ISP Information:
How many bits it takes to represent the color in one pixel. The greater the bit depth, the more colors you can potentially display, and the more power it takes to represent a screen full of pixels at that bit depth. Common bit depths are 16 and 32 bits. Bit depth of 1 would only enable 2 colors, bit depth of 2 enables 4 colors, and so on, where the amount of potential colors can be determined by 2^bit_depth.
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Bit depth - I work for a retail candy company in a east coast tourist town and ever sincethis low-carb thing has taken off, we are inundated with nutritional-ignorantpeople coming into the shop wanting sugar free, like it`s some kind of magiccarb free potion. It`s even worst with diabetics who you would think should knowabout the effect of carbs on their blood sugar, but they are just as cluelessand, my God, we see a hell of a lot of them daily.Most people so clueless as to what a carb is that, in the beginning of thislow-carb run, we were forced to post a simple to read (of course) basicexplanation near the counter. It didn`t work. People believe what they want tobelieve and no amount of explaining why sugar free is not low carb and why sugarfree is not for diabetics and why carbohydrates IS SUGAR will make themunderstand. We finally just gave up and won`t even discuss it anymore.It literally turned into an Abbott and Costello routine:DUMB-ASS: I`m doing Atkins (or, I`m diabetic) and need some sugar free candy.STAFF: Sugar free is not low carb. In fact, the carb count is about the same.DUMB-ASS: It`s sugar free so I don`t care about the carbs, I just can`t have thesugar.STAFF: Sugar is a carb and carbs of any kind quite literally turns to sugar.DUMB-ASS: (Blank, far off stare) I`m doing Atkins (or, I`m diabetic) and needsome sugar free candy.STAFF: Whatever!Repeat this a hundred times a day.So, what exactly is the point to having sugar free you ask? Well.......... SUGARFREE CANDY IS MARKETED SOLELY AS A SUCKER MAGNET FOR DUMB-ASSES WHO THINK THEYCAN LOAD UP ON CANDY WITHOUT CONCEQUENCE!!!! That`s it!So, to hell with them. Let the low-carbers blow the diet and let the diabeticsblast their blood-sugar through the roof. It`s not like we didn`t try andbesides, sugar free sales have never been better.g
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