The small version of the logo (for example in the upper left corner of their home page) appears significantly misaligned. The red box will appear to be 2/3 of a pixel to the left of the blue box on most LCD panels due to the structure of the RGB elements in each pixel. The strong vertical lines and narrow gaps in the logo, along with the vertically aligned primary colors, makes this a really glaring problem. How embarassing for Microsoft, inventors of ClearType some 15 years ago, who should have known all about this issue.

It took me about 10 seconds to notice this and another 10 seconds to figure out why. Microsoft spent how long and how much money coming up with this logo?

You're welcome!

The students were in audio related fields. They were included because otherwise the data would be age biased. Younger ears can hear higher frequencies. I had no desire to obscure my point by explaining the finer design points of the study to those who couldn't figure it out for themselves. If you want to call that "lying," so be it.

If you take an extremely quiet passage on a properly mastered and dithered CD and amplify it to levels where the quantization noise is audible, a 0db passage with the same gain will either destroy your test equipment or your ears, whichever comes first. This is not a matter of opinion, it is a matter of physics.

A group of sixty audio professionals and audiophiles did a series of controlled double blind trials published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. They found no perceptible degradation caused by a 16-bit/44.1kHz A/D/A.

http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195

When you can tell the difference between 44.1/16 and 192/24 in a double blind trial, come back and we'll talk.

Subjective opinions about audio quality, particularly those accompanied by words like "deaf" or "idiot", are worse than useless. Subjective listening is deeply suggestible and unreliable. Claimed differences among any acceptably well designed audio electronics virtually always disappears under rigorous and controlled testing.

To give just one example, listeners reliably prefer the louder source in subjective testing, even if the difference is not consciously perceptible. If a 192/24 D/A is just 0.1db louder than a 44.1/16 source, listeners will tend to describe it in all sorts of subjective terms... "edgier," "richer," "more forward," "cleaner impact," "deeper soundstage" etc when in fact it is simply a little louder.

Incidentally, light travels a bit more than one foot in a nanosecond. I trust you that you think you're counting nanoseconds.

Martin

Did you actually look up the law before you offered your legal opinon? It's not hard, just Google "Nebraska law destructive device." It certainly isn't vague nor does it leave room for interpretation. It explicitly categorizes CO2 "bombs" as destructive devices.

Nebraska Penal Code 28-1213(7)(a) Destructive devices means: (i)(I) vessel or container intentionally caused to rupture or mechanically explode by expanding pressure from any gas, acid, dry ice, or other chemical mixture

http://law.justia.com/nebraska/codes/s28index/s2812013000.html

At least the Nebraska law requires the intent to "use as a weapon against person or property;" California has a similar law, a felony with a 2 year mandatory minimum sentence, with no such stipulation. Indeed in California, even possessing dry ice and a soda bottle with the intent to put the one inside the other is a felony.

Do not mess around with CO2 "bombs" unless you are very familiar with the applicable law in your state. You could end up in very, very serious, very expensive trouble.

However, oil companies have a vast investment in oil infrastructure, technology and expertise which give them a significant advantage over potential competitors when it comes to delivering oil at a profit. They do not have an advantage at delivering plastic trees. As a result, they are not quite as unbiased as you imply with regard to the exact form in which energy is delivered to the customer.

I disagree.

There are obvious reasons not to put in too many specific details, in case the buyer reads Slashdot. (Unless of course this whole discussion is a negotiation tactic by the poster, in which case, bravo!)

You seem to want to provide accounting advice. Slashdot is not news for accountants, presumably the poster is better off hiring one of them for their accounting needs.

What Slashdot does have is older more experienced nerds who have been through this before and can give nerdly life advice. That's clearly what the poster is after, and we got exactly the right details to give a reasonable overview of their life outlook.

Your enthusiasm for your current gig puts you in a very nice position. Since you are not especially motivated to sell, you can drive a hard bargain and safely explore the limits of what the buyer will pay. If they get annoyed and walk away you go back to doing what you love. Win-win.

So, I would say, put your heads together and come up with the lowest price at which this decision would become a no-brainer, where you could all move on without regret. Make a counter offer at that price. Then go from there. The very least you will get is additional information about your negotiating position.

Just remember, you have the upper hand in the negotiation because you are happy to walk away.