LukasMathis

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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I think one of the reasons why we don't notice it on desktops is because there are so few vertical lines. Basically, it's the window edges where it might be noticeable, when dragging windows sideways. On the iPad, on the other hand, there a
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The Nexus One and the Galaxy Nexus are two different devices.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I think there will always be room for e-ink. This afternoon, I took an hour off to sit on the balcony and read a bit. It was so bright outside that I was barely able to read anything on the iPad. Switched to the Kindle, worked perfectly wel
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Right! Good point.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
It's not tearing, it's just a slightly slanted picture, because the lines on the left (or right, depending on how you hold the iPad) redraw a tiny bit earlier than the ones on the other side of the screen.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
A cheap Bresser. Though I wouldn't recommend buying a low-end microscope, like the one I use. You should be able to get much better images by investing just a bit more.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Mine isn't good, which is why I don't recommend it. But you should be able to find a reasonably good USB microscope at places like Think Geek, or similar gadget sites.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The pictures are less than 1mm wide. I've added a grey bar that approximates 1mm at the same scale at the top of the post to give a sense of the scale. Does that help?
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
No, that's how PenTile screens work. There are twice as many green pixels as red and blue ones (one "visual" pixel is made up of a green and red pixel, or a green and blue pixel, so there are two sub-pixels per pixel). Thus, the green pixel
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The OpenPandora shot doesn't look sharp because it has an anti-glare coating. Some of the others may be a bit too bright for the cheap microscope I'm using, so they're a bit blurry. But mostly, the pixels really do look that way; most of th
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
It would affect subpixel rendering of fonts, but I think the iPad doesn't do any subpixel rendering. Not 100% sure though. It does create another strange effect, though. Since the screen effectively redraws sideways if you hold the iPad in
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
No conspiracy, I just don't have access to these devices. I'll add a Sony Tablet S when I get around to it, though. (Update: I've added the Sony Tablet S image.)
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
It's just the camera rotation. But it's kind of funny, anyway, since the home button is at the bottom of the screen, so the sub-pixels are arranged top-to-bottom when you hold the iPad with the home button where it should be.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The microscope only shows a sharp picture at a specific distance; as soon as you tilt something, most of the picture becomes so blurred that you can't see much anymore. And there's not enough space between the lens and the focus point to re
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I use it for other things, too :-)
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Good idea. I've added a picture from a Kindle Keyboard (third gen).
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
On second thought, I shouldn't have complained about Android in this way. I haven't used ICS, which might have solved the problems I've encountered, and I didn't explain what I don't like about Android's notification system. So I've removed
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Weather and Stocks aren't notifications. I guess the idea there is that you can see the weather forecast and your stocks at a single glance, but I've turned them off. They're annoying, I agree. As for everything else, apps that want to send
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I own a bunch of Android phones (though none of them run ICS, so my experience with the notification system is based on Gingerbread), and I have the Sony tablet. I'm not a huge fan of Android's UI. Since Duarte is working at Google, it's ge
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I think part of the problem comes down to application behavior. On my Android phone, tons of applications generate notifications that really shouldn't, so the notification widget constantly fills up with needless stuff.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
That's a great point. Never occurred to me to look at it like that, but you're right. Open source projects often fail to reach mass acceptance because they're designed by and for the people who work on the project - programmers, that is. we
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I have no excuse. I just like gadgets.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Well, I'm not making a moral argument. I did imply that it was "a slightly shady business practice". Clearly, Google is using money from its search business to fund OS development, and to undercut competitors. I do have a bit of a problem w
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The "complex doesn't mean complicated" counterargument always feels like people are just playing the semantics game, rather than making a real counterargument. When somebody says "complexity is bad", he or she already uses "complex" to mean
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
Slowly revealing new buttons is probably not a good idea, since UIs that change on their own are confusing; things are never the way you expect them to be. Similarly, searching doesn't work well for beginners, because they don't know what t
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
The web browser is a different case than something like the Gmail app, or the Kindle app.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
"Back" is normally used to move "up" because most of the time, "back" and "up" are the same thing.
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I agree that back should bring you back. Not sure about Gmail. First of all, it doesn't behave the way you describe on my Nexus One. It always goes to the home screen when I switch to it, regardless of how I do it. Second, is this really th
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
It's not that the behavior is unclear, it's that going back is not always what you want to happen. Sometimes, you jump directly into an app, but then, you want to do other things inside that app; since the back button normally is used to mo
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by LukasMathis 15y ago
I might be in the minority, but none of these are things I do. I never need to check Twitter and Facebook at the same time, or play two games right after each other, or open several news apps. If I have a few minutes to waste, I open one of

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