When I can find a traditional tube-based CRT over 35" that doesn't weigh more than 400 lbs, I'll consider it. For now, I have the 57" CRT rear projection in the living room for movies (and the Super Bowl), and the 35" CRT in the game room for video games.
Oh, and if you think CRT RPTVs are crappy, I'll put mine against any DLP, LCD, LCOS, or Plasma out there. I guarantee you the image quality on mine is better.
No, my TV will not have any particular logo or section burned in in 2 years. It's a year and a half old right now, and there is no such indication. I do enjoy my TV to its full extent, which primarily consists of movies. Since I own and rent a mix of movies, with aspect ratios ranging from 2.35:1 all the way to 1.33:1, I don't have to worry about burn in with varied usage.
When another technology can provide the quality (particularly depth of black and color saturation) that a CRT rear projection TV can give me, I'll buy it. Right now, I think that will be DLP in a couple of years, but not yet.
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Maybe my sarcasm detector is off the mark, but I don't get it.
I have a CRT HDTV, and burn in does concern me. You may be familiar with seeing it in places where they leave CNN or MSNBC on all the time, and even if you change the channel you can still see the station logo that has been burned into the screen. CRT HDTVs are particularly susceptible to this, while DLPs are not.
I specifcially limit my video game playing on my HDTV, even though it's connected to a 5.1 surround sound system, because I don't want the health meters, HUDs, etc. burned into my TV. My next TV will probably be a DLP, which will allow me to play on the big screen all the time.
Very true. I'm happy that they choose to act in this fashion, even though they're doing it in their own self-interest. I'm just troubled by those starry-eyed idealists who think that Google is a benevolent dictator that really cares about them. Google is a corporation, and corporations do what is best for them, period. Sometime that aligns with what its customers want, and sometimes it doesn't.
They don't even need marketing. They have the best real estate in the world on the internet, and people throw money at them left and right for advertising space because of their popularity and effectiveness at doing what they do.
Do they advertise on TV with a goofball singing "Yaaahoooooo!"? No. Do they do that on the radio? No. Do they market at all? I haven't noticed it yet.
Don't confuse advertising with marketing. The two are almost always different. Marketing is not telling people to find your product, but rather determining what people want and building it. Only by knowing your market (hence the term 'marketing') can you know how and what to build.
While you may wish to take an idealistic view that Google really believes in "Do no evil," I would ask you to consider that they are taking this stance because they know who their key, and most influential customers are.
"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."
You state that a lever "multiplies force through a reduction in distance." In other words, the purpose of a lever is to give you an advantage in strength/power/units of work, while exerting little or no additional effort on your part.
When a business leverages open source software, they are able to use proven tools (PostgreSQL, Apache, etc) as an underlying architecture to solve problems. A business' area of expertise may be writing desktop consumer tax applications, but they have no experience in writing a database or creating a web server. However, using proven 3rd party or OSS applications, they can do what they are best at (writing tax apps) while not having to worry about the core server/db architecture.
Don't American troops have notoriously little success getting along with indigenous populations?
Not that I've heard. I would guess that US troops are just like any other people: some get along well with people they don't know, and some of them don't.
Frozen Meats (such as those on-sale frozen Turkeys) are also good as they can feed a family for a week with one of those!
That's the truth. My Dad and I were actually having this conversation over Thanksgiving. Typically, my folks will buy at least two or three turkeys during the sales they have around Thanksgiving, when the price of turkey is ridiculously low. At that time of year, I think even the poorest family could buy a turkey and a bag of potatoes, and easily eat for a week.
GPS is not an approved method of navigation for aircraft, it is only intended as a supplementary navaid to VOR/NDB, your charts and of course the compass.
GPS is most certainly approved for navigation on aircraft. It's much more accurate than a compass (what with the errors depending on where you are over the earth). Boeing released an update called "FANS" (Future Air Navigation System) back in 1995 that added GPS navigation capabilities to the 747.
I've seen tons of people with dogs in apartments. Even great danes.
Strangely enough, Great Danes make +great+ apartment dogs. Seriously...they'll just want to spend all of the time on your couch, and they'll try to get in your lap. Greyhounds also make good apartment dogs. People think of them as very athletic (which they are), but they're sprinters. Give them a little bit of exercise during the day, and they'll laze about the house for the remaining 23 and a half hours.
It's dogs like Border Collies (which are fantastic dogs, BTW) that people think are cute that make horrible apartment dogs. +Never+ get a Border unless A) You spend most of your time outside, B) You've got a few acres for it, and C) You have a pond of ducks for it to herd. Borders, and simliar breeds like Australian Shephards, are 9 times out of 10 much more active, and a lot of times much more clever, than you.
No, you don't get rid of it. You just leave it in the car or back at your hotel. It can be a pain, but when you're visiting DoD facilities and the like, you don't have much choice unless you feel like arguing with a testostorone filled 19 year old holding an M16...
And what about the people that work with the sensitive data?
The only thing that works is a strict, multi-layered security policy that enforces both physical and electronic security. I've been in some facilities where entry is similar to the airport with a metal detector and X-ray machine, except the people working the machines are soldiers with M-16s. Anyone with a "visitor" badge that doesn't have a clearance is escorted by an employee with a designated "escort" badge, and as soon as that employee swipes their badge, the lights in the secure area change to indicate that the uncleaned masses are in the area.
Their electronic security policy was just as strict. No one I spoke to was an admin on their machine, usb and other peripheral options were disabled, etc.
Office workers all get the day off? It's been hilarious fun, but I'm looking forward to Monday when I can get back to higher-level debates again
Higher-level debates? On Slashdot? Perhaps you're looking for Ars. Actually, on second thought, after reading your various vitriol posted today, stay away. Ars is a horrid place.
When you made your commitment, did you bother to ask your engineers if the target date was feasible?
Absolutely. By "we," I don't mean the Royal We. I mean "we," as a team of engineering, marketing, sales, and operations agreed, based off of the PM's (being me) requirements definition, positioning information, and research that:
1) The product will contain the specified features
2) That the product will be released on the date specified
3) That the marketing team will put together the appropriate presentations, collateral, and web site content, and
4) The sales team will sell the product and meet the revenue numbers that were agreed to
Like I said, I'm lucky I work with good engineers, who tend to meet the commitments they make, or at least figure out when things aren't going to work early enough in the process that it's much easier to implement contingency plans. It sounds like you've worked with PMs who are dicks. I (honestly) feel bad for you.
Engineer says: "How does it work?"
Manager says: "When will it work?"
As a Product Manager, I would actually say:
When will it work, as we made a commitment a year ago to get the product out on time. All of our marketing and sales efforts, along with our revenue projections, are based on the product coming out on time and with the features promised. In otherwords: it's my ass on the line.
(a) The door to the cabin is kept locked for the entire flight now, so hijackers would be unable to take control of the plane anyway.
Not entirely true, but when the door is open (at least on the airline I fly regularly):
A) One of the flight attendants stands between first class and the rest of the cabin
B) One of the trolleys is placed perpendicular to the aisle betwen first class and the forward galley/lav
C) Two flight attendants stand by the cockpit door, and
D) One flight attendant remains in the flight deck while the Captain/FO are in the lav
This also doesn't include the Federal Air Marshall (FAM) that tends to be on board these days. If you know what you're looking for, he's fairly easy to spot. He's the guy dressed in business casual that boards before everyone else, sits in an aisle seat around row 3, and drinks a Pepsi for most of the flight, even on redeyes.
Another trigger is to buy your ticket at the last minute. With United, at least, you know you're in for "extra screening" if you see "SSSS" on the bottom of your boarding pass.
Thankfully, I'm about to come home from (hopefully) my last trip of the year. 110,000 air miles this year.
According to WHO estimates, more than 75% of women over the age of 30 are now overweight in countries as diverse as Barbados, Egypt, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. Estimates are similar for men, with over 75% now overweight in, for example, Argentina, Germany, Greece, Kuwait, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United Kingdom. Notably, the Western Pacific islands of Nauru and Tonga have the highest global prevalence of overweight where nine out of every 10 adults are overweight.
I know you're intending this to be funny, but I find this a bit interesting (data is from McDonalds' website):
Big Mac: 500 Calories
Large Fries: 520 Calories
Large Coke: 310 Calories
Total: 1330 Calories
Substituting a Diet Coke for the Coke lowers it to 1020 calories. Still a lot, of course (about half what you need for the day), but it does lower it by 25% or so.
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When I can find a traditional tube-based CRT over 35" that doesn't weigh more than 400 lbs, I'll consider it. For now, I have the 57" CRT rear projection in the living room for movies (and the Super Bowl), and the 35" CRT in the game room for video games.
Oh, and if you think CRT RPTVs are crappy, I'll put mine against any DLP, LCD, LCOS, or Plasma out there. I guarantee you the image quality on mine is better.
No, my TV will not have any particular logo or section burned in in 2 years. It's a year and a half old right now, and there is no such indication. I do enjoy my TV to its full extent, which primarily consists of movies. Since I own and rent a mix of movies, with aspect ratios ranging from 2.35:1 all the way to 1.33:1, I don't have to worry about burn in with varied usage.
When another technology can provide the quality (particularly depth of black and color saturation) that a CRT rear projection TV can give me, I'll buy it. Right now, I think that will be DLP in a couple of years, but not yet.
Maybe my sarcasm detector is off the mark, but I don't get it.
I have a CRT HDTV, and burn in does concern me. You may be familiar with seeing it in places where they leave CNN or MSNBC on all the time, and even if you change the channel you can still see the station logo that has been burned into the screen. CRT HDTVs are particularly susceptible to this, while DLPs are not.
I specifcially limit my video game playing on my HDTV, even though it's connected to a 5.1 surround sound system, because I don't want the health meters, HUDs, etc. burned into my TV. My next TV will probably be a DLP, which will allow me to play on the big screen all the time.
Very true. I'm happy that they choose to act in this fashion, even though they're doing it in their own self-interest. I'm just troubled by those starry-eyed idealists who think that Google is a benevolent dictator that really cares about them. Google is a corporation, and corporations do what is best for them, period. Sometime that aligns with what its customers want, and sometimes it doesn't.
They don't even need marketing. They have the best real estate in the world on the internet, and people throw money at them left and right for advertising space because of their popularity and effectiveness at doing what they do.
Do they advertise on TV with a goofball singing "Yaaahoooooo!"? No. Do they do that on the radio? No. Do they market at all? I haven't noticed it yet.
Don't confuse advertising with marketing. The two are almost always different. Marketing is not telling people to find your product, but rather determining what people want and building it. Only by knowing your market (hence the term 'marketing') can you know how and what to build.
While you may wish to take an idealistic view that Google really believes in "Do no evil," I would ask you to consider that they are taking this stance because they know who their key, and most influential customers are.
And the response is: "under-paid, under-sexed, and under Ike."
If it doesn't stick and it should: duct tape.
If it sticks and it shouldn't: WD-40
Throw in a Leatherman and you're good to go
"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P."
You state that a lever "multiplies force through a reduction in distance." In other words, the purpose of a lever is to give you an advantage in strength/power/units of work, while exerting little or no additional effort on your part.
When a business leverages open source software, they are able to use proven tools (PostgreSQL, Apache, etc) as an underlying architecture to solve problems. A business' area of expertise may be writing desktop consumer tax applications, but they have no experience in writing a database or creating a web server. However, using proven 3rd party or OSS applications, they can do what they are best at (writing tax apps) while not having to worry about the core server/db architecture.
Don't American troops have notoriously little success getting along with indigenous populations?
Not that I've heard. I would guess that US troops are just like any other people: some get along well with people they don't know, and some of them don't.
Frozen Meats (such as those on-sale frozen Turkeys) are also good as they can feed a family for a week with one of those!
That's the truth. My Dad and I were actually having this conversation over Thanksgiving. Typically, my folks will buy at least two or three turkeys during the sales they have around Thanksgiving, when the price of turkey is ridiculously low. At that time of year, I think even the poorest family could buy a turkey and a bag of potatoes, and easily eat for a week.
GPS is not an approved method of navigation for aircraft, it is only intended as a supplementary navaid to VOR/NDB, your charts and of course the compass.
GPS is most certainly approved for navigation on aircraft. It's much more accurate than a compass (what with the errors depending on where you are over the earth). Boeing released an update called "FANS" (Future Air Navigation System) back in 1995 that added GPS navigation capabilities to the 747.
The new standard -- Future Air Navigation System 1 (FANS-1) -- allows the 747-400 to make primary use of Global Satellite Positioning System (GPS) equipment for navigation and a datalink system which uses VHF radio or satellites to communicate with air traffic controllers.
I've seen tons of people with dogs in apartments. Even great danes.
Strangely enough, Great Danes make +great+ apartment dogs. Seriously...they'll just want to spend all of the time on your couch, and they'll try to get in your lap. Greyhounds also make good apartment dogs. People think of them as very athletic (which they are), but they're sprinters. Give them a little bit of exercise during the day, and they'll laze about the house for the remaining 23 and a half hours.
It's dogs like Border Collies (which are fantastic dogs, BTW) that people think are cute that make horrible apartment dogs. +Never+ get a Border unless A) You spend most of your time outside, B) You've got a few acres for it, and C) You have a pond of ducks for it to herd. Borders, and simliar breeds like Australian Shephards, are 9 times out of 10 much more active, and a lot of times much more clever, than you.
No, you don't get rid of it. You just leave it in the car or back at your hotel. It can be a pain, but when you're visiting DoD facilities and the like, you don't have much choice unless you feel like arguing with a testostorone filled 19 year old holding an M16...
Camera phones, and in some cases mobile phones of any kind, are banned in all sorts of secure facilities. Your kid better know your office number...
Sensitive data should not be in plain view.
And what about the people that work with the sensitive data?
The only thing that works is a strict, multi-layered security policy that enforces both physical and electronic security. I've been in some facilities where entry is similar to the airport with a metal detector and X-ray machine, except the people working the machines are soldiers with M-16s. Anyone with a "visitor" badge that doesn't have a clearance is escorted by an employee with a designated "escort" badge, and as soon as that employee swipes their badge, the lights in the secure area change to indicate that the uncleaned masses are in the area.
Their electronic security policy was just as strict. No one I spoke to was an admin on their machine, usb and other peripheral options were disabled, etc.
Defense in depth...
Office workers all get the day off? It's been hilarious fun, but I'm looking forward to Monday when I can get back to higher-level debates again
Higher-level debates? On Slashdot? Perhaps you're looking for Ars. Actually, on second thought, after reading your various vitriol posted today, stay away. Ars is a horrid place.
When you made your commitment, did you bother to ask your engineers if the target date was feasible?
Absolutely. By "we," I don't mean the Royal We. I mean "we," as a team of engineering, marketing, sales, and operations agreed, based off of the PM's (being me) requirements definition, positioning information, and research that:
1) The product will contain the specified features
2) That the product will be released on the date specified
3) That the marketing team will put together the appropriate presentations, collateral, and web site content, and
4) The sales team will sell the product and meet the revenue numbers that were agreed to
Like I said, I'm lucky I work with good engineers, who tend to meet the commitments they make, or at least figure out when things aren't going to work early enough in the process that it's much easier to implement contingency plans. It sounds like you've worked with PMs who are dicks. I (honestly) feel bad for you.
Engineer says: "How does it work?"
Manager says: "When will it work?"
As a Product Manager, I would actually say:
When will it work, as we made a commitment a year ago to get the product out on time. All of our marketing and sales efforts, along with our revenue projections, are based on the product coming out on time and with the features promised. In otherwords: it's my ass on the line.
I'm lucky that I work with good engineers.
(Have fun carrying the 5818182 tonnes of liquid home with you)
You have obviously never participated in a pub crawl...
(a) The door to the cabin is kept locked for the entire flight now, so hijackers would be unable to take control of the plane anyway.
Not entirely true, but when the door is open (at least on the airline I fly regularly):
A) One of the flight attendants stands between first class and the rest of the cabin
B) One of the trolleys is placed perpendicular to the aisle betwen first class and the forward galley/lav
C) Two flight attendants stand by the cockpit door, and
D) One flight attendant remains in the flight deck while the Captain/FO are in the lav
This also doesn't include the Federal Air Marshall (FAM) that tends to be on board these days. If you know what you're looking for, he's fairly easy to spot. He's the guy dressed in business casual that boards before everyone else, sits in an aisle seat around row 3, and drinks a Pepsi for most of the flight, even on redeyes.
Another trigger is to buy your ticket at the last minute. With United, at least, you know you're in for "extra screening" if you see "SSSS" on the bottom of your boarding pass.
Thankfully, I'm about to come home from (hopefully) my last trip of the year. 110,000 air miles this year.
Not according to the World Health Organization
According to WHO estimates, more than 75% of women over the age of 30 are now overweight in countries as diverse as Barbados, Egypt, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States. Estimates are similar for men, with over 75% now overweight in, for example, Argentina, Germany, Greece, Kuwait, New Zealand, Samoa, and the United Kingdom. Notably, the Western Pacific islands of Nauru and Tonga have the highest global prevalence of overweight where nine out of every 10 adults are overweight.
I know you're intending this to be funny, but I find this a bit interesting (data is from McDonalds' website): Big Mac: 500 Calories Large Fries: 520 Calories Large Coke: 310 Calories Total: 1330 Calories Substituting a Diet Coke for the Coke lowers it to 1020 calories. Still a lot, of course (about half what you need for the day), but it does lower it by 25% or so.
I hadn't heard about Sunday Ticket without programming.
This would almost certainly make me jump to Comcast. Any links with info?