[Qt-interest] Scaling bug in most software

[Brian J Mingus]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Brad Howes <howes at ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Brian J Mingus wrote:
>
> > I really wish this meme would die. If *everybody* is looking at the
> images and *nobody* notices for decades it is not a bug.
>
>
> Now that is just plain silly. That is like saying, if *everybody* thinks
> the Earth is flat and *nobody* notices for decades it is not, then it must
> be flat.
>
> People *did* notice the problem (read the original posting), someone
> figured out the root cause, and then investigated where it existed and
> discovered that a lot of image manipulation software had the problem.
>
> Brad
>
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The curvature of the earth is not inconsequential. This "bug" is. Poor
example.
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