Could lower signal to noise ratio be considered less accurate?
With a glossy display, it's easy to see the "noise" part of signal to noise. Just turn off the display -- there's your noise. With the matte screen, the effect is not as pronounced.
No, I though eyestrain was caused by having to focus your eyes with the muscles.
This happens when when your pupils are opened, and you have something close to you.
The Kindle had an advantage because you can read with a bright light, so your pupil will close down, and your book will be in focus naturally. By naturally, I mean it will be optically in focus because it will be in your depth of field. With your pupils opened up, you have a shallow depth of field and use your eye muscles to move your focus to the book and maintain it.
Actually, if you're using an iPad, it might help a bit to do it in a brightly lit room, because that will make your pupils close down a bit. Unfortunately, you can't get a bright light to increase the brightness of the iPad screen, so it only works a little.
Wasn't there a Brady Bunch episode where one of the kids reads a medical reference book and concludes from some of his (quite general) symptoms that he's going to die of some rare disease?
This is just the internet doing what medical reference books used to do.
I think your post is inaccurate, but I may be wrong.
I haven't heard of people losing their games, but they do prevent cheaters from playing on servers that have anti-cheat enabled.
There's a whole faq on their support website: check out VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat)
"Your connection to this secure server has been rejected. Because of past cheating violations, you have been banned from playing on all secure servers"
Valve seems to have done lots of reasonable things to make gaming a lot more fun on the PC.
I think one thing would be taking away a game you paid for, but it would be another to stop providing a service to someone who hurts the community. Protecting the community is a reasonable thing to do, because online gaming is basically unplayable (and VERY UNFUN) with cheating.
People get a home router and assume they don't need gigabit or fast wifi because their internet connection is slow.
But the router port speed limits your internal device-to-device communication speed.
Copying large files or doing backups can be severely throttled by not having gig-e ports everywhere (and they're not prohibitively expensive anymore). Hard disks (and SSDs) can easily saturate 100m connections nowadays.
You don't need a 150mbit DSL connection to justify gig-e on your router.
I would love this too, and would buy it in an instant.
There is benefit to a smart unified home gateway.
Not everyone wants multiple devices to power, administer and troubleshoot.
Now, people who live with just one device are usually stuck with whatever their DSL provider give them -- a device with limited features or configurability.
...it will be a ragtag group of kids who makes first contact.
Of course the Military won't like it, and will try to horn in on things, with weapons ready and no sense of humor -- and an intergalactic war will almost break out.
But it will turn out having the kids break the ice is really a good idea after all, and the world will be saved.
Prototype is a fun game -- it's got a story line, but you can free-roam and do missions like the Grand Theft Auto series (but with superpowers instead of cars).
But... It's obviously a console port.
Most of your actions are based on combos that would be fine with a gamepad, but it kind of breaks down with a keyboard and mouse. I always find myself doing the wrong action because it's hard to chord the correct command for what you want.
The mouse is a really effective way to control things -- except with this game. You can move around and target something the mouse, but it's pretty ineffective. It works much better if you do the console method. You hit the "target" button to select an enemy to target, then all your attacks go there without you having to aim.
You know, it really is a fun game, but you can't forget it was designed for a console first, and a lot of the PC power is lost.
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Could lower signal to noise ratio be considered less accurate?
With a glossy display, it's easy to see the "noise" part of signal to noise. Just turn off the display -- there's your noise. With the matte screen, the effect is not as pronounced.
Of course, polarized glasses will just filter out 50% of the light. So you're just getting a dimmer display.
I guess it depends on how you define a packet. You might want to read the TMDS section here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
When marriage is outlawed...
...only outlaws will have in-laws.
I think a better way to put it would be: "No Taxation Without Representation"
No, I though eyestrain was caused by having to focus your eyes with the muscles.
This happens when when your pupils are opened, and you have something close to you.
The Kindle had an advantage because you can read with a bright light, so your pupil will close down, and your book will be in focus naturally. By naturally, I mean it will be optically in focus because it will be in your depth of field. With your pupils opened up, you have a shallow depth of field and use your eye muscles to move your focus to the book and maintain it.
Actually, if you're using an iPad, it might help a bit to do it in a brightly lit room, because that will make your pupils close down a bit. Unfortunately, you can't get a bright light to increase the brightness of the iPad screen, so it only works a little.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciliary_muscle
I agree.
And Calendar appointments too. The default alarm is short, doesn't repeat and completely ineffective.
Some appointments are life-threatening if you miss them: Pick up the kids, tax audit, anniversary...
But kill-a-watts are becoming more mainstream.
I've had friends who would never have looked at it until they had trouble with power bills > $500.
As devices like this appear:
http://www.belkin.com/conserve/insight/
that just have a money readout, it will make more sense to non-nerds.
And hopefully one day: kids.
Nah, it gets rid of that annoying "process" that judges and prosecutors have to slog through every day.
Wasn't there a Brady Bunch episode where one of the kids reads a medical reference book and concludes from some of his (quite general) symptoms that he's going to die of some rare disease?
This is just the internet doing what medical reference books used to do.
I think your post is inaccurate, but I may be wrong.
I haven't heard of people losing their games, but they do prevent cheaters from playing on servers that have anti-cheat enabled.
There's a whole faq on their support website: check out VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat)
"Your connection to this secure server has been rejected. Because of past cheating violations, you have been banned from playing on all secure servers"
Valve seems to have done lots of reasonable things to make gaming a lot more fun on the PC.
I think one thing would be taking away a game you paid for, but it would be another to stop providing a service to someone who hurts the community. Protecting the community is a reasonable thing to do, because online gaming is basically unplayable (and VERY UNFUN) with cheating.
Don't Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo do the same things on their game platforms?
They have even tighter control over their platforms, don't they?
Check this out:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/extracellular-matrix.htm
but wikipedia says it might be unremarkable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology)
I wonder if any of these can take new firmware:
http://www.speedguide.net/broadband-list.php?cat=50
I can't believe the silly replies to your post.
People get a home router and assume they don't need gigabit or fast wifi because their internet connection is slow.
But the router port speed limits your internal device-to-device communication speed.
Copying large files or doing backups can be severely throttled by not having gig-e ports everywhere (and they're not prohibitively expensive anymore). Hard disks (and SSDs) can easily saturate 100m connections nowadays.
You don't need a 150mbit DSL connection to justify gig-e on your router.
I would love this too, and would buy it in an instant.
There is benefit to a smart unified home gateway.
Not everyone wants multiple devices to power, administer and troubleshoot.
Now, people who live with just one device are usually stuck with whatever their DSL provider give them -- a device with limited features or configurability.
It's hard to save yourself rich.
...it will be a ragtag group of kids who makes first contact.
Of course the Military won't like it, and will try to horn in on things, with weapons ready and no sense of humor -- and an intergalactic war will almost break out.
But it will turn out having the kids break the ice is really a good idea after all, and the world will be saved.
Am I the only one who thought you might get cool glowy eyes like in Stargate SG-1?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa'uld
...or hook one of these to your not-quite-paid-for-yet pacemaker :)
Reminds me of voice acting part of this funny history of the development of Marine Heavy Gunner Vietnam:
http://hakstrap.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/marine-heavy-gunner-fna/
wow, that's the second one I've seen this week...
The jetlev seems a little less intimidating though:
http://jetlev.com/
Sharky Extreme makes good system recommendations:
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
The PC Parts picking guide has excellent price/performance explanations... But they haven't updated things in a while (a real shame).
http://shsc.info/PCPartsPickingGuide
(note: I haven't built a system in a while)
Prototype is a fun game -- it's got a story line, but you can free-roam and do missions like the Grand Theft Auto series (but with superpowers instead of cars).
But... It's obviously a console port.
Most of your actions are based on combos that would be fine with a gamepad, but it kind of breaks down with a keyboard and mouse. I always find myself doing the wrong action because it's hard to chord the correct command for what you want.
The mouse is a really effective way to control things -- except with this game. You can move around and target something the mouse, but it's pretty ineffective. It works much better if you do the console method. You hit the "target" button to select an enemy to target, then all your attacks go there without you having to aim.
You know, it really is a fun game, but you can't forget it was designed for a console first, and a lot of the PC power is lost.
Yes.
Next question.
(Please don't ask "Do cops speed?" "Do restaurant workers get free food?" "Do Real Estate Agents get cheaper houses?" etc...)