The problem is that with backlit keycaps the opaque coating around the translucent letters tends to wear through quite easily, turning letters into glowing blobs.
There are backlit keyboards with more durable keys for backlit keyboards (dye-sublimated or double-shot moulded) but those keycaps are much more expensive. We are talking the cost of a couple a complete MS 4000 for just the keycaps.
There have been lots of clones of the MS "Natural" from Logitech and others throughout the years that don't have backlighting. Even better are the keyboards that are truly split in two separate parts without a keypad on the right side and with many more options for adjustment. These are Goldtouch, Kinesis Freestyle and the quiet mechanical Matias Ergo Pro (due to be out in August).
Blue LEDs contain so much energy that they hurt the eyes.. and they look really tacky. Would it not be right that it is the companies that put the blue LEDs into products that should be punished for doing so?;)
Yes, two large monitors in 4:3 would have been nice. Now, a single humungous 16:9 monitor is the only way to get enough vertical screen space because proper 4:3 monitors are not available.
The resolution matters in relation to the size of the screen and the viewer's distance from it. If your screen is 32" then 720p is often more than enough, but if you have a 50" screen then you notice the difference more easily.
I agree that it depends on the kind of content you are watching. I know people who use a projector for watching movies at home but a 32" TV for watching TV programmers.
If you just upscale like you said, then you win nothing. The image will actually even look blockier on a higher-resolution screen because of there being less distance between pixels.
The trick is in blending (interpolating) between pixels, but do so in a smart manner. The simple method is to do linear interpolation, I.e. just let the new pixels have the average of the pixels around them. Lots of TVs do this, but the method is a bit too simple: it will sometimes make things too blurry instead. The problem is to make sharp edges in the image stay sharp and blend elsewhere. The next step up is to interpolate using curves: plot a curve between pixel values. This will nudge the blended value towards one or the other neighbour depending on the values of other neighbouring pixels around them.
There are lots of even smarter algorithms for upscaling, but the smarter they are the more hardware they require at a smaller gain from the previous algorithm, so at some point it does not become cost-effective for the TV manufacturer to go one step further. This product is apparently for those who want to pay more for a better algorithm.
It is not the way X works is particularly secure to begin with. Once an app has a connection to the X server, it has full control over the world of window, pixmaps and events on the server including of course all other apps.
Not that I have any faith in Wayland or Mir being any better, its developers coming from the X world in the first place, I am sure that they will make their new shiny systems vulnerable in the same ways.
I remember when a co-worker ported a program from Windows to the Mac a few years ago. He had the problem that it made the Mac hibernate every time the program was run. It took a while to find out why... the answer was that his code had called "Sleep()" with a capital S instead of "sleep()". Apparently, elevated privileges were not required to make the computer go to sleep.
4.3 million SEK is probably a large portion of the movie's total revenue, if not surprassing what it has already made. It was made for ad-funded free TV for Chris's sake...
It got low reviews from critics, and the series was already a trite. Would filesharing it at low quality really degrade it's quality? Sorry, but you can't polish a turd.
(No offence to my cousin's husband who plays the lead in this movie. He's got to eat too...)
Bah. You are over-analysing. "Windows" is a crap brand, plain and simple, and that is both Microsoft's fault and Microsoft's fault that they don't realize it.
Normal users associate "Windows" with work, malware, slow computers (because of malware, or the software installed to combat malware) and annoying popups (not just malware, but Windows itself: Sticky keys, "You have unused icons on your desktop", etc.) When people see a "Windows Phone", they think "do I have to install antivirus on it", not "oh, this is something that I am going to love".
I think that Microsoft should have used the name Metro, (which is what the touch-screen interface was called before it was renamed "Modern".): "Metro-phone", "Metro-tablet". "Metro-app in a window on the MS Windows desktop" etc....
On computers with different screen sizes and aspect ratios, you can not compare just pixel size. 1920Ã--1080 is low resolution if your screen is 50" 16:9, like a modern TV. If your screen is 13", then 1920Ã--1080 has a resolution of 169.5 pixels per inch, which isn't that bad.
For a desktop computer's screen, I would say that 100-110 PPI is the "sweet spot" for using most applications without any screen scaling. For a laptop you often have the screen closer to your eyes, so you would want a somewhat higher resolution.
They will just substitute the meat for fish. This is Norway after all - Norwegians were raised on fish.
Actually, modern Westerners eat a lot more meat these days than we used to. We eat twice as much meat now as we did in the 1980's! Did people revolt in the 1980's because they did not get enough meat?.. I don't think so.
Even in the 1980's the average Westerner ate a lot more meat than humans has done ever throughout human history. So... No, cutting down on meat a little is not unnatural.
Actually it is not farting, but burping. Cows are ruminants. They also grow slowly compared to pigs and chickens, which means that they burp a lot during their life time. Sheep are ruminants too, making mutton just as bad from a climate standpoint as beef.
Then there is cow-dung, which if not used properly (as fertilizer or fuel) will release unnecessary nitrous oxide into the atmosphere... and nitrous oxide is a very potent greenhouse gas. One tonne of nitrous oxide is considered as potent as almost three hundred tonnes of CO2.
I don't have that many numbers, but I estimate that an average Norwegian would reduce his carbon footprint by around 1% by having meat-free Mondays. Mind you that the average Norwegian's carbon footprint is relatively large to begin with, about twice as high as a citizen of Sweden (Norway's nearest neighbour).
If a Norwegian reduced his other emissions to that of a Swede, then the saving of going Vegetarian would be 15%, and that is significant.
You don't know much about Norway then... Norway has always been big on fishing, relative to their small population. In recent decades they have become big in fish farming. It is the higher intake of land-animal protein in the last hundred years that is the anomaly in the big picture, not the recent introduction of "meat-free Mondays". Also, beans don't have to be imported. There are varieties of beans and peas and other plants that contain protein that grow just fine in Norway.
I think that the fear at the top has come from the realisation that the way the US works is unsustainable in the long term. I am thinking primarily of the debt-based economy that is based on economic growth to function, the large dependence on oil and the effects of global warming becoming more apparent.
These are smart people. They understand that change from post-WWII model is inevitable and that this change may not come easy. There is a large probability of future social unrest, riots and organised armed resistance against the ruling caste, so they do what they think is necessary for them to retain control of the country in the future. This is what I think is the real reason behind the de-democratisation of USA.
There is study and then there is practical training. What you are describing is study. I don't think that military pilots spend six months reading books on how to use the helmet-mounted HUD. The use it practically, under supervision from instructors who have experience in how it should and should not be used.
If you continue to bitch about it, then I will politely have to punch you in the face. By wearing Google Glass, you are inviting me to do it. Asking you politely before punching you is more courtesy than you deserve.
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The problem is that with backlit keycaps the opaque coating around the translucent letters tends to wear through quite easily, turning letters into glowing blobs.
There are backlit keyboards with more durable keys for backlit keyboards (dye-sublimated or double-shot moulded) but those keycaps are much more expensive. We are talking the cost of a couple a complete MS 4000 for just the keycaps.
There have been lots of clones of the MS "Natural" from Logitech and others throughout the years that don't have backlighting.
Even better are the keyboards that are truly split in two separate parts without a keypad on the right side and with many more options for adjustment. These are Goldtouch, Kinesis Freestyle and the quiet mechanical Matias Ergo Pro (due to be out in August).
Look at rebuilding your 3D printer into a CNC router. Then mill your circuit boards.
Blue LEDs contain so much energy that they hurt the eyes .. and they look really tacky. ;)
Would it not be right that it is the companies that put the blue LEDs into products that should be punished for doing so?
Yes, two large monitors in 4:3 would have been nice. Now, a single humungous 16:9 monitor is the only way to get enough vertical screen space because proper 4:3 monitors are not available.
The resolution matters in relation to the size of the screen and the viewer's distance from it. If your screen is 32" then 720p is often more than enough, but if you have a 50" screen then you notice the difference more easily.
I agree that it depends on the kind of content you are watching. I know people who use a projector for watching movies at home but a 32" TV for watching TV programmers.
If you just upscale like you said, then you win nothing. The image will actually even look blockier on a higher-resolution screen because of there being less distance between pixels.
The trick is in blending (interpolating) between pixels, but do so in a smart manner.
The simple method is to do linear interpolation, I.e. just let the new pixels have the average of the pixels around them. Lots of TVs do this, but the method is a bit too simple: it will sometimes make things too blurry instead. The problem is to make sharp edges in the image stay sharp and blend elsewhere.
The next step up is to interpolate using curves: plot a curve between pixel values. This will nudge the blended value towards one or the other neighbour depending on the values of other neighbouring pixels around them.
There are lots of even smarter algorithms for upscaling, but the smarter they are the more hardware they require at a smaller gain from the previous algorithm, so at some point it does not become cost-effective for the TV manufacturer to go one step further.
This product is apparently for those who want to pay more for a better algorithm.
What claims?
It is not the way X works is particularly secure to begin with. Once an app has a connection to the X server, it has full control over the world of window, pixmaps and events on the server including of course all other apps.
Not that I have any faith in Wayland or Mir being any better, its developers coming from the X world in the first place, I am sure that they will make their new shiny systems vulnerable in the same ways.
Because focusing the radiation with a parabolic mirror to a single point in the brain is the way to go ...
That's a very good point. I wish I had mod points left.
Is the TSA kidnapping people now also?
I remember when a co-worker ported a program from Windows to the Mac a few years ago. He had the problem that it made the Mac hibernate every time the program was run.
It took a while to find out why... the answer was that his code had called "Sleep()" with a capital S instead of "sleep()". Apparently, elevated privileges were not required to make the computer go to sleep.
4.3 million SEK is probably a large portion of the movie's total revenue, if not surprassing what it has already made. ...
It was made for ad-funded free TV for Chris's sake
It got low reviews from critics, and the series was already a trite.
Would filesharing it at low quality really degrade it's quality? Sorry, but you can't polish a turd.
(No offence to my cousin's husband who plays the lead in this movie. He's got to eat too...)
In Sweden, forfeiting pets in illegal, but has been done anyway...
Forfeting homes happens all the time, even though there is a severe shortage of apartments for rent.
When I went to primary school back in the '80s, there was a bomb threat almost every year around exam time at the beginning of summer.
Does the D in DHS stand for douchebag?
Bah. You are over-analysing. "Windows" is a crap brand, plain and simple, and that is both Microsoft's fault and Microsoft's fault that they don't realize it.
Normal users associate "Windows" with work, malware, slow computers (because of malware, or the software installed to combat malware) and annoying popups (not just malware, but Windows itself: Sticky keys, "You have unused icons on your desktop", etc.)
When people see a "Windows Phone", they think "do I have to install antivirus on it", not "oh, this is something that I am going to love".
I think that Microsoft should have used the name Metro, (which is what the touch-screen interface was called before it was renamed "Modern".): ...
"Metro-phone", "Metro-tablet". "Metro-app in a window on the MS Windows desktop" etc.
On computers with different screen sizes and aspect ratios, you can not compare just pixel size.
1920Ã--1080 is low resolution if your screen is 50" 16:9, like a modern TV.
If your screen is 13", then 1920Ã--1080 has a resolution of 169.5 pixels per inch, which isn't that bad.
For a desktop computer's screen, I would say that 100-110 PPI is the "sweet spot" for using most applications without any screen scaling. For a laptop you often have the screen closer to your eyes, so you would want a somewhat higher resolution.
They will just substitute the meat for fish. This is Norway after all - Norwegians were raised on fish.
Actually, modern Westerners eat a lot more meat these days than we used to. We eat twice as much meat now as we did in the 1980's! .. I don't think so.
Did people revolt in the 1980's because they did not get enough meat?
Even in the 1980's the average Westerner ate a lot more meat than humans has done ever throughout human history. So ... No, cutting down on meat a little is not unnatural.
Actually it is not farting, but burping. Cows are ruminants.
They also grow slowly compared to pigs and chickens, which means that they burp a lot during their life time.
Sheep are ruminants too, making mutton just as bad from a climate standpoint as beef.
Then there is cow-dung, which if not used properly (as fertilizer or fuel) will release unnecessary nitrous oxide into the atmosphere ... and nitrous oxide is a very potent greenhouse gas. One tonne of nitrous oxide is considered as potent as almost three hundred tonnes of CO2.
I don't have that many numbers, but I estimate that an average Norwegian would reduce his carbon footprint by around 1% by having meat-free Mondays.
Mind you that the average Norwegian's carbon footprint is relatively large to begin with, about twice as high as a citizen of Sweden (Norway's nearest neighbour).
If a Norwegian reduced his other emissions to that of a Swede, then the saving of going Vegetarian would be 15%, and that is significant.
You don't know much about Norway then... Norway has always been big on fishing, relative to their small population.
In recent decades they have become big in fish farming.
It is the higher intake of land-animal protein in the last hundred years that is the anomaly in the big picture, not the recent introduction of "meat-free Mondays".
Also, beans don't have to be imported. There are varieties of beans and peas and other plants that contain protein that grow just fine in Norway.
I think that the fear at the top has come from the realisation that the way the US works is unsustainable in the long term. I am thinking primarily of the debt-based economy that is based on economic growth to function, the large dependence on oil and the effects of global warming becoming more apparent.
These are smart people. They understand that change from post-WWII model is inevitable and that this change may not come easy.
There is a large probability of future social unrest, riots and organised armed resistance against the ruling caste, so they do what they think is necessary for them to retain control of the country in the future. This is what I think is the real reason behind the de-democratisation of USA.
There is study and then there is practical training. What you are describing is study.
I don't think that military pilots spend six months reading books on how to use the helmet-mounted HUD. The use it practically, under supervision from instructors who have experience in how it should and should not be used.
If you continue to bitch about it, then I will politely have to punch you in the face.
By wearing Google Glass, you are inviting me to do it. Asking you politely before punching you is more courtesy than you deserve.