It is a classic mistake to measure the benefit of infrastructure on the basis of "does it pay for itself in ticket sales?". The benefit to society may be much larger than the direct income generated.
It would certainly be interesting if the tunnel project helped balance out the drastic price/income/tax differences between Finland and Estonia, similarly to what has happened between Sweden and Denmark to some extent. Booze runs to Estonia are a national pastime in Finland where alcohol is heavily taxed and monopolized, while many an Estonian spends their weeks working well-paid jobs in Helsinki. Of course, our government is doing everything to curb the booze runs in the name of national health, intra-EU free trade be damned. Meanwhile, a lot of Finnish entrepreneurs are moving South to enjoy a more business-friendly taxation.
You probably have a better chance being eaten by a polar bear and a regular bear
You know these two are the same thing? It's just a matter of coordinate transformation. Isn't the scientific name of a regular bear, like, Ursus Cartesius?
Running a GPU bitcoin miner on your computer is more profitable. You can find throwaway computers is the bargin bin at Goodwill with 512 core GPUs. They get a lot hotter than modern GPUs, but if the electricity is free, who cares?
Surely you don't mean mining Bitcoins directly? There are much more profitable GPU coins, as in profitable even when you pay for electricity.
"I use lightweight WMs such as XFCE or Openbox. Not a fan of the bloat..."
Where did XFCE get this lightweight reputation? It surely doesn't look very polished (based on looking over other people's shoulders only).
This. Openbox is a good example of a light WM, but XFCE is more like a desktop environment, with all the Windowsy cruft like the start menu, and all the panels that take up screen space and visual attention.
Personally, I use Fluxbox with plenty of virtual screens, because I want to focus on doing one thing at a time. I don't want constant reminders of what other programs are running or might possibly be running somewhere in the background -- I trust the computer to handle them for me.
The biggest technical issue with accessibility is the fixation on the all-in-one user interface and application model. If you separate the user interface from the application then you can swap out the UI for another one. I could remove the GUI and put in a speech or an interface with graphical augmentation for feedback. Or use text-to-speech for feedback. Splitting off the UI from the application makes it possible to make an application accessible without having to go through the effort of writing an accessibility interface and it reduces the cost of accessibility on the developers making it possible to make more applications accessible.
...if it has a screen resolution I like, AND a good processor, that probably means it has Intel Integrated Graphics or something, or an awful pointing device, right?
We did consider a model where the GPU is hanging on the side off a Thunderbolt cable, but our test group preferred the integrated one.
I still wonder if we made the right choice, though -- the bag-on-the-side would really have differentiated our product from the rest.
What's there to talk about? Everyone knows that acronyms are a class of abbreviations - specifically, the kind you can pronounce as a word (e.g. "Nato"), so "IoT" is not one of them.
I don't have an answer, but I'm reading this with keen interest as I feel similarly about input devices. I recently wrote up some of my ongoing keyboard rants where scrollwheels are also discussed. One general issue seems to be that those who don't learn to use keyboards properly, will reinvent similar functionality in mice (arrow keys and pgup/pgdn -> scrollwheels).
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Next thing they'll tell me is that there's genes in them thar vegetables.
It is a classic mistake to measure the benefit of infrastructure on the basis of "does it pay for itself in ticket sales?". The benefit to society may be much larger than the direct income generated.
It would certainly be interesting if the tunnel project helped balance out the drastic price/income/tax differences between Finland and Estonia, similarly to what has happened between Sweden and Denmark to some extent. Booze runs to Estonia are a national pastime in Finland where alcohol is heavily taxed and monopolized, while many an Estonian spends their weeks working well-paid jobs in Helsinki. Of course, our government is doing everything to curb the booze runs in the name of national health, intra-EU free trade be damned. Meanwhile, a lot of Finnish entrepreneurs are moving South to enjoy a more business-friendly taxation.
You probably have a better chance being eaten by a polar bear and a regular bear
You know these two are the same thing? It's just a matter of coordinate transformation. Isn't the scientific name of a regular bear, like, Ursus Cartesius?
Are the Bitcoin skeptics like me allowed to be smug yet?
As soon as you blame USD and Euro for old-fashioned scams.
Running a GPU bitcoin miner on your computer is more profitable. You can find throwaway computers is the bargin bin at Goodwill with 512 core GPUs. They get a lot hotter than modern GPUs, but if the electricity is free, who cares?
Surely you don't mean mining Bitcoins directly? There are much more profitable GPU coins, as in profitable even when you pay for electricity.
"I use lightweight WMs such as XFCE or Openbox. Not a fan of the bloat..."
Where did XFCE get this lightweight reputation? It surely doesn't look very polished (based on looking over other people's shoulders only).
This. Openbox is a good example of a light WM, but XFCE is more like a desktop environment, with all the Windowsy cruft like the start menu, and all the panels that take up screen space and visual attention.
Personally, I use Fluxbox with plenty of virtual screens, because I want to focus on doing one thing at a time. I don't want constant reminders of what other programs are running or might possibly be running somewhere in the background -- I trust the computer to handle them for me.
I am Cosmolio! I need TP for my bunghole!
I'd want my mitochlorians from the Skywalker family.
Novel compounds found in writers' blood.
Yep, it works.
That's what she sed.
Also, if you're going to spell it properly, it's "Möbius". I guess "Moebius" would be an acceptable transliteration if you don't have umlauts.
you can never have too much TeX. (Or TeX-MeX, for Mathematical eXpressions.)
The biggest technical issue with accessibility is the fixation on the all-in-one user interface and application model. If you separate the user interface from the application then you can swap out the UI for another one. I could remove the GUI and put in a speech or an interface with graphical augmentation for feedback. Or use text-to-speech for feedback. Splitting off the UI from the application makes it possible to make an application accessible without having to go through the effort of writing an accessibility interface and it reduces the cost of accessibility on the developers making it possible to make more applications accessible.
In other words, Unix philosophy for the win :)
There is a huge gap between what we know about sex and gender from science, and what people generally believe about sex and gender.
I see what you did there.
i am a case-insensitive clod YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!
We did consider a model where the GPU is hanging on the side off a Thunderbolt cable, but our test group preferred the integrated one.
I still wonder if we made the right choice, though -- the bag-on-the-side would really have differentiated our product from the rest.
This is the form factor the 13' Macbook Pro should be.
More like a Mackbook - not exactly carry-on luggage for your daily commute.
Obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
S-F6 is 6x heavier than normal air.
Pure nitrogen is not anywhere near that level of disparity.
Pure nitrogen is a little lighter than air (not that it makes much difference here).
*bites lip* Oh, keep talking nerdy to me.
Time to "dust off" the old "server", I presume?
Don't be a square (of a square)?.
What's there to talk about? Everyone knows that acronyms are a class of abbreviations - specifically, the kind you can pronounce as a word (e.g. "Nato"), so "IoT" is not one of them.
Attempt no landing^Wdiving there.
I don't have an answer, but I'm reading this with keen interest as I feel similarly about input devices. I recently wrote up some of my ongoing keyboard rants where scrollwheels are also discussed. One general issue seems to be that those who don't learn to use keyboards properly, will reinvent similar functionality in mice (arrow keys and pgup/pgdn -> scrollwheels).
Yes, if you're happy chugging along at 20-35fps with dips into the low teens.
If you know what I mean.