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Comment Re:could not be (Score 4, Informative) 181

Basically the EFF exists to defend pedo rights

You are disturbingly confused and thinking of the (GOP) RetardedKlan Party whose head is a literal 34-time convicted felon, pedophile who admitted in a Howard Stern video to invading locker rooms of underage girls at pageants, and all-around Treasonous Shitrag who wears caked orange makeup to hide his syphilis blemishes.

Comment Re:Typical Stupidity (Score 2) 131

As someone who uses old hardware, I agree. I have one small PC that I run Linux on. It's a 586, so, in theory I could run even the latest kernel, but in practice I run Debian 8, because Debian 9 does not boot on it (either 128MB RAM is not enough for it or the CPU is missing some feature).
The newer versions would probably run slower anyway.

I have a 486 though, maybe I should try to see which latest Debian version runs on it.

Comment Re:Lost Media (Score 3, Informative) 75

AFAIK, the aspect ratio of Babylon 5 is complicated.
The live action parts were shot at 16:9 with the plans to later release a widescreen version. However, some of the CGI parts (or was it the parts where CGI and live action was combined) were done in 4:3, since it would be possible to re-do them later in widescreen. They lost the files needed for the CGI, so it was not possible to re-do it though.

A 4:3 version crops some of the live action image (not a big deal since it was filmed with the intent of showing it in 4:3 first), a 16:9 version stretches or crops the CGI parts.

Live action parts were shot on film, so it is possible to have a HD version, but the CGI parts were likely done on video.

Probably the "best" version would be one that shits the aspect ration to 16:9 on live action and 4:3 on CGI. I don't know if it would be annoying to watch though.

Comment Re:It should be 8K (Score 1) 138

Your vision is better than that of the vast majority of people.

It depends on the TV size and distance from it. If a TV is small and the viewer sits far away from it, there is no difference between 1080p and 2160p. Get far enough away and there would not even be difference from 576p.

From what I have noticed from my friends (as in - normal people, not the video equivalent of an audiophile), they sit too far from the TV, no matter the TV size. If the TV is small (maybe the person does not have space for it or whatever), then they sit about 2 meters away from it - where it would take good eyes to see the difference between 576p and 1080p. If the TV is bigger, they sit even further away from it.

I have a relatively big TV (150cm diagonal) and sit about 3 meters away from it. When I connect a PC to it, I can just barely make out the standard sized text on it, but my eyes are not that great. People who visit me usually comment that the TV is too big and I sit too close to it.

Comment Re:No, we haven't normalised it. (Score 2) 98

In some ways people normalized it.

How was it in the past? You got the program, you got its manual (whether paper or a file) and then you read the manual if you cant find some function. Try to do this with apps - users would likely complain that it's inconvenient, they don't understand how to use the program and that having to read instructions is unacceptable.

Then you get shit like the constant interruptions. After all, people love being interrupted - that's why various sites have notifications and why people actually turn them on. Sometime,s when I am talking with someone IRL, his phone goes off every few minutes with the notification sound. I ask if it's a SMS or something important and the answer is no, SMS has a different sound, this is just various news sites sending news. I get annoyed by the sound even if if's not my phone and I don't spend that much time with the guy, I have no idea how he can live with it.

Some stuff may be forced on us by the employer and so on, but a lot of it people do to themselves.

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