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Comment: Re:4:3 comes back! (Score 1) 488

by Jeremi (#39083191) Attached to: iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution

4:3 is nice because it's closer to the square viewfield that most people actually have. I don't know whose vision is significantly wider than it is tall, or why that's a popular format for cinemas.

For cinema it makes sense, because you want to be immersed in the movie and (if you sit at the right distance) the sides of the movie screen will occupy your peripheral vision.

For computer monitors, OTOH, outside of games and video you are not usually using your peripheral vision much, so wide-screen displays don't make quite so much sense there. The main reason they are commonplace now is that manufacturers are making wide-screen LCD TV displays anyway, and this allows them to produce two different products from the same assembly line.

Comment: Re:Green Energy (Score 5, Informative) 604

by Jeremi (#39014723) Attached to: Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia

Where are the coal versions of Fukushima and Chernobyle? Surely you can point to tens of examples easily as coal has been in use much longer and on a larger scale.

Why yes, one can -- of course, the exact examples you are looking for depend on what aspects of "Fukushima and Chernobyle" you are asking for coal-mining versions of.

Are you asking about examples of sudden, unexpected disasters causing mass death or destruction of nearby cities? Okay, here are some:

      Ok Tedi disaster
      Buffalo Creek Flood

Or perhaps you are asking about situations in which large numbers of industry workers were killed in an accident? Yep, we've got those too... thousands of coal workers die from accidents every year.

Or maybe you're wondering about if there are entire regions whose ecosystem has been destroyed by coal? Yes, there are.

Or perhaps you are asking about the slow-motion health and environmental damage caused by coal even when everything is working as designed? Yup, there's that as well.

Nuclear certainly has its problems, but coal is much, much, much worse.

Comment: Re:I still to work for best buy (Score 1) 491

by Jeremi (#38991887) Attached to: The Gradual Death of the Brick and Mortar Tech Store

And we sell a lot of [$34.99] fscking printer cables at my Best Buy... it makes no sense, you can't explain that...

Okay, Mr. O'Reilly, I'll give it a shot. Here's the cost breakdown:

$4.99 for the hardware
$30.00 for having someone (allegedly) knowledgable to bring it back to and ask for help when you can't figure out how to make it work.

Still a pretty bad deal IMO, but nobody ever said ignorance was cheap...

Comment: Re:Apple history (Score 1) 368

by Jeremi (#38955341) Attached to: Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM

we're not going to see a Rosetta-style program available for the new families to run Intel code; rather, anything new will just work

What I'd really like to see is a processor-agnostic fat-binary flavor, based on LLVM. That way a single flavor could run on any CPU type, albeit with perhaps a slight delay the first time you run the app, as the LLVM byte-code gets converted into your CPU's native flavor. Given Apple's heavy involvement in the LLVM project, that seems like the obvious way to go if you're going to support more than one or two CPU types. (The alternative, e.g. executable downloads that contain 6 binary flavors, 5 of which each downloader is never going to use, would be a huge waste of bandwidth and disk space)

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