I've personally talked to someone over skype from the SF bay to Shanghai, and there was no lag, and it was much better than phone quality. Both parties had broadband. YMMV.
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I had David Smith last quarter for Mechanics! Good prof...
The man has a thing for chickens, though... It's unhealthy... He came to class the day before finals in a chicken suit. He also drew himself in a loincloth in one of the problems on the final. To be fair, he was Tarzan.
Hmm, maybe I'll go to his office hours and talk with him about this research...
Hah, my Honors Calculus class, the professor is having us use a book from 1927. Richard Courant's Introduction to Calculus and Analysis 1. Though to be fair, this is the 1965 edition. It's a good calculus book, I recommend it highly.
Different people really do have different amount of the red green and blue sensitive cones in their eyes, in fact, 1/1,000,000 has a mutation where they have 2x as many green receptors as any other color receptor.
There's an exhibit at the Exploratorium where there's an orange dot that's really an orange wavelength of light, and then surrounding it there are differently proportioned red/green light mixes, and different people see that central orange dot to match WILDLY different surrounding mixed color dots. The exhibit's in the seeing section, for those that care. It's striking to take a group to that exhibit and see the variety of responses!
So based on that exhibit, and the nature of monitors (being an amalgam of red/green/blue to approximate continuous color), I believe it to be impossible to calibrate a set of monitors to look proper to everyone. One might be able to get them so they all look the same to everyone, but they could all look very wrong to some of the people, etc...
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I've personally talked to someone over skype from the SF bay to Shanghai, and there was no lag, and it was much better than phone quality. Both parties had broadband. YMMV.
Tower of Babel, thank you.
Nice sig...
Well, there were already ~150 nerds in Santa Cruz with the image of your poultry finery indelibly marked in their psyches...
And you know those nerds, they network... AIM, I think it's called...
I had David Smith last quarter for Mechanics! Good prof... The man has a thing for chickens, though... It's unhealthy... He came to class the day before finals in a chicken suit. He also drew himself in a loincloth in one of the problems on the final. To be fair, he was Tarzan. Hmm, maybe I'll go to his office hours and talk with him about this research...
Hah, my Honors Calculus class, the professor is having us use a book from 1927. Richard Courant's Introduction to Calculus and Analysis 1. Though to be fair, this is the 1965 edition. It's a good calculus book, I recommend it highly.
Different people really do have different amount of the red green and blue sensitive cones in their eyes, in fact, 1/1,000,000 has a mutation where they have 2x as many green receptors as any other color receptor. There's an exhibit at the Exploratorium where there's an orange dot that's really an orange wavelength of light, and then surrounding it there are differently proportioned red/green light mixes, and different people see that central orange dot to match WILDLY different surrounding mixed color dots. The exhibit's in the seeing section, for those that care. It's striking to take a group to that exhibit and see the variety of responses! So based on that exhibit, and the nature of monitors (being an amalgam of red/green/blue to approximate continuous color), I believe it to be impossible to calibrate a set of monitors to look proper to everyone. One might be able to get them so they all look the same to everyone, but they could all look very wrong to some of the people, etc...