Until the screen turns off the backlight is on, even if it appears black on your screen. Like the parent said, to render black a voltage has to be applied across the pixel in order to change the optical properties of the pixel effectively changing the light's polarization to be blocked by a polarizer in front of the screen....
Unfortunately your example is not the inverse square law. It would be more along the lines of 1/8" at 30 feet and 1/2" at 60 feet. Your example is showing the effects of a lens, which would explain the nice linear relationship with distance.....
It doesn't sound like you know much about optics or lasers....
Having used their services before I know you are not quite so informed. What the do is buy a copy for themselves, edit it, and keep it on file. If an individual wants an edited version of the disk the customer must bring in an original copy of the dvd and trade it for an edited version.....
Just make sure that you're only using two twisted pairs and not all four or else you'll have all sorts of apparently random problems. To keep it simple you want a pair on each end of the plug another in the middle with a pair straddling that one. The wiring really is important, when done incorrectly you will have problems, even if it does seem to work
People don't realize how much freedom we actually have here in the U.S or Britain or whatever country you're in. In some countries you are required to always carry a government issued id with you. Citizens and foreigners. In fact it is stricly enforced in some of these countries by armed forces sometimes with fully automatic weapons. The country I'm talking about is a 'democracy,' with 'elections' and a 'constitution' and such.
So yes, in some places this law is stricly enforced. I should know, I was detained several times because I had a non standard immigration paper and the cops weren't always able to read all of the big words, or were just looking for some lunch money. It usually took a phone call or two and some explaining to be released.
I've got a feeling that you don't realize that the US has had daylight savings time for a very long time. If you would have read the article you would have realized that they are proposing when daylight savings time is in effect and not.
Then again, you could have picked this up from all of the other posts that mentioned this.
just as a side note, my good friend had a hp laptop, and the cd drive went out on him when he was in the middle of ripping his cd collection into iTunes. He got on the phone with hp, and in less than a week they had installed a new cd drive for him.
During a two year stay in the Cote d'Ivoire I saw several of these so called email harvesters in various cyber cafes, aka nigerians with a whole lot of time and a whole lot of money. They'd spend endless hours manually browsing university, business and other corporate webpages, copy the text, and then run it through a little program they had that would pull of all of the email address.
With this list of e-mail addresses, they would personally send an email to each person on the list.....I found it rather interesting. And judging from the cars they drove, they seemed to make quite a bit off of it.....
Ha, and if they didnt let you do this you would have angry customers returning their $300 xboxes and playstations. Most retail stores do have at least a 30 day return policy and most employees will be fairly lenient out to 45 days, at least where I work at a large nationwide retail store.
So not only would you have people returning out of the box merchandise they would continue to walk into the store and purchase a brand new console at the discounted cost. Nothing better than having a dozen opened consoles that you'll have to take the hassle to send back to the manufacture.
Overall it is just good business practice, if you're shopping at a place that wont just give you the money within 30 days you ought to be shopping somewhere else.
Why would any/. reader approve of teoma.com's search results! When clearly a search for news for nerds results in NO link to slashdot. No wonder we slashdot readers prefer google. Google gives slashdot.org as the number one result for news for nerds!
When I went into my credit union an hour ago to deposit my paycheck, their entire computer system crashed. Whatever, so the manager comes out and tells the employees to go ahead and restart their computers. As they loaded I saw the friendly windows 98 startup screen appear. Restarting failed to fix the problem, as they couldn't log into the machines.
My point is that most, almost all, people out there would have no idea what to do if they were given a linux machine to work off of. The teller had a hard enough time writing my "offline receipt" and I hate to see her in front of a completely new OS. So for most smaller start-up companies, they will use a version of windows because of its familiarity. And because everyone and their dog knows a little bit about windows, initial productivity is greater than if they were forced to learn something brand new.
I've had my rio 500 for a year now and I am shocked that is still works. I have had it fall from the top of my car, kicked, dropped, etc, and it still works. The original user interface on the thing sucked originally, as it could only support 32 mB cards, and didn't support id3 tags. After updating the firmware I loved it.
I wouldn't waste my money on any of the newer rio models, since they use special memory "backpacks" and not the standard smart media cards.
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Until the screen turns off the backlight is on, even if it appears black on your screen. Like the parent said, to render black a voltage has to be applied across the pixel in order to change the optical properties of the pixel effectively changing the light's polarization to be blocked by a polarizer in front of the screen....
Unfortunately your example is not the inverse square law. It would be more along the lines of 1/8" at 30 feet and 1/2" at 60 feet. Your example is showing the effects of a lens, which would explain the nice linear relationship with distance.....
It doesn't sound like you know much about optics or lasers....
Having used their services before I know you are not quite so informed. What the do is buy a copy for themselves, edit it, and keep it on file. If an individual wants an edited version of the disk the customer must bring in an original copy of the dvd and trade it for an edited version.....
Just make sure that you're only using two twisted pairs and not all four or else you'll have all sorts of apparently random problems. To keep it simple you want a pair on each end of the plug another in the middle with a pair straddling that one. The wiring really is important, when done incorrectly you will have problems, even if it does seem to work
I've seen it happen before my eyes, it wasn't very pretty....
People don't realize how much freedom we actually have here in the U.S or Britain or whatever country you're in. In some countries you are required to always carry a government issued id with you. Citizens and foreigners. In fact it is stricly enforced in some of these countries by armed forces sometimes with fully automatic weapons. The country I'm talking about is a 'democracy,' with 'elections' and a 'constitution' and such.
So yes, in some places this law is stricly enforced. I should know, I was detained several times because I had a non standard immigration paper and the cops weren't always able to read all of the big words, or were just looking for some lunch money. It usually took a phone call or two and some explaining to be released.
I've got a feeling that you don't realize that the US has had daylight savings time for a very long time. If you would have read the article you would have realized that they are proposing when daylight savings time is in effect and not.
Then again, you could have picked this up from all of the other posts that mentioned this.
just as a side note, my good friend had a hp laptop, and the cd drive went out on him when he was in the middle of ripping his cd collection into iTunes. He got on the phone with hp, and in less than a week they had installed a new cd drive for him.
During a two year stay in the Cote d'Ivoire I saw several of these so called email harvesters in various cyber cafes, aka nigerians with a whole lot of time and a whole lot of money. They'd spend endless hours manually browsing university, business and other corporate webpages, copy the text, and then run it through a little program they had that would pull of all of the email address.
With this list of e-mail addresses, they would personally send an email to each person on the list.....I found it rather interesting. And judging from the cars they drove, they seemed to make quite a bit off of it.....
So not only would you have people returning out of the box merchandise they would continue to walk into the store and purchase a brand new console at the discounted cost. Nothing better than having a dozen opened consoles that you'll have to take the hassle to send back to the manufacture.
Overall it is just good business practice, if you're shopping at a place that wont just give you the money within 30 days you ought to be shopping somewhere else.
Why would any /. reader approve of teoma.com's search results! When clearly a search for news for nerds results in NO link to slashdot. No wonder we slashdot readers prefer google. Google gives slashdot.org as the number one result for news for nerds!
Just a thought....
When I went into my credit union an hour ago to deposit my paycheck, their entire computer system crashed. Whatever, so the manager comes out and tells the employees to go ahead and restart their computers. As they loaded I saw the friendly windows 98 startup screen appear. Restarting failed to fix the problem, as they couldn't log into the machines.
My point is that most, almost all, people out there would have no idea what to do if they were given a linux machine to work off of. The teller had a hard enough time writing my "offline receipt" and I hate to see her in front of a completely new OS. So for most smaller start-up companies, they will use a version of windows because of its familiarity. And because everyone and their dog knows a little bit about windows, initial productivity is greater than if they were forced to learn something brand new.
I've had my rio 500 for a year now and I am shocked that is still works. I have had it fall from the top of my car, kicked, dropped, etc, and it still works. The original user interface on the thing sucked originally, as it could only support 32 mB cards, and didn't support id3 tags. After updating the firmware I loved it.
I wouldn't waste my money on any of the newer rio models, since they use special memory "backpacks" and not the standard smart media cards.
Overall, my rio hasn't disappointed me.