Here Android and Windows might be forced to rise to the challenge forced by multiple vendors at multiple screen sizes.
Further, I'm sure it's a request the publishing community have been making for some time as they seek higher fidelity between the printed page and the screen.
I expect the system font will be a bit smaller due to the sharper text.
Fonts have been traditionally measured in points.
A point is 1/72 inch. This is a physical measurement independent of computer displays. A computer screen should therefore render a 12 point font as 1/6 of an inch.
The number of pixels required to measure a point will change with dpi but the size of the font shouldn't.
Where did I imply a phone was a general purpose solution for all industries?
The original poster was suggesting he use a phone as a phone and a raspberry pi as a computer. A phone that has 4 times as many cores and 8 times as much memory is a better choice. The raspberry pi doesn't even support hard float nor simd instructions as found in neon.
As a kid in Australia, I remember kiwifruit were also synonym'd chinese gooseberry but since the gooseberry wasn't a known fruit in australia, the name never gained popularity. i.e. why is a berry named after a goose and why are we eating 'oriental' fruit cultivated across the ditch?
By contrast, kiwi-fruit, i.e. a fruit grown by NZers stuck.
I bought a 2nd hand 20" Trinitron about 8 years ago for about $200 that did something like 1750x1300 (don' t quote me on that) with a little xorg.conf tweaking. A bitch to move - I got bruises from the weight!
I sent it to the recycling centre earlier this year when it became unbearable - the pixels had become fuzzy and dull.
So I think there's a lot of people clinging to CRTs but these things only last for about 10-15 years!
There's no incentive for developers to make their software 'scale' if said developers don't themselves have access to high dpi screens on which to test and develop.
iOS and Android have cornered the developer mindshare for objective-C and Java. That leaves WP7 (C#) and Qt (C++) as the only mainstream challengers. Nokia tried the Qt strategy on Symbian and the N9 but gave up - interesting if BB10 succeeds with Cascades!
That leaves HTML5... The thinking being whether every business need an 'app', or whether reskinning a desktop website for a mobile device would suffice with a few platform-specific bits of JS.
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specifically what clause in the GPL3 would deem GCC inappropriate where GPL2 was acceptable?
You'll probably find a 32 bit Atom netbook down at the department store.
Or the metric system.
Oh, wait... :-)
Assuming Apple exists in a vacuum.
Here Android and Windows might be forced to rise to the challenge forced by multiple vendors at multiple screen sizes.
Further, I'm sure it's a request the publishing community have been making for some time as they seek higher fidelity between the printed page and the screen.
Fonts have been traditionally measured in points.
A point is 1/72 inch. This is a physical measurement independent of computer displays. A computer screen should therefore render a 12 point font as 1/6 of an inch.
The number of pixels required to measure a point will change with dpi but the size of the font shouldn't.
Isn't Fedora's mission to be bleeding edge? i.e. to include stuff not mature enough for red hat?
I was using kde 3.x - migrated to gnome. Hated unity. I tried mate, cinnamon, lxde, xfce and then thought I'd given kde 4.8 a try.
It's much improved from 4.0!
Oh we Aussies understand nads all right. But the product was named after the founder's daughter Nadine, apparently.
Never been to a women's sporting contest? You'll hear fans cheering Go-Nads and Go-Anna. :-)
We also shorten Adrian --> Aids
Me personally? Nah.
But for some people it pays the bills. Apps are all the rage.
Developing touchscreen applications for Windows without purchazing an additional device?
Sounds like a remote desktop solution, optimized for touch. Could be handy for accessing a pc from the couch or meeting room.
Or, as I mentioned in another post, KDE are attempting to bridge the gap by offering workspaces for tablet and desktop.
Where did I imply a phone was a general purpose solution for all industries?
The original poster was suggesting he use a phone as a phone and a raspberry pi as a computer. A phone that has 4 times as many cores and 8 times as much memory is a better choice. The raspberry pi doesn't even support hard float nor simd instructions as found in neon.
Your mileage may vary.
Galaxy S3 comes with either 1 or 2 gigs depending on the model.
And what percentage of users do serious number crunching? Of course some users will require a core i7 for others a cortex a9 will be adequate.
The closest I've seen to some entity getting the concept is KDE Plasma Workspaces.
Use the 'Active' workspace when you're on a touch-screen and 'Desktop' when you're connected to a mouse, keyboard and 21" display.
Same KDE/Qt experience re-skinned for each environment and, presumably using the same settings underneath.
A raspberry pi is too underpowered for an everyday machine in 2012.
A phone, on the other hand, with quad core CPUs and up to 2 gig RAM is more like it.
As a kid in Australia, I remember kiwifruit were also synonym'd chinese gooseberry but since the gooseberry wasn't a known fruit in australia, the name never gained popularity. i.e. why is a berry named after a goose and why are we eating 'oriental' fruit cultivated across the ditch?
By contrast, kiwi-fruit, i.e. a fruit grown by NZers stuck.
I assume the OS depends on obtuse ppc assembly or needs to run old ppc binaries. Otherwise, why not recompile for amd64 or arm?
In which case, plans to target current ppc hardware? E.g. Wii and xbox360 are ppc based if you can boot your own OS on them.
Does VB work under Wine?
Develop under Linux, deploy on Windows. ;-)
I bought a 2nd hand 20" Trinitron about 8 years ago for about $200 that did something like 1750x1300 (don' t quote me on that) with a little xorg.conf tweaking. A bitch to move - I got bruises from the weight!
I sent it to the recycling centre earlier this year when it became unbearable - the pixels had become fuzzy and dull.
So I think there's a lot of people clinging to CRTs but these things only last for about 10-15 years!
For around that price you could probably get an extra 2 dual out video cards, a 6 head Vesa desk mount and six 21" LEDs.
[Screen A][Screen B][Screen C]
[Screen D][Screen E][Screen F]
5760x2160 OR
[Screen A][Screen B]
[Screen C][Screen D]
[Screen E][Screen F]
3840x3240
The energy usage a factor, obviously! :-)
Build it and they will come.
There's no incentive for developers to make their software 'scale' if said developers don't themselves have access to high dpi screens on which to test and develop.
Well since it's advertising subsidized, Intel will supplying each consumer with a 70" LED tv FOR FREE!
Oh wait...
Fund your failed economy some other way.
Austerity and bailouts only prolong the suffering.
Sounds like an idea for a browser extension. Dynamically change user agent based on domain.
iOS and Android have cornered the developer mindshare for objective-C and Java. That leaves WP7 (C#) and Qt (C++) as the only mainstream challengers. Nokia tried the Qt strategy on Symbian and the N9 but gave up - interesting if BB10 succeeds with Cascades!
That leaves HTML5... The thinking being whether every business need an 'app', or whether reskinning a desktop website for a mobile device would suffice with a few platform-specific bits of JS.