On 2010-03-13 16:44, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:19:12 -0500 (EST), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-03-13 16:06, Stephen Powell wrote:
Nevertheless, in the unlikely event that I fry my monitor by overriding the
EDID specs, I asked for it, didn't I?
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. There's a butt-load more lawyers than
there are engineers, and there's 1500 metric ass loads more stupid
people than there are engineers.
"I want control!!!"
"OK, you have control."
Bzzt.
"Why didn't you protect me from myself?"
I'm an engineer.
0.000029% of the population.
Give me full control.
If I fry my monitor, I have no-one to blame but myself.
Three words: hot McDonalds coffee.
Yes, I've heard of that stupid case. But
McDonalds didn't solve that problem by serving cold coffee.
They put a disclaimer on the lids saying, "Caution: coffee is hot".
A disclaimer should be able to solve this problem too.
People want hot coffee. Only 0.000029% of the population wants to
maybe fry their LCD.
Besides, (probably understating) 95% of people use either Windows or
Mac, and want their LCDs auto-configured.
Manufacturers play the odds, and apparently so do the X Dev Team.
I'd ask them why.
--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given
us arms." Mike Ditka
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