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Do it yourself

Geometry adjustment knobs inside the housing?

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By T-W-X

Hey all,

I have a Panasonic CT30WX52 television. It’s an HD tube, not a common type, got it very gently used a couple of years ago.

I’ve noticed that modern HD broadcast signals make more use of the picture than older SD signals did, in that modern LCD HD TVs run the image right up to the edge. Older TVs had some portion of the image concealed behind the plastic frame around the CRT.

This CRT TV operates in the old style, with portions of the image as designed in the new style off the edge, and occasionally some things, like weather information and some closed captioning are not visible on-screen, cut off at the edge.

Since the TV weighs 126lb, if anyone can confirm if there are manual horizontal and vertical sync/hold knobs before I drag it out of its cubby and open it, I’d much appreciate it.

I’ve opened CRT computer monitors to adjust the picture position and size before, but it has been awhile. I tried looking up technical service information on the unit but couldn’t find anything beyond users’ manuals which don’t go into such details.

Thanks,

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News, Politics, Government

Does Apple's New Headquarters Spell Doom For Apple?

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By Tim Worstall, Contributor According to the standard rules of thumb used by the British financial press the problems that Apple is having over its new headquarters building should spell trouble, possibly even doom, for the firm. There are many different formulations of the basic principle but this story from Businessweek would make many commenters reach for their version of it: He had that right. Since 2011, the budget for Apple’s Campus 2 has ballooned from less than $3 billion to nearly $5 billion, according to five people close to the project who were not authorized to speak on the record. If their consensus estimate is accurate, Apple’s expansion would eclipse the $3.9 billion being spent on the new World Trade Center complex in New York, and the new office space would run more than $1,500 per square foot—three times the cost of many top-of-the-line downtown corporate towers. Compared to Apple’s profits or cash reserves of course this number is very small. But it is indeed standard in the UK financial press to make comments about firms that move into new buildings. For example, Don Sull at the London Bsiness School has always used the presence of fountains in reception as a signal to sell. If they’re spending money on that then where else are they wasting cash? Other formulations of much the same idea include, back in the dotcom boom days, if the receptionist had a flat screen monitor rather than a CRT. John Harvey Jones, ex-head of ICI, has long used a very similar judgement call. Christopher Fildes, perhaps the doyen of English financial journalism, used to make much the same point as Don Sull. Indeed, it’s difficult now to work out which one of them was quoting the other. …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

Computers

Tablet Sales Skyrocketing as the PC Approaches Extinction

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According to a report released today by Gartner Research, PC sales will continue to decline steadily over the next five years, and sales of mobile devices will continue to see incredible growth.  The report suggests that tablet and mobile phone sales will eclipse 2.6 billion units by 2017, rising nearly 30 percent from 1.85 billion units in 2012.

Alongside the proliferation of mobile devices is the decline of desktop-based and notebook PCs.  Gartner estimates 341 million PC units were sold in 2012.  That number is expected to drop to 271 million by 2017.

The transition from PCs to mobile devices shouldn’t come as a surprise to consumers.  Our demand for mobility has sparked increased production of smaller, lighter, sleeker mobile devices.  The advanced engineering of new mobile processors, with integrated components for high-quality graphics and consistent data connections, has enabled amazing performance in a portable package.  The all-in-one Qualcomm Snapdragon processor design gives outstanding energy efficiency while handling the heaviest of workloads, making tablets a fully capable computing option that we can carry anywhere.

Some also credit the shift from desktop to mobile devices to the increasing availability of lower-priced tablets.  Indeed, advancements in technology have allowed for more competition and cost-effective production along with the incredible leaps in functionality.  Widespread use of services like cloud storage and video streaming have also reduced our dependence on bulky hard drives, turning heavy laptops and PC towers into unappealing, antiquated relics, much like CRT monitors.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. receives Delta Air Lines, Inc. Award for NextGen Flat Panel Dis

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. receives Delta Air Lines, Inc. Award for NextGen Flat Panel Display System and Flight Management System Turnkey Upgrade to its MD-88 and MD-90 Aircraft Fleet

Upgrade to reduce MD-88/-90 fleet CO 2 emissions by 80 million pounds annually and noise footprint by more than 50%

EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) placed an order today for more than $60 million with Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. (NAS: ISSC) for a complete Systems Integration, Dual GPS Navigation and Cockpit Avionics upgrade of Delta’s MD88 and MD90 aircraft. IS&S will supply all the equipment and installation kits. Specially trained IS&S installation teams will remove existing equipment and install all the LRUs, on site, and prepare the aircraft for return to service. It is anticipated that this turnkey modification will take fewer than six days

IS&S Flat Panel Display System for Delta MD-88 (Photo: Innovative Solutions & Support, Inc.)

This Delta Air Lines order for a fleet wide retrofit of MD-88/-90 aircraft will provide those aircraft with full RNP, RTA, and GPS (Required Navigational Performance, Required Time of Arrival, and Global Positioning System) capabilities with similar efficiency and performance to the newest production aircraft. In addition, the flight deck integration eliminates legacy CRT and Flight Management avionics, leverages recently developed advanced technology, and provides the flexibility to install future upgrades. The ISSC system includes an advanced flight management system, an integrated standby system, and primary flight displays. The system implements Data Link and ADS-B capabilities.

“I am very pleased with the opportunity to work with Delta on this important program. This advanced system is an important milestone that confirms and endorses our 5 year development efforts of a Next Generation Flight Management System,” said Geoffrey Hedrick, Chairman and CEO of Innovative Solutions & Support.

IS&S’s advanced Flight Management System and Global Positioning System Receivers have been selected in all three market segments of Air Transport, Military and Business Aviation. IS&S supplies Flight Management solutions to the commercial market for B-737, MD-80, MD-88 and MD-90. IS&S supplies the military market for C-130, L-100 and the Business market for the Eclipse E500 and E550 aircraft. These flight management systems are amongst the industries most advanced aircraft performance and navigation solutions. The dual IS&S precision Beta 3 GPS navigation system provides three-dimensional position and velocity information accurate to 10 feet. The IS&S dual redundant, RNP …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

From Osborne to iPad: 3 Decades of Portable Computing

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By Alex Planes, The Motley Fool

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On this day in economic and business history …

The world’s first mass-produced “portable” computer (a computer in the true sense, and not just a big calculator) was introduced to the tech public on this day in 1981. Engadget has the backstory:

On April 3rd, 1981, Adam Osborne unveiled the Osborne 1 at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. It had a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 CPU, two single-sided floppy drives, 64K of RAM, and a five-inch monochrome CRT display. Nothing particularly special there, even back in the day. No, what made the Osborne 1 extraordinary was the fact that the 24-pound plastic machine had a carrying handle on the back — and at the bargain price of $1,795 with software included, it became one of the first mass-produced portable computers to succeed. Which, of course, spurred competitors to create an army of even more luggable, loveable machines.

The rise of Osborne Computer on the back of the Osborne 1 was dizzying, as Technologizer recounts in a comprehensive piece on the company and its groundbreaking founder:

The fact that the Osborne 1 was a fully functioning personal computer in a portable case captured the imagination of techies in 1981. … The first Osborne 1 units shipped to dealers in June 1981. In August 1982, the company sold $10 million worth of computers; for the fiscal year that ended in February 1983, its revenues reached $100 million.

This incredible growth was followed by an equally stunning collapse, which has since given rise to the cautionary “Osborne Effect,” which warns tech companies against preannouncing ambitious projects that are still far from market-ready, as vendors and consumers will hold off on buying existing models in anticipation of a newer, better machine. However, it’s debatable whether Osborne’s too-soon PR campaign is solely to blame for the company’s failure. After all, by 1983, Osborne had to compete with the IBM PC, which was released in 1981 and quickly became the closest thing computing had to an industry standard, thanks to a relatively easy reverse-engineering process.

The Osborne 1 was good enough, but it wasn’t great, and so it was extremely vulnerable to products that seemed even a little better and a little cheaper — products like the Compaq Portable, the first IBM-compatible portable PC. Compaq’s early portable success brought it to even greater heights than Osborne would ever reach, leading to a $25 billion combination with Hewlett-Packard in 2001. HP is still one of the world’s leading laptop vendors, but in recent years, nearly all laptop manufacturing has shifted to a handful of Chinese companies.

The world offered the portable form factor a resounding vote of confidence three decades after Osborne practically invented the category. More than 230 million laptops were bought around the world in 2010 — but just as the Osborne was made obsolete by smaller, better, cheaper portables, …read more

Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Linux

KWin Magnifier Plugin Improvements

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Over the years I’ve been in KDE, one thing has always bothered me, as I am sure many users feel the same way as I. The topic that comes up the most, and honestly, is the most important of all other developments in KDE, is that of pixel perfection.
It is really bothersome when I’ve seen so many developers worry about less pressing things like porting to this new “Qt 5” and “QML” nonsense. Or adding more features, porting to other platforms, etc.
But what about refining existing basics? I think that is more important, every developer I know simply does not care about pixel perfect alignment, as if they’ve got more important things to do with their time.
However, there is a bit of a problem – not every developer has vision as fantastic as mine and are not as keen at picking out these glaringly obvious sore thumbs of GUI elements that could be as much as 1 pixel misaligned!
So it finally struck me! What if every developer could easily see these obvious issues? If they can see them, they will fix them and hold off every release until every one of these pixel misalignment issues are fixed.
The past two weeks I’ve been working on revamping the KWin Magnifier plugin, a plugin traditionally used to help those who are disabled. But then again, I guess revamping it to help those developers that are disabled (because they cannot see things at a subpixel level, sadly) is just as much of an aid as the Magnifier’s original purpose.
What exactly did I do? Well, the magnifier now shows, upon hovering over an area, the alignment and values of the subpixels of your monitor. This was actually quite complex to do, as I had to dig into a lot of X code in querying the display type and calculating and rendering the result properly.
This is especially important because each display type, e.g. CRT, OLED, LCD have different designs of their layout of pixels on the screen. So in order to properly match this with the image before it is rendered to screen, one needs to take this into account.
Before, using regular KWin Magnifier:

After, using the new KWin SubPixel Magnifier:

I believe the results speak for themselves, really. From now on I expect every developer to stop what they are doing and use this useful plugin to eliminate all of these types of bugs.

Don’t forget to report your bugs, and most importantly..mark …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

Business, Finance, Occupation & Industry

Berkley East Convalescent Hospital Installs New In-Patient Room LCD Displays to Enhance Patient Expe

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Berkley East Convalescent Hospital Installs New In-Patient Room LCD Displays to Enhance Patient Experience

Case Study Highlights the Panasonic LRH30’s Easy Integration with Existing Infrastructure

SECAUCUS, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Panasonic, a manufacturer of healthcare technology solutions, today published a case study highlighting Berkley East Convalescent Hospital‘s installation of 100 new in-room patient displays to improve the patient experience and modernize the facility. Located in Santa Monica, CA, this private nursing home provides a variety of services for seniors and disabled adults, accepting more than 100 patient admissions a month.

In 2011, Berkley East management decided it was time to remodel the facility, including an upgrade to the patient-room televisions, replacing outdated CRT models. The hospital established a series of strategic objectives for the new in-room professional-grade HDTVs that would be purchased: They needed to meet UL60065 (Annex Q) safety requirements, include pillow speaker remote / audio nurse call system integration, be reliable and durable, feature a stylish design and excellent picture quality, be easily sanitized and include an excellent warranty program for on-site technical support.

The hospital ran a series of tests on three different in-room patient displays, including the ease of programming and system-wide cloning, auto-channel select, ease of overall controls via the remote, strength of electrical cords and pillow speaker connections, as well as screen brightness, contrast and color. After the evaluation, Berkeley East purchased 100 Panasonic 32-inch TH-32LRH30U LCD patient room displays.

“All major IT investments come with their share of risks and purchasing displays for our facility was no different,” said Galper. “We needed a reliable HDTV that minimized these risks by delivering quality, functionality and value. Failure to achieve these objectives would result in a quality of life issue for our residents and negative financial impact for the company. With its excellent HD picture quality, competitive price, UL60065 Annex Q Certification and ease of integration with our existing pillow speaker system, the Panasonic LRH Series LCD patient room display exceeded our expectations.”

Since the installation, the Panasonic LRH Series TH-32LRH30U LCD displays continue to improve the patient in-room experience and the reputation of Berkley East Convalescent Hospital.

The full Berkley East Convalescent Hospital case study can be downloaded from the Panasonic website.

For more information on Panasonic solutions for healthcare, please http://www.panasonic.com/business-solutions/healthcare-technology-solutions.asp. For more information on Panasonic professional displays, please visit http://www.panasonic.com/business/flat-panel-displays/index.asp or call 877-803-8492.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance

Automobiles

Rumormill: BMW may be planning AMG Black Series competitors

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By Zach Bowman

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BMW M3 CRT

Word has it BMW has its heart set on giving the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series a run for its money in the US. According to BimmerBoost.com, the German automaker has been making more and more noise about offering a number of specialty models aimed specifically at enthusiasts. While at the Detroit Auto Show this year, the BMW PR machine revealed 2013 will be “an interesting year” and that buyers can expect one or two products aimed specifically at swiping buyers from the clutches of the C63 AMG Black Series. The news came courtesy of Automobile writer Marc Noordeloos’ Twitter machine.

Noordeloos reportedly interviewed several executives familiar with the M models while in Detroit, and says the M division would like to offer hardware like the M3 CSL, GTS or CRT to buyers here in the States. That sounds great to us, but saying something doesn’t make it true, and manufacturers rarely find it in their hearts to bring money-losing machines to our green shores. Still, that won’t stop us from crossing our fingers.

BMW may be planning AMG Black Series competitors originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Autoblog