Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joel Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:07:05 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <071ikjds6op23p9b1vk6lg4l5379t7mv9l@4ax.com> <0ocikj9ctqn0o3sae3uqe28nnk5hrgg7de@4ax.com> <1geikjdv9poat2tq0hpib2fdsto802s7p3@4ax.com> <6pjikj1icct50cjm21d175uom81957p30l@4ax.com> <3ckukj91bq9p0eosv3h7grn1g83ii8jvmk@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 23:07:07 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d6c2ac27333179a9a22f7a33161bcc40"; logging-data="412902"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kfKxD4VZntJm0S+8wws8X2LC5hAyTUtI=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qY5e93rnivithKTdp+0Igaen4aw= OS: Debian 12, with Wine 9.0 for WinAPI Bytes: 2612 -hh wrote: >> I wouldn't have anticipated using 4K when I got the main parts. > >Especially when one is harping about 'future proofing', why wouldn't one >be so unprepared in 2021 for supporting 4K monitors? > >Because 4K wasn't a new standard: it first came out 2001, and was in the >consumer market by 2013. So by 2021, 4K displays were pretty >commonplace (even Apple had had them in iMacs for 7 years) and 'gamer' >ones had already dropped to just $500 ('regular' ones were even less): I paid $200 for mine. It's two years old. It was an impulse buy when my old monitor was dying. -- Joel W. Crump Amendment XIV Section 1. [...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent. States are liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.