On 22/04/2014 11:27 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> I don't know, man. I think Internet speeds have now reached the point
>> where page loading is near-instant, and any further boost is of no real
>> benefit.
>
> If you haven't noticed, YouTube has for some time supported
> 1920x1080 video. Likewise most online video rentals do so.

I wouldn't know about online video rentals. But I have noticed that 
YouTube used to be unreliable to the point of being useless (i.e., every 
8 to 10 seconds it freezes to buffer some more data - moreso at busy 
times of the day), and the pictures used to be so utterly blurry that 
you can't even recognise people's faces. They do seem to have fixed that 
now, so there's that I guess...

> It's nice when I buy such a game from Steam and it takes like an hour
> to download instead of the 10 to 20 hours that it took not so many
> years ago (when my internet connection was much slower.)

Indeed. What I downloaded Star Wreck (which is, like, 4GB), it took TWO 
DAYS to fetch it via BitTorrent. The other day I downloaded 17 GB inside 
of an afternoon...

>>    From what I've seen, the limitation is that all projectors work at
>> 800x600, or if you buy an expensive one, 1024x768. Christ only knows why
>> they don't make them in any higher resolutions...
>
> I'm sure there are higher-resolution ones, but they are probably quite
> expensive.

The majority one the ones in the price list I looked at were 1024x768. 
And we wanted it so we could do computer training sessions; almost every 
known application program needs a higher resolution than that if you 
actually want to see the entire main window...

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