oh for heavens sake. In QA it is impossible to catch everything, in fact I'm impressed vista works as well as it does considering they rebuilt so much of it.
Remember that Vista has been in development for what, 8 years? You'd expect basic stuff like copying files to work at least as well as it did in previous Windows versions by now...
what has the mothers disability or income got to do witht he rights and wrongs of the story? Either they are guilty or not. disabled people can be guilty too. This is the worst example of tragic slashdot riaa bashing ive seen in a while. grow up.
Yeah, because 10 year olds and their disabled parents on social security really deserve to be traumatized and possibly have their lives destroyed *for downloading a few friggin' tunes*. And yet you talk about ethics.
I sincerely hope you get busted and send to jail for jaywalking, copying your CD's to listen them in your car or accidentally downloading copyrighted material some day.
Well, there's a GPU in the PS3 as well, so what you're proposing would be possible on the PS3 as well: thinkof a folding@home client that runs on the Cell *and* the GPU concurrently.
Also, as I understand it, the number of TFLOPS is not the only performance criterium for the folding@home project, and GPU's with the same # of FLOPs compared to different (CPU) architectures yield less useful results.
But when they count Windows vunerabilities, they don't count all of the third party apps you have to load to get the same functionality. They usually just count the base OS.
Also, though I haven't read TFA (I'm allergic to reports like this), I assume they meant 'Windows is the most secure commercial OS, when used in combination with a good firewall and virusscanner'. Which they coincidentally happen to sell (well, at least they think its good)...
Leopard is not a friggin' point release, it's a major update with lots of new features and major improvements to the core system libraries. The fact that its version number only goes from 10.4.9 to 10.5.0 does not make it a minor update.
Please, can someone explain why it is so damn hard for some people to look past the version numbers and just check out what's new and improved in OS X releases??
2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
I guess the vast majority of end-user couldn't care less what their video codec is doing, as long as it plays their damn video's. It's a bit like the NVidea Linux drivers: the free software purists see it as something awful to load a binary driver on Linux, but I for one am very grateful to have proper 3D accelerated drivers at all. Same goes for video playback... There will always be proprietary video codecs, just get over it. I don't see the problem anyway, if I'm want to run commercial software on Linux it is usually binary as well. Does that mean the software is useless or bad?
I guess he'll be laughing his pants off when he settles with Geffen & Timberland for a small share of the revenue made from the song... Who'd have thunk that? 6 years after doing a SID tune out of hobbyism he finds himself with some millions of $$$ because some dickhead remakes his remake of an Amiga song without asking permission for it.
This article pertains to events in the mid-western red-states. The only thing I can say is the it's only like that in 51% of the country. This has horrible rammifications for national events, like presidential elections, but there's still a lot of blue-state geography here - places where you can go to school, learn science, allow other people to live their lives.
I know, and I agree, it's not really fair to generalize and think everyone in America thinks like this. Maybe the United States are just too large for a centrilazed federal government and an almighty president, the way it is like now. Makes you think about the direction things are going in Europe right now. There's a big political push to integrate the different countries more and more, and eventually get a 'united states of europe'...
Swearing does not really help to make your point dude. I'm really sorry if I hurt your pride or feelings, but as I *only* live in Europe and not in the middle east, asia or africa I cannot comment on Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs's views on this subject. Also I don't see how this is relevant to my comment anyway...
Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children.
Uhm sorry, let me rephrase this, so it's not read out of context: ofcourse I meant to say 'sex is something natural, it does not hurt children if they are accidentally confronted with it':-S
Agreed. What also makes me wonder is *who the hell got the idea to sue her over this*. Here in Europe, things like this would never, ever, ever go to court. What is with Americans that they need a friggin' court to deal with each and every trivial, minor and major event they don't like?? What happened to the idea of just talking to each other and find a solution all can live with, without destroying someone's life and career? If this teacher gets convicted, even if she only gets 6 months probation, she can kiss her job and any opportunity to get another one in the field goodbye. Years of education wasted, and maybe if she's not that mentally stable she might derange completely, become an alcoholist or even kill herself...
What should've happened is that this 'incident' (yes: incident, it's nothing more than that) should have been reported to the school principal, and dealt with internally. In the *most extreme* case, in which she deliberately visited porn sites and got the spyware from that, she should be fired. In *any* other case (the spyware came from somewhere else, someone else installed it, etc), there should be *no* repercussions. Maybe only a 'warning' to send out the message to the children's parents that someone was blamed and it won't happen again.
How you Americans can even consider something like this to be a crime is beyond me... Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children. That's not to say you should show your 10-year olds pornography, but if they ever see it accidentally, that's probably a good thing. It opens opportunities to explain some things about life and actually educate and prepare your children for the real world, instead of teaching them denial, hypocrism and an unhealthy and overprudish attitude towards sexuality.
I'd have the whole thing installable in a single sub-folder that could just be moved wherever, whenever I wanted. The install program would simply create the folder, copy the files, and put a shortcut in the start menu - and that's just because I'm lazy.
Hmm sounds like a spot-on description of the 'install procedure' of applications on OS X;-)
define "well secured" if you removed all functionality from the system then maybe, but desktops need the functionality i'd use to crash it eg. scripting languages like JS.
Excuse me? Could you be so kind to explain how you would crash my machine using JavaScript??? That is, given the knowledge I will shoot the process down manually before it runs for >2 days and both my RAM and virtual memory are exhausted?
The Cell and the 360's chip threw out important modern processor features to get the clock rate up. Both are outperformed by the lowest end Core 2 Duo.
Outperformed by the lowest end Core 2 Duo for typical tasks unrelated for gaming maybe. The only major features thrown out of the 360 CPU are out-of-order execution and speculative execution. Both are completely necessary for a fixed platform used for gaming, as instruction ordering can be handled by the compiler. The reason x86 CPU's are so frigging complex is not because they need all this to run software fast, but because they needed to run code fast that is compiled to work across the multitude of x86 compatible processors out there. Consoles do not have these issues, so they can offload much more optimizations to the compiler.
I'm not that happy with their charging for program updates after a year's passed since you purchase it. I understand it costs the company to generate updates, but I'm certain that Microsoft and/or Apple will produce their own updates that will break Parallels. Updates will be a necessity, and I'm hesitant to buy a product that will generate a long-term expense on my part in order to keep using it.
I have been using parallels from the first RC, bought it the moment it was released and got all updates except this one for free. Also, I got Parallels Compressor ($79) along with Parallels workstation, again without having to pay for it. So I think it's safe to say Parallels is actually very considerate with point-updates.
Also I'd like to repeat what other Parallels users have said in this topic: Parallels workstation just absolutely rocks! I was a long-time VMWare fan (their software is also really good), but Parallels is even better. Every time I start my XP VM I'm hugely impressed by the performance and stability of this product. For example: XP pro boots in less then 6 seconds and runs without any noticeable performance hit for either the guest or the host OS (this is on a Dual Core iMac BTW). Just make sure you have at least 1GB of RAM, preferably more. I would even go as far as saying that Parallels workstation is one of, if not *the* best application I've ever used on any platform.
When was the last time you ran the KDE Desktop Settings Wizard, by chance? Bells and whistles take computing power, it says so right in there and gives you a slider to illustrate the point, though it should be common sense that the more you have your OS doing at any given time, the more it's going to demand from your system.
Although your statement is correct, you're missing the point here. If you compare Vista with (e.g) OS X or a modern Linux system with XGL, you'll see that Vista's hardware requirements are atleast 50% higher for the exact same features, which are IMHO also less useful in Vista. OS X on a G4 iBook (1.5Ghz) with a measly Radeon 7500 and 512MB RAM works perfectly smooth with literally all bells and whistles enabled. Including Aero/Expose/Spotlight/dashboard/etc/etc (you know, all the stuff that's supposed to be 'new' in Vista). Compare that to Vista's minimum requirements.
Also the 'Apple charges for minor updates' argument annoys me. Apple *does not* charge for minor updates. I have Tiger running on both of my Apple machines, and both have been updated from 10.4.2 to 10.4.8 without any additional costs. And these updates include far more than just bug fixes/security updates. Is it really THAT hard to forget OS X's versioning scheme for a second when talking about OS upgrades?? I mean, I know 10.5.1 will not look like a major upgrade from 10.4.8, but checking Leopards improvements over Tiger, it adds *more* features than Vista adds over XP. Also, Apple releases major updates every 1.5 year or so (compared to 5 years for Vista), and charge less for it ($129 for Leopard IIRC, compared to $249 for Vista Ultimate). The only real update XP ever got was XP2, which just added loads of workarounds to fix all the gaping security holes in it. No new features there...
Generally speaking, bloat is a consequence of (poorly used) OO languages, bringing in tons of code to do one or two silly things out of a module. A basic C program compiles to a fews tens of K (or less), a basic C++ program compiles to many megabytes, and it just gets worse from there. These things can be managed, but few people bother. That's where bloat comes from. You can still write a compact, powerful program in C that C++ authors would have a very hard time coming close to in terms of executable size; it's just that most programmers won't take the time. C++ is faster to write; that's because code reuse, the same thing that pigs up exe sizes, trims down coding time.
You're not a software developer yourself, right? What you're saying above is just complete and utter nonsense, it doesn't even come close to reality...
Sounds like an even better way--better than adding even more people--to ensure that nothing good is ever invented outside of isolated development silos, and that bugs in code won't pop out until months after it was checked in.
Yeah, I didn't really get that either. I mean, its not that hard to just setup enough cvs/svn servers for different projects/teams to distribute the load, and have a few competent people per server merge/integrate the stable milestones every month or something like that. If you set them up correctly and consistently it isn't even hard to do it automatically, under the assumption that all servers have marked and QA-ed stable branches. Why MS cannot manage this is just beyond me... The enormous scale of the codebase is not really an excuse IMHO, a good development/source control/integration strategy should be able to scale up to any size.
Of course the RIAA's defense will be along the lines that "by downloading using P2P she enabled an estimated ~1000 other people to get the content, which translates to ~$700 in lost revenue". Nevermind anyone could have downloaded the same song from the same source that the Ms. Lindor downloaded it from, nevermind the people who downloaded the song will most likely not have paid for it if they weren't able to download it, and nevermind Ms. Lindor cannot be held responsible for the people who downloaded the song from her PC. But hey, its the RIAA, so most likely they will just settle for half the amount of damages and get away with it, with the guarantee that they cannot be sued afterwards for people who already paid their extortion settlements.
It's nice to see that a judge is actually comparing this to the other media that we're exposed to out here in the real world.
True, but OTOH, he might just as well have compared it with one of the 100s of other games already on the market, that have so much more violence in it. It's actually pretty rediculous if you think of it, that a judge even has to decide on this. I mean, you cannot even kill people in this game IIRC. Games like Postal, Hitman, GTA, etc. etc. etc, they're already here, and there's much more realistic violence in them.
The game has become controversial because it's title might give the impression it's about bullying people, but that's just not true, which you'll find out when you actually play the game. A member of parliament over here actually literally said in an interview the game should be banned 'because it rewards bully behaviour'. The fact that his comments were taken seriously by other members is quite disturbing, considering the fact that probably none of these people even saw the game and still formed an opinion on it. If you read reviews of it, you'll find that the game actually *punishes* you for bullying, and rewards you for following classes and gaining respect by doing 'the right thing' (tm).
You can sit and pull tech specs out of your ass until you're blue in the face. The rest of us will use our eyes.
Thanks for the constructive comment. Which of the 'tech specs' did I pull out of my ass, exactly? Ever seen a plasma/LCD for yourself? Or still in denial that your flat standard-def plasma TV purchase doesn't really add anything beyond the nice form factor?
LCD or Plasma for a standard definition signal doesn't make sense anyway, the relative 'sharpness' of these screens actually makes the effect of the low resolution of non-HD television worse. CRT screens 'filter' the image as a side-effect of the way they project the images (you can compare it with a photoshop blur effect), which masquerades the low resolution of the signal, especially on moving images. LCD/plasma tv's have discrete pixels (square ones even, IIRC), and try to 'fix' the image using software algorithms, which generally (always?) looks worse than an analog CRT.
Funny thing is that 90% of the uninformed crowd that follow each and every hype still swear their new $800 plasma TV has 'so much better image quality'.
This is just unbelievable. Unbelievably brain-dead that is. I mean, where do they find these people?? While I'm all for energy conservation, alternative fuels, etc. this must be one of the stupidest lawsuits ever. Why not sue gas stations for providing the gasoline, the government for building the roads to drive the cars on, the people who buy these cars and use them. You know what? Why not sue the whole frickin world while your at it?? You know, all of the earths inhabitants, who have been collectively ruining it since the industrial revolution...
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Now all we need is a different type of light to activate some people's brains!
oh for heavens sake. In QA it is impossible to catch everything, in fact I'm impressed vista works as well as it does considering they rebuilt so much of it.
Remember that Vista has been in development for what, 8 years? You'd expect basic stuff like copying files to work at least as well as it did in previous Windows versions by now...
what has the mothers disability or income got to do witht he rights and wrongs of the story? Either they are guilty or not. disabled people can be guilty too. This is the worst example of tragic slashdot riaa bashing ive seen in a while.
grow up.
Yeah, because 10 year olds and their disabled parents on social security really deserve to be traumatized and possibly have their lives destroyed *for downloading a few friggin' tunes*. And yet you talk about ethics.
I sincerely hope you get busted and send to jail for jaywalking, copying your CD's to listen them in your car or accidentally downloading copyrighted material some day.
Well, there's a GPU in the PS3 as well, so what you're proposing would be possible on the PS3 as well: thinkof a folding@home client that runs on the Cell *and* the GPU concurrently.
Also, as I understand it, the number of TFLOPS is not the only performance criterium for the folding@home project, and GPU's with the same # of FLOPs compared to different (CPU) architectures yield less useful results.
But when they count Windows vunerabilities, they don't count all of the third party apps you have to load to get the same functionality. They usually just count the base OS.
Also, though I haven't read TFA (I'm allergic to reports like this), I assume they meant 'Windows is the most secure commercial OS, when used in combination with a good firewall and virusscanner'. Which they coincidentally happen to sell (well, at least they think its good)...
I have been working on identifying activities (with some success :-) ) of humans using accelerometers placed in clothing, [...]
;-)
Somehow that sounds a bit... I dunno... Scary?
Leopard is not a friggin' point release, it's a major update with lots of new features and major improvements to the core system libraries. The fact that its version number only goes from 10.4.9 to 10.5.0 does not make it a minor update.
Please, can someone explain why it is so damn hard for some people to look past the version numbers and just check out what's new and improved in OS X releases??
2) I guess a native binary blob is slightly better than a MS coded binary blob.... but frankly, it's still just a binary blob. You have no idea what its really doing.
I guess the vast majority of end-user couldn't care less what their video codec is doing, as long as it plays their damn video's. It's a bit like the NVidea Linux drivers: the free software purists see it as something awful to load a binary driver on Linux, but I for one am very grateful to have proper 3D accelerated drivers at all. Same goes for video playback... There will always be proprietary video codecs, just get over it. I don't see the problem anyway, if I'm want to run commercial software on Linux it is usually binary as well. Does that mean the software is useless or bad?
I guess he'll be laughing his pants off when he settles with Geffen & Timberland for a small share of the revenue made from the song... Who'd have thunk that? 6 years after doing a SID tune out of hobbyism he finds himself with some millions of $$$ because some dickhead remakes his remake of an Amiga song without asking permission for it.
This article pertains to events in the mid-western red-states. The only thing I can say is the it's only like that in 51% of the country. This has horrible rammifications for national events, like presidential elections, but there's still a lot of blue-state geography here - places where you can go to school, learn science, allow other people to live their lives.
I know, and I agree, it's not really fair to generalize and think everyone in America thinks like this. Maybe the United States are just too large for a centrilazed federal government and an almighty president, the way it is like now. Makes you think about the direction things are going in Europe right now. There's a big political push to integrate the different countries more and more, and eventually get a 'united states of europe'...
Swearing does not really help to make your point dude. I'm really sorry if I hurt your pride or feelings, but as I *only* live in Europe and not in the middle east, asia or africa I cannot comment on Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs's views on this subject. Also I don't see how this is relevant to my comment anyway...
Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children.
:-S
Uhm sorry, let me rephrase this, so it's not read out of context: ofcourse I meant to say 'sex is something natural, it does not hurt children if they are accidentally confronted with it'
Agreed. What also makes me wonder is *who the hell got the idea to sue her over this*. Here in Europe, things like this would never, ever, ever go to court. What is with Americans that they need a friggin' court to deal with each and every trivial, minor and major event they don't like?? What happened to the idea of just talking to each other and find a solution all can live with, without destroying someone's life and career? If this teacher gets convicted, even if she only gets 6 months probation, she can kiss her job and any opportunity to get another one in the field goodbye. Years of education wasted, and maybe if she's not that mentally stable she might derange completely, become an alcoholist or even kill herself...
What should've happened is that this 'incident' (yes: incident, it's nothing more than that) should have been reported to the school principal, and dealt with internally. In the *most extreme* case, in which she deliberately visited porn sites and got the spyware from that, she should be fired. In *any* other case (the spyware came from somewhere else, someone else installed it, etc), there should be *no* repercussions. Maybe only a 'warning' to send out the message to the children's parents that someone was blamed and it won't happen again.
How you Americans can even consider something like this to be a crime is beyond me... Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children. That's not to say you should show your 10-year olds pornography, but if they ever see it accidentally, that's probably a good thing. It opens opportunities to explain some things about life and actually educate and prepare your children for the real world, instead of teaching them denial, hypocrism and an unhealthy and overprudish attitude towards sexuality.
I'd have the whole thing installable in a single sub-folder that could just be moved wherever, whenever I wanted. The install program would simply create the folder, copy the files, and put a shortcut in the start menu - and that's just because I'm lazy.
;-)
Hmm sounds like a spot-on description of the 'install procedure' of applications on OS X
define "well secured" if you removed all functionality from the system then maybe, but desktops need the functionality i'd use to crash it eg. scripting languages like JS.
Excuse me? Could you be so kind to explain how you would crash my machine using JavaScript??? That is, given the knowledge I will shoot the process down manually before it runs for >2 days and both my RAM and virtual memory are exhausted?
The Cell and the 360's chip threw out important modern processor features to get the clock rate up. Both are outperformed by the lowest end Core 2 Duo.
Outperformed by the lowest end Core 2 Duo for typical tasks unrelated for gaming maybe. The only major features thrown out of the 360 CPU are out-of-order execution and speculative execution. Both are completely necessary for a fixed platform used for gaming, as instruction ordering can be handled by the compiler. The reason x86 CPU's are so frigging complex is not because they need all this to run software fast, but because they needed to run code fast that is compiled to work across the multitude of x86 compatible processors out there. Consoles do not have these issues, so they can offload much more optimizations to the compiler.
I'm not that happy with their charging for program updates after a year's passed since you purchase it. I understand it costs the company to generate updates, but I'm certain that Microsoft and/or Apple will produce their own updates that will break Parallels. Updates will be a necessity, and I'm hesitant to buy a product that will generate a long-term expense on my part in order to keep using it.
I have been using parallels from the first RC, bought it the moment it was released and got all updates except this one for free. Also, I got Parallels Compressor ($79) along with Parallels workstation, again without having to pay for it. So I think it's safe to say Parallels is actually very considerate with point-updates.
Also I'd like to repeat what other Parallels users have said in this topic: Parallels workstation just absolutely rocks! I was a long-time VMWare fan (their software is also really good), but Parallels is even better. Every time I start my XP VM I'm hugely impressed by the performance and stability of this product. For example: XP pro boots in less then 6 seconds and runs without any noticeable performance hit for either the guest or the host OS (this is on a Dual Core iMac BTW). Just make sure you have at least 1GB of RAM, preferably more. I would even go as far as saying that Parallels workstation is one of, if not *the* best application I've ever used on any platform.
When was the last time you ran the KDE Desktop Settings Wizard, by chance? Bells and whistles take computing power, it says so right in there and gives you a slider to illustrate the point, though it should be common sense that the more you have your OS doing at any given time, the more it's going to demand from your system.
Although your statement is correct, you're missing the point here. If you compare Vista with (e.g) OS X or a modern Linux system with XGL, you'll see that Vista's hardware requirements are atleast 50% higher for the exact same features, which are IMHO also less useful in Vista. OS X on a G4 iBook (1.5Ghz) with a measly Radeon 7500 and 512MB RAM works perfectly smooth with literally all bells and whistles enabled. Including Aero/Expose/Spotlight/dashboard/etc/etc (you know, all the stuff that's supposed to be 'new' in Vista). Compare that to Vista's minimum requirements.
Also the 'Apple charges for minor updates' argument annoys me. Apple *does not* charge for minor updates. I have Tiger running on both of my Apple machines, and both have been updated from 10.4.2 to 10.4.8 without any additional costs. And these updates include far more than just bug fixes/security updates. Is it really THAT hard to forget OS X's versioning scheme for a second when talking about OS upgrades?? I mean, I know 10.5.1 will not look like a major upgrade from 10.4.8, but checking Leopards improvements over Tiger, it adds *more* features than Vista adds over XP. Also, Apple releases major updates every 1.5 year or so (compared to 5 years for Vista), and charge less for it ($129 for Leopard IIRC, compared to $249 for Vista Ultimate). The only real update XP ever got was XP2, which just added loads of workarounds to fix all the gaping security holes in it. No new features there...
Generally speaking, bloat is a consequence of (poorly used) OO languages, bringing in tons of code to do one or two silly things out of a module. A basic C program compiles to a fews tens of K (or less), a basic C++ program compiles to many megabytes, and it just gets worse from there. These things can be managed, but few people bother. That's where bloat comes from. You can still write a compact, powerful program in C that C++ authors would have a very hard time coming close to in terms of executable size; it's just that most programmers won't take the time. C++ is faster to write; that's because code reuse, the same thing that pigs up exe sizes, trims down coding time.
You're not a software developer yourself, right? What you're saying above is just complete and utter nonsense, it doesn't even come close to reality...
Sounds like an even better way--better than adding even more people--to ensure that nothing good is ever invented outside of isolated development silos, and that bugs in code won't pop out until months after it was checked in.
/teams to distribute the load, and have a few competent people per server merge/integrate the stable milestones every month or something like that. If you set them up correctly and consistently it isn't even hard to do it automatically, under the assumption that all servers have marked and QA-ed stable branches. Why MS cannot manage this is just beyond me... The enormous scale of the codebase is not really an excuse IMHO, a good development/source control/integration strategy should be able to scale up to any size.
Yeah, I didn't really get that either. I mean, its not that hard to just setup enough cvs/svn servers for different projects
Of course the RIAA's defense will be along the lines that "by downloading using P2P she enabled an estimated ~1000 other people to get the content, which translates to ~$700 in lost revenue". Nevermind anyone could have downloaded the same song from the same source that the Ms. Lindor downloaded it from, nevermind the people who downloaded the song will most likely not have paid for it if they weren't able to download it, and nevermind Ms. Lindor cannot be held responsible for the people who downloaded the song from her PC. But hey, its the RIAA, so most likely they will just settle for half the amount of damages and get away with it, with the guarantee that they cannot be sued afterwards for people who already paid their extortion settlements.
It's nice to see that a judge is actually comparing this to the other media that we're exposed to out here in the real world.
True, but OTOH, he might just as well have compared it with one of the 100s of other games already on the market, that have so much more violence in it. It's actually pretty rediculous if you think of it, that a judge even has to decide on this. I mean, you cannot even kill people in this game IIRC. Games like Postal, Hitman, GTA, etc. etc. etc, they're already here, and there's much more realistic violence in them.
The game has become controversial because it's title might give the impression it's about bullying people, but that's just not true, which you'll find out when you actually play the game. A member of parliament over here actually literally said in an interview the game should be banned 'because it rewards bully behaviour'. The fact that his comments were taken seriously by other members is quite disturbing, considering the fact that probably none of these people even saw the game and still formed an opinion on it. If you read reviews of it, you'll find that the game actually *punishes* you for bullying, and rewards you for following classes and gaining respect by doing 'the right thing' (tm).
You can sit and pull tech specs out of your ass until you're blue in the face. The rest of us will use our eyes.
Thanks for the constructive comment. Which of the 'tech specs' did I pull out of my ass, exactly? Ever seen a plasma/LCD for yourself? Or still in denial that your flat standard-def plasma TV purchase doesn't really add anything beyond the nice form factor?
LCD or Plasma for a standard definition signal doesn't make sense anyway, the relative 'sharpness' of these screens actually makes the effect of the low resolution of non-HD television worse. CRT screens 'filter' the image as a side-effect of the way they project the images (you can compare it with a photoshop blur effect), which masquerades the low resolution of the signal, especially on moving images. LCD/plasma tv's have discrete pixels (square ones even, IIRC), and try to 'fix' the image using software algorithms, which generally (always?) looks worse than an analog CRT.
Funny thing is that 90% of the uninformed crowd that follow each and every hype still swear their new $800 plasma TV has 'so much better image quality'.
This is just unbelievable. Unbelievably brain-dead that is. I mean, where do they find these people?? While I'm all for energy conservation, alternative fuels, etc. this must be one of the stupidest lawsuits ever. Why not sue gas stations for providing the gasoline, the government for building the roads to drive the cars on, the people who buy these cars and use them. You know what? Why not sue the whole frickin world while your at it?? You know, all of the earths inhabitants, who have been collectively ruining it since the industrial revolution...