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If you don't what Cmd-H is for, GTFO.

May want to add programmers to those who want massive resolutions. I was actually offended when the company I work for bought us 1280x1024 LCDs (fortunately they made up for it later). I had been happily using 1600x1200 on my CRT before that (and occasionally bumping it up to 2048x1536). I can make use of all the pixels available to me. The thing is I want things to by immediately visible without having to switch apps or windows. The more area I have to display code, logs, documents, browser window, terminal, etc, the better. See multiple source files at once is essentially to my productivity. Vertical resolution is good for me, too, as it means less moving up and down a source file or document (and also I can tile things vertically).

I currently use a 1920x1200 monitor (actually two of them when I plug my laptop into a monitor) which I think is a good resolution that meets in the middle of what people want and how much they are willing to pay. What I hate is the proliferation of 1920x1080 computer monitors (which *IS* because of HDTV). Did they really have to remove 230k pixels? 1080P content displays fine on a 1920x1200 monitor with 1:1 pixel scaling.

What I really want (that is currently available) is one 2560x1600 30" display (but budget doesn't allow at the moment, and the options available are lacking features I want/need). The more text I can see on screen (with a comfortable font size) the better. The less swapping between applications just to read things the better. Though sometimes I just want a single app (such as Emacs, Eclipse, VS) to take up the whole screen, and multiple monitors just doesn't work well in most of these apps.

Those people coding on netbooks is what I call "crazy people." Many coders don't even know they liked higher resolutions until they got it. Maybe that's part of it, people just don't know what they are missing.

For gaming, I don't really care. Even the ~720P or often less resolution of most XBox 360 / PS3 games looks great to me on my 1080P plasma (I'm one of those who think LCD is inferior to plasma for gaming and video; if I ever get back into PC gaming, I'm getting a plasma display to hook up to my computer and will be happy with 1080P and the frame rates I get with it).

I can pinch to zoom one handed, but sometimes I wish I had a simple + / - for zoom like the browser on Android does.

I kinda see it the opposite, but I am not a typical user: on the desktop, you can easily have multiple drives, so having one SSD for the OS and apps, and having one or more HDDs (either internal or external) for general storage would do the trick. On most laptops, you can only have one drive, so better make it a big one.

Who (as an end user) needs any kind of storage medium for porn. Porn is in the "cloud" these days.

Since we have a "few" computers all around the house, it's pretty much every time I sit down to one I have to apply patches, and usually a reboot to boot. Sometimes, it's a rarely used computer that I grab (laptop) just to get a few quick things done, and it requires multiple iterations of patches and reboots. Sigh.

I find it exasperating that my experience is almost always, "apply these patches", and then you can do some work with Windows. The good news (for me), I'm finally migrating EVERYTHING (as in replacing with) Macs and Linux. Time and money, that's all it takes.

Interestingly the other day... I got in and was productive immediately on a Windows laptop. Wow! C'est vrai? And when I went to shut it down? "Please do not power down your computer. Windows is installing (3 of 10...) updates..." WTH?

Maybe you can get creative with your router configuration. Block update servers during the peak time, or set up your own bandwidth cap during that time. It could be tricky, and you may need something more than the Tomato firmware, maybe a full Linux or OpenBSD box (running on a lower power x86 machine) might be necessary, but seems like it should be doable.

Holy crap, why didn't you just talk to your neighbor to begin with? Talk about passive aggressive. The real moron here is the one who couldn't get the laptop to ignore a wifi network.

The iPhone is totally pants for gaming. I mean, yeah, it's fine for playing chess or a scrabble-clone, but for action games I just don't enjoy it. Games that use the accelerometer are especially atrocious.

Now if someone would create a proper game-controller add-on and games started to support it, then, and only then would the iPhone be a great gaming phone. Though, Apple would probably need to either create an official game controller or establish an API and standards for such an add-on for it to really take off.

Any keyboard that lacks home/page up/page down/delete/end in the proper place is worthless.

You're obviously not an Emacs user. OS X supports many Emacs shortcuts in text fields, and then on top of that you can use Butler to implement even more Emacs shortcuts. I don't miss home/pgup/pgdn/end at all because I use alt- instead and don't have to move my hands from the home row.

I so want to move to the Netherlands. Don't worry, I'm sure I can make my 58" plasma fit in a small apartment. It'll be nice to be able to consume marijuana and not get arrested.

My current working environment is actually not that bad, though, but it's not typical for the U.S. I very rarely work more than 40 hrs (and when I do, I get vacation time for the time I worked). I have 20 vacation days (not counting sick days). But it's many of the other aspects of American life that make me wish I lived in Europe.

Aluminum does not give a laptop heft, quite the opposite. Aluminum is lightweight and bends easily.

I am typing this on a Macbook Pro that has some dents on it. Though I'm pretty happy with my MBP in most other respects, I wish Apple would make a more durable laptop that could take a beating (at least as well as IBM Thinkpads could).

That may be true now, but a lot of the existing installations are pirate copies of XP with IE6, and they never do software updates. Last time I went to India (IE7 had been out for a year) it was exactly this scenario. All the internet cafes were running XP with IE6 and software updates were turned off, or Win2k (w/ IE6 or even IE5!). Same thing with machines sold to consumers (all my relatives who had bought machines had pirated XP installed).

The people running the internet cafes hadn't even heard of Firefox (or Linux for that matter).

For instance, a few months ago, I ordered PPV Gran Torino in 1080p for my wife and I to view one evening. Six hours later it was ready to view, but she was already in bed.

The real WTF is why you rented Gran Torino.

Let's remember, Vista wouldn't run on old equipment, while Win7 runs on anything over a gigahertz with a gig of memory. A lot of XP users COULDN'T upgrade to Vista!!

That's assuming your video/sound card are supported by Win7. I tried to install it on an old machine (1.4 GHz Athlon) and there were no Win7 drivers for either my video or sound card. Installed Ubuntu instead.