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den2k88 wrote: With LCD I had the Skyrim compass faintly visible over any control fro a while, until I tried the same treatment and it went away.
That image was not on the monitor, it was in your head, Dovahkin.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Considering the staggeriong amount of hours I spent (and sometimes still spend) on Skyrim it is possible, but my wife saw it too and she dosen't play videogames 
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: Considering the staggeriong amount of hours I spent (and sometimes still spend)
Same here, but I don't like how much they dumbed down the games with every new incarnation. Running around in Morrowind without that compass. was much more interesting.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Morrowind is a case of "Guide, dang it!" as it had a really steep learning curve and any slight error was fatal. Getting older I prefer winning when I play: if it requires me too much concentration or learning I might as well work.
But yes, Skyrim is a notch too dumbed down - Oblivion was a bit better in that regard. For the new games Mass Effect Andromeda has quite the learning curve... I'm starting to not blunder around in fights after more than a dozen hours of play.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: if it requires me too much concentration or learning I might as well work.
Making things too simple kills the immersion, just like displaying a HUD as if you played the Terminator. Your weapons, your armor, your gold: Give them to me.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That'll be fun - the cure is apparently to put a bright white display on for "an extended period", which means she won't be able to use it ...
Makes sense. On a CRT the screen is really burnt in (= the phosphor layer was damaged). This could not be repaired. A Liquid Crystal Display does not burn in. Instead, the floating crystals become a little too organized over time and remain in their positions. Showing a white screen for a time will eventually reorient them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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Quote: the cure is apparently to put a bright white display on for "an extended period"
This is good to know! Thanks! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I also found this app: White Screen[^] - can you guess what it does? 
I've now set her tab to keep the screen on while charging (needed developer options for that) so I'll try it while she's asleep tonight.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: White Screen[^] - can you guess what it does?
The opposite to US Airport Security random personal search criteria?
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Out of curiosity, since a jigsaw puzzle app is one of the time wasters on my tablet, do you know which one Herself is addicted to?
Mine is jigsaw puzzle epic
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's the one she uses - and every week I have to find new cat pictures for her to use as puzzles. Fortunately, t'interwebs appear to have an inexhaustible supply of those.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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yeah, you're probably safe on that front. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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How about buying her a REAL jigsaw puzzle to bide her time while the screen resets?
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The sheer existence of Dij The Cat[^] suggests this might be a poor idea. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Look at it as added time to fix the burn in. "Where IS that last piece?"
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OriginalGriff wrote: I didn't know you could "burn in" an image on an LCD
Interesting - I didn't think it was possible either.
Googling for exactly that I found at least one post that suggested it might be possible to fix it (I didn't read it however.)
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When will they invent the Internet of Thinks?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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That's easy: shoot everyone who posts more than twenty questions in QA.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh sh*t, I've asked 11 questions. 
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Never happen: the internet is just a huge brain dump*, emphasis on dump.
* without rules, unlike the city garbage dumps where toxic/dangerous goods and dead people are prohibited.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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AI isn't there yet, but "The Machine" (or if you are on the dark side, "Samaritan") will be upon us soon enough.
(While a second pass for me, my gf quite enjoyed Person of Interest -- just watched the last episode of the series last night.)
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I've watched POI all the way through once; great show.
Software Zen: delete this;
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well really my week ended yesterday, 5PM didn't do a lick of work all day.
Finally an article I really appreciated, Lars de Ridder's Stop tech-driven problem-solving[^]
Once in a while I'd see articles and surveys on stuff like blockchain, and think to myself should I really learn that crap - I mean the intent is there and I start reading up, but run out of steam and the eyes start closing about 2 minutes in ('5 minutes' would be lying) - let's face it big data and/or learning hadoop - boring as hell. (Really, I still know nothing about big data except how to spell it, just the thought of what that means tells me it's a stupid idea.)
Lars article I read all the way because it was interesting, and it told me I was right to not waste energy on all that crap. Handy ref too, can slip it in the occasional correspondence for some of the easily fooled by the news customers.
Nice way to end the week: I could have wasted hours, days, weeks of my life on crap ad others even told me I should, but I didn't.
In short: blockchain etc is crap, but more importantly life is to short to waste on it.
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Hey, I have this swell solution. How about you go out and find the problem?
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Lopatir wrote: let's face it big data and/or learning hadoop - boring as hell
I think the article was generally good, but massively incorrect in this area. Big data solutions are proving to be very useful (as in functional end products) in the security realm.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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