On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > I can compute the square root of 3*3+4*4=25 in my head. 9*9+16*16=337, > not so much. It is precisely this difficulty that causes average people > buying widescreen monitors to think they are getting more square inches > of pixels, when in fact they are getting fewer. The math is too hard > for the average person (that is, the person who makes stuff for, and > feeds, us L33T H4XORs) to have a gut feel for. > > Perhaps if we explain it to them properly, our fellow citizens will > lynch some LCD monitor marketing scum, and the chastened companies > will start making non-Runt monitors again.
It might be easier to back-port Ubuntu to an abacus. :) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.linkedin.com/in/edborasky I've never met a happy clam. In fact, most of them were pretty steamed. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug