Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

Meta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 14 12:51:04 PDT 2014


On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 19:40:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> [2] 4k: Can screens EVER standardize on fucking ANYTHING 
> anymore?!? Pick a fucking notation for describing resolutions 
> and STICK WITH IT!!! It's like the freaking "Lenny"/"Mountain 
> Lion"/"Ice Cream Sandwich" bullshit here. I don't *want* to 
> know the correct ordering of snacks/cats/toy story characters, 
> and I'm *certainly* not going to memorize which idiotic (and 
> completely unnecessary) name refers to WHAT freaking version. 
> Idiotic unnecessary indirection.
>
> "Woody/Sarge???" WTF? "SD/1080p/4k???" WTF? Enough redundant 
> naming conventions already.

You think this is bad? Just wait until 4K really gets going in 
the mainstream and every manufacturer under the sun comes up with 
their own unique term to differentiate themselves. It'll be 2008 
all over again.


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