"NITRO, W.Va. (AP) - Workers at a West Virginia Wal-Mart (WMT) store have been ordered to be available to work any shift at any time or face dismissal."
Back to your original point, Seiko, Casio, and Timex all had crappy watches when they brought their first products to market.
They all had crappy products in the beginning because Japan was barely out of being a third-world country and we nuked two of their larger cities back to the stone age. All of Japan's exports were crap in the beginning - and most took American consultants' advice, thought long term rather than America's quick-buck quarterly-results thinking, and shifted to building reliable products as soon as they could afford to.
Seiko quickly became a high-end commodity watch (they were one of the first to bring reliable LCD watches to the mass market) and introduced a lower-tier line, which too soon became a high end watch (I just bought the Pulsar PM7001 after comparing about five flight computer watch lines (Seiko, Pulsar, Citizen, and a company which produces ONLY pilots' watches, in two lines) - Pulsar had the best features, even compared to the upscale Seiko version, and every bit as good of a warranty). I hate chunky watches (and sent that and other feedback to Seiko) but unfortunately you can't get features without size.
Casio and Timex watches? Both are still cheap crap. They go for the volume market where people buy disposable goods and focus more on price rather than quality.
Had companies like Rolex created a new low-end brand to compete with the low end market, Seiko would have probably not grown to the size that it is today.
As far as Rolex is concerned, I don't think you will ever see them dilute their name by moving downmarket - just like you'll never see a Ferrari or Porsche econobox (everyone knew Ferrari was a Fiat company and Porsche had close ties with VW but they were very careful to keep the lines distinct in both cases - to avoid brand dilution). Lotus did that (moved downmarket and forsook the upmarket customer) for a couple of years when they killed off the Esprit, offering only the Elise and the Exige, and look where they ended up - scrambling to put the Esprit back into production because they lost an entry in the performance car market (I've never seen the new Exige or Elise on the road but see quite a few Esprits).
If Rolex were to do anything downmarlet, it'd be similar to what Lotus did when they designed the Lotus X100 (the Toyota MR2) - they'd either partner with another company and license engineering, or they'd create a subsidiary with a different name and limit the public perception of any ties between the companies. It's different from what Seiko did with Pulsar - they actually capitalize on the two being different lines from the same company because neither line skimps on quality. No, they're not Rolex, but they do not strive to be.
John "I don't own an SUV (but my very rich wife owns seven and I just happen to drive them)" Kerry is the sole reason I voted for Bush. It was the only way to vote against Kerry that had the slightest chance of counting.
Looking back, I think that Kerry would have been less harmful to our nation and our essential inalienable rights because you can do only so much damage when you miss 60-80% of your scheduled meetings.
Both candidates were scum. Matt and Trey are right: we get to choose between a big turd and a stupid douche - we need a good, strong third-party candidate with a backbone, not some fork-tongued two-faced spineless corporate puppet.
China is not treated as a "third world nation" but as a "second world nation"
Second world: Communist bloc nations, usually associated with the former soviet union Third world: under-developed/developing capitalist (or at least non-communist) nations not under a communist regime and not associated with first world nations or alliances (e.g., NATO, etc.)
ITYM "Timex's crappy watches", or "Casio's crappy watches" because Seiko watches in general are not crappy, especially compared to their competition within the same price range or less.
Why not implement oh, I don't know, say, a Peltier Junction directly into the heat spreader? Since you KNOW there is going to be a heat sink (no warranty if no heatsink is used) then any overheating concerns from running the junction without a heat sink are moot.
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) -- they're over-complicating the solution. Fluid directly in the chip might be a good idea, but let conduction and natural convection handle the heat transfer to the heat spreader. Don't over-complicate this thing with a pump that can break the second a nanometer particle gets into the system.
I regret to inform you, PCeye, that you are in violation of patent 1,521,271 "Method for whining about the patent situation" which I filed on July 22, 1998. You have 30 minutes to cease and desist violating my intellectual property, or you may opt to negotiate a license for continuing using my method. You may contact me at frivilouspatents@fraudulent-ip-sharks.com
Considering that the vast majority of our electricity comes from oil-fueled and coal-fueled generators which burn thousands of pounds/gallons of fuel per hour each, there is a huge power loss due to resistance of the conductors between your house and the generator (not to mention losses in the various transformers along the way) and battery charge cycles are at best 20% efficient, this is NOT a low-emission solution; you are merely displacing the emissions to another location (the NIMBY syndrome), and not only that, you've generated a lot more toxic waste that companies show little interest in recycling (the lithium-ion batteries) which need to be replaced every 50,000 to 75,000 miles.
I'll stick with my current car, thank you. It gets better fuel mileage than almost everyone who criticises me for driving a "gas guzzler" (I get 26-27mpg combined, I've gotten 32-33mpg on long trips - when driving like a sane person anyhow, 180mph+ runs on I-70 get crappy mileage;)) - and it should be getting even better mileage this summer now that I just had brand-new RC fuel injectors and a Corsa exhaust installed (the nice quiet stock exhaust finally rusted to the point where I can't have it repaired:( An exhaust lasting 179K miles on a '91 car is not bad), replacing the stock GM crap. Not only that, it burns amazingly clean such that one time the techs running the dyno remarked he doesn't usually see economy cars burn that cleanly, let alone a sportscar. But then again, I keep it tuned and have the alignment checked regularly. My business partner's car with a six-cylinder burns dirty and every inspection costs him a few hundred, because he doesn't keep up with maintenance (he changes his oil every other year whether it needs it or not). If you keep your car maintained, run good oil (I run Mobil 1 or Castrol Syntec in my vehicles - I hate ExxonMobil but still buy their synthetic oil, I usually cannot find RedLine oil), and use detergent-based fuel injector cleaners every now and then, your car will run very cleanly. Let maintenance go, run the crappiest, cheapest engine oil you can, you will wear out the engine far more quickly and will have problems with emissions after a few years.
The idea of a hybrid intrigues me, but I'd feel far more guilty about the production costs and toxic waste generated from the battery packs which need to be replaced far too often than I do about driving a conventional car. What would convince me to buy a hybrid is using the hybrid technology in combination with a V8 to enhance performance - there is no reason one can't get 35+mpg normal driving and sub-4.1 second 0-60 times in the same car (obviously you wouldn't get good mileage driving like a bat out of hell). The upcoming Lexus is interesting (and out of my price range right now) but I'd like to see what its specs will be. If the specs are comparable to my car and I can afford it at the time (no way in Hell I can afford it at the moment unless I sell my car which "ain't gonna happen" in my liftime), I might buy it.
From that site: "The real role of extensions is to add frivolous non-features to a browser, and in doing so provide a scape-goat for blame when the browser is at fault."
So, the tab mix plus toolbar adds frivilous non-features? The ability to reorder tabs, or "un-close" tabs should one mistakenly close the wrong one, and the ability to lock a tab in place are all non-features?
Likewise: the web developer adds other frivilous non-features: one can resize the browser window to a specific size, clear HTTP authentication, clear the cache, clear history, outline any given element type, validate HTML against standards, display HTTP headers (basically, the HTTP response code and other server information), display element metadata, highlight broken images (broken images are not always readily apparant), modify CSS on the fly, disable certain standard browser features, and so forth. Yeah, frivilous non-features, most of which are absolutely NO help at all in debugging web applications and web sites in general. Useless non-feature, I'll give you that!;)
User agent switcher: can be used to spoof MSIE or Safari in order to make Firefox work with banks and ecommerce sites which have been hard-coded to expect one of those two browsers, despite being 100% compatible with Firefox. Yep, another useless non-feature.
DOM Inspector: an extension which adds the non-feature of being able to browse the document object model. It's not as though you actually need to know how address an element in order to manipulate it using Javascript. Yes, folks, another frivilous non-feature brought to you courtesy of a useless Firefox extension!
Colorzilla: a color picker which is obviously not useful at all for web developers.
Have fun slamming the Mozilla team, but check the above before spreading the FUD above. You should quit wasting time spreading FUD, check your facts, and criticise the Firefox folks over legitimate issues.
Hi, Tom? This is John Travolta. You can come out of the closet now. We know Katie got pregnant thanks to the local sperm bank. You can stop pretending now!
That doesn't mean I should not resent half my pay being extorted by the time all taxes/excise fees/user fees/etc. are all tallied up. Why the fuck should I, being single, pick up the slack for couples with 2, 5, 7, or eighty kids? The people who use the most resources pay the least in taxes. That's just disgusting.
So I will continue to call it Taxachusetts, thankyouverymuch.
Agreed. Setting up the shell scripts can be painful at first, you might end up cursing at crond because it's not obeying crontab for some reason (problems such as: "oh wait, which crond variant do I have installed? Oh Vixie cron. THAT's right, that job needs a username to run under. D'oh!"), but once everything is set up you pretty much don't need to think about it. I don't know WHY the parent of your post was modded insightful.
With Linux apps you don't need to resort to an insecure hack like having to install the scripting host and use to automate Exchange maintenance (anyone who suggests the scripting host as an automation solution on a production server is an IDIOT. Period.), you can have crontab email you the output of your maintenance scripts, and you KNOW the scripts will do what they're designed to do.
It isn't hard to migrate to Linux - the hardest parts are:
1. Making the time to RTFM a little bit about bash 2. Setting up Samba or NFS.
Email servers do take a little longer to set up on Linux, but they're well worth it. All the commercial spam and antivirus filters for Exchange seem to suck and they're WAY overpriced (plan on doubling your per-seat licensing costs), and the open source ones (ASSP, Spamassassin for Exchange) are slightly better but the way they have to run is a bit of a hack.
Web servers: if you want a good, functional and secure web server, LAMP is far faster to configure, and migrating to another server is a VERY painless exercise. Ditto for DNS on Linux. Ditto for a MySQL or PostgreSQL server. If you upgrade both a SQL Server and MySQL server side by side, you'll have a MySQL server upgrade (from one machine to a brand-new machine) completed and RUNNING while you're still downloading the Windows updates.
I've been using Samba (for both Windows-> Linux and Linux-> Linux, I didn't want to run multiple network share protocols) but now that I've found a free Windows NFS client that looks like it might be reliable, we will probably be switching to NFS.
The up-front purchase cost of Linux app servers in general is extremely low - most of the software is free.
I'd estimate the setup cost is about the same (it's all just time), or 50% longer if you have a GOOD Windows admin (note: paper MCSEs need not apply) willing to RTFM and learn something new.
Maintenance costs on Linux: Negligible if initially set up correctly (e.g., proper scripts configured in your crontab, etc.)
Downtime/Uptime: Near-zero downtime on Linux, even including Microsoft's definition of downtime. No need to redefine terms to exclude "scheduled maintenance windows" from the downtime calculation.
In other words: Mac users who said that Windows sucked, generally did so from a position of knowledge, whereas Windows users who said that Macs sucked, generally did so from a position of ignorance.
In reality, both sucked. Windows 3.1 sucked harder than Mac OS, and Windows 95 sucked a little bit less than Mac OS.
Thankfully Mac OS is dead and buried and we now have OS X to admire, and Windows improved with Windows 2000 but hasn't changed much since then.
This sums up the "improvements" since Windows 2000: Windows XP? OOoh, look at the purty colors! Shiny! Hey, why the hell can't I copy my paid-for-downloaded music to my MP3 player?
It's because not enough people vote, and the people who do bother to vote have to choose whether they want a big turd or a stupid douche in office. Here in Taxachusetts people keep reelecting that stupid douche Kennedy back into the Senator seat.:(
They should read their own FAQs on moderating then - if a post is objective and of high quality it should be modded up whether or not you agree with it. If someone is modding with a bias in mind in order to create a one-sided discussion, they should not be moderating log (meta-moderation should take care of that kind of thing) and certainly should not be editors - at least if what the admins here at/. claim is true.
How are they innovating? From what I see, they took a commodity low-resolution (1440 x 900) panel and put it in a chassis with NO VESA mount, and added a few user-selectable brightness/contrast profiles. Sure the case looks nice, but before I dump my 21" CRT monitors I want:
- VESA compliance (so I can remove the desk mount and SUSPEND them over my desk on a custom mount)
- a resolution at LEAST as high as 1920x1440
- VGA and DVI capability, S-video would be a nice to have
- I'll skip the TV tuner, thanks, especially if it's analog
- contrast ratio, viewing angle, and color purity to match the CRT
I know I won't get what I want until OLED monitors become available, or unless I'm willing to go with heavier plasma monitors (which will make suspending them on an adjustable mount unweildy).
It seems monitor quality has gone backwards lately in the name of saving desk space. Thin panels are nice, but why haven't higher-resolution models hit the mass market yet? It's hard to find anything in a higher resolution unless you're willing to go to a 23" wide monitor, and the ones I've seen a) cost way too much and b) have very wide bezels on the sides.
The PW191 is a fairly nice monitor as far as LCDs go (lack of VESA mount points nonwithstanding), but in the meantime I'll stick with my ViewSonic P815s, even as old and large as they are.
It is obviously not a copyright violation, but a work which is done in his style to honor the artist. What the fuck is ARS thinking? Can you imagine what uproar would be caused if every living artist (mainly cinemataography and music) who got spoofed were to sue everyone who spoofed their work? Matt Groening would be sued left and right, as would Seth McFarlane, Lloyd Bridges, Weird Al, and anyone pretty much anyone who submits any works to Dr. Demento and Bob Rivers, and of course many, many porn producers.
ARS members and officials who complained about Google's google doodle should be ashamed of themselves. I know they aren't, based on the "art" many of their members produce, but they should be. Heck, if it weren't for spoofs, many people would never learn of the original works and would never get interested in them. They should THANK google for the doodle of that day. Fucking shortsighted bastards.
King Kong dies? I know the movie was made in 1933, but I haven't gotten around to watching it and now you've spoiled it for me, you inconsiderate clod! *is hurt*
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"NITRO, W.Va. (AP) - Workers at a West Virginia Wal-Mart (WMT) store have been ordered to be available to work any shift at any time or face dismissal."
They all had crappy products in the beginning because Japan was barely out of being a third-world country and we nuked two of their larger cities back to the stone age. All of Japan's exports were crap in the beginning - and most took American consultants' advice, thought long term rather than America's quick-buck quarterly-results thinking, and shifted to building reliable products as soon as they could afford to.
Seiko quickly became a high-end commodity watch (they were one of the first to bring reliable LCD watches to the mass market) and introduced a lower-tier line, which too soon became a high end watch (I just bought the Pulsar PM7001 after comparing about five flight computer watch lines (Seiko, Pulsar, Citizen, and a company which produces ONLY pilots' watches, in two lines) - Pulsar had the best features, even compared to the upscale Seiko version, and every bit as good of a warranty). I hate chunky watches (and sent that and other feedback to Seiko) but unfortunately you can't get features without size.
Casio and Timex watches? Both are still cheap crap. They go for the volume market where people buy disposable goods and focus more on price rather than quality.
As far as Rolex is concerned, I don't think you will ever see them dilute their name by moving downmarket - just like you'll never see a Ferrari or Porsche econobox (everyone knew Ferrari was a Fiat company and Porsche had close ties with VW but they were very careful to keep the lines distinct in both cases - to avoid brand dilution). Lotus did that (moved downmarket and forsook the upmarket customer) for a couple of years when they killed off the Esprit, offering only the Elise and the Exige, and look where they ended up - scrambling to put the Esprit back into production because they lost an entry in the performance car market (I've never seen the new Exige or Elise on the road but see quite a few Esprits).
If Rolex were to do anything downmarlet, it'd be similar to what Lotus did when they designed the Lotus X100 (the Toyota MR2) - they'd either partner with another company and license engineering, or they'd create a subsidiary with a different name and limit the public perception of any ties between the companies. It's different from what Seiko did with Pulsar - they actually capitalize on the two being different lines from the same company because neither line skimps on quality. No, they're not Rolex, but they do not strive to be.
John "I don't own an SUV (but my very rich wife owns seven and I just happen to drive them)" Kerry is the sole reason I voted for Bush. It was the only way to vote against Kerry that had the slightest chance of counting.
Looking back, I think that Kerry would have been less harmful to our nation and our essential inalienable rights because you can do only so much damage when you miss 60-80% of your scheduled meetings.
Both candidates were scum. Matt and Trey are right: we get to choose between a big turd and a stupid douche - we need a good, strong third-party candidate with a backbone, not some fork-tongued two-faced spineless corporate puppet.
China is not treated as a "third world nation" but as a "second world nation"
Second world: Communist bloc nations, usually associated with the former soviet union
Third world: under-developed/developing capitalist (or at least non-communist) nations not under a communist regime and not associated with first world nations or alliances (e.g., NATO, etc.)
re: "Seiko's crappy watches,"
ITYM "Timex's crappy watches", or "Casio's crappy watches" because Seiko watches in general are not crappy, especially compared to their competition within the same price range or less.
I used Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 computers with S-video outputs, and I liked it, you insensitive clod!
Why not implement oh, I don't know, say, a Peltier Junction directly into the heat spreader? Since you KNOW there is going to be a heat sink (no warranty if no heatsink is used) then any overheating concerns from running the junction without a heat sink are moot.
KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) -- they're over-complicating the solution. Fluid directly in the chip might be a good idea, but let conduction and natural convection handle the heat transfer to the heat spreader. Don't over-complicate this thing with a pump that can break the second a nanometer particle gets into the system.
I regret to inform you, PCeye, that you are in violation of patent 1,521,271 "Method for whining about the patent situation" which I filed on July 22, 1998. You have 30 minutes to cease and desist violating my intellectual property, or you may opt to negotiate a license for continuing using my method. You may contact me at frivilouspatents@fraudulent-ip-sharks.com
Why crack it when you can run Linux or BSD instead?
Gaming, you say? Buy an NVidia video card and check out Cedega.
Ever see a clock broken that ran fast? You can sometimes find a broken clock that's correct several times per hour. :)
Considering that the vast majority of our electricity comes from oil-fueled and coal-fueled generators which burn thousands of pounds/gallons of fuel per hour each, there is a huge power loss due to resistance of the conductors between your house and the generator (not to mention losses in the various transformers along the way) and battery charge cycles are at best 20% efficient, this is NOT a low-emission solution; you are merely displacing the emissions to another location (the NIMBY syndrome), and not only that, you've generated a lot more toxic waste that companies show little interest in recycling (the lithium-ion batteries) which need to be replaced every 50,000 to 75,000 miles.
;)) - and it should be getting even better mileage this summer now that I just had brand-new RC fuel injectors and a Corsa exhaust installed (the nice quiet stock exhaust finally rusted to the point where I can't have it repaired :( An exhaust lasting 179K miles on a '91 car is not bad), replacing the stock GM crap. Not only that, it burns amazingly clean such that one time the techs running the dyno remarked he doesn't usually see economy cars burn that cleanly, let alone a sportscar. But then again, I keep it tuned and have the alignment checked regularly. My business partner's car with a six-cylinder burns dirty and every inspection costs him a few hundred, because he doesn't keep up with maintenance (he changes his oil every other year whether it needs it or not). If you keep your car maintained, run good oil (I run Mobil 1 or Castrol Syntec in my vehicles - I hate ExxonMobil but still buy their synthetic oil, I usually cannot find RedLine oil), and use detergent-based fuel injector cleaners every now and then, your car will run very cleanly. Let maintenance go, run the crappiest, cheapest engine oil you can, you will wear out the engine far more quickly and will have problems with emissions after a few years.
I'll stick with my current car, thank you. It gets better fuel mileage than almost everyone who criticises me for driving a "gas guzzler" (I get 26-27mpg combined, I've gotten 32-33mpg on long trips - when driving like a sane person anyhow, 180mph+ runs on I-70 get crappy mileage
The idea of a hybrid intrigues me, but I'd feel far more guilty about the production costs and toxic waste generated from the battery packs which need to be replaced far too often than I do about driving a conventional car. What would convince me to buy a hybrid is using the hybrid technology in combination with a V8 to enhance performance - there is no reason one can't get 35+mpg normal driving and sub-4.1 second 0-60 times in the same car (obviously you wouldn't get good mileage driving like a bat out of hell). The upcoming Lexus is interesting (and out of my price range right now) but I'd like to see what its specs will be. If the specs are comparable to my car and I can afford it at the time (no way in Hell I can afford it at the moment unless I sell my car which "ain't gonna happen" in my liftime), I might buy it.
So, the tab mix plus toolbar adds frivilous non-features? The ability to reorder tabs, or "un-close" tabs should one mistakenly close the wrong one, and the ability to lock a tab in place are all non-features?
Likewise: the web developer adds other frivilous non-features: one can resize the browser window to a specific size, clear HTTP authentication, clear the cache, clear history, outline any given element type, validate HTML against standards, display HTTP headers (basically, the HTTP response code and other server information), display element metadata, highlight broken images (broken images are not always readily apparant), modify CSS on the fly, disable certain standard browser features, and so forth. Yeah, frivilous non-features, most of which are absolutely NO help at all in debugging web applications and web sites in general. Useless non-feature, I'll give you that!
User agent switcher: can be used to spoof MSIE or Safari in order to make Firefox work with banks and ecommerce sites which have been hard-coded to expect one of those two browsers, despite being 100% compatible with Firefox. Yep, another useless non-feature.
DOM Inspector: an extension which adds the non-feature of being able to browse the document object model. It's not as though you actually need to know how address an element in order to manipulate it using Javascript. Yes, folks, another frivilous non-feature brought to you courtesy of a useless Firefox extension!
Colorzilla: a color picker which is obviously not useful at all for web developers.
Have fun slamming the Mozilla team, but check the above before spreading the FUD above. You should quit wasting time spreading FUD, check your facts, and criticise the Firefox folks over legitimate issues.
katse(at)biyn(dot)com
People are motivated to work by the idea of obtaining wealth? OMFG!!
Next you'll tell me people eat because they're hungry, and drink because they're thirsty!
No, he configured his RealPlayer to buffer 100% before playing. He's on dialup (or Rogers "broadband"), you see. . .
Hi, Tom? This is John Travolta. You can come out of the closet now. We know Katie got pregnant thanks to the local sperm bank. You can stop pretending now!
That doesn't mean I should not resent half my pay being extorted by the time all taxes/excise fees/user fees/etc. are all tallied up. Why the fuck should I, being single, pick up the slack for couples with 2, 5, 7, or eighty kids? The people who use the most resources pay the least in taxes. That's just disgusting.
So I will continue to call it Taxachusetts, thankyouverymuch.
Agreed. Setting up the shell scripts can be painful at first, you might end up cursing at crond because it's not obeying crontab for some reason (problems such as: "oh wait, which crond variant do I have installed? Oh Vixie cron. THAT's right, that job needs a username to run under. D'oh!"), but once everything is set up you pretty much don't need to think about it. I don't know WHY the parent of your post was modded insightful.
With Linux apps you don't need to resort to an insecure hack like having to install the scripting host and use to automate Exchange maintenance (anyone who suggests the scripting host as an automation solution on a production server is an IDIOT. Period.), you can have crontab email you the output of your maintenance scripts, and you KNOW the scripts will do what they're designed to do.
It isn't hard to migrate to Linux - the hardest parts are:
1. Making the time to RTFM a little bit about bash
2. Setting up Samba or NFS.
Email servers do take a little longer to set up on Linux, but they're well worth it. All the commercial spam and antivirus filters for Exchange seem to suck and they're WAY overpriced (plan on doubling your per-seat licensing costs), and the open source ones (ASSP, Spamassassin for Exchange) are slightly better but the way they have to run is a bit of a hack.
Web servers: if you want a good, functional and secure web server, LAMP is far faster to configure, and migrating to another server is a VERY painless exercise. Ditto for DNS on Linux. Ditto for a MySQL or PostgreSQL server. If you upgrade both a SQL Server and MySQL server side by side, you'll have a MySQL server upgrade (from one machine to a brand-new machine) completed and RUNNING while you're still downloading the Windows updates.
I've been using Samba (for both Windows-> Linux and Linux-> Linux, I didn't want to run multiple network share protocols) but now that I've found a free Windows NFS client that looks like it might be reliable, we will probably be switching to NFS.
The up-front purchase cost of Linux app servers in general is extremely low - most of the software is free.
I'd estimate the setup cost is about the same (it's all just time), or 50% longer if you have a GOOD Windows admin (note: paper MCSEs need not apply) willing to RTFM and learn something new.
Maintenance costs on Linux: Negligible if initially set up correctly (e.g., proper scripts configured in your crontab, etc.)
Downtime/Uptime: Near-zero downtime on Linux, even including Microsoft's definition of downtime. No need to redefine terms to exclude "scheduled maintenance windows" from the downtime calculation.
In reality, both sucked. Windows 3.1 sucked harder than Mac OS, and Windows 95 sucked a little bit less than Mac OS.
Thankfully Mac OS is dead and buried and we now have OS X to admire, and Windows improved with Windows 2000 but hasn't changed much since then.
This sums up the "improvements" since Windows 2000: Windows XP? OOoh, look at the purty colors! Shiny! Hey, why the hell can't I copy my paid-for-downloaded music to my MP3 player?
It's because not enough people vote, and the people who do bother to vote have to choose whether they want a big turd or a stupid douche in office. Here in Taxachusetts people keep reelecting that stupid douche Kennedy back into the Senator seat. :(
OMG, the North won? What does this mean for States' Rights? :-D
They should read their own FAQs on moderating then - if a post is objective and of high quality it should be modded up whether or not you agree with it. If someone is modding with a bias in mind in order to create a one-sided discussion, they should not be moderating log (meta-moderation should take care of that kind of thing) and certainly should not be editors - at least if what the admins here at /. claim is true.
How are they innovating? From what I see, they took a commodity low-resolution (1440 x 900) panel and put it in a chassis with NO VESA mount, and added a few user-selectable brightness/contrast profiles. Sure the case looks nice, but before I dump my 21" CRT monitors I want:
- VESA compliance (so I can remove the desk mount and SUSPEND them over my desk on a custom mount)
- a resolution at LEAST as high as 1920x1440
- VGA and DVI capability, S-video would be a nice to have
- I'll skip the TV tuner, thanks, especially if it's analog
- contrast ratio, viewing angle, and color purity to match the CRT
I know I won't get what I want until OLED monitors become available, or unless I'm willing to go with heavier plasma monitors (which will make suspending them on an adjustable mount unweildy).
It seems monitor quality has gone backwards lately in the name of saving desk space. Thin panels are nice, but why haven't higher-resolution models hit the mass market yet? It's hard to find anything in a higher resolution unless you're willing to go to a 23" wide monitor, and the ones I've seen a) cost way too much and b) have very wide bezels on the sides.
The PW191 is a fairly nice monitor as far as LCDs go (lack of VESA mount points nonwithstanding), but in the meantime I'll stick with my ViewSonic P815s, even as old and large as they are.
It is obviously not a copyright violation, but a work which is done in his style to honor the artist. What the fuck is ARS thinking? Can you imagine what uproar would be caused if every living artist (mainly cinemataography and music) who got spoofed were to sue everyone who spoofed their work? Matt Groening would be sued left and right, as would Seth McFarlane, Lloyd Bridges, Weird Al, and anyone pretty much anyone who submits any works to Dr. Demento and Bob Rivers, and of course many, many porn producers.
ARS members and officials who complained about Google's google doodle should be ashamed of themselves. I know they aren't, based on the "art" many of their members produce, but they should be. Heck, if it weren't for spoofs, many people would never learn of the original works and would never get interested in them. They should THANK google for the doodle of that day. Fucking shortsighted bastards.
King Kong dies? I know the movie was made in 1933, but I haven't gotten around to watching it and now you've spoiled it for me, you inconsiderate clod! *is hurt*
Gah! s/write/Wright
D'oh!