Comment Re:Does anyone really prefer 16x9 instead of 16x10 (Score 1) 646
You're right... but for the first 50 years of television, they were 4:3. Oops, I think my age is showing. I was born before the advent of HDTV.
Comment Re:Does anyone really prefer 16x9 instead of 16x10 (Score 1) 646
Yes, I really meant "16x10". This was the most widely implemented widescreen aspect ratio before the 16x9 craze began a year ago.
The most common instances of 16x10 are the 22" 1680x1050 and the 24" 1920x1200 LCD monitors.
I like widescreen better than "TV" (4:3), but I like 16x10 widescreen better than 16x9 widescreen (too short).
Comment Does anyone really prefer 16x9 instead of 16x10? (Score 1) 646
I hate glossy screens, too. But I hate 16x9 computer displays even more.
Why would a corporate notebook PC or desktop LCD/LED monitor need to be 16x9 instead of 16x10?
Does everyone just watch movies all day, every day?
Good luck,
Scott
Comment Re:FAQ item (Score 1) 703
The status "FAQ item" is only appropriate if the answer never changes.
The fact that it has been discussed before does not mean that it should not be discussed in the future. Every time it is brought up new people will be exposed to the issue. People who have seen it before might have changed their opinion on the issue.
My personal opinion is that open-source software will only succeed when a sufficiently large number of people agree to stop forking projects for spurious reasons instead of putting their effort into improving the existing first- or second-most popular project in a given category.
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Alien54 writes "Cornell University researchers are reporting what appears to be a statistically significant relationship between autism rates and television watching by children under the age of 3. The researchers studied autism incidence in California, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington state. They found that as cable television became common in California and Pennsylvania beginning around 1980, childhood autism rose more in the counties that had cable than in the counties that did not. They further found that in all the Western states, the more time toddlers spent in front of the television, the more likely they were to exhibit symptoms of autism disorders. The Cornell study represents a potential bombshell in the autism debate."
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