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: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.Nevertheless, in the unlikely event that I fry my monitor by overriding the EDID specs, I asked for it, didn't I?"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