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Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse?
Dishes of Ryan writes "I fell in love with the idea of an LCD monitor, so I ended up buying a nice, shiny Dell 2001FP. However, nowhere, and I mean *nowhere* did I read about LCDs having an input lag on them. For instance, if I scoot the mouse across the screen, there is a noticeable delay between when I move the mouse and when the cursor moves. To prove it to people, made a video showing exactly what I mean. You can almost forget being king of the hill on twitch FPS games like Unreal Tournament. Are there any other Slashdotters out there that are as annoyed as I am? What did you do?"
In response...I purchased a cheap 17" NEC LCD monitor from staples and I've never noticed a lag between my mouse and monitor. Maybe I just don't notice?? Haven't played many FPS games...so can't comment there.
I use my 2001FP mounted on the wall in the bedroom as a TV. Works great for that.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
What does your sig do? No way in hell I'm gonna compile it without knowing, but I'm dying to know.
I have a feeling that code isn't malicious, so you might give it a try.
My new viewsonic 20" (VP201B) is the most amazing thing i've bought in years. I went from the old apple b&w 17" CRT to this thing, and I see not a single downside.
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Yeah, he's right. I think that 'proper' ANSI C also requires you to actuall return something to main()
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
That isn't valid C according to the standards
No. There are many (contradictory) C standards, you didn't specify which one you're talking about. The function return-type definition used suggests it was written to the old K&R standard, which leaves many things unspecified, but that doesn't mean they're invalid. (When discussing standards, the difference between "unspecified" and "undefined" is quite important!)
You can't modify a variable twice between sequence points
Good thing he doesn't do that, eh? Inside the loop, there are only 2 modifying expressions: "++c" and "r--". As you can see, they modify different variables. Furthermore, they are separated by a sequence point. "?" creates a sequence point. (So does ",", by the way)
You missed a modifying expression ;-) The value of c is set after the ? too, in "c=!r--" (not "c!=r--", which would be a whole different kettle of fish). You're still quite right though, the C is valid due to the sequence point at ?.
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}
Calling printf without a prototype I'm not so sure about
An unprototyped function is assumed to have been declared 'int fn(...)', so I think using printf like this is OK. It doesn't quite match, but my understanding is that the string format parameter can be subsumed into the "..." without any incompatibilities. This is, in fact, the reason why this is the default for such functions -- it works in most cases, thus eliminating the need for prototyping most of the time.
The above isn't, in actual fact, funny. I moderated up a similar comment approximately 6 months ago and have not had mod points since then, despite my karma being "excellent" throughout the period.
I don't know whether those who moderated the warning as funny will see the not-so-funny side of it later, or not.
Ok, maybe a little off topic but I recently discovered another problem with flatscreens in general which, to my knowledge, cannot be solved with drivers or OS.. Namely colour calibration is a disaster. I can imagine it has to do with the chemistry involved in the monitors. Nonetheless for calibration with software like Photoshop or the GIMP (which unfortunatly has not much in color calibration currently) the flatscreens are way out of whack with ICC (Int. Color Consortitium) profiles meaning that you cannot do much in the way of photo editing and graphics work for laserjetting or even Epson inkjets.. Something to think about if you enjoy photography...
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
He's not.
I modded one of the editors offtopic 6 months ago and haven't modded since. I actually modded both his "not talking about the game" posts as offtopic as... um... they were offtopic.
pfffft.
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Ditto... I HATE the look of fancy coloured documents on laptops.
Too many pages of poo-brown and spew-green, which started as quite acceptable yellow and orange.
Occassionally I have seen unusably bad colour-schemes - only to discover that they look fine when I switch over to a CRT.
Posting this comment inspired me to check out the new IT colour scheme on the desktop - whoa, now I know why everyone was complaining...
"Go to CNN [for a] spell-checked, fact-checked summary" -- CmdrTaco
Same here. There's some function in their version of the slashcode that automatically blacklists people who mod down editors.
Not sure whether simply dissing them will cause it, but I imagine they have the ability to blacklist mods as an anti-abuse method, and simply abuse it when it suits them. Ironic as hell.
Don't worry, these sorts of editor abuses will get drowned out with the next "here's a new bash-Microsoft" article or "here's a new piracy-is-good" article.
Basically, the flaws of Slashdot--much like with Star Wars--are drowned out by the clamor of the fanbase for something new, no matter the lack of quality. I mean, look around. This website hasn't changed since 1998. Blast from the past! But working on that would take...work.
For the record, I have never, ever, in my history of visiting Slashdot since the 90s and having another account I used in college with Excellent karma, modded anything. Why? I dared post in "The Post"--the infamous classic case of editor abuse if there ever was one.
These complaints, like all the others, will go unnoticed by the editors who merely kick back and collect their checks from OSTG--the company that makes money from OSS products and conveniently also owns a news site that happens to criticize commercial competing vendors.