The number you quote is for a sinusoidal grating viewed under ideal lighting conditions in a laboratory. It is very close to the Nyquist limit and like you say applies to the fovea only.

I don't think you can expect anything like this for an actual image.

Ok, so now I have ground up circuit board contaminated with heavy metals.

What can I do with this? Sell it to China for incorporation into dog food and baby formula?

Wikipedia says:

Angular resolution: about 4 arcminutes, or approximately 0.07Â

Field of view (FOV): simultaneous visual perception in an area of about 160Â Ã-- 175Â.

So that's about 2200 x 2400 if the screen is at the correct distance. Further away and you need less resolution. Closer and you won't see the whole image.

If the zsh guy gets a problem with zsh you are golden. However if it's a problem needing some Erlang code to find the minimum feedback arcset you are in trouble.

"The general voice from north to south... calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modifications of these suited to the habits of all the States. But if such cannot be found, then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of habeas corpus, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies in all cases, than not to do it in any. The few cases wherein these things may do evil cannot be weighed against the multitude wherein the want of them will do evil." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:96

> This is like arguing about whether kids should be taught calculus in school when they're struggling with basic arithmetic.

It's funny that people who struggle with basic math in school have no problems doing calculations with money or baseball statistics.

It really says to me that the approach is just wrong.

The Founders made it hard to amend the Constitution.

Maybe a bit of ego there, but events seem to be indicating that they were right about this, like they were about most everything else.

I just wish they enumerated a few more of these natural rights. Jefferson, for example campaigned for Habeus Corpus being added to the Bill of Rights. Funny how he was right about that.

The ability to learn new tricks is not really age related.

Old dogs that can't learn new tricks couldn't learn them when young either.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201001/old-dogs-and-people-and-monkeys-can-learn-new-tricks

Are these young people old enough to remember what happened the last time a Republican was elected? Or the Democrat before him?

Science has predicted none of these. Every single idea in that list is either the result of media hyperbole or simple hypothesis made to attempt to explain known phenomena. A prediction based on established theory is VERY different from a hypothesis or worse media speculation as in the case of the so-called ice age.

Pick two is one of my favorite expressions.

However this project seems to have ended up with none of the 3 objectives.

Fast: No
Cheap: No
Good: No

Yeah, I looked it up and it looks like bike shops have figured out how to do carbon fiber frames, so this might not be too bad.

What happens when you ding one of these thing? Are body shops going to be able to fix the composite panels?

Butt ugly, $40,000+ and a mere 100 mile range. They will sell about 4 of these.

Suspending the first... amendment? This didn't happen in the USA.