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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 11:45:35 PM »

What the forget? You need to calm down bro.

It's called sarcasm.  Bro.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 09:07:20 PM »

But really I prefer to do my development work in the Mac OS environment or at least on some other *nix variant. Windows is a very very distant last choice. The only reason I even have a Windows PC is for games and that's been changing the last few years.

holy stuff this.

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Off Topic / Re: Looking for some music similar to this

« on: October 22, 2013, 08:27:49 PM »

Some suggestions:
Flying Lotus
Clark (specifically Totems Flare)
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 08:18:32 PM »

HDMI is not VGA with sound.

HDMI is dvi with sound.

VGA is stuffty old school slow non digital garbage that people should have stopped using 5 years ago

Yeah, you're right, I confused VGA and DVI. 

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 08:05:42 PM »

just want to say, not really.  using VGA instead of DVI-D on my current monitor is more blurry, VGA is very old it can't carry the same clarity.  this is versus DVI-D though, not HDMI, but i think versus HDMI it would still be sharper than VGA.

Oh sorry, I actually meant it's the same as DVI.  I just get confused between the two.  

also lol @ retina
ppi stands for pixels per inch, aka how many pixels are packed in the display regardless of the actual size of the screen (whether it's 9.7 inches or 4 inches).

apple keeps jerking off about retina but it's jack stuff compared to the phones that have 1080p resolutions

Really, I don't think the point is to impress at this point, it's really to say "the ipad mini looks a bit less stuff this time around".  (though I still don't get the point of a 1080p phone)

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 07:45:28 PM »

Claiming I don't know anything about technology is ignorant of you. You are trying to pull stuff out of a barrel when you have no backup to your claim. What he said wasn't sarcastic. Learn how to socialize before spitting random stuff all over the place.

Wow, way to lay the smack down!

I was thinking the same.

BAM! You're owning me hard! Wow!

They have technology made to be released 10 years from now, they are just milking money by releasing features slowly.

So don't say they are running out of ideas.

Context clues are hard.

yes marcem.

it sounds as if you are unfortunate enough to own apple products and can't PC game very well.
just angry and needing to justify and defend your inferior toys.

computer monitor is greater then nearly allllll existing TVs.
apple is a trendy toy and inferior to most other brands in regard to price/specs/capability.

sry you made bad product decisions over your lifetime

Yeah, you got me on my pc gamer cred. :(  except,
a monitor is, essentially, the same goddamn loving thing as a tv,
save for the post-processing made to make TV shows look better that you can turn off in most cases and the lag associated with the large panel. in fact, HDMI is the same as VGA, just with additional audio stuff.  

Sorry I don't slam Apple because I don't have to sort out six driver issues upon setup of one of their products.  I didn't know that this made me literally mentally handicapped and a market driven sheeple.  Also admiring their ability to market a product and get the public caring about something such as pixel density or smartphones in general is against the church of PC gamers so I'll just hand in my green leds and piss-yellow glasses.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/09/25/nvidia-boss-no-longer-possible-for-consoles-to-have-better-graphics-than-pc/

Exactly. I was being sarcastic in that quote.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 07:26:49 PM »

Apple's iPad Air has 3.1 million pixels - wowzers!
Lets see the pixel density, it comes to a total of,
wait,
"2048-by-1536 resolution at 264 pixels per inch (ppi)."
what? 264ppi? Thats terrible. This thing costs more than my phone and my phone has 441ppi.
Surely the retina display is better!
"2048-by-1536 resolution at 326 pixels per inch (ppi)"
Seriously? only 326 pixels? Still more less than 441 and - you guessed it -  still more expensive.
Retina displays are stuff. My phone which is only 1920x1080 has a higher pixel density and costs less - oh, and it looks better.

Oh and that last part about a magnifying glass is also bullstuff.
441ppi you can see pixels at 7.8"

But having that pixel density is generally useless and you're just wasting cpu/gpu/battery at that point.  Using the retina iPads at a reasonable distance (unlike you, I don't get within licking distance to use a goddamn phone or tablet) is great (also apple totally started the trend of high pixel densities, and they needed a term to give the general public to easily convey this.  '264 ppi' doesn't really roll off the tongue).  Also is the panel an IPS?  I'm legitimately wondering, not going for a gotcha type argument.

kind of like how the term "high definition" istarted as a television term. because people were to handicapped to know what resolution means and how it differs. they literally just named it something that implied it was better looking.

apple does this with nearly alllll computer terminology Lol. that's why you have guys here saying specs don't matter, you gotta experience it to see the greatness.

IE, magic

And you're saying this?

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 06:49:25 PM »

Calm down there kiddo. I didn't say they were using future stuff. It's called sarcasm and the guy I quoted was saying they had futuristic stuff. Can you loving read?

You can't read, he was being sarcastic, he was suggesting that Apple is staying 10 years behind to wow people who don't know about technology.

The school you go to doesn't have a good grasp of technology, since 90% of us will be using Windows when we grow up.
Before 6th grade in my school district, all the students used Macs, but during middle school, they used Windows computers.
I think that's good, since Macs teach the basic concepts of computers, and Windows is preperation for everyday usage.

Everyday usage, like randomly crashing for no reason.  Windows is broken as hell but people take that to mean it's for tech savvy people, and I don't mean in the Linux way of having to compile drivers, but in the sense that it has the stability of a two year old on a bike.

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 06:28:45 PM »

tablets are great for grandma. to old and retired to even need to learn about how to use a computer.
and maybe good for people with head injuries that are trying to recope with society. lol

I mean in a practical sense, they lack so so much. they can't replace smart phones or such things because they just aren't portable, pocket portable, the only important kind.

and they don't have a good cost to usefulness to hardware spec ratio at all. they suck straight out of the box.

let me just point out that you still may not know the actual difference between a TV and a computer monitor.

With that out of the way, tablets are something that you don't know you want until you have one, really.  They're not meant to run loving crysis, you don't need ridiculous specs.  They're meant for doing things like browsing the web or using an app like Paper or Animoog.  It's not meant to be a computer, it's not meant to be a smartphone.  It's meant for apps actually built for touch input without the form factor of a laptop (ie. stuff).

But I guess I may as well not have posted here because anyone displaying logic in these threads is ignored.

Freedom of speech and how do you explain the iPad to iPad mini. Dang that seems new to me! Finger print scanner is new to their iPhone 5s. How long has fingerprint scanning been around? 10 years into the future you say? Gold? forget dude, they must be some future beings.

Wow, you're right!  Encoders built into GPUs?  loving from the future!  oh wait that's how technology works, it's iterative.  Apple never said that it's new stuff, they're just iterating on the last version (AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BUY THE NEW ONE HOLY stuff WHY DOES NO ONE GET THIS)

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Off Topic / Re: Apple announces iPad Air and iPad Mini with retina display

« on: October 22, 2013, 03:50:33 PM »

Now dropping it will shatter the entire device instead of just the screen!

No, that was the iPhone 4.  Also I'm dropping my phone and tablet all of the time so this is a big feature.  In all seriousness, I did actually drop my iPad once, left a decent dent in the metal where the glass is now slightly bending.

Why does everyone have to whine when Apple updates a product?  If you own a previous version, you don't have to upgrade, it's like how Apple has upgraded the mac every year or so for about forever.

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Suggestions & Requests / Re: Some FOV things

« on: October 21, 2013, 02:57:24 AM »

setFov(#); is too hidden I suppose?

it goes back to 90 after you use the zoom function.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 08:16:57 PM »

making a loving os over just replacing the icons and making it go with the le minimalistic trend

yeah because the inconsistent design of previous versions was great!  Minimalistic design is popular for a reason, because it's functional and timeless (which, by the way, is pretty much what apple stands for at the moment).  Though I guess you don't need logic, only ironic phrases.

is one of the new features of ios7 built in ads

Randomly claiming it has certain features doesn't mean it has them.

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 07:47:12 PM »

no, its just the whole concept of it.

What whole concept?  A mobile phone OS?

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 07:39:54 PM »

ios 7 is trash

change sucks

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Off Topic / Re: Post Your Desktop 2 / Desktop Megathread

« on: October 20, 2013, 02:17:07 PM »

so what's so bad about Ubuntu?  The only real issue is how many default apps it has.