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Submission + - HDTV Has Ruined the LCD Display Market (10rem.net)

Submitted by alvin67
alvin67 writes: Microsoft Evangelist, Pete Brown rants about the lack of pixels available in today's LCD screens:

Ok, that's it. I've had it. I want my pixels, damn-it!

For a while, screen resolution has been going up on our desktop displays. The trend was good, as I've always wanted the largest monitor with the highest DPI that I could afford. I mean, I used to have one of the first hulking 17" CRTs on my desk. I later upgraded to a 21" inch job that was so huge, that if you didn't stick it in a corner, it took up the whole desk. It was flat-panel, though and full of pixels. It cost me around $1100 at the time.

Comment Too little too late? (Score 1) 277

by wasabioss (#30361508) Attached to: CrunchPad Being Re-branded As JooJoo

They really need to ship JooJoo with this song of JoJo.

I was young
And in love
I gave you everything
But it wasn't enough
And now you wanna communicate (You know it's just too little too late)
Go find someone else
In letting you go
I'm loving myself
You got a problem
But don't come asking me for help
'Cause you know...

It's just too little too late
a little too wrong...

Comment Re:The comment may also be complex.. (Score 1) 660

by wasabioss (#30118652) Attached to: If the Comments Are Ugly, the Code Is Ugly

I went on a vodka bender last night, and this was on my screen when I woke up.

I've had that happen to me a few times. It's a bit unsettling, I assure you.

What's even more unsettling is waking up with a full plate of hash browns and eggs next to my bed, and having no recollection of ever making them. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.

What's even more unsettling is waking up with a naked girl on my bed, and having no recollection of ever doing anything with her. It did make for a nice breakfast, though. Perhaps I should do it more often.

Comment Sometimes it makes sense (Score 1) 224

by wasabioss (#30103160) Attached to: URL Shorteners Get Some Backup

I'm not a nig fan of url shortening services, but sometimes it makes sense.

Sometimes I just want to send a link to my friends with my dumb phone. The problem is that I don't want to type the whole stupid url and I don't want my friends to ask me if it's an Oh or a Zero. In that case, SocuteURL rocks!

Comment Re:Not likely (Score 1) 271

by dbIII (#29726793) Attached to: New Superconductor World Record Surpasses 250K

If this structure is anything like the other high temp superconductor, it is a ceramic, which can hardly be used as a cable conductor.

Way back in the 1980s there were many solutions proposed to this: such as encasing it in a more ductile material, or having elbow bits to go around corners similar to what plumbers have been doing for a very long time with brittle ceramics. The major problems keeping these things out of power transmission have been temperature and the problem where superconductivity halts if you try to put more than a small amount of current per unit of area through it (think it was something to do with magnetic field strength but it's been a while). The second may need some creative work with geometry (flat wide "cables" or something) or maybe just making things thicker, but there's plenty of ways around the brittleness problem.
You just won't necessarily be able to hang the things off poles like a typical steel cored aluminium transmission cable.

Comment Re:Fool me once.... (Score 5, Informative) 300

by wasabioss (#29652123) Attached to: Netgear WNR3500L Open Source Router Announced

That was what happened with me too. Being impressed by DD-WRT and successfully hacked a bunch of Linksys before, I bought the previous version of the Netgear "opensource" router although it was more expensive with the intention to put dd-wrt or tomato on it (and to promote companies that actually support opensource). Guess what? The standard dd-wrt didn't work on their router! You have to download their own dd-wrt or tomato firmware "distro". And that's not all. After flashing the thing with their provided tomato distro, it totally bricked the router (and I was not the only one). And there is no way to recover the thing, unless you have a 3.3v serial cable to do the JTAG (and they say that's hacker-friendly?).

Ultimately I returned to Newegg, for a restocking and shipping fee. Nice lesson anyway. Don't. Be. Fooled. By. That. Crap. Period. Buy something like an ASUS or a Linksys. FYI Two days ago I was able to put DD-WRT on my friend's Linksys WRT54GS even v7.2 with full SSH + PPPoE support.

Comment Who needs that? (Score 4, Insightful) 196

by wasabioss (#29479639) Attached to: Intel Core I7 For Laptops — First Benchmarks

Although faster is better and will be every Slashdotter's wet dream, but I'd rather have power-efficient laptops rather than a gazillion Ghz laptop. I don't get why an average Joe needs a Core 2 Duo laptop for Word processing and surfing the web, which is what most people have and what most people do now. And now they're going to put i7 on the laptops. There will be some people who needs it, but not the majority of casual laptop users, who don't do video encoding or kernel compilation (which should be the work of a desktop IMHO).

I have two atom powered laptops and I even sold my laptops because I was so in love with those machines, which wouldn't burn my lap and my balls whenever I have to sit them on my laps. Other than the pitiful 950 graphics, I have nothing to complain about.

And I heard they fixed it with the Z5x0 chipset - on Windows at least, but as I don't have one, I can't verify it.

Comment Re:Nokia & OSS (Score 1) 263

by wasabioss (#29251319) Attached to: Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt

I must be dreaming, to have both Google's Android and Maemo available on what is historically the most closed computing platform in recent history (cell phones). It seems it will be possible to install both on their new phones.

Will you put your cell phone into a dual boot configuration?

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