The black is the bit that looks "gold". The "white" part is actually blue. Once I realised that the oversaturated light source behind was a reflection of the flash in a mirror (you can see more evidence of flash reflection on the dress itself), and not the sun shining through a window, my brain started processing the image totally differently, and I can no longer see it as white and gold unless I scroll the image so I can only see the top 20%.
on the angle you are looking at the screen (on a phone, from the side, or a laptop tilting your screen back further, it definitely looks black and blue, straight on, see the other factors below).
whether you see the top of it first and scroll down to the rest of the image, or you see the bottom first and scroll up (I think because the top neck area is definitely gold, but the colors of the dress in the photo definitely have a blue tinge to them)
whether you perceive the light source behind as a window or a mirror (your brain adjusts the white balance of the dress accordingly)
Not depending on which display so much, but with LCD displays, depending more on what angle you are looking at. Look at it straight on, and the dress is white and gold. Ask the person next to you, and they will tell you it is blue and black. Turn your screen towards them and the effect will be reversed.
Luxury! We had to suck our uuencoded multipart Usenet posts from the server byte by byte through a straw. It took weeks to get all the parts together so they could be decoded on a slide rule and punched into a card by hand using a blunt nail and a screwdriver as a hammer.
You're probably still stuck at step 1. Another problem with Windows 7 is that it seems to take forever just to open an Explorer window compared with earlier versions of Windows. I've seen the behaviour described in the GP a few times in the last couple of weeks. I'd never seen it before that though, so maybe its a recent Patch Tuesday bonus.
Our continent has had a rich history of cultures and languages, perhaps the most diverse in human history!
Not to belittle the great diversity of language on the American continent, but sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, especially India, Indonesia and the Philippines, are significantly more diverse lingustically even than Bolivia (the most lingustically diverse country in the Americas).
You're unlikely to get robbed in a drug neighborhood, for example, because most people either don't have anything to steal, or have a weapon, or will fight to the death over their last $2.
There's also the fact that the gang that controls distribution has no interest in increased police presence on their turf, so they tend to keep petty street crime under control.
I remember reading a few years ago that in one of the south-east Asian cities (Kuala Lumpur maybe? Singapore?) there was two-tier pricing on electricity -- dirt cheap up to X kWh so that everyone could have lighting and basic usage
In Malaysia there are 5 tiers for electricity pricing (until recently it was 9), and if your total bill for the month comes to less than RM20 (around USD 7), the government covers it.
Other media organizations are not posting the video because of ethics. How would you feel if it was your brother, son or father in that video that is being splashed around the world? But Fox news will never learn from their past mistakes.
Only Borders and Radio Shack have come to Malaysia for their retirement as far as I'm aware. Radio Shack only started appearing around the time of the Borders collapse, so I guess the holding company for both has decided to specialize in deals with ailing US companies looking at overseas expansion as a way to save their business. But unlike Singapore, where Borders closed down a couple of months after the US, they've managed to separate it out enough from the parent company to end up with a known brand that they can continue to run independently. A newspaper article yesterday said that the local Radio Shacks have their own supply chains and won't be affected by the US collapse, so they may also last well beyond their US parent.
The company's franchise locations, as well as stores in Mexico and Asia, are not included in the deal.
I get that the overseas stores are not included in the sale to Sprint, because that would make absolutely no sense, but what I really want to know is what happens to them when Radio Shack goes bankrupt. In other words, I want to know if my local Radio Shack located inside a Borders store (I kid you not) will still be open.
Pro tip: Anyone claiming to be a lawyer on Slashdot, or indeed on the internet in general, is probably lying. Especially if it is while they are providing you with what appears to be legal advice.
Mail from third party servers doesn't pass through Google's servers to be visible in the GMail app. If it did, it would also be accessible from Inbox. All they did was added the IMAP/POP3 backend to GMail so the interface can be unified.
One great thing about Outlook is the ability to recall mails
????. One idiotic thing about Outlook is it gives non-technical cow-orkers the illusion that you can recall mails. Personally I get a bit sick of my mailbox being full of duplicate emails and recall notices because someone wanted to fix a trivial spelling mistake.
The first version of Slackware I tried ran on two floppies - one for the kernel, and one for the userspace. This didn't include a graphical interface though - you needed to download the CD image for that.
When I've come across corporate internet pages that need "compatibility modes" to work properly in modern versions of IE, they mostly work fine in Firefox, as the developers already catered to standards compliant browsers, and put in exceptions for IE being broken. Dropping IE's compatibility modes would force the cleanup of all these legacy exceptions for IE, which can only be a good thing. Any remaining corporate webapps that were developed solely for old versions of IE without catering to standard browsers of the day, and have not been important enough to update over the past 8 years or so that more standard versions of IE have been available (I'm counting IE7 here, which may be a bit generous, but mostly it's applications made for IE5 and IE6 that are the problem) need to die already.
The main reason it is not remotely the same thing is that the web was not set up by Microsoft exclusively for their browser and reverse engineered by others to provide alternative browsers.
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The black is the bit that looks "gold". The "white" part is actually blue. Once I realised that the oversaturated light source behind was a reflection of the flash in a mirror (you can see more evidence of flash reflection on the dress itself), and not the sun shining through a window, my brain started processing the image totally differently, and I can no longer see it as white and gold unless I scroll the image so I can only see the top 20%.
Not depending on which display so much, but with LCD displays, depending more on what angle you are looking at. Look at it straight on, and the dress is white and gold. Ask the person next to you, and they will tell you it is blue and black. Turn your screen towards them and the effect will be reversed.
I'm calling it unreadable mess. (the bottom line of most posts, specifically).
It's a bugger when the species you genetically engineered to solve complex mathematical equations starts experimenting on your brain.
Didn't you get the memo. You're supposed to be shilling for Windows 8 now, not Windows 7.
Luxury! We had to suck our uuencoded multipart Usenet posts from the server byte by byte through a straw. It took weeks to get all the parts together so they could be decoded on a slide rule and punched into a card by hand using a blunt nail and a screwdriver as a hammer.
You're probably still stuck at step 1. Another problem with Windows 7 is that it seems to take forever just to open an Explorer window compared with earlier versions of Windows. I've seen the behaviour described in the GP a few times in the last couple of weeks. I'd never seen it before that though, so maybe its a recent Patch Tuesday bonus.
Not to belittle the great diversity of language on the American continent, but sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, especially India, Indonesia and the Philippines, are significantly more diverse lingustically even than Bolivia (the most lingustically diverse country in the Americas).
You mean the Irish come from both Eurasia and Oceania?
There's also the fact that the gang that controls distribution has no interest in increased police presence on their turf, so they tend to keep petty street crime under control.
So the freedom of speech of the terrorists who made those videos trumps the right to privacy of the families of the victims now?
America has become very screwed up since 9/11 in more ways than one.
In Malaysia there are 5 tiers for electricity pricing (until recently it was 9), and if your total bill for the month comes to less than RM20 (around USD 7), the government covers it.
Other media organizations are not posting the video because of ethics. How would you feel if it was your brother, son or father in that video that is being splashed around the world? But Fox news will never learn from their past mistakes.
Only Borders and Radio Shack have come to Malaysia for their retirement as far as I'm aware. Radio Shack only started appearing around the time of the Borders collapse, so I guess the holding company for both has decided to specialize in deals with ailing US companies looking at overseas expansion as a way to save their business. But unlike Singapore, where Borders closed down a couple of months after the US, they've managed to separate it out enough from the parent company to end up with a known brand that they can continue to run independently. A newspaper article yesterday said that the local Radio Shacks have their own supply chains and won't be affected by the US collapse, so they may also last well beyond their US parent.
I get that the overseas stores are not included in the sale to Sprint, because that would make absolutely no sense, but what I really want to know is what happens to them when Radio Shack goes bankrupt. In other words, I want to know if my local Radio Shack located inside a Borders store (I kid you not) will still be open.
Not quite. You still have Warner (the smallest of the big 3).
Pro tip: Anyone claiming to be a lawyer on Slashdot, or indeed on the internet in general, is probably lying. Especially if it is while they are providing you with what appears to be legal advice.
Mail from third party servers doesn't pass through Google's servers to be visible in the GMail app. If it did, it would also be accessible from Inbox. All they did was added the IMAP/POP3 backend to GMail so the interface can be unified.
????. One idiotic thing about Outlook is it gives non-technical cow-orkers the illusion that you can recall mails. Personally I get a bit sick of my mailbox being full of duplicate emails and recall notices because someone wanted to fix a trivial spelling mistake.
The first version of Slackware I tried ran on two floppies - one for the kernel, and one for the userspace. This didn't include a graphical interface though - you needed to download the CD image for that.
2km? I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere about an ancient construction technique that can support structures up to 8,848 m.
If your wireless provider refuses to release updates, how are you expecting a backport of the fix to 4.3 to help?
When I've come across corporate internet pages that need "compatibility modes" to work properly in modern versions of IE, they mostly work fine in Firefox, as the developers already catered to standards compliant browsers, and put in exceptions for IE being broken. Dropping IE's compatibility modes would force the cleanup of all these legacy exceptions for IE, which can only be a good thing. Any remaining corporate webapps that were developed solely for old versions of IE without catering to standard browsers of the day, and have not been important enough to update over the past 8 years or so that more standard versions of IE have been available (I'm counting IE7 here, which may be a bit generous, but mostly it's applications made for IE5 and IE6 that are the problem) need to die already.
The main reason it is not remotely the same thing is that the web was not set up by Microsoft exclusively for their browser and reverse engineered by others to provide alternative browsers.