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Comment Re:Get over it, We all don't run a webkit browser (Score 1) 373

I use webkit browsers. Therefore your assertion that we all don't is incorrect. And for the record most of us webdevs used: -webkit-border-radius: ... -moz-border-radius: ... -o-border-radius: ... -ms-border-radius: ... /* just in case */ border-radius: ... until we got sick of it and dropped all the prefixed versions.

Comment Re:Rotate the frakking spacecraft (Score 1) 158

You remember the parable of the space pen? How the pragmatic socialists used a pencil instead? And then the dare-to-dream capitalists ended up winning the cold war, because they were willing to explore interesting things and discover new tech and ideas and stuff, even when a simpler solution was obvious? Yeah, that.

Comment Re:wha? (Score 1) 40

On planet Earth, weight and mass) are roughly the same thing

Er, sure, except that they're completely different, because "weight" is a force, measured in newtons (or some scaled variant thereof) and mass is a fundamental property, measured in kilograms (or some scaled variant thereof). Don't go bringing any weird American "1 pound ~= 1 pound" nonsense in here.

Comment Re:This isn't complicated (Score 3, Interesting) 565

TFA actually addresses that explicitly. In fact, it's the thrust of the entire article. "As I type this, I’m sitting ~32 inches away from a 27-inch monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080, or 81.59 PPI. At that distance, my monitor would need to pack at least 107 PPI (pixels per inch) in order to qualify as a Retina display."

Comment dynamic range? (Score 2) 565

What about bit depth? A bazillion pixels is all well and good, but I still find it frustrating that those pixels are limited to 256 grey levels. What would it take to bump displays up an extra couple of bits per channel? Or even doubling them? I think the visual improvement from HDR would trump that of higher pixel density, at least in the things that matter to me (games and movies).

Comment Re:I'm sure they'll stop (Score 1) 189

Perhaps we need some new language to describe what they are actually doing, but Unlimited is not it.

You could call it the Fricative model. Flow is restricted but never Stops. By the way, my experience here in Australia is that they say it's "capped, but we'll throttle if you go over" as opposed to the other, which is "capped, but we'll charge your for excess". I don't recall ever seeing an "unlimited" plan here.

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