Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.

'Touched'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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le nubian - Dec 24, 2007 2:40:21 pm PST #3976 of 25497
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

if you have vista, you can sync with windows calendar (with nokia) instead of only outlook. Lotus Notes can also be synced with nokia phones.

I did like airset.com for syncing palm with an online calendar. Airset is excellent and they do have a mobile version for some phones that's about $5 a month.


Wolfram - Dec 24, 2007 2:48:50 pm PST #3977 of 25497
Visilurking

I use goosync between palm and google calendars which has always worked great. But when I mixed Plaxo in things got wonky and I have dupes everywhere now.


§ ita § - Dec 24, 2007 3:12:08 pm PST #3978 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Google...I'd forgotten about that.

My Razr worked dreamily well with my Mac, but the E70, despite published workarounds, never did. Frustrating.


DCJensen - Dec 24, 2007 4:14:00 pm PST #3979 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

The Crippled Macintosh Rehabilitation Choir

...presents Twas The Night Before Christmas:

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Jessica - Dec 25, 2007 7:46:05 am PST #3980 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Assume there is a hypothetical 42" HDTV costing about $1000.

Plasma vs LCD. Educate me.


§ ita § - Dec 25, 2007 8:30:34 am PST #3981 of 25497
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

CNet breaks it down.


NoiseDesign - Dec 25, 2007 11:53:47 am PST #3982 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

The shorthand is typically that Plasmas give richer colors and deeper blacks, but that LCDs have a sharper image.


Typo Boy - Dec 25, 2007 12:07:38 pm PST #3983 of 25497
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Also, there have been tests, and usually once people get lost in whatever is on they don't notice minor differences of that sort. Like all averages, this is misleading -- I'll bet professionals like Drew do notice, along with certain types of fans who are well represented among the Buffistas.


NoiseDesign - Dec 25, 2007 12:38:18 pm PST #3984 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

It's pretty much a preference thing. Go to a store with a lot of sets and take a look at Plasmas and LCDs that are playing the same program. I was a big fan of Plasmas for a long time due to the deeper blacks and richer colors, but the latest crop of LCDs has me considering one as an eventual replacement for my older EDTV 42" Plasma.


DCJensen - Dec 25, 2007 12:45:30 pm PST #3985 of 25497
All is well that ends in pizza.

We have some plasma monitors at work on the walls displaying stats on calls incoming and open tickets. They are starting to show some image burn-in.

It's weird, but most people don't use them to display fairly static images.