Why is such a high resolution needed on a 10 inch screen?
If you're really curious, here's an experiment you can try:
-Borrow a buddy's iPhone 3G. -Read an article on Slasdhot. -Borrow another buddy's iPhone 4. -Read same article on Slashdot. -Go back to the 3G and try again, notice the pain yo ufeel.
I apologize for my persistence, but since we're discussing the treatment of people (as opposed to arguing about which smart phone OS is better) I really would like an answer to my question.
If, for ethical reasons, we boycott the products they manufacture and cause them to lose their jobs, how have we helped them?
if Avatar cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make, actually building the technology that Avatar is describing should cost more, shouldn't it?
No. Those are two very different projects with two very different sets of specs. One technology wasn't developed on Avatar, it was more like 6. All those pieces had to be scaled up so that tens-to-hundreds of people could work with it to meet the deadline. The goal was to deliver two and a half hours of photo-real CG (with a whole slew of bullet points) in stereo. Avatar had to develop working tools for massive numbers of people to use. It's not even clear from this article that DARPA is even delivering a prototype.
I'd love to see more resources put into plain old R&D, I agree with you there, but Avatar is not a metric to use in this context. The vast majority of its budget went into paying the surprisingly large crew involved in making that movie.
HDD tech has advanced without patent litigation tying anything up. What makes you think it will be different for NAND's successor?
Because the word 'patent' has shown up more frequently in Slashdot headlines, making it seem like it's a growing problem. He probably didn't notice the word 'Apple' was also in those headlines, too.
I don't really have anything to add to this discussion. I just wanted to call out Nationwide Insurance for robo-calling me so I can save money on my insurance. Not only have I never ever ever had anything to do with them, never even been to their site or called for a quote, they came from an 'unknown' number.
I just wanted to give this grievance a little air-time since they're currently running ads on TV. If you share my annoyance with telemarketers, consider mentally associating their jingle with robo-calls. "Nationwide is on your side."
With a couple of exceptions, there is no such thing as freeloaders with regards to piracy. DRM, however, is a cost that continues to grow for as long as the company is in business.
DRM is like poltergeist-proofing your office space.
If I want to buy a new tech gadget, from whom can I buy it without ethical qualms?"
I'd love to hear from some of these workers before deciding what those ethical qualms are. I'm all for helping them out, but it'd be nice for them to ask. Afterall, we don't want to cause them to lose their jobs.
If people want to listen to a song, they buy it on iTunes and hear it within seconds. When you go the CD-route like you're suggesting, well it's a lot longer than seconds.
Of course the fact that music shopping has changed that much isn't worthy of a Grammy.
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That's okay, the smart phone has a higher DPI.
Meanwhile, the display on the iPad 1 and 2 looks pixelated through normal use.
Why is such a high resolution needed on a 10 inch screen?
If you're really curious, here's an experiment you can try:
-Borrow a buddy's iPhone 3G.
-Read an article on Slasdhot.
-Borrow another buddy's iPhone 4.
-Read same article on Slashdot.
-Go back to the 3G and try again, notice the pain yo ufeel.
Correct, my bad.
Yeah? Which manufacturer is building a 9.7 inch display at that resolution that looks ten times better next month?
The DPI measurement is only a measure of width, not a measure of area. You don't quadruple the count when measuring that.
Take a look, you won't find anybody calling the iPad3 500+ dpi. It has a LOWER DPI than the iPhone 4.
I'm not sure how you did your math, but I think 234 is the number you're looking for.
Nobody with a smartphone using a 200+dpi display would agree with you.
Slightly lower, but you do hold it further away.
I apologize for my persistence, but since we're discussing the treatment of people (as opposed to arguing about which smart phone OS is better) I really would like an answer to my question.
If, for ethical reasons, we boycott the products they manufacture and cause them to lose their jobs, how have we helped them?
if Avatar cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make, actually building the technology that Avatar is describing should cost more, shouldn't it?
No. Those are two very different projects with two very different sets of specs. One technology wasn't developed on Avatar, it was more like 6. All those pieces had to be scaled up so that tens-to-hundreds of people could work with it to meet the deadline. The goal was to deliver two and a half hours of photo-real CG (with a whole slew of bullet points) in stereo. Avatar had to develop working tools for massive numbers of people to use. It's not even clear from this article that DARPA is even delivering a prototype.
I'd love to see more resources put into plain old R&D, I agree with you there, but Avatar is not a metric to use in this context. The vast majority of its budget went into paying the surprisingly large crew involved in making that movie.
Why is this disparity between research and entertainment true????
How is making a movie and R&D'ing a technology Apples to Apples enough for this to be worthy of so many question marks?
Less than a quarter of a billion dollars, actually.
That doesn't affect your point, though.
They are voluntarily working there so they can make money to live off of. If they suddenly lose their job due to low demand, how have we helped them?
I regret making my post. I was aiming for a cheap joke, not trying to instigate hostility.
He wasn't referring to the student, he meant the Conservative blogger.
Isn't it normally a british guy that bitches about a story being about the United States when it's a 'global' site? Heh.
HDD tech has advanced without patent litigation tying anything up. What makes you think it will be different for NAND's successor?
Because the word 'patent' has shown up more frequently in Slashdot headlines, making it seem like it's a growing problem. He probably didn't notice the word 'Apple' was also in those headlines, too.
I don't really have anything to add to this discussion. I just wanted to call out Nationwide Insurance for robo-calling me so I can save money on my insurance. Not only have I never ever ever had anything to do with them, never even been to their site or called for a quote, they came from an 'unknown' number.
I just wanted to give this grievance a little air-time since they're currently running ads on TV. If you share my annoyance with telemarketers, consider mentally associating their jingle with robo-calls. "Nationwide is on your side."
With a couple of exceptions, there is no such thing as freeloaders with regards to piracy. DRM, however, is a cost that continues to grow for as long as the company is in business.
DRM is like poltergeist-proofing your office space.
Yes we are geeks, but we are humans first, and pardon me but my convictions on how humans should be treated trumps all interest in gadgets and alike.
Are you sure you're actually worrying about the conditions of the workforce? I ask because a boycott, if successful, would cause layoffs.
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-Sent from my Android carbon copy of an iDevice
If I want to buy a new tech gadget, from whom can I buy it without ethical qualms?"
I'd love to hear from some of these workers before deciding what those ethical qualms are. I'm all for helping them out, but it'd be nice for them to ask. Afterall, we don't want to cause them to lose their jobs.
If people want to listen to a song, they buy it on iTunes and hear it within seconds. When you go the CD-route like you're suggesting, well it's a lot longer than seconds.
Of course the fact that music shopping has changed that much isn't worthy of a Grammy.
Why is selling patents even legal? The original creator of a patent deserves to be rewarded...
If licensing a patent is a reward, why isn't the option of selling it one, too?
No, we were lured with shiny new iPhones to extend our contracts. (The assumption being that our services would remain the same...)