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Comment: Re:Not just Apple (Score 1) 337

by Mr.Z of the LotFC (#40023863) Attached to: Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia
Well, there are projects to make touchscreens with raised buttons & such for better feedback. If it had good enough resolution (quite possibly not with current prototypes) you could even output braille, & then the same phone (not necessarily the same apps) could be used by sighted & blind people alike.

Comment: Re:Did anyone else read "Marijuana Particle?" (Score 1) 128

by Mr.Z of the LotFC (#39685993) Attached to: Scientists Find Long-Sought Majorana Particle
I suspect the word "marijuana" has a much higher probability in most people's minds, even among Slashdot readers, than "Majorana." Most people simply have not thought about it enough to make conditioning on "particle" sufficient to change this. Although after this article it should change for many Slashdot readers.

Comment: Re:Headphones, always headphones (Score 1) 334

by Mr.Z of the LotFC (#39546317) Attached to: I prefer to listen to recorded music ...
Playing games on my DSi using just the 2 built-in speakers but with "surround" mode (something similar to binaural, I presume, given there are only 2 speakers) enabled occasionally leaves me looking around for some noise behind me. Either my auditory cortex is easier to fool than most, or their method works even without headphones (or both).

Comment: Re:Nice scaling (Score 1) 97

I raytraced a simple scene once where I solved the rendering equation analytically (to see if it was practical), & the result was badly out of focus because I had neglected to include a lens (I did not expect it to be that realistic). Better raytracing does in fact produce non-perfectly-focused images, even with approximate solutions (although it is possible that said improvements to raytracing have different technical names than "raytracing").

Comment: Re:What about HDRI? (Score 1) 249

by Mr.Z of the LotFC (#38101362) Attached to: Google Upgrades WebP To Challenge PNG Image Format
Most modern displays also tend not to be able to show anything over 1920x1080 (or thereabouts, often much smaller), & yet we still use formats that support much larger images. Just as you can zoom, you can change the display exposure with an HDR image. I suspect the lack of support is more related to most cameras not producing HDR, while they do have resolutions higher than monitors.

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