it and i wish there was a way i could default the thing NOT to stretch. of course this isn't as much of a problem if you have more colors, but i don't need more than a pentium 133 for a laptop right now.
hey i'll have to try that out!
how about a combination of the zapper and the power glove from NES? you put on a glove and literally point at the screen. i don't know how you'd click though . . . snap your fingers or something?
interesting page, but the background sucks! man i hate it when people use a background that makes the text hard to read . . .
2. use their spare cycles to do my computing
3. ?
4. profit!
sorry, couldn't resist :)
if you're really worried about HIPAA, don't use computers! as far as i know, it only applies to electronic information, but then again, i work at a healthcare SOFTWARE company, so most of the worries are on our customers. we don't actually have to be HIPAA compliant, but customers wouldn't want to buy our software if it didn't help them to be.
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wordstar was burned into the first 2 amber monitors i got! i never actually used wordstar, but because of these i saw plenty of it . . .