GP is probably referring to the continuous spectrum of a black-body emitter.
Try putting a spectrometer (eg a CD) on an LED or CFL bulb and compare that with the spectrum of an incandescent. Now, that awful banding you see on the former applies to actual objects as well, which leads to things looking "unnatural".
That said, phosphors have improved a bit lately so the problem isn't quite as bad as it used to be.
My TV would probably cost $40,000 a decade ago. My iPhone would be a $30,000 workstation in the 90s. The NAS in my living room is $900,000 worth of storage in 1998 dollars. To your contrary, I think people have a perfectly reasonable expectation of low and dropping prices.
More of this, please. Don't demoralize a new programmer who doesn't have the experience to choose well between two similar-sounding options.
It's probably more appropriate to be direct and concise in those cases, as otherwise you'd have all your time sucked away.
Agreed, but with a reminder that "direct and concise" is different from "asshole". You can say "thanks for the patch, but it conflicts with our long-term design goals and we can't accept it" is not the same as "LOL nope".
It gets weird. Some FLOSS projects stop because the work is "done". I have such a project myself that does data conversions from one database to another, and several distro download counters say it has quite a few thousand installations worldwide. And yet, I only touch the code when a bug report comes in. Other than that, it's more or less finished. It does what the label says, quickly and reliably. Many people use it in production. There's just not a whole lot that can be done to improve it other than succumbing to featuritis and adding a lot of bells and whistles.
Few commercial projects would hit this point because most rely on upgrade sales. I don't, so there's no incentive to push ahead. I suspect that's the case with many FLOSS projects which have scratched their itch. Why keep scratching?
I noticed that too. My two outdoor lights are presently one each of LED and CFL. Bugs flock to the CFL like, well, moths to the proverbial, but the LED one appears to be completely ignored.
Does anyone here have an idea why that might be? I wondered perhaps if the high frequency PWM strobing from the LED was perceived by the bugs as a flashing, rather than stable, light source.
Not a particularly hard problem. Take the round trip time, and divide by two.
You're presuming a symmetrical link, which isn't a reasonable assumption for any nontrivial network setup. Your client may only have one path to the server, but the server may have a hundred load-balanced paths back. Or imagine a very asymmetric link like almost any cable or DSL connection. When you're dealing with milliseconds, these are practical questions and not hypothetical nitpicking.
And this, boys and girls, is an excellent demonstration of why copyright law is simply not working.
Why do we have copyright terms longer than five years again?
I buy no Mac software, but I provide support for plenty of people who do.
They will occasionally buy software on DVD, want to watch a DVD, listen to/rip a CD, create a CD or DVD to give to a friend/relative.
Not everything is on iTunes, you know. Not by a long shot.
The problem with this approach is that the only people who actually use government transparency are other politicians, mainly to dig up dirt, and lobbyists -- it makes their job so much easier when they can confirm that a politician remains bought.
Well, and those pesky little exceptions like the ACLU and EFF who file a constant stream of FOIA requests so they can verify that officials are obeying their promises and the law. But except for watchdog groups, other politicians, and lobbyists, no one is monitoring politicians. Oh, them and the State Department, who wanted to see both sides of email conversations that former Secretary of State Clinton was involved in.
But yes, other than watchdog groups, other politicians, lobbyists, and cabinet-level government departments, no one is actually checking these things. Well, those guys and...
This is cool, but just imagine the fever that nutters would work themselves into if the pattern were close to the Fibonacci sequence.
This is why nearly all laptops from all other companies have 2-4 USB ports, a display out, a network jack, and a headphone jack.
Ugh. I hate those legacy laptops with a hundred different connectors you have to manage every time you sit down to your desk or leave it, with one invariably falling behind the desk so that you have to go fishing. My favorite work environment was with a MacBook Air and a Thunderbolt Display. The display has one cable with two split ends that you plug into the laptop: one for power, and one for combined video / USB / Ethernet / audio. All of the permanent wiring like USB drives, Ethernet, etc. plugs into the monitor which acts like a hub for everything else.
I'd stake money that the next iteration will combine all of that into a single USB C cable. Get to work, unpack my laptop, plug in a single reversible jack, and sit down to all my wired accessories? Yes please.
What a visionary innovation for Apple. A wrist watch that talks to your smartphone. It's amazing that no one has thought of it before.
"We donâ(TM)t need all those other ports, Apple says. We are living in a wireless world now, where we can connect most of our peripherals without cords."
That statement alone should give some clue as to how out of touch Apple are with reality.
I'm reminded of that every time I have to haul around an external optical drive for another enlightened Mac user.
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