I'm a professional graphic designer. I work with an Apple 30" Cinema Display (matte screen). It is quite simply the finest display I have ever used, and I have experience with a wide variety of displays, of diverse quality (Viewsonic to NEC to Dell to LaCie) going back to the early 90s. When I see those glossy screens lined up in Apple Stores today, or at Best Buys or my campus computer store, I just cannot fathom how anyone gets any work done with their eyes constantly compensating for glare. Yes, the colors may be brighter, but your eyes are working harder to see through glare and the brighter colors are not an equitable tradeoff. But they're energy efficient or some such nonsense, and that makes it ok I guess, right Steve? The only solution, where matte screens are not available, is to buy a glossy screen and resurface it. For me, glossy screens are simply unacceptable.

Man, I'd mod you if I could. +1

If you think the internet is going to just "forget" who this guy is, and that it won't have any impact on future potential employers of his, you're wrong. Sorry.

The media's attention span is not the point. Popular culture is not the point.

The point is that his name is now enshrined in the internet for the foreseeable future. The internet does not forget things, or notorious people. No matter how short a season their fame lasted. This has become an invisible, but permanent, attachment stapled to every job application and cover letter he ever submits again in this field. Will some employers choose to overlook this transgression? Hopefully, for him. But the assertion that he will quietly slip back into safe cozy anonymity, where the internet is concerned, is simply ignorant.

> But, 6 months from now, no one will have a clue who this guy is

You really have no idea how the internet works, do you?

You're not one of the Knights, are you?

So .. following your logic, if you knew of one person you wish to keep ignorant of your whereabouts and personal information, from no matter how long ago, you'd become a recluse for the rest of your life and cut off all contact with friends and family. Got it.

> he looks fine, and even if he's not fine...

So does a depressed person who feigns a smile once in a while.

Neither the AP nor Reuters is a consolidation. They are wire services, making it possible for news and art to be distributed to papers far and wide who pay for their services. They actually do more to support a greater multitude of newsrooms that can rely on their service for world news while remaining local to their communities to report their regional and local stories.

I disagree completely. I think people will absolutely pay for news--but opinion is, as said upwards of here, worth exactly crap in terms of monetary value. And so little of newsreporting today has even the PRETENSE of objectivity and professional integrity that nobody is interested in paying for it. Why pay for bloggers? Blogs are free and free for a reason.

This is why the Wall Street Journal's readership is actually going UP while their competitors are losing money right and left. The WSJ has actual reporting going on, which is thorough, professionally edited and mostly free from bias and agenda. And they do a good job of keeping their news pages and opinion pages distinct from each other, unlike the Times and most of the now-dying newspaper industry.

Journalism used to be a craft, one that involved not only finding out what happened but reporting what happened objectively, leaving it to the reader to make up his or her own mind about what the story really means. Nowadays ersatz "journalists" think it's ok to be social crusaders, and objectivity is laughed off as though it were obsolete and unreasonable. (I graduated one of the nation's top journalism schools, and saw this firsthand.) This mindset is what has the newsroom in the grip of death.

Kind of like .. oh I don't know .. musicians.

Cinco de Mayo,

It's probably a number of factors including Hollywood not showing women as the computer hacker in many of their movies (except maybe Hackers)

orly?