the issue you refer to (I think) is the increasing density of photo receptors on the same size cmos censor, ie more megapixels but on a tiny fingernail sized sensor. I don't think you can compare this to the issue of color reproduction on a 100dpi monitor as that technology exists and works fine - we just would like they made the screens larger. The technology for higher dpi also does exist but it costs a princely sum and shows no signs of coming into the consumer or even prosumer realm. I'm sure there are some hurdles dealing with defraction and heat but unlike the camera sensor which needs to absorb the light, the lcd is generating it independently. The photorecptor density issues are very complex and involve a number of different considerations and vary by the application of the camera - ie what is ok for one use might be dreadful for another.
Nice job. That is *almost* what I would be looking for. Yeah it would be nice to have a few extra vertical pixels but I'd like 3200x2000 (at 100dpi 1.6 format) wide so as to replace my two 20's with one new one. Well here's hoping!
I could probably adjust to the non 4:3 dimensions (by using the rotate feature) but what I will not forsake is dpi and that is what you are really being asked to do.
I think you hit it on the head.. this whole fixation on 1080p crap. If anything, DPI for computer monitors has been declining the past five years after a slow march to near 100dpi from 72 dpi. I am running two fairly ancient Formac 1600x1200 20"ers which are eactly 100dpi - circa 2002. Is it asking so much that 8 years later we have 2400x1800 on a 20" monitor for a reasonable price? Its become hard now to even find 100 dpi monitors at 20".
To clarify - I typically only have a few (5 or less) tabs open and have found the lock ups relate to how firefox handles links which are not responding (or not fast enough). The result is you are unable to switch tabs for anything from a couple seconds to well.. maybe never.. but typically it seems 20-30 secs.
As to the slowdowns I have increasingly seen situations where comment boxes result in a non-symmetrical response - you start to type, you see what you type and then bam.. you are typing and nothing shows up... then 10 seconds later (if you have kept typing) it all shows up though sometimes you can see it printing a word at a time. This *never* happened in older versions of firefox and has only become an annoyance in the past 3-6 months. I've had this happen on extremely simple sites and extremely complex sites. Something is definitely fubar with firepig.
I suspect it is the case that most people do not run proxies but perhaps you are right that those who do want it system wide. In my case, I wanted to set up a ssh tunnel for infrequent use and would like it on a browser I don't use all the time (in part so I could continue normal work on the regular one with normal routing.) However, I've since found out that firefox may be the only one whch will also route dns thru the tunnel.
People want really low taxes, but this is the result: really poor services.
Err! The service was excellent and his neighbor got exactly what they had paid for. For $75.
I'm sure if I were to get a breakdown on my property tax bill I am paying way more than $75 a year for fire service.
Is the conclusion I have come to of late. Firefox is a pig with random slowdowns (even as I type this) and high memory usage. Increasingly it also locks up other tabs while waiting on ads or other links to load. Chrome unfortunately seems to still make use of parts of IE or windows - found to my displeasure when setting up a proxy and I got the Internet Settings box (note: changing here seems to change for all apps...b rilliant). Opera while generally quite good still fails to draw some pages properly and still has some UI quirks which will take a long while to adjust to.
I may finally make the move to Opera and use one of the others when a page does not look right. But I've grown entirely sick of firefox, and yes I've tried 4.0 as well. Seeing that I started with something like mozilla 0.92 I've given them a fair shake I think!
You voted for this crap (slashdot is overwhelmingly democrat). It started with Clinton and DMCA and now you have OBAMA ("transparent", "change you can believe in") doing this crap (and behind closed doors to boot). Bend over and say again how much you love getting fucked by your boys.
There is ZERO push back against this. None. No press. No protests. No letter writing. Zero. It will become law unless you take your head out of the sand and say something anywhere but slashdot.
How about we get some freakin affordable high DPI 20+ inch displays to work on? Display dpi has been stuck at 100 or less for...decades? And now that the IT industry things that pc users really just want 1080p for video we go backwards.
So.. lets see. to get the identification they must have been scanned before. But if they are a known terrorist, and you have scanned them, shouldn't they already be in jail? Of course you know this will be expanded to anyone who is ever arrested (regardless of eventual guilt) because..well all terrorists must have broken a law. This is such a freaking fail.
While the article speaks of the equities markets, there are oddities in the options market too which can be quite useful if you know how to exploit them. If you have a option series which is not super active (ie, not INTC or MSFT, etc) the spreads are generally speaking large - perhaps up to 0.50 or more depending on the strike price. Because the volumes are low one is many times forced to chose between dealing now or hoping somebody hits your bid or takes your offer. Typically you would at least try to show an improved bid or offer. However, about oh.. 5 or 6 years ago a new phenom began to emerge. Example. Quote is 2.50-2.90 you are a buyer and improve to 2.60 for say 5 or 10 contracts. Instantly, one of two things will happen. Your price will be joined by another options exchange for 20 or more contracts and/or "someone" will be 2.65 in front of you for a similar amount (or 10-20 lots). This is clearly very frustrating as your bid will be viewed as inferior. However, once one realizes what is going on you do have a chance to exploit it - but only if you have more than one trading account. See the powers that be (SEC, etc) do not want you, the day trader or investor, to be both sides of the market simultaneously. They don't care that you could, if you have proper positions or margin, take a 2.50/3.00 quote and make it 2.70/2.80. No, they only want you on one side at most and prefer that you be a price taker. But if you have two accounts here is what you do. As above, you are a buyer but do not wish to pay 2.90 but don't want to wait all day as you think the stock or market will move shortly. In account A, you offer 5 lots at 2.80. Ideally, one of the autobots will then offer at 2.75. Through your other account (B) you then take this offer at 2.75 and immediately cancel your own offer in account A. Of course, you could try to walk the price down another 0.05 - you might be joined by a different exchange and could direct your order be filled on that exchange before you cancel your offer. Selling obviously works the reverse.
Technically, what I have describe might run afoul of the "rules" and thus I do not advise you do this, etc, etc, etc. But it does describe fairly well another element of BS in the markets which has been created by autopilot algorithms and why they do not, in general, serve the investor or smaller traders well.
It seems like on civil liberties issues Obama is being almost as bad as Bush
Almost as bad? Try worse and just continuing what was done by Dems under Clinton. You didn't really think Dems have less love of power and ability to intrude and control than those big bad Republicans did you? Maybe by 2012 you won't be so naive and eat the sugar coated campaign slogans.
cost of fuel is a tiny fraction of the total cost of a nuclear plant - which is primarily amortization of the build out. The reason why prices spiked a few years ago is power plant operators feared a near term shortage which might result in plant downtime - which means no income to cover the bonds that financed the plant. They really could care less if they paid $50 or $150 - it was immaterial to the overall picture.
In that case, it should be sold and the money used to buy a new, cheap, barebones system that will use significantly less energy and still accomplish his goals of having a file server or backup computer system. It is one thing if the old hardware is still a primary/production system and the user doesn't want to spend the time/effort/money to modernize. Quite another when talking about using inefficient old hardware for some ancillary task without taking into account the total cost of operation. A 100 watt difference in power use when accumulated 24/7/365 is about $175/year at 20c total cost per killowatt/hour.
Well, I don' know about driving with the window down on purpose but it is true that at regular driving speeds, say 30 mph and up, you as a pedestrian/cyclist are hearing primarily tire noise and not engine noise. But the comment about parking lots is interesting - I think you are right that fan noise (and perhaps exhaust and engine noise depending on the model) play a key role in sensing an approaching vehicle.
Have you heard of churn? Quicker turnover of the exisiting base? I'm sure you can find other sources besides this one - some will be about the same, some will be higher but the reality is OSX is quite in line with the historical market share of Apple products (low).
And I still maintain, even after being marked troll by some fanboys, that MOST OSX users will NOT want to muck about with linux or BSD desktops if they revolt over iAds. Remember - Apple has forever claimed their OS 'just works' so that you can be creative (or insert some other verb). What % of their base are willing to get messy, as is inevitable with linux and bsd (I think I speak from some experience having used various linux distros and bsd since 1990). and deal with difficulties in getting hardware to work or finding suitable open source software alternatives? There will be only one direction for those to go and its (back) to Win XXX.
For all the Apple is great! bs that you read, their market share in the os area is still stuck at 5% +/- a tiny bit depending on the metric used. So really what you should be asking is 'will apple fanboys be offended by ads on their lap/desktops enough to go back to windows?' These are users which treasure ease of use and they aren't going to get that in any linux or BSD alternative.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious flaw in the 'report'. In addition - they have assumed (apparently) a uniform adoption of electric vehichles which is an unlikely scenario. EVs are far more likley to be popular in major metro areas where commutes are relatively short (10-75 miles round trip). Are the grids around NYC, Boston, Chicago and LA able to handle this? The NYC area in particular would be very suspect.
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Reference please the authorities on things like this: it-aint-no-thing
all the gay men are going to opt for right? this is hilariously stupid and par for the course for anything involving DHS.
I've used jdarkroom It is a very simple text editor which puts the focus on the writing. ymmv.
the issue you refer to (I think) is the increasing density of photo receptors on the same size cmos censor, ie more megapixels but on a tiny fingernail sized sensor. I don't think you can compare this to the issue of color reproduction on a 100dpi monitor as that technology exists and works fine - we just would like they made the screens larger. The technology for higher dpi also does exist but it costs a princely sum and shows no signs of coming into the consumer or even prosumer realm. I'm sure there are some hurdles dealing with defraction and heat but unlike the camera sensor which needs to absorb the light, the lcd is generating it independently. The photorecptor density issues are very complex and involve a number of different considerations and vary by the application of the camera - ie what is ok for one use might be dreadful for another.
Nice job. That is *almost* what I would be looking for. Yeah it would be nice to have a few extra vertical pixels but I'd like 3200x2000 (at 100dpi 1.6 format) wide so as to replace my two 20's with one new one. Well here's hoping!
I could probably adjust to the non 4:3 dimensions (by using the rotate feature) but what I will not forsake is dpi and that is what you are really being asked to do.
I think you hit it on the head.. this whole fixation on 1080p crap. If anything, DPI for computer monitors has been declining the past five years after a slow march to near 100dpi from 72 dpi. I am running two fairly ancient Formac 1600x1200 20"ers which are eactly 100dpi - circa 2002. Is it asking so much that 8 years later we have 2400x1800 on a 20" monitor for a reasonable price? Its become hard now to even find 100 dpi monitors at 20".
To clarify - I typically only have a few (5 or less) tabs open and have found the lock ups relate to how firefox handles links which are not responding (or not fast enough). The result is you are unable to switch tabs for anything from a couple seconds to well.. maybe never.. but typically it seems 20-30 secs. As to the slowdowns I have increasingly seen situations where comment boxes result in a non-symmetrical response - you start to type, you see what you type and then bam.. you are typing and nothing shows up... then 10 seconds later (if you have kept typing) it all shows up though sometimes you can see it printing a word at a time. This *never* happened in older versions of firefox and has only become an annoyance in the past 3-6 months. I've had this happen on extremely simple sites and extremely complex sites. Something is definitely fubar with firepig.
I suspect it is the case that most people do not run proxies but perhaps you are right that those who do want it system wide. In my case, I wanted to set up a ssh tunnel for infrequent use and would like it on a browser I don't use all the time (in part so I could continue normal work on the regular one with normal routing.) However, I've since found out that firefox may be the only one whch will also route dns thru the tunnel.
I do not run AVG and I have used everything from released versions of the 3.6 tree to the various nightlies of 3.6 and 4.0.
Err! The service was excellent and his neighbor got exactly what they had paid for. For $75. I'm sure if I were to get a breakdown on my property tax bill I am paying way more than $75 a year for fire service.
Is the conclusion I have come to of late. Firefox is a pig with random slowdowns (even as I type this) and high memory usage. Increasingly it also locks up other tabs while waiting on ads or other links to load. Chrome unfortunately seems to still make use of parts of IE or windows - found to my displeasure when setting up a proxy and I got the Internet Settings box (note: changing here seems to change for all apps...b rilliant). Opera while generally quite good still fails to draw some pages properly and still has some UI quirks which will take a long while to adjust to.
I may finally make the move to Opera and use one of the others when a page does not look right. But I've grown entirely sick of firefox, and yes I've tried 4.0 as well. Seeing that I started with something like mozilla 0.92 I've given them a fair shake I think!
You voted for this crap (slashdot is overwhelmingly democrat). It started with Clinton and DMCA and now you have OBAMA ("transparent", "change you can believe in") doing this crap (and behind closed doors to boot). Bend over and say again how much you love getting fucked by your boys.
There is ZERO push back against this. None. No press. No protests. No letter writing. Zero. It will become law unless you take your head out of the sand and say something anywhere but slashdot.
How about we get some freakin affordable high DPI 20+ inch displays to work on? Display dpi has been stuck at 100 or less for...decades? And now that the IT industry things that pc users really just want 1080p for video we go backwards.
So.. lets see. to get the identification they must have been scanned before. But if they are a known terrorist, and you have scanned them, shouldn't they already be in jail? Of course you know this will be expanded to anyone who is ever arrested (regardless of eventual guilt) because..well all terrorists must have broken a law. This is such a freaking fail.
While the article speaks of the equities markets, there are oddities in the options market too which can be quite useful if you know how to exploit them. If you have a option series which is not super active (ie, not INTC or MSFT, etc) the spreads are generally speaking large - perhaps up to 0.50 or more depending on the strike price. Because the volumes are low one is many times forced to chose between dealing now or hoping somebody hits your bid or takes your offer. Typically you would at least try to show an improved bid or offer. However, about oh.. 5 or 6 years ago a new phenom began to emerge. Example. Quote is 2.50-2.90 you are a buyer and improve to 2.60 for say 5 or 10 contracts. Instantly, one of two things will happen. Your price will be joined by another options exchange for 20 or more contracts and/or "someone" will be 2.65 in front of you for a similar amount (or 10-20 lots). This is clearly very frustrating as your bid will be viewed as inferior. However, once one realizes what is going on you do have a chance to exploit it - but only if you have more than one trading account. See the powers that be (SEC, etc) do not want you, the day trader or investor, to be both sides of the market simultaneously. They don't care that you could, if you have proper positions or margin, take a 2.50/3.00 quote and make it 2.70/2.80. No, they only want you on one side at most and prefer that you be a price taker. But if you have two accounts here is what you do. As above, you are a buyer but do not wish to pay 2.90 but don't want to wait all day as you think the stock or market will move shortly. In account A, you offer 5 lots at 2.80. Ideally, one of the autobots will then offer at 2.75. Through your other account (B) you then take this offer at 2.75 and immediately cancel your own offer in account A. Of course, you could try to walk the price down another 0.05 - you might be joined by a different exchange and could direct your order be filled on that exchange before you cancel your offer. Selling obviously works the reverse.
Technically, what I have describe might run afoul of the "rules" and thus I do not advise you do this, etc, etc, etc. But it does describe fairly well another element of BS in the markets which has been created by autopilot algorithms and why they do not, in general, serve the investor or smaller traders well.
You are a fool if you think those can protect you from the three letter agencies. Hope this doesn't spoil your day.
It seems like on civil liberties issues Obama is being almost as bad as Bush
Almost as bad? Try worse and just continuing what was done by Dems under Clinton. You didn't really think Dems have less love of power and ability to intrude and control than those big bad Republicans did you? Maybe by 2012 you won't be so naive and eat the sugar coated campaign slogans.
cost of fuel is a tiny fraction of the total cost of a nuclear plant - which is primarily amortization of the build out. The reason why prices spiked a few years ago is power plant operators feared a near term shortage which might result in plant downtime - which means no income to cover the bonds that financed the plant. They really could care less if they paid $50 or $150 - it was immaterial to the overall picture.
In that case, it should be sold and the money used to buy a new, cheap, barebones system that will use significantly less energy and still accomplish his goals of having a file server or backup computer system. It is one thing if the old hardware is still a primary/production system and the user doesn't want to spend the time/effort/money to modernize. Quite another when talking about using inefficient old hardware for some ancillary task without taking into account the total cost of operation. A 100 watt difference in power use when accumulated 24/7/365 is about $175/year at 20c total cost per killowatt/hour.
Well, I don' know about driving with the window down on purpose but it is true that at regular driving speeds, say 30 mph and up, you as a pedestrian/cyclist are hearing primarily tire noise and not engine noise. But the comment about parking lots is interesting - I think you are right that fan noise (and perhaps exhaust and engine noise depending on the model) play a key role in sensing an approaching vehicle.
mac sales != market share.
Have you heard of churn? Quicker turnover of the exisiting base? I'm sure you can find other sources besides this one - some will be about the same, some will be higher but the reality is OSX is quite in line with the historical market share of Apple products (low).
And I still maintain, even after being marked troll by some fanboys, that MOST OSX users will NOT want to muck about with linux or BSD desktops if they revolt over iAds. Remember - Apple has forever claimed their OS 'just works' so that you can be creative (or insert some other verb). What % of their base are willing to get messy, as is inevitable with linux and bsd (I think I speak from some experience having used various linux distros and bsd since 1990). and deal with difficulties in getting hardware to work or finding suitable open source software alternatives? There will be only one direction for those to go and its (back) to Win XXX.
For all the Apple is great! bs that you read, their market share in the os area is still stuck at 5% +/- a tiny bit depending on the metric used. So really what you should be asking is 'will apple fanboys be offended by ads on their lap/desktops enough to go back to windows?' These are users which treasure ease of use and they aren't going to get that in any linux or BSD alternative.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious flaw in the 'report'. In addition - they have assumed (apparently) a uniform adoption of electric vehichles which is an unlikely scenario. EVs are far more likley to be popular in major metro areas where commutes are relatively short (10-75 miles round trip). Are the grids around NYC, Boston, Chicago and LA able to handle this? The NYC area in particular would be very suspect.
you do realize the DMCA was the work of Clintholio, right?