It makes a HUGE difference. If they had simply turned the video monitors on before taking the pictures, it would be fine. But pasting images of the monitors on when they were really OFF is just totally different.
Witness things like "Super Maximum Security Prison" and the like. People don't understand words very well, I think. Here is something I saw on a parking meter:
"Time limit: 3 hours maximum"
What they really mean: "Time limit: 3 hours" or "Time: 3 hours maximum".
What that actually means: "The time limit varies and will never exceed 3 hours." The limit for your particular spot might happen to be one hour when you park there, for example.
I believe that glossy screens aren't objectively any brighter, but we perceive them as such (and to have blacker blacks) because we mentally process the reflected room light differently. For a glossy, we interpret it as a reflection of something, and thus subtract it from the black of the screen. For matte, the reflection is diffuse and seems to be part of the image, so we process it as such, and thus see blacks as less-so. Brightness-wise, I think we then compare that to the black we see.
Recently I switched to an LCD for my desktop, after using Trinitron CRTs for decades. I didn't like the speckled appearance of matte (anti-glare) LCD. Solid areas of color would have this slight multicolor texture, which shifted slightly as I moved my head. I happened to acquire a glossy LCD and unexpectedly liked it. No speckled appearance at all, just like my previous CRT. I always use it in a room with a 100-watt light off to the side, with a white wall behind me, so reflections aren't an issue. I believe that this speckled appearance was due to the combination of high DPI and matte coating; I looked at other larger LCDs (with lower DPI) and they looked fine, even with matte coating. For example, a 21" 1920x1080 was speckled, but a 25" wasn't.
This is not a good way to start a summary about the rise of nuclear power plants:
The Oil Drum (one of the best sites to discuss the technical details of the Macondo Blowout) is typically focused on ramifications of petroleum use, and in particular the Peak Oil theory. They run short guest articles from time to time on various aspects of energy use and policies.
Two sentences in, and I'm still wondering what this has to do with nuclear power plants. Sounds like an ad for the site. You could mention these things, but later in the summary.
What a nice way to trade off several other people's time to save a little of yours. Odd it doesn't notice there's no car right at the intersection, and avoid giving a protected left.
No, it is a grid designed for slow turn on/off generators (coal, oil, nuclear) being fed with fast turn on/off generators. It is like taking a truck off-road. A truck perfectly suitable for is normal job is not fit for purpose on un-metalled road.
So it's not like a truck that you can just dump power on, more like a system of tubes that might not be able to handle all that at once?
As someone else asked, yeah, it's Lemonparty. All I remember is that it's some old gay man or something forgettable. I only include it because for some reason others consider it one of the three.
Oh, you new-fangled kids. I don't have enough time to keep up with the latest mind-scarring imagery. I did see the two girls, one cup. Fortunately I've blocked that out, becuase I can't visualize it.
Only modern games have been designed to take advantage of multi-processor systems. There is also a scaling factor which needs to be considered on an engine by engine basis.
If the game uses OS services for things that use significant CPU time, then they can still take advantage of more cores as the OS will do so when the game invokes such services. I always think of Apple's switch from 68K to PowerPC, where emulated 68K apps would run reasonably fast since they often had the OS do heavy lifting, which was native (for example QuickTime). Same for PowerPC apps running on an x86 Mac in emulation under Rosetta on OS X.
The 6 core system is slower [than a 4-core system] in non-parallel tasks because the OS has per-core overhead. So all single-threaded tasks get slower as the number of cores rises.
Simple solution: permanently disable two of the cores. Oh, wait...
At least one person here spoke up for freedom and the effects of the use of force. Bottom line, the airlines can do whatever the hell they want with their property. If they want to charge a million dollars for a ticket, so be it. If you force them to fix prices below the market, then you get people overburdening them, like the parent mentioned, with things overfilled. By taking the cost away from the passenger, he doesn't give a shit if he overfills things, since it's a free-for-all. Plus, every passenger has to then subsidize the fewer who carry all that stuff on board.
I'd love something like that. Main problem is that getting Linux itself to run on it would probably be a big chore, due to dependencies on the arch not being weird.
I don't think I was trolling. It would be like calling the company Apples, Inc. or the newspaper the New York Time.
Being unnecessarily pedantic would be correcting someone using the term Driver's License (at least in Texas, where it's properly called a Driver License), or referring to Daylight Savings Time.
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That's what I'm saying. The sharks did this years ago, mapping the ocean floor with their lasers. NASA is just copying them.
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It makes a HUGE difference. If they had simply turned the video monitors on before taking the pictures, it would be fine. But pasting images of the monitors on when they were really OFF is just totally different.
First rule of spunk on the screen: don't talk about spunk on the screen.
"Time limit: 3 hours maximum"
What they really mean: "Time limit: 3 hours" or "Time: 3 hours maximum".
What that actually means: "The time limit varies and will never exceed 3 hours." The limit for your particular spot might happen to be one hour when you park there, for example.
I believe that glossy screens aren't objectively any brighter, but we perceive them as such (and to have blacker blacks) because we mentally process the reflected room light differently. For a glossy, we interpret it as a reflection of something, and thus subtract it from the black of the screen. For matte, the reflection is diffuse and seems to be part of the image, so we process it as such, and thus see blacks as less-so. Brightness-wise, I think we then compare that to the black we see.
Recently I switched to an LCD for my desktop, after using Trinitron CRTs for decades. I didn't like the speckled appearance of matte (anti-glare) LCD. Solid areas of color would have this slight multicolor texture, which shifted slightly as I moved my head. I happened to acquire a glossy LCD and unexpectedly liked it. No speckled appearance at all, just like my previous CRT. I always use it in a room with a 100-watt light off to the side, with a white wall behind me, so reflections aren't an issue. I believe that this speckled appearance was due to the combination of high DPI and matte coating; I looked at other larger LCDs (with lower DPI) and they looked fine, even with matte coating. For example, a 21" 1920x1080 was speckled, but a 25" wasn't.
Two sentences in, and I'm still wondering what this has to do with nuclear power plants. Sounds like an ad for the site. You could mention these things, but later in the summary.
MD GPS: Exit ahead.
Driver: I don't see it.
MD GPS: Make exit now.
Driver: But there's no exit.
MD GPS: That's why I said make exit.
Wait, you're saying that without a GPS unit a person would still be able to tell whether he's driving on a road or someone's front yard? Do tell how.
What a nice way to trade off several other people's time to save a little of yours. Odd it doesn't notice there's no car right at the intersection, and avoid giving a protected left.
Wouldn't fanning the blades generate even more power? Maybe I'm missing something.
So it's not like a truck that you can just dump power on, more like a system of tubes that might not be able to handle all that at once?
As someone else asked, yeah, it's Lemonparty. All I remember is that it's some old gay man or something forgettable. I only include it because for some reason others consider it one of the three.
Oh, you new-fangled kids. I don't have enough time to keep up with the latest mind-scarring imagery. I did see the two girls, one cup. Fortunately I've blocked that out, becuase I can't visualize it.
If the game uses OS services for things that use significant CPU time, then they can still take advantage of more cores as the OS will do so when the game invokes such services. I always think of Apple's switch from 68K to PowerPC, where emulated 68K apps would run reasonably fast since they often had the OS do heavy lifting, which was native (for example QuickTime). Same for PowerPC apps running on an x86 Mac in emulation under Rosetta on OS X.
Simple solution: permanently disable two of the cores. Oh, wait...
Sorry, tubgirl is easily the worst of the big three *shudder*.
I wouldn't exactly call these small. Hell, my torso isn't even 1m in diameter!
Not sure. Help me out here. Honestly.
At least one person here spoke up for freedom and the effects of the use of force. Bottom line, the airlines can do whatever the hell they want with their property. If they want to charge a million dollars for a ticket, so be it. If you force them to fix prices below the market, then you get people overburdening them, like the parent mentioned, with things overfilled. By taking the cost away from the passenger, he doesn't give a shit if he overfills things, since it's a free-for-all. Plus, every passenger has to then subsidize the fewer who carry all that stuff on board.
Except that Apple is a private company that you can choose not to do business with. They only get your money if you give it to them.
They just need to put it into a case, for example a rat body.
I'd love something like that. Main problem is that getting Linux itself to run on it would probably be a big chore, due to dependencies on the arch not being weird.
Being unnecessarily pedantic would be correcting someone using the term Driver's License (at least in Texas, where it's properly called a Driver License), or referring to Daylight Savings Time.