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Comment Re:4K pixels wide (Score 2) 158

Yes, p is for progressive, but nothing to do with height. It is opposed to "i" for interlaced, like analog TV. Both numbers are the pixels.

Let me clarify what I meant by height: The p and i suffixes always follow a number of scanlines. 1080p means "frame is 1080 lines tall and progressive", and 1080i is "frame is 1080 lines tall, transmitted as two 540-line interlaced fields". The number of scanlines always equals the height of a picture unless the picture is column-major, which rarely happens outside portrait-oriented monitors.

Comment 4K pixels wide (Score 1) 158

p measures stand for "progressive", which is related to height. K measures, on the other hand, refer to width, where K means thousand pixels. In digital cinema, 4K is 4096 pixels wide, but only 3840 of those make it to consumer equipment.

Comment Why are laws? (Score 1) 282

Because of laws.

Why are laws?

Just as you can't sell any service without the proper licence and not being the correct legal entity.

Why do undue barriers to obtaining "the proper licence" and becoming "the correct legal entity" continue to exist?

See it as selling alcohol in a dry county.

Why do dry counties continue to exist?

It is always "our rules" and the Dutch have tlll now decided against it.

When was the most recent poll?

Comment Re:Blender (Score 1) 57

I visited Burster in Firefox on my Nexus 7 and got "We're very sorry, but Firefox can't play Flash on this device. Learn More..." So somehow Burster still appears to be relying on Flash Player. Besides, even on a PC running Windows® OS, will public libraries let users install Burster the way the libraries have already installed Flash Player?

Comment Re:Do what while sitting quietly after assignment? (Score 1) 345

Of course, that assumes the instructors are actually teaching, which might be an erroneous assumption on my part.

Teaching doesn't necessarily mean filling the entire state-mandated hour with a lecture. Some schools have started to offer an option for "flipped" classes to students with home Internet, which let students watch the lecture on demand at home. This frees teachers to give more individual attention to students during class time.

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