So I got a second monitor and it's color greatly differs from my current one. The new one is a Samsung PLS monitor, the older one an ASUS model (no idea which); both have a Full HD resolution, the first one is connected over HDMI, the latter over DVI. Both are in a ~200 € price range, so no professional design monitors with fully adjustable displays.  At first sight, my old monitor looked better in comparison (much more vibrant, generally a bit brighter; also, this might have just been the force of habit). However, this one has several display modes, of which the 'scenery mode' was selected. In the 'standard mode', the overall look is much closer to the new monitor. So I'm assuming this scenery mode just adds some vibrance and similar adjustments to make the picture look better for consumers - which might not be what I want for design work.   By adjusting both monitors manually, I got both to look somewhat similar, which means less vibrance and saturation than I'm used to. However, I'm kind of confused now, I'm actually not sure if these settings are actually better for design work than the 'scenery mode' which subjectively looks better to me.  Not sure how to put it into words, but here are my questions:   Is it beneficial to adjust my two monitors so that both look roughly the same? Or should I adjust both individually so that they 'look best'? (This way, I would actually see how my design looks on different monitors, wouldn't this be beneficial at least for screen design? I don't do print design anyway ...) How do I know which settings are 'best'? I can of course adjust my old monitor to fit my new monitors appearance, but how can I know what are the correct settings - if such a thing even exists - without some kind of reference? How far can I trust my subjective perception? (I ran the 'calibrate display colour' helper provided by Windows 10 on both monitors, but that didn't help that much. I've cranked up the brightness of my new monitor, but the background of this page, for example, still looks kinda grey-ish even though it's close to white ... or that might just be my perception, because I'm used to the vibrant and brightened scenery mode of my old monitor ... I'm so confused.) I have an nVidia GTX 970. In the Control Panel's colour options, I can choose between 'Other applications control colour settings' and 'Use nVidia settings'. If I choose the latter, I can adjust Brightness, Contrast and Gamma on OS-level (as opposed to the monitor settings itself). Is that a good idea or should I always leave the other applications in control, as to not interfere with Creative Cloud Software?   Sorry I know those questions are kind of convoluted, I'm just confused because I never had a second monitor to work with and now I'm not even sure I can trust my own perception, so I have no idea how to find optimal settings ...  Thanks!
I designed a mockup on my LG monitor. When I view the same design on another monitor that I own, the colors seem drastically different. I reset both of the monitors to their factory defaults, but still the issue persists. I'm wondering if some of my clients might dislike my designs because of this. What should I do?  How can I make sure that what I design is what my client sees?  Even worse still, I've realized that my laptop is showing different colors too.
MSO Review Queue Privileges are Misleading When I visit Stack Overflow, I see the review option in the bar at the top of the screen.    However when on MSO, I don't see it. I assumed this was because I didn't have enough reputation to access the queue. I was curious what the requirement was on meta, so I moseyed on over to the privileges page. To my surprise, I saw that the privilege is listed as only requiring 500 rep and informs me I already have it:    Confused, I manually typed in meta.stackoverflow.com/review to see what would happen. The page did in fact load, but as you can see meta has no "First Posts" or "Late Answers" queue.    Seeing on that page that a minimum of 2k reputation is required to access any queues on MSO, I report the following bug:  1) On the privileges list on MSO, the 500 rep privilege of "Access first posts and late answers review queues" should not appear.  I also have the following feature request:  2) On the privileges list on MSO, it would be useful if instead there was a 2k privilege that informed you that you have access to the "Suggested Edits" and "Low Quality Posts" queues. Is storing passwords hashed with the email more secure than without? I read about Java's type erasure .  When does type erasure occur? At compile time or runtime? When the class is loaded? When the class is instantiated?  A lot of sites (including the official tutorial mentioned above) say type erasure occurs at compile time. If the type information is completely removed at compile time, how does the JDK check type compatibility when a method using generics is invoked with no type information or wrong type information?  Consider the following example: Say class A has a method, empty(Box&lt;?&nbsp;extends&nbsp;Number&gt;&nbsp;b). We compile A.java and get the class file A.class.  public class A {     public static void empty(Box&lt;? extends Number&gt; b) {} }     public class Box&lt;T&gt; {}   Now we create another class B which invokes the method empty with a non-parameterized argument (raw type): empty(new Box()). If we compile B.java with A.class in the classpath, javac is smart enough to raise a warning. So A.class has some type information stored in it.  public class B {     public static void invoke() {         // java: unchecked method invocation:         //  method empty in class A is applied to given types         //  required: Box&lt;? extends java.lang.Number&gt;         //  found:    Box         // java: unchecked conversion         //  required: Box&lt;? extends java.lang.Number&gt;         //  found:    Box         A.empty(new Box());     } }   My guess would be that type erasure occurs when the class is loaded, but it is just a guess. So when does it happen? I'm looking to write a script that will find and replace any characters other than [^A-Za-z0-9._-] in a specific file type (in this case .avi) with an underscore _. I want this to exec recursively from the current path. I'm using Ubuntu.  I do not want or need to change any folder names as I have control over those at the time of creation. Here's what I have now after referencing the following link:    find . -depth -exec rename 's!([^/]*\Z)/[^A-Za-z0-9._-]/_/g' *.avi {} +   I'm clearly missing something. Please help. :) How can I do a line break (line continuation)? I have a long line of code that I want to break up among multiple lines. What do I use and what is the syntax?  For example, adding a bunch of strings,  e = 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd'   and have it in two lines like this:  e = 'a' + 'b' +     'c' + 'd' Create custom fields with apex Anybody knows how to create custom text fields on salesforce.com objects using apex? I'm  having some trouble editing the content of a Managed Email Template, I can quite easily modify the content of the Email Template, but when I wish to refer to an unmanaged component, like this:  &lt;messaging:attachment renderAs="PDF" filename="invoice.pdf"&gt;     &lt;c:MyComponent/&gt; &lt;/messaging:attachment&gt;   I get the error message:     Error: Unknown component c:mycomponent   Does anyone know if its possible to embed an unmanaged component in a managed Email Template? Why should I use the keyword "final" on a method parameter in Java? I can never remember how I do this because it comes up so infrequently for me. But in C or C++, what is the best way to read a character from standard input without waiting for a newline (press enter).  Also ideally it wouldn't echo the input character to the screen. I just want to capture keystrokes with out effecting the console screen. What are preimage resistance and collision resistance, and how can the lack thereof be exploited? What is "preimage resistance", and how can the lack thereof be exploited? How is this different from collision resistance, and are there any known preimage attacks that would be considered feasible? Is it wrong to place the  tag after the  tag? Read a file backwards line by line using fseek HTTPS urls don't onebox in chat When posting an HTTPS url like https://stackoverflow.com/..., it does not onebox in chat. For example: Retrieving the last record in each group - MySQL I'm used to always hearing or seeing a  before certain nouns.  Yet on certain occasions the article is totally omitted, and it bothers me.  I'm wondering what the justification for omitting the article is, especially when the definite article would seem to be required, or if it is just bad English either on the part of the individual in question or more likely by tradition.  The most frequent place I hear this is at the doctor or dentist's office. In every one I have ever visited, the receptionist or assistant always says things like "Doctor will see you shortly" instead of "The doctor will see you shortly."  The wikipedia article linked above says this: "A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener".  In the case of a clinical setting, I know who the doctor is, especially if this is not my first visit.  The people in the office know the doctor even better than I, so it would seem to be inappropriate to omit the article. Even the indefinite article would be incorrect. It further says, under "Zero article":  "In languages having a definite article, the lack of an article specifically indicates that the noun is indefinite."  Since the noun is not indefinite, why are they omitting the article?  Another place I see the article omitted is with the word "bar".  Bartenders apparently don't say "I tend the bar" they say "I tend bar".  Unless a bartender works in multiple bars, it would seem like an article would be required.  Furthermore, "the bar" can mean any bar a person goes to, so even in a case like , it seems like the word "the" should be in the sentence.  The only thing I can think of in this case is maybe the speaker doesn't want to confuse the listener into thinking they work in the legal field.  Is this just a bad habit, a historical corruption or tradition, or is there really a valid reason (or perhaps more than one) for these omissions? "Comments only" lock notice on closed questions mistakenly says that question is still accepting answers When a question has a &quot;comments-only&quot; lock, the following notice is displayed on top of the question:  Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still accepting new answers and other interactions.  However, I noticed that if the question is closed (even before the lock), the same notice is used:  ..which could be confusing, especially for new users. Proposed change to the notice on closed questions:  Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still accepting [votes and] other interactions.  Or, as others have suggested, the additional &quot;but it is still accepting [...]&quot; part can simply be removed as it hardly provides any new information. What is likely to happen when you plug two ends of a network cable to a single switch/router? Will this create problems on the network, or just be ignored? What are 'return' pins? On a VGA connector, there are numerous 'ground' pins. Three of these are Red return, Green return and Blue return; But why does each color component have its own ground pin? I just visited  and noticed that my profile picture is not the same as on all other sites.  According to  the image will be synchronized when synchronizing the complete profile. I did that but the image is still the same.  Then I wanted to change the image in the Area51 profile directly - but I can only change to a gravatar image and can't use the new and fancy Stack Exchange image.  Is that a bug? Divisor in $\mathbb{C}[X]$ $\implies$ divisor in $\mathbb{R}[X]$? let $P \in \mathbb{R}[X]$ be a real polynomial divisible by a polynomial $Q \in \mathbb{R}[X]$ in $\mathbb{C}[X]$. How can I easily show that $P$ is also divisible by $Q$ in $\mathbb{R}[X]$?  A simple argument without using higher algebraic theorems is desirable. If I could use instruments of higher algebra, the exercise I have to do in whole would be done in two lines. But I'm not allowed to use. I think there would be an easy argument which I can't see yet because of my mental fogginess that I have sometimes.  Thank you beforehand.