Agree with the other comments that the review isn't worth reading.
I certainly believe that at this price point, LG is going to make an excellent display. They are a reputable company.
However, the reviewer has no clue what he's talking about.
He's obviously never used an LCD panel before, as all he compares the monitor to is 'his old crt'. He notes that colors seem a bit faded compared to a CRT, which IMO, is simply the result of using the wrong ICC profile, though I will agree that the gamma / color range of an LCD panel is often not as good as that of a CRT (especially a high-end CRT, though those will cost you about as much as this beast would)
That being said, it's cool, I like it, and if I were looking for the world's most expensive 23" TV and could actually afford it, I'd buy it. From the review, it looked like you could hook 3 PCs + a number of AV components to it. It's a nice substitute for a KVM for people like me who use a mac, but keep a PC hooked up for the few programs I run that aren't Mac-native.
Still.... it's expensive... a point he doesn't really cover in the review. But, yes, I also believe that this product is probably the best in its class just by looking at the feature list.
Why are we so sure that the astronauts even know about this.
I know that if I were NASA, I wouldn't tell the astronauts about something like this. You don't need them any more nervous than usual during a landing.
Slightly off-topic, but the (partially assembled) LCD display under Step 1 is either an Apple Cinema Display or an Apple Studio Display. (With a transparent case -- to my knowledge, apple never made any monitors with a completely transparent bezel)
Interesting -- a possible source of his LCD Panels:-)
Gentoo users pride themselves upon the fact that there is no installer for gentoo.
But they will insist that the documentation is very nice.
That is --- when they're not compiling. A decent installation (comprable to a stripped-down Fedora/Debian/Knoppix) took about a week to compile on a Duron 800 I used for the experiement.
I think that was what made me convinced that PC users truly are insane and got a mac.
Judging from the screenshots, Sunbird is a complete 100% rip-off of Apple's iCal, (just a lot uglier!)
Honestly, sunbird offers no more, no less than iCal. It's like they're the same program. The ONLY thing I can see that sunbird offers over iCal is that it tells you the number of the week out of the year. That's it.
Not to mention that the UI is ugly as a sin.
Come on, Mozilla, why can't you innovate any more? The mozilla suite is a clone of netscape communicator. Firefox is a clone of netscape navigator. Thunderbird is netscape mail on steroids (basically a combo of Netscape Mail and Apple's mail.app). And now Sunbird is a direct iCal ripoff...
My advice as someone who switched about a year ago is quite simple.
Just switch. Stop using your PC immediately. If there's something you think you can only do on your PC, you're probably wrong. In my experience, I was able to find freeware mac programs to do the tasks I was accustomed to doing on the PC in a matter of minutes (oh the joys of drag-and-drop to install)
Of course, for me, this wasn't exactly volluntary for me, as the Hard Drive in my PC semi-crashed two weeks after I got the mac (was able to get data off thank god, but the drive was toasted).
Had I not switched to my mac (and just had my PC laptop on me), I'd be scrambling to replace the drive immediately. I eventually replaced it about 8 months later:)
Honestly, if you try to use the two in tandem, you will instinctively clutch to the PC with which you're more familiar, and you'll end up being less happy in the long run.
And since it seems like the thing to do on this thread, here's a list of software I use
--OS X Mail -- the built-in mail client is top-notch and has awesome spam filtering. use it. --MS Office -- It's actually BETTER on the mac. There's really no good alternative at the moment and I have no complaints. --iTunes -- accept no substitutes --Adium -- Equivilant to trillian on the pc but with a nicer interface and 100% free/GPL --Transmit -- FTP client. Shareware. Don't know of any decent free ones. --iCal -- another apple app. simply amazing calendar manager. very simple and powerful --SubEthaEdit -- great simple text editor with syntax highlighting and a cool collaboration feature. Free. --JEdit -- More complicated editor for the bigger PHP projects. For those of us afraid of emacs. --QuickSilver OR LaunchBar -- interesting information organization/retreival tool. check them out. they're quite interesting --Toast -- Commercial app for burning CDs. for 95% of data and audio CDs, OSX's built-in support is good enough, but Toast is nice to have for burning more obscure cd formats. --Acquisition -- world's best P2P client ever. forget anything you ever knew about gnutella. --Azureus -- Great BitTorrent client --Safari/Firefox/IE -- All have their ups all have their downs. I use safari / firefox most of the time. safari has annoying javascript and css problems, but is otherwise perfect. firefox doesn't intergrate into the OS nicely. IE is outdated, but unlike the windows version, doesn't suck too badly.
Wow. This is a really neat service! I'm guessing it's somewhat like a free iDisk (although iDisk is only 100mb, and comes as part of.Mac which costs $99/year)
Anyone know of a service like this for people who speak English (or some other language for that matter)?
Person who speaks 3 languages - trilingual Person who speaks 2 languages - bilingual Person who speaks 1 language - American
Lets see... company named Cyberdyne Inc. makes suit to assist the elederly.
It therefore goes to reason that the Dept. of Homeland Security had the right idea in terms of passenger screening as seen in the next consecutive slashdot article: Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly.
It's used primarily (and geared toward) the K-12 education market for students exactly like the one you described.
They are excellent for notetaking and incredibly simple to use. The essential idea is that it's like a miniature word processor that will repeat your keystrokes once you plug it into the computer. Of course, you can edit what you're typing on the builtin LCD.
With the original Alpha Smart (not being produced anymore, but easily findable on Ebay) and the 3000 ($200 direct) interfacing with the computer is embarassingly simple. Simply plug the thing into ANY PC or Mac's keyboard (has ADB and PS2 -- the new ones also have USB), open Word, hit send, and it mimicks a keyboard typing the document. No software required.
That's $200, easily within your price range. I've used them in the school I work in, and find them to be an incredible tool for the students which need them.
If you want something more advanced, $400 will fetch you a similar device with a bigger screen powered by palmOS and 802.11 built in. I've never used them, but with alphasmart's reputation, I expect it to be just as good.
Oh yeah. Did I mention it's designed for K-12? They're durable as hell. I've seen them take a serious beating without being damaged. Thank god for no moving parts and shatter resistant plastic!
As mentioned earlier here, there are numerous SSH/SCP implementations for Win32. Search around. They're somewhat hard to find, but there's quite a few (make sure you choose one in active development. There are quite a few abandoned projects with security holes and other bugs). Honestly, I don't remember what one I use on my windows machine:) As a word of advice, do not use a cygwin distribution. They're somewhat buggy and need to run inside cygwin. The 'native' servers which link against some cygwin libraries seem to be allright though.
There's also another easier option. But, it will cost you. Use a "real" backup program such as Retrospect which will do compression and encryption (very strong encryption if you desire) client side. More often then not, this is what big businesses use. You can then safely use smb, ftp, scp, whatever you wish
This thing has been done for decades with serial terminals and X-terminals and the sort.
I don't believe there was any other way to access one of the original Unix systems than with a serial termainal.
When it all boils down, it ends up being a bit cheaper to just use terminals, as you don't have to deal with the other costs of the project mentioned in the article, namely video cards and extra cabling.
Safari's CSS Support isn't that great. Please don't interpret this as a flame. Safari's CSS support has often been touted as being one of its best features. This simply isn't true.
Moz/Firefox, Opera, and IE 6 are all far more CSS compliant than Safari. I'm not saying that Safari's CSS support is bad, just that it's subpar. There are certain quirks (namely with the height attribute which frustrate me to no end.
Since you mentioned DHTML, I might also bring up that it too is somewhat lacking in the current version of Safari. Many sites which work fine on IE and Firefox refuse to work on Safari due to scripting issues. I'm not qualified to say weather or not this is because people are tailoring their sites around IE's faulty implementation, but I can say that there are a lot of sites with dynamic navigation controls which don't work in safari.
So many people comment on Safari's good support of this and that. Many of these people have never used it, let alone developed a site with it.
There's a lot I like about safari, but there are just too many issues which need to be fixed.
Oh yeah... BTW, why on earth is Apple using a standard which isn't finalized yet. CSS3 is nowhere close to being done. Let's not repeat what happened with CSS and CSS2 and release browsers with broken implementations of a standard which hasn't even been finished.
No need to put together a huge convoluted update CD.
Some people have already done it. Autopatcher contains every update available on Windows Update since SP1 and then some (it's advisable to download SP1 onto the CD as well, though most recent WinXP CDs have SP1 pre-installed).
Basically, you put the CD in, click 'Update', and all the relevant patches are installed. No downloads. Only one reboot at the end. No virus risk. It's also excellent for my clients who are still on 56k:)
Having a sane net-admin is always nice. Honestly, when I saw the First Class client, I was somewhat impressed by it. That is, until I saw the mess that the server is. Anybody willing to use FirstClass is completely nuts. Why use it when you can choose between Exchange or simple open-source POP3?
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Agree with the other comments that the review isn't worth reading.
I certainly believe that at this price point, LG is going to make an excellent display. They are a reputable company.
However, the reviewer has no clue what he's talking about.
He's obviously never used an LCD panel before, as all he compares the monitor to is 'his old crt'. He notes that colors seem a bit faded compared to a CRT, which IMO, is simply the result of using the wrong ICC profile, though I will agree that the gamma / color range of an LCD panel is often not as good as that of a CRT (especially a high-end CRT, though those will cost you about as much as this beast would)
That being said, it's cool, I like it, and if I were looking for the world's most expensive 23" TV and could actually afford it, I'd buy it. From the review, it looked like you could hook 3 PCs + a number of AV components to it. It's a nice substitute for a KVM for people like me who use a mac, but keep a PC hooked up for the few programs I run that aren't Mac-native.
Still.... it's expensive... a point he doesn't really cover in the review. But, yes, I also believe that this product is probably the best in its class just by looking at the feature list.
Why are we so sure that the astronauts even know about this.
I know that if I were NASA, I wouldn't tell the astronauts about something like this. You don't need them any more nervous than usual during a landing.
Slightly off-topic, but the (partially assembled) LCD display under Step 1 is either an Apple Cinema Display or an Apple Studio Display. (With a transparent case -- to my knowledge, apple never made any monitors with a completely transparent bezel)
:-)
Interesting -- a possible source of his LCD Panels
Clearly you joke.
Gentoo users pride themselves upon the fact that there is no installer for gentoo.
But they will insist that the documentation is very nice.
That is --- when they're not compiling. A decent installation (comprable to a stripped-down Fedora/Debian/Knoppix) took about a week to compile on a Duron 800 I used for the experiement.
I think that was what made me convinced that PC users truly are insane and got a mac.
That's funny. I didn't know Ellen Feiss switched to linux...
Judging from the screenshots, Sunbird is a complete 100% rip-off of Apple's iCal, (just a lot uglier!)
Honestly, sunbird offers no more, no less than iCal. It's like they're the same program. The ONLY thing I can see that sunbird offers over iCal is that it tells you the number of the week out of the year. That's it.
Not to mention that the UI is ugly as a sin.
Come on, Mozilla, why can't you innovate any more? The mozilla suite is a clone of netscape communicator. Firefox is a clone of netscape navigator. Thunderbird is netscape mail on steroids (basically a combo of Netscape Mail and Apple's mail.app). And now Sunbird is a direct iCal ripoff...
My advice as someone who switched about a year ago is quite simple.
:)
Just switch. Stop using your PC immediately. If there's something you think you can only do on your PC, you're probably wrong. In my experience, I was able to find freeware mac programs to do the tasks I was accustomed to doing on the PC in a matter of minutes (oh the joys of drag-and-drop to install)
Of course, for me, this wasn't exactly volluntary for me, as the Hard Drive in my PC semi-crashed two weeks after I got the mac (was able to get data off thank god, but the drive was toasted).
Had I not switched to my mac (and just had my PC laptop on me), I'd be scrambling to replace the drive immediately. I eventually replaced it about 8 months later
Honestly, if you try to use the two in tandem, you will instinctively clutch to the PC with which you're more familiar, and you'll end up being less happy in the long run.
And since it seems like the thing to do on this thread, here's a list of software I use
--OS X Mail -- the built-in mail client is top-notch and has awesome spam filtering. use it.
--MS Office -- It's actually BETTER on the mac. There's really no good alternative at the moment and I have no complaints.
--iTunes -- accept no substitutes
--Adium -- Equivilant to trillian on the pc but with a nicer interface and 100% free/GPL
--Transmit -- FTP client. Shareware. Don't know of any decent free ones.
--iCal -- another apple app. simply amazing calendar manager. very simple and powerful
--SubEthaEdit -- great simple text editor with syntax highlighting and a cool collaboration feature. Free.
--JEdit -- More complicated editor for the bigger PHP projects. For those of us afraid of emacs.
--QuickSilver OR LaunchBar -- interesting information organization/retreival tool. check them out. they're quite interesting
--Toast -- Commercial app for burning CDs. for 95% of data and audio CDs, OSX's built-in support is good enough, but Toast is nice to have for burning more obscure cd formats.
--Acquisition -- world's best P2P client ever. forget anything you ever knew about gnutella.
--Azureus -- Great BitTorrent client
--Safari/Firefox/IE -- All have their ups all have their downs. I use safari / firefox most of the time. safari has annoying javascript and css problems, but is otherwise perfect. firefox doesn't intergrate into the OS nicely. IE is outdated, but unlike the windows version, doesn't suck too badly.
Wow. This is a really neat service! I'm guessing it's somewhat like a free iDisk (although iDisk is only 100mb, and comes as part of .Mac which costs $99/year)
Anyone know of a service like this for people who speak English (or some other language for that matter)?
Person who speaks 3 languages - trilingual
Person who speaks 2 languages - bilingual
Person who speaks 1 language - American
A pet peeve of mine.
.PNG for its graphics, but rather uses .GIF
Slashdot does not use
As this is an obvious contradiction to the views of the site's editors and readership, I once emailed Malda asking him why he used GIFs.
He said "not to confuse his reader's interests with his own interests".
Yeargh...
l am enessfilteriamnotusingcapscapsareforlosersblahblah blah
DISGUSTING PICTURE ALERT
iamnotusingcapsiamnotusingcapsthisistogetpasthe
but will it save Namesys from a slashdotting?
Seriously.... their server admins must be FSCKing angry.
Looking at the respective budgets for the Tomato harvester and the Kill-o-bot really shows where our priorities are as a country.
Since when has killing people been more of a priotiry than say.... eating?
And what the hell does NASA have to do with tomatoes especially in this day and age?
Every bit of this article just weirds me out.
Lets see... company named Cyberdyne Inc. makes suit to assist the elederly.
It therefore goes to reason that the Dept. of Homeland Security had the right idea in terms of passenger screening as seen in the next consecutive slashdot article: Defending The Skies Against Congress And The Elderly.
The Alpha Smart is exactly the device you are looking for.
It's used primarily (and geared toward) the K-12 education market for students exactly like the one you described.
They are excellent for notetaking and incredibly simple to use. The essential idea is that it's like a miniature word processor that will repeat your keystrokes once you plug it into the computer. Of course, you can edit what you're typing on the builtin LCD.
With the original Alpha Smart (not being produced anymore, but easily findable on Ebay) and the 3000 ($200 direct) interfacing with the computer is embarassingly simple. Simply plug the thing into ANY PC or Mac's keyboard (has ADB and PS2 -- the new ones also have USB), open Word, hit send, and it mimicks a keyboard typing the document. No software required.
That's $200, easily within your price range. I've used them in the school I work in, and find them to be an incredible tool for the students which need them.
If you want something more advanced, $400 will fetch you a similar device with a bigger screen powered by palmOS and 802.11 built in. I've never used them, but with alphasmart's reputation, I expect it to be just as good.
Oh yeah. Did I mention it's designed for K-12? They're durable as hell. I've seen them take a serious beating without being damaged. Thank god for no moving parts and shatter resistant plastic!
Great. Just what we needed. Smart Bread (Except during Passover)
Would it be more meaningful if we all lived inside the Library of Congress (LOC)?
The fact is that Windows XP requires you to be an administrator to do just about anything.
This is easily given away by the fact that about 50% of the educational software we use in our schools requires admin rights to run.
That's right. Kid Pix requires Administrator-level rights or it simply will not run.
As mentioned earlier here, there are numerous SSH/SCP implementations for Win32. Search around. They're somewhat hard to find, but there's quite a few (make sure you choose one in active development. There are quite a few abandoned projects with security holes and other bugs). Honestly, I don't remember what one I use on my windows machine :) As a word of advice, do not use a cygwin distribution. They're somewhat buggy and need to run inside cygwin. The 'native' servers which link against some cygwin libraries seem to be allright though.
There's also another easier option. But, it will cost you. Use a "real" backup program such as Retrospect which will do compression and encryption (very strong encryption if you desire) client side. More often then not, this is what big businesses use. You can then safely use smb, ftp, scp, whatever you wish
Nasa's in for a big surprise when the spacecraft gets there and they decide to fire up messenger.exe
But don't worry... the spacecraft hasn't crashed. It's simply hidden in the taskbar!
Please tell me this is some sort of joke...
This thing has been done for decades with serial terminals and X-terminals and the sort.
I don't believe there was any other way to access one of the original Unix systems than with a serial termainal.
When it all boils down, it ends up being a bit cheaper to just use terminals, as you don't have to deal with the other costs of the project mentioned in the article, namely video cards and extra cabling.
I will say this once, and I will say it now.
Safari's CSS Support isn't that great. Please don't interpret this as a flame. Safari's CSS support has often been touted as being one of its best features. This simply isn't true.
Moz/Firefox, Opera, and IE 6 are all far more CSS compliant than Safari. I'm not saying that Safari's CSS support is bad, just that it's subpar. There are certain quirks (namely with the height attribute which frustrate me to no end.
Since you mentioned DHTML, I might also bring up that it too is somewhat lacking in the current version of Safari. Many sites which work fine on IE and Firefox refuse to work on Safari due to scripting issues. I'm not qualified to say weather or not this is because people are tailoring their sites around IE's faulty implementation, but I can say that there are a lot of sites with dynamic navigation controls which don't work in safari.
So many people comment on Safari's good support of this and that. Many of these people have never used it, let alone developed a site with it.
There's a lot I like about safari, but there are just too many issues which need to be fixed.
Oh yeah... BTW, why on earth is Apple using a standard which isn't finalized yet. CSS3 is nowhere close to being done. Let's not repeat what happened with CSS and CSS2 and release browsers with broken implementations of a standard which hasn't even been finished.
No need to put together a huge convoluted update CD.
:)
Some people have already done it. Autopatcher contains every update available on Windows Update since SP1 and then some (it's advisable to download SP1 onto the CD as well, though most recent WinXP CDs have SP1 pre-installed).
Basically, you put the CD in, click 'Update', and all the relevant patches are installed. No downloads. Only one reboot at the end. No virus risk. It's also excellent for my clients who are still on 56k
Well.... you certainly could be Bob Dole's spokesman. Hell, you could be Bob Dole himself speaking in the third person like that!
Compared to FirstClass..... sure.
Having a sane net-admin is always nice. Honestly, when I saw the First Class client, I was somewhat impressed by it. That is, until I saw the mess that the server is. Anybody willing to use FirstClass is completely nuts. Why use it when you can choose between Exchange or simple open-source POP3?
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