You know that anti-aliasing is just the simulation of a higher resolution using subpixels right?
Good anti-aliasing means you render the scene at a higher resolution and then down-scale it to the user resolution. If the user had the original resolution, the anti-aliased version would look worse.
Try this: take a photo that's 1920x1080 and looks really good. Now scale it down with your favourite app and good scaling algorithm to 960x540. Now view it maximized on your 1920x1080 display. That's what your'e missing out on by not having a 3840x2160 resolution screen right now with your current 2x anti-aliasing. (more for 4x, etc.)
You don't follow the Linux mailing lists at all, do you? Source code makes a huge difference in bug detection and fix development time. For the record, I'd likely use OpenBSD over Linux for audited releases, but Linux does have better hardware support.
Sure, but survey after survey shows people love the taste of high fructose corn syrup. Why do you think its used to flavour Pepsi? You may be the rare human who doesn't prefer the taste of Heinz, but its rare.
The irony of course is that despite all the hating, the quite humourous Playstation ads were right; buttons help a lot, and a trackable controller has better position and direction sensing than your flailing arms.
Its much easier to show a game where to aim a bow and arrow or a sword or shield with a small controller in your hand to simulate them...
That all aside, all this emphasis on motion gaming misses a lot of the point; we want to do things in video games that we can't do for real. I don't know how to snowboard, and have no desire to learn in order to score big points in SSX. Luckily, EA gets it and lets me hit buttons.
I use Waze for most of my navigation now, which also uses an open mapping back-end that's user editable. Winter roads are one of the features I've requested that it doesn't understand yet -- telling me to take a shortcut through a back road that's not open in January for example. Of course, as soon as I avoid it, it re-routes me properly.
One of the things I love about Waze is that it tracks your actual routes you take, and saves them on the routing server to help it make better decisions in the future.
What's the functional difference between buying a scientist and paying him to do science and buying a researcher and paying him to do research?
Google hires people who are good fits for their goals and pays them to achieve those goals. I see no problem here.
Yes, Microsoft Research harkens back to a time of the failed Xerox PARC labs, but while funding generic research is really cool from a geeky perspective, its not so different from paying people to achieve specific goals if you're innovative enough.
I apply a very small amount and do the left side of my mouth, then another very sparing amount and do the right side. I do this to avoid the "where you start gets all the paste" problem, and since I use a sensitive tooth toothpaste to reduce sensitivity, its nice to actually have it work on both sides of one's mouth.
You may be right about how idiotic people are as I'm never one to claim people are intelligent by nature, but I disagree with your theory of why. The markings are clear, the information is clearly written, and people simply aren't following directions.
I'm reminded of yesterday's interview on the radio with a rep from Scott's Lawn products saying that most of the complaints she fields are from users who didn't follow the directions (specifically watering requirements).
I can honestly say the vast majority of my tech support calls are the same problem as well -- people who don't follow directions. It doesn't matter how often I write them down, or make them write them down, people ignore directions and do it their own way anyway. Those people deserve the blame entirely, not the company who wrote out clear directions they didn't follow.
I've never had a hard time reading the lines on a cap for laundry detergent -- its clearly marked and has been on every A list product I've ever used.
Meanwhile the bottle specifically says to use a pea-sized amount. The version shown on TV is huge so as to show off the sparkly pretty colours in the bottle, not as an example of how to brush your teeth.
Anyone who uses advertising as a life lesson deserves the result.
Actually they're not remotely alike. A study was done (find the link with Google if you're interested) and found that Heinz ketchup hasn't changed flavour in so long because it is essentially perfect. Nobody else has created a product that even remotely competes with it.
... except the 'whole internet' often says "too bad, you'll have to wait for a fix" with proprietary software whereas "Oh, try this patch over here" often happens on FOSS instead.
A similar feature exists (and I've tested it) from retrieval software on Android -- I'm somewhat shocked they couldn't manage to find the phone this way unless its been turned off since.
Despite the gross feeling I had in my mouth watching one of my favourite shows pretend not to be an Apple ad campaign, that was entertaining.
Interestingly, every time I see one of the current Siri commercials on TV with some celebrity chatting with their phone, I picture Rajesh instead and laugh.
And how many of those review sites picked up one of those phones at retail vs. being given one for free with a nice piece of paper that says 'positive review or you don't get the next phone for free'?
Every review site that gets free stuff deals with this all the time -- its why I trust reviews primarily from persons who've actually paid for a device.
PS the phone wasn't released until April, so all those reviews in Jan-Mar are pre-release devices.
To be fair though, the Lumia did win "Best Smartphone" at CES in January, which is a nice title to quote when searching for "whats the best smartphone".
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You know that anti-aliasing is just the simulation of a higher resolution using subpixels right?
Good anti-aliasing means you render the scene at a higher resolution and then down-scale it to the user resolution. If the user had the original resolution, the anti-aliased version would look worse.
Try this: take a photo that's 1920x1080 and looks really good. Now scale it down with your favourite app and good scaling algorithm to 960x540. Now view it maximized on your 1920x1080 display. That's what your'e missing out on by not having a 3840x2160 resolution screen right now with your current 2x anti-aliasing. (more for 4x, etc.)
You don't follow the Linux mailing lists at all, do you? Source code makes a huge difference in bug detection and fix development time. For the record, I'd likely use OpenBSD over Linux for audited releases, but Linux does have better hardware support.
There's courses on ethics. Take one. Its actually fascinating.
Anecdote is data. its not proof, or statistically valid research, but it most certainly is data.
Pick a different sentence coward.
I'll one-up you on that -- client-side browser certificates have been possible since the first days of SSL on the Internet.
Why aren't we using them to authenticate users and completely secure a link?
Sure, but survey after survey shows people love the taste of high fructose corn syrup. Why do you think its used to flavour Pepsi? You may be the rare human who doesn't prefer the taste of Heinz, but its rare.
The irony of course is that despite all the hating, the quite humourous Playstation ads were right; buttons help a lot, and a trackable controller has better position and direction sensing than your flailing arms.
Its much easier to show a game where to aim a bow and arrow or a sword or shield with a small controller in your hand to simulate them ...
That all aside, all this emphasis on motion gaming misses a lot of the point; we want to do things in video games that we can't do for real. I don't know how to snowboard, and have no desire to learn in order to score big points in SSX. Luckily, EA gets it and lets me hit buttons.
I use Waze for most of my navigation now, which also uses an open mapping back-end that's user editable. Winter roads are one of the features I've requested that it doesn't understand yet -- telling me to take a shortcut through a back road that's not open in January for example. Of course, as soon as I avoid it, it re-routes me properly.
One of the things I love about Waze is that it tracks your actual routes you take, and saves them on the routing server to help it make better decisions in the future.
Yes, and patented, so that we can avoid building on it in the FOSS world and wait twenty odd years to be able to make use of this research.
What's the functional difference between buying a scientist and paying him to do science and buying a researcher and paying him to do research?
Google hires people who are good fits for their goals and pays them to achieve those goals. I see no problem here.
Yes, Microsoft Research harkens back to a time of the failed Xerox PARC labs, but while funding generic research is really cool from a geeky perspective, its not so different from paying people to achieve specific goals if you're innovative enough.
I apply a very small amount and do the left side of my mouth, then another very sparing amount and do the right side. I do this to avoid the "where you start gets all the paste" problem, and since I use a sensitive tooth toothpaste to reduce sensitivity, its nice to actually have it work on both sides of one's mouth.
You may be right about how idiotic people are as I'm never one to claim people are intelligent by nature, but I disagree with your theory of why. The markings are clear, the information is clearly written, and people simply aren't following directions.
I'm reminded of yesterday's interview on the radio with a rep from Scott's Lawn products saying that most of the complaints she fields are from users who didn't follow the directions (specifically watering requirements).
I can honestly say the vast majority of my tech support calls are the same problem as well -- people who don't follow directions. It doesn't matter how often I write them down, or make them write them down, people ignore directions and do it their own way anyway. Those people deserve the blame entirely, not the company who wrote out clear directions they didn't follow.
I've never had a hard time reading the lines on a cap for laundry detergent -- its clearly marked and has been on every A list product I've ever used.
Meanwhile the bottle specifically says to use a pea-sized amount. The version shown on TV is huge so as to show off the sparkly pretty colours in the bottle, not as an example of how to brush your teeth.
Anyone who uses advertising as a life lesson deserves the result.
As long as you believe we haven't secretly learned to create fully remote controlled nanobots posing as hydrophobic coatings ... you'll be fine.
I have a suspicion that with the amount of both salt and sugar in a ketchup bottle very few ever go bad.
That said, I suppose externally introduced molds and such could get in there ...
Actually they're not remotely alike. A study was done (find the link with Google if you're interested) and found that Heinz ketchup hasn't changed flavour in so long because it is essentially perfect. Nobody else has created a product that even remotely competes with it.
... except the 'whole internet' often says "too bad, you'll have to wait for a fix" with proprietary software whereas "Oh, try this patch over here" often happens on FOSS instead.
A similar feature exists (and I've tested it) from retrieval software on Android -- I'm somewhat shocked they couldn't manage to find the phone this way unless its been turned off since.
Review sites where they pay for devices was what I'd meant to imply.
Also, paying for a device often biases me against it -- if I paid good money for something, I expect a lot more from it than if it were free.
Most math is made up of a collection of trivial observations.
Methinks you don't understand math.
Despite the gross feeling I had in my mouth watching one of my favourite shows pretend not to be an Apple ad campaign, that was entertaining.
Interestingly, every time I see one of the current Siri commercials on TV with some celebrity chatting with their phone, I picture Rajesh instead and laugh.
Why not just Google in an incognito session? Jeez, that's hard.
And how many of those review sites picked up one of those phones at retail vs. being given one for free with a nice piece of paper that says 'positive review or you don't get the next phone for free'?
Every review site that gets free stuff deals with this all the time -- its why I trust reviews primarily from persons who've actually paid for a device.
PS the phone wasn't released until April, so all those reviews in Jan-Mar are pre-release devices.
To be fair though, the Lumia did win "Best Smartphone" at CES in January, which is a nice title to quote when searching for "whats the best smartphone".
Democracy has little to do with the first :)
Or its possible that your opinion is in the minority and shouldn't win out in a democracy.