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the alt-pg up/dwn feature to adjust brightness is pretty great. the fact that it rolls back in the morning is pretty clever, i always found myself having to fidget with settings on my monitor.

i wish more devices, like tvs, had flux baked in.


I'm speaking as a colorist working in film/television here. TV's already have enough issues destroying the look we carefully craft with "features" like dynamic lighting, motion smoothing, vivid mode, etc. A huge color shift is going to throw this off even more and dramatically change the look and tone to the detriment of the work. This is great for reading text on a screen, but should be disabled for viewing media - you wouldn't look at the Mona Lisa with amber glasses.


TV/Film colour grading does enough to try to destroy reality with the horrible OTT teal&orange gradings.

If the mona lisa was painted in duo-chrome I might not be upset at viewing it under different temperatures.


> you wouldn't look at the Mona Lisa with amber glasses.

I would if I had to look at it constantly for my job and entertainment and it had a bright blue backlight shining right into my eyes all the time, :p.


A change in white point should interfere less with your colors than those other monstrosities you mentioned.


Often the creator does not have all that much control over how their work is consumed. (And I guess it's not worse than reading a novel in a loud room, in some sense.)


I cannot watch TV with any sort of motion smoothing enabled. When watching other people's TV's I usually offer to "fix" the image, but in the end most prefer it enabled.


It is pretty great, however it cannot be changed to another key combination and if you happen to use that particular shortcut in some other apps (cough OneNote cough) you're pretty much screwed.


Well, it looks like I was wrong - you can disable the shortcuts from the Extras menu (not from the Settings one).


They used to. My grandfather had ancient color TV when I was very young that used a photo sensor to adjust itself to the room lighting's color balance.


They still do in that they can automatically adjust brightness based on light environments. Just brightness / backlight setting though, not colors or anything. I have it turned off and have it set to the lowest, given how it's still too bright even if my room is pretty dark.


currently you cannot (according to their docs), however it sounds like that will be possible in the future.


they have some devices that use the verizon network, too.


If you order just SIM card, it will be AT&T though, which is what I did. I was using T-Mobile, but their coverage just wasn't good enough (defined as not working at my desk at work).


i'm in this group as well. if you find out, let me know.

edit: some info from palmer: http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/13xmbf/update_on_ocu...


that's a clever way of sticking it to them, jrock. i feel sorry for my neighbors already.


You don't use valid addresses, of course. If you're in apartment 2R, you say apartment 10B or something.


It is possible to enter completely fake information, rather than someone else's address. (For example, aside from the burden on the post office, I think entering a street address for an apartment complex without an apartment number harms no one.)


Though unfortunately the mailman is usually smart enough to route that kind of mail if the name on it is correct.

Actually, it's quite difficult to fail to send someone a letter. The post office does try pretty hard to deliver mail.


this brings up an interesting point. how difficult would it be to automate scraping off of one of these services?


easy, but what's the point? you can already get this content via non-legal means if you want. Any website scraping these urls and offering them for download will just get shut down or blocked. The streams are delivered in a way that makes it sufficiently difficult for normal users to just right click and save as, this is Good Enough. The people who can get around this can already get the music for free elsewhere.


incoming sales spike!


anyone know when this launches?


They say at the bottom of the post that it will be rolling out to users over the next couple of days.


Well, I was just browsing Google+ and all of a sudden on a random page click it switched to the new layout. So...now, apparently.


I can confirm that it's live for me (in Canada).


SEEKING WORK (Indiana, remote only)

UI, branding, mobile apps and responsive websites: http://celsius.ws


It's not fancy or automated, but I Integrity for Mac every few weeks: http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/


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