For prolonged use, you need to have a comfortable distance from your eyes to the screen. That is, in general, at least 60cm (2 feet). Anything closer than that will make the focusing muscles in your eyes tired. The amount of detail we humans can comfortably dissolve at that distance stops at somewhere around 200dpi and the difference between 110dpi and 200dpi isn't much any more.
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When, as a kid, I first took an interest in computers, 300dpi laser printers were all the rage. Now they boast around 2400dpi. No one seems to complain that images and text are sharper. Now displays and the printed page may be different but one certainly doesn't generally hold a piece of paper 2 feet away to read a book.
We can go much higher than 1080p on a 22" monitor. But smaller dot pitch will require higher refresh rates than, say, the 60hz found in my cheap Samsung LCD - we've come along way from when CRTs had a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 on a 15" monitor but that was generally unviewable on cheap tubes at that maximum because of refresh.
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Sounds like the WebGL behind one's browser is using software rendering because hardware acceleration has been blacklisted. (Or at least that's the case for my onboard Intel GPU)
A previous rich-client browser platform, AWT/Swing (which bit the dust for a variety of reasons), had OpenGL/DirectX accelerated drawing pipelines for nearly a decade for Java2D, Java3D & jogl.
Yet in 2013 we're still stuck with unstable graphics drivers. Hmmm...
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Cyanogenmod doesn't depend on Google services - it's based on the open source AOSP code.
This phone is blessed by Google to access the Play store and associated services. As with any Android(TM) phone, it'll come preloaded with Google Apps on the shipped firmware but presumably you're under no obligation to use them.
I assume too that one can wipe the phone with a 'clean' CM 1x image that doesn't include Google taint at all...
Having travelled through North America, this 'summer', it is possible to get decent coffee made from an Italian espresso machine. Just look for independent local cafeterias staffed by hipsters with beards.:) Pour overs have become a post-espresso fad.
The secret is to 'have here'. Coffee-to-go is another story - if the store wraps your latte's disposal container in a cardboard sleeve to prevent hand scoldage then they're doing it wrong - 'experts' have remarked that flavour and nutrients in the milk are destroyed by heating it to such a high temperature.
as for 'anachronistic abomination' of the americano, I guess it depends on the cup size. A 'long black' is a common beverage in Australia, while I was served 'Allonge' in Montreal. Each in a standard coffee cup - not a jumbo container where the flavour is diluted by copious amounts of hot water.
Tim Hortons and Starbucks, on the other hand, is what most people experience as bad American coffee. Bland muddy water, where a piping hot caffeine-laden 500ml+ take-out trumps flavour.
Isn't RT just a crippled Windows 8.x, compiled for Tegra 4? Would the product do any better if they upgraded to full Windows, allowed desktop applications (recompiled for ARM) and opened the boot-loader?
The current model seems too restricted, when for a couple of hundred more you could buy the Surface 2 Pro, albeit with half the battery life.
You'd still have the product differentiation problem of 'this won't run applications compiled for a (x86-64) desktop'.
Compatibility with Android should be *much* higher than with wine. They have the source code for a start... They both target Linus' kernel. They're both based around OpenGL (ES) for drawing.
I imagine he applied live updates to the flash storage via Ksplice, or similar. As we saw in 'The Bells of Saint John', he's quite the hacker and could write kernel modules to augment the hardware.
22/7...
It all goes back to the Babylonian representation of time when there were only 22 hours in a day and thus 154 hours a week. Then some bright spark asked 'Wouldn't it be nice if there were a couple of extra hours in the day', and so the 24/7 paradigm was born. Some thought this change was irrational (c.f. daylight saving), so a formal definition of circumference = pi x diameter was adopted.
I've taken a night train across Canada. Insomniacs, infants and phone users were courteous enough to venture to the refreshments lounge, where they were screening the BTTF trilogy.
On buses and cattle-class planes there's generally no common area to rest away from one's seat.
Your assumption is that a government service should 'break even'.
Were prices set in line with costs - Jane Q Public would complain that sending Christmas cards to her umpteen her grandchildren was too expensive - Andrew J Executive would complain that the cost of doing postal business was too high and thus hurts the broader economy
A user-pays system unsubsidised by taxation, anyone?
Amazon and BB10 having their own app stores would cut into revenue. It has very little to do with 'bastardized versions' and more about that checkbox that warns against installing software from non-official, i.e. non-Google, sources.
Hence the dream of Firefox OS as an alternative funding model.
All that 'useless stuff no one would ever need in a desktop browser, why would you ever code something like that in JS' type functionality we see in the firefox builds is to support writing phone apps, with the goal of securing funding from the telcos of Brazil and other emerging markets.
Blame Uncle Rupert for that one. Having the NBN would diminish News Corp's foxtel business if folks could stream 4K content from online services such as netflix.
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When, as a kid, I first took an interest in computers, 300dpi laser printers were all the rage. Now they boast around 2400dpi. No one seems to complain that images and text are sharper. Now displays and the printed page may be different but one certainly doesn't generally hold a piece of paper 2 feet away to read a book.
We can go much higher than 1080p on a 22" monitor. But smaller dot pitch will require higher refresh rates than, say, the 60hz found in my cheap Samsung LCD - we've come along way from when CRTs had a maximum resolution of 1280x1024 on a 15" monitor but that was generally unviewable on cheap tubes at that maximum because of refresh.
Sounds like the WebGL behind one's browser is using software rendering because hardware acceleration has been blacklisted. (Or at least that's the case for my onboard Intel GPU)
A previous rich-client browser platform, AWT/Swing (which bit the dust for a variety of reasons), had OpenGL/DirectX accelerated drawing pipelines for nearly a decade for Java2D, Java3D & jogl.
Yet in 2013 we're still stuck with unstable graphics drivers. Hmmm...
Jane Street runs OCaml! :-)
Catalonia and Scotland are planning independence referendums, I think he means.
As long as LAX and SFO are excluded from US airspace and I can fly to Vancouver from the other side of the Pacific without going through US customs...
Cyanogenmod doesn't depend on Google services - it's based on the open source AOSP code.
This phone is blessed by Google to access the Play store and associated services. As with any Android(TM) phone, it'll come preloaded with Google Apps on the shipped firmware but presumably you're under no obligation to use them.
I assume too that one can wipe the phone with a 'clean' CM 1x image that doesn't include Google taint at all...
That's no 'Object', it's the Horta.
Not sure what sort of battery pack you'd need to power an LCD monitor though. :)
30 years on, how times have changed!
Having travelled through North America, this 'summer', it is possible to get decent coffee made from an Italian espresso machine. Just look for independent local cafeterias staffed by hipsters with beards. :) Pour overs have become a post-espresso fad.
The secret is to 'have here'. Coffee-to-go is another story - if the store wraps your latte's disposal container in a cardboard sleeve to prevent hand scoldage then they're doing it wrong - 'experts' have remarked that flavour and nutrients in the milk are destroyed by heating it to such a high temperature.
as for 'anachronistic abomination' of the americano, I guess it depends on the cup size. A 'long black' is a common beverage in Australia, while I was served 'Allonge' in Montreal. Each in a standard coffee cup - not a jumbo container where the flavour is diluted by copious amounts of hot water.
Tim Hortons and Starbucks, on the other hand, is what most people experience as bad American coffee. Bland muddy water, where a piping hot caffeine-laden 500ml+ take-out trumps flavour.
Indeed, Firefox now plays video content via gstreamer, so I only keep Chrome around for recalcitrant flash-only sites.
"You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
Isn't RT just a crippled Windows 8.x, compiled for Tegra 4? Would the product do any better if they upgraded to full Windows, allowed desktop applications (recompiled for ARM) and opened the boot-loader?
The current model seems too restricted, when for a couple of hundred more you could buy the Surface 2 Pro, albeit with half the battery life.
You'd still have the product differentiation problem of 'this won't run applications compiled for a (x86-64) desktop'.
Compatibility with Android should be *much* higher than with wine. They have the source code for a start... They both target Linus' kernel. They're both based around OpenGL (ES) for drawing.
the dockers
I imagine he applied live updates to the flash storage via Ksplice, or similar. As we saw in 'The Bells of Saint John', he's quite the hacker and could write kernel modules to augment the hardware.
22/7... It all goes back to the Babylonian representation of time when there were only 22 hours in a day and thus 154 hours a week. Then some bright spark asked 'Wouldn't it be nice if there were a couple of extra hours in the day', and so the 24/7 paradigm was born. Some thought this change was irrational (c.f. daylight saving), so a formal definition of circumference = pi x diameter was adopted.
I've taken a night train across Canada. Insomniacs, infants and phone users were courteous enough to venture to the refreshments lounge, where they were screening the BTTF trilogy.
On buses and cattle-class planes there's generally no common area to rest away from one's seat.
Your assumption is that a government service should 'break even'.
Were prices set in line with costs
- Jane Q Public would complain that sending Christmas cards to her umpteen her grandchildren was too expensive
- Andrew J Executive would complain that the cost of doing postal business was too high and thus hurts the broader economy
A user-pays system unsubsidised by taxation, anyone?
sucrose tastes better too.
Would specific cultivars of trees burn more efficiently - thus to plant lower emission trees?
Google make money off Google Play.
Amazon and BB10 having their own app stores would cut into revenue. It has very little to do with 'bastardized versions' and more about that checkbox that warns against installing software from non-official, i.e. non-Google, sources.
Hence the dream of Firefox OS as an alternative funding model.
All that 'useless stuff no one would ever need in a desktop browser, why would you ever code something like that in JS' type functionality we see in the firefox builds is to support writing phone apps, with the goal of securing funding from the telcos of Brazil and other emerging markets.
Well, potentially, because you want a consistent experience across devices, via settings, bookmarks, history etc via Firefox Sync.
I've never used it personally (tin-foil hat...)
Blame Uncle Rupert for that one. Having the NBN would diminish News Corp's foxtel business if folks could stream 4K content from online services such as netflix.