Imagine trying to pair a graphics card from 2000 with a cpu from 1995. Not only would the 1995 CPU be wed to a motherboard with no AGP slot, but the real world benchmark of a 133 MHz Pentium Vs a 1 GHz Pentium III was HUGE. The clock speed alone was nearly 8x greater, not to mention the greatly improved instruction sets...and FSB improvements. I honestly thought that by now, there would have been some sort of "killer app" that would have really put the pressure back on the desktop, to where the average person would really *need* that Core i7 over the i3, but to the average user, it doesn't make a bit of difference. Even to me, my 4 year old Q9400 paired with DDR2 800 is still more than adequate driving 3 1920x1200 monitors and massive multitasking. It even handles the occasional gaming weekend quite well, as well as ripping HD video content. Not to mention today's video cards still physically fit in my PCI slots!

Very clever ;)

*sigh*

And you're a coward. We're even ;)

So? This way you could mint fractions of a $Trillion. $1.2 Trillion for example. Or, maybe make it a $100Billion coin. Whatever.

Would be more practical I think. But still, this sounds like madness. The end is near I'm afraid.

They *can* override a presidential veto with a 60% majority vote I believe. But, yes, you're still correct.

Everybody do the Dinosaur!

The author of the article mentions that they never had to change a bulb for the entire 10 year or so tenure of their first DLP...but maybe quality went down.

I don't think I ever fully realized how long ago 2001 was until I just saw that picture in the slide show of a giant hulking DLP TV "featured" at CES.

I'm a "free market fan". But I would hardly suggest that at&t is participating in a "free market". It is a state sanctioned near monopoly. This is probably why you hear crickets when you make such an argument ;)

Ya, that's one of my pet peeves too. That and less/fewer and RPM's/RPM.

How is it any different than 16 GB vs 32 GB iPhones?

Replace "Latin buzz phrases" with "buzz phrases" and you've pretty much summed up ~95% of Slashdot comments.