I’d not be surprised to see this in Florida. Where I live now, I’d not expect to see something like this.
But Florida, yep, just another day.
Day: July 1, 2015, 10:02 AM
Windows 10, as in 1910
Funny that Windows is still utter shit at handling 4K and 5K, even in Windows 10.
Stranger still are the text-scaling issues found even in Metro. Microsoft’s new interface design is supposed to handle high pixel densities without issue, yet some aliasing is obvious in text found on the login screen, the taskbar and the Start menu.
Metro apps suffer similar problems. The Windows Store, for example, has made little effort to ensure images scale as well.
On my 5K iMac, even old applications usually look pretty good.
I had planned to switch back to Windows when it supported 4K and 5K properly. But it looks like that will be roughly never, so Mac OS it is for the foreseeable future.
What the hell is wrong with Microsoft? It’s not like high PPI displays are going to get less common, or become less used.
Pick
This article is funny, but I like to nitpick.
So I will.
That planet is what, twice the radius of earth? At that radius and assuming the average density of earth for the larger planet, gravity would logically be close to twice earth normal assuming the earth-normal density of 5.5 g/cc.
Twice normal gravity would be a bit difficult to deal with, but doable.
Water has a lot lower density than most of our planet, so if the larger planet had a lot more water to lower the average density to 4 g/cc gravity would be about 1.44 times earth normal. This would be a lot easier to handle.
Also, a planet with no tectonic activity would not be long-term habitable most likely. It’d be essentially dead. Subduction/obduction, orogeny (and the related iron cycle) and other geological processes bring a huge amount of minerals and other nutrients to the surface that are required for continued vital biospheres. (The piece later says there are volcanic peaks which probably can’t happen on a rocky planet without tectonic activity outside of meteor strikes or similar.)
Anyway, there’s more but that’s all I feel like nitpicking for now.