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Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Warning on the site when you visit with an ipad: "Hey there. It looks like you're on a mobile device. Just a quick warning: This project will download a lot of data from the interwebs (no really!), and even then it probably won't look that great. Your best bet is to bookmark this page, go home, check it out on your desktop, and see it in its full glory." I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite c…

>I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite computing device at home, I hardly touch my desktop these days... Times are changing... Why would I want to use a truck at home?

That is the most pretentious load of bullshit I've heard in a long time. The creators took the liberty to warn you that they might eat into your data plan that you may be capped on and you call them out? Not to mention the rendering on this site would bring your little ipad to it's knees. This attitude has got to go.

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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Possibly the coolest loading screen I've seen. It would be nice to have a "play" button that automatically goes 1 year back every second or something like that.

There's a neat gif on the About page: http://halftone.co/projects/temperatures/about/

Re: Global land temperatures since 1900 visualized

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post #16

Warning on the site when you visit with an ipad: "Hey there. It looks like you're on a mobile device. Just a quick warning: This project will download a lot of data from the interwebs (no really!), and even then it probably won't look that great. Your best bet is to bookmark this page, go home, check it out on your desktop, and see it in its full glory." I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite c…

>I am at home, on the couch, with an ipad. That is my favorite computing device at home, I hardly touch my desktop these days... Times are changing... Why would I want to use a truck at home? That is the most pretentious load of bullshit I've heard in a long time. The creators took the liberty to warn you that they might eat into your data plan that you may be capped on and you call them out? Not to mention the rende…

It would have been ok if they hadn't made so many assumptions, telling me to go home, etc. just saying "this will not work on a phone or tablet" wold have been much better.

Assumptions they made: * you are not at home, (I am sitting on the couch) * you have a desktop at home (I have an aging five year old iMac, which I won't be upgrading any time soon) * a tablet is a mobile device (no, it's mostly used at home, not on the road)

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