I still don't know what it is with this fixation of super wide ratios such as 16:9.
Supposedly, our field of view fits it better. But in reality, a square display would far better suit our visual system, where details can be discerned equally according to the distance from the direct line of view. For example, try reading a word while looking not directly at the word, but 2 or 5cm away. The text is just as hard to read whether you look 5cm below/above the word, or 5cm to the *left/right* of the word.
When I look at a wide screen, I see gaping missing blocks at the top and bottom.
So it's what a company does with the information that determines whether they're evil or not. If google are just using to increase the relevancy of their adverts, that hardly makes it evil.
As for the bacon and eggs thing, one could argue that it's fairer for all on the average if the insurance does go higher up for that person.
I know you can do those things anyway. I was just wondering about the *real* impact, and what the presumably negative ramifications to one's life would actually be as a result of information that is 'passed along' (often almost as a side effect of a network transaction).
One can say "privacy for privacy's sake", but there are always going to tangible reasons (whether justifiable or not), or even a large collection of smaller reasons, again, many of which may make a lot of sense (or could just be paranoia). It's better to get at the real picture, than blanket it up with just saying: 'because it's wrong' etc.
So in that case, you might receive adverts which are mildly off-topic, instead of wildly off-topic. Either way, you would be getting an advert. I just don't see how one's 'quality of life' would decrease if this was the aim.
I half agree, but just to play devil's advocate, why do you worry/care if someone knows say... what taste your music is like, or what you had for breakfast yesterday? Isn't it just trivia at the end of the day?
Chances are VERY few would care very much, unless they knew you, or they shared your interests anyway.
I suppose the clearest code of all would often have exponential run times, zero optimization, extremely inefficient disk access routines, and of course, very short code.
I look forward more to resolution independence. It would REALLY nice to express a picture or font's width in terms of screen (or table) proportion, instead of pixels (ugh).
It would save everyone so much time. Let's hope super-super high resolution monitors (OLED anyone?) come shortly to make this more of a reality.
Strictly speaking, it gives 2 x 2D vision. If you could really see in 3D, you'd be able to see through stuff, and all at once. It'd be a very different sensation with masses more information being received by the brain/eyes.
I started out with a simpler geometrical/visual definition - rotate a point around, move away/towards from the center, and then translate by the initial vector. Keep doing this until it sinks to the centre, or moves away to infinity. You don't even need to use complex numbers for this, though it makes it simpler if you do.
Using that logic, I then tried to find a 3D equivalent, and think I did pretty well. Don't you at least find it curious that the buds are forever growing upon each other in a way that's never been seen before outside IFS systems? It really makes me think that the 'real McCoy' exists (see the end of the article).
This is good news, because it creates more jobs so that half the people in the UK can watch the other half all the time, and then they swap over every so often.
No one will be without a job then, and we solve the terrorist problem in one shot!
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I think it's more optimistic to reverse that. If you want to know why someone follows the money, see why they want to do something. Money is used as a mechanism, but it doesn't take any worth away from the pursuits and items that need that mechanism.
I realise that may not fully apply with some of the more 'greedy' / short-term profit companies though.
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Were you referring to moi?
Fair enough, but couldn't they 'up' the prices on laser toner in the same way as they do inkjet ink?
Why is laser ink so much cheaper than inkjet?
I still don't know what it is with this fixation of super wide ratios such as 16:9.
Supposedly, our field of view fits it better. But in reality, a square display would far better suit our visual system, where details can be discerned equally according to the distance from the direct line of view. For example, try reading a word while looking not directly at the word, but 2 or 5cm away. The text is just as hard to read whether you look 5cm below/above the word, or 5cm to the *left/right* of the word.
When I look at a wide screen, I see gaping missing blocks at the top and bottom.
Citations!! (recoils in horror).
I didn't know those were allowed here.
Question the motive not the action. It's what they use the information for that determines whether it is evil or not.
So it's what a company does with the information that determines whether they're evil or not. If google are just using to increase the relevancy of their adverts, that hardly makes it evil.
As for the bacon and eggs thing, one could argue that it's fairer for all on the average if the insurance does go higher up for that person.
I know you can do those things anyway. I was just wondering about the *real* impact, and what the presumably negative ramifications to one's life would actually be as a result of information that is 'passed along' (often almost as a side effect of a network transaction).
One can say "privacy for privacy's sake", but there are always going to tangible reasons (whether justifiable or not), or even a large collection of smaller reasons, again, many of which may make a lot of sense (or could just be paranoia). It's better to get at the real picture, than blanket it up with just saying: 'because it's wrong' etc.
So in that case, you might receive adverts which are mildly off-topic, instead of wildly off-topic. Either way, you would be getting an advert. I just don't see how one's 'quality of life' would decrease if this was the aim.
I half agree, but just to play devil's advocate, why do you worry/care if someone knows say... what taste your music is like, or what you had for breakfast yesterday? Isn't it just trivia at the end of the day?
Chances are VERY few would care very much, unless they knew you, or they shared your interests anyway.
Part of me doubts that if it can't even be shown whether arbitrary code will complete or not (Halting Theorem).
Still, yes, that would be awesome.
I suppose the clearest code of all would often have exponential run times, zero optimization, extremely inefficient disk access routines, and of course, very short code.
I would die for that day.
With that in mind, what program would be best to use? I take it WinRAR (which uses RAR and zip compression), or 7-Zip would be of no use...?
Yes, but doesn't competition sort that out? And why is laser ink so much cheaper anyway?
Hi can you possibly take a photo, and send it to me?
I think more useful than 'real' measurements, would be proportions of a screen/window. That would cater to all monitor sizes and DPIs in future.
I look forward more to resolution independence. It would REALLY nice to express a picture or font's width in terms of screen (or table) proportion, instead of pixels (ugh).
It would save everyone so much time. Let's hope super-super high resolution monitors (OLED anyone?) come shortly to make this more of a reality.
They're fairly low quality jpeg anyway because of bandwidth concerns.
I've argued the same thing for ages - you're completely right of course. Glad I'm not the only one...
Strictly speaking, it gives 2 x 2D vision. If you could really see in 3D, you'd be able to see through stuff, and all at once. It'd be a very different sensation with masses more information being received by the brain/eyes.
'True definition'?
I started out with a simpler geometrical/visual definition - rotate a point around, move away/towards from the center, and then translate by the initial vector. Keep doing this until it sinks to the centre, or moves away to infinity. You don't even need to use complex numbers for this, though it makes it simpler if you do.
Using that logic, I then tried to find a 3D equivalent, and think I did pretty well. Don't you at least find it curious that the buds are forever growing upon each other in a way that's never been seen before outside IFS systems? It really makes me think that the 'real McCoy' exists (see the end of the article).
I tried fractional powers. Not much difference really.
Hi I'm the author of the article. Curious, which image was it that created the flashback?
This is good news, because it creates more jobs so that half the people in the UK can watch the other half all the time, and then they swap over every so often.
No one will be without a job then, and we solve the terrorist problem in one shot!
I think it's more optimistic to reverse that. If you want to know why someone follows the money, see why they want to do something. Money is used as a mechanism, but it doesn't take any worth away from the pursuits and items that need that mechanism.
I realise that may not fully apply with some of the more 'greedy' / short-term profit companies though.