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Comment Re:This is stupid (Score 1) 141

That's silly. Eye exam charts are just used to see if (and how much) correction is needed to get to acceptable vision. Every eye test I ever took I was able to read the smallest line (with correction). They never try to take it down to the point of 'failure'. Eye tests just say 'everyone else can see this at 20 feet, and so can you' (20/20). They don't say 'the absolute smallest thing you can see is x arcseconds' (for instance).

Comment Re:The team used a 27in (Score 1) 141

Maybe try reading it again. It doesn't say anything about people using 27" displays. It says THEY used a 27" display to determine the resolution limit of normal vision. Then they calculated, for different display sizes, resolutions, and distances when the resolution of the display was greater than the vision resolution.

Comment Re:Maybe I’m just being an old guy (Score 1) 141

No, I don't remember anyone ever saying that. The difference was immediately obvious to anyone with normal vision. I do remember people debating whether Blu-Ray was significantly better than upscaled DVDs at normal viewing distance, but that is far different than HDTV vs NTSC.

Comment Re:$TYPICAL slashdot comments (Score 1) 82

Also why do Apple fanbois think that the only companies that exist are Apple, Samsung, and Dell?

Probably because the market share numbers for phones in the US look like:

  • Apple: 52%
  • Samsung: 24%
  • Lenovo: 12%
  • Everyone else: 1% or less

Nobody cares about anyone in the last category.
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Comment Re:Big and Slow trying to remain relevent (Score 1) 56

So what was the point of your completely worthless comment? For a really impressive number, why don't you see how many NOPs you can do in a second?

People who are purchasing mainframe-type equipment are interested in how fast THEIR workload will run. Nobody gives a crap how fast a useless transaction can run if everything happens to be in the cache.

Your comment is a perfect example of how to completely mislead people with a so-called "benchmark".

Comment Re:Clownstrike (Score 1) 96

CLOWNSTRIKE.COM was registered in 2012, last updated 2023-10-30, and is held by "CSC Corporate Domains", the same agency named in the article (and the same registrar that holds CROWDSTRIKE.COM itself)
It's pretty common for these agents to register any potential parody names, but with the proliferation of gTLDs many slip through (.lol wasn't a valid TLD in 2012)

Comment Re:Carceral state (Score 1) 83

What a great example of "how to lie with statistics". Compare the MAXIMUM sentence of one crime with the AVERAGE TIME SERVED of another.

The MAXIMUM sentence for murder is life without possibility of parole (or in some states, death). The average time served before first release for murder is 18 years.

The MAXIMUM sentence for wire fraud is 20 years. The average time served (for fraud of this size) is about 5 years.

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