Well the absolute luminance is important but more relevant is the context :]
A bright monitor in a dim room is much different from a bright one in a sunlit room. I love that my TFT has several brightness presets that I can flip through with one button depending on the time of day.
I love the X-Files but somebody bust out with the D3 pic
real men bitch
To me it sounds like you're reinforcing his point GrayFox 
But yeah as an outsider I'd say skdr is on the money. Why complain about chances and percentiles when the meat of the matter is your own actual talent? If you're good enough you should get in; 70/30 are really not bad odds after all.
If they think you're a subpar artist you either need to improve or the school isn't the right path for you in the first place.
That sounds exactly like what Steppenwolf mentioned. I've seen the same "stuff" since I was very young but it's difficult to pick out except against a solid, bright background like a bright blue sky (or these very forums).
I think this is just uninformed and outdated scaremongering. I would think that if there is an effect it is very uncommon and if there is any link to LCDs it is probably difficult to substantiate, which is why you don't see any real scientific articles on the subject.
A quick look over the wikipedia article for fluorescent light shows this:
Fluorescent lamps which operate directly from mains frequency AC will flicker at twice the mains frequency, since the power being delivered to the lamp will drop to zero twice per cycle. This means that the light will flicker at the rate of 120 times per second (Hz) in countries which use 60-cycle (60 Hz) AC, and 100 times per second in those which use 50 Hz. This same principle applies to the occasional hum one hears from fluorescent lamps, which is primarily caused by the ballast. Both the annoying hum and flicker are eliminated in lamps which use a high-frequency electronic ballast, such as the increasingly popular compact fluorescent bulb.Although most people cannot directly see 120 Hz flicker, some people report that 120 Hz flicker causes eyestrain and headache. Dr. J. Veitch has found that people have better reading performance using high-frequency (20-60 kHz) electronic ballasts than magnetic ballasts (120 Hz)
LCD backlights are usually cold cathode fluorescent lamps which operate very differently from your standard overhead lamps at much higher frequencies and do not "flicker". He doesn't directly mention CCFLs in his article, but in passing he dismisses his own concerns as fixed by "newer technology". He's even using LCDs himself:
however I am now myself using the 1600x1200 pixel LCD display of my notebook computer... I actually prefer the notebook display to the same resolution displayed by a top-of-the-line brand name 22" CRT set at a high refresh frequency.
(because wikipedia is infallible)
but yeah they're probably right.
heh..
also, and this is only loosely related but still interesting (hooray for tinkering):
singleplayer. somedaywe'lltypewithoutspacesatall.
Point taken, but there I don't think there's a digital camera made that can rival the fidelity of large format
And the tinkerer in me doesn't think anyone will be building his own dSLR anytime soon.
The way you've just outlined the depressions is really too much IMO. If it's going to be normal mapped those lines just shouldn't be there and if it's not then I think you should do the old bevel/emboss fakery and it should be much more subtle than it is now.
For me the switch to digital was a matter of expense and convenience but I'm truly saddened that I don't have durable prints of my best photos anymore. I have a crate of photos that I took during my late teens and they are more valuable to me than almost anything.
Anything Samsung I'd heartily recommend.
tell that to somebody who's lost two years of photographs to a hard drive crash... hardware is not forever. The beauty of digital content is its easy and lossless duplication but the media it resides upon is so fragile and transient. It takes a responsible person to mind and maintain their digital media.
notice there are no stupid physics props in that yard 
awesome, much grats hombre~!
I'd use lamps instead of torches
not exactly what i meant but, meh
