Came here to say this. My 65" DLP started crapping out (the pixel dying problem) and I recently installed a new DLP chip for $150 to tide me over until an even larger 4K becomes affordable. I'm quite happy with the TV.

Am I the only one who remembers when AOL created Digital City to get that exact same hyper-local news and content? And then in less than two years, they severely reduced funding, didn't pay attention to local ad sales and eventually killed it, laying everyone off. I just checked - the domain now goes to Mapquest, another brand that AOL reduced funding from just in time for Google to take the mapping crown.

AOL's culture is to reinvent itself over and over thinking that's a good response to fast-changing times, but it comes at the severe loss of consistency and stability. And the results speak for themselves over the past 13 or so years.

...like the sigs that tell me please not to print this e-mail so as to save our precious resources? That one really irritates me.

I knew it before reading: yet another ad agency. So many marketing firms worldwide have waded deep into the technology pool without any understanding at the leadership level, much less the tactical level about the very basics of IT operations and management that have been honed for decades. From quality to security to legality (in this case), it's go-go-go-launch-and-move-on with people with marketing backgrounds making the calls, pressuring their underling tech people to deliver at all costs.

Came here to say this. I've been seeing these huge Obama sponsored image posts on my iPad that irritate me no end - and I can't report them, can't change a setting to make them go away, can't even complain about them. Man, I wish I could make them go away.

And I don't like either candidate in real life or on Facebook, and my political leaning on FB is listed as "pragmatic"

Agreed, because nothing else holds as much. I recently got to the point where I can't fit all of my music on my Classic and keep hoping they'll come out with, say, a half-terabyte iPod.

And I'm disappointed that they don't address a few well-known, gnawing bugs with one last software update for the Classic.

I worked 16 years at an airport in West Texas with temps regularly much higher than that, and we didn't have planes sinking into the asphalt. Ramps are stress designed to specific weight limits, and that comes from the depth of the stone and substrate layers underneath. For heavies, it's along the lines of 2, 3 or more feet deep of crushed, packed stone underneath the asphalt - THAT'S what prevents something from sinking; not the asphalt itself.

Areas with less depth underneath were where a single wheel heavy plane (the B-727 puts the most stress of any of them because it sits on two single main wheels) would sink.

I love eating great food, but I have zero interest in how it's prepared and no desire to learn about cooking; much less work as a chef.

They're violating a cardinal rule in business: Listen to your customer. And that customer has been roaring.

Two easy tweaks to the UI and everyone would settle down: Put back the Start menu and allow it to be the default (make Metro optional).

I've got great download speed (~28Mbs) at home, but my upload speed is throttled down to the 0.8 range, meaning it would take a month round the clock to get all my music up, and more like 3 or 4 months to get a complete hard drive backup there. Like you, I have all these cloud accounts (Amazon, Google, Live, Dropbox, etc.) and I only use them for tiny point solutions - like sending a small number family photos or maybe one family video out. There's no way I'll be loading up my Amazon cloud player any time soon. And something like Carbonite? Not gonna happen.

After all, WV has a long history of overkill on pork projects.

Intuit.

I suspect I'm probably in the minority, but I have always thought that the UI really needs some serious work. It's never obvious (to me) where to click to get the article that's being pointed out, and the comments below (which is my favorite part) really needs an overhaul in the visual design and possibly the layout. It's just so clunky and unattractive the threading as displayed makes it difficult. And it seems to have a mind of its own on what it shows you.

Put what you have now in a usability lab and I'll bet it'll hurt your feelings to see regular users trying to understand and use it. I say that as someone who's had my own heart broken by designs I thought were good... But we learned from it and the designs got way better. And traffic exploded - after one redesign, usage shot up over 900% in just one month, and was in the millions of users.

Huh.
The system deleted (gd&r) and only left the translation.

I was on CompuServe starting around 1981 or 1982, and was recruited to become a Sysop, which would be called a Forum manager or moderator nowadays. Being a Sysop was golden, because you got unlimited online time when it was $30-something an hour to be online. We developed a lot of rules, processes and customs on managing online community way back then. There's a small former Sysop group on Facebook where we reminisce a bit. And we chuckle a bit over all of the training, seminars and articles on this "new" social media world, teaching things we knew and perfected 30 years ago. We also were using smilies back then, plus a number of shortened terms like roflmao and the ever-popular (grinning, ducking & running).

I later was a Wizop (board owner and manager - a paid position) and went to work for CompuServe in Columbus. It was such a wonderful ride and the many people I worked with at CS were wonderful. Lots of stories, too.