In a plasma display, the brightness will decrease to about ~85% of the original over the first 10,000 viewing hours, and will then stay about there...
The Main problem you'll encounter with plasmas is burn-in, but as long as you're not silly (display the same image for 40,000 hours or something) you won't have a problem.
My plasma has done 47,000 hours now, and still displays a picture beautifully, with very little burn (enlightenment pager in one corner, oops!), but the display driver just recently failed - it's going to cost me about £300 to get a new one. No big deal!
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I had one of those, years ago! It was great, but the fits it gave me completely negated the usefulness of the data on the watch - by the time I stopped frothing, hours had passed!
Actually, you're right - the difficulties occur due to doppler shifts in the RF signal, changing the frequency received by the basestation from the handset, and vice versa.
This is also something which causes issues with non geostationary satellites, as in order to broadcast/receive they must be able to accomodate frequency shifts caused by doppler effects.
Space is international, so I suppose it'd have to be a nonnationally oriented body... At the moment, the only thing which comes close is the ESA (europe isn't a country FYI america).
Ladies and gentlemen, due to STC strike action our landing will be temporarily delayed. Please step into the Cryogenic chamber, and hot towels with lemon will be served in several millenia.
Fluorescent tubes are mercury vapor - they rely on excitation and emission of mercury vapor, and a mercury oxide coating on the interior of the tube, which fluoresces at a white light frequency - mercury vapor lamps operate at higher voltages, and work on a direct excitiation principle - like sodium vapor lamps.
Interferometry lab. Mmmmmm. Prisms... So glad I finished my phys degree last year.
Flourescent lighing is inherently noisy - it essentially relies on a large oscillating rf field in a mercury vapor filled tube - no matter what you do, it'll produce noise, electrical from the field, and audible from the tube resonating with the field.
You could replace your fittings with LED based fittings - the power consumption is lower, the light can be better & brighter, and the bulbs (LEDs) last longer. Also, they run off DC, so no noise!
I wonder how long it'll be before google snap up HyperOffice. They're based around the apps the guys who made WebOS made, and, to tell the truth, their products are pretty good, it just seems a shame that no-one uses them.
I'd make a bet that google will buy them out, and ruthlessly remarket, rape, and pillage their software.
How is this any different to government adverts on late night tv in the uk? Are the government trying to encourage people to stay up late watching pr0n on channel 5, in order that they watch their adverts? Because, if they are, that's morally reprehensable, and obscene, and the government clearly supports pr0n, so I Object!
There was also some dude who theorised that atlantis was in peru. At the top of a mountain. In a desert. With no archaeology at all. And no water. Or rain. And he was on crack. Probably.
I remember reading a while back about the possibility that Atlantis had been on the Northern edge (yep, that'll be all of them) of the Antarctic continent, before we entered the current ice-age (we're in an interglacial at the moment, technically still an ice age). See levels would have been higher, but Antarctica/Atlantis would have had a climate similar to modern britain.
Contrasting this, early greek explorers who went to 'Atlantis' noted that the natives were 'red skinned with horse-like hair', almost identical to Christopher Columbus' description of Native Americans!
Computers, as we know them, are a new thing... The desktop PC has only been mainstream for a decade now, if that, and that, like it or not, is what most people consider a 'computer'. Everything else is voodoo!
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Yes - It's never been off, it's been in the lobby of an office - it's a JVC GD-V4200PZW - early stuff (1999).
Yes, it's been in the lobby of my office, and it's 5 years old. Next?
In a plasma display, the brightness will decrease to about ~85% of the original over the first 10,000 viewing hours, and will then stay about there...
The Main problem you'll encounter with plasmas is burn-in, but as long as you're not silly (display the same image for 40,000 hours or something) you won't have a problem.
My plasma has done 47,000 hours now, and still displays a picture beautifully, with very little burn (enlightenment pager in one corner, oops!), but the display driver just recently failed - it's going to cost me about £300 to get a new one. No big deal!
I had one of those, years ago! It was great, but the fits it gave me completely negated the usefulness of the data on the watch - by the time I stopped frothing, hours had passed!
It looks like you're writing a sentence. Would you like me to fuck it up for you?
Actually, you're right - the difficulties occur due to doppler shifts in the RF signal, changing the frequency received by the basestation from the handset, and vice versa.
This is also something which causes issues with non geostationary satellites, as in order to broadcast/receive they must be able to accomodate frequency shifts caused by doppler effects.
Yes, there was a giveaway - a gift bag, cost £75, and full of about £600 of goods - airport express, headphones, ipods, all sorts.
Space is international, so I suppose it'd have to be a nonnationally oriented body... At the moment, the only thing which comes close is the ESA (europe isn't a country FYI america). Ladies and gentlemen, due to STC strike action our landing will be temporarily delayed. Please step into the Cryogenic chamber, and hot towels with lemon will be served in several millenia.
Fluorescent tubes are mercury vapor - they rely on excitation and emission of mercury vapor, and a mercury oxide coating on the interior of the tube, which fluoresces at a white light frequency - mercury vapor lamps operate at higher voltages, and work on a direct excitiation principle - like sodium vapor lamps.
Interferometry lab. Mmmmmm. Prisms... So glad I finished my phys degree last year.
Flourescent lighting - for when you can get enough of that wheaty smell! mmmmm flour....
Flourescent lighing is inherently noisy - it essentially relies on a large oscillating rf field in a mercury vapor filled tube - no matter what you do, it'll produce noise, electrical from the field, and audible from the tube resonating with the field.
You could replace your fittings with LED based fittings - the power consumption is lower, the light can be better & brighter, and the bulbs (LEDs) last longer. Also, they run off DC, so no noise!
And what the hell is with the rather melted looking oriental woman-thing on the left?
And modify as you see fit - I currently use it for converting movies to xvid with AAC - it works, usually!
No, the symbol for Deuterium is 'D'. Heavy water is D2O.
Sort of hoo-wee-jens
I wonder how long it'll be before google snap up HyperOffice. They're based around the apps the guys who made WebOS made, and, to tell the truth, their products are pretty good, it just seems a shame that no-one uses them.
I'd make a bet that google will buy them out, and ruthlessly remarket, rape, and pillage their software.
Yep, if you use google, no more wandering around the internet for you, they'll tell you exactly where to go!
Sodomise me with a screwdriver! That's as thin as he is!
I take it that we at slashdot don't watch futurama?
That computers are like women. Insecure, and unusable.
How is this any different to government adverts on late night tv in the uk? Are the government trying to encourage people to stay up late watching pr0n on channel 5, in order that they watch their adverts? Because, if they are, that's morally reprehensable, and obscene, and the government clearly supports pr0n, so I Object!
There was also some dude who theorised that atlantis was in peru. At the top of a mountain. In a desert. With no archaeology at all. And no water. Or rain. And he was on crack. Probably.
Yes, obviously, all my video tapes have vanished.
I remember reading a while back about the possibility that Atlantis had been on the Northern edge (yep, that'll be all of them) of the Antarctic continent, before we entered the current ice-age (we're in an interglacial at the moment, technically still an ice age). See levels would have been higher, but Antarctica/Atlantis would have had a climate similar to modern britain.
Contrasting this, early greek explorers who went to 'Atlantis' noted that the natives were 'red skinned with horse-like hair', almost identical to Christopher Columbus' description of Native Americans!
Computers, as we know them, are a new thing... The desktop PC has only been mainstream for a decade now, if that, and that, like it or not, is what most people consider a 'computer'. Everything else is voodoo!