What are the dead/stuck pixel rates acceptable on a TV? GGP asked about displays, not TVs. Although you can press a TV into service as a monitor, and it might even do the job well, the level of blemishes deemed acceptable in a TV is considerably higher than that of a computer monitor.
I don't know if this just works for me because I'm a giant mutant, but if I make a deep sort of dog-growly noise way down in my sternum then it makes my skull vibrate in a way that lets me visually perceive flicker all the way up to around typical LED refresh rates even on normal stuff like digital clocks.
This is also quite noticeable even if you're not a mutant, just by munching on potato chips while looking at something that flickers, or by using an electric toothbrush.
And the cradle itself is stupidly sculpted to match the remote, causing a different problem. Instead of a mechanically positive connection, the curved cradle supports the remote at precisely its center of gravity, allowing it to teeter, and every time it teeters it slips on and off the tiny charging contacts.
It's time for more electrical tape, this time within the cradle, at the end opposite the contacts. This way the remote will be tipped toward the contacts instead of rocking back and forth. It may take more than one layer of tape to do this, and the aluminum tape you used on the garage door may be better still.
All I want is a 35"+ 4k display with a 60hz refresh rate for under $300. Is that so much to ask?
Yes, it is, at least with current manufacturing capabilities. Small high-density screens are exactly that -- small. If you have one defect every 30 cm (linear) on average, this may affect one screen out of five -- and even then, there's still some non-critical use where that screen will be just fine. (The front panel of a radio, for example.)
If you're trying to produce large panels with that same defect rate, your rate of defect-free panels is going to be astonishingly low, and there won't be much of a market for the defective ones. Even if Yamakasi is willing to buy and package them, it hurts the image of 4k in general that they hit the streets at all.
This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut.
My thoughts exactly! Park it yourself if you don't trust the valet.
This is not always an option. Some locations have to double-stack their cars in order to accommodate the number that actually show up for dinner, and although they may let you park on your own, they require that you leave the key so that they can move your car if/when the car that is trapped by yours needs to leave. In the two cases I'm thinking of, parking on the street is illegal (it's a major thoroughfare), and in both cases if you decline to leave the key, they will not let you enter the restaurant.
If you want specifics, one is a Brazilian churrascaria somewhere in the South Bay (sorry, it's been a while), and the other is the Zankou Chicken location just east of Sepulveda Boulevard. Street parking is legal in the second case, but nearly impossible to get. Also, while they have taken my key every time, they have never actually moved my car.
I'm saying I've seen such sites, and NOT ONE of them has been sufficiently compelling that I said "gee I'll go sign up for Facebook so I can comment here". I have a Disqus account. I'm willing to make single-serving accounts. If one of those two doesn't cover the situation, then tough shit, I don't need to participate in your site.
No one seems to be foaming at the mouth about the ubiquitous "sign on with Facebook" feature many sites have which FORCE you to have a Facebook account in order to use their service.
That would be because people can live without the ability to comment on those sites. It's harder (not impossible, but harder) to live without the ability to comment on Google-owned sites.
Fortunately, most commercial 3D printers available now are spinoffs of open source hardware. It's almost as if the developers noticed the shitty state of the inkjet printer market or something.
I was golfing at a municipal course (because it's cheap), and the two of us got paired up with another random pair to fill out a foursome. This pair happened to be father and son, out celebrating the elder's 80th birthday. He wasn't doing great, but he wasn't doing that badly either, and there were no golf carts. We had to walk the entire course.
At one point, he asked me if it bothered me to be paired up with an old man like him, and I said "Hell no, I hope I can play a round of golf when I'm 80." From that point on, it was pretty obvious he no longer felt compelled to hurry up for anyone else's benefit, and was content to proceed at a pace that worked for him.
Desalination is just kicking the can down one more generation. The problem is that the habitats that are pleasant to live in are not the ones with the actual resources, so people cluster in areas that are not meant to harbor tens of millions of people, let alone hundreds of millions or billions.
I get 30+ fps on an E350 machine with the integrated AMD GPU, 8 GB of RAM. I get upwards of 120 fps and turn on the limiter on my 6-core Phenom II, with a GeForce 9500.
The exception is when I'm near a farm. All those animals really slow down the game. Anything over about 200 nearby mobs seems to have a significant impact, though the degradation is gradual on the big machine and more like a cliff on the E350.
You are mostly right, but Hellschreiber actually ends up being an analog signal: though it has digital origins, timing drift and interference make it worthwhile to produce grayscale output for maximum legibility.
I occasionally smoke tobacco to help ward off headaches. It's a temporary effect (maybe 30 to 45 minutes) but it happens quickly, and gives other drugs a chance to kick in. I only need a quarter of a cigarette to achieve this effect, because I have essentially no tolerance to nicotine. It will take me a week or two to finish one cigarette, which I quench with water and store in a jar.
I asked a friend of mine who is an emergency room doctor what the health risks associated with this are, and he said there are essentially none. So long as you don't abuse the body enough to overwhelm its repair mechanisms, there is no lasting damage. (Actually he said there is one risk -- I might burn my fingers.)
Methane is still a large improvement over air or nitrogen, however.
Air is, to a rough approximation, 80% diatomic nitrogen and 20% diatomic oxygen -- or molecular masses of 28 and 32, respectively. The average molecular mass of air is then about 28.8. (You can quibble about the numbers but this is close enough to make the point.)
Methane -- CH4 -- has a molecular mass of 16. While it's quite a bit higher than helium (molecular mass of 4), it is still a lifting gas. In fact, one night over drinks, an engineer friend and I decided to do some back-of-the-napkin calculations based on an absurd idea I came up with. I wanted to know if it would be possible to lift a cow by trapping its own emitted methane, and if so, how long it would take. It turned out our answer was somewhere on the order of ten years.
Ammonia -- NH3 -- would weigh in at a molecular mass of 17. Unfortunately, it tends to be horribly corrosive in a lot of situations.
Another issue is that enabling server-side mods means players don't have to buy anything at all. I didn't have to pay for the mods, but even if I did, me paying once would be far cheaper than players having to buy them individually.
I had all sorts of things on my server -- giants, creepers started fires, skeleton arrows could blind you, spiders could poison you, zombies could make you hungry and/or cause the Wither effect, nearby explosions would cause you to become dizzy, there were "space zombies" with glass helmets and 5x the health wandering around (in the Nether too). Monsters would target you from 27 blocks away rather than 16. There were Elementals, invisible monsters, and flying carpets. I also nerfed the enchantments to reduce the power differences between well-equipped and just-starting-out players. That way I didn't have to crank the difficulty up quite as high, and the n00bs could live a little longer. There were shops, and there was an economy. We had mcMMO. We had trading posts stocked with villagers. We had minecarts on the backs of bats, so you could ride in a random aerial pattern if you felt like it. We had bouncy blocks that would catapult you into the air. I added drops (for example, blazes would drop quartz, and magma cubes could drop regular slimeballs). One of my admins made uncraftable blocks such as circle stone and packed ice expensive but available through stores.
The effect of any one of these mods was minor, but taken as a sum, they made up an environment unlike any other Minecraft server. What was the player required to do to enable all of these changes? Absolutely nothing. Just sign on and play.
This is anathema to the DLC business model. Therefore, it can't be monetized by the company producing the game. Mojang was OK with that. (I wasn't running Pay-To-Win.) Microsoft most likely won't be.
Maybe this is what numbers stations are for? It's Russians handing out activation codes to their (or our) weapons!
No, I'm not suggesting this is actually true, but issuing keys that have to be periodically entered to keep a weapon active makes a degree of sense. A stolen weapon won't immediately deactivate, nor will those of an ally who turns coat, but come the next update period, the key issued is one that works for everyone except the people you want to lock out.
Of course, governments don't REALLY want to do this, or it will quickly be pointed out that insurgents/terrorists/freedom fighters are continuing to use weapons that could have been deactivated.
Unfortunately though, I can report that among professional musicians, drugs (legal or not) are an occupational hazard. I know it's far from the only profession where this is the case, but keeping out of trouble in school does not always correlate to keeping out of the same kind of trouble afterward.
16:10 means that while watching a 16:9 video, you can pop up the control panel of the player without obscuring the video itself. Also, people who like the taskbar or equivalent on the bottom of the screen appreciate all the vertical pixels they can get. Personally I bit the bullet and adapted to putting the taskbar on the right on the machines that have vertically cramped displays, but it would be nice not to have to make this choice. Even at 2048x1152, I find I want more vertical pixels often, and only occasionally want more horizontal pixels. That's why the second (of three) monitors is rotated.
This may not be practical, but I'm still glad to see companies driving bigger displays with higher resolutions.
Me too. It may be more than current video cards can handle, but personally, I typically go through two video cards for every desktop computer, and two to four desktop computers for every generation of displays I buy. That means the video hardware will get there.
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What are the dead/stuck pixel rates acceptable on a TV? GGP asked about displays, not TVs. Although you can press a TV into service as a monitor, and it might even do the job well, the level of blemishes deemed acceptable in a TV is considerably higher than that of a computer monitor.
I don't know if this just works for me because I'm a giant mutant, but if I make a deep sort of dog-growly noise way down in my sternum then it makes my skull vibrate in a way that lets me visually perceive flicker all the way up to around typical LED refresh rates even on normal stuff like digital clocks.
This is also quite noticeable even if you're not a mutant, just by munching on potato chips while looking at something that flickers, or by using an electric toothbrush.
And the cradle itself is stupidly sculpted to match the remote, causing a different problem. Instead of a mechanically positive connection, the curved cradle supports the remote at precisely its center of gravity, allowing it to teeter, and every time it teeters it slips on and off the tiny charging contacts.
It's time for more electrical tape, this time within the cradle, at the end opposite the contacts. This way the remote will be tipped toward the contacts instead of rocking back and forth. It may take more than one layer of tape to do this, and the aluminum tape you used on the garage door may be better still.
All I want is a 35"+ 4k display with a 60hz refresh rate for under $300. Is that so much to ask?
Yes, it is, at least with current manufacturing capabilities. Small high-density screens are exactly that -- small. If you have one defect every 30 cm (linear) on average, this may affect one screen out of five -- and even then, there's still some non-critical use where that screen will be just fine. (The front panel of a radio, for example.)
If you're trying to produce large panels with that same defect rate, your rate of defect-free panels is going to be astonishingly low, and there won't be much of a market for the defective ones. Even if Yamakasi is willing to buy and package them, it hurts the image of 4k in general that they hit the streets at all.
This high failure rate means the panels are going to be expensive, because you're not just paying for the one you get. You're also paying for the ones that didn't make the cut.
My thoughts exactly! Park it yourself if you don't trust the valet.
This is not always an option. Some locations have to double-stack their cars in order to accommodate the number that actually show up for dinner, and although they may let you park on your own, they require that you leave the key so that they can move your car if/when the car that is trapped by yours needs to leave. In the two cases I'm thinking of, parking on the street is illegal (it's a major thoroughfare), and in both cases if you decline to leave the key, they will not let you enter the restaurant.
If you want specifics, one is a Brazilian churrascaria somewhere in the South Bay (sorry, it's been a while), and the other is the Zankou Chicken location just east of Sepulveda Boulevard. Street parking is legal in the second case, but nearly impossible to get. Also, while they have taken my key every time, they have never actually moved my car.
I'm saying I've seen such sites, and NOT ONE of them has been sufficiently compelling that I said "gee I'll go sign up for Facebook so I can comment here". I have a Disqus account. I'm willing to make single-serving accounts. If one of those two doesn't cover the situation, then tough shit, I don't need to participate in your site.
No one seems to be foaming at the mouth about the ubiquitous "sign on with Facebook" feature many sites have which FORCE you to have a Facebook account in order to use their service.
That would be because people can live without the ability to comment on those sites. It's harder (not impossible, but harder) to live without the ability to comment on Google-owned sites.
Not if they're RAID-style stripes, where you can reconstruct the data from n-1 or n-2 stripes.
Fortunately, most commercial 3D printers available now are spinoffs of open source hardware. It's almost as if the developers noticed the shitty state of the inkjet printer market or something.
No wormholes were necessary, they just used chains of thiotimoline reactions.
I was golfing at a municipal course (because it's cheap), and the two of us got paired up with another random pair to fill out a foursome. This pair happened to be father and son, out celebrating the elder's 80th birthday. He wasn't doing great, but he wasn't doing that badly either, and there were no golf carts. We had to walk the entire course.
At one point, he asked me if it bothered me to be paired up with an old man like him, and I said "Hell no, I hope I can play a round of golf when I'm 80." From that point on, it was pretty obvious he no longer felt compelled to hurry up for anyone else's benefit, and was content to proceed at a pace that worked for him.
Desalination is just kicking the can down one more generation. The problem is that the habitats that are pleasant to live in are not the ones with the actual resources, so people cluster in areas that are not meant to harbor tens of millions of people, let alone hundreds of millions or billions.
I get 30+ fps on an E350 machine with the integrated AMD GPU, 8 GB of RAM. I get upwards of 120 fps and turn on the limiter on my 6-core Phenom II, with a GeForce 9500.
The exception is when I'm near a farm. All those animals really slow down the game. Anything over about 200 nearby mobs seems to have a significant impact, though the degradation is gradual on the big machine and more like a cliff on the E350.
You are mostly right, but Hellschreiber actually ends up being an analog signal: though it has digital origins, timing drift and interference make it worthwhile to produce grayscale output for maximum legibility.
Attempting to do the math as to how much they care will get you a big hole in the dirt somewhere in Nicaragua.
I occasionally smoke tobacco to help ward off headaches. It's a temporary effect (maybe 30 to 45 minutes) but it happens quickly, and gives other drugs a chance to kick in. I only need a quarter of a cigarette to achieve this effect, because I have essentially no tolerance to nicotine. It will take me a week or two to finish one cigarette, which I quench with water and store in a jar.
I asked a friend of mine who is an emergency room doctor what the health risks associated with this are, and he said there are essentially none. So long as you don't abuse the body enough to overwhelm its repair mechanisms, there is no lasting damage. (Actually he said there is one risk -- I might burn my fingers.)
cigarettes aren't necessarily bad, just don't smoke them.
This seems to work reasonably well for Sam Farha.
Sometimes it gets less painful when you realize they're not as dumb as they seem, and are actually learning something from you.
Do you want bar flies? Because that’s how you get bar flies. Cougars too.
Methane is still a large improvement over air or nitrogen, however.
Air is, to a rough approximation, 80% diatomic nitrogen and 20% diatomic oxygen -- or molecular masses of 28 and 32, respectively. The average molecular mass of air is then about 28.8. (You can quibble about the numbers but this is close enough to make the point.)
Methane -- CH4 -- has a molecular mass of 16. While it's quite a bit higher than helium (molecular mass of 4), it is still a lifting gas. In fact, one night over drinks, an engineer friend and I decided to do some back-of-the-napkin calculations based on an absurd idea I came up with. I wanted to know if it would be possible to lift a cow by trapping its own emitted methane, and if so, how long it would take. It turned out our answer was somewhere on the order of ten years.
Ammonia -- NH3 -- would weigh in at a molecular mass of 17. Unfortunately, it tends to be horribly corrosive in a lot of situations.
Another issue is that enabling server-side mods means players don't have to buy anything at all. I didn't have to pay for the mods, but even if I did, me paying once would be far cheaper than players having to buy them individually.
I had all sorts of things on my server -- giants, creepers started fires, skeleton arrows could blind you, spiders could poison you, zombies could make you hungry and/or cause the Wither effect, nearby explosions would cause you to become dizzy, there were "space zombies" with glass helmets and 5x the health wandering around (in the Nether too). Monsters would target you from 27 blocks away rather than 16. There were Elementals, invisible monsters, and flying carpets. I also nerfed the enchantments to reduce the power differences between well-equipped and just-starting-out players. That way I didn't have to crank the difficulty up quite as high, and the n00bs could live a little longer. There were shops, and there was an economy. We had mcMMO. We had trading posts stocked with villagers. We had minecarts on the backs of bats, so you could ride in a random aerial pattern if you felt like it. We had bouncy blocks that would catapult you into the air. I added drops (for example, blazes would drop quartz, and magma cubes could drop regular slimeballs). One of my admins made uncraftable blocks such as circle stone and packed ice expensive but available through stores.
The effect of any one of these mods was minor, but taken as a sum, they made up an environment unlike any other Minecraft server. What was the player required to do to enable all of these changes? Absolutely nothing. Just sign on and play.
This is anathema to the DLC business model. Therefore, it can't be monetized by the company producing the game. Mojang was OK with that. (I wasn't running Pay-To-Win.) Microsoft most likely won't be.
Maybe this is what numbers stations are for? It's Russians handing out activation codes to their (or our) weapons!
No, I'm not suggesting this is actually true, but issuing keys that have to be periodically entered to keep a weapon active makes a degree of sense. A stolen weapon won't immediately deactivate, nor will those of an ally who turns coat, but come the next update period, the key issued is one that works for everyone except the people you want to lock out.
Of course, governments don't REALLY want to do this, or it will quickly be pointed out that insurgents/terrorists/freedom fighters are continuing to use weapons that could have been deactivated.
Unfortunately though, I can report that among professional musicians, drugs (legal or not) are an occupational hazard. I know it's far from the only profession where this is the case, but keeping out of trouble in school does not always correlate to keeping out of the same kind of trouble afterward.
16:10 means that while watching a 16:9 video, you can pop up the control panel of the player without obscuring the video itself. Also, people who like the taskbar or equivalent on the bottom of the screen appreciate all the vertical pixels they can get. Personally I bit the bullet and adapted to putting the taskbar on the right on the machines that have vertically cramped displays, but it would be nice not to have to make this choice. Even at 2048x1152, I find I want more vertical pixels often, and only occasionally want more horizontal pixels. That's why the second (of three) monitors is rotated.
This may not be practical, but I'm still glad to see companies driving bigger displays with higher resolutions.
Me too. It may be more than current video cards can handle, but personally, I typically go through two video cards for every desktop computer, and two to four desktop computers for every generation of displays I buy. That means the video hardware will get there.