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Comment PIP (Picture-In-Picture). Does HDMI-2.1a make it? (Score 1) 35

FTFA: "...having the source device configure content for the specific display."
I really hope that this means that we'll soon be able to put/position multiple HDMI streams on one large display, like a background stream, program streams, and Nest/Ring/Sec camera windows on one big display.
Lcd/Plasma/OLED/TV's began to lose PIP (Picture-in-Picture) capability over a decade ago, so it's about time that feature came back to we the new consumers.

Comment JUUL should sell device w/Empty but REFILABLE PODS (Score 1) 232

Tens of Millions of JUUL device owners are out there - Flavored "Pods" have been outlawed.
JUUL should sell the device+charger with 1 Tobacco, and 2 newly designed empty but REFILLABLE pods from now on. ...and sell empty REFILLABLE pods to please its customer base that loves JUULs' form factor. ...but mostly the white LED night light feature that JUUL alone features!

Comment Being so high & wide, did it affect SAT orbits (Score 2) 42

FTFA: "The space hurricane was more than 620 miles wide and high in the sky -- it formed in the ionosphere, between 50 and 600 miles up."
My questions are:
1. Does this phenom affect orbit paths & positions of large and small SATs?
2. Surely this has happened before, and it will again: Were we already prepared for this one?

Comment Web Pages Use Same Imaging Model (Score 1) 227

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

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