[personal profile] mjg59 reminds us that architectural choices haunt you forever

Jan. 9th, 2012 04:25 pm
emceeaich: (not_sensible)
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Your 1920x1080 TV takes a 1920x1080 signal, chops the edges off it and then stretches the rest to fit the screen because of decisions made in the 1930s.

Context is annoyed that a HDTV does not act as sensibly as a HD monitor.

ETA: fixed link, which apparently was caught in a DOS file name convention time warp.

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Date: 2012-01-10 02:16 am (UTC)
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That entry showed up visibly on DW's traffic graphs. :D

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Date: 2012-01-10 05:34 am (UTC)
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That post showed up on the internal Jabber channel at werk today.

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Date: 2012-01-13 09:52 pm (UTC)
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[personal profile] mjg59 is a Linux kernel developer. Lotta Linux and X11 geeks on LJ, and Matthew has in fact moved to DW.,
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