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Yes, a historic re-enactment of the dockings first performed in the mid/late 60s.

Um, what?

Don’t get carried away, the best hope we can pin on this is that space exploration will continue in spite of broke governments.

Also, just low Earth orbit? The final frontier may be a lot closer than you think. For example, we know a lot more about the topography of Mars than that of the bottom of our own oceans, by orders of magnitude.

I see. But how is Apple supposed to fix that?

Maybe the issue you’re getting this error every time you try to download something and the fact that you attach comments to the wrong articles have a common cause?

“Old man my ass!”

The rumour mill is in dire need of a redesign.

Oracle knew that this would happen, and they know what’s gonna happen next. I mean, they’re the Oracle…

Over forty years of cold war brain washing, what did you expect?

But I’ve seen pictures of Russia. Aside from The Kremlin, it doesn’t look that different from the moon.

You’re thinking of Kansas.

Makes perfect sense, they’re building a gulag. The name “Sea of Tranquility” will strike fear into hearts of Putin’s enemies. Just like “Guantanamo Bay” does for the enemies of the American empire.

Nice to see that Windows boots real fast now. It shows that Microsoft is focussing resources correctly, In contrast to most other OSes with Windows the reboot time is really important.

Yay! I’m so switching to Chrome, a browser provided to me for free by a company that wants nothing more than to record my every move, habit and preference.

What I want to ask you is: would you agree with John’s example above?

Yes, the arithmetic seems to work out. You have to be careful with what you mean by “able to resolve 100 dots per degree”. Usually that means 100 black/white dot pairs, i.e. requiring twice as many pixels as black dots.

Thank you, it does clarify the concept, and no, it wasn’t clear, and thanks again for taking the time to explain it.

Apple has said nothing of the kind (even though we all know it’s gonna happen). The article you linked talks about HiDPI mode for AirPlay’ing to Retina iPads.

I’ll wait it out until the old republic will be defeated by the empire.

Again.

In which way? Shouldn’t the article point that out, if only for the benefit of people who have used neither?

Well, that was fun! Congratulations to SpaceX!

Aww, poor fella!

Well, thanks for explaining to me what I said just before. Not sure why you deny that “Retina display” is about resolution, though. My guess: the word “resolution” is used to refer to three distinct things, and that confuses people:

- linear resolution – the number of pixels, lines or line pairs per unit of length (usually inches or millimetres)
- angular resolution – the number of pixels, lines or line pairs per unit of arc (typically degrees)
- the size of a display or sensor in number of pixels length and width wise (expressed as L x W)

The first two are directly related via the viewing distance. The last is really a misnomer, it doesn’t talk about resolution at all without knowledge of the physical size (in millimetres or inches) of the display or sensor.

The term “Retina display” is all about angular resolution, as I thought I had made clear in my second paragraph above.

They take inert gases and heat them up with microwaves. It turns the gas into a plasma as hot as the sun. They funnel all this heat through super conducting magnets.

Sounds like nothing can possibly go wrong there.

Down to Beckham’s hair-do!

That sounds cheap for a weather-sealed body. Are there weather-sealed lenses as well?

No, no, no! The iPad is for consumption, not creation. When will those developers stop ruining it?!

Since that Forbes piece was written AAPL is back up from $530 to $561. Go figure…

They may have just lost their A+ status with Apple.