Why make things this complex with touch screens and servers and operating systems? Just because the machine prints a receipt, that doesn't mean that's what was actually counted in the memory. This is the "If its in print it must be true" syndrome.
Use a paper ballot that the voter marks with a pen, sort of like the standardized tests we all took in school. The voter carries the completed ballot from the "voting booth" to a machine that accepts, validates and counts the ballot. When I place my ballot in the counting machine, I see my ballot drawn in and placed in the ballot box, I hear a beep confirming that it was accepted and counted, and I see the sequential ballot counter increase. The voter is the one making the paper trail so there is no reason for the extra time required for the voter to verify that a machine prepared receipt is accurate.
Arizona uses this system now, at least in Maricopa County, and I like it. It's pretty difficult to mark the ballot in a way that would cause confusion during a manual recount; the section you need to fill in for a vote is substantial. A scene like we had in florida with the chads is unlikely with the filled-in arrows. thought I could see a court stating that if at least 20% of the area was filled in that a vote should be counted, but that still required probably two strokes directly adjacent to each other.
The only downside to this method is that the ballots tend to be large; but that's good also since you can't covertly move them around. It would be quite visible if election officials were relocating them nefariously.
First, this can't be free energy since at least one magnet is required, or the something that moves around the magnet.
From the article: "But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said." Bullshit. Build a small version of this thing in a place that has net metering for electricity and sell your "free energy" back to the grid at a profit. Repeat until you are the electric utility and multi billionaires, then you can produce your product for the masses and provide it at no cost.
If people are willing to individually spend thousands of dollars a year on energy and you can get even half the rate the utility pays, you should be rich beyond the dreams of avarice. In fact, the free energy machine might also allow for reverse time travel, allowing you to become insanely wealthy before you invent the machine!
I really hope that version of the brief linked to in the article is not the version sent to the court. The version I read is littered with spelling errors, incorrect word choice and unclear phrasing. It's actually a little embarrassing that such an "elite" team can't write a rather short document correctly.
I may not be a lawyer, but those lawyer are no proof readers either.
There are different methods for rating octane. RON, MON and (RON+MON)/2 are the major ones. I think the UK uses RON and I know the US uses (RON+MON)/2. RON is always a larger number than MON for the same fuel.
Another US vs World rating issue is stereo amplifier power. In the US we rate in RMS (Root Mean Squared) or more simply, average power output. In much of the rest of the world they rate in peak power. In PP a stereo might be rated as 200W but in the US that same stereo could perhaps only be rated as 60W. Both numbers are correct, the stereo CAN produce 200W of output for very brief moments, but it can sustain 60W of output indefinitely. Which is more accurate? Up to you to decide.
So, by your logic the iTMS and iPod are two completelty separate and unrelated products and should not be associated and depend on each other for sales.
To extend that logic slightly, Chevy should be required to tell eveyone how their engine control system works so you aren't required to purchase their engine and transmission along with the car; perhaps they should be required to also offer Volvo, Cummins or Ferrari engines. Or they should be required to sell multiple brands of seats.
Likewise the SST program is not one to use when claiming American superiority of anything. Sure we managed to build a fleet a and fly it, but the program is a dismal failure as is the ISS.
The shuttle fleet were designed for 100 flights each and a service life span or 10 years. The program was intended to be a routine "bus" service to orbit. Of the five flyable units built, two have self-destructed due to design and maintenance failures. On every criteria the program was founded for they have not even remotely lived up to the intentions. I call that a failure.
The equivalent would be purchasing a car that you intend to drive to work every day, but instead it only works once every six months. Oh... and almost half of the cars sold will spontaneously explode killing everyone on board. The repair costs will skyrocket every year since the continual failures will cause a feedback loop to where every major component has to be completely inspected and/or re-built after every use.
Who's to blame? The political process in the U.S Government that continually starves NASA's budget is part of it. NASA's own administration is also a large part of it; they have become so wound up in the minutia, they forget to look up and see the stupidity of the questions they are trying to answer.
This guy's full of shit. His answers don't make sense.
...and bearing in mind this is a 56k dial-up, so a very slow internet connection, in dial-up days..."
"...No, the graphical remote viewer works frame by frame. It's a Java application..."
"SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture? GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across."
Can someone show me a a Java VM that existed and would have been the programming language of choice in the "dial-up days"? At least to me the heyday of dialup was the late 80s to mid 90s, then cable and DSL started taking over. The first version of Java wasn't released until about '96 and wasn't widely deployed/accepted until 2000 or so.
HOW did he see a "guy's hand move" over a dial-up connection that was sending about 1 frame every 2 minutes at best?
Idiot. I'm guessing the interview was so short because the BBC interviewer smelled the BS.
Criminal trespass usually involves a secondary crime being committed or attempted or trespass in to a restricted area. There were no other crimes committed or witnessed in this incident. Best Buy is certainly not a restricted access area (power lines, water treatment plants, police stations,etc)
Trespass is usually only germane when you are told to leave a property or there are posted "no trespassing" signs which you should have reasonably seen while entering the property.
"...why get indignant upon hearing that these confused and/or panicked people called the police with a legitimate complaint?" It wasn't a legitimate complaint for police action. I think that is enforced by the response time of the police; it was apparently a quite low priority call given that it took 20 minutes for the police to arrive. Life/death and "crime in progress" calls usually get an officer on scene within a few minutes.
Just from a statistical point of view, the odds are almost identical that you will get 80 customers in the store wearing the same or very similar clothing as the odds that you will get any arbitrary combination.
I guess the manager/police call went something like this:
Police: 911, What's your emergency? Manager: There are about 50-80 people in my Best Buy store wearing blue shirts and khaki pants. Police: Are they stealing anything or making threats? Manager: no Police: Are they disrupting your customers' shopping? Manager: no Police: Are they making noise or blocking entry or exit from the store? Manager: no Police: We'll get someone over there as soon as possible.
It's not "retail stores" that are the problem, its the "big box" stores that cause these impressions.
You have a choice when you shop:
Big box: large selection, lower price, low service local store: smaller selection (in stock), higher price, excellent service
A local retailer that only has a few stores tends to hire much more knowledgeable people. Granted, you're going to pay a bit more for the products, but that's what it costs to hire people who love what they do. The in-store selection will be smaller but chances are the local retailer can custom order almost any item you desire from their distributors if you are willing to wait a few days to a week or two.
I emplore you, though, do NOT pick the brain of your local retailer's expert for 2 hours only to turn around and purchase the item on the internet or at a big box store. You've now wasted the person's time and effectively stolen consulting services from them. Again... it costs more money to hire people who know what they are talking about. The smaller stores are not trying to rob or over charge you, they just don't do the volume to get discounts from the distributors.
BTW: It's not the large retailers, like Walmart, that put small stores out of business; it's the people who decide that low cost and mediocre service are more important than intelligent sales help.
What gets my gall is when people purchase from a big box but expect me, in my local shop, to provide free technical support to them. Many people get quite pissy when I tell them this is why my price is higher, I actually know what I'm taking about and can actually help (in most cases).
How do we know? There is no oversight of DHS by citizens. Any report we got from DHS about this situation is certain to be heavily redacted and there is no way to know what level of suspicion these people are held under by DHS, IRS or any other government entity.
I'm not certain which interpretation of your comment to take. In any case... "space" is most certainly not a vacuum; it's full of all sorts of stuff. It may be very, very, very low density but it is not a vacuum.
According to Jobs last year, the switch is because Intel has a better 5 year road map for performance per watt than IBM had told Apple about.
I've run the iMac systems side by side and I'm not at all impressed with the performance of the Intel iMacs. I expected a tremendous performance increase with the second core and it's simply not there for most tasks.
You certainly don't want the fridge packed full to the point where there is no space for air flow. I can't imagine such a loading to be practicable though, as to get that much stuff in there you couldn't see it all.
Convection is fairly strong and the colder air will generally find a way downward and the warmer air upward unless you intentionally try to partition the fridge with food wrap or tape.
Never heard of the book, never read it. What I wrote was completely original based entirely on my own knowledge. I can't include attribution for something to which I have no reference.
A fridge packed full of bottled water just enough space for some air flow VS A completely empty fridge
opening the door
empty: The only things "cold" in the empty fridge are air. the walls and shelves. Most, it not all, of the cold air will flow out of the fridge causing a temperature drop in the fridge to 65F. When you close the door the compressor unit turns on to chill the now warm air. Some heat from the air is dissipated in to the walls/shelves. The air recovers to 38F rather quickly and the compressor shuts of after only a short run time, say 4 minutes. The system runs frequently but for very short durations.
full: you open the door and the cold air flows out of the fridge just as before. You close the door and the thermal mass of all that water will absorb the heat from the 65F air. The average temperature in the fridge will rise to about 39F. The compressor will stay off for quite some time. The water bottles also keep the air in the fridge from moving around as much so it can perform as insulation around the foods to keep them from warming. Runs infrequently but for longer durations. Eventually the temperature will rise to where the compressor start up. There's a lot of stuff in there so it takes 20 minutes to cool it back down. The system runs infrequently but for longer durations.
You might think that frequent short run times would save energy, but that's not the case. Sealed evaporative/phase change cooling systems, such as those used in refrigeration units, are most efficient when they run all the time. Start-up takes a tremendous amount of energy and it takes a few minutes for the system to get to operating temperatures where the thermal split across the evaporator is greatest. During the first 30 seconds to minute of operation the system provides almost no cooling and can actually warm the fridge further.
The "ideal" fridge would have a variable speed compressor/fan and run all the time, changing it's speed to pump out the heat the is inevitably leaking in to the fridge through the walls.
Landlords generally want the property to look good and clean to attract tenants, they don't spend a lot of time or energy sealing up a house. A few tubes of caulk to seal up small cracks and some stick-on weather stripping for windows and doors will go a long way toward keeping the temperature more stable. Also there are foam gaskets you can put behind the wall plates of switches and sockets to keep drafts out.
Drapes open on cold days to get in the sun's heat. Closed on warm days to keep it out.
Showers are a huge point of waste. A few dollars/pounds will get you a shower valve you screw in-line with the shower head. You can then reduce the water flow when you're not actually needing it and then turn it up again to rinse off. Showers generally cost you 3x, incoming water, heating water, waste water charge.
If you have access to your water heater and the pipes coming from it, add insulation to them. A water heater wrap and some foam tube insulation will keep the water hotter for longer in the tank and the pipes to the shower.
If you have a smaller shower room, hang your wrinkled clothes in there, it will help remove wrinkles and prevent you turning on the iron (ha ha, I know).
Keep the fridge full. The more "stuff" in the fridge the more efficient it is. Air heats/cools quickly and escapes readily when the door is opened. Stuff in the fridge will help the temperature come back to cold quickly and reduce run-time. Also, keep the door closed as much as possible. Standing in front of the fridge with the door open searching for something to eat is a tremendous waste.
Line-dry your clothes indoors instead of machine drying. On a breezy summer day indoors with open windows the evaporation will cool the air; in the winter the humidity will help make the air feel warmer at lower temperatures.
When cooking, use lower gas settings on the cooker. High-heat spills a lot of heat past the pan in to the air. Medium-low heat will usually get the job done just as well with only a slight increase in pre-heat and cooking time.
Find, and keep clean the filer for the central heat if it's forced air.
Try to cook for the entire house at one time instead of each member cooking their own meals. Economies of scale and all; better to heat the kitchen up once for 20 minutes that 4-5 times 10 minutes each.
Low-cost 1/2 Styrofoam panels can easily be cut to fit in to windows to block out cold nights, or to fit around the outside of a particularly lame fridge.
And they cost 20x as much as a standard bulb making them ineffective as a cost saving measure. Great items if you are wanting to reduce the need for more power plants, but bollox for reducing household expenditures.
For the cost of a CFB you can purchase one or two inexpensive dimmer switches which will allow you to save energy, money and provide for a wide range of lighting levels.
The problem is that HTML is not supposed to dictate exactly what the browser shows. Browsers are supposed to let the end user decide what elements to render, in what order and in what fashion. I am supposed to be able to choose my own CSS definitions that should override those provided by the web site.
HTML is not PDF or PostScript, it's a markup language that contains suggestions of how things should be handled. If you need a web site that must align things pixel perfect then you should not be using HTML/CSS for the layout, but some other technology instead (image maps, Flash, clients/server app, etc).
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Why make things this complex with touch screens and servers and operating systems?
Just because the machine prints a receipt, that doesn't mean that's what was actually counted in the memory. This is the "If its in print it must be true" syndrome.
Use a paper ballot that the voter marks with a pen, sort of like the standardized tests we all took in school. The voter carries the completed ballot from the "voting booth" to a machine that accepts, validates and counts the ballot. When I place my ballot in the counting machine, I see my ballot drawn in and placed in the ballot box, I hear a beep confirming that it was accepted and counted, and I see the sequential ballot counter increase. The voter is the one making the paper trail so there is no reason for the extra time required for the voter to verify that a machine prepared receipt is accurate.
Arizona uses this system now, at least in Maricopa County, and I like it. It's pretty difficult to mark the ballot in a way that would cause confusion during a manual recount; the section you need to fill in for a vote is substantial. A scene like we had in florida with the chads is unlikely with the filled-in arrows. thought I could see a court stating that if at least 20% of the area was filled in that a vote should be counted, but that still required probably two strokes directly adjacent to each other.
The only downside to this method is that the ballots tend to be large; but that's good also since you can't covertly move them around. It would be quite visible if election officials were relocating them nefariously.
First, this can't be free energy since at least one magnet is required, or the something that moves around the magnet.
From the article: "But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said."
Bullshit. Build a small version of this thing in a place that has net metering for electricity and sell your "free energy" back to the grid at a profit. Repeat until you are the electric utility and multi billionaires, then you can produce your product for the masses and provide it at no cost.
If people are willing to individually spend thousands of dollars a year on energy and you can get even half the rate the utility pays, you should be rich beyond the dreams of avarice. In fact, the free energy machine might also allow for reverse time travel, allowing you to become insanely wealthy before you invent the machine!
Actually its the other way around.
I really hope that version of the brief linked to in the article is not the version sent to the court. The version I read is littered with spelling errors, incorrect word choice and unclear phrasing. It's actually a little embarrassing that such an "elite" team can't write a rather short document correctly.
I may not be a lawyer, but those lawyer are no proof readers either.
There are different methods for rating octane. RON, MON and (RON+MON)/2 are the major ones. I think the UK uses RON and I know the US uses (RON+MON)/2. RON is always a larger number than MON for the same fuel.
Another US vs World rating issue is stereo amplifier power. In the US we rate in RMS (Root Mean Squared) or more simply, average power output. In much of the rest of the world they rate in peak power. In PP a stereo might be rated as 200W but in the US that same stereo could perhaps only be rated as 60W. Both numbers are correct, the stereo CAN produce 200W of output for very brief moments, but it can sustain 60W of output indefinitely. Which is more accurate? Up to you to decide.
So, by your logic the iTMS and iPod are two completelty separate and unrelated products and should not be associated and depend on each other for sales.
To extend that logic slightly, Chevy should be required to tell eveyone how their engine control system works so you aren't required to purchase their engine and transmission along with the car; perhaps they should be required to also offer Volvo, Cummins or Ferrari engines. Or they should be required to sell multiple brands of seats.
Likewise the SST program is not one to use when claiming American superiority of anything.
Sure we managed to build a fleet a and fly it, but the program is a dismal failure as is the ISS.
The shuttle fleet were designed for 100 flights each and a service life span or 10 years. The program was intended to be a routine "bus" service to orbit. Of the five flyable units built, two have self-destructed due to design and maintenance failures. On every criteria the program was founded for they have not even remotely lived up to the intentions. I call that a failure.
The equivalent would be purchasing a car that you intend to drive to work every day, but instead it only works once every six months. Oh... and almost half of the cars sold will spontaneously explode killing everyone on board. The repair costs will skyrocket every year since the continual failures will cause a feedback loop to where every major component has to be completely inspected and/or re-built after every use.
Who's to blame? The political process in the U.S Government that continually starves NASA's budget is part of it. NASA's own administration is also a large part of it; they have become so wound up in the minutia, they forget to look up and see the stupidity of the questions they are trying to answer.
Can someone show me a a Java VM that existed and would have been the programming language of choice in the "dial-up days"? At least to me the heyday of dialup was the late 80s to mid 90s, then cable and DSL started taking over. The first version of Java wasn't released until about '96 and wasn't widely deployed/accepted until 2000 or so.
HOW did he see a "guy's hand move" over a dial-up connection that was sending about 1 frame every 2 minutes at best?
Idiot. I'm guessing the interview was so short because the BBC interviewer smelled the BS.
Criminal trespass usually involves a secondary crime being committed or attempted or trespass in to a restricted area. ,etc)
There were no other crimes committed or witnessed in this incident.
Best Buy is certainly not a restricted access area (power lines, water treatment plants, police stations
Trespass is usually only germane when you are told to leave a property or there are posted "no trespassing" signs which you should have reasonably seen while entering the property.
"...why get indignant upon hearing that these confused and/or panicked people called the police with a legitimate complaint?"
It wasn't a legitimate complaint for police action. I think that is enforced by the response time of the police; it was apparently a quite low priority call given that it took 20 minutes for the police to arrive. Life/death and "crime in progress" calls usually get an officer on scene within a few minutes.
Just from a statistical point of view, the odds are almost identical that you will get 80 customers in the store wearing the same or very similar clothing as the odds that you will get any arbitrary combination.
I guess the manager/police call went something like this:
Police: 911, What's your emergency?
Manager: There are about 50-80 people in my Best Buy store wearing blue shirts and khaki pants.
Police: Are they stealing anything or making threats?
Manager: no
Police: Are they disrupting your customers' shopping?
Manager: no
Police: Are they making noise or blocking entry or exit from the store?
Manager: no
Police: We'll get someone over there as soon as possible.
All those doughnuts... uneaten.
It's not "retail stores" that are the problem, its the "big box" stores that cause these impressions.
You have a choice when you shop:
Big box: large selection, lower price, low service
local store: smaller selection (in stock), higher price, excellent service
A local retailer that only has a few stores tends to hire much more knowledgeable people. Granted, you're going to pay a bit more for the products, but that's what it costs to hire people who love what they do. The in-store selection will be smaller but chances are the local retailer can custom order almost any item you desire from their distributors if you are willing to wait a few days to a week or two.
I emplore you, though, do NOT pick the brain of your local retailer's expert for 2 hours only to turn around and purchase the item on the internet or at a big box store. You've now wasted the person's time and effectively stolen consulting services from them. Again... it costs more money to hire people who know what they are talking about. The smaller stores are not trying to rob or over charge you, they just don't do the volume to get discounts from the distributors.
BTW: It's not the large retailers, like Walmart, that put small stores out of business; it's the people who decide that low cost and mediocre service are more important than intelligent sales help.
What gets my gall is when people purchase from a big box but expect me, in my local shop, to provide free technical support to them. Many people get quite pissy when I tell them this is why my price is higher, I actually know what I'm taking about and can actually help (in most cases).
EVERYTHING is copyrighted in the United States.
If you scribble something on a napkin in a restaurant, the scribble is immediately copyrighted.
Of course in much of Europe, you also pay a significant "table charge" to actually sit in the cafe/resturaunt.
...they don't live under a cloud of suspicion.
How do we know? There is no oversight of DHS by citizens. Any report we got from DHS about this situation is certain to be heavily redacted and there is no way to know what level of suspicion these people are held under by DHS, IRS or any other government entity.
I'm not certain which interpretation of your comment to take.
In any case... "space" is most certainly not a vacuum; it's full of all sorts of stuff. It may be very, very, very low density but it is not a vacuum.
According to Jobs last year, the switch is because Intel has a better 5 year road map for performance per watt than IBM had told Apple about.
I've run the iMac systems side by side and I'm not at all impressed with the performance of the Intel iMacs. I expected a tremendous performance increase with the second core and it's simply not there for most tasks.
What about AWK? If you want to parse long tracts of text, there's nothing better than AWK/GAWK.
You certainly don't want the fridge packed full to the point where there is no space for air flow. I can't imagine such a loading to be practicable though, as to get that much stuff in there you couldn't see it all.
Convection is fairly strong and the colder air will generally find a way downward and the warmer air upward unless you intentionally try to partition the fridge with food wrap or tape.
Never heard of the book, never read it. What I wrote was completely original based entirely on my own knowledge. I can't include attribution for something to which I have no reference.
$1.75 for a CF bulb?
$.60 for a 60W incandescent?
I look at home depot on-line.
16W CF: $7.97
4pk 60W incandescent: $.99 ($.25 each)
The CF bulb is 32 times the cost of the incandescent.
Several dimmer switched on the site are under $10. A dimmer switch will dim several lights at once.
For the cost of 4 bulbs and a switch I can have nearly, if not more, energy savings and better lighting as a single CF bulb.
Look at the extremes:
A fridge set to 38F
A fridge packed full of bottled water just enough space for some air flow
VS
A completely empty fridge
opening the door
empty: The only things "cold" in the empty fridge are air. the walls and shelves. Most, it not all, of the cold air will flow out of the fridge causing a temperature drop in the fridge to 65F. When you close the door the compressor unit turns on to chill the now warm air. Some heat from the air is dissipated in to the walls/shelves. The air recovers to 38F rather quickly and the compressor shuts of after only a short run time, say 4 minutes. The system runs frequently but for very short durations.
full: you open the door and the cold air flows out of the fridge just as before. You close the door and the thermal mass of all that water will absorb the heat from the 65F air. The average temperature in the fridge will rise to about 39F. The compressor will stay off for quite some time. The water bottles also keep the air in the fridge from moving around as much so it can perform as insulation around the foods to keep them from warming. Runs infrequently but for longer durations. Eventually the temperature will rise to where the compressor start up. There's a lot of stuff in there so it takes 20 minutes to cool it back down. The system runs infrequently but for longer durations.
You might think that frequent short run times would save energy, but that's not the case. Sealed evaporative/phase change cooling systems, such as those used in refrigeration units, are most efficient when they run all the time. Start-up takes a tremendous amount of energy and it takes a few minutes for the system to get to operating temperatures where the thermal split across the evaporator is greatest. During the first 30 seconds to minute of operation the system provides almost no cooling and can actually warm the fridge further.
The "ideal" fridge would have a variable speed compressor/fan and run all the time, changing it's speed to pump out the heat the is inevitably leaking in to the fridge through the walls.
Landlords generally want the property to look good and clean to attract tenants, they don't spend a lot of time or energy sealing up a house.
A few tubes of caulk to seal up small cracks and some stick-on weather stripping for windows and doors will go a long way toward keeping the temperature more stable. Also there are foam gaskets you can put behind the wall plates of switches and sockets to keep drafts out.
Drapes open on cold days to get in the sun's heat. Closed on warm days to keep it out.
Showers are a huge point of waste. A few dollars/pounds will get you a shower valve you screw in-line with the shower head. You can then reduce the water flow when you're not actually needing it and then turn it up again to rinse off. Showers generally cost you 3x, incoming water, heating water, waste water charge.
If you have access to your water heater and the pipes coming from it, add insulation to them. A water heater wrap and some foam tube insulation will keep the water hotter for longer in the tank and the pipes to the shower.
If you have a smaller shower room, hang your wrinkled clothes in there, it will help remove wrinkles and prevent you turning on the iron (ha ha, I know).
Keep the fridge full. The more "stuff" in the fridge the more efficient it is. Air heats/cools quickly and escapes readily when the door is opened. Stuff in the fridge will help the temperature come back to cold quickly and reduce run-time. Also, keep the door closed as much as possible. Standing in front of the fridge with the door open searching for something to eat is a tremendous waste.
Line-dry your clothes indoors instead of machine drying. On a breezy summer day indoors with open windows the evaporation will cool the air; in the winter the humidity will help make the air feel warmer at lower temperatures.
When cooking, use lower gas settings on the cooker. High-heat spills a lot of heat past the pan in to the air. Medium-low heat will usually get the job done just as well with only a slight increase in pre-heat and cooking time.
Find, and keep clean the filer for the central heat if it's forced air.
Try to cook for the entire house at one time instead of each member cooking their own meals. Economies of scale and all; better to heat the kitchen up once for 20 minutes that 4-5 times 10 minutes each.
Low-cost 1/2 Styrofoam panels can easily be cut to fit in to windows to block out cold nights, or to fit around the outside of a particularly lame fridge.
And they cost 20x as much as a standard bulb making them ineffective as a cost saving measure. Great items if you are wanting to reduce the need for more power plants, but bollox for reducing household expenditures.
For the cost of a CFB you can purchase one or two inexpensive dimmer switches which will allow you to save energy, money and provide for a wide range of lighting levels.
The problem is that HTML is not supposed to dictate exactly what the browser shows. Browsers are supposed to let the end user decide what elements to render, in what order and in what fashion. I am supposed to be able to choose my own CSS definitions that should override those provided by the web site.
HTML is not PDF or PostScript, it's a markup language that contains suggestions of how things should be handled. If you need a web site that must align things pixel perfect then you should not be using HTML/CSS for the layout, but some other technology instead (image maps, Flash, clients/server app, etc).
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