They're unreliable. They only work half the time.

I've used various incarnations of these... First one was on my original IBM PC (not XT) with the annoying layout... I liked it best. My dad had a 5120 with a nice big built-in version... Then later I installed 3161's and PC-RT's in Dental offices... Then got my own RT...

After the original PC one, they seemed to get more plasticy... Especially in the PS/2 days... Could just be my imagination though.

Good times ...

Now I just use whatever crap someone puts in front of me.

Quoting MPG is useless unless you clarify whether you're quoting US-MPG or IMPERIAL-MPG... 25 IMPERIAL-MPG is 20 US-MPG.. A somewhat less impressive number. This is slashdot; we don't have the benefit of location context.

We bought a Samsung Induction range which came with a blue LED clock. You can't read it from halfway across the room.. Something about the contrast or whatever but nobody's eyes can focus on it... It's completely useless.

This is a new car company engaged in a huge undertaking. If it were me, I'd want to know everything possible about every one of those vehicles on the road to help drive future so I bet there's a ton of useful telemetry that either gets sent in realtime or uploaded whenever the car checks in for a firmware update. As such, I bet a CPO Tesla would be a way better bet than a CPO Honda...

exactly this. I do a lot of highway driving by myself, generally on weekends. I listen to the radio just fine. But occasionally I've found myself texting periodically with someone about some problem. Quiet back country rural roads. I'm texting with the phone on the dash, so I'm not moving my head, just adjusting the my focusing distance typing about 1 cps... I find that when I'm finished that task, I don't remember any part of the intervening journey... My mind went on auto-pilot and exercised all the correct turns... I just don't remember it. So, for me, I consider that to be 'distracted driving' and it makes me uncomfortable. I know lots of people who claim they can drive and text at the same time without any negative effect. I don't believe them but good for them... I know I can't. So now I just pull over when I find myself needing to respond something more complicated than 'y' or 'n'.

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

Less a 15% restocking fee, of course.

So is this GT the same glass we saw in the youtube video of the glass the guy bends almost 180 degrees without it breaking, and scribbles the sharp end of his knife all over and nothing bad happens to it?

Why are you telling us? I'm sure the nincompoops at CDC are standing around by the water cooler trying to figure out what to do and they're certainly not reading slashdot! Quick! Get on the phone and lend them your expertise in this area!

Agreed. Sometimes my CC doesn't show up. Caveat: I'm using my CC with Plex. So in addition to it not showing up, sometimes the video freezes and I need to reboot the CC....

But my biggest beef is that the CC is useless when my internet connection goes down. So is Plex though so I'm doubly hosed... But when my internet connection is down, I'm more likely to want to just switch on the TV...

I might have to go back to XBMC running on a PC and all of its annoyances..

Also... As an open source contributor and also long time software developer, there's no end of things to sink my spare time into, but my spare time is already alloted to other projects (some of them open source)... Sometimes I just want to flop on the couch and watch TV but {mythtv,xbmc,plex} is broken in a way that prevents me from doing it... So yes, I might be capable of fixing it myself, assuming I could find the bug in source I don't know, figure out the correct fix, that isn't going to break a dozen other things I don't understand, and test it, and then sign on to whatever website/forum/mailing-list/whatever in order to submit the patch, blah blah blah... SOMETIMES I JUST WANT TO WATCH TV!

Interesting. The ones I bought were Leviton, labelled for CFL/LED but also labelled "Universal" so I guess that sucks...

Those are the ones I have and haven't seen any failures, just the inability to work correctly on a dimmer.

The Cree brand bulbs I've been buying are pretty terrific and they are nicely dimmable. But i've noticed a problem with the dimming. I presume they dim by doing some sort of PWM to change the duty cycle and thereby result in some dimming... With the Leviton slide dimmers I've been buying, and set to full brightness (slider all the way up) the Cree bulbs have a flicker with a period of about 6 seconds. As in, every 6 seconds, the light will turn off for approximately 50-70ms. I have one circuit that has a couple of sockets. I put a Cree bulb in one socket, and a Phillips bulb in the other socket. At full, the Cree still exhibits the problem while the Phillips does not. However, the Phillips doesn't dim correctly. Whereas the Cree will dim in a nice linear sort of fashion, the Phillips will dim about 20 percent for the first portion of the slider, and then will maintain that brightness until the slider gets sufficiently far down and then the Phillips just turns off...

I have a Sylvania that just doesn't dim at all.

I think that covers all three of the major manufacturers. So far the Cree is the best except for the iritating 'blink' at full brightness... All of my Crees exhibit the same symptom on different dimmer switches throughout the house. If I put two Cree's in two sockets on one dimmer, they both blink, but at slightly different periods.

"We're not there yet".

Case in point, perhaps...

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