First of all, by default, you have to type '/' to activate the search as you find tool. Also, the Edit->Find features are still there. Type Control+F and the field will come up so you can type in whatever you want. And then you type in what you want, and then hit enter. Then to search again you can hit F3 or Control+G. So I really don't understand your gripe at all. If you want to change the search/find utility to automatically search as you type (meaning, no typing '/' first), then you can do that as well via Tools-Options->Advanced->Accessibility->2 nd Option.
So...I'm pretty sure I understood your post correctly, but it didn't make much sense, because you can still do CtrlF, F3 as you did before. That has not changed. If I'm wrong, then reply to this.
Just like "Administrator's Day", "Bring your daughter to work day", "Bring your son to work day".
Someone is just coming up with stupid holidays so people buy stupid things. Where's the calendar that points out every day of the year as "Something special day". I'm sure tomorrow is "Good User Day" where sys admins give prizes to the best users, and then it will be "Taxi Cab Driver Day" where you should give the cab drivers extra tip.
Why do we have the need to create these stupid "fake holidays?"
There used to be a reson for these days. I think it used to be awareness, but when every day became another thing you should be aware of, it got tedious, and then all these stupid ones came about.
How about people just do their job and stop thinking that they are the saviour of the world. The fact that you are getting paid is your appreciation.
Considering our veins are outfitted with nice valves that prevent the backflow of blood in between pumps of the heart, what would happen to them when they are no longer needed? One would think that they just wouldn't close, which I suppose is fine, but it just seems that they might create an unwanted side-effect.
Also, it is possible that our organs aren't capabale of handling blood in a constant stream and they need those precious milliseconds of rest in between beats.
Perhaps I should've stayed in medicine and then I'd know these answers, but since I didn't, anyone know or have a better theoretical idea?
"This man has no pulse! I've been giving him CPR since I called you guys and I can't get a signal!"
While ths scenario is pretty funny...most CPR certified professionals check for breathing, not a pulse. And if they didn't, then they shouldn't be certified. Yes, they also check for a pulse, but not before they check for breathing. Depending on the body fat on a person, the pulse isn't always easily detected.
That is EXACTLY what I am reminded of when I read this article. Perhaps that is what I would do. It'd be fun, and I'd get the last laugh if my relatives are too stupid to figure it all out. Plus, I love puzzles, so it would be a perfect way to have someone guess my password.
For those that don't know what I'm talking about, Da Vinci Code is a book by Dan Brown that has been in the news quite a bit since it hit the market a couple of year ago because of it's questioning the Christian religion. The book is a murder mystery (thriller?) and the way to solve it is to follow a fairly cryptic path of riddles and clues. The guy that dies (this is the first thing you read in the book) is the curator for the Louvre (sp) and he died in a very weird way (which is where the clues start pouring in)
Most CEO's don't just sell stock. Often, they're required to hold onto them, being CEO and all. If you do want to sell, someone with such a large percentage is also requird to sell in small chuncks and have to file papers in order to sell shares because they are market movers and insiders. An insider is someone who has intimate knowledge of the business or is an active partner in the business.
Also, like Darl of SCO, Eric of Google will not be selling any share any time soon.
(I generally boycott theaters that show commercials (movie previews excepted of course) but sometimes they're unavoidable.)
This is pretty much unavoidable in new york city, where i live. I also don't walk out because I don't really know how long they will be, and often they're mixed in with the movie previews, which i do enjoy. So I just deal with it. Though I have yelled out in the middle before asking to remove commericals...got a good laugh out of people near by.
I agree with you, but there is a difference between the ads that are out there. I use the AdBlock extension with FireFox. It works great, and I have completely forgotten about ads on the internet. I can still perform fast Google searches and I have no interest in blocking their ads. Why? Because all of the ads that I have blocked are images; colourful, moving, flashy images. I have no problem with simple soft-colour text ads, a la Google, but I hate ads that are like the X11 camera ads.
When Advertisments start to deter a user from surfing the web, you know it's gone too far. yes, sometimes the ads are nice and you're actually looking for them, but generally, they're obnoxiours and rude. Salon, I think, has a good idea on how to handle things. I don't have time to really read much news online, so I don't subscrube to them. I do however go through their 1-ad view for a free-day-pass when there is 1 article that someone has sent me.
I will bitch and bitch and then bitch some more when I am bombarded with ads. I hate them when I pay 11$ to see a movie and I'm forced to see commercials, and I hate them when I pay money to go to a website (hey, access to the internet does cost money and image ads are a b/w hog).
Logic tells me that shouldn't work. History of US laywers tells me that actually will. See, consultants can be paid based on performance. Performace being their own performance and performance of the company as a whole. So, if their division makes money but the entire company loses it, then perhaps they will get some bonus, but not much, because the company is trying to stay afloat. Of course in this situation, all the consultants would leave and go somewhere else. I don't think they'd have a case to sue because their bonus is based on performance of several things. The final thing being the company as a whole.
Then again, this is the US of A where 90% of all lawyers reside and practice, so I suppose anything's possible.
Bonus: " Something given or paid in addition to what is usual or expected."
You're implied that they expected the bonus. I've noticed that it's been the culture recently. Everyone expects a bonus and are disappointed when they don't get it. What gives. It's called a bonus, not a End-Of-Year-Salary. Sorry, too bad, you're a consultant, and if you work expecting a bonus, then you're working in the wrong field. While yes, it is "expected" that consultants get bonuses because their salary can sometimes be low, but this is just superficial in my book. You get a salary and that is all you should expect at the end of the year. So, if IBM didn't make enough money to pay bonuses, so be it.
And don't give me that bullshit about the C-level exects getting 2MM bonuses. So they got em. If they expected them, that's too bad and lucky at the same time. Not everyone can get a bonus and you should never rely on it.
Well, they were similar to many people's memories from that night. I've always dreamt of seeing Manhattan without lights, I just didn't think it would ever happen.
At about 4:30 (when the UPS's died) we left. At this point we knew a couple of things. The entire North East had lost power, up to Ohio and parts of Canada. We knew nothing else since we didn't have a radio with us, so I left to go home and was a bit worried about what actually happened. I found out on the streets while walking from Wall St. to the Brooklyn Bridge. On the way there, I decided to go to Heartland Brewery and have a few pints. After it got dark they kicked everyone out because we couldn't see anymore. They had also run out of all alcohol mixers, so it was beer only (until they ran out of that). Luckly beer was powered through with kegs and tanks, so beer flowed plenty. I was there with quite a few travellers and NYers alike. 8PM I decided to take the long walk home. Wow, so many people, and I got a great picture (mirror please...) of the NY skyline. Anyway, get across the bridge, and swarms of people are helping taffic - pretty cool, because otherwise it would be complete chaos. I was also greeted by the borough president - I guess he had nothing else to do.
Finally, walking down Atlantic Ave (quite busy avenue in Brooklyn) all the stores had set up on the street and so had the Deli's. Everything was cheap and everyone was drinking beer to keep cool. Who needs water? People were everywhere sitting on their roofs and stoops hanging out with friends and relaxing. People were running on the less crowded streets and playing games until it was too dark, and then the bars. My god, the bars were crowded that night. Every bar on Smith St (where a lot of bars and restaurants are in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill area) was completely packed. It was a lot of fun. That was a great night to meet lots of random people and just laugh at the fact that no one has power.
I can't remember anything terrible that happened that night - except that I had to go to work the next morning and wait outside my building till 2pm (eventually went home because I wouldn't get in until after the market closed). Hey, if the blackout can happen again, so can all the fun. All in all, NYers pulled it together and helped each other out where needed, and managed to have fun at the same time. I'm just glad I lived in Brooklyn at the time and not upstate NY like some of my co-workers...
"Anyway, how is unlocking something you've paid for being a vandal?"
When you purchase something and prior to purchasing it you agree to not break it and not "unlock" it. In this case you have agreed beforehand not to break this thing, and now you have. Therefore you have broken the rules that you just adhered to. Also, the thing is no longer the same as when you bought it, thus, vandal.
This is just an example, I have no idea what the Licence Agreements are for Apple's iTunes, nor do I care.
I agree with you, monopolies are bad all around. However I disagree with you saying that Linux would be the monopoly. I'd say that this is only leveling out the playing field. Where is the 50B USD cash bank account that supports Linux? There isn't one. Now with these 3 large governments and their cash helping a bit, there is some investment going into it. Combine this with IBM, SUN and whatever other companies are putting into Linux, this is only leveling out the playing field. Not creating a monopoly.
There is a difference. While not much between 2.0 and 1.6, but when it's to the 8th power, it's a big number. Hey, the difference is nearly the entire EU settlement.
Simply because sometimes you can't control what runs through your mind. Say one day you're bored and you start thinking about games, your ex (perhaps games with your ex), about the conversation you had last night with your friend, or about the stupid things you did when you got drunk last night, and the next thing you know, you've got yourself with your ex in some crazy sex position on the screen or perhaps a picture of you hanging onto the wall relieving yourself because you forgot to go at the bar before going home...and your boss walks by. "But I was just doing work....Please don't fire me!"
Yeah, I'm all for visual designing:-D I come up with some great software. As always, the porn industry will be the first industry to embrace this new technology.
IBM - look at everything done at the Almaden labs and just general research JPL - technically not a gov't organization Intel - Itanium AMD - x86-64
There are plenty of examples where companies have and still are doing this. You don't hear about it because it hasn't made any money yet. You can however read about most of it if you know where to look. Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, HP/Compaq are some of the largest research funders in the world. You don't have to look very far to find the money being spent in research which might or might not make money in the long run.
I love this idea, and I've been waiting for this...now I can get some of my nights out memory back. There are so many things that have happened at 4 in the morning that I fail to remember, and this is the perfect thing! We'll have to change Homer's quote to:
"The cause and solution to all of life's problems: alcohol and a camera."
I hope thatwe don't get an unnatural price rise due to this being a friday and everyone trying to cover their short positions before the week ends !!
You won't. Because you can't short SCO. I order to short a stock there has to be stock out there to short. And companies with few shares out there aren't "shortable," therefore, if the price goes up, it's got nothing to do with people trying to cover their short positions or creating short positions. If you could short, I would've at 17$, or at least told the traders to do so.
So, the engineers finally played this game and decided that it can't be that hard to actually build a machine like that.
On a serious note, that's what this is on the way too. Someone above mentioned that this will enable soldiers to carry very heavy armour that can protect them from most small firearms. Soon, there will be arm exoskeletons and then after that we'll have complete exoskeletons, and at some point, the machines will end up looking like the Mechwarrior machines with missiles and automatic machine guns.
Though it would be nice to think of the possibilities on a humane side. Helping people who've lost the ability to walk, to walk again. But that not what provides the money (the large amounts needed to really propell this). This should make basketball actually watchable again:)
I agree, it was kinda cool when I first saw it, but it was/is extremely slow. And then I realized that it was just the "fresh-new-smell" that made it so cool and it's not really all that practical. It works when you only have a power of 2 number of virtual screens (4, 8, 16), otherwise the ratio will be skewed and the screens would look funny. Of course, you could just black out the extra screens if there are less than 8 or whatever.
Either way, it would only get slower when more screens are added, which sucks, and makes it not practical. Also, the more screens there are, the more difficult it is to actually see what is on each screen. Nice idea, works for simple things (4 screens), but as this becomes more mainstream, more power-users will emerge and want more desktops (i use 6-7), and others use even more.
It's a nice idea, but I still like to see a list of applications/window-name and being able to click on them instead to find my app.
I wasn't, but it didn't matter. From what I understand of the "Full-Screen preview" (since I used to do this on XP until i decided it was complete crap) was built into their multi-virtual-desktop powertoy. Anyway, with the powertoy you can have 4 desktops (no more, no less), and when you add the switch buttons to the taskbar, you can click on 1, 2, 3, 4, O - where that O represents the full-screen preview button. What would happen is that the screen would be split into 4 and you would see the applications as they currently are (and if some of them changed while you were on another screen). You'd see everything - kinda cool and all, but not really very practical. I'd prefer to click both buttons and then find the app that I'm looking for that way instead of getting a full-screen mode of all 6 of my virtual screens.
I'm a geek and last v-day my then g/f "got me" some lingerie. Very sexy. A geek doesn't need toys to keep happy. I'm sure he'd be perfectly happy with having you around. Though a toy wouldn't hurt.
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What can be done to make manufacturers get their heads into the real world?
Um, ok. So, let me get this straight. You want these manufacturers to _not_ take advantage of the people dumb enough to believe they are buying something else. Those 15% of the people that think that they have an HDTV, probably bought something that was overpriced, and might end up buying equipment that would only work to it's fullest with a HDTV system. They're making money off of the stupid. I don't expect them to change. While it would be moral and nice of them to, but since when is capitalism moral and nice? It's about money, and if someone wants to give it to them, they will take it.
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First of all, by default, you have to type '/' to activate the search as you find tool. Also, the Edit->Find features are still there. Type Control+F and the field will come up so you can type in whatever you want. And then you type in what you want, and then hit enter. Then to search again you can hit F3 or Control+G. So I really don't understand your gripe at all. If you want to change the search/find utility to automatically search as you type (meaning, no typing '/' first), then you can do that as well via Tools-Options->Advanced->Accessibility->2 nd Option.
So...I'm pretty sure I understood your post correctly, but it didn't make much sense, because you can still do CtrlF, F3 as you did before. That has not changed. If I'm wrong, then reply to this.
Just like "Administrator's Day", "Bring your daughter to work day", "Bring your son to work day".
Someone is just coming up with stupid holidays so people buy stupid things. Where's the calendar that points out every day of the year as "Something special day". I'm sure tomorrow is "Good User Day" where sys admins give prizes to the best users, and then it will be "Taxi Cab Driver Day" where you should give the cab drivers extra tip.
Why do we have the need to create these stupid "fake holidays?"
There used to be a reson for these days. I think it used to be awareness, but when every day became another thing you should be aware of, it got tedious, and then all these stupid ones came about.
How about people just do their job and stop thinking that they are the saviour of the world. The fact that you are getting paid is your appreciation.
Considering our veins are outfitted with nice valves that prevent the backflow of blood in between pumps of the heart, what would happen to them when they are no longer needed? One would think that they just wouldn't close, which I suppose is fine, but it just seems that they might create an unwanted side-effect.
Also, it is possible that our organs aren't capabale of handling blood in a constant stream and they need those precious milliseconds of rest in between beats.
Perhaps I should've stayed in medicine and then I'd know these answers, but since I didn't, anyone know or have a better theoretical idea?
While ths scenario is pretty funny...most CPR certified professionals check for breathing, not a pulse. And if they didn't, then they shouldn't be certified. Yes, they also check for a pulse, but not before they check for breathing. Depending on the body fat on a person, the pulse isn't always easily detected.
That is EXACTLY what I am reminded of when I read this article. Perhaps that is what I would do. It'd be fun, and I'd get the last laugh if my relatives are too stupid to figure it all out. Plus, I love puzzles, so it would be a perfect way to have someone guess my password.
For those that don't know what I'm talking about, Da Vinci Code is a book by Dan Brown that has been in the news quite a bit since it hit the market a couple of year ago because of it's questioning the Christian religion. The book is a murder mystery (thriller?) and the way to solve it is to follow a fairly cryptic path of riddles and clues. The guy that dies (this is the first thing you read in the book) is the curator for the Louvre (sp) and he died in a very weird way (which is where the clues start pouring in)
Most CEO's don't just sell stock. Often, they're required to hold onto them, being CEO and all. If you do want to sell, someone with such a large percentage is also requird to sell in small chuncks and have to file papers in order to sell shares because they are market movers and insiders. An insider is someone who has intimate knowledge of the business or is an active partner in the business.
Also, like Darl of SCO, Eric of Google will not be selling any share any time soon.
(I generally boycott theaters that show commercials (movie previews excepted of course) but sometimes they're unavoidable.)
This is pretty much unavoidable in new york city, where i live. I also don't walk out because I don't really know how long they will be, and often they're mixed in with the movie previews, which i do enjoy. So I just deal with it. Though I have yelled out in the middle before asking to remove commericals...got a good laugh out of people near by.
I agree with you, but there is a difference between the ads that are out there. I use the AdBlock extension with FireFox. It works great, and I have completely forgotten about ads on the internet. I can still perform fast Google searches and I have no interest in blocking their ads. Why? Because all of the ads that I have blocked are images; colourful, moving, flashy images. I have no problem with simple soft-colour text ads, a la Google, but I hate ads that are like the X11 camera ads.
When Advertisments start to deter a user from surfing the web, you know it's gone too far. yes, sometimes the ads are nice and you're actually looking for them, but generally, they're obnoxiours and rude. Salon, I think, has a good idea on how to handle things. I don't have time to really read much news online, so I don't subscrube to them. I do however go through their 1-ad view for a free-day-pass when there is 1 article that someone has sent me.
I will bitch and bitch and then bitch some more when I am bombarded with ads. I hate them when I pay 11$ to see a movie and I'm forced to see commercials, and I hate them when I pay money to go to a website (hey, access to the internet does cost money and image ads are a b/w hog).
Well, at least it's not Communism - which it used to be when Chernobyl actually occurred...
Logic tells me that shouldn't work. History of US laywers tells me that actually will. See, consultants can be paid based on performance. Performace being their own performance and performance of the company as a whole. So, if their division makes money but the entire company loses it, then perhaps they will get some bonus, but not much, because the company is trying to stay afloat. Of course in this situation, all the consultants would leave and go somewhere else. I don't think they'd have a case to sue because their bonus is based on performance of several things. The final thing being the company as a whole.
Then again, this is the US of A where 90% of all lawyers reside and practice, so I suppose anything's possible.
Bonus: " Something given or paid in addition to what is usual or expected."
You're implied that they expected the bonus. I've noticed that it's been the culture recently. Everyone expects a bonus and are disappointed when they don't get it. What gives. It's called a bonus, not a End-Of-Year-Salary. Sorry, too bad, you're a consultant, and if you work expecting a bonus, then you're working in the wrong field. While yes, it is "expected" that consultants get bonuses because their salary can sometimes be low, but this is just superficial in my book. You get a salary and that is all you should expect at the end of the year. So, if IBM didn't make enough money to pay bonuses, so be it.
And don't give me that bullshit about the C-level exects getting 2MM bonuses. So they got em. If they expected them, that's too bad and lucky at the same time. Not everyone can get a bonus and you should never rely on it.
Well, they were similar to many people's memories from that night. I've always dreamt of seeing Manhattan without lights, I just didn't think it would ever happen.
At about 4:30 (when the UPS's died) we left. At this point we knew a couple of things. The entire North East had lost power, up to Ohio and parts of Canada. We knew nothing else since we didn't have a radio with us, so I left to go home and was a bit worried about what actually happened. I found out on the streets while walking from Wall St. to the Brooklyn Bridge. On the way there, I decided to go to Heartland Brewery and have a few pints. After it got dark they kicked everyone out because we couldn't see anymore. They had also run out of all alcohol mixers, so it was beer only (until they ran out of that). Luckly beer was powered through with kegs and tanks, so beer flowed plenty. I was there with quite a few travellers and NYers alike. 8PM I decided to take the long walk home. Wow, so many people, and I got a great picture (mirror please...) of the NY skyline. Anyway, get across the bridge, and swarms of people are helping taffic - pretty cool, because otherwise it would be complete chaos. I was also greeted by the borough president - I guess he had nothing else to do.
Finally, walking down Atlantic Ave (quite busy avenue in Brooklyn) all the stores had set up on the street and so had the Deli's. Everything was cheap and everyone was drinking beer to keep cool. Who needs water? People were everywhere sitting on their roofs and stoops hanging out with friends and relaxing. People were running on the less crowded streets and playing games until it was too dark, and then the bars. My god, the bars were crowded that night. Every bar on Smith St (where a lot of bars and restaurants are in Brooklyn Heights/Cobble Hill area) was completely packed. It was a lot of fun. That was a great night to meet lots of random people and just laugh at the fact that no one has power.
I can't remember anything terrible that happened that night - except that I had to go to work the next morning and wait outside my building till 2pm (eventually went home because I wouldn't get in until after the market closed). Hey, if the blackout can happen again, so can all the fun. All in all, NYers pulled it together and helped each other out where needed, and managed to have fun at the same time. I'm just glad I lived in Brooklyn at the time and not upstate NY like some of my co-workers...
"Anyway, how is unlocking something you've paid for being a vandal?"
When you purchase something and prior to purchasing it you agree to not break it and not "unlock" it. In this case you have agreed beforehand not to break this thing, and now you have. Therefore you have broken the rules that you just adhered to. Also, the thing is no longer the same as when you bought it, thus, vandal.
This is just an example, I have no idea what the Licence Agreements are for Apple's iTunes, nor do I care.
I agree with you, monopolies are bad all around. However I disagree with you saying that Linux would be the monopoly. I'd say that this is only leveling out the playing field. Where is the 50B USD cash bank account that supports Linux? There isn't one. Now with these 3 large governments and their cash helping a bit, there is some investment going into it. Combine this with IBM, SUN and whatever other companies are putting into Linux, this is only leveling out the playing field. Not creating a monopoly.
Let the games begin.
There is a difference. While not much between 2.0 and 1.6, but when it's to the 8th power, it's a big number. Hey, the difference is nearly the entire EU settlement.
Quote things properly please.
Simply because sometimes you can't control what runs through your mind. Say one day you're bored and you start thinking about games, your ex (perhaps games with your ex), about the conversation you had last night with your friend, or about the stupid things you did when you got drunk last night, and the next thing you know, you've got yourself with your ex in some crazy sex position on the screen or perhaps a picture of you hanging onto the wall relieving yourself because you forgot to go at the bar before going home...and your boss walks by. "But I was just doing work....Please don't fire me!"
:-D I come up with some great software. As always, the porn industry will be the first industry to embrace this new technology.
Yeah, I'm all for visual designing
It's probably under the individual states of United States. I'm guessing right before Puerto Rico. :-P
IBM - look at everything done at the Almaden labs and just general research
JPL - technically not a gov't organization
Intel - Itanium
AMD - x86-64
There are plenty of examples where companies have and still are doing this. You don't hear about it because it hasn't made any money yet. You can however read about most of it if you know where to look. Microsoft, IBM, Intel, AMD, HP/Compaq are some of the largest research funders in the world. You don't have to look very far to find the money being spent in research which might or might not make money in the long run.
I love this idea, and I've been waiting for this...now I can get some of my nights out memory back. There are so many things that have happened at 4 in the morning that I fail to remember, and this is the perfect thing! We'll have to change Homer's quote to:
"The cause and solution to all of life's problems: alcohol and a camera."
I hope thatwe don't get an unnatural price rise due to this being a friday and everyone trying to cover their short positions before the week ends !!
You won't. Because you can't short SCO. I order to short a stock there has to be stock out there to short. And companies with few shares out there aren't "shortable," therefore, if the price goes up, it's got nothing to do with people trying to cover their short positions or creating short positions. If you could short, I would've at 17$, or at least told the traders to do so.
So, the engineers finally played this game and decided that it can't be that hard to actually build a machine like that.
:)
On a serious note, that's what this is on the way too. Someone above mentioned that this will enable soldiers to carry very heavy armour that can protect them from most small firearms. Soon, there will be arm exoskeletons and then after that we'll have complete exoskeletons, and at some point, the machines will end up looking like the Mechwarrior machines with missiles and automatic machine guns.
Though it would be nice to think of the possibilities on a humane side. Helping people who've lost the ability to walk, to walk again. But that not what provides the money (the large amounts needed to really propell this). This should make basketball actually watchable again
I agree, it was kinda cool when I first saw it, but it was/is extremely slow. And then I realized that it was just the "fresh-new-smell" that made it so cool and it's not really all that practical. It works when you only have a power of 2 number of virtual screens (4, 8, 16), otherwise the ratio will be skewed and the screens would look funny. Of course, you could just black out the extra screens if there are less than 8 or whatever.
Either way, it would only get slower when more screens are added, which sucks, and makes it not practical. Also, the more screens there are, the more difficult it is to actually see what is on each screen. Nice idea, works for simple things (4 screens), but as this becomes more mainstream, more power-users will emerge and want more desktops (i use 6-7), and others use even more.
It's a nice idea, but I still like to see a list of applications/window-name and being able to click on them instead to find my app.
I wasn't, but it didn't matter. From what I understand of the "Full-Screen preview" (since I used to do this on XP until i decided it was complete crap) was built into their multi-virtual-desktop powertoy. Anyway, with the powertoy you can have 4 desktops (no more, no less), and when you add the switch buttons to the taskbar, you can click on 1, 2, 3, 4, O - where that O represents the full-screen preview button. What would happen is that the screen would be split into 4 and you would see the applications as they currently are (and if some of them changed while you were on another screen). You'd see everything - kinda cool and all, but not really very practical. I'd prefer to click both buttons and then find the app that I'm looking for that way instead of getting a full-screen mode of all 6 of my virtual screens.
I'm a geek and last v-day my then g/f "got me" some lingerie. Very sexy. A geek doesn't need toys to keep happy. I'm sure he'd be perfectly happy with having you around. Though a toy wouldn't hurt.
What can be done to make manufacturers get their heads into the real world?
Um, ok. So, let me get this straight. You want these manufacturers to _not_ take advantage of the people dumb enough to believe they are buying something else. Those 15% of the people that think that they have an HDTV, probably bought something that was overpriced, and might end up buying equipment that would only work to it's fullest with a HDTV system. They're making money off of the stupid. I don't expect them to change. While it would be moral and nice of them to, but since when is capitalism moral and nice? It's about money, and if someone wants to give it to them, they will take it.