[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52274027]Fuck I hate projector listings on Amazon.
I'm trying to find a projector for my sister's wedding to show pictures while they dance, and I see a lot of listings like:
"3200 Lumens HD Video Projector 1080P Gaming Home Theater LCD"
"Meyoung Portable Projector 1080P 1200 Lumens"
etc.
And you look and they all bury the ACTUAL NATIVE resolution deep within the listing. They're like, 240p and 480p like what the fuck[/QUOTE]
Part of this is the manufacturers. They say absolute bullshit like "Accepts 1080p input!" as the reason why they say it's 1080p. Actual 1080p projectors are stupid expensive.
[QUOTE=wingless;52274035]Part of this is the manufacturers. They say absolute bullshit like "Accepts 1080p input!" as the reason why they say it's 1080p. Actual 1080p projectors are stupid expensive.[/QUOTE]
Is this common with monitors too or just projectors for some reason?
Like, I've had a few monitors and televisions that would take things well above their native and downscale it but they never tried to push themselves as these maximum [I]accepted[/I] resolutions
High octane tech news.
[video=youtube;chL2fBZUh8c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chL2fBZUh8c[/video]
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;52274048]Is this common with monitors too or just projectors for some reason?
Like, I've had a few monitors and televisions that would take things well above their native and downscale it but they never tried to push themselves as these maximum [I]accepted[/I] resolutions[/QUOTE]
I see it mostly with shitty TV's (Usually cheap Chinese crap) but it's far more prevalent with projectors. Projectors these days are stupid, they rely so much on marketing and not actual quality. I recently saw a projector that said it's resolution was "Full HD 1080p with 4K Enhancement". What the fuck does that even mean?
Don't projectors have natural aliasing from light scattering (plus you're sitting back so far from the image) that helps improve the perceived image quality?
I was always under the impression that a 720p or even 480p projector is going to look pretty good
[QUOTE=TrafficMan;52274142]Don't projectors have natural aliasing from light scattering (plus you're sitting back so far from the image) that helps improve the perceived image quality?
I was always under the impression that even a 720p or even 480p projector is going to look pretty good[/QUOTE]
Yeah but if the image is still only rendered at 720p, even though the input is 1080p, you are still missing that extra detail you'd otherwise get from it. It depends how much you care, really.
Is there any ~$100 projector you guys would recommend? Or should I just go with one of those 480p monitors on Amazon
Set up postfix and dovecot on my server today. I haven't touched mail hosting in years, but available documentation by users has gotten way better in recent years, so I just took in a bunch of suggestions from blog posts and then went from there.
Definitely not as painful as it used to be 6-8 years ago.
[QUOTE=nikomo;52274526]Set up postfix and dovecot on my server today. I haven't touched mail hosting in years, but available documentation by users has gotten way better in recent years, so I just took in a bunch of suggestions from blog posts and then went from there.
Definitely not as painful as it used to be 6-8 years ago.[/QUOTE]
I made a [URL="https://sagen.me/guides/email-on-linux/"]guide[/URL] on it once, so i would save myself googling in the future.
Might be useful for anyone who wants to give it a go!
Do note the disclaimer on top "This guide is outdated and will not work without hours of debugging and modifications."
This basically means there probably are some required steps left out or missing.
I can't really say for sure though, long time since i wrote it.
I was doing some web design and can't help but notice on the editor, there is this white line in between embedded videos I put beside each other. It shows up similarly but not the same on Chrome, but it's not there at all when using Edge.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52274608]I was doing some web design and can't help but notice on the editor, there is this white line in between embedded videos I put beside each other. It shows up similarly but not the same on Chrome, but it's not there at all when using Edge.[/QUOTE]
Normalize that shit/use a well-established front-end framework
[QUOTE=nikomo;52272681]I have a 2MB CSV file that I can't work with in Excel, Libreoffice or Google Docs because they all slow down to a crawl or crash when I load it in.
Fuck.[/QUOTE]
I had one 36 million floats (a 6000x6000 array of wavefunction results for a lab). Can't remember how large the csv was but MATLAB apparently needed more than the 24GB of RAM available (I ended task to avoid a crash). In fairness I was largely just pushing the size to see how big I could go. Still, made some pretty pictures:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/xztOmAe.png[/t]
edit: the csv which worked was 442MB :v: always fun
Man, is there some rule that point-of-sale systems have to suck?
Former employer got in touch, want to contract me to make a new POS system work with their system. That was over a month ago, when they were "getting a test system within the next few days".
Everything's ready to go except they *still* don't have the test hardware working. It took three weeks to ship it out, and all that got them was a stock Windows PC in a weird form factor and a price tag with two extra zeroes on it. They then had to take it to a local "authorized support center" to get the software loaded on, because apparently you can't just install and configure it from the factory.
Every POS seller seems equally incompetent, because that absolutely isn't unusual. You want to make a shitload of money? Build a perfectly ordinary point of sale system on a modern stack. Use an ARM or Atom SOC, maybe one of those Tegra boards, not a 486 (they don't even make those anymore, how the flying fuck are you still selling 486 PCs in 2017, let alone selling them for four digits!). Single-board it, it's dedicated hardware not a commodity PC. Use Linux or Android, not Windows (and definitely not Windows CE 6). Have competent logistics - it's a niche business, I wouldn't expect one-day shipping, but at least ship it out within a day, with the software on it. Make install easy - plug it in [I]and it just fucking works[/I], like a TV, not something where you're soldering in the power supply (not included, or even available). Use one cable per peripheral, not three cables for a single thermal printer - and no serial/parallel ports, users break those somehow. This shouldn't be that hard. I have no idea how every company in the business of selling POS systems seems to have been recently unfrozen from the Clinton administration.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52275002]Man, is there some rule that point-of-sale systems have to suck?
Former employer got in touch, want to contract me to make a new POS system work with their system. That was over a month ago, when they were "getting a test system within the next few days".
Everything's ready to go except they *still* don't have the test hardware working. It took three weeks to ship it out, and all that got them was a stock Windows PC in a weird form factor and a price tag with two extra zeroes on it. They then had to take it to a local "authorized support center" to get the software loaded on, because apparently you can't just install and configure it from the factory.
Every POS seller seems equally incompetent, because that absolutely isn't unusual. You want to make a shitload of money? Build a perfectly ordinary point of sale system on a modern stack. Use an ARM or Atom SOC, maybe one of those Tegra boards, not a 486 (they don't even make those anymore, how the flying fuck are you still selling 486 PCs in 2017, let alone selling them for four digits!). Single-board it, it's dedicated hardware not a commodity PC. Use Linux or Android, not Windows (and definitely not Windows CE 6). Have competent logistics - it's a niche business, I wouldn't expect one-day shipping, but at least ship it out within a day, with the software on it. Make install easy - plug it in [I]and it just fucking works[/I], like a TV, not something where you're soldering in the power supply (not included, or even available). Use one cable per peripheral, not three cables for a single thermal printer - and no serial/parallel ports, users break those somehow. This shouldn't be that hard. I have no idea how every company in the business of selling POS systems seems to have been recently unfrozen from the Clinton administration.[/QUOTE]
They are probably making too much bank to hear you or there's no reason for changing things. I've seen some places use solely iPads and it seems to work for them. However if you're an Asian grocery store, you probably want the cheapest of the cheap.
[QUOTE=gman003-main;52275002]Man, is there some rule that point-of-sale systems have to suck?
Former employer got in touch, want to contract me to make a new POS system work with their system. That was over a month ago, when they were "getting a test system within the next few days".
Everything's ready to go except they *still* don't have the test hardware working. It took three weeks to ship it out, and all that got them was a stock Windows PC in a weird form factor and a price tag with two extra zeroes on it. They then had to take it to a local "authorized support center" to get the software loaded on, because apparently you can't just install and configure it from the factory.
Every POS seller seems equally incompetent, because that absolutely isn't unusual. You want to make a shitload of money? Build a perfectly ordinary point of sale system on a modern stack. Use an ARM or Atom SOC, maybe one of those Tegra boards, not a 486 (they don't even make those anymore, how the flying fuck are you still selling 486 PCs in 2017, let alone selling them for four digits!). Single-board it, it's dedicated hardware not a commodity PC. Use Linux or Android, not Windows (and definitely not Windows CE 6). Have competent logistics - it's a niche business, I wouldn't expect one-day shipping, but at least ship it out within a day, with the software on it. Make install easy - plug it in [I]and it just fucking works[/I], like a TV, not something where you're soldering in the power supply (not included, or even available). Use one cable per peripheral, not three cables for a single thermal printer - and no serial/parallel ports, users break those somehow. This shouldn't be that hard. I have no idea how every company in the business of selling POS systems seems to have been recently unfrozen from the Clinton administration.[/QUOTE]
This is why I say "POS stands for one thing. And it sure as fuck isn't point of sale."
[QUOTE=ballads;52275029]let me be the first to say... WHAT THE FUCK?
[URL]http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-releases-z270-godlike-gaming.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
hey it lights up
3 M.2 slots.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52275018]They are probably making too much bank to hear you or there's no reason for changing things.[/QUOTE]
Sure, I'm not expecting the old players to build something new. I don't think the company currently holding me up even [I]has[/I] a development staff anymore, they've found all the bugs and trained a call center in India to tell you the workarounds. But it should be possible to rip the rug out from under them SpaceX-style - make a genuinely better product at lower prices, and you'll win every time.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52275018]I've seen some places use solely iPads and it seems to work for them.[/QUOTE]
I've seen that too - hell, I've worked with them, too. They're slower than a dedicated POS, not as durable, and more theft-prone. Okay for small shops but anyone big enough to have multiple checkout lanes will want something better.
[QUOTE=garychencool;52275018]However if you're an Asian grocery store, you probably want the cheapest of the cheap.[/QUOTE]
This shit isn't cheap, though. A 486, 32GB of MMC, 128KB of SDRAM, an XGA-res resistive touchscreen, a serial-connected thermal printer, a magstripe reader and a barcode scanner can cost [I]two thousand dollars[/I] once all the license fees are accounted for (because of [I]course[/I] it's licensed per-unit).
There's some marginal justification, in that this hardware needs to be nearly mil-spec in order to survive use, but jesus horsefucking christ this shit is overpriced.
This company sounds like the retail version of the Gtech Corporation, where a scanner head is $900, printer clutches are $80 each and a replacement terminal is $7000.
That's most industrial shit in general. Once had a bulk weighing client and a USB helix card to replace the ISA one they had was 5k. Plus 10k for the updated software to use it.
Sis bought a new laptop, mainly for 3D work and whatever she does.
It has an i7 7700HQ, 16GB of RAM and a GTX 1050Ti, 15.6" 1080p IPS panel and a 512GB PCIe SSD.
it is better than my PC and I am jealous as fuck.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;52275250]Sis bought a new laptop, mainly for 3D work and whatever she does.
It has an i7 7700HQ, 16GB of RAM and a GTX 1050Ti, 15.6" 1080p IPS panel and a 512GB PCIe SSD.
it is better than my PC and I am jealous as fuck.[/QUOTE]
Heyyy I'm about to order something like that for one of my clients tomorrow. Except with 32gb RAM and an M2200 GPU
[QUOTE=ballads;52275029]let me be the first to say... WHAT THE FUCK?
[URL]http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-releases-z270-godlike-gaming.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
The name makes me want to punch whoever came up with it, but running pfSense on your own motherboard does sound kind of neat.
[QUOTE=ballads;52275105]I wonder if you do m.2 raid with it hmmmm[/QUOTE]
iirc, only softraid within windows for example.
[QUOTE=ballads;52276247]:( Ruins my future build idea[/QUOTE]
Apparently on [URL="https://rog.asus.com/articles/guides/how-to-install-two-m2-ssds-in-raid-0-on-maximus-ix-motherboards/"]some newer motherboards[/URL], M.2 RAID is supported.
I'd say check the manual to be sure first.
"Hey I accidentally blew out this small converter box for the tv system, can you check the price for a new one?"
Sure
$1500 :v:
[url=https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1564732&p=52263889&viewfull=1#post52263889]This post[/url]reminded me about a story my friend told me why he doesn't attend Web Programming labs at his university.
It was a second or third lesson going into HTML5 specifics, and the guy was talking about specifics of HTML5 and that HTML5 is the next good thing etc.
So he starts writing up code for a page on the projector and somewhere in the middle, right before he starts writing h1 h2 p segments, he writes up
[I]<font face="Arial>[/I]
and closes it in the end after second p
This has stayed up unironically for about 10 minutes until somebody asked whats with the font face tag.
"Oh, yes, my bad, nevermind".
Nobody uses that tag since early 2000s, what the fuck.
[QUOTE=ballads;52275029]let me be the first to say... WHAT THE FUCK?
[URL]http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/msi-releases-z270-godlike-gaming.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
This post was so stupid I had to stop reading it on my phone and wait until I was at home so I could sit down.
[QUOTE=Teddybeer;52276549]The wonders of teachers that sort of get stuck teaching and never really take the time to fully adopt to wonderful new developments things these days like CS
S that is pretty standard these days. Fucking spring with summer temperatures is really fucking with my though process. Also help I need to pick a sport or something.[/QUOTE]
Le Parcour~~~~~
But seriously, climbing is a pretty neat sport. Just go out and climb trees (if you feel confident) and walls (for training). Supplement with something cardio, biking is great. Wish I had a bike.
I wanted to do a challenge once for the entire summer - to climb up at least 100 trees. Unfortunately, after an injury I got stuck at 13 (injury wasn't connected with tree climbing).
Does anyone have a BT/FON account I can use for a couple of weeks? Internet at home is down and the only way I can get internet is through a nearby FON hotspot
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