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Someone mentioned CRTs?
And someone else mentioned they were built by Russians.
Well played, Artlav, well played.
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Re CRTs. Went looking for tv broadcast grade 1 crts, and they seem to be a dying breed. Another of my skillset redundant, at least plasma is dead and buried.
good article here:
http://www.barco.com/~/media/Downloads/White papers/2010/Technology for Grade 1 LCDs.pdf
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good article here:
http://www.barco.com/~/media/Downloads/White papers/2010/Technology for Grade 1 LCDs.pdf
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jedidia
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Ah... I guess that would be one of the extensions Urwumpe mentioned... :shifty:
CSS is ok for basic layout, the problem is that what we really need in todays web-development is a GUI framework. We've gone past laying out content pages long ago (though it still has its place, especially on... well... content pages) and run into full-blown web-UI. I think no amount of tinkering will make CSS adequate for the job, because the fundamental architecture isn't designed for the task.
Sometimes I think it might be easiest to just stomp out a comprehensive UI framework in Javascript and draw the whole thing on an HTML5 canvas... but then we run into performance issues. Would it be so difficult for browsers to implement a common API for direct video memory access? Well, considering they haven't even found a way to implement CSS all across the board, I guess I'm having pipe dreams... :facepalm:
The reason why I brought this up now is really because I just made first expieriences with it, and was kind of horrified thinking of all the people whose daily job consists of hacking CSS to produce more cool stuff it wasn't meant for. I hope I won't end up like that...
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I think it was 1000V-1100V. It's an electrostatic deflection device, so relatively low voltage stuff.
It can run on as low as 500V, but the higher it is, the sharper the spot is.
Yep. Totally did that on purpose. Nothing accidental about it.
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Laptop or desktop? Windows, Mac, or Linux?
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Laptop, windows... Started after it wouldn't recognize my mouse.
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BCCode when you can catch it?
Smells like a possible driver issue at this stage.
---------- Post added at 09:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------
Also -- can you boot into safe mode?
(F8 after POST/BIOS startup and BEFORE Windows starts loading)
Smells like a possible driver issue at this stage.
---------- Post added at 09:50 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:49 PM ----------
Also -- can you boot into safe mode?
(F8 after POST/BIOS startup and BEFORE Windows starts loading)
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I may be BIOSed here but that may result in a bad command or file name.
(Someping to think about. After all, you should never get me net start-ted.)
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I would go to Bleeping Computer and ask those guys. They helped me eliminate a nasty virus once, really saved my hide.
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Really Scav-enging for puns there, aren't you?
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No mo, Joey. No mo of this atrocious wordplay.
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jedidia
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Considering the abuse steam greenlight is already expieriencing, I can't even imagine where this'll end up... :shifty:
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It's necessary, TARS.
Problem: You run at 6 m/s on the road and 4 m/s on the grass. You are running from A to C across the rectangular ABCD field. The AB side is the road, and the ABCD field is made of grass. Find AM so that she can run in the shortest time possible.
My (elegant) solution:
(From top to bottom: AM length, MC length, total length, time on road, time on grass, total time)
Yay computers (and GeoGebra) !
EDIT: Recorded the screen to find the best possible value with a ~30cm accuracy:
To say that was homework given 2 weeks ago. Nailed it !
My (elegant) solution:
(From top to bottom: AM length, MC length, total length, time on road, time on grass, total time)
Yay computers (and GeoGebra) !
EDIT: Recorded the screen to find the best possible value with a ~30cm accuracy:
To say that was homework given 2 weeks ago. Nailed it !
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