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From: nospam on 19 Mar 2010 00:37
In article <slrnhq5uij.u0.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis
<g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> Changing the resolution on an LCD to anything other than the default
> 'native' resolution is a bad idea. Don't do it.

not always.

> You have a great deal of control over the size of the screen elements in
> OS X, and you can easily make the icons HUGE if you want.
>
> Set the resolution back to the default. Make the dekstop icons larger
> rclick (control click) ont eh desktop and choose "Show View Options"
>
> Make sure that in "Universal Access" (er... was that renamed in 10.6?)
> "Zoom" is turned on. Show him how to zoom the screen by holding the
> control key while sliding his finger on the top of the magic mouse.

which is effectively the same thing as changing the native resolution,
just a lot more work.
From: nospam on 19 Mar 2010 01:04
In article <slrnhq612n.u0.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis
<g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> >> Make sure that in "Universal Access" (er... was that renamed in 10.6?)
> >> "Zoom" is turned on. Show him how to zoom the screen by holding the
> >> control key while sliding his finger on the top of the magic mouse.
> >
> > which is effectively the same thing as changing the native resolution,
> > just a lot more work.
>
> No it's not. Not at all. Not even a little bit.

of course it is. either way, the pixels get interpolated.
From: nospam on 19 Mar 2010 03:48
In article <slrnhq69qm.12ts.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis
<g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> >> >> Make sure that in "Universal Access" (er... was that renamed in 10.6?)
> >> >> "Zoom" is turned on. Show him how to zoom the screen by holding the
> >> >> control key while sliding his finger on the top of the magic mouse.
> >> >
> >> > which is effectively the same thing as changing the native resolution,
> >> > just a lot more work.
> >>
> >> No it's not. Not at all. Not even a little bit.
>
> > of course it is. either way, the pixels get interpolated.
>
> No, that's not at all accurate.

so what's the difference then?
From: Doug Anderson on 19 Mar 2010 10:48
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:

> In message <180320102204095306%nospam(a)nospam.invalid> nospam
> <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > In article <slrnhq612n.u0.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis
> > <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
> >> >> Make sure that in "Universal Access" (er... was that renamed in 10.6?)
> >> >> "Zoom" is turned on. Show him how to zoom the screen by holding the
> >> >> control key while sliding his finger on the top of the magic mouse.
> >> >
> >> > which is effectively the same thing as changing the native resolution,
> >> > just a lot more work.
> >> No it's not. Not at all. Not even a little bit.
>
> > of course it is. either way, the pixels get interpolated.
>
> No, that's not at all accurate.

It _seems_ accurate.

That is my subjective impression is that when one uses
ctrl-scrollwheel, you get a bigger blurrier picture as if pixels were
getting interpolated.

It also isn't obvious what _else_ could be going on.

So if you really know nospam to be incorrect, you might share what you
believe _does_ happen when you use ctrl-scrollwheel.
From: Fred Moore on 19 Mar 2010 12:06
In article <tom_stiller-83B47A.17322018032010(a)news.individual.net>,
Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> In article <fmoore-102731.15090918032010(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote:
>
> > Richard, my wife tried progressives, and they made her terminally
> > nauseous.
>
> They killed her?

Well, okay, Mr. Literal. Zheesh, must be an engineer! ;) Fortunately,
my wife is still alive and kicking. Unlike my experience, progressive
lenses gave my wife headaches and made her want to vomit. I was using
the word 'terminal', in the current colloquial form for 'very',
'extremely', or 'to the nth degree', as in 'When they gave the boy a
large bowl of his favorite ice cream, he was terminally happy.' The
usage ariginated in the 60s IIRC, but then I do remember at least part
of the 60s so perhaps I wasn't really there.
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