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Meh, I have a 1920x1200 15" HP laptop (~150 PPI) from 2007. I love the resolution and I'd use it as my primary laptop if it weren't so bulky compared to my ThinkPad.

I'd like to see 1600x900 13" screens and 1920x1080 on 15" screens. 1366x768 works great for people who game or watch fullscreen vi...

We had a CFL that started arcing and making the house smell -- so much for "eco-friendliness." No dimmer. I don't remember the brand.

IE has far more glitches...

Touchscreen devices can't technically implement :hover -- there's no way to move the cursor away. Use :active instead if you want that effect.

@RasAhmose Yeah, I notice Ubuntu and Mac OS boot up a lot more quickly. Even Windows 7 is faster than XP though (after the long POST). Turning off "Boot Time Diagnostics" displays the ThinkPad logo for over a minute... the text-based POST takes less than 50 seconds. Weird.

"You have to make sure GRUB gets on the right partition..."

Do people not get the concept of a) active partitions and b) the option for specifying which one to put GRUB on?

In Soviet Russia, does utility company pay you for water?

In Soviet Russia, ditch drives into you!

The purpose of (U)EFI isn't to provide a pretty interface -- rather, it's a replacement for the ancient BIOS as a low-level system firmware. It lets you boot from disks greater than 2 TB and load small programs among other things. Although I'd love to have a clickable UI, the functionality should...

It's a concept, not a marketable product... if properly implemented, the bend gestures could be used in conjunction with a "normal" touchscreen to enhance the device a bit (i.e. additional tactile controls in on-screen games.) Obviously, the tech isn't mature enough for that yet, but give it time...

He's talking about the music in the club (in Russian), not Bin Laden... probably had a bit too much vodka too.

It's not the technology that's "evil." It's the people who misuse it.

You could make the same argument about paper.

It's 255 because that's the highest value of an 8-bit byte. a in the Lab color space is actually the green and magenta chroma component. L is actually lightness, which is the cube root of the relative luminance.

And check out the color picker in NPS. I eventually plan on implementing Lab (it's p...

@RyanKnowsTech 15 years ago, "good phone that did it all" would be something with texting :P But I agree about the iPhone revolutionizing the market, though remember how much "standard" stuff (like 3G, MMS, copy-paste) it was missing?

@ejzllanes96 Windows CE will definitely run on it but it's not designed to just be installed on a device -- you'll need to build an image and include all the drivers, then flash it, which can be quite risky. Windows Mobile is actually based on Windows CE.

There might also be some Linux variants ...

This is very nice! Do you have an MP3 available for download?

@qcages I was thinking the same thing... but I suppose it would have cost a crapload of money to ship something that big.

IE 6 on down -- terrible standards compliance, behind the times

IE 7 -- bad rendering, different enough from IE6 to require extra code

IE 8 -- 98% standards compliant, 2% buggy

IE 9 -- terrible UI... what is this I don't even...

The IE browsers are decently secure if you install your Windows upd...

@Nuage13 I never said it was particularly amazing or required the skills of a genius to do. But it does take more work than just installing it from a regular CD; such an installation usually boots in 15-20 seconds.

And I'd love to see a video of yours doing that. If you make a claim, be sure to ...

Apple doesn't make the hardware; Foxconn, Asus, and Intel, among others, make it. These manufacturers also make PC hardware. Mac hardware is, as a whole, upper midrange or lower high-end, so it's definitely not "superior to PC".

Nowadays, there are few actual "needs" for a Mac. Most professional...

Playing it with my $10 Skullcandy DUB earbuds... it's pretty sweet bass! These cheap earbuds are actually capable of going below 20 Hz due to their sealed design, which is pleasantly surprising.

Will try on my subwoofer when I get home.

So version 2.0 is actually the 3rd one... hmm... sounds a lot like Microsoft.

windows 7 = Windows NT 6.1

so Windows 8 = Windows NT 7.0 (unless they skip version numbers), which causes so much confusion :(

You can't say "Macs have better XXXXX than PCs" without mentioning specific PCs. Thing is, while Macs are higher-end machines, PCs range from cheap junk to epic Mac Pro killers.

$1199 Macbook Pro vs $400 Acer? Macbook Pro definitely wins.

$20,000 Mac Pro vs $20,000 custom-built quad-socket works...