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gcb · on July 15, 2012

NaCl could make this feasible...

gcb · on July 14, 2012

The point about neighbors is moot.

i hate all of mine. But the hotels have nothing against them. so i will have to live with them. that's life.

If you could choose neighbors... the world would be very empty because everyone would be living alone.

gcb · on July 14, 2012

This reminds me when everyone was driving drunk, and there was already laws that made that illegal, but the limit was something like 3 glasses of beer.

instead of simply enforcing it, they changed the law to be zero limit AND enforced it.

this is the same idiocy.

trashing a place is already illegal. Disturbing the peace is already illegal. Reducing your neighbor property value is already illegal (our intern complains he keep getting citations for not cutting the grass ...a $300 fine)

Name ONE thing this law does that wasn't illegal before. ONE. I challenge you.

gcb · on July 14, 2012

i think that was illegal BEFORE that law...

may i interest you in some Bear Patrol Tax?

gcb · on July 14, 2012

At least they won't get fat! Those grandparents...

gcb · on July 13, 2012

   1 release new api to validate inapp purchases
   2 nobody uses it
   3 hire Russian hacker to show how to exploit old api. Everyone fears Russian hackers.
   4 ???
   5 profit

gcb · on July 13, 2012

How this affect things like buying offline maps for gps?

Also that page has an invalid ssl cert :)

gcb · on July 13, 2012

That's not the point of the article. If it's badly used or not is not discussed.

The point is that even if it could cure cancer, it's not possible to be done on any display.

gcb · on July 13, 2012

People may want to see pictures of products in 1:1 scale in webstores. I would.

gcb · on July 13, 2012

Gimp had the only cheap effective, backward compatible solution:

There was a setting that showed a ruler in the screen, you could scale it to match a ruler you were holding against the screen.

It disappeared after a while...

ralph · on July 13, 2012

I don't think this would be necessary if folks ensured their X server's Screens' resolutions were configured correctly.

    $ xdpyinfo | grep -A 2 '^screen #'
    screen #0:
      dimensions:    1920x1080 pixels (483x272 millimeters)
      resolution:    101x101 dots per inch
    $

The all X clients would know how many pixels represented a physical measurement on the screen.

gcb · on July 13, 2012

And how do you configure it? most lcd manufacturers put wrong info on labels and dmp info

ralph · on July 14, 2012

One uses

    Option "DPI" "96 x 96"

in an xorg.conf or similar file; this overrides DDC from the monitor. Note, not all monitors have the same density of pixels in both directions. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Display_Size_and_D... has more.

gcb · on July 16, 2012

but my monitor does not have the real DPI the label on it's back says... configuring by DPI is moot.

i read a little more on the link you provided... and the closest to the gimp old way of doing that is putting the width and height of the viable area of the monitor in mm. think that might work rather well if it's correctly implemented.

ralph · on July 16, 2012

I wasn't suggesting reading a label. One measures the visible picture in real life, e.g. ruler, and calculates the DPI. CRTs didn't have a label on the back and, anyway, one could adjust the picture size.