Recent content by Alienraptor

That sounds promising. But how do I do it? Google has been unhelpful.

I'm running 10.8 (Mountain Lion), which defaults to 2.2. In any case, switching between the two made no appreciable difference. I resorted to the (evidently pretty old) Gamma Control tool to manipulate the white and black points directly, which allowed me to recover the whites and blacks. It's...

I just picked up an HP 2311xi from Best Buy, where it's on sale for 169.99, which seemed like a pretty good deal to me. I brought it home and hooked it up (via a MiniDP-HDMI dongle, since I had a spare HDMI cable) to my 2012 13" MacBook Air. My problem right now is that if I, for example...

I think the X220 is a bit small for my tastes; I don't think I would be comfortable working full-time on less than 13" and 14" or higher is much better. I find it hard to believe that no manufacturer has decided to combine good build quality (of which they are clearly capable, as I think some...

I currently use a 5 year-old MBP as my only computer. It more or less stays in the same spot, as the battery is pretty useless these days. It does most things reasonably well, but obviously the performance increasingly leaves something to be desired. I've been waffling between building a desktop...

True. I suppose I was going on the assumption that there'd be no serious price or performance change with the introduction of IB. From what I've seen, IB does little to change the value calculus at the midrange level. Also, I'd expect Z77 board to be more expensive for a while. To answer your...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Lightroom/Photoshop, gaming. 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $1500 shipped would be great, $1700 is a hard cap. 3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if...

I think Mr Lewis and Mr Dodgson were a random reference to the British authors Clive Staples Lewis, aka CS Lewis, and Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll. No idea why they put that in there though. The video generally wasn't that funny or interesting.

I want to simulcast a live video stream from an auditorium into computers in multiple rooms (mainly for overflow) and potentially a lobby area on a projector. Since it is on a university campus, all of the network connections will be over the university network. My question is, what is the...

You guys do realize that a true tyranny doesn't need laws? It amazes me that people freak out about language in legislation leading to tyranny; if a law exists that supports the actions of a totalitarian regime, it has been put there post facto to legitimize said regime. Unless this legislation...

Has anyone even read this paper? There are about a million news articles about it, but the actual October 2009 issue of Am J Prev Med isn't even available yet.

Heh. First of all, the absolute min/max is not too meaningful because without more data, you can't say whether it's an outlier or indicative of some trend. However, in this case, you've pointed out something that's very hard to spot and even harder to show with the data presented in its current...

Instead of offering ideas about what Kyle and the [H] could do with infinite money, time, effort, etc. I have a suggestion as to the presentation of the articles, which should require very little additional time and effort. By and large, [H] does some of the most comprehensive reviews of...

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I happen to be pretty familiar with this church's pastor, and...well. Let's just say I think Mars Hill Church is a pretty cool guy. eh hates everyone and doesn't afraid of anything.