Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject	Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution
Date	2017-04-22 15:07 -0700
Message-ID	<D521222C.A0D50%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 4/22/17, 1:41 PM, in article op.yy36fhcajs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

>>>> Most people keep their monitors brighter than that (though not all, my wife
>>>> HATES bright monitors and keeps hers very dim).
>>> 
>>> I used to do that with CRTs, I found them rather glaring.  But a bright LCD
>>> doesn't annoy me much.
>> 
>> For me it was the flicker on the old CRTs, especially if they were set to 60
>> MHz.
> 
> You mean 60Hz.  

Yes. Of course. Sorry about that.

> I always used 90Hz, but I still didn't like them bright.  If I
> set a CRT and an LCD side by side to both be comfortable to work with, the
> same photo on both displays looked completely different.  The CRTs didn't seem
> to have a linear output, so the darker areas of the photo were not visible on
> the CRT.  If I made the photo look correct on the CRT by brightening it in
> Photoshop, it looked washed out on the LCD.
> 
>>> The lights are on in my room, which are fairly bright.  On a nice day with
>>> the
>>> lights off they probably match.  If I carry the piece of paper around the
>>> house and outside, the colour is completely different.  Just ask any woman
>>> buying clothes or curtains and getting home to find the colour isn't the
>>> same
>>> as in the shop.
>> 
>> <http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/white-gold-dress-he
>> res-science-5241292> OR <https://goo.gl/B5GoC0>
> 
> I never understood the problem.  I see exactly what photoshop sees - the
> lighter of the two colours is white with a blue tint.  It's about 110:110:130
> RGB.  So not blue, but white with a little bit of blue.  There's no eyesight
> problem, just a cameraphone problem.
> 
>>> So anyway, you can never say that a printout is the same as a backlit
>>> display,
>>> because it depends how much light is in the room when you look at the
>>> printout.  Can you calibrate a room light?
>> 
>> I am sure there are ways... but I know nothing of them. :)
> 
> Apparently Philips (I think) make an adjustable LED one, you can change the
> RGB value with a remote.


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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 00:21 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 19:36 -0400
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 01:13 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 20:17 -0400
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 01:42 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 20:54 -0400
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 02:27 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 21:49 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 14:48 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-21 20:38 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 23:41 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-21 20:48 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-21 23:58 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-21 21:40 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-22 10:22 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 13:25 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-22 18:33 -0400
                Colour printing etc (Was: Re: Apple told to warn ...) Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-22 22:19 -0400
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-21 17:48 -0700
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 18:19 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 10:43 -0700
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 18:59 +0100
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 11:08 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 21:41 +0100
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-22 14:27 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 22:35 +0100
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-22 15:31 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-22 18:33 -0400
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 15:07 -0700
                Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-22 15:12 -0700
              Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-22 18:33 -0400

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