"Edge enhancement" i.e. oversharpening makes everything look shitty, whether it's a movie or a baseball game or a computer display. I imagine that whoever is producing broadcast signals sharpens them exactly how much they need to sharpen them on their own, and is probably pretty annoyed to see GIANT HALOS around everything on people's tv's.
It should be controlled by private industry because private industry, in most conditions, is overwhelmingly more efficient than the government. Should I point out that the worst nuclear accident in history was at a government-controlled plant?
But that private industry needs to be liable for anything it breaks -- in the context of that liability, they actually have an incentive not to cause an incident. Modern nuclear power is far safer than coal any way you measure it, though.
It really is the only sensible way to go about it: as you say, fossil fuels' cost doesn't represent their true cost, because they cause unreimbursed damage to... everyone.
Use a carbon tax to make these fuels' cost represent their real cost, cut taxes somewhere else if you want to or dole the money out to the public, and let the market sort it out.
We could achieve the same economic effect with much less fuss if we'd just pay all the TSA inspectors to stay home and dress up as Barney Fife while we groped ourselves. Probably be a better economic stimulus in other ways, too, if y'know what I mean.
I mentioned the installation thing because that's traditionally been one of the confusing bits about Linux.
Use is pretty simple -- you have a menu, it has stuff in it, you click on it. When you want something you don't have you fire up Ubuntu Software Center and go get it.
I dunno, Linux seems to be all three to me. It's braindead-easy to install these days -- hell, my mom can do it by herself, which is definitely not true for Windows.
It's free, and it's pretty secure, only sacrificing security for usability in intentional, configurable ways (i.e. "should I require a password on console login?")
Will it actually thrash it so that it requires a reboot, or just soak up all the CPU cycles on one core until the user gets around to running top and killall -9? (I guess this basically boils down to: does postscript have a fork call?)
Perhaps the American Physical Society is strongly opposed to missile defense because they, being physicists who are pretty good at understanding the physics involved, realize that it is a bad idea?
Lots of folks worked on making people fly for hundreds of years. They failed. Then some folks succeeded. Now I can get on a plane across the country for a week's wages.
No, it means that I am not going to install code without trusting where it came from. People are criticizing this as a vulnerability in Android -- it's not. It's just a demonstration that someone who wants to hurt you and can run code on your system can do so.
Seems like you could sanitize motion sensor information being passed to untrusted apps by reducing the resolution of the data to what's needed to determine which way is up to fix this. An app that wants high-resolution motion sensor info can ask for it.
This is just a further illustration of the basic idea that letting someone run arbitrary code on your system is a bad idea, and that access to external communications and sensors breaks sandboxing. Someone with the ability to turn on a webcam, for instance, can do all sorts of nefarious things, including seeing you type your password reflected in your glasses if it's high-enough resolution.
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"Edge enhancement" i.e. oversharpening makes everything look shitty, whether it's a movie or a baseball game or a computer display. I imagine that whoever is producing broadcast signals sharpens them exactly how much they need to sharpen them on their own, and is probably pretty annoyed to see GIANT HALOS around everything on people's tv's.
(and, yes, I know -- 15k in hundreds is hardly a suitcase. It's a figure of speech.)
Did you actually walk into the dealership with a suitcase of cash, or did you write them a check?
'09 Toyota Yaris sedan.
It should be controlled by private industry because private industry, in most conditions, is overwhelmingly more efficient than the government. Should I point out that the worst nuclear accident in history was at a government-controlled plant?
But that private industry needs to be liable for anything it breaks -- in the context of that liability, they actually have an incentive not to cause an incident. Modern nuclear power is far safer than coal any way you measure it, though.
I have cheap gas already.
Why?
I bought a (cheap) car that doesn't use much. It will go over 100mph, cost $12.5k, and carries a family comfortably.
People who drive cars that get under 40mpg have no footing to whine about expensive gas.
This, pretty much.
Out-of-control population growth is going to keep happening while religion gets to dictate the position of women in our world, though.
It really is the only sensible way to go about it: as you say, fossil fuels' cost doesn't represent their true cost, because they cause unreimbursed damage to ... everyone.
Use a carbon tax to make these fuels' cost represent their real cost, cut taxes somewhere else if you want to or dole the money out to the public, and let the market sort it out.
Do you?
Fire up torrent client, go make dinner, come back and watch movie.
If that happens you'll see a growth in home gardens and hunting.
When I find a dominatrix that accepts payment to show people FBI anti-piracy warnings, then I will have seen everything and Rule 34 will be dead.
It takes me more than twenty seconds to fuck, thank you very much.
We could achieve the same economic effect with much less fuss if we'd just pay all the TSA inspectors to stay home and dress up as Barney Fife while we groped ourselves. Probably be a better economic stimulus in other ways, too, if y'know what I mean.
Installing Linux *has* been an issue -- perhaps I'm just older, but it was a serious pain in the ass back in the day.
What distribution(s) have you tried, and what have you been trying to do on them?
I mentioned the installation thing because that's traditionally been one of the confusing bits about Linux.
Use is pretty simple -- you have a menu, it has stuff in it, you click on it. When you want something you don't have you fire up Ubuntu Software Center and go get it.
I dunno, Linux seems to be all three to me. It's braindead-easy to install these days -- hell, my mom can do it by herself, which is definitely not true for Windows.
It's free, and it's pretty secure, only sacrificing security for usability in intentional, configurable ways (i.e. "should I require a password on console login?")
Will it actually thrash it so that it requires a reboot, or just soak up all the CPU cycles on one core until the user gets around to running top and killall -9? (I guess this basically boils down to: does postscript have a fork call?)
Perhaps the American Physical Society is strongly opposed to missile defense because they, being physicists who are pretty good at understanding the physics involved, realize that it is a bad idea?
APS is not some political think-tank.
Wikipedia has a succinct explanation for the baryon naming rules.
It's a holdover from before quarks were known, and all these things were thought to be fundamental.
Lots of folks worked on making people fly for hundreds of years. They failed. Then some folks succeeded. Now I can get on a plane across the country for a week's wages.
How exactly is fusion power a dead end?
You're confusing "distant destination with rewards that are worth it" for "dead end".
No, it means that I am not going to install code without trusting where it came from. People are criticizing this as a vulnerability in Android -- it's not. It's just a demonstration that someone who wants to hurt you and can run code on your system can do so.
Seems like you could sanitize motion sensor information being passed to untrusted apps by reducing the resolution of the data to what's needed to determine which way is up to fix this. An app that wants high-resolution motion sensor info can ask for it.
This is just a further illustration of the basic idea that letting someone run arbitrary code on your system is a bad idea, and that access to external communications and sensors breaks sandboxing. Someone with the ability to turn on a webcam, for instance, can do all sorts of nefarious things, including seeing you type your password reflected in your glasses if it's high-enough resolution.
They are also an excellent research university, drunken antics and football-coach-kiddie-fiddling notwithstanding.