Both nVidia and ATI drivers have native monitor rotation built-in but just in case you can't activate it for Windows there is an useful utility: "iRotate", which is only 110K. http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm
* no retina 17" * no matte option * no hard-wired ethernet port. Wireless is great WHEN it works.
Thanks for the pointer about the lack of VRAM -- that is interesting. I'm an OpenGL / GLES / WebGL developer too so good to know one more thing to watch out in the retina models.:-/
> Copyright exists because people cannot be trusted to respect the wishes of artists and/or financially support them False. It was invented by _publishers_ to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit !
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law [wikipedia.org] "The history of copyright law starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books."
"Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time."
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies,"...
"In England the printers, known as stationers, formed a collective organisation, known as the Stationers' Company. In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register. Only members of the Stationers' Company could enter books into the register. This meant that the Stationers' Company achieved a dominant position over publishing in 17th century England"
Second, "The easiest form of parochialism to fall into is to assume that we are smarter than the past generations, that our thinking is necessarily more sophisticated. This may be true in science and technology, but not necessarily so in wisdom." "Macaulay on Copyright" * http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/1345/03329
> Java seems pretty hard to write effectively if you don't have a refactoring editor. That is exactly the problem! Any language that depends on having a good IDE is badly designed IMHO.
Part of the problem is that the "standard" libraries are "invisible" APIs. You don't know them until you either
a) memorize the function names along with the parameters, or
b) rely on a tool to do it for you: either book-form, or electronic form.
You can see this quite easily in C++ with all the bloat of the STL. While it is a beautifully designed API you still need a "reference" page in order to use it until you become familiar with it. In the pre-C++ days the problem wasn't as exasperated since all it was relatively easily to look up a function. With namespaces you can easily have many false positives due to lack of a _unique_ function name; you effectively only have a relative name.
I am sorry you don't have basic reading comprehension skills. I was only using them as an _example_. I know many things about the past and future that have yet to be (re)discovered; I was simple explaining _why_ I use the term discovered.
a) America was "discovered" by the Europeans even though there was _already_ natives living on it. From the POV of the natives America was "known", from the POV of of the Europeans it was "discovered."
b) At one point the majority of people thought that the earth was flat. (Even some sailors knew this was total nonsense due to seeing a ship's mast way off in the distance; Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of earth anywhere between 2% and 16% error.) Now what if a person knew that the earth was a sphere but didn't calculate it nor tell others, this fact would be "undiscovered" until it became "common knowledge."
Let me ask you a tangential question: How many people are required before subjective truth becomes objective truth? One person? Two people? 50 people? 1 billion? (Don't confuse the fact that truth is independent of repeatability.)
Second, a man could know all the secrets of the universe, however, if they are not known (or recognized) by society in general then for all intents and purposes _effectively_ they are undiscovered _until_ such time when they are generally accepted and known.
Let me provide you with an two real examples:
* Humans are not alone. In (roughly) 20 years this will be _common_ knowledge. Right now this is "curiosity for a few, mere speculation for many; total nonsense for others." Only a few people are even a) aware, and b) know the answer. Heck, even 50 years ago this was thought nonsense! Thankfully cooler heads prevailed, and logic won out: We dared to calculate this answer and now scientists have the Drake Equation to say: "You know, this question (and answer) isn't nonsense like we used to think. This might be a real possibility!" Currently we lack hard, physical evidence to appease the die-hard skeptic, but he will get his day. That is a promise.;-)
* The current estimate for the age of the universe is a *significantly* off. As scientists discover white holes, see the energy transfer/exchange between black holes and white holes, and see how the remaining two missing fundamental forces interact they will slowly revise their number.
So in the context of the general population many things are "undiscovered" or "unknown".
I would point out though that the *time* frame of "when" things are discovered is mostly irrelevant. The much more interesting question is how will society change when we receive answers to questions that we've been asking since the dawn of time?
The beauty is that in the worst case this is just some ramblings of a mad man and you can ignore him. But if these things do pass, and when I've long been gone, this will be a record of "How the hell did he even know these things before every one else??"
Bringing this back on topic: Believe it or not, Science is not actually about Truth; Science is one way, a very successful method mind you, to remove ignorance. However, there is _another_ way to know truth. Science is just the "backup" way to replace "faith" with "knowledge".;-)
After 20 years of using IDEs I've switched to (g)vim and ctags. The text editor feels like an extension of my mind plus I don't have to put up with some IDE choking due to background tasks such as parameter matching, parameter completion, etc.
And we wonder why software is slow and bloated these days... no one gives a fuck about small and efficient anymore.
Please explain... how is a society where the majority are apathetic and ignorant versus an oppressive government that uses 1984 as their handbook to stifle creativity, truth, and just outright murder people they find inconvenient?
Uh, you DO realize that there is *infinite* knowledge right?;-) That should not be interpreted as a negative, but as a positive -- we will ALWAYS have something neat to learn about the Universe and ourselves!
Just because Scientist don't have a clue what causes gravity, causes magnetism, what happens when you travel faster then the speed of light, still ignorant of white holes, still haven't discovered the 2 remaining fundamental forces doesn't mean that someday we won't. As long as we are progressing towards removing the (remaining) holes of ignorance in our entire knowledge base that is good.
Besides, learning how we discovery the answers is far more important then what the answers are themselves.:-)
In October 2001, Birkenfeld began working at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, handling private banking, primarily for clients located in the United States. In 2005, he learned that UBS's secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the IRS.
He resigned from UBS in October 2005 and provided written whistleblower complaints to Peter Kurer, Head Counsel for UBS, and other UBS senior executives regarding the illegal practices of U.S. cross-border business.
He is the first person to expose what has become a multi-billion dollar international tax fraud scandal over Swiss private banking.[2] Despite his unprecedented, extensive and voluntary cooperation, and registering as an IRS whistleblower, Birkenfeld is the only U.S. citizen to be sentenced to jail as a result of the scandal.
> It's the morons that set the tab width to anything else than the holy 8 that broke the formatting. *YOU* are the moron for ASSUMING tab = 8 spaces. There is NO rule that says tabs MUST be 8 spaces, ONLY _convention_.
Anyways, there are 3 choices for whitespace:
* ONLY Tabs * ONLY Spaces * Tabs for indent. Spaces for alignment
Which is *precisely* why it is total crap. It has the potential to be SO MUCH MORE then just a encyclopedia. Instead they piss away their opportunity to be great.
Every article should be broken down into at *least* 4 sections:
* Layman introduction (either 8th grade, or 12th grade) * Theory - Professional Description - notation, terminology, etc. * Implementation & Examples * Tutorial * Reference * Related Info - such as Trivia * Optional: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Frequently asked Questions & Answers
One man's junk is another man's treasure. SOME people LOVE trivia. Others hate it. The solution is to be appeal to BOTH people. For the people that hate trivia they never have to view it.
> This strikes me as the wrong solution to the problem:.. set its display area to that size *sigh*
It is sad to see you unfortunately don't know what you the hell you are talking about. Let me explain:
There are these precious little things called RAM, Video Memory, Video Buffers, DMA speed, and Scaling.
Games typically use _at least_ *four* buffers:
* Frame Buffer Front (32-bit) * Frame Buffer Back (32-bit) * Depth Buffer (24-bit) * Stencil Buffer (8-bit)
Why should the Window Manager force the app to *over* allocate memory say @ 1920x1080 when the user has selected 640x480??
That is, why would you have the GPU waste a total of 24 MB (8 MB FB Front + 8 MB Back + 6 MB Depth + 2 MB Stencil) compared to ONLY needing 3.6 MB (1200K + 1200K + 900K + 300K) ??
More memory allocated for the buffers means you have LESS resident textures on the GPU.
Also, By using a native (lower) resolution you force the monitor to use native *hardware* up-scaling.
> and then tell the window manager to "fullscreen" And this is done for "free" in your fantasy world??
Why would you force the GPU to do *extra* work of texture-copy up-scaling when it doesn't need to one in the first place if you are running at a 1:1 resolution at full-screen??
> set its display area to that size, and then tell the window manager to "fullscreen" it by removing title bar and border decorations and moving it to (0,0) of that monitor.
Lastly SOME games do NOT support arbitrary resolutions. I *want* them to fill my 22" monitor at whatever resolution they DO support. The *fonts* and the rest of the UI elements are BIGGER and easier to see when running in full-screen mode.
Likewise, games that *only* run in full-screen mode are BADLY DESIGNED.
The *proper* thing to do is to give the _user_ choice: Namely the 3 I listed above.
Hope this helps explains some of the issues and WHY this solution is The Right Thing.
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> Well yes but my point is that nobody is at that point.
And you've interviewed ALL 6 billion+ people on this planet ... ??
Some assuming.
Oblg. "Financial Planning - Long term: the car is cheaper"
http://www.winecommonsewer.com/.a/6a00d8341cbb0453ef0133f344cd42970b-500pi
Mod parent up as +informative.
Thanks for the info!
Does anyone know how the U2412M stands up for hard-core gaming? It is hard to leave a 5 ms response time.
Agreed that is more "efficient" to just buy 2 cheap monitors and use the extra cash to buy something like the "Neo-Flex Dual LCD Lift Stand" that will rotate any monitor 360 degrees. :-)
http://www.ergotron.com/Products/tabid/65/PRDID/241/Language/en-US/Default.aspx
Both nVidia and ATI drivers have native monitor rotation built-in but just in case you can't activate it for Windows there is an useful utility: "iRotate", which is only 110K.
http://www.entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm
Mod parent up!
100% agree Apple is shitting on the power users:
* no retina 17"
* no matte option
* no hard-wired ethernet port. Wireless is great WHEN it works.
Thanks for the pointer about the lack of VRAM -- that is interesting. I'm an OpenGL / GLES / WebGL developer too so good to know one more thing to watch out in the retina models. :-/
Maybe next year revisions ...
> Copyright exists because people cannot be trusted to respect the wishes of artists and/or financially support them
False. It was invented by _publishers_ to maintain control by preventing other publishers from making a profit !
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law [wikipedia.org]
"The history of copyright law starts with early privileges and monopolies granted to printers of books. The British Statute of Anne 1710, full title "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned", was the first copyright statute. Initially copyright law only applied to the copying of books."
"Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time."
"The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton. The privilege gives a monopoly for the term of two years. The date is 15 years later than that of the first privilege issued in France. Early copyright privileges were called "monopolies," ...
"In England the printers, known as stationers, formed a collective organisation, known as the Stationers' Company. In the 16th century the Stationers' Company was given the power to require all lawfully printed books to be entered into its register. Only members of the Stationers' Company could enter books into the register. This meant that the Stationers' Company achieved a dominant position over publishing in 17th century England"
Second, "The easiest form of parochialism to fall into is to assume that we are smarter than the past generations, that our thinking is necessarily more sophisticated. This may be true in science and technology, but not necessarily so in wisdom."
"Macaulay on Copyright"
* http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/25/1345/03329
Lastly, good luck with that spiel to the Fashion Industry:
"Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture"
* http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
> Java seems pretty hard to write effectively if you don't have a refactoring editor.
That is exactly the problem! Any language that depends on having a good IDE is badly designed IMHO.
Part of the problem is that the "standard" libraries are "invisible" APIs. You don't know them until you either
a) memorize the function names along with the parameters, or
b) rely on a tool to do it for you: either book-form, or electronic form.
You can see this quite easily in C++ with all the bloat of the STL. While it is a beautifully designed API you still need a "reference" page in order to use it until you become familiar with it. In the pre-C++ days the problem wasn't as exasperated since all it was relatively easily to look up a function. With namespaces you can easily have many false positives due to lack of a _unique_ function name; you effectively only have a relative name.
I am sorry you don't have basic reading comprehension skills. I was only using them as an _example_. I know many things about the past and future that have yet to be (re)discovered; I was simple explaining _why_ I use the term discovered.
Because eventually they will be. :-)
I say that for two reasons:
First, history teaches us this.
a) America was "discovered" by the Europeans even though there was _already_ natives living on it. From the POV of the natives America was "known", from the POV of of the Europeans it was "discovered."
b) At one point the majority of people thought that the earth was flat. (Even some sailors knew this was total nonsense due to seeing a ship's mast way off in the distance; Eratosthenes estimated the circumference of earth anywhere between 2% and 16% error.) Now what if a person knew that the earth was a sphere but didn't calculate it nor tell others, this fact would be "undiscovered" until it became "common knowledge."
Let me ask you a tangential question: How many people are required before subjective truth becomes objective truth? One person? Two people? 50 people? 1 billion? (Don't confuse the fact that truth is independent of repeatability.)
Second, a man could know all the secrets of the universe, however, if they are not known (or recognized) by society in general then for all intents and purposes _effectively_ they are undiscovered _until_ such time when they are generally accepted and known.
Let me provide you with an two real examples:
* Humans are not alone. In (roughly) 20 years this will be _common_ knowledge. Right now this is "curiosity for a few, mere speculation for many; total nonsense for others." Only a few people are even a) aware, and b) know the answer. Heck, even 50 years ago this was thought nonsense! Thankfully cooler heads prevailed, and logic won out: We dared to calculate this answer and now scientists have the Drake Equation to say: "You know, this question (and answer) isn't nonsense like we used to think. This might be a real possibility!" Currently we lack hard, physical evidence to appease the die-hard skeptic, but he will get his day. That is a promise. ;-)
* The current estimate for the age of the universe is a *significantly* off. As scientists discover white holes, see the energy transfer/exchange between black holes and white holes, and see how the remaining two missing fundamental forces interact they will slowly revise their number.
So in the context of the general population many things are "undiscovered" or "unknown".
I would point out though that the *time* frame of "when" things are discovered is mostly irrelevant. The much more interesting question is how will society change when we receive answers to questions that we've been asking since the dawn of time?
The beauty is that in the worst case this is just some ramblings of a mad man and you can ignore him. But if these things do pass, and when I've long been gone, this will be a record of "How the hell did he even know these things before every one else??"
Bringing this back on topic: Believe it or not, Science is not actually about Truth; Science is one way, a very successful method mind you, to remove ignorance. However, there is _another_ way to know truth. Science is just the "backup" way to replace "faith" with "knowledge". ;-)
Touche ;-)
So I need 2 GB for a stupid IDE just to code??
After 20 years of using IDEs I've switched to (g)vim and ctags. The text editor feels like an extension of my mind plus I don't have to put up with some IDE choking due to background tasks such as parameter matching, parameter completion, etc.
And we wonder why software is slow and bloated these days ... no one gives a fuck about small and efficient anymore.
Please explain ... how is a society where the majority are apathetic and ignorant versus an oppressive government that uses 1984 as their handbook to stifle creativity, truth, and just outright murder people they find inconvenient?
--
Free "Ai Weiwei"
* http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2012/10/taking-great-firewall-china
* http://www.newstatesman.com/media/media/2012/10/ai-weiwei-if-someone-not-free-i-am-not-free
> if the pizzerias all decided to force Google to not list them, I wouldn't find them, and they'd no longer get any new business.
The trouble is, that is an all-or-nothing. If anyone business did that they would be seriously harming their potential revenue.
IF the pizzerias could work together THEN then yes, they could get control and dictate prices.
The "trouble" is all it takes is just one business who *gasp* WANTS potential customers to find them.
Uh, you DO realize that there is *infinite* knowledge right? ;-) That should not be interpreted as a negative, but as a positive -- we will ALWAYS have something neat to learn about the Universe and ourselves!
Just because Scientist don't have a clue what causes gravity, causes magnetism, what happens when you travel faster then the speed of light, still ignorant of white holes, still haven't discovered the 2 remaining fundamental forces doesn't mean that someday we won't. As long as we are progressing towards removing the (remaining) holes of ignorance in our entire knowledge base that is good.
Besides, learning how we discovery the answers is far more important then what the answers are themselves. :-)
Yah, but when has Microsoft (or any of its products) ever been sexy? ;-)
> It appears to me that you're passionate enough about Mehdi to start an article yourself.
I already did. It got deleted because it wasn't "notable" enough.
I more important battles then to fight clueless admins who don't have a fucking clue how Wikipedia is _supposed_ to work.
Was this one of the cases?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld
How the fuck is 73,608 pages NOT a sham??
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2012/04/2012-how-many-pages-are-there-in-us-tax.html
--
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." ( "Corruptisima republica plurimae leges." ) Tacitus, Anals III 27
> Does that mean the entire tax system is a sham?
Government enforced stealing doesn't make it right.
Stealing from those that have more and giving to others who have less isn't fair.
i.e.
https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+gpa+redistribution
Same Bullshit in the US too ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Birkenfeld
In October 2001, Birkenfeld began working at UBS in Geneva, Switzerland, handling private banking, primarily for clients located in the United States. In 2005, he learned that UBS's secret dealings with American customers violated an agreement the bank had reached with the IRS.
He resigned from UBS in October 2005 and provided written whistleblower complaints to Peter Kurer, Head Counsel for UBS, and other UBS senior executives regarding the illegal practices of U.S. cross-border business.
He is the first person to expose what has become a multi-billion dollar international tax fraud scandal over Swiss private banking.[2] Despite his unprecedented, extensive and voluntary cooperation, and registering as an IRS whistleblower, Birkenfeld is the only U.S. citizen to be sentenced to jail as a result of the scandal.
> It's the morons that set the tab width to anything else than the holy 8 that broke the formatting.
*YOU* are the moron for ASSUMING tab = 8 spaces. There is NO rule that says tabs MUST be 8 spaces, ONLY _convention_.
Anyways, there are 3 choices for whitespace:
* ONLY Tabs
* ONLY Spaces
* Tabs for indent. Spaces for alignment
That last one gives the most flexibility.
When _you_ write a C compiler and text editor then you can name after yourself.
Are you unable to acknowledge all the good the GNU foundation has done?
> Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tutorial
Which is *precisely* why it is total crap. It has the potential to be SO MUCH MORE then just a encyclopedia. Instead they piss away their opportunity to be great.
Every article should be broken down into at *least* 4 sections:
* Layman introduction (either 8th grade, or 12th grade)
* Theory - Professional Description - notation, terminology, etc.
* Implementation & Examples
* Tutorial
* Reference
* Related Info - such as Trivia
* Optional: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Frequently asked Questions & Answers
One man's junk is another man's treasure. SOME people LOVE trivia. Others hate it. The solution is to be appeal to BOTH people. For the people that hate trivia they never have to view it.
Also, when you stupid crap like this Artist who has 9 CD's actively being sold on Amazon yet STILL is refused to be listed on Wikipedia you know the admins are fucking clueless.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Mehdi
i.e.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi
Does it REALLY take up THAT much disk space and network storage to be COMPLETE ??
> This strikes me as the wrong solution to the problem: .. set its display area to that size
*sigh*
It is sad to see you unfortunately don't know what you the hell you are talking about. Let me explain:
There are these precious little things called RAM, Video Memory, Video Buffers, DMA speed, and Scaling.
Games typically use _at least_ *four* buffers:
* Frame Buffer Front (32-bit)
* Frame Buffer Back (32-bit)
* Depth Buffer (24-bit)
* Stencil Buffer (8-bit)
Why should the Window Manager force the app to *over* allocate memory say @ 1920x1080 when the user has selected 640x480??
That is, why would you have the GPU waste a total of 24 MB (8 MB FB Front + 8 MB Back + 6 MB Depth + 2 MB Stencil) compared to ONLY needing 3.6 MB (1200K + 1200K + 900K + 300K) ??
More memory allocated for the buffers means you have LESS resident textures on the GPU.
Also, By using a native (lower) resolution you force the monitor to use native *hardware* up-scaling.
> and then tell the window manager to "fullscreen"
And this is done for "free" in your fantasy world??
Why would you force the GPU to do *extra* work of texture-copy up-scaling when it doesn't need to one in the first place if you are running at a 1:1 resolution at full-screen??
> set its display area to that size, and then tell the window manager to "fullscreen" it by removing title bar and border decorations and moving it to (0,0) of that monitor.
That is called "Windowed No Border Mode"
i.e. Gamers want _3_ choices
* Full-Screen (change resolution)
* Windowed (don't change resolution)
* Windowed No Border (don't change resolution)
Lastly SOME games do NOT support arbitrary resolutions. I *want* them to fill my 22" monitor at whatever resolution they DO support. The *fonts* and the rest of the UI elements are BIGGER and easier to see when running in full-screen mode.
Likewise, games that *only* run in full-screen mode are BADLY DESIGNED.
The *proper* thing to do is to give the _user_ choice: Namely the 3 I listed above.
Hope this helps explains some of the issues and WHY this solution is The Right Thing.
Exactly.
Cheap LCD don't scale properly.