On the Mac, the brightness button is the key that would be F1 and F2 on a pc keyboard. The rest of the UI is kind of condescending though. Especially Lion....
It's likely that your monitor has a driver & utilities disk with a utility that lets you control brightness and other settings in software, but if it's not physically capable of much range, then it's not going to do much good, I suppose. You might try looking at the accessibility options - there are some low/high contrast and inverted color settings that might be interesting for certain tasks.
Games are using pure-white backgrounds for text now? What ever happened to translucent HUD style overlays... I thought it was pretty much a solved problem for games. That IS annoying.
I realize that this is not a solution, but it might alleviate your situation a little:
Get an LED monitor and turn the brightness down. LED, (or CRT, but where can you get those any more...) because the range is better. LCD backlights seem to only go down like 3dB in brightness between full bright and one bar above "off". And don't get any of those 300+ candela/m^2 screens...
I'm an experienced user. If what I got used to is better than what I can get now, then yeah, I want what I got used to.
I'm willing to learn new (or old stuff that I didn't know about) ways of doing things to accomplish this. Not long ago I decided to learn Vim, for instance, because I need to sift through a lot of text to make sense of certain thing for my job. For the range of things I need to do with text, there's nothing else that even comes close to what vim can do except maybe heavily scripting a word processor and spreadsheet suite....
Here is what I want - from the time that I decide in my mind to do something, to the time that the computer starts doing it - I want that time to be as short as possible. Further, I want to be able to change my mind at any time and start working on something else.
The second part should be "easy" and, while not trivial to implement, there is one thing that should be obvious - no action should lock the entire UI.
For web browsing, that means that no page should prevent things from happening in other tabs/pages. (also, hitting the back/forward buttons should NOT force a page refresh...) and nothing should ever cause the OS-level UI to hang in normal operation. I don't care if there is a task with a lot of disk or network hits, I should be able to do other stuff that's already in memory while that's happening. The UI should be at nice -100.
I want the UI to look good, too, so I don't get sick of it. Fonts should be crisp, but smooth. UI elements should be clean in appearance and unobtrusive. Gradients and shadows fit this. "making the thing look like the real-world thing that it does" gets old fast. I don't mind if "wooden bookshelf" is a selectable skin for something, but it better not be the only way I can organize things.
Sometimes New is not Better. We should complain when this is the case.
Likely or not, once you're in the box, it's too late to start browsing fija. Why go in unprepared on the assumption you're going to get a case where fit won't come up? You're gambling with others' justice...
My first step was to laugh at the "you can use a calculator" instruction - what the heck? What are they testing with this question?
He continued, “It seems to me something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate.
Yeah, something is wrong. If he took a test with questions like the sample, how the hell did he manage to get a BS without the ability to figure even one of them out. "you can use a calculator"!!!!
I'd really, really, really like to review the original test now...
Complaining does two very useful things. 1) it allows one to vent about things that ought to be better but aren't. 2) it allows one to form the idea of how things ought to be into something that can be communicated to others.
You're in an excellent position for effective complaining, btw...."I woke up for THIS?"
Those aren't supposed to come out of the tax coffers, though. Allegedly, they come from that line on your tax return where you agree to donate $x for political campaigns, that I assume everyone must say, "oh, that sounds like a good cause" and checks off.....
mplayer lets you increase the speed while keeping the pitch the same. It seems to work pretty well up to about 120-140%, depending on the audio, before you start caring about the artifacts. (mostly voice seems to work a lot better than mostly music, for instance)
In other words, if you're willing to do some tinkering with the myth font end, you could squeeze another two or three half-hours into your solid hour of watching.
That show sucked. They maybe had three years of material (if you can believe the claims) that they stretched out to 6, resulting in a horrible ending that failed to tie up any loose ends not introduced in the final season.
Since they line up with the wheel wells, I'd say they're probably part of the retraction mechanism. Or they're there to look cool. Lockheed is pretty concerned with looking cool, after all.
It was invented to go up against USSR, who eventually were able to down one. Against superpower military spending, the U2 is vulnerable. But it flys really high, so it takes some serious engineering skill just to design a weapon that can even reach it's height, let alone accurately kill one.
Those resources are not available to lesser militaries, at least not yet, and there will always be nations for whom high altitude overflight is still safe. Loiter time and distance (high altitude is still way, way, way closer than satellite) mean that the U2 is still an extremely cost effective surveillance platoform and is likely to remain so for some time against many targets. Further, unlike satellites, the U2 can be flown at arbitrary times, rather than on a regular and predictable schedule.
The suggestion was not that the phone company was receiving the stolen phones and selling them to new customers. Just that every phone stolen, regardless of what happens to it after that, must be replaced by the owner if they want to continue to have a phone. This may be at the owner's expense, or possibly insurers are covering it.
The question is the number of phones that wouldn't have been stolen, if every phone reported stolen was bricked at the owner's request.
If it simply never occurred to them to even offer this, that's one thing. But if they are refusing to do it because more stolen phones means more new sales - even a small amount - that is very wrong and ought to open them up to liability for replacing every phone that is stolen. The existence of such a program in Australia is, prima facie, evidence that the former case does not apply.....
It might not even need to be a class action, either. If the phones are typically replaced by the insurance companies, then they have an interest in investigating this policy as well....
Why does every laptop now have to look like a macbook (but in plastic, of course....)? Can't companies come up with their own clean designs? What if I like the clean design philosophy of apple, but don't like the black on gray? Even Apple had some variation, with the white on white and black on black models....
Interesting.. but wouldn't that expose them to liability for the theft?
I mean, we're suggesting that the cell companies are deliberately refusing to take action with the intent of exposing their customers to a greater risk of theft...
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You might want to take another look at the graphic. Specifically, the point about a third of the way between .0 and .1 seconds...
On the Mac, the brightness button is the key that would be F1 and F2 on a pc keyboard. The rest of the UI is kind of condescending though. Especially Lion....
It's likely that your monitor has a driver & utilities disk with a utility that lets you control brightness and other settings in software, but if it's not physically capable of much range, then it's not going to do much good, I suppose. You might try looking at the accessibility options - there are some low/high contrast and inverted color settings that might be interesting for certain tasks.
Games are using pure-white backgrounds for text now? What ever happened to translucent HUD style overlays... I thought it was pretty much a solved problem for games. That IS annoying.
I realize that this is not a solution, but it might alleviate your situation a little:
Get an LED monitor and turn the brightness down. LED, (or CRT, but where can you get those any more...) because the range is better. LCD backlights seem to only go down like 3dB in brightness between full bright and one bar above "off". And don't get any of those 300+ candela/m^2 screens...
I'm an experienced user. If what I got used to is better than what I can get now, then yeah, I want what I got used to.
I'm willing to learn new (or old stuff that I didn't know about) ways of doing things to accomplish this. Not long ago I decided to learn Vim, for instance, because I need to sift through a lot of text to make sense of certain thing for my job. For the range of things I need to do with text, there's nothing else that even comes close to what vim can do except maybe heavily scripting a word processor and spreadsheet suite....
Here is what I want - from the time that I decide in my mind to do something, to the time that the computer starts doing it - I want that time to be as short as possible. Further, I want to be able to change my mind at any time and start working on something else.
The second part should be "easy" and, while not trivial to implement, there is one thing that should be obvious - no action should lock the entire UI.
For web browsing, that means that no page should prevent things from happening in other tabs/pages. (also, hitting the back/forward buttons should NOT force a page refresh...) and nothing should ever cause the OS-level UI to hang in normal operation. I don't care if there is a task with a lot of disk or network hits, I should be able to do other stuff that's already in memory while that's happening. The UI should be at nice -100.
I want the UI to look good, too, so I don't get sick of it. Fonts should be crisp, but smooth. UI elements should be clean in appearance and unobtrusive. Gradients and shadows fit this. "making the thing look like the real-world thing that it does" gets old fast. I don't mind if "wooden bookshelf" is a selectable skin for something, but it better not be the only way I can organize things.
Sometimes New is not Better. We should complain when this is the case.
Apparently, an international phone call is more expensive than paying a salary to an unqualified employee...
Likely or not, once you're in the box, it's too late to start browsing fija. Why go in unprepared on the assumption you're going to get a case where fit won't come up? You're gambling with others' justice...
My first step was to laugh at the "you can use a calculator" instruction - what the heck? What are they testing with this question?
He continued, “It seems to me something is seriously wrong. I have a bachelor of science degree, two masters degrees, and 15 credit hours toward a doctorate.
Yeah, something is wrong. If he took a test with questions like the sample, how the hell did he manage to get a BS without the ability to figure even one of them out. "you can use a calculator"!!!!
I'd really, really, really like to review the original test now...
Complaining does two very useful things. 1) it allows one to vent about things that ought to be better but aren't. 2) it allows one to form the idea of how things ought to be into something that can be communicated to others.
You're in an excellent position for effective complaining, btw...."I woke up for THIS?"
Wait.. what? It doesn't affect your return when you check the box??!? So.. you're "donating" other people's money if you check it?
What? The sword from Highlander was Japanese!?
It's because AA batteries are an inconvenient form factor for a device that should be small and mostly rectangular...
You can still get them, but they're bulky compared to ones made with a boxy battery - http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/digital_cameras/powershot_a1200
Give it some time and we may see a standard emerge there. Digital cameras are still not a mature product yet.
Those aren't supposed to come out of the tax coffers, though. Allegedly, they come from that line on your tax return where you agree to donate $x for political campaigns, that I assume everyone must say, "oh, that sounds like a good cause" and checks off.....
Is Bridge the same as Spades? Are either of them worth playing? I feel like they might be too complicated to play not-drunk....
mplayer lets you increase the speed while keeping the pitch the same. It seems to work pretty well up to about 120-140%, depending on the audio, before you start caring about the artifacts. (mostly voice seems to work a lot better than mostly music, for instance)
In other words, if you're willing to do some tinkering with the myth font end, you could squeeze another two or three half-hours into your solid hour of watching.
Isn't Discovery Science mostly science fiction and art projects revolving around themes of fake new planets and dinosaurs?
Have you ever bought a digital camera?
That show sucked. They maybe had three years of material (if you can believe the claims) that they stretched out to 6, resulting in a horrible ending that failed to tie up any loose ends not introduced in the final season.
I'm never watching a JJ Abrams show ever again.
Since they line up with the wheel wells, I'd say they're probably part of the retraction mechanism. Or they're there to look cool. Lockheed is pretty concerned with looking cool, after all.
It was invented to go up against USSR, who eventually were able to down one. Against superpower military spending, the U2 is vulnerable. But it flys really high, so it takes some serious engineering skill just to design a weapon that can even reach it's height, let alone accurately kill one.
Those resources are not available to lesser militaries, at least not yet, and there will always be nations for whom high altitude overflight is still safe. Loiter time and distance (high altitude is still way, way, way closer than satellite) mean that the U2 is still an extremely cost effective surveillance platoform and is likely to remain so for some time against many targets. Further, unlike satellites, the U2 can be flown at arbitrary times, rather than on a regular and predictable schedule.
I don't care if they de-list them or not, as long as I can filter them.
Why can't I filter them??
If by "killed," you mean, "is still available and actively updated..." Stanza App
But how do the three shells work?
The suggestion was not that the phone company was receiving the stolen phones and selling them to new customers. Just that every phone stolen, regardless of what happens to it after that, must be replaced by the owner if they want to continue to have a phone. This may be at the owner's expense, or possibly insurers are covering it.
The question is the number of phones that wouldn't have been stolen, if every phone reported stolen was bricked at the owner's request.
If it simply never occurred to them to even offer this, that's one thing. But if they are refusing to do it because more stolen phones means more new sales - even a small amount - that is very wrong and ought to open them up to liability for replacing every phone that is stolen. The existence of such a program in Australia is, prima facie, evidence that the former case does not apply.....
It might not even need to be a class action, either. If the phones are typically replaced by the insurance companies, then they have an interest in investigating this policy as well....
Ghah, what is that, a joke? ..
Why does every laptop now have to look like a macbook (but in plastic, of course....)? Can't companies come up with their own clean designs? What if I like the clean design philosophy of apple, but don't like the black on gray? Even Apple had some variation, with the white on white and black on black models....
Interesting.. but wouldn't that expose them to liability for the theft?
I mean, we're suggesting that the cell companies are deliberately refusing to take action with the intent of exposing their customers to a greater risk of theft...