CRTs are traditionally analogue, and as such are capable of reproducing many more shades of certain colours than are perceptible by the human eye. LCD/Plasma displays traditionally have at *least* 18-bit DACs which is not enough to avoid visible colour banding - granted. And that's got nothing to do with the display technology (LCD/Plasma/CRT/etc) - as I understand it, that is simply a limitation of the DAC. I don't know what current standards are but I would be surprised to find that current DACs are generally capable of less than 8 bits per colour channel.
I am still quite certain they're talking about intensity range, not granularity.
Not knowing too much about optics and sensitivity of the eye, and assuming this is a genuine product, I can only assume that they are talking about a far wider range of intensities when they say "we'll be able to see 90 per cent of what the eye can see". And that actually sounds quite dangerous to me. Imagine you're in a dark room, you switch the thing on and it's showing a picture of the day sky - it would be almost like stepping outside from a dark room. It would be (temporarily) blinding!
The ability to have such intensities would be great for having a screen that is still clearly visible outdoors or in bright light, but I wonder if they're going to build in ambient light sensors which automatically dim the display to an acceptible intensity?
I think you mean Switzerland. As in, Swiss knives, Swiss chocolate, Swiss borders that are a whole lot less anal than most other European countries, etc.
Sweden is where the good pr0n and cheap furniture comes from.
In 1999 I had a Maxtor hard drive do exactly the same thing - on the same (read: equivalent) controller chip on the board. The smell was pretty bad too.
Since the main partition table lives only in the first sector of the drive (along with the MBR & boot loader). Saves a lot of time this way, especially if DMA has not been enabled (which still seems to happen quite often!).
I was just about to point out that 25 year old operating systems are the least of your worries if you consider that the transistor is SIXTY YEARS OLD! Holy crap!
Yep, and let's face it, an Operating System is not the first gift you'd think of giving, nor would there be much Vista-based software available. Can't imagine why they think getting it out in time for Christmas is in any way important!
Of course, it's not even necessarily an indicator of rapid broadband takeup. It just means too many of the users are pathetically unsavvy and that the government isn't creating enough of an awareness about this sort of security issue.
Living in the UK myself, I can tell you that I still know lots of people who don't have broadband, and many of those that do are so uninformed that I don't go near their computers for fear of punching them in frustration.
What the heck is that government official smoking?
There's hidden evidence in the pictures. Why else would there be an entire floor devoted to a toilet cleaning company unless we're talking about 200 geek men?
All I know about internal combustion engines is from taking apart and putting back together various motorcycle engines. Their stator wheels used normal permanent magnets and they put out current and generate heat all the time, necessitating their cooling by oil from the sump.
I think you've probably misunderstood the article, but it might interest you to know that combustion with humid air gives you a better compression/expansion ratio than with dry air.
Yeah, I wasn't going to get into that, but it would seem their idea allows them to obtain a higher overall efficiency, more than compensating for the added resistance on the engine.
I'd think of it as distance 2nd cousing of the turbocharger and the nitrous injection, if you look at the common principles (though instead of burning more fuel per stroke, it burns cleaner fuel)
You mean some cars physically disconnect the stator wheel from the crankshaft? I'm probably a bit rusty on my car mechanics, but as long as that thing is spinning you're generating electricty. That electricity has to be enough to cover the maximum current draw of the electrics system plus some headroom, so you're always generating more power than you need.
Surely it's a No Brainer that putting the excess power back into the engine (electrolysis, hydrogen, blah blah) is Good Thing.
I've weaned myself off coffee before lunchtime, and I avoid anything sugary until late afternoon. I now eat a light lunch, and drink more water. Since doing this, I find I get much less of the afternoon "fade" - even when I haven't eaten breakfast, or slept well the previous night.
Seems avoiding the caffeine / sugar crash is what's important. You can only keep yourself on the leading edge of a sugar or caffine rush for a limited amount of time during the day.
A real human is wearing a shroud of anonymity and handing out the bitchslap to a total stranger. That really makes the whole experience even more dehumanizing. In a massive virtual world, we're still people.
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CRTs are traditionally analogue, and as such are capable of reproducing many more shades of certain colours than are perceptible by the human eye. LCD/Plasma displays traditionally have at *least* 18-bit DACs which is not enough to avoid visible colour banding - granted. And that's got nothing to do with the display technology (LCD/Plasma/CRT/etc) - as I understand it, that is simply a limitation of the DAC. I don't know what current standards are but I would be surprised to find that current DACs are generally capable of less than 8 bits per colour channel.
I am still quite certain they're talking about intensity range, not granularity.
Not knowing too much about optics and sensitivity of the eye, and assuming this is a genuine product, I can only assume that they are talking about a far wider range of intensities when they say "we'll be able to see 90 per cent of what the eye can see". And that actually sounds quite dangerous to me. Imagine you're in a dark room, you switch the thing on and it's showing a picture of the day sky - it would be almost like stepping outside from a dark room. It would be (temporarily) blinding!
The ability to have such intensities would be great for having a screen that is still clearly visible outdoors or in bright light, but I wonder if they're going to build in ambient light sensors which automatically dim the display to an acceptible intensity?
Or did I get the wrong end of the rod / cone?
Oh noes, poirates! RUM AWAY!
Argh. It's far too easy to confuse that with the Japanese island of Swaziland.
I think you mean Switzerland. As in, Swiss knives, Swiss chocolate, Swiss borders that are a whole lot less anal than most other European countries, etc.
Sweden is where the good pr0n and cheap furniture comes from.
Nah, I think he meant "wanking"
In 1999 I had a Maxtor hard drive do exactly the same thing - on the same (read: equivalent) controller chip on the board. The smell was pretty bad too.
Popular bittorrent sites have noted a huge spike in Star Trek episode downloads over the last 12 months...
For a second there, I swear it said "too many chicks". There was a new tab opened to www.ebgames.com before I even had the chance to reparse!
it is expected to be exceptionally stormy, perhaps the stormiest in decades
:)
OMG, they were right - pollution & global warming are destroying the sun!
Well, #4: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
Since the main partition table lives only in the first sector of the drive (along with the MBR & boot loader). Saves a lot of time this way, especially if DMA has not been enabled (which still seems to happen quite often!).
Anyone remember Deathtrack?
I was just about to point out that 25 year old operating systems are the least of your worries if you consider that the transistor is SIXTY YEARS OLD! Holy crap!
</sarcasm>
Yep, and let's face it, an Operating System is not the first gift you'd think of giving, nor would there be much Vista-based software available. Can't imagine why they think getting it out in time for Christmas is in any way important!
Hehe. Ambiguity intended =)
I think you mean 'sploit :)
Of course, it's not even necessarily an indicator of rapid broadband takeup. It just means too many of the users are pathetically unsavvy and that the government isn't creating enough of an awareness about this sort of security issue.
Living in the UK myself, I can tell you that I still know lots of people who don't have broadband, and many of those that do are so uninformed that I don't go near their computers for fear of punching them in frustration.
What the heck is that government official smoking?
There's hidden evidence in the pictures. Why else would there be an entire floor devoted to a toilet cleaning company unless we're talking about 200 geek men?
All I know about internal combustion engines is from taking apart and putting back together various motorcycle engines. Their stator wheels used normal permanent magnets and they put out current and generate heat all the time, necessitating their cooling by oil from the sump.
You're right, I know. I've done that before :)
I think you've probably misunderstood the article, but it might interest you to know that combustion with humid air gives you a better compression/expansion ratio than with dry air.
Yeah, I wasn't going to get into that, but it would seem their idea allows them to obtain a higher overall efficiency, more than compensating for the added resistance on the engine.
I'd think of it as distance 2nd cousing of the turbocharger and the nitrous injection, if you look at the common principles (though instead of burning more fuel per stroke, it burns cleaner fuel)
You mean some cars physically disconnect the stator wheel from the crankshaft? I'm probably a bit rusty on my car mechanics, but as long as that thing is spinning you're generating electricty. That electricity has to be enough to cover the maximum current draw of the electrics system plus some headroom, so you're always generating more power than you need.
Surely it's a No Brainer that putting the excess power back into the engine (electrolysis, hydrogen, blah blah) is Good Thing.
I've weaned myself off coffee before lunchtime, and I avoid anything sugary until late afternoon. I now eat a light lunch, and drink more water. Since doing this, I find I get much less of the afternoon "fade" - even when I haven't eaten breakfast, or slept well the previous night.
Seems avoiding the caffeine / sugar crash is what's important. You can only keep yourself on the leading edge of a sugar or caffine rush for a limited amount of time during the day.
A real human is wearing a shroud of anonymity and handing out the bitchslap to a total stranger. That really makes the whole experience even more dehumanizing. In a massive virtual world, we're still people.
You must be new around here.