I know this is off-topic for devel, but when you go observing at night, you take a flashlight with a dark red filter over it. That way you can read your manuals, atlas, guides, and footing without killing your dark adaptation. There are other tricks, including pirate-y eye patches, see, eg,
http://safari.oreilly.com/0596100604 - astronomy hacks The *real* question is whether one can read the reflective display with a dark red flashlight. (BTW, moonlight is bad because you can never see really faint stars when the moon is up.) On 2/5/07, John R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2/4/07, David W Hogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps this is a question for hardware folks, not devel folks, but > could someone out there tell me if the reflective, b/w mode for the > monitor will be 8-bit greyscale or 1-bit on-off pixels? I am writing > an application for the laptop, but it is *essential* that it run > completely in the reflective mode if that is possible; I need to know > if I can use "greys" or only strict "black" and "white". > I'm a comp sci guy not a physicist so I guess I'll ask the stupid question: how do see anything on the reflective display in the dark? Is moonlight sufficient to read the OLPC display? Thanks, -- John. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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