He did say that if he uses a third party library and support for it is discontinued, it becomes a problem. That’s a real world situation that you shouldn’t glibly dismiss. It costs money, often a lot, to deal with that situation and it happens often enough to be a real problem – even if the code is free. Sticking to inhouse code is more expensive up front (maybe – depends on the complexity of the problem), but at least you own the code and it won’t end up unsupported unless you yourself decide it’s time and you can plan accordingly. Third party libraries also tend to be bloated compared to what most end users use, so you’re picking up a lot of potential failure points you can’t control. That being said there are two kinds of third party: commercial and open source.

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That is called font and content scaler (not talking about one app or few system fonts - all content is in question). Bringing more pixels with tiny content is not what many people need. Bring scaler so that resolution could be adjusted to users needs. Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

Compression Explained. We use compression to make files smaller, allowing them to download faster and take up less storage space. For example, when you take a photo, your camera captures all the light it can get and puts together an image. The MacBook Air and Mac mini, a small desktop machine without a screen, have gone several years without notable changes. This, combined with interest in larger smartphones and competing PCs, led Apple to report the fewest Mac sales since 2010 in its fiscal third quarter.

But soon after we published our story, some users told us that they are experiencing the opposite:. We've been tracking this issue for the past few months, during which the launched with Android Pie out-of-the-box and new device owners reported similar problems.

However, fullscreen gives noticeable improvement for me, so borderless is no-go for me unfortunately (3 year old laptop with 640m GPU). Runs great at low, 100% scale, capped 30fps, and vsync off.

Rather than schlepping through the print dialog options to make a PDF, for instance, we'll be in Pages and will press Shift-Command-P and let Keyboard Maestro do the rest for us. You could do that in macOS if you wanted: just go to System Preferences, choose Keyboard, then Shortcuts and add a keystroke to anything you like. However, Keyboard Maestro lets us say that a given keystroke only does this given thing we want when we're in a particular application. So when we're in Adobe Audition, for instance, we have a keystroke for inserting silence into an audio track. We have the keystroke because we do it so often that finding and choosing the feature in the menus is a pain. If we leave Audition and go to OmniOutliner, though, we can have that same keystroke do an entirely different job.

It works perfectly now. Mac utilities clean up. Seems that there is something wrong when after you put the laptop on standby and try to play the game. Try what I did, make sure to delete the setting file after you restart. Start the game and it should go fullscreen by default. If it does, adjust your setting in game & apply, close the game and make sure to check read-only option for the setting file.

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I haven’t had a ton of time to go over your project yet, but I’m impressed with what I’ve seen so far. Thanks for the offer to update the post 🙂 I’ve made my library.NET Core compatible (still Windows only for now), updated your benchmark app with a test for it, and sent you a pull request. I’d love to hear what you think. I also fixed a couple of small problems in your CoreCompat.System.Drawing test, one of which was causing the light-colored lines along the left and top edges of your darker sample images and another of which was causing it to render the image colors incorrectly.

So the new program doesn't guarantee you a repair, but it's a nice change from Apple's previous policy where it stopped offering repairs entirely after classifying devices as vintage. Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has introduced the that 'would dramatically beef up Federal Trade Commission authority and funding to crack down on privacy violations, let consumers opt out of having their sensitive personal data collected and sold, and impose harsh new penalties on a massive data monetization industry that has for years claims that self-regulation is all that's necessary to protect consumer privacy,' reports Motherboard. From the report: Wyden's bill proposes that companies whose revenue exceeds $1 billion per year -- or warehouse data on more than 50 million consumers or consumer devices -- submit 'annual data protection reports' to the government detailing all steps taken to protect the security and privacy of consumers' personal information.

If they did as well as they did bucking the tremendously strong draft winds competing with Windows just think how they will fare without the pressure. Jobs has performed well, keeping the monster on track, then again the pressure may have acted like a brake to keep it moving at a manageble speed, now we'll see how the machine handles at break neck speeds.

Thats about as big a move toward intel and the others as one could go, but look at the rewards. Pull your heads out and smell the fresh air, the train is coming. Your either part of the solution, or part of the problem, Time will tell.

Generally, though, that’s just webm (which I never keep around) and mkv (which I use HandBrake to convert to MP4/M4V). Though I shouldn’t need to convert, just reencapsulate. I’ve not yet found a nice application to do that. I’m not on my desktop and can’t remember any others, but I have plenty. I use Unarchiver a lot, especially when making custom random comic tpbs.

Me and my friends (not Fredrik aka tattersail) have been fiddling around with the graphics settings ever since launch now, we tried playing around in both Nvidia control panel aswell as AMD catalyst control panel, but nothing seemed to work. Right now, the best way to make the game enjoyable is simply to set the resolution to 1280x720 rather than 1920x1080, this increases fps by x2 aswell as removes _all_ stuttering lag. Resolution scale set to max! World tile buffers: low View distance: high Anti-alias: Epic (doesn't seem to affect fps at all?!) Post processing: low General shadows: low Terrain shadows: low Textures: high Sky Quality: none Ground Clutter: none Last 5 options: Disabled TL;DR: 1280x720 beats 1920x1080. Originally posted by:Why not leave it at 1080, but adjust the scaler slider to what would be 720p?

Finally, even better than Carbon Copy is: SuperDuper. Best backup software for Mac out there, great complement to TimeMachine.

2) GPU usage. Web servers almost never have a GPU available, so if the library is using the GPU on a workstation, it may show performance that isn’t possible on a web server.

Go to google codesearch and query for 'wxwidgets resamplebicubic' and 'virtualdub resample' respectively to get the same results. It has not been mentioned yet, so I will point out that OpenCV has functions for scaling and rotating images, as well as an enormous number of other utilities.

There’s currently no plan to support image processing in.NET Standard. This post aims at showing what’s available today using third-party libraries.

I will lament the passing of a friend. RIP PPC @fryke Absolutely! It's not just the OS, it's the build, the panache. I don't think the panache-guys are going to jump ship the way so many forum rats say they will. Cupertino will still be the home-town of cool products, even with intel insides. People will see just how dull Dells really are.

They are the ones that profoundly improve your work and your enjoyment of working at a Mac. We depend on all five of these and we depend on them in concert. So the ranking here is based entirely on just how often we actually use them. Hazel It's hard to define how often we use Hazel, though, because we probably haven't gone into it this year and it's possible we didn't last year either. Yet what we set up when were last in it has been working for us every minute of every day since. Hazel is a Mac utility that watches any folders on your computer that you tell it to. In our case we have it watching the Desktop.

That is called font and content scaler (not talking about one app or few system fonts - all content is in question). Bringing more pixels with tiny content is not what many people need. Bring scaler so that resolution could be adjusted to users needs. So far only TinkerTool is doing part of this job on fonts and not on all. I do not care if I have 4K or zillion-k on 27 inch screen.

Alternatively, you could look at options such as or for more advanced imaging options. We’ll revisit image building in a future guide and explore how to customise it further, deploying more advanced functionality and enabling some built-in options that are disabled by default.

PC games run at many resolutions natively. You can probably up or downscale the resolution of any game as well, but you'd have to specifically set this in your gpu's control panel or your display's options. As mentioned, there is no difference between display resolution and render resolution in nearly all PC games. What you are thinking of is more of a concept in console games, where the game has a fixed render solution and then it scales to whatever your console's output res is for your TV/monitor.

I think I was in the 'jump ship' category to start with, now I just class myself as in shock. But all the assumptions and tears aside, what do we actually know? Future Macs will use Intel CPUs as opposed to PowerPC. Does this make those new Macs actually overpriced PCs?

1080p to 720p: How to Convert and Compress 1080p Full HD videos to 720p Situation 1: convert 1080p AVCHD files down to 720p for easy editing 'Hey guys, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of any good way to convert 1080p AVCHD video down to 720p? I do not own a high-def camera yet, but I plan to buy the $900 Canon Rebel T2i within the next couple of months. Since it doesn't offer 24fps in 720p mode, I'll need to shoot my videos in full HD and then down-convert them to edit them semi-painlessly on my laptop, as well as upload them to the internet without having to worry about converting the footage again. There's no way my current editing setup will even come close to editing 1080p AVCHD footage without giving me massive headaches and possibly frying my computer! Also, is there a way that I can painlessly (or at least semi-easily) convert the footage from AVCHD to, say, MPEG-2?

But that geometry. Those sprites. Those things look 'better' to my old gamer eyes in 800x600 tops than they do in 1080p. There's a reason for this: our visual system interprets a nicer image from the fuzz than 1080p reveals (i.e., we perceive what we were 'intended to see', not what is physically there). Whether this is the case or not definitely depends on the source material (i.e.