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Comment Re:Now where's the cheap monitors? (Score 1) 201

by will.perdikakis (#43597443) Attached to: High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions

In practice people cant tell the difference between 6 bit and 10 bit colour. .

That is unfair.

Rec 2020 not only increases the resolution of the color space, it also increases the area covered in the CIE 1931. In other words, it is not just the same color gamut with less quantization, it is a much larger color space entirely.

Comparison:
Rec 2020 UHDTV: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/CIExy1931_Rec_2020.svg

Rec 709: HDTV: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/CIExy1931_Rec_709.svg

Comment Resolution? WHY? (Score 1) 201

by will.perdikakis (#43597367) Attached to: High End Graphics Cards Tested At 4K Resolutions
Honestly, resolution is the LAST thing that we need updated in the display frontier. Work on improving contrast ratios, widening the color gamut to the full capability of the human eye (obviously, the content must match here), reducing pixel response (LCD), reducing input lag, eliminating gamma, lighting and contrast variance throughout the panel. I would take a 1080P display with a 10% improvement in contrast ratio over a 4k TV any day.

Submission + - Supernova left its mark in ancient bacteria (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo
ananyo writes: Sediment in a deep-sea core may hold radioactive iron spewed by a distant supernova 2.2 million years ago and preserved in the fossilized remains of iron-loving bacteria. If confirmed, the iron traces would be the first biological signature of a specific exploding star.
Scientists have found the isotope iron-60, which does not form on Earth, in a sediment core from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, dating to between about 1.7 million and 3.3 million years ago. The iron-60, which appears in layers dated to around 2.2 million years ago, could be the remains of magnetite chains formed by bacteria on the sea floor as radioactive supernova debris showered on them from the atmosphere, after crossing inter-stellar space at nearly the speed of light.

Comment Commercial media is just not all that important (Score 1) 191

My late father-in-law was a DJ. We have several boxes of his LPs, 45s and reel to reel tapes in the garage. Would you like them? If you call now I'll throw in a few milk crates of our VHS tapes, CDs and DVDs at no extra cost.

In contrast, we also have 40 years or so of 8mm/VHS family video that he put on DVD before his death. DVD isn't perfect, but those get backed up and have been shared with family.

Submission + - Is there more than one Higgs Boson? (livescience.com)

Submitted by LeadSongDog
LeadSongDog writes: Just when you thought the hunt was finished, at the April APS meeting, the possibility is now being raised of multiple versions of the Higgs. It seems we just can't take "The standard model works" for an answer.

Submission + - Nicolas Maduro is the new president of Venezuela (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by paysonwelch
paysonwelch writes: I couldn't find any news articles on this, it was just announced, I heard it on the radio, the news is only a few minutes old. Wikipedia however has already been updated. "Maduro became interim President following the death of Hugo Chávez. The electoral authority declared Maduro as the President on April 14, 2013."

Submission + - TurboTax site melts down the day before returns are due (intuit.com)

Submitted by BcNexus
BcNexus writes: Many pages on the site are unavailable; instead, Intuit is serving up generic pages: http://ha.turbotax.intuit.com/support/ (screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/flARJR7.png?1)

eFiling is also unavailable for the desktop version of the software. Users (https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1876892-when-will-the-tt-site-be-working-again-it-s-a-problem-that-it-crashes-on-april-14) are upset (https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/1876955-i-m-thinking-of-stopping-the-payment-on-my-card-since-your-site-has-frozen-several-times-in-a-row-on-the-final-step-and-no-one-answers-the-support-line-how-do-you-feel-about-that).

So much for saving paper. I'm giving up on eFiling and schlepping down to the post office tomorrow.

Submission + - Facebook's Android App Can Now Retrieve Data About What Apps You Use 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook on Friday released its Android launcher called Home. The company also updated its Facebook app, adding in new permissions to allow it to collect data about the apps you are running. The description on Google Play offers a bit more detail:
"RETRIEVE RUNNING APPS
Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. This may allow the app to discover information about which applications are used on the device."

Comment Go OTA (Score 5, Informative) 328

by Lev13than (#43108231) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Flagged Channels For XBMC PVR?

What about using an antenna? I cut cable about 7 years ago - everything comes in on Mythbuntu via an HDHR hooked up to a small roof-mounted antenna. We get about 30 channels OTA with no excess compression and no copy protection. Everything else comes in over the net (Netflix and "other").

You don't say what metro area you are in or whether you are living in an antenna-friendly building but you've already got 90% of the gear you need. Lots of info on the web about how to make the jump. You may have already investigated OTA, but if not you definitely should.

Submission + - Lament of the Beanie Baby Collector (thestar.com)

Submitted by Lev13than
Lev13than writes: In a plush lesson on supply & demand, the 1990s phenomenon of $10 Beanie Baby toys that resold for upwards of $10,000 each are now languishing on eBay for as low as $0.40 per toy. The Toronto Star revisited the subject of a 1997 cover story, the then-10-year old "investor" Mike Garard. Now, 15 years later, Garard is grown up, and some of those rare Beanies once worth thousands, well, “You can’t even get 20 bucks,” he says. At the height of the craze, Garard’s father told him to sell the animals, but he couldn’t part with them. He estimated he had four or five of the rare ones worth $7,500 to $10,000. When high school came, he hid them away. “It’s not the most impressive thing if you’ve got a girlfriend coming over and you’ve got a ton of stuffed animals all over the place,” Garard said.

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