[OT] Terminal width

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
>
> On 04/05/2010 11:17 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > My FreeRunner runs at ~280 DPI
> 
> Wow, that's impressive.  How is reading black-on-white text on it?

Not bad, actually :)

However:

> There's a supposition that eInk is better than LCD due to resolution,
> but your screen easily exceeds FAX and is approaching laser.

One of the oft-cited things that `ink' displays (including eInk, laser-print,
etc.) have going for them is actually not their resolution, but the mere
fact that they're illuminated from the viewing side rather than behind;
another less-frequently-cited advantage is that black-and-white `ink'
displays are *actually just black and white* rather than simulating white
via RGB--with these super-high pixel-densities, the individual colour-elements
are packed-in at almost *900 per inch*, which is enough for the ridge-marks
in fingerprints on the screen to actually create a lenticular `shimmering
rainbow' effect....

Luckly, the shimmering-fingerprints issue actually isn't *usually* all
*that* bad, and can be remedied by wiping the screen clean (preferably
in a horizontal motion ;))

Text can be made *amazingly* small on the FreeRunner before it becomes
unreadable due to pixelation--I much sooner run into the limits of my
vision, and my vision's pretty good.

The itsy-bitsy text on the OpenStreetMap tiles is even pretty readable...,
but only if the screen is close enough to one's face that one can
really focus on it. I just had to hack it because I wanted to be able
to know where I was at a *glance*, like when I'm driving.

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