Life past 40 is far from smooth sailing, but it's so much more than the reductive depictions we see in women's magazines and on the Hollywood big screen.

40岁以后的人生并非一帆风顺，但它远比我们在女性杂志和好莱坞大屏幕上看到的简化描述要丰富得多。

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Or, is it actually a smooth curve without any corner, but we don't see it because it's too small to be visible on the computer screen?

或者，它实际上是一条光滑的没有棱角的曲线？，可是我们看不到，因为电脑屏幕太小了？

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Some like their edges to be smooth and blurred on each letter on the screen. Others like sharp fonts where the edges are crisp and clear.

有些设置可以让字母的边缘模糊平滑，另一些则会使字母边缘清晰锐利。

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Swiping from the home screen through the app grid was smooth, and in fact, all the graphical transitions we saw -- from the unlock screen to opening various apps -- were quite fluid as well.

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By contrast an Nvidia graphics processing unit, or GPU, renders graphics by simultaneously hashing out the same problem for multiple pixels: textures, lighting and smooth rendering of shapes flying across the screen.

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It's not obvious, but it is there -- especially on the notifications pull-down, which is smooth as a whistle as it moves across the main screen, whereas it flickers ever so slightly on the Android 4.0 One X.

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