Use diagonal lines at around 30 degrees for a better resolution test. Jaggies are a good indication that you can see a better resolution than the pixels in question.
There are also quite a few good standard test patterns out there. I'm sure someone must have made an app for that;-)
Most people without farsightedness hold their phone with a bent arm up in front of them, not at the full extended length of their arm, especially when watching a video or viewing photos on it (which is the real time these resolution issues matter, isn't it?).
Notably, the parent complained about their advertising, not their assumptions. People could use their IPhones from the dashboard of their car too, but Steve Jobs made a specific claim that is false.
When you're in C:\Users\User\AppData\LocalRoaming\Microsoft\Windows\.... there is no piece of the address bar to click on easily other than the breadcrumbs.
Again, if it takes slow aiming with the mouse, its slow. Thanks to the actually helpful people who mentionned Alt-D.
Yeah, you're at a disadvantage in a shooter if you don't have 3D sound too, because I can hear where you're coming from faster than you can tell where I am.
Let's see, RHEL 4 came out in 2005-02-15 according to Wikipedia. Its still fully supported (as release 4.8) including new hardware and software enabling.
According to slide 5 on Redhat's roadmap, RHEL 3 (which came out late 2003) is still supported for security fixes.
Importantly, most Linux distros and the kernel itself have made a lot more progress in those intervening years than Windows has. I'd argue its much more impressive to support a 7 year old Linux distro than to support a 7 year old Windows release. Especially so when distros include user software, not just an OS.
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Ah yes, the beautiful breadcrumb bar that no longer allows me to copy and paste paths into other apps or windows.
So very helpful [stupid].
How about the lack of a 'create directory' link on the file save dialog boxes?
Personally the Win7 UI is hit and miss. A few new features, and few babies drained out with the bath water.
Speed is defined as distance over time. That makes this whole argument really simple -- without a passage of time, there is no speed.
We talk about instantaneous speed because its convenient, and its a technicality to claim as I did that it doesn't exist, but to be fair, without time, all you have is position.
For a thought problem, lets say your granularity of speed measurement is one tenth of a second. That is to say, you can measure the position of an object every tenth of a second. By subtracting, and dividing by one-tenth, you get the speed on average over that time.
Now what happens if the object came to a complete stop in say the 8/100ths of a second after our last measurement? In the one tenth of a second that passed, we would've estimated its speed at greater than zero, because it had been moving -- on average, but in fact it is now quite at rest and we've attributed a false number to it.
Accuracy of speed measuring is based on the granularity of time we measure, which is very good these days, but its still based on time, and has to be.
Got any examples of people who've won those lawsuits without major side effects to family and friends and without losing jobs, spending years in court, etc.?
Its still the method used by the airplanes that we have doing speed traps here in Ontario. Big white lines are painted across the highway and they measure your time crossing between them. The call is put in to the nearby cruiser who pulls you over for speeding.
Also, seeing the big white lines on the highway reminds you that you're driving through a possibly monitored area, meaning a reduced speed on average without actual enforcement:)
According to several OPP sources, policy here in Ontario is to always visually estimate before the gun is used. Only if the vehicle appears to be speeding excessively is the gun aimed and used to verify speed for the ticket.
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Its certainly substantially cheaper than that other silly device that lets you carry your digital newspapers around with you.
You wouldn't need smelting at least ... just someone willing to catch molten rock after reentry.
Which of Bluetooth, USB, HDMI, Ethernet, S/PDIF and IEC (power plug) are non-standard exactly?
Just curious.
Actually they announced that or the use of a USB transfer cable between the two consoles.
Would still be nice to have true regular backup features like the PS3 has though.
I'm 6'6" ... I said lower chest. Do you believe your navel is your chest? Anatomy.
10 represents exactly one value in binary.
Two digits of binary, 'nn' for argument, can represent up to four values, but 10 is still just one.
Nomenclature, people.
This kid's got a future. Good design engineering there.
Your lower chest with your head tilted down is unlikely to be more than about a foot away, unless you're very tall indeed.
In fact, in my case its only 8" with my head tilted down to my lower chest.
As opposed to this solution which requires everyone to not change a damn thing? Right.
Use an existing standard that works vs. invent something unnecessary. Which one does MS pick?
Use diagonal lines at around 30 degrees for a better resolution test. Jaggies are a good indication that you can see a better resolution than the pixels in question.
There are also quite a few good standard test patterns out there. I'm sure someone must have made an app for that ;-)
Most people without farsightedness hold their phone with a bent arm up in front of them, not at the full extended length of their arm, especially when watching a video or viewing photos on it (which is the real time these resolution issues matter, isn't it?).
Notably, the parent complained about their advertising, not their assumptions. People could use their IPhones from the dashboard of their car too, but Steve Jobs made a specific claim that is false.
When you're in C:\Users\User\AppData\LocalRoaming\Microsoft\Windows\ .... there is no piece of the address bar to click on easily other than the breadcrumbs.
Again, if it takes slow aiming with the mouse, its slow. Thanks to the actually helpful people who mentionned Alt-D.
Your incomplete understanding of my analogy does not invalidate it.
Yeah, you're at a disadvantage in a shooter if you don't have 3D sound too, because I can hear where you're coming from faster than you can tell where I am.
Gotta agree with 'not the first': Invicible Tiger has been out a while now (pretty good too).
Notably on the PC I had Descent with full 3D enabled by 3dfx and shutter glasses many many moons ago.
Moving your head gives you more than one perspective. Same effect.
Personally I just saw a long sales pitch for why F/OSS is such a good idea for software development.
I'm not even saying 'Use Linux' but if you wrote your software using open source tools and toolkits, you'd have fewer worries about future support.
Let's see, RHEL 4 came out in 2005-02-15 according to Wikipedia. Its still fully supported (as release 4.8) including new hardware and software enabling.
According to slide 5 on Redhat's roadmap, RHEL 3 (which came out late 2003) is still supported for security fixes.
Importantly, most Linux distros and the kernel itself have made a lot more progress in those intervening years than Windows has. I'd argue its much more impressive to support a 7 year old Linux distro than to support a 7 year old Windows release. Especially so when distros include user software, not just an OS.
Ah yes, the beautiful breadcrumb bar that no longer allows me to copy and paste paths into other apps or windows.
So very helpful [stupid].
How about the lack of a 'create directory' link on the file save dialog boxes?
Personally the Win7 UI is hit and miss. A few new features, and few babies drained out with the bath water.
As with any programming, you can still create security problems for yourself even using a popular framework.
That's like claiming there's fewer security errors in PHP websites than Zope sites because PHP is more popular.
In fact, popular rarely equates to secure.
Linux is more popular, OpenBSD is arguably more secure. Security often offends the sensibilities that would make a thing popular.
Speed is defined as distance over time. That makes this whole argument really simple -- without a passage of time, there is no speed.
We talk about instantaneous speed because its convenient, and its a technicality to claim as I did that it doesn't exist, but to be fair, without time, all you have is position.
For a thought problem, lets say your granularity of speed measurement is one tenth of a second. That is to say, you can measure the position of an object every tenth of a second. By subtracting, and dividing by one-tenth, you get the speed on average over that time.
Now what happens if the object came to a complete stop in say the 8/100ths of a second after our last measurement? In the one tenth of a second that passed, we would've estimated its speed at greater than zero, because it had been moving -- on average, but in fact it is now quite at rest and we've attributed a false number to it.
Accuracy of speed measuring is based on the granularity of time we measure, which is very good these days, but its still based on time, and has to be.
Calculus allows estimating a non-existent state, speed at an interval of zero doesn't exist, so you work out what it would be nearest that point.
Its still NEVER an instantaneous speed, since speed is only defined when time changes.
Got any examples of people who've won those lawsuits without major side effects to family and friends and without losing jobs, spending years in court, etc.?
Its still the method used by the airplanes that we have doing speed traps here in Ontario. Big white lines are painted across the highway and they measure your time crossing between them. The call is put in to the nearby cruiser who pulls you over for speeding.
Also, seeing the big white lines on the highway reminds you that you're driving through a possibly monitored area, meaning a reduced speed on average without actual enforcement :)
According to several OPP sources, policy here in Ontario is to always visually estimate before the gun is used. Only if the vehicle appears to be speeding excessively is the gun aimed and used to verify speed for the ticket.