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Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens?
An anonymous reader asked a question that I've been wondering about too: "I live in a small southern European country where natural light abounds. This may sound good, but it is a pain when it comes to using laptops that come with a glossy finish, making it impossible to work unless you are doing it in the dark. To make matters worse, since we are a small market, most manufacturers only offer a subset of their product line, and don't allow you to choose any options available in other countries (like matte screens). Buying abroad is not an option since we have our own very specific keyboard layout. Why are manufacturers doing this? Does anyone really prefer using glossy screens for day-to-day activities?"
By using closed source products you are supporting a system that does terrible things like "pay people for their time" and "produce products people want to use". This is orthogonal to the end goal of free software which is to have only creepy beardos be able to use and create technology products like some kind of society of badass techno-monks
They used to suck. But then Steve said they were great and started to put them on everything. So now they're great.
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Is that what the OP meant when he said this:
This may sound good, but it is a pain when it comes to using laptops that come with a glossy finish, making it impossible to work unless you are doing it in the dark.
This space for rent.
But I love being able to see the hot girl at the table behind me without looking like I'm staring!
I hope this comment is well received... I could have moderated instead!
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my matte screen at work makes putty look abysmal
I'm confused by this statement. Are you implying there is a type of screen with which PuTTY doesn't look abysmal? (For the record, I love PuTTY. But let's be honest...)
Whatever it is, it's notablog.
But I love being able to see the hot girl at the table behind me without looking like I'm staring!
The one you will never have the guts to ask out? Yeah... Keep on looking at the reflection. That's the closest you will ever get to first base.
It's what I did in my office, and now I never get screen glare, as the sun rises and sets to the right of me.
You rotate your desk 180 degrees over the course of the day?
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Not to mention that its easier to wipe the spunk off.
I'm not sure what I find more entertaining: This comment, or the fact that it's modded +4 informative
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> No idea if they did something with them to make them less mirrory,
Yes, they've been exposed to The Steve's Reality Distortion Field[1]. The recent iphone 4s clearly have not been exposed long enough and need "booster shots", or The Steve was having an "off day"...
I appear to be immune, as I have a MacBook on my desk and I don't like the glossy screen and their chiclet keyboard (the ctrl key is in the wrong place!). I mostly ssh to it from a Windows 7 machine (horrors! :) ).
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-YesqzvNk
The 90's called they want their website and products back.
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Obviously the submitter isn't really from a southern European country. In fact, this submitter clearly isn't even European at all since no real European passes up an opportunity to provide unwanted cultural and demographic information about his country.
In addition, you clearly are not really an American. Real Americans wouldn't care about the submitter's country whether he mentions it or not.
So the real question is why would someone impersonate a Euro just to say they don't like glossy screens? In addition why would someone impersonate an American just to complain that the country wasn't mentioned? There can be only one answer, clearly you are both terrorist operatives discussing some bombing plot to take place in Hungary with materials smuggled in with laptop screens.
I've notified the FBI, expect slashdot to be taken down shorly.
Not to mention that its easier to wipe the spunk off.
I'm not sure what I find more entertaining: This comment, or the fact that it's modded +4 informative
Sorry. I meant to pick funny from the mod-menu but it was kinda hard to see the option because my matte screen was smeared with all this ... never mind.
The one you will never have the guts to ask out?
My wife wouldn't like that at all.
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The 2010's called, they said fuck you.
(Man this decade is a real asshole already, and it's not even 7 months old yet!)
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Thanks, I'd love an omelette right about now.
I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the first and third words here... ;)
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...the sun rises and sets to the right of me. (*Can't be bothered to figure out what direction I am facing)...
You are facing North in the morning, and South in the evening. Nice.
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When do we get to start calling it the 10's? I wonder if, during the 90's, there were old folk who called it the 1990's because to them "the 90's" referred to the 1890's. Maybe I have way too much time on my hands but I think about stuff like this. Maybe I can throw a "Who were these people?" at the end of it and sell it to Seinfeld as a joke.
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Then have your wife ask her out.
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Lower a wedding band onto the pipe... it'll stop putting out immediately! :D
We all know that once the ring goes on the finger, our libido stops cold.
I like the way that in recent years the old "I can't get laid because I can't get a girlfriend" cliche has been joined by "I can't get laid because I'm married"- without any indication of anything having happened inbetween.
:-)
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