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

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On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 23:12:16 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Also sorry I hit the "Send" button before I meant to with the first reply.
> :)

I did that all the time before I found and disabled the send keystroke.

I do it more on my mobile phone when texting because the space is right next to send, and it's a small phone compared to the size of my fingers.  For some reason it claims to take a few seconds to send the text, but if I cancel immediately, they still get it.  Must just be the ACK that takes ages.

>> 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.
>
> I do not have the color-monitor hardware and the like but always calibrate
> my displays. When I would set up labs of computers the colors would look
> very different from screen to screen right out of the box.

Some (or should that be all except expensive ones) displays don't have enough adjustments to calibrate them well.

>>>> 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.
>
> I see it the same way you do.

Then our eyes both agree with photoshop and the people seeing it differently are fucked in the head.

>>>> 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.
>
> I have a light for a fish tank that lets me change the color but not with
> any precision... just a dozen or so pre-set options (some of them rotating
> through colors).

Fish probably aren't fussy enough to need more than that.

-- 
Is a "speed hump" when you have to get it done before your wife comes home?

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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 18:02 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-30 11:45 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ron C <r.capik@verizon.net> - 2017-04-30 16:04 -0400
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-30 13:29 -0700

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