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Comment Re:Carla Bruni (Score 1) 159

Please, call her anything but that. She has next to no musical talent.
She's just a model who got the idea into her head she can sing. Her songs are truly sleep inducing.

Well as much as I hate her politics I actually really like her first album, her second is crap and I've still to hear her third. "Quelqu'un m'a dit", "L'excessive" and "Raphaël" would be my favourites, especially the latter. No more sleep inducing than any other acoustic singer song writer type.
 

Comment Re:Pixel density is the key factor (Score 1) 370

I'm posting this from a four year old Thinkpad T43, with 15" display, at 1400x1050.

I'm also posting for a T43 and the common models of our laptop had a 14.1" screen, which is even higher DPI (and what your probably running). I always thought that higher DPI was better for screens and this laptop has proven it for me, with sharper smother edges on fronts you read faster and more easily. When viewing images the extra sharpness is incredible compared to normal screens. I do all my browsing, writing and coding on this just because of the DPI.

Finding a new screen for myself is now quite a problem. Everything looks CRAP.

My desktop has a 20" Sun CRT that runs at 1600x1200 (Sony Trinitron tube) and it's colour is fantastic, it's really really good for gaming with. A 24" TFT is bigger but try running Baldurs Gate, which runs at 600x400, the rescaling artefacts would be terrible. Even my spare screen is a 19" 1600x1200 CRT, another Trinitron - it looks great but the extra inch is good when gaming, still I'd probably use this for the DPI if I did anything else on my desktop.

So when it comes to getting new screens I really don't know what I'm going to do. All desktop TFTs look crap. Compared to BOTH of my CRTs they are going to have crap DPI and rubbish colour, and artefacts when resizing resolution. And all for a little extra desk space, my desk is a 12 foot by 4 foot dining table so that's not something I'm exactly short of...

Comment Re:This will get you shot... (Score 1) 137

I take photographs of white water kayaking. You need to keep moving down river so cant really use a tripod and normally need a fairly large zoom so this actually looks pretty useful if it helped you steady a big lens better...
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Submission + - Niagara-II "ROCK" samples on display

mritunjai writes: SUN CEO Jonathan Schwartzis showing off the latest samples of next generation chip on his blog. The Chip — code names "Rock", is a 16 core chip with an unspecified number (though rumoured to be 2 to 4) of thread execution units per core. SUN is also building systems with upto 8 of these processors with 512 FB-DIMMs supporting upto 256 TB of RAM in a single system.

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