NonNefarious

The comma also dictates cadence. The comma implies a pause, which is also the correct delivery. The lack of a pause is not.

The Oxford comma has been proven necessary in a court of law. Omitting it cost one company millions of dollars: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/oxford-comma-maine.htm...

It's a bit embarrassing that the NY Times didn't refer to its own article on the subject.

Except the Oxford comma PREVENTS confusion, and thus should be the rule.

Word for Windows was NOT worse than WordPerfect. WordPerfect continued using their primitive inline codes after GUIs were the norm.

Word integrated an entire programming language (WordBasic), with which you could not just create macros, but entire applications complete with dialog boxes. I used WordBasic to add features to Word years before they were offered, such as page numbering that spanned documents.

That's being too kind. Just doing regular WORD PROCESSING with Word now is a shambolic, pathetic experience.

Then there's the lost-in-the-weeds, defect-riddled shitshow that is post-XP Windows.

Microsoft's #1 priority now is hounding the shit out of you to LOG IN WITH YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT!

LOG IN WITH YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT! LOG IN WITH YOUR MICROSOFT ACCOUNT! ...

Up yours, Microsoft. Nobody wants your stupid account; we have WAY too many already.

Then they shouldn't advertise what they can't deliver.

As time goes by you realize that what you thought were solved problems are not, and precious few people actually demand that they be solved. Precious few people (and almost no "reviewers") actually exercise the features advertised by vendors, and that they checked off on comparison shopping lists.

When you sell an A/V receiver that can't handle HD HDMI signals in 2022, you suck. You suck at the level of fraud.

Thank you. That's the problem with butt-hurt crybabies who reject LEARNING. And I was polite, and I agreed with the sentiment! What kind of asshole rejects THAT?

People's excuse for being lazy illiterates online is, "FU grammer nazi its only online so hu carez"

EVERYONE should care. People learn by READING. And where does most reading take place now, sadly? ONLINE. So people propagating ignorance and lashing out against those who promote literacy ARE the problem.

It's sad to see that on a site like this. It indicates decline.

This was well-publicized at the time.

Make sure you come back to mod this down too, crybaby.

What kind of twit mods that down?

A few years ago I decided to move up from what I'd call "good consumer" receivers to something high(er)-end. So I shelled out $1400 for an NAD A/V receiver.

This thing is unmitigated trash. It's riddled with design defects and bugs that render it unfit for purpose, some of which are acknowledged by NAD but with no solution. For example: You can't watch 1080p content through it because it reports incorrect EDID info to the source player, saying that the max resolution of the display device is 720p.

Another: Dirac audio processing is well-regarded by many to fix room acoustics, so that was a major factor in the purchase. Welp, the NADs will simply "lose" or stop using your laboriously-sampled Dirac EQ curve at random. Another defect admitted by NAD, but "we don't know why it happens."

An authorized repair guy said NAD simply contracts out their designs, and the gear is often built by a hodgepodge of suppliers out of low-grade components. This was after driving two sets of speakers from one set of terminals apparently caused on over-current condition... which didn't throw a circuit breaker or blow a fuse, but rather destroyed the entire amplifier and rendered the receiver permanently inoperable unless the main board was replaced. Brilliant design.

I have replaced it with a Pioneer, which only suffers from one insufferably stupid design flaw that I've discovered so far (also shared by the NAD): You can't play digital sources through secondary zones ("zone 2" speakers). I mean... WTF.

Once again, some Redditard modded FACTS down.

https://www.jdpower.com/cars/shopping-guides/why-are-modern-...

What is?

I'm not talking about arrests.

Uh-oh, some anti-literacy infants have modded me down. Up with ignorance, right?

The term is "per se," by the way.

Otherwise you're on the money. This whole "debate" is dumb.

As if it WEREN'T an opinion.

But I agree with your sentiment.

This could only be the work of Heisenberg.

I've tried it. The first time it did generate an image, albeit missing one of the few elements I mentioned.

Now it only generates black frames, even after being restarted. Not impressed at this point.

The options are sizes up to 768 x 768, "steps," and "guidance scale." You can do text-to-image or image-to-image.

To add irony, part of the added weight of cars is the ton of safety equipment that legislators mandate more and more of every year.

Maybe the last stage will be airbags on the OUTSIDE of the car.

Small planes are often flown under visual rules without a flight plan, meaning that pilots are free to basically dick around... with prohibitions against unauthorized entry into controlled airspace and flying too close to people and structures on the ground. And that's totally fine when done responsibly.

But the free-form nature of the vehicle operation provides more opportunity for screw-ups. Maybe someone was buzzing his house or not paying attention to flying while giving a sightseeing tour to his friends.

Compared to commercial flights, it's no wonder that GA has a far higher accident rate. Commercial flights fly extremely predictable and repetitive routes and procedures, which reduce the number of variables into the mission. I'd liken the comparison to that between personal cars and buses, except commercial air travel is even more regimented than bus travel.

No font should lack crossbars on the capital "i." That's just straight-up dumb. Nice to see that the font in question doesn't suffer from that mistake.

Failure to distinguish O from 0 ranks pretty high on the "don't" list as well.

+1 for you, sir

Menus on phones blow. It's a pain in the ass to fussily scroll around on a dinky screen and try to remember what has scrolled away that you were interested in, instead of being able to glance across a page.

I sympathize with the PITA of changing printed menus, but that's part of what you pay for. If I go out, I'm not paying for a lunch-counter experience.

E-paper menus would be a pretty good compromise, if they could be made practical.

Hahaha, some SAP shill modded those facts and widely-accepted assertions down.

SAP is a peddler of trash software and obscene contracts to support it. It has been around for decades, making routine business tasks nearly (or sometimes literally) impossible to execute.

Even better is that it's written in some bullshit language that nobody else uses.

If that's your idea of a fun viewing party, go for it. I'll stick with the big-screen experience.

What fantasyland do you live in?

Yeah, I think that was it. I respect that they tried, but I can't even see these things being used for air traffic control. 3-D? For sure. But big transparent panels?

That's not going to happen, because touchscreens on computers suck. Waving your arms around in front of you all day is a shitty way to work, and takes up way more space than a mousepad.

Not to mention: Why would you want your hands and arms blocking your view of the stuff you're trying to manipulate on-screen?

Entire companies have already come and gone because the "Minority Report" UI has no legitimate use case.