Excessive barking puts Eddie in the doghouse Eddie's case is one of the 4,000 obnoxious-dog complaints King County receives each year. That number has increased dramatically in the past decade and is likely to grow even larger, one Animal Control official says, as neighborhoods become more crowded and residents more protective of their peace and quiet. Eddie's case is unusual only because it ended with a fine. Welcome to the 10th Annual Northwest 100, the yearly test of growth and shareholder return among public companies based in the Pacific Northwest. The Seattle Times' annual survey of CEO compensation, but he ranked 19th on The Wall Street Journal's nationwide executive-pay roundup.
Displays are a relatively unsung, though vital, piece of the technology world.
The industry has given us better products at lower prices in recent years. Now we may be on the verge of some major leaps. Thanks in part to breakthroughs in chemistry, not just information technology, displays seem likely to make more progress in the next decade than they have in the past half-century. There must be a lot of people updating their computers where the computers have incompatible media, so it's worth revisiting this question. Besides, some of the answers have changed a bit since I last visited this issue.