Presumably, the polarization direction in most LCDs is chosen so that they remain visible with polarizing sunglasses
Presumably the polarisation direction in most LCDs is not chosen but rather LG and Samsung apply them in the same direction so it would appear like 70% of the panels on the market magically follow some "standard".
The reality is if you look at most screens, they aren't even polarised to perfectly align with sunglasses, but about 20degrees off for whatever reason.
LED lights aren't polarized, so the glasses have no effect on them.
If this technology was based on polarised light it wouldn't block out all screens. There's no standard to applying polarisers. Plus the manufacturer specifically talks about wavelength blocking.
Has nothing to do with wavelength, but with polarization of the light. Anybody who has looked at screens with polarizing sunglasses is familiar with the effect.
Anybody who has looked at screens with polarizing sunglasses is also familiar with the effect being completely hit and miss as there's no standard direction as to how to apply a polariser on a screen.
There is however a relatively standard set of primaries that make up normal sRGB monitors, and the manufacturer claims they are using notch filters, but you seem to be more intimately familiar with the product right?
If you're doing anything with multimedia, such as x265 encoding, video editing, whatever, Intel is still the best.
That's a nice absolute, but suffers the same problem with all absolutes, it's wrong. Especially in video editing there's plenty of use of multi-threading, and my processor happily pegs the 100% mark on all cores when exporting video in H.265 in Premier.
This! hyper threading can be disabled on every chip that ships with it. I'd prefer the option to be available,... knowing full well I won't exercise it on any of my machines due to the nature of the security flaw and it's difficulty to exploit without direct access.
And it claims this is a good investment for older people
My grandma has a device like this, it cost her insurance company 70EUR on her behalf. $400 for a toy gadget that needs an expensive phone with it is not "a good investment".
Only in that specific way. If we used the nuclear approach for cars we would all drive 60s era cars without seat belts, ABS, crumple zones, or any of the other safety advancements we have over the years. Nuclear should be compared to cars more often, then maybe like every other industry there would have been major leaps in safety.
But instead we run ancient reactors because the NIMBYs won't let anyone build new ones.
It’s a very careful statement which doesn’t really mean much.
No it's not. It's a specific statement which means exactly what it says. You won't get outright denials from anyone as it would be stupid to deny this as it falls into the classic category of trying to prove a negative.
Can you prove a negative? Can you say right now that your computer doesn't have any malware on it? I'm sure you can say that you've not seen any evidence of malware, but can you *prove* it?
So the CD tax sort of made sense given the primary purpose of a blank CD was used for piracy. In a way this is like Bittorrent. Sure there are legimiate uses for bittorrent but ultimately the illegitimate use has completely swamped the legitimate uses.
The internet on the other hand isn't like that at all. Netflix and Youtube represent 50% of internet traffic together. Throw in Pornhub, xhamster, and actual HTTP traffic and you're closer to 75%. Hulu and other streaming services add a few percent here and there, as does social media (Facebook representing 3% of all internet traffic). The actual illegitimate use of internet bandwidth is very small.
I can't pay for and legitimately download a AAA game now without hitting this limit. Doom is a 70GB download. Why should I pay a tax on 55 of those GBs (assuming that is I don't do any other internetting that month).
No it's not. The primary purpose of CDRs was to copy stuff kind of like Bittorrent where the legitimate use is actually far lower than the alternative. On the other hand 15GB of internet? I just bought, paid for, and downloaded Doom. Why should I pay a tax on 55GB of that download, especially when the vast majority of the several hundred GB that gets used in my house is gobbled up by streaming services which I already pay for.
You can't compare waiting lists to other car manufacturers who don't have them as waiting lists introduce an additional variable on demand (wanting it now, and cognitive dissonance to name two of those variables). Additionally the "healthy" view of a waiting list for a company like Tesla would be for the waiting list to steadily reduce, but that would play into the opposite narrative you're trying to judge.
A mouse allows much quicker and precise navigation.
Which is of small comfort when waving it around while standing in a train. Computers are changing. Just because you use yours at your desk or on your lap doesn't mean everyone does.
NASA. It's not hard to find information about a big public mission like this. The goal of the curiosity mission was multi-fold a lot of which included testing a new landing system. It was primarily an experiment to test a hybrid powered decent system. A bit of science was included as well. The rover had instruments to determine if the conditions for microbiol life exist, and it answered that question within a few months of landing, done. Mission over.... except....
The mission included a hardware test the rover itself had a mission life of 1 martian year with the primary objective being to survive one martian winter. The design goal of the rover was to remain functional for 687 earth days from landing date.
Everything else has been a bonus. The operational life of the rover has been extended indefinitely and multiple missions have been queued up for it since it is still viable with the few instruments it has. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/miss...
What I don't get here, this problem is wide spread enough that the upgrade has been pulled, and this isn't the first time. Yet it's not like the Insider group is small. By some accounts there's over 10 million people in the insider program, so how is it that this wasn't noticed?
Did the insiders report and MS ignore? Did the insiders not have an issue due to luck? Did the version shipped to insiders and the version released to market differ significantly?
There are plenty of reasons an OS upgrade would touch user files. Changing of file system (has happened in the past) and changing of folder structures for user accounts (has also happened in the past) are some of the noteworthy ones. With the difference between nuking the entire system or upgrading the OS, or upgrading the OS while removing applications now essentially being nothing more than a variable set during the install/upgrade process it stands to reason that a bug like this could appear.
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Presumably, the polarization direction in most LCDs is chosen so that they remain visible with polarizing sunglasses
Presumably the polarisation direction in most LCDs is not chosen but rather LG and Samsung apply them in the same direction so it would appear like 70% of the panels on the market magically follow some "standard".
The reality is if you look at most screens, they aren't even polarised to perfectly align with sunglasses, but about 20degrees off for whatever reason.
but so far I've only seen OLED displays in small devices like feature phones
Errr you clearly haven't been to an consumer electronics store in the past 2 years.
LED lights aren't polarized, so the glasses have no effect on them.
If this technology was based on polarised light it wouldn't block out all screens. There's no standard to applying polarisers. Plus the manufacturer specifically talks about wavelength blocking.
OLEDs have a wider gamut precisely because of what the GP was saying, the primary colours are more pure.
Has nothing to do with wavelength, but with polarization of the light. Anybody who has looked at screens with polarizing sunglasses is familiar with the effect.
Anybody who has looked at screens with polarizing sunglasses is also familiar with the effect being completely hit and miss as there's no standard direction as to how to apply a polariser on a screen.
There is however a relatively standard set of primaries that make up normal sRGB monitors, and the manufacturer claims they are using notch filters, but you seem to be more intimately familiar with the product right?
And you don't even mention Meltdown, to which AMD CPUs are invulnerable.
Probably because meltdown is completely irrelevant to nearly all users.
If you're doing anything with multimedia, such as x265 encoding, video editing, whatever, Intel is still the best.
That's a nice absolute, but suffers the same problem with all absolutes, it's wrong. Especially in video editing there's plenty of use of multi-threading, and my processor happily pegs the 100% mark on all cores when exporting video in H.265 in Premier.
No computers come with only 32gb of storage. Windows wouldn't even fit.
Windows 10 has a minimum storage requirement of 16GB. Bonus points if you use that machine there's not enough free space to download windows updates.
Plenty of devices out there come with 32GB of storage.
Go AMD.
Meltdown and Spectre are completely irrelevant to 99.9% of computer users out there in scope and risk they present to users.
Go AMD anyway because of awesome price performance ratio.
This! hyper threading can be disabled on every chip that ships with it. I'd prefer the option to be available, ... knowing full well I won't exercise it on any of my machines due to the nature of the security flaw and it's difficulty to exploit without direct access.
And it claims this is a good investment for older people
My grandma has a device like this, it cost her insurance company 70EUR on her behalf. $400 for a toy gadget that needs an expensive phone with it is not "a good investment".
Those are silly analogies.
Only in that specific way. If we used the nuclear approach for cars we would all drive 60s era cars without seat belts, ABS, crumple zones, or any of the other safety advancements we have over the years. Nuclear should be compared to cars more often, then maybe like every other industry there would have been major leaps in safety.
But instead we run ancient reactors because the NIMBYs won't let anyone build new ones.
It would be a lot simpler to install a prompting screen at the back of the hall
As the article said, the hardware was the simple part. I however do not welcome your neck straining option.
It’s a very careful statement which doesn’t really mean much.
No it's not. It's a specific statement which means exactly what it says. You won't get outright denials from anyone as it would be stupid to deny this as it falls into the classic category of trying to prove a negative.
Can you prove a negative? Can you say right now that your computer doesn't have any malware on it? I'm sure you can say that you've not seen any evidence of malware, but can you *prove* it?
So the CD tax sort of made sense given the primary purpose of a blank CD was used for piracy. In a way this is like Bittorrent. Sure there are legimiate uses for bittorrent but ultimately the illegitimate use has completely swamped the legitimate uses.
The internet on the other hand isn't like that at all. Netflix and Youtube represent 50% of internet traffic together. Throw in Pornhub, xhamster, and actual HTTP traffic and you're closer to 75%. Hulu and other streaming services add a few percent here and there, as does social media (Facebook representing 3% of all internet traffic). The actual illegitimate use of internet bandwidth is very small.
I can't pay for and legitimately download a AAA game now without hitting this limit. Doom is a 70GB download. Why should I pay a tax on 55 of those GBs (assuming that is I don't do any other internetting that month).
No it's not. The primary purpose of CDRs was to copy stuff kind of like Bittorrent where the legitimate use is actually far lower than the alternative.
On the other hand 15GB of internet? I just bought, paid for, and downloaded Doom. Why should I pay a tax on 55GB of that download, especially when the vast majority of the several hundred GB that gets used in my house is gobbled up by streaming services which I already pay for.
You can't compare waiting lists to other car manufacturers who don't have them as waiting lists introduce an additional variable on demand (wanting it now, and cognitive dissonance to name two of those variables). Additionally the "healthy" view of a waiting list for a company like Tesla would be for the waiting list to steadily reduce, but that would play into the opposite narrative you're trying to judge.
You know, for a group of nerds
Nerds are typically interested in people who do cool shit like launch things into space and shake up a 130 year old car industry with technology.
A mouse allows much quicker and precise navigation.
Which is of small comfort when waving it around while standing in a train. Computers are changing. Just because you use yours at your desk or on your lap doesn't mean everyone does.
Citation?
NASA. It's not hard to find information about a big public mission like this. The goal of the curiosity mission was multi-fold a lot of which included testing a new landing system. It was primarily an experiment to test a hybrid powered decent system. A bit of science was included as well. The rover had instruments to determine if the conditions for microbiol life exist, and it answered that question within a few months of landing, done. Mission over.... except....
The mission included a hardware test the rover itself had a mission life of 1 martian year with the primary objective being to survive one martian winter. The design goal of the rover was to remain functional for 687 earth days from landing date.
Everything else has been a bonus. The operational life of the rover has been extended indefinitely and multiple missions have been queued up for it since it is still viable with the few instruments it has. https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/miss...
I swear this was a dupe. I mean it's not like a company like MS would not learn and be forced to pull an update twice
Oh I guess they didn't do it twice.
Thrice!
Also businesses are getting quite fed up with the Windows 10 update train and are going back to Windows 7
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Don't thank MS, you've earned your data loss through your stubborn determination to stick with Windows no matter what! ;)
What makes you think data loss is out of the ordinary for Windows users? If anything this is a trip down memory lane :-)
What I don't get here, this problem is wide spread enough that the upgrade has been pulled, and this isn't the first time. Yet it's not like the Insider group is small. By some accounts there's over 10 million people in the insider program, so how is it that this wasn't noticed?
Did the insiders report and MS ignore?
Did the insiders not have an issue due to luck?
Did the version shipped to insiders and the version released to market differ significantly?
there is NO REASON
There are plenty of reasons an OS upgrade would touch user files. Changing of file system (has happened in the past) and changing of folder structures for user accounts (has also happened in the past) are some of the noteworthy ones. With the difference between nuking the entire system or upgrading the OS, or upgrading the OS while removing applications now essentially being nothing more than a variable set during the install/upgrade process it stands to reason that a bug like this could appear.