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by jfb 13y ago
Of course, we're still just the shoe-shine boys of the ruling elite.
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by jfb 13y ago
SGI's Lavarand [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand
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by jfb 13y ago
Please don't use fetchmail -- it loses data. Use offlineimap or mbsync instead.
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by jfb 13y ago
Right, that was confusing. What I was trying to say is that USB was an improvement on PS2, where the mouse and keyboard ports were identical to the user.
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by jfb 13y ago
All that's true (FULL DISCLOSURE: I work at Apple), but the physical plug that Lightning uses is fantastic. Nothing in there seems to be particularly dependent on the state of technology in 2012. I mean, USB is better than the physic
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by jfb 13y ago
It's always been baffling to me how bad consumer connectors are. Lightning is the best from a UX standpoint, but why'd it take until 2012? Do the people who sit on these standards boards ever actually plug anything in ?
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by jfb 13y ago
I don't. I carry my passwords (via 1Password) on my phone, so I'll just use that.
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by jfb 13y ago
I miss Usenet too, but let's not gloss over the fact that it was most definitely a technical constraint that prevented rich media; not being able to do anything much more than ASCII text did lead to a lot of useful convention, and a di
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by jfb 13y ago
Agreed on all counts.
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by jfb 13y ago
My office is small? Good point, though.
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by jfb 13y ago
Yeah, I guess, although it makes for the possibility of broken cadences, which is everybody's least favorite thing ever. I imagine that this isn't going to happen until film is dead as a presentation medium for a variety of reason
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by jfb 13y ago
Again, I have it working. Did you reboot? Maybe it's a video card thing?
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by jfb 13y ago
It's working for me right now. Hmm. I wonder if there's some other default I've poked?
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by jfb 13y ago
There are some noises about higher framerate movie production; The Hobbit was the first, and it was not well received. Motion at 30fps and higher looks very different than motion at 24fps, and part of the resistance to HFR is simply unfam
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by jfb 13y ago
I wouldn't want to watch a movie at 30hz, or at 4k.
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by jfb 13y ago
The problem isn't with the OSes -- it's the legacy software. There's just too much of it written against fixed DPI targets. Apple's pixel doubling (HiDPI) is a hack to get some of the benefit of high density screens with
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by jfb 13y ago
I'd drop everything for a 65" 400ppi display, of course, but I'd take a 24" 400ppi over a 65" 200ppi without even thinking about it.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think current interfaces would fall over in a truly immersive environment; I find it too damn hard to keep track of all my windows and modals and popups and shit with 2x27"; if I was offered tomorrow a 65", 400ppi screen, I&#x27
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by jfb 13y ago
sudo defaults write \ /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist \ DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool true ... and then reboot. I run my main screen (a 27" iMac) at native and my secondary (a 27"
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by jfb 13y ago
It's likely easier for Seiki to move up than it is for Dell/Apple/&c. to move down.
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by jfb 13y ago
Different strokes.
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by jfb 13y ago
I think it's likely that the new Thunderbolt display will be the exact same 23.8" panel, but with updated Thunderbolt expansion hardware (USB 3.0, &c.)
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by jfb 13y ago
Display Diagonally Viewable Size: 60.47 cm 23.8" (23.8-inch wide viewable image size) From http://dcse.dell.com/us/en/gen/peripherals/dell-up2414q/pd.a...
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by jfb 13y ago
It's a typo.
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by jfb 13y ago
That is almost certainly a typo.
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by jfb 13y ago
Even better: the 24" is $1399.
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, those are the only customers that BB has ever really served, so it's appropriate.
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by jfb 13y ago
Well, yeah. Selling to humans was a side effect of the sad state of the smartphone market pre-iOS/Android.
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by jfb 13y ago
Purely technical problems are much rarer than most technologists like to admit.
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by jfb 13y ago
Because they're more specific, and thus more useful. I take the bus everywhere, but rarely does a single leg bus journey take me door-to-door. This is the nature of the shared resource.

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