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confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Why Does Apple Offer Free Engraving?

Surely any engraving might detract from the Apple logo, thus reducing the phenominality, fabulosity, etc

By the way, I crave downvotes from humourless Apple devotees.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Apple bans Android magazine app

Mobile platforms are an extremely active battleground right now, though.

The mind boggles that we're in a situation where arguments like this are put forward. No offence to you specifically Groxx, but... I feel like Apple has exiled us all to crazy land.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Apple bans Android magazine app

Well, think about it this way: would you want your children reading a publication about Android?

Because hey - if you're cool with that, go ahead and get them an Android phone.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down

My point was that "The consistency is impressive" is questionable, given that the list is polluted with random rants that don't even describe an occurrence. It's a poorly curated list that I find untrustworthy as a result.

...and amazingly enough, I noticed that your chosen 'highlights' include such rants! Deary me, pay attention.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down

Here's one from that page:

"And you still have to take off your shoes... correct? Eight years to built the A-bomb. Nine years to put a man on the moon. Yet... after 9 years, we are still walking barefoot through airports. Something that would not be permitted in a health care setting... or a restaurant."

Yup. Good 'account'. Very... consistent.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Rape Survivor Devastated by TSA Enhanced Pat Down

True enough. It's quite hard to find them but I found one that apparently came from a site called InfoWars - isn't that some whacko conspiracy theory website? That's an unusual selection in general - there's comments that don't even describe something that occurred - just someone complaining in general about the TSA policy.

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Your eyes suck at blue

So, my screen doesn't display blue in a way that pixellation is visible to the human eye, and this is somehow not an issue with the human eye how?

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Your eyes suck at blue

I'm sorry, but this is all irrelevant waffle.

The issue is that the human eye is less able to distinguish detail in the blue spectrum, as the article (and a quick test) shows.

(Blimey, I just noticed your first comment got 22 votes! Apparently irrelevant waffle gets upvoted on HN, if it sounds confident)

confuzatron | 15 years ago | on: Your eyes suck at blue

Lots of text there, and you certainly sound confident, but I tried an experiment, and it confirmed the claims of the article. I used Paint.NET, loaded in an image, copied it to three layers. Adusted each layer to be a single colour channel, then changed each of the layers to 'Additive' mode.

Pixellating the blue layer - I could perceive at most some 'colour blotching', but no real loss of 'sharpness'

Pixellating the green layer - pixellation was easily visible.

Pixellating the red layer - the effect was somewhere in between.

You should give it a try. Here's my test Paint.NET image file with the layers all set up for you:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/714931/bluejay.pdn

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