Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" 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: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 21:26:10 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <7699542da7f01f1304183cf9c297a669@dizum.com> <2017040913334010404-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <2017041013055897942-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <110420171637461709%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:410604 comp.sys.mac.system:104981 alt.comp.os.windows-10:40438 alt.cellular-phone-tech:1301 On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 20:30:37 +0100, Snit wrote: > On 4/22/17, 12:01 PM, in article rMNKA.6920$7Y5.5504@fx13.iad, "Mark Lloyd" > wrote: > >> On 04/22/2017 12:28 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>>>> I used to have a printer which would print with all the coloured inks >>>>> if the >>>>> black ran out. It wasn't perfectly black though. >>>> >>>> Right... it is not a "clean" of a black as black ink. >>> >>> Just very very dark brown :-) >> >> Did you know that brown is a very similar color to yellow (dark yellow)? >> >> Also, I use this formula to find the brightness of a RGB color: >> >> brightness = red * .299 + green * .587 + blue * .114 >> >> The constants have to do with the perception of brightness. > > I used something similar to that when working on this "challenge" that Owl > presented in COLA: > > > > The main challenge was just having the terminal color be selected to match > the background (why, who knows, but he wanted that) but I also wanted to > make sure the text could be read. Used a calculated brightness level to > decide if the text should be black or white. Windows 10 changes the title bar colour etc depending on my background picture (which I have change every 5 minutes). -- Why don't niggers dream? The last one to have a dream got shot.