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[i2amroy]

Yeah, having cameras would make the heart monitors kind of redundant, and would be a lot smaller piece of equipment to carry around that provided a whole lot more data.

[Baffler]

On the other hand, it's a lot easier to get an automated system to page a person (they all have walkie-talkies, don't they?) whose heart rate is elevated than it is to get an automated system to recognize threats to the wearer or other less serious issues through a camera system. Jurassic Park presumably has hundreds of employees, too, so that requires a sizable security staff to monitor all of the camera feeds if they decide to go that route instead.

[i2amroy]

On the other hand, it's a lot easier to get an automated system to page a person (they all have walkie-talkies, don't they?) whose heart rate is elevated than it is to get an automated system to recognize threats to the wearer or other less serious issues through a camera system. Jurassic Park presumably has hundreds of employees, too, so that requires a sizable security staff to monitor all of the camera feeds if they decide to go that route instead.

Because paging someone with audio who is potentially sneaking up on a dinosaur to subdue it definitely has no chance of alerting the dinosaur to their presence and possibly getting them killed.

Seriously though, just depending on the person to hit their panic button or click open a communication channel with the camera for verification is going to be way more useful with less chance of unintended side effects (and assuming that you don't need to store data, only use live feeds, it would even be comparable in cost).

[Baffler]

I mean yeah, it's silly. I'm just trying to justify it for the fun of it

[CABL]

What is optimal image size for this forum? By optimal I mean "Does not make other forumites' eyes bleed".

[TheDarkStar]

What is optimal image size for this forum? By optimal I mean "Does not make other forumites' eyes bleed".

as large as humanly possible

If you spoiler it, it should be ok.

[CABL]

I meant without spoiler use. I know how to use spoilers for pictures.

[Aklyon]

I'd used width=800 for my xcom screenshots.

[i2amroy]

I'd used width=800 for my xcom screenshots.

This is usually pretty good, though on full-screen screenshots I'll usually bump it up to 1000, since that gives most full computers still enough space for a couple hundred pixels on each side for stuff.

[Frumple]

800x600 is a good baseline, yeah. 640x480 or smaller if you really want to be sure/kinder to folks reading on a mobile device. And people like me who browse zoomed in a bit.

[Max™]

Outside of spoilers: img width=450 gets no complaints and tends to work well with the forum software, could go 480 or so if the math works better, inside spoilers I like 750 since it prevents scrollbars and you can click to embiggen.

[Aklyon]

450/480 is going to have some problems if your images are relatively big, though.

[Max™]

Well, 480 scales down better from a 1920x1080, I try not to post images that size or larger out of spoilers.

[Felissan]

In the last couple days, when I'd go on my laptop after leaving it in sleep mode, it would often get graphical glitches for a few minutes, with glitchy horizontal lines flashing all over the screen, and sometimes turning blank for a frame. The glitches always completely stop after some time. It's never done anything like that before.
It's a ~€500 laptop I bought in August last year, that doesn't have any GPU memory - do you guys think it's a hardware issue?

EDIT: I've just tried fiddling with the screen's position, and it stopped all of a sudden. That sounds ominous.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've got a ghost line too! It's been around for a long time, and it comes and goes without a clear pattern. Sometimes I won't see it for months, sometimes it'll be there every time I boot up.

Are you on Windows 8?