I'm sick of backlit LCDs. CNT and Diamond tech seems to have vanished from the news completely.
OLED is/was nice but a thin display without native rez, and CRT colour quality is still my dream, and they were promised what, 7 years ago now?
I don't mind if they want to drop OLED as long as they're going to be ramping up production on something better hard and fast instead of squeezing the life out of LED. LED is ok as it got cheap, but it is not great technology for a lot of uses.
As pointed out in earlier comments, it's much more accessible to partially sighted people, you can't change the text size on a book, you can with a kindle, and some of them are "legally blind" but can still read very large text close up.
And anyway, navigations problems for those with worse/no sight could likely be sorted out in an update, and/or coupling it to a brail reader maybe. Also things you can't do with a book.
I don't see how it would fix that (for most anyway) when if anything it's more likely to mess up as your eyes end up distracted elsewhere, anyone that can touch type won't necessarily be staring at the box as they type, and anyone that can't will be staring at the keys.
Actually as I get prompted for UAC elevation on updates I hadn't realised this was a problem and just assumed your original post was written with condescension and/or bad English.
Absolutely not true, he set up his site to default to no privacy, that is a COMPLETELY different matter, there are numerous huge groups and countless chain messages in protest of the badly chosen default privacy settings on facebook.
And this from the man who openly admitted to pushing malware in some interview not so long ago to get his company off the ground.
Those were basically my thoughts, coming from the UK all I know is 'Paracetamol' I'd never even heard of Tylenol until literally about 3 days prior to my previous post, I believe from another/. article.
However, in Pinch Media's case, the user tracking goes a bit further according to one iPhone developer. He says applications using Pinch Media track the following information:
* iPhone's unique ID
* iPhone model
* OS version
* Application version (in this case, camera zoom 1.x)
* If the application is cracked/pirated
* If your iPhone is jailbroken
* Time & date you start the application
* Time & date you close the application
* Your current latitude & longitude
* Your gender (if Facebook enabled)
* Your birth month (if Facebook enabled)
* Your birth year (if Facebook enabled)
What's worse is that you're often never told that the app will be performing this level of detailed tracking and you're often never given the opportunity to opt-out. The data recorded is continuously tracked every time you use the application. This violation of user privacy is so egregious that the developer even goes so far as to call Pinch Media "iPhone spyware."
Like meseums, trade shows etc etc, it would really pull people arround them despite only being able to read properly from the one side.
Countless movies and TV shows have transparent screens in high tech work places, it's all good as long as it's not too bad on the eyes if it's to be worked with a lot, or if any private data ever needs to be shown it's useless.
As of now the solar cells are producing energy with 14.9 percent efficiency, which is pretty great compared to off-the-shelf commercial modules which range from 13 to 20 percent.
I guess that must be good for the size, but Boeing announced 41.6 percent efficient cells this year
and I wonder how the ex NASA employee & inventor of the super soaker is getting on with his work he claims could hit up to 60%
And an oled screen, news on other sites said it was going o be manufacturered for google by HTC. and in fact sounded identical to the HTC Passion/Bravo.
We'd probably need some deep specifications to tell them apart.
I'd much rather use Paint.Net than Paint Shop Pro these days, and it's free too.
I'm not sure I've seen anything better than Animation Shop if you have to mess with animated gif's for some reason though, but that is rare now.
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I'm sick of backlit LCDs.
CNT and Diamond tech seems to have vanished from the news completely.
OLED is/was nice but a thin display without native rez, and CRT colour quality is still my dream, and they were promised what, 7 years ago now?
I don't mind if they want to drop OLED as long as they're going to be ramping up production on something better hard and fast instead of squeezing the life out of LED. LED is ok as it got cheap, but it is not great technology for a lot of uses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxNlAlOuQQQ
That's a really nice system, I hope it can be adopted into other packages as a plugin or something as it stays under the BSD license.
cue hahaha I switched to 64bit the moment I could in....er, now.
If you're referring to this then +1 funny : http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/01/13/0328221/Organ-Damage-In-Rats-From-Monsanto-GMO-Corn
Last I saw tab previews in the taskbar was the default for Firefox 3.6, I had to disable it any time I did a clean install.
browser.taskbar.previews.enable in about:config
IMO it entirely defeat the point of having tabs in ONE program, so only one app wastes taskbar space, even preview space
Cash cow really just doesn't seem quite a big enough term any more for a project of such an insane monetary pull
Cash whale?
As pointed out in earlier comments, it's much more accessible to partially sighted people, you can't change the text size on a book, you can with a kindle, and some of them are "legally blind" but can still read very large text close up.
And anyway, navigations problems for those with worse/no sight could likely be sorted out in an update, and/or coupling it to a brail reader maybe. Also things you can't do with a book.
I don't see how it would fix that (for most anyway) when if anything it's more likely to mess up as your eyes end up distracted elsewhere, anyone that can touch type won't necessarily be staring at the box as they type, and anyone that can't will be staring at the keys.
uggg, mod parent up..
And no I hadn't even glanced at your UID till just now.
Actually as I get prompted for UAC elevation on updates I hadn't realised this was a problem and just assumed your original post was written with condescension and/or bad English.
No because this is a Release Candidate. 'Normal' users using release (final) software, only get update notifications for release software.
Anyone on the beta update channel would have seen this RC available as a normal update any time from several days ago.
Absolutely not true, he set up his site to default to no privacy, that is a COMPLETELY different matter, there are numerous huge groups and countless chain messages in protest of the badly chosen default privacy settings on facebook.
And this from the man who openly admitted to pushing malware in some interview not so long ago to get his company off the ground.
Those were basically my thoughts, coming from the UK all I know is 'Paracetamol' I'd never even heard of Tylenol until literally about 3 days prior to my previous post, I believe from another /. article.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/dear_iphone_users_your_apps_are_spying_on_you.php
Like meseums, trade shows etc etc, it would really pull people arround them despite only being able to read properly from the one side. Countless movies and TV shows have transparent screens in high tech work places, it's all good as long as it's not too bad on the eyes if it's to be worked with a lot, or if any private data ever needs to be shown it's useless.
Microsoft has been into much more hardware than that for much longer. Mice, Keyboards etc etc, just not full systems.
as Quake players have known this for over a decade..
There's talk of Microsoft slate tablet kicking about now too : http://www.neowin.net/news/live/10/01/06/microsoft-set-to-unveil-slate-tablet-pc-at-ces
Or was a quote altered to push a US (only?) brand?
I guess that must be good for the size, but Boeing announced 41.6 percent efficient cells this year and I wonder how the ex NASA employee & inventor of the super soaker is getting on with his work he claims could hit up to 60%
Totally agree, wish i had mod points today.
And an oled screen, news on other sites said it was going o be manufacturered for google by HTC. and in fact sounded identical to the HTC Passion/Bravo.
We'd probably need some deep specifications to tell them apart.
I'd much rather use Paint.Net than Paint Shop Pro these days, and it's free too. I'm not sure I've seen anything better than Animation Shop if you have to mess with animated gif's for some reason though, but that is rare now.
I'd mod you up if I had points atm :)