Agreed. when you want to run 20'-100' HDMI cable spend the big bucks on good HDMI cable. Otherwise? Save your money. If you want to spend it, buy a better receiver. Even when it comes to speaker cable, don't waste your money on monster cable. Buy generic OFC in bulk and make your own since you probably can't even measure let alone hear any difference.
I can't keep track; is she fat or thin now? Either way, just tune to her show. Sooner or later she'll give you a giant Oprah all on her own./couldn't resist
Set up a slideshow to run overnight, full brightness, cycling through solid full-screen black, white, red, green, and blue. Hold each color for a minute or two, then cycle to the next. Let it just repeat overnight (so you don't interrupt productivity). That so-called "burn in" will go away overnight, if not within the first few minutes.
Cycle solid colors on it, leaving it on each color for a few minutes. E.g., a slideshow of solid red, solid black, solid blue, solid green, and just keep cycling through. The "burn in" will go away.
LCDs don't "burn in" like CRTs do. What can happen is that the after-image of a stationary image is retained in the LCD for up to several hours after the display changes. To "fix" it simply power cycle a few times (it will immediately fade but possibly not totally disappear for a few hours), or to simply cycle screen colors or play a video file for a few minutes.
It's not like CRT burn-in in several ways:
- it is in no way permanent
- it is not quite as noticeable
- is user-correctable
we here in the US are arguing over lines of code as our manufacturing base continues to crumble [indystar.com].
Our manufacturing base isn't crumbling on its own, executives of domestic companies are, for all intents and purposes, intentionally smashing them with BFHs and selling the American public at large out in the name of short-term gains (quarterly bonuses for "cost saving measures").
E.g. if you have a movie, most of your profit will come in the first few weeks that it is open in theaters, in the first few weeks it is on pay per view, in the first few weeks it is available for rental, etc. Very very little comes from the movie years down the road.
The Wizard of Oz probably makes the copyright holders more NOW than it did in the 1930s.
That was the necessity of granting at least SOME IP protection going over your head.
When patents were first conceived, none of that was in place and yet they saw the need to grant a limited monopoly to promote the progress of useful arts and sciences, and mass production was simply not possible (for the most part) then.
Now it is MORE important to provide at least a limited-duration monopoly on innovation, because copycats can ramp up production VERY quickly, MUCH more quickly than the original, with the R&D paid for by the actual designer. With today's technology it is far, FAR easier to rip off the original inventors' ideas, removing the incentive to bother sharing inventions with the world in the first place.
With a four-color laser printer you do not get 24-bit color. You get FIVE distinct colors:
Medium (usually white) + CMYK
THat's white, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
Oh, so you have a photo inkjet printer? Okay, so you have two additional shades (usually light cyan and a fuscia), but now you have imprecise dot placement. You have improved capacity, but also introduced many more errors due to the difficulty in spraying ink precisely, which will likely use MORE than your added capacity in error correction.
Dye sublimation might get you there but that's going to be an expensive medium compared to Blu-Ray.
On the other hand, if I'm a drug company and I spend 10 years and billions of dollars developing a drug does deserve a chance to recoup those costs and reap some profit.
You picked a bad example, because many pharmaceutical companies seek government grants (YOUR and MY hard-earned dollars which were subsequently extorted by the IRS) to pay for the R&D of these drugs. If ANY tax money subsidized the development of any drug, the drug should either be barred from being patented, else the company should be compelled to grant royalty-free licenses for competitors to manufacture and distribute.
Resolving 16 bits of color for a typical four-color (CMYK) laser printer or even a digital press won't improve things, because you always have exactly four colors plus the medium color (most typically white). Increasing color depth can improve with dye sublimation and similar technologies, but the ink and paper quality (especially absorption rate) need to be strictly controlled.
I just don't see Microsoft being very successful in suing open source apps out of existence. Their is a ton of money behind linux and if you actualyl take a minute to look at some of the patents Microsoft has, you'll see that most of them are silly and unenforceable.
Their goal is not to gain unenforceable patents, but to cost competitors a lot of money because it takes a court case to defend against frivolous patent claims before they are invalidated.
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In any event, don't expect all services on the box to be truly stable until uptime approaches 30 years; 40 years in some instances.
Agreed. when you want to run 20'-100' HDMI cable spend the big bucks on good HDMI cable. Otherwise? Save your money. If you want to spend it, buy a better receiver. Even when it comes to speaker cable, don't waste your money on monster cable. Buy generic OFC in bulk and make your own since you probably can't even measure let alone hear any difference.
I can't keep track; is she fat or thin now? Either way, just tune to her show. Sooner or later she'll give you a giant Oprah all on her own. /couldn't resist
Set up a slideshow to run overnight, full brightness, cycling through solid full-screen black, white, red, green, and blue. Hold each color for a minute or two, then cycle to the next. Let it just repeat overnight (so you don't interrupt productivity). That so-called "burn in" will go away overnight, if not within the first few minutes.
Cycle solid colors on it, leaving it on each color for a few minutes. E.g., a slideshow of solid red, solid black, solid blue, solid green, and just keep cycling through. The "burn in" will go away.
Is it direct view, or is the image projected on the screen by means of reflection?
Oh, it's NOT direct view, but projected onto the screen?
Well, then, is it a projection TV?
LCDs don't "burn in" like CRTs do. What can happen is that the after-image of a stationary image is retained in the LCD for up to several hours after the display changes. To "fix" it simply power cycle a few times (it will immediately fade but possibly not totally disappear for a few hours), or to simply cycle screen colors or play a video file for a few minutes.
It's not like CRT burn-in in several ways:
- it is in no way permanent
- it is not quite as noticeable
- is user-correctable
Our manufacturing base isn't crumbling on its own, executives of domestic companies are, for all intents and purposes, intentionally smashing them with BFHs and selling the American public at large out in the name of short-term gains (quarterly bonuses for "cost saving measures").
The Wizard of Oz probably makes the copyright holders more NOW than it did in the 1930s.
Meh. Nevermind. This isn't the centuries-old steel knife with embedded nanotube structures. My bad, for posting before RTFA. *hangs head in shame*
. . . they patent this centuries-old technology?
That's like saying Campbell's soup is better than that which you get made at a local restaurant.
More sales != better.
I take it you are referring to ReactOS? ;)
*whoosh*
That was the necessity of granting at least SOME IP protection going over your head.
When patents were first conceived, none of that was in place and yet they saw the need to grant a limited monopoly to promote the progress of useful arts and sciences, and mass production was simply not possible (for the most part) then.
Now it is MORE important to provide at least a limited-duration monopoly on innovation, because copycats can ramp up production VERY quickly, MUCH more quickly than the original, with the R&D paid for by the actual designer. With today's technology it is far, FAR easier to rip off the original inventors' ideas, removing the incentive to bother sharing inventions with the world in the first place.
Unless mass production, assembly lines, media duplicators, and automation were all in place in the 1400s and 1600s, your counter-claim is false.
Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny! I know those brands you're talking about!
Not if you charge more for the superior construction techniques.
I can store data on a more indelible medium.
I have a chisel, and I can scrounge up some slate in the back yard.
Beat THAT for reliable data storage!
With a four-color laser printer you do not get 24-bit color. You get FIVE distinct colors:
Medium (usually white) + CMYK
THat's white, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
Oh, so you have a photo inkjet printer? Okay, so you have two additional shades (usually light cyan and a fuscia), but now you have imprecise dot placement. You have improved capacity, but also introduced many more errors due to the difficulty in spraying ink precisely, which will likely use MORE than your added capacity in error correction.
Dye sublimation might get you there but that's going to be an expensive medium compared to Blu-Ray.
You picked a bad example, because many pharmaceutical companies seek government grants (YOUR and MY hard-earned dollars which were subsequently extorted by the IRS) to pay for the R&D of these drugs. If ANY tax money subsidized the development of any drug, the drug should either be barred from being patented, else the company should be compelled to grant royalty-free licenses for competitors to manufacture and distribute.
And not publishing the source is preventing them from using SoftICE to decompile the actual implementation HOW?
Resolving 16 bits of color for a typical four-color (CMYK) laser printer or even a digital press won't improve things, because you always have exactly four colors plus the medium color (most typically white). Increasing color depth can improve with dye sublimation and similar technologies, but the ink and paper quality (especially absorption rate) need to be strictly controlled.
so? Don't use IE7 to read helpfiles for reading open source documentation. ;)
(I'm kidding)
Their goal is not to gain unenforceable patents, but to cost competitors a lot of money because it takes a court case to defend against frivolous patent claims before they are invalidated.
OS X is not proprietary?