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

From	"James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.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	2017-04-30 18:03 +0100
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Message-ID	<op.yzipn3gtjs98qf@red.lan> (permalink)
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On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:33:01 +0100, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <op.yy38x4vojs98qf@red.lan>, James Wilkinson Sword
> <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> >>
>> >> You mean 60Hz.  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.
>> >
>> > It doesn't sound as if you are using any sort of color management at all.
>> >
>> > I would start by obtaining the tools to calibrate your displays. Done
>> > correctly you will find that display calibration will/can be adjusted
>> > in realtime for changes in ambient and/or room light. Consider
>> > something such as the calibration tools offered by X-Rite.
>> > <http://www.xrite.com/categories/calibration-profiling/colormunki-display>
>>
>> A calibrated display isn't necessarily nice to use.
>
> it's always nice to use.

For you maybe.  Everyone's eyesight is different.

>> Anyway, CRTs are now obsolete, so it doesn't matter.
>
> it still matters. lcds also need to be calibrated.

The conversation was about how my CRTs were terrible.

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-30 18:03 +0100
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