"High" is a joke - there's nothing higher about the range for photography or displays. "Dynamic" means changing across different areas of the image. "Range" refers to the range of signals (colors) that can be output.
- For "HDR" photos the range is fixed at whatever format you're exporting to, typically someone takes a RAW file, fucks up the contrast in different areas, then exports it as a JPG or other 8-bits-per-channel format.
- For "HDR" displays, this refers to actually changing the range by locally dimming/brightening different areas of the display. This gets you "extended" range for luminance but you don't get any corresponding color depth. This requires an input signal to be of a greater resolution than 8-bits-per-channel to be effective (otherwise it's just a shitty post processing effect).
Displays with a larger gamut and higher color resolution have existed for decades. They just weren't branded with the "HDR" buzzword.
It is impossible to separate "HDR" photography from "HDR" displays because they both do the same thing - fuck with contrast in different areas of an image differently in order to overcome limitations of the resolution/gamut of the format/display. The display you used as an example is "HDR" via the "Peak Illuminator" feature. It's just dimming the LED array, as all "HDR" displays are. If it has a 10-bit panel then it could in theory support the new standards, but I didn't see it as a listed feature (though Samsung offers updates to the breakout boxes for a few months and offers upgrades for a generation or two for a few hundred bucks that could allow it).
No, HDR is about fucking with contrast in one part of the image and fucking with contrast differently in another part of the image. It looks terrible every fucking time, and it's less accurate than just linearly plotting everything after setting your curves once for the whole image. It's absolutely retarded to have a curve that is different over different parts of the same image.
HDR photography involves a person doing this once per image, typically based on a source with a higher range (like a camera's RAW output). HDR displays involve sending a 10, 12, or whatever bpc signal to a display that can't display it. The display will then automatically fuck with the signal and stretch out dark areas and bright areas within the 8 bpc (or 6 bpc, ugh) that it can display. More expensive displays use the LED backlight array to locally dim or brighten areas of the picture. This is better, but it can't extend the color range, only the luminance range.
HDR is shit. What we want is a wider range and a higher resolution.
Full LED displays (NOT LCDs with LED backlights) can easily reproduce a wider range of colors if they use the right LEDs (some displays have added an extra color like yellow, some simply move the RGB LEDs further apart on the spectrum). Other display types can do this as well, but it's not as simple as with LEDs.
If you want to just increase resolution over the existing range, we've had 10 and 12 bpc displays for decades.
According to a report on Bloomberg, the watchmaker has received orders over 100,000 pieces of the Connected watch from retailers and dealers - while it is not a direct end-user orders, it is a good indicator of demand in the market.
The only place I have heard about this thing is on Slashdot. The "articles" linked to are on SlashGear. That's a Slashvertisement inside a Slashvertisement, folks! And a big EL OH EL at the idea of retailer/distributor orders being a good indicator of market demand, ESPECIALLY in a new market with a new player with a high price tag.
Nope, there's enough play in the pegs that they rotate round and round forever when they're not engaged (i.e., when it's in the packaging or you're about to install it). The flat side
And you're right - it's flat on TWO sides. There's NO indication which of the two flat sides should be closest to the heatsink (or that either of them should, for that matter).
The "new tab" page got hidden from the UI for no reason.
It was relegated to "browser.newtab.url" in about:config for a long fucking time, and I used it to specify the new tab page should be "about:blank" the instant they added the "new tab" page that showed your top visited sites, etc. because I knew the ads were coming.
It worked until they started putting ads on the new tab page. The browser.newtab.url setting was ignored. People bitched and moaned. Mozilla and their dogs on the bug tracker made up some bullshit about how it was a security issue. They claimed malware was hijacking the new tab page via that setting. They did not provide any example of this actually happening.
They SHOULD have just re-exposed the option in the main settings page - use a url, use blank or use the tiles page. But their "solution" was to ignore the setting and force everyone onto the shitty tiles page.
Choosing "show a blank page" on the tiles page options menu (yes, it has it's own options menu with a gear icon separate from the browser's main options menu) doesn't show you a blank page. It's loads the tiles new tab page with content hidden and the options gear visible. This "blank page" option was inconsistent with the "blank page" option for the home page (which gave you about:blank - a true blank page).
People bitched because they wanted to load a specific page for their new tabs, or wanted a blank page. Mozilla and their goons on the bug tracker started closing bug reports left and right without ever considering user feedback. As I predicted, it was all about the ads. Mozilla said that if users wanted this functionality they should install an addon. So I did. https://www.soeren-hentzschel....
Everyone laughed at how Mozilla said the change was done for user security and then pointed people to an unverified third party addon to restore functionality that used to be on the browser's main settings page.
And here I am laughing again. I'll continue to laugh as long as Mozilla continues to fail.
But it's like the Force. You have it or you don't. Some have it stronger than others, some develop it more easily than others. But if you don't have it, the Force won't be with you. No matter what Master Jedi you train under.
Actually the Force permeates and binds all of us, and may even have a will of its own.
Not only that, numbers have inherent relationships (ordering) which you can use for shit like direction. Tell me, is a.b.c north or south of x.y.z? By how much?
I don't remember which one Haswell was (2 generations ago?) but I fucking HATE the Intel mounting design. You have to line up 4 plastic pegs, and then push and twist (to lock) each of them. While the pegs have a convenient arrow on them to tell you which direction you need to twist to lock them, they DON'T have an indicator for what the starting position should be. In the unlocked state they're fairly loose and can rotate in the package. I believe the slightly flatter side of the top of the peg should be closest to the heatsink, but I've never truly figured out if that was the case. The pegs are spring loaded, and if you push them down too far before locking you'll get it stuck in the mounting hole and you'll have to twist and pull and tug to get it back out, upsetting any of the others you have already mounted. Once you do free it, you have to reset the thing to neutral, not just by rotating it to the starting position, but also by determining if the spring or peg are stuck, and you'll need to pull and twist and tug again to reset that. The things are so fucking finicky. Just use a real backplate with screws. Fuck.
Look, oh_my_shittynumbers is being an idiot again.
The question isn't whether or not shit is thinner, it clearly is.
The question is whether:
A: Third party heatsinks are exceeding the limit (50 pounds) for mounting pressure. B: Intel fucked up and the 50 pound limit needs to be lowered for the thinner shit. C: Both A and B.
My guess is A. The heatsink mounting pressure is way over limit for many third-party heatsinks, but the 50 pound limit was conservative for older Intel CPUs and they could handle a lot more. The newer CPUs can almost certainly handle the listed 50 pounds, and more, but not nearly as much as the older CPUs.
Anyone who has installed a large third-party heatsink knows that the fucking motherboard will flex and bend and you'll put a ton of fucking pressure on it when installing it and trying to get it latched/screwed/etc. properly. After installation you look at it and think "Uh, is this really okay? Should I switch to a horizontal configuration?". But you'll leave it vertical anyway.
Wrong. What the FCC proposal actually says gives the FCC the power to require the locking down that the EFF was upset about. The FCC simply issued a statement after the fact saying "We won't use to to do that, honest.". Further, the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of commodity hardware is built as a SoC, and the manufacturers involved would sooner lock it all down than lock down only certain parts based on a current interpretation of the rules while leaving other parts open.
No, YOU are incorrect. The antenna is connected to the exterior of the phone (there's a black band on the case). This antenna design was highlighted in the announcement presentation as being so fucking good and shit. However, if you bridge that gap you alter the electrical length of the antenna and detune it. This results in major signal degradation. The simplest way to experience this is to hold the phone in your left hand.
It's a Pyhrric victory, because I'm not buying their fucking shit anymore, and neither is anyone in my sphere of influence (work, friends, family, neighbors, etc.). They don't exactly have a stranglehold on the market, yet they behave like there are no alternatives. The only more egregious example of "Nah, fuck you, customer." I've seen was with OCZ. We all know how that turned out.
My statement is true as long as every "major conflict" involves violence. I'm not defining things. If a conflict as severe as WWII comes along and is solved without violence, I'll retract my statement, as that is clearly a "major conflict".
You can argue over the definition of "major conflict" all you want, but major is a relative term. If you order the top 10 conflicts in human history by any sane measure of severity, you would find they all involved violence. The same is true for the top 100 and top 1000. I'd even wager that it's true for the top 10000. I am comfortable not defining "major conflict" and letting my statement stand on its own.
If someone wants to dispute it and claim that water is thicker than blood by saying some trade dispute was a more severe conflict than any given war where people were killing people, I'm happy to let them look the fool.
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Hanged. You hanged yourself in a barn in 1272.
HDR means "high dynamic range".
"High" is a joke - there's nothing higher about the range for photography or displays.
"Dynamic" means changing across different areas of the image.
"Range" refers to the range of signals (colors) that can be output.
- For "HDR" photos the range is fixed at whatever format you're exporting to, typically someone takes a RAW file, fucks up the contrast in different areas, then exports it as a JPG or other 8-bits-per-channel format.
- For "HDR" displays, this refers to actually changing the range by locally dimming/brightening different areas of the display. This gets you "extended" range for luminance but you don't get any corresponding color depth. This requires an input signal to be of a greater resolution than 8-bits-per-channel to be effective (otherwise it's just a shitty post processing effect).
Displays with a larger gamut and higher color resolution have existed for decades. They just weren't branded with the "HDR" buzzword.
It is impossible to separate "HDR" photography from "HDR" displays because they both do the same thing - fuck with contrast in different areas of an image differently in order to overcome limitations of the resolution/gamut of the format/display. The display you used as an example is "HDR" via the "Peak Illuminator" feature. It's just dimming the LED array, as all "HDR" displays are. If it has a 10-bit panel then it could in theory support the new standards, but I didn't see it as a listed feature (though Samsung offers updates to the breakout boxes for a few months and offers upgrades for a generation or two for a few hundred bucks that could allow it).
TL;DR HDR is shit.
No, HDR is about fucking with contrast in one part of the image and fucking with contrast differently in another part of the image.
It looks terrible every fucking time, and it's less accurate than just linearly plotting everything after setting your curves once for the whole image.
It's absolutely retarded to have a curve that is different over different parts of the same image.
HDR photography involves a person doing this once per image, typically based on a source with a higher range (like a camera's RAW output).
HDR displays involve sending a 10, 12, or whatever bpc signal to a display that can't display it. The display will then automatically fuck with the signal and stretch out dark areas and bright areas within the 8 bpc (or 6 bpc, ugh) that it can display.
More expensive displays use the LED backlight array to locally dim or brighten areas of the picture. This is better, but it can't extend the color range, only the luminance range.
HDR is shit. What we want is a wider range and a higher resolution.
Full LED displays (NOT LCDs with LED backlights) can easily reproduce a wider range of colors if they use the right LEDs (some displays have added an extra color like yellow, some simply move the RGB LEDs further apart on the spectrum). Other display types can do this as well, but it's not as simple as with LEDs.
If you want to just increase resolution over the existing range, we've had 10 and 12 bpc displays for decades.
It's 600 feet long, so it would only cost $3000 at Subway. Unless you add guac. Guac is extra.
They haven't sold a single one to an actual customer, as far as I know.
These are all orders from retailers/distributors.
According to a report on Bloomberg, the watchmaker has received orders over 100,000 pieces of the Connected watch from retailers and dealers - while it is not a direct end-user orders, it is a good indicator of demand in the market.
The only place I have heard about this thing is on Slashdot. The "articles" linked to are on SlashGear. That's a Slashvertisement inside a Slashvertisement, folks!
And a big EL OH EL at the idea of retailer/distributor orders being a good indicator of market demand, ESPECIALLY in a new market with a new player with a high price tag.
PA are known MS shills.
They have been ever since the launch of the 360.
They don't lock if you don't twist them just right.
The spring loaded locking mechanism is finicky shit.
I've installed dozens of them.
Nope, there's enough play in the pegs that they rotate round and round forever when they're not engaged (i.e., when it's in the packaging or you're about to install it).
The flat side
And you're right - it's flat on TWO sides. There's NO indication which of the two flat sides should be closest to the heatsink (or that either of them should, for that matter).
http://www.falconcomputers.co....
That tab locking mechanism shit seen on the far right of the image is the devil.
APK
APK
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The "new tab" page got hidden from the UI for no reason.
It was relegated to "browser.newtab.url" in about:config for a long fucking time, and I used it to specify the new tab page should be "about:blank" the instant they added the "new tab" page that showed your top visited sites, etc. because I knew the ads were coming.
It worked until they started putting ads on the new tab page. The browser.newtab.url setting was ignored.
People bitched and moaned. Mozilla and their dogs on the bug tracker made up some bullshit about how it was a security issue. They claimed malware was hijacking the new tab page via that setting. They did not provide any example of this actually happening.
They SHOULD have just re-exposed the option in the main settings page - use a url, use blank or use the tiles page.
But their "solution" was to ignore the setting and force everyone onto the shitty tiles page.
Choosing "show a blank page" on the tiles page options menu (yes, it has it's own options menu with a gear icon separate from the browser's main options menu) doesn't show you a blank page. It's loads the tiles new tab page with content hidden and the options gear visible. This "blank page" option was inconsistent with the "blank page" option for the home page (which gave you about:blank - a true blank page).
People bitched because they wanted to load a specific page for their new tabs, or wanted a blank page. Mozilla and their goons on the bug tracker started closing bug reports left and right without ever considering user feedback. As I predicted, it was all about the ads. Mozilla said that if users wanted this functionality they should install an addon. So I did. https://www.soeren-hentzschel....
Everyone laughed at how Mozilla said the change was done for user security and then pointed people to an unverified third party addon to restore functionality that used to be on the browser's main settings page.
And here I am laughing again. I'll continue to laugh as long as Mozilla continues to fail.
If you would like to laugh along, check out:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s...
And all the dozens of other reports they've marked as dupes and closed. Make sure you expand and read all of the censored comments. (There were many more they outright removed.)
But it's like the Force. You have it or you don't. Some have it stronger than others, some develop it more easily than others. But if you don't have it, the Force won't be with you. No matter what Master Jedi you train under.
Actually the Force permeates and binds all of us, and may even have a will of its own.
Not only that, numbers have inherent relationships (ordering) which you can use for shit like direction.
Tell me, is a.b.c north or south of x.y.z? By how much?
I don't remember which one Haswell was (2 generations ago?) but I fucking HATE the Intel mounting design.
You have to line up 4 plastic pegs, and then push and twist (to lock) each of them.
While the pegs have a convenient arrow on them to tell you which direction you need to twist to lock them, they DON'T have an indicator for what the starting position should be. In the unlocked state they're fairly loose and can rotate in the package. I believe the slightly flatter side of the top of the peg should be closest to the heatsink, but I've never truly figured out if that was the case.
The pegs are spring loaded, and if you push them down too far before locking you'll get it stuck in the mounting hole and you'll have to twist and pull and tug to get it back out, upsetting any of the others you have already mounted. Once you do free it, you have to reset the thing to neutral, not just by rotating it to the starting position, but also by determining if the spring or peg are stuck, and you'll need to pull and twist and tug again to reset that.
The things are so fucking finicky. Just use a real backplate with screws. Fuck.
Exactly this. Intel stopped shipping coolers with the K variants a while back because they went straight into the trash.
Look, oh_my_shittynumbers is being an idiot again.
The question isn't whether or not shit is thinner, it clearly is.
The question is whether:
A: Third party heatsinks are exceeding the limit (50 pounds) for mounting pressure.
B: Intel fucked up and the 50 pound limit needs to be lowered for the thinner shit.
C: Both A and B.
My guess is A.
The heatsink mounting pressure is way over limit for many third-party heatsinks, but the 50 pound limit was conservative for older Intel CPUs and they could handle a lot more. The newer CPUs can almost certainly handle the listed 50 pounds, and more, but not nearly as much as the older CPUs.
Anyone who has installed a large third-party heatsink knows that the fucking motherboard will flex and bend and you'll put a ton of fucking pressure on it when installing it and trying to get it latched/screwed/etc. properly. After installation you look at it and think "Uh, is this really okay? Should I switch to a horizontal configuration?". But you'll leave it vertical anyway.
Wrong.
What the FCC proposal actually says gives the FCC the power to require the locking down that the EFF was upset about.
The FCC simply issued a statement after the fact saying "We won't use to to do that, honest.".
Further, the truth of the matter is that the vast majority of commodity hardware is built as a SoC, and the manufacturers involved would sooner lock it all down than lock down only certain parts based on a current interpretation of the rules while leaving other parts open.
Yuuuuuuuuuup!
The Google doth protest too much.
No, YOU are incorrect.
The antenna is connected to the exterior of the phone (there's a black band on the case). This antenna design was highlighted in the announcement presentation as being so fucking good and shit.
However, if you bridge that gap you alter the electrical length of the antenna and detune it. This results in major signal degradation.
The simplest way to experience this is to hold the phone in your left hand.
It's a Pyhrric victory, because I'm not buying their fucking shit anymore, and neither is anyone in my sphere of influence (work, friends, family, neighbors, etc.).
They don't exactly have a stranglehold on the market, yet they behave like there are no alternatives. The only more egregious example of "Nah, fuck you, customer." I've seen was with OCZ. We all know how that turned out.
That's the joke.
WHOOSH.
Etc.
No. I like the 2nd amendment. And I'm sick of retards trying to violate it. There are fucking rules. Operate within them.
My statement is true as long as every "major conflict" involves violence. I'm not defining things. If a conflict as severe as WWII comes along and is solved without violence, I'll retract my statement, as that is clearly a "major conflict".
You can argue over the definition of "major conflict" all you want, but major is a relative term. If you order the top 10 conflicts in human history by any sane measure of severity, you would find they all involved violence. The same is true for the top 100 and top 1000. I'd even wager that it's true for the top 10000. I am comfortable not defining "major conflict" and letting my statement stand on its own.
If someone wants to dispute it and claim that water is thicker than blood by saying some trade dispute was a more severe conflict than any given war where people were killing people, I'm happy to let them look the fool.
You're one of those Pi = 3 retards, aren't you?
Oopoooooooh pick me, pick me! I know this one!
It's because we're all cows!