Perhaps they have homes and families in the place they chose to live? Perhaps they prever sane politics to the insanity that passes for sensibility in NYC and SF?
That's fine when I'm at my desk. But when I'm on the road, I'd like the best color accuracy available in a laptop screen. The point of the question isn't knowing how accurate it is relative to a professional desktop monitor, but how accurate it is compared to the old backlight.
I'm incredibly excited at the prospect of an LED display. Not only would the lighting be easier on the eyes, but lower-power and safer.
As some one who's concerned with color correction, though, I wonder how accurate and vivid are the colors on these new screens. I'm not ordering one to find out.
We frequently receive notifications of spam email as well as virus-laden email that has originated from our network. We only respond to the sender if they request that we do (and even then, if it's not necessary and the request isn't polite, we may not).
That means we almost never send a reply to the person who notified us. However, we DO take care of every single notification we receive. If we aren't able to immediately contact the customer and fix the issue (generally a home user with a virus doing the spamming), then we either shut off their service or, more frequently, block outgoing connections from their IP to port 25 anywhere.
Please don't let the silence discourage you. We're hard at work and appreciate the notices that help us keep our networks and services running smoothly for our customers.
Your ISP is subsidizing the cost of equipment instead of charging you an up-front sign-up fee. If you leave, your monthly payment is no longer paying that off. It makes perfect sense.
It stinks that we can't get it for free, but that's the way it works.
Since I've never had a need for service, I had no idea. The spam news is bad enough. Looks like I'll be switching to Gandi.
A pity. Joker's "utilitarian" site design filled me with an ironic confidence, like having security in some one who runs csh for a default shell. And it turns out they just don't care.
Police cars don't do that too much here. Wherever a police car is, stopped or moving, people hit their brakes when they see them here. Even if they're doing the speed limit.
I can understand slowing a bit out of "reflex", but some people slam on their brakes. Causing the problem we're discussing.
I unfortunately never found a solution for myself.
The whole ticketing process severely interfered with my ability to provide resolutions because it's utterly irrelevant to the resolution itself.
I *did* manage to log most of my calls when it came time to demonstrate our need to outsource tech support. The deal was that if I could log my calls for a period of time, we could print a chart with the call log info and convince management to outsource tech support and allow me to focus on my non-helpdesk activities. I was burned out, so it was do-or-die.
Lighting a fire under them is really the only way. I hate to say it, and it is not a job I would do, but that's how to get it done.
Many panels these days used non-HD resolutions (stretched 1024x768 for plasma displays, for instance) or, almost as bad, an "in between" resolution. That's commonly 1366x768.
That ensures that EVERYTHING you watch will be scaled, so you couldn't even have the clarity of watching 720p on a 1280x720 set.
Yet the 1280x720 sets, with lower resolutions, cost more.
Actually, I did play Super Mario 64. I played it on N64 shortly after it was released, and was blown away, but I was frustrated by the sloppy controls and mid-game challenges and bored well before then.
Not that I expect the one of the most pioneering games ever to do everything perfectly. It broke ground in the 3D genre and set the standard for all other games. It was one of the most important games of all time.
I bought it for the DS, thinking that maybe it was just me being new to 3D games that put me off of it the first time. No, I had the same experience. I had similar feelings about Super Mario Sunshine, which I was utterly sick of 3/4 of the way through the game (although I think it succeeded in fixing some of the control problems and coming closer to the "Mario feel").
I think the first two Sonic Adventure games were not only better games, but felt more like their predecessors. But they weren't the pioneers that SM64 was.
As some one who really loves many 3D platformers and really loves Mario games, I just didn't think SM64 was all THAT great.
Heroes and Shadow were horrible games, but they were far cries from the first two Sonic Adventure games, which were, in my opinion, far better 3D translations than the Mario series.
The big problem most people had with the Sonic Adventure games was that you didn't actually play as Sonic for most of the game.
Oh, sure, you can claim he made the world safe by taking down a dictator. Just try telling that to the Iraq people as they bury more people in a single day than Saddam killed.
Where in the world do you get your statistics from? Conservative estimates by even the UN *start* the low-end estimates at around 300,000! A comparison might be helpful. Both are probably very, very low estimates, but the comparison has some weight.
OK, to be serious, this is a wonderful leap. Granted, it took a company as flush with cash and as well organized as Google to make the switch, but even if they're much better suited to do so, they can at least be an example to strive for.
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Perhaps they have homes and families in the place they chose to live? Perhaps they prever sane politics to the insanity that passes for sensibility in NYC and SF?
Or maybe they just don't want to get shot.
You might try harder to read my comment before you issue your condescension.
I didn't say anything about the gamut. I was concerned with the quality difference relative to the CCFL backlit screens, as context should imply.
That's fine when I'm at my desk. But when I'm on the road, I'd like the best color accuracy available in a laptop screen. The point of the question isn't knowing how accurate it is relative to a professional desktop monitor, but how accurate it is compared to the old backlight.
Looking back, I can't believe I didn't type "backlit" between LED and display. I swear I knew that.
Yes, I do. The color temperature of the backlight will have a direct impact on the visible color, though.
I'm incredibly excited at the prospect of an LED display. Not only would the lighting be easier on the eyes, but lower-power and safer.
As some one who's concerned with color correction, though, I wonder how accurate and vivid are the colors on these new screens. I'm not ordering one to find out.
Probably because Japanese written history only goes back about 2400 years and Chinese written history 3200 years.
I work for a regional ISP.
We frequently receive notifications of spam email as well as virus-laden email that has originated from our network. We only respond to the sender if they request that we do (and even then, if it's not necessary and the request isn't polite, we may not).
That means we almost never send a reply to the person who notified us. However, we DO take care of every single notification we receive. If we aren't able to immediately contact the customer and fix the issue (generally a home user with a virus doing the spamming), then we either shut off their service or, more frequently, block outgoing connections from their IP to port 25 anywhere.
Please don't let the silence discourage you. We're hard at work and appreciate the notices that help us keep our networks and services running smoothly for our customers.
Your ISP is subsidizing the cost of equipment instead of charging you an up-front sign-up fee. If you leave, your monthly payment is no longer paying that off. It makes perfect sense.
It stinks that we can't get it for free, but that's the way it works.
Call me when you have a scaler, though.
I saw a screenshot of a hobbit fighting a bear. ...that is wrong in so many different ways.
It may be a great game, but I'm not sure how it will work as "Lord of the Rings" material.
Thanks for that.
Since I've never had a need for service, I had no idea. The spam news is bad enough. Looks like I'll be switching to Gandi.
A pity. Joker's "utilitarian" site design filled me with an ironic confidence, like having security in some one who runs csh for a default shell. And it turns out they just don't care.
I've had excellent service from joker.com over the years.
It Just Works. No BS, no loud advertising, just working registry service.
The only complaint I have about them is that their DNS service doesn't allow wildcards. I'm not losing any sleep over that, though.
Wasn't ENHANCING flavor Coca-Cola's excuse for putting caffeine in nearly all their products?
Freaking rats.
Not to mention stupid.
I know some very intelligent, down-to-earth city folk, but I swear most of them live just outside the realm of reality.
Police cars don't do that too much here. Wherever a police car is, stopped or moving, people hit their brakes when they see them here. Even if they're doing the speed limit.
I can understand slowing a bit out of "reflex", but some people slam on their brakes. Causing the problem we're discussing.
I unfortunately never found a solution for myself.
The whole ticketing process severely interfered with my ability to provide resolutions because it's utterly irrelevant to the resolution itself.
I *did* manage to log most of my calls when it came time to demonstrate our need to outsource tech support. The deal was that if I could log my calls for a period of time, we could print a chart with the call log info and convince management to outsource tech support and allow me to focus on my non-helpdesk activities. I was burned out, so it was do-or-die.
Lighting a fire under them is really the only way. I hate to say it, and it is not a job I would do, but that's how to get it done.
Many panels these days used non-HD resolutions (stretched 1024x768 for plasma displays, for instance) or, almost as bad, an "in between" resolution. That's commonly 1366x768.
That ensures that EVERYTHING you watch will be scaled, so you couldn't even have the clarity of watching 720p on a 1280x720 set.
Yet the 1280x720 sets, with lower resolutions, cost more.
Welcome to The Market.
Actually, I did play Super Mario 64. I played it on N64 shortly after it was released, and was blown away, but I was frustrated by the sloppy controls and mid-game challenges and bored well before then.
Not that I expect the one of the most pioneering games ever to do everything perfectly. It broke ground in the 3D genre and set the standard for all other games. It was one of the most important games of all time.
I bought it for the DS, thinking that maybe it was just me being new to 3D games that put me off of it the first time. No, I had the same experience. I had similar feelings about Super Mario Sunshine, which I was utterly sick of 3/4 of the way through the game (although I think it succeeded in fixing some of the control problems and coming closer to the "Mario feel").
I think the first two Sonic Adventure games were not only better games, but felt more like their predecessors. But they weren't the pioneers that SM64 was.
As some one who really loves many 3D platformers and really loves Mario games, I just didn't think SM64 was all THAT great.
Heroes and Shadow were horrible games, but they were far cries from the first two Sonic Adventure games, which were, in my opinion, far better 3D translations than the Mario series.
The big problem most people had with the Sonic Adventure games was that you didn't actually play as Sonic for most of the game.
It's not a proper fake news unless it speculates on BeOS, too.
Oh, sure, you can claim he made the world safe by taking down a dictator. Just try telling that to the Iraq people as they bury more people in a single day than Saddam killed.
Where in the world do you get your statistics from? Conservative estimates by even the UN *start* the low-end estimates at around 300,000! A comparison might be helpful. Both are probably very, very low estimates, but the comparison has some weight.
How many FPS games with substance have most gamers, or even reviewers, played? Doom? Quake? Both revolutionary, but mostly devoid of substance.
Oh, there was--wait, no.
Bottom line is that there just haven't been many. It's entirely possible that Halo was the first substance-filled FPS he played.
Six axes:
1. X
2. Y
3. Z
4. Roll
5. Pitch
6. Yaw
Count 'em. Six. I'm not a Sony apologist. Just a pedant.
Call me when they hit 1.21 gigawatts!
OK, to be serious, this is a wonderful leap. Granted, it took a company as flush with cash and as well organized as Google to make the switch, but even if they're much better suited to do so, they can at least be an example to strive for.