@Undo SO gets an enormous amount of eyes on each question; even poor questions get found in google searches while coding and people will toss in random upvotes... not so much on SU
if you want votes on SU you ask questions starting with "Why" and the entire world clicks them and the first answer gets rep-capped
on SO if you want votes you ask questions that every single n00b ever will have
@Sickest Please don't ask if anyone knows about X; rather than asking a general question that almost anyone could say yes to in some respect, simply ask your actual question. If anyone knows the answer or can provide some insight, they will. If they don't, they won't.
better yet, if Home Improvement has a chatroom on chat.stackexchange.com, if you ask them there your specific question, they might ask you to post it on the Q&A, or help you directly
hey, what's the worst that can happen if you ask your question on diy.SE? they'll close the question :P which is hardly the worst thing that's ever happened to a person
LED lights are super expensive. if you're on a tight budget, it might be more economical to get a small loan to buy them and replace all the house's lights at once, and start saving the electricity by not using halogens or incandescents; then pay off the loan with your savings
oh. we use LED lights from Toshiba, if I recall correctly
we primarily buy the soft lighting, but we've tried both. I don't remember which term applies to which type of lighting, but what we ended up preferring is the ones that produce colors much closer to incandescent light bulbs.
the alternative is an extremely bright white light, which feels like someone put your LED HDTV on highest brightness, displayed a full-screen solid white background and inserted the entire light into your eye's retina :)
around 20 dollars per bulb is pretty much the going rate, by the way... if you find them cheaper, be happy... if they're more expensive, could be a quality differentiator, or just getting jipped :P
I don't have a problem with them making a killing as long as they last as long as advertised and save energy :)
my bathroom still has halogens CFLs that I'm trying to kill; once they finally die or gets down to just 1 bulb (out of a 4 bulb array) I'll replace em with LEDs
get up in morning -> turn on lights in bathroom -> listen to BBBBBBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! for 5 minutes
one (my fav) is an IIyama $$$ monitor, very clear and sharp and none of that Auto stuff. one is a pukesonic of the something Grid style, which was supposed to make it "better" but lots of adjusting to make it right.
looks like the WII (at least the first version) is video only, not making use of the seperated croma-luma. like a VCR. which is really funny, because (i found out) that ALL this stuff is processed internally as seperated, it is only crashed together to make it simple to connect with one wire.
There is no advantage to crashing a S-Video together into a composite video, so for the WII item it would be just as good to connect up just to the video and not use the S-video (so called YC)
Without S-Video the horizontal resolution will be some limited, and color will not be as crispo, so the advantages of a monitor like that are somewhat lost.
For the WII •You can purchase component (five-pronged) cables to connect the Wii to your TV for slightly better picture quality. Your TV will need to support component connections.
Component they are talking about is the kind like on a DVD , Pb-Y-C (or whatever) , while S-video is "components" it is not the 3 wire connecting one.
One of my RAID's hadr drives has died in my NAS. So, I took it out, put it into my PC, and Windows Explorer shows 3 disks (3 drive letters for the 1 hard drive) but all of them have to be formatted before they can be used? Right click -> Properites shows 0b are used on all disks. So, I put the other disc into my machine, Windows does not detect it all all. Into CMD, -> diskpart and then list disk. It shows the other disk, but also at 0bytes.... Any one expereined this before
Why can't either hard drive be read in Windows despite being OK in my QNAP Nas storage?
This component en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YPbPr ( i knew i couldnt spell it right:-) with that as the output and an analog (or digital) monitor supporting the 3 wire component it would be "better" than hooking it up with video on that sony monitor.
@Qcom A sony monitor CAN have some awesome phosphors though, and a clear picture, but like i said you should veryify the connection type they are thrilled with.
Phosphors on CRTs came in about 3 speeds, some so "fast" that the picture was flickery as the scan (the lines are drawn). basically to fast for the style of display, noticed by a eye wearing view, much like a florescent.
Sony had a tendancy to have "slower" phosphors with a longer on-time and a slower decay rate, so the scan would be very still picture looking to the eyes.
Another reason they can be thrilled with a "pro" or pro line monitor is because they were $1400 :-0 not some cheap tv, they are perfectaly calibrated, all the 3 colors line up across the whole. and usually the picture looked great (also) because the monitors were smaller , so the resolution didnt hurt so much.
most of the "pros" though would also be hooking them up with some sort of component connection like S or 3wire or RGB (which was VGA with 3 BNC connections)
1) Make a backup 2) Why even try to fix that in the PC, replace the broken disk and let the NAS to the resync.
But if you want to do it on the PC:
First check the partition formats. (0x0b is FAT32 in ancient CHS addressing)
Those might contain the OS for the NAS, the page partition (swap) for the NAS and actual data partitions (which with 3 partitions would be 1 big data volume)
Most of the Wii usage i see is not like sitting in front of a computer monitor sized thing. they are dancing around, slinging shit about and all kinds of activities that seemed like it would work better with the living room tv, soo It must be for a specific game type/style to want it small?
someone mentioned that a speed video looked "faster" when they could see all the frames. guess we really are missing out on the Acition of movies, if all we get is a blur of movements.
@Qcom depends. CRT tvs were 30FPS 60 interlaced feilds per second , so 1/2 the pic was updating at 60. most LCDs though show as "progressive" even though in the US they are still spitting out interlaced video.
So the usual cheap LCD tv with minimal display engine would jut slap the feilds together and display a 30fps progressive. a High end one not only claiming (because lots claim) but actually doing it could display 2 progressive frames after assembling the interlaced scan.
Which has nothing to do with "monitors" of the lcd variety from a computer, because it is not interlaced. So a computer pumping out 60FPS is whole "progressive" like frames.
Somewhere in here i should have mentioned that TV broadcasts are still using the old interlace thing going out, even after the switch to digital, even though most people are watching it in progressive. So it is not very well known (and a pain in the ass to find out) that method is still used.
Which brings up how many people are using a HDMI connecting tv for the computer , having the computer for games set to 60FPS (output out of the video card) and do not even know if the TV is still doing 30.
And has nothing to do with CRTs for computer monitors, because they also (the computer being the output) were not interlace. Very few computer monitors in existance were ever interlace.
for many different devices , it would be best if you find out what thier Max possible connection type would be. AKA if i had a game console that would do 60 high res VGA , i would far rather have a computer monitor, even if it was CRT.
many consoles will hook to the TV, but modernly (new word:-) will also do rgb or hdmi.
the adapters they are selling for Wii to hook to VGA seem to be nothing more than messy analog , to many people say it looks worse than the RCA video type connection.
@Qcom weird because they are "computers" and RGB had been out for quite some time. and many of the other consoles connect to other than TVs dont they?
