" It's to get the insufferable assholes to go be insufferable somewhere else."
Sorry, when you go as far as to claim that you want to be the governor/president of the internet (as Reddit has done) you need to accept us assholes, because we're your reality check.
Speaking of reality check: This whole banning thing is jack shit compared to the real story; the company that runs Reddit and Imgur is now popping up images in popular Imgur user's favorites that are actually ads the user never favorited, and have made it pretty difficult to remove (I have yet to find a way.) They're essentially forcing your endorsement, and usurping your identity.
Only because people bitch and whine too much about it and fall right into the trap of the troll. It's your own stupidity that makes you a victim. Not our fault!
YAWN. My CRT can display 64-bit color depths. LCDs and LEDs are so physically limited that neither can reach that kind of color depth, EVER. 12-bit panel? So, shit 36-bit Deep Color LCD, versus 64-bit color depth CRT?
Current monitors can't even take advantage of CURRENT color depth (old CRTs can!)
Unless they make a monitor where each pixel is capable of emitting each wavelength in the visible spectrum and combining those wavelengths for perfect color reproduction, you won't ever see even 24-bit color depth.
Apparently Slashdot forgets it already had at least one contributor that already did a good enough debunking.
But then I look at that site with AdBlock and NoScript turned off, and HOLY SHIT now I know why Slashdot chose THIS SITE to link. THE AMOUNT OF ADS.
Then to boot, their explanation that devices MUST WORK with 1.2V rechargeable is bullshit. Sure, they may work, but nowhere near how they should. Plenty of digital cameras fuck themselves right up recording video in low-light conditions, primarily the ones using 2AA cells. The audio recording goes to crap, you get sped up and sound like a chipmunk. So buying this "Electrical Engineer's" opinion on that while I can shove dozens of actual items that may WORK but do not FUNCTION at 1.2V cell voltage, so he needs to re-check reality.
Shame on Slashdot. You need to be listening to your community members more often.
They performed what is essentially IDENTITY THEFT.
When someone downloads something from SourceForge and gets infected, it's the project people, those that made the software, that are going to take the blame.
Sourceforge keeps their name neatly out of it all. Meanwhile, the project devs get to deal with the flak caused by SourceForge.
Once we've finished exposing it for what it is, there won't be a need to leave.
We're coming after your mirrors, SourceForge. We are going to get them taken offline. We've got admins across the net blacklisting your site. Now we're going to take your mirrors down. Good luck getting that malware revenue.
Make some real change happen - go there and start helping break down every lie Sourceforge/Slashdot Media is telling. Help us gather more evidence that directly contradicts the lies being told by SDM.
Saying this could tell you every virus you had in your life is nonsense. Antibodies do not last forever in the body. If they did, we wouldn't require BOOSTER SHOTS.
"There aren't many devices that are both low power and require a steady 1.5V operating voltage."
Cameras are quite voltage sensitive. Example, two cameras I own came with 1.2V cells. Two for a total of 2.4V. Recording video in bright lighting conditions is fine. The second you drop past a certain light level, the audio capturing/encoding gets beyond fucked, and everything sounds like a chipmunk, even sped up. This does not happen with 1.5V alkaline batteries inserted.
The boost converter will run as low as 0.6v. That IS an improvement, since most devices DO power down at 1.0v. But I also call hogwash on the "no extra risk of leakage". Alkaline cells use an inner layer of the case as the cathode. This inner case is invariable damaged by discharge. The deeper the discharge, the more severe the damage. Most reasonably modern C/Zn and AM cells have a second can outside of the first one to reduce the risk of leaks. But the battery may still fail and leak, and the fact that you have a weak battery in your device for longer RAISES your risk of a leak.
Plus, more hogwash. The "voltage drop slows at lower voltage levels". Alkaline batteries really do have a fairly linear discharge curve for SoC. The dubious claim that it slows is assuming a continuous resistive load, which by Ohm's law says that power will drop 4x for each 2x drop in voltage.
Not to say these boosters aren't useless. If your device shuts down at 1.3v (not unreasonable for older generation digital devices), you can use that battery for a lot longer. And where these things really come into their own is on rechargeables that OCV at a lower voltage that may fail to drive certain devices. There IS a caveat though. A very, serious, caveat.
You lose ALL SoC INFORMATION IN THE BATTERY.
When you connect a booster, you forfeit all advance warning that your battery is low. You're at 1.5v until you aren't and you're high and dry.
And of course battery companies are going to be thinking of chemistry. Because implanting a $10 booster into every $1 AA alkaline battery is going to make these cells prohibitively expensive.
It's definitely a cool device, but it's not worth the hype this author is giving it.
Critical warning. This is an active circuit you're placing on your battery. Alkalines have always shined in very low current applications. Attaching an active converter circuit will put a continuous (though light) load on the battery, slashing its shelf- and very-light-duty life.
Over the span of 60 hours in a Game Boy, it's not much. But over the span of a year or two in a desk clock, it becomes significant.
Potentially significant enough to fully offset and even overcome the "unlocked" power now available to you by using it at the lower voltage.
Depending on what you're doing with your battery, you could see -50% through +300% lifespan. Degradations are for microamp-scale super long life devices, where the load of running the Batteriser forms a significant fraction of the running power. Biggest boosts are for devices that shut down at abnormally high voltages.
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" It's to get the insufferable assholes to go be insufferable somewhere else."
Sorry, when you go as far as to claim that you want to be the governor/president of the internet (as Reddit has done) you need to accept us assholes, because we're your reality check.
Speaking of reality check: This whole banning thing is jack shit compared to the real story; the company that runs Reddit and Imgur is now popping up images in popular Imgur user's favorites that are actually ads the user never favorited, and have made it pretty difficult to remove (I have yet to find a way.) They're essentially forcing your endorsement, and usurping your identity.
" Harassment has become a real problem"
Only because people bitch and whine too much about it and fall right into the trap of the troll. It's your own stupidity that makes you a victim. Not our fault!
Going with lowest-bidder and other typical bureaucratic bullshit instead of doing this stuff in-house gets you in this exact position.
No sympathy. Get your shit off the global internet too, fucking morons.
"12 bits per channel for colour"
YAWN. My CRT can display 64-bit color depths. LCDs and LEDs are so physically limited that neither can reach that kind of color depth, EVER. 12-bit panel? So, shit 36-bit Deep Color LCD, versus 64-bit color depth CRT?
YYYYYYAAAAWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNN.
Current monitors can't even take advantage of CURRENT color depth (old CRTs can!)
Unless they make a monitor where each pixel is capable of emitting each wavelength in the visible spectrum and combining those wavelengths for perfect color reproduction, you won't ever see even 24-bit color depth.
"That requires a higher frame rate and higher colour depth as well."
Show me any LCD that is an actual 32-bit panel and capable of handling that kind of gamut.
You won't. And RGB LED screens won't, either.
It's not like bookmarks or Save Page functionality hasn't existed for more than a decade.
Resigning doesn't avoid disbarment. He still passed the Bar Exam, yes? They can still take that away from him.
Apparently Slashdot forgets it already had at least one contributor that already did a good enough debunking.
But then I look at that site with AdBlock and NoScript turned off, and HOLY SHIT now I know why Slashdot chose THIS SITE to link. THE AMOUNT OF ADS.
Then to boot, their explanation that devices MUST WORK with 1.2V rechargeable is bullshit. Sure, they may work, but nowhere near how they should. Plenty of digital cameras fuck themselves right up recording video in low-light conditions, primarily the ones using 2AA cells. The audio recording goes to crap, you get sped up and sound like a chipmunk. So buying this "Electrical Engineer's" opinion on that while I can shove dozens of actual items that may WORK but do not FUNCTION at 1.2V cell voltage, so he needs to re-check reality.
Shame on Slashdot. You need to be listening to your community members more often.
Because the person doing the science is completely fucking wrong too.
Any fucking 'science' that ignores the fact Lactic Acid is produced TO FUEL MUSCLES is ALWAYS going to come to the wrong fucking conclusion.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/m...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05...
http://dailyburn.com/life/fitn...
Some idiot failed biology and suddenly this becomes news for Slashdot.
Or rather, news for the moronic and idiotic Hugh Pickens.
They performed what is essentially IDENTITY THEFT.
When someone downloads something from SourceForge and gets infected, it's the project people, those that made the software, that are going to take the blame.
Sourceforge keeps their name neatly out of it all. Meanwhile, the project devs get to deal with the flak caused by SourceForge.
So you don't have to go to the cesspool boards.
But judging from the dripping ignorance in your comment, perhaps it's best you not go there in the first place.
Check out the shill apologist. How much are you getting paid to cover-up and ass-kiss for Slashdot Media's malware distribution?
Once we've finished exposing it for what it is, there won't be a need to leave.
We're coming after your mirrors, SourceForge. We are going to get them taken offline. We've got admins across the net blacklisting your site. Now we're going to take your mirrors down. Good luck getting that malware revenue.
http://8ch.net/sourcefraud/
Make some real change happen - go there and start helping break down every lie Sourceforge/Slashdot Media is telling. Help us gather more evidence that directly contradicts the lies being told by SDM.
They can't control much of a message.
http://8ch.net/sourcefraud/
Go there and help start ripping SourceForge and Slashdot Media apart.
You don't have a clue what projects I might be involved with.
http://8ch.net/sourcefraud/
We're over here ripping apart your nonsense.
And now we have Apache on our side, to boot.
The day for the lawsuit approaches, Slashdot Media.
And we have already come to consensus: There will be no settlement allowed.
"as a PC shop guy who deals with home users every day I can tell you the #1 home page I see on folks computers is Yahoo."
That's likely because Mozilla partnered with Yahoo recently, and not done by conscious choice.
Diffie-Hellman is weak as fuck IN THE FIRST PLACE and broken anyways.
Man can make it, man can break it.
Next non-story.
Saying this could tell you every virus you had in your life is nonsense. Antibodies do not last forever in the body. If they did, we wouldn't require BOOSTER SHOTS.
Shit you even got almost the EXACT models of camera down. Easyshare C643 and C743. My Z981 doesn't have this problem.
Still waiting for 1.6V Ni-ZN batteries to get their whiskering problem fixed.
It still gets corroded through and leaks.
"There aren't many devices that are both low power and require a steady 1.5V operating voltage."
Cameras are quite voltage sensitive. Example, two cameras I own came with 1.2V cells. Two for a total of 2.4V. Recording video in bright lighting conditions is fine. The second you drop past a certain light level, the audio capturing/encoding gets beyond fucked, and everything sounds like a chipmunk, even sped up. This does not happen with 1.5V alkaline batteries inserted.
The boost converter will run as low as 0.6v. That IS an improvement, since most devices DO power down at 1.0v. But I also call hogwash on the "no extra risk of leakage". Alkaline cells use an inner layer of the case as the cathode. This inner case is invariable damaged by discharge. The deeper the discharge, the more severe the damage. Most reasonably modern C/Zn and AM cells have a second can outside of the first one to reduce the risk of leaks. But the battery may still fail and leak, and the fact that you have a weak battery in your device for longer RAISES your risk of a leak.
Plus, more hogwash. The "voltage drop slows at lower voltage levels". Alkaline batteries really do have a fairly linear discharge curve for SoC. The dubious claim that it slows is assuming a continuous resistive load, which by Ohm's law says that power will drop 4x for each 2x drop in voltage.
Not to say these boosters aren't useless. If your device shuts down at 1.3v (not unreasonable for older generation digital devices), you can use that battery for a lot longer. And where these things really come into their own is on rechargeables that OCV at a lower voltage that may fail to drive certain devices.
There IS a caveat though. A very, serious, caveat.
You lose ALL SoC INFORMATION IN THE BATTERY.
When you connect a booster, you forfeit all advance warning that your battery is low. You're at 1.5v until you aren't and you're high and dry.
And of course battery companies are going to be thinking of chemistry. Because implanting a $10 booster into every $1 AA alkaline battery is going to make these cells prohibitively expensive.
It's definitely a cool device, but it's not worth the hype this author is giving it.
Critical warning. This is an active circuit you're placing on your battery. Alkalines have always shined in very low current applications. Attaching an active converter circuit will put a continuous (though light) load on the battery, slashing its shelf- and very-light-duty life.
Over the span of 60 hours in a Game Boy, it's not much. But over the span of a year or two in a desk clock, it becomes significant.
Potentially significant enough to fully offset and even overcome the "unlocked" power now available to you by using it at the lower voltage.
Depending on what you're doing with your battery, you could see -50% through +300% lifespan. Degradations are for microamp-scale super long life devices, where the load of running the Batteriser forms a significant fraction of the running power. Biggest boosts are for devices that shut down at abnormally high voltages.