5 yrs ago your monitor was a different size (smaller) and your monitor's resolution was different (less pixels by less pixels) and if there % change in monitor growth is different than the change in pixel definition, there may NOT be a drastic change in your vision. do a direct comparison on monitor size (always measured diagonally, tho not everyone remembers that) w/ your resolution's hypotenuse (a2 + b2 = c2, then c = sqrt(c2) and use that in a ratio comparison w/ the size of the monitor if the monitor size has outpaced the pixel increase, then you can say you are viewing it in a larger proportional font than previous, but it is likely that the pixel increase outpaces the monitor increase, and that means the 10pt or 12pt font of 5 yrs ago is actually smaller today than then!
You're very sweet, but the fact of the matter is, 5 years ago - hell 3 years ago - I could walk in and put my glasses on a shelf by the front door and not touch them again until I left to drive again.
They are now glued to my face from the time I get up until I go to bed.
Apparently when I wrote this story I could still read 12 pt. Times New Roman at 100%. I now need it at 125% to read comfortably WITH my glasses, on the lap top (which is much closer to my face.) So, really, it is my eyes. :)
I'm now 35 and they've only recently become a fixed feature. So far I've avoided the multi-focals, but with family history, that's coming sooner rather than later too.
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And, as you know, UB5 never had an independently accessible archive.
ONE of these days I'll get them into my smallwaldo journal, I hope. Either that or when OTW goes live this summer I can archive there.
Sorry!
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do a direct comparison on monitor size (always measured diagonally, tho not everyone remembers that) w/ your resolution's hypotenuse (a2 + b2 = c2, then c = sqrt(c2) and use that in a ratio comparison w/ the size of the monitor
if the monitor size has outpaced the pixel increase, then you can say you are viewing it in a larger proportional font than previous, but it is likely that the pixel increase outpaces the monitor increase, and that means the 10pt or 12pt font of 5 yrs ago is actually smaller today than then!
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They are now glued to my face from the time I get up until I go to bed.
Apparently when I wrote this story I could still read 12 pt. Times New Roman at 100%. I now need it at 125% to read comfortably WITH my glasses, on the lap top (which is much closer to my face.) So, really, it is my eyes. :)
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*huggles*
i've been a multi-focal lensed puffin since i was 35, i'm now almost 42, so don't feel badly :)
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I'm now 35 and they've only recently become a fixed feature. So far I've avoided the multi-focals, but with family history, that's coming sooner rather than later too.
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