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Chris Maunder wrote: So is there anything you'd like to be able to do in an application's interface that current screen technology can't offer?
Yeah, and 20 years ago it was 640 X 480. Glad to have left that behind...
I have a lot of ideas about UI failures, but I think you are asking about screen technology (ie. hardware). I've seen some interesting things with touch screens, but it hasn't sold me. I somewhat get the feeling that the technology has pretty much played itself out except for obvious things like screen size, refresh rate etc.
I'd really like to see the big screens more common such that the software technology can catch up and apps will by default assume more resolution. [and ptui on trying to display an "Excel" type grid on a phone] My apps tend to be scientific, with grids and lots of edit controls, check boxes, radio controls and buttons. First generation had to work with 640 X 480. Now I expect 1600 X 1200 or better.
Ubuntu and Microsoft (and others) both just recanted their 3 year failed adventure where they wanted to consolidate all app interfaces from phone to tablet to PC. Bad juju.
Technology ideas:
- I wonder if a wireless monitor is reasonable. I dislike cables.
- I wonder if the GPU could be moved from the CPU into the monitor.
In terms of hardware, I'd like for no more new cable types, or if we have to have one, make it last more than 10 years.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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I'm waiting for the holographic monitor, a little box sitting on the desk projecting a cube/globe of information at the size and resolution you require. True 3D and haptic, that is going to revolutionise how we present data.
That and telepathic software.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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How are they at greyscale?
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I'd like a hologram of Princess Leia to pop out.
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Not everyone has 4K monitors and TVs , unless you mean those small computers called smartphones.A Dell UltraSharp 32 8K Monitor costs USD 3,899 or the latest 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display roughly that much...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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OK, I get that.
The point of the question was "is there anything you would like to be able to do, graphically, that you can't do now".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Well 15 years just went by so fast I guess.Well considering that webdesign has changed a lot and with newer standards and frameworks especially with JavaScript,WebGL capturing attention and browsers changing code to support these technologies towards better adoption.
Let us not forget Macromedia/Adobe Flash and all those UI created for the web by Flash / Director designers in the 90's and 2000's.Microsoft also tried its had with Silverlight.WPF would have been a contender in UI space if Microsoft had done something more about it than stop at Blend.They should have come up with works like noesisengine which someone else had to do.
I woulda liked to make real UI just like they make in hollywood.....http://www.experienceperception.com/iron-man-2.html / https://www.vprofx.com/blog/passengers / ....  ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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People don't know what they want or what they will like. When innovative companies like Google, Microsoft or Apple bring something out, and it becomes a hit, then people think that they could not have lived without it.
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I think along the line of what Griff was getting at - except I would like the ability to control the colours on screen outside of the application.
So, say I have an editor that does not have the option to present a black background - I could still get the black background.
I don't know how the mechanics of this would be accomplished but it would allow me to control the colour themes rather than the applications limiting what I can have.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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using a package and writing some powershell to do some automagic things. Wasn't behaving how I thought it should. So I emailed support to ask. This is the response I got.
Another thing I'd like to mention, is that the following {switch} combination: "-O -P Skip" usually doesn't give the results users would expect.
Well no duh. So don't use them huh. <grin>
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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At least, they are honest 
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Nish Nishant wrote: At leastAmazing, they are honest
FTFY 
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At least you got a response.
I love my email service but I have never gotten a response from them.
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Send them an email...
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
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rnbergren wrote: Another thing I'd like to mention, is that the following {switch} combination: "-O -P Skip" usually doesn't give the results users would expect.
And another thing, all inquiries are answered with one automated response.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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What a way to die. 
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It's a small universe, only so many things to look at...
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Is Bluegrass when you mow down a Smurf?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Bluegrass is a Smurf playing a banjo.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Well lookee here.
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Bluegrass is Smurf-weed.
I don't hoe how you pot up with this lawn of response.
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