So why does Apple insist on using non-pixel accurate fonts in XCode editors? Frustrating looking at blurry fonts when coding.
If things are set up right, the fonts should be rendered at the sub-pixel level. That gives effectively 3 times the resolution for text, and means fancy fonts look good even when small. (Of course, if you were wanting to use variable-width fonts for coding, you'd have to die. That's non-negotiable.) I can only guess that you're using a misconfigured display there...
other countries have nationwide sales tax regulations so that you still could use nationwide ads.
So? An ad can easily carry a disclaimer (in small text if preferred) that prices in store will be higher due to taxes. What's infuriating is when you go to, say, a food store that is advertising a price on a blackboard for something and where you're charged more than that when you actually try to buy the item because of taxes. It's not that the staff in the store couldn't put the price inclusive of tax up; it's only advertising to people in that particular store and it's just a blackboard that they rewrite every day or two anyway. (Anyone putting a store across a taxation boundary is going to be in for complex pain, but that's true even without the requirement to display true prices.)
Show the real price so I can figure out how much cash to get out of my wallet. I don't really care what the store's cut of that is (or how much goes to their suppliers or their bank for their overdraft) and how much goes to the government, not by comparison with ensuring that I spend the right amount and only try to purchase goods and services that I have the money for.
It's impossible to predict an earthquake. It's a random event, and science has discovered no indication that any event proceeds an earthquake of a certain magnitude.
It depends on what sort of prediction you're looking for. A prediction along the lines of "60% likelihood of an earthquake with magnitude over 5.0 in the next 100 years" is quite possible. It's just not useful to people working out whether to evacuate an area on a particular day, and it doesn't help much at all when local building codes are ignored (or large numbers of older properties are not required to comply).
Who says it's science? It's a challenge with a substantial cash prize for the person who succeeds.
Exactly. It's an unwinnable prize because it's not based on the only reasonable methodology for testing a hypothesis.
Wut? All they have to do is the thing which they claim to do in the way they claim to do it and which they claim to have done many times before. Do that once(/limited number of times) more, get the prize. Moreover, the test is designed carefully so that it is difficult for someone to cheat on it, and for it to be easy for anyone to say that this is indeed the case. Yes, if they pass it would then give conventional science like physics a bit of a headache, but that would be the scientists problem.
Of course, the real hypothesis is that the mystic is really just a cheat. But if that's not the case, if they really can do amazing things, let them show it; we'll change our understanding of reality to accommodate when the effect is shown to be real.
I'm surprised they didn't go with some sort of tiny metering system such as with a plunger and miniature stepper motor. That way it could be refillable (syringe) without having to cut the patient open every so often to replace the unit.
Depends on the likelihood of the various failure modes, surely? The simple system on a chip which they're talking about should be easier to make robust than something with complex pumps and moving parts. (To say nothing of the complexity of working with microfluidics; viscosity is a major problem as you scale down...)
If only Lenin had the foresight to make a system where it's literally impossible to fail, like capitalism. If a business makes money, it's a sign that capitalism is a success. If a business is a disaster, capitalism is still succeeding as resources are directed elsewhere. Even if you end up crashing the global economy in the process.
Sheesh. Communism has problems because it assumes that people are other than they really are. In particular, it assumes that it is possible to prevent the formation of elites. Capitalism's key problem is not that it makes wrong assumptions about human nature, but rather that it tends to fail to account for externalities (like the environment). It's possible to use regulation to fix the worst problems with capitalism — this is the approach that has been largely followed in the US and Europe for most of the past century, with substantial variation though — but you can't regulate people to be other than people, and you definitely can't regulate to prevent some people from being conniving back-stabbing scum. (Punishing them after the fact is not the same.) Capitalism within a careful regulatory framework is more effective than Communism, direct raw Capitalism without regulation is pretty awful unless you're on top, and there are other possible choices too.
And it wasn't Lenin that invented Communism. He was just the first to get a largely-working implementation going. It's inventor was Karl Marx (who also invented the term "Capitalism", even if only as a description of how 19th Century European society worked).
Britain has the lowest unemployment rate in the EU
The UK rate is currently 8.4% (apparently; not sure how much I believe that since the UK government has a long history of playing shenanigans with the definition of "unemployment" for political reasons) and the Netherlands has an unemployment rate of 6% (the accuracy of which I can't vouch for at all). Both countries are in the EU. Taking both at the quoted rate, NL is lower than UK. Real rates might vary, but I'd still expect that relationship to hold.
Facts. Always getting in the way of a good argument and making you look stupid! (The figures are all things you can google for yourself in seconds.)
So while it's easy to blame meat, vegetable growers are just as guilty. If meat is evil, vegetables aren't far behind.
Alas, no. You get a lot more available food calories per gallon of water when growing vegetables (the exact amount depends on the crop; there is substantial variation) than when raising animals, with cows being particularly demanding. The trick to raising animals efficiently is to feed them on things that people can't eat (e.g., grass) as there's a lot of places where you can't use high-efficiency food crops because of environmental conditions. (In my part of the world, sheep work well because they tolerate the climate and rough-grazing available. Wheat would just rot in the ground before harvest.)
You'd think leaving out "freedom of movement" was kind of a big mistake on the founders' part.
No, it's just one of the non-enumerated rights that the federal government has no right to restrict. (OTOH, you don't necessarily have the right to travel in a particular privately-owned aircraft at a particular time either.)
Mind you, the bit that amazes me about US airports is how inefficient all the security in them is. I suspect that a part of the fix would be to simply privatize the enforcement part of the TSA, and instead have the agency be in charge of regulation and ensuring that security is adequate. Meanwhile, the security staff themselves would be more motivated to be efficient and polite since they (and their employer) would be far easier to replace.
Ultimate opt-out: Learn to fly, buy a plane, and use airfields that don't have the TSA.
Not a great idea for anyone flying between continents. Leaving aside the legal restrictions, you'd have to fly a very long time (or have an awesome but super-expensive plane like the SR-71).
About one out of every three times you shut off the vacuum cleaner when it is plugged into one of these outlets, it trips. Two different corded drills do the same thing, only they are closer to 50% of the time.
Sounds like the motors in those devices have really poor noise suppression.
100 peasants against 10 highly trained, armed and armoured men routinely got massacred.
But the peasants were the people paying tithes. Killing them guarantees are reduced income for many years, which gets the lord in a great deal of trouble (and encourages those armed men to go elsewhere). Nobody wins when there's a peasant rebellion.
So, governments are "too big to fail"? Why don't you take a look at Greece and see how that sort of thinking is working out?
It's not that governments can't fail. They most certainly can. Greece has been a basket case for years due to the persistent refusal of politicians to face up to the reality of costs and taxes; that they're going down the pan is not surprising.
But a government failing is not a good thing. Governments, by their very nature, are entangled in a lot of society. When they fail, the collateral damage is huge even excluding the effect on direct employees. Particularly at risk are long-term investments and benefit schemes, such as pension systems.
He gets through the TSA screening with his own license and the fake ticket, then gets onboard with the real ticket in your name.
Don't the airline check that you've got a real boarding pass and matching ID at the gate? They do round here. (Yes, it doesn't stop anyone who can fake an ID.)
While it's common to denigrate them as just another ungulate, Moose are smarter than the average American voter, smell better than the average American voter and certainly are better behaved.
The average tree stump can outwit a moose. While I remain cynical about my fellow men, I really think that moose are still more stupid than that.
What's more, moose don't pay taxes or vote and they taste delicious.
That's the whole point of the RIAA. Their only contributing members are the big labels. They can file lawsuits on behalf of those companies, but artists can only file against the companies directly. So the RIAA itself is pretty much untouchable.
Actually, you'll find that the RIAA itself doesn't file suit against anyone; their members do (and the cases mention specific music labels). The Association as a whole doesn't have the right sort of skin the game to file suit against anyone for file sharing (except if you were pirating their website or something equally pointless) though they might provide assistance to the plaintiffs who are their members.
Yes, but the masks used by protestors are very much based on the version drawn by Alan Moore (and which the movie intentionally used, being a cinematic version of Moore's work). Had they been directly drawn from the original source, they would have looked more different.
Antimatter is the most fantastically expensive rocket fuel ever conceived of short of pure leprechaun farts. It takes a stupid amount of energy to make even a few atoms of the stuff. The mind boggles at the amount of power (and hence cost) involved in making kilograms of it (let alone tonnes). It would also be desperately dangerous to handle.
No, they can't meant all demand, but energy should be about finding the best resources for your region rather than a universal solution.
This. You don't need the same solution everywhere, and guess what, the conditions aren't the same everywhere too. Seattle's energy situation is different to Albuquerque's, and both are quite different to that of Philly, so would you expect the same thing to be best in each?
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So why does Apple insist on using non-pixel accurate fonts in XCode editors? Frustrating looking at blurry fonts when coding.
If things are set up right, the fonts should be rendered at the sub-pixel level. That gives effectively 3 times the resolution for text, and means fancy fonts look good even when small. (Of course, if you were wanting to use variable-width fonts for coding, you'd have to die. That's non-negotiable.) I can only guess that you're using a misconfigured display there...
other countries have nationwide sales tax regulations so that you still could use nationwide ads.
So? An ad can easily carry a disclaimer (in small text if preferred) that prices in store will be higher due to taxes. What's infuriating is when you go to, say, a food store that is advertising a price on a blackboard for something and where you're charged more than that when you actually try to buy the item because of taxes. It's not that the staff in the store couldn't put the price inclusive of tax up; it's only advertising to people in that particular store and it's just a blackboard that they rewrite every day or two anyway. (Anyone putting a store across a taxation boundary is going to be in for complex pain, but that's true even without the requirement to display true prices.)
Show the real price so I can figure out how much cash to get out of my wallet. I don't really care what the store's cut of that is (or how much goes to their suppliers or their bank for their overdraft) and how much goes to the government, not by comparison with ensuring that I spend the right amount and only try to purchase goods and services that I have the money for.
It's impossible to predict an earthquake. It's a random event, and science has discovered no indication that any event proceeds an earthquake of a certain magnitude.
It depends on what sort of prediction you're looking for. A prediction along the lines of "60% likelihood of an earthquake with magnitude over 5.0 in the next 100 years" is quite possible. It's just not useful to people working out whether to evacuate an area on a particular day, and it doesn't help much at all when local building codes are ignored (or large numbers of older properties are not required to comply).
Actually, what's the difference between a pseudo-Religion and a Religion?
Number of adherents, especially relative to overall population size.
Who says it's science? It's a challenge with a substantial cash prize for the person who succeeds.
Exactly. It's an unwinnable prize because it's not based on the only reasonable methodology for testing a hypothesis.
Wut? All they have to do is the thing which they claim to do in the way they claim to do it and which they claim to have done many times before. Do that once(/limited number of times) more, get the prize. Moreover, the test is designed carefully so that it is difficult for someone to cheat on it, and for it to be easy for anyone to say that this is indeed the case. Yes, if they pass it would then give conventional science like physics a bit of a headache, but that would be the scientists problem.
Of course, the real hypothesis is that the mystic is really just a cheat. But if that's not the case, if they really can do amazing things, let them show it; we'll change our understanding of reality to accommodate when the effect is shown to be real.
I'm surprised they didn't go with some sort of tiny metering system such as with a plunger and miniature stepper motor. That way it could be refillable (syringe) without having to cut the patient open every so often to replace the unit.
Depends on the likelihood of the various failure modes, surely? The simple system on a chip which they're talking about should be easier to make robust than something with complex pumps and moving parts. (To say nothing of the complexity of working with microfluidics; viscosity is a major problem as you scale down...)
If only Lenin had the foresight to make a system where it's literally impossible to fail, like capitalism. If a business makes money, it's a sign that capitalism is a success. If a business is a disaster, capitalism is still succeeding as resources are directed elsewhere. Even if you end up crashing the global economy in the process.
Sheesh. Communism has problems because it assumes that people are other than they really are. In particular, it assumes that it is possible to prevent the formation of elites. Capitalism's key problem is not that it makes wrong assumptions about human nature, but rather that it tends to fail to account for externalities (like the environment). It's possible to use regulation to fix the worst problems with capitalism — this is the approach that has been largely followed in the US and Europe for most of the past century, with substantial variation though — but you can't regulate people to be other than people, and you definitely can't regulate to prevent some people from being conniving back-stabbing scum. (Punishing them after the fact is not the same.) Capitalism within a careful regulatory framework is more effective than Communism, direct raw Capitalism without regulation is pretty awful unless you're on top, and there are other possible choices too.
And it wasn't Lenin that invented Communism. He was just the first to get a largely-working implementation going. It's inventor was Karl Marx (who also invented the term "Capitalism", even if only as a description of how 19th Century European society worked).
Britain has the lowest unemployment rate in the EU
The UK rate is currently 8.4% (apparently; not sure how much I believe that since the UK government has a long history of playing shenanigans with the definition of "unemployment" for political reasons) and the Netherlands has an unemployment rate of 6% (the accuracy of which I can't vouch for at all). Both countries are in the EU. Taking both at the quoted rate, NL is lower than UK. Real rates might vary, but I'd still expect that relationship to hold.
Facts. Always getting in the way of a good argument and making you look stupid! (The figures are all things you can google for yourself in seconds.)
Well there is the Very Large Array in the US, which could perhaps be used as a baseline.
They also want a southern hemisphere telescope because there's lots to see in the southern sky that the VLA just can't spot.
So while it's easy to blame meat, vegetable growers are just as guilty. If meat is evil, vegetables aren't far behind.
Alas, no. You get a lot more available food calories per gallon of water when growing vegetables (the exact amount depends on the crop; there is substantial variation) than when raising animals, with cows being particularly demanding. The trick to raising animals efficiently is to feed them on things that people can't eat (e.g., grass) as there's a lot of places where you can't use high-efficiency food crops because of environmental conditions. (In my part of the world, sheep work well because they tolerate the climate and rough-grazing available. Wheat would just rot in the ground before harvest.)
You'd think leaving out "freedom of movement" was kind of a big mistake on the founders' part.
No, it's just one of the non-enumerated rights that the federal government has no right to restrict. (OTOH, you don't necessarily have the right to travel in a particular privately-owned aircraft at a particular time either.)
Mind you, the bit that amazes me about US airports is how inefficient all the security in them is. I suspect that a part of the fix would be to simply privatize the enforcement part of the TSA, and instead have the agency be in charge of regulation and ensuring that security is adequate. Meanwhile, the security staff themselves would be more motivated to be efficient and polite since they (and their employer) would be far easier to replace.
Ultimate opt-out: Learn to fly, buy a plane, and use airfields that don't have the TSA.
Not a great idea for anyone flying between continents. Leaving aside the legal restrictions, you'd have to fly a very long time (or have an awesome but super-expensive plane like the SR-71).
About one out of every three times you shut off the vacuum cleaner when it is plugged into one of these outlets, it trips. Two different corded drills do the same thing, only they are closer to 50% of the time.
Sounds like the motors in those devices have really poor noise suppression.
100 peasants against 10 highly trained, armed and armoured men routinely got massacred.
But the peasants were the people paying tithes. Killing them guarantees are reduced income for many years, which gets the lord in a great deal of trouble (and encourages those armed men to go elsewhere). Nobody wins when there's a peasant rebellion.
So, governments are "too big to fail"? Why don't you take a look at Greece and see how that sort of thinking is working out?
It's not that governments can't fail. They most certainly can. Greece has been a basket case for years due to the persistent refusal of politicians to face up to the reality of costs and taxes; that they're going down the pan is not surprising.
But a government failing is not a good thing. Governments, by their very nature, are entangled in a lot of society. When they fail, the collateral damage is huge even excluding the effect on direct employees. Particularly at risk are long-term investments and benefit schemes, such as pension systems.
the Santorum is surging.
That sounds disgusting even without knowing what you're talking about.
He gets through the TSA screening with his own license and the fake ticket, then gets onboard with the real ticket in your name.
Don't the airline check that you've got a real boarding pass and matching ID at the gate? They do round here. (Yes, it doesn't stop anyone who can fake an ID.)
While it's common to denigrate them as just another ungulate, Moose are smarter than the average American voter, smell better than the average American voter and certainly are better behaved.
The average tree stump can outwit a moose. While I remain cynical about my fellow men, I really think that moose are still more stupid than that.
What's more, moose don't pay taxes or vote and they taste delicious.
If this small article makes you feel that good, you should take a look at the Ron Paul 2012 campaign.
I can recommend that. A good laugh every time. It's even better when you realize that he's serious!
Moore didn't draw it. David Lloyd did.
I stand corrected.
I think it's more of a rental than either a purchase or a license...
But in that case they must be licensing it to iTunes together with terms that permit such a business model.
That's the whole point of the RIAA. Their only contributing members are the big labels. They can file lawsuits on behalf of those companies, but artists can only file against the companies directly. So the RIAA itself is pretty much untouchable.
Actually, you'll find that the RIAA itself doesn't file suit against anyone; their members do (and the cases mention specific music labels). The Association as a whole doesn't have the right sort of skin the game to file suit against anyone for file sharing (except if you were pirating their website or something equally pointless) though they might provide assistance to the plaintiffs who are their members.
people who say the mask is based on that book or V for V movie are funny, the mask is this guy (pun intended):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_fawkes
Yes, but the masks used by protestors are very much based on the version drawn by Alan Moore (and which the movie intentionally used, being a cinematic version of Moore's work). Had they been directly drawn from the original source, they would have looked more different.
Antimatter
It gives the best power to weight of any fuel
Antimatter is the most fantastically expensive rocket fuel ever conceived of short of pure leprechaun farts. It takes a stupid amount of energy to make even a few atoms of the stuff. The mind boggles at the amount of power (and hence cost) involved in making kilograms of it (let alone tonnes). It would also be desperately dangerous to handle.
No, they can't meant all demand, but energy should be about finding the best resources for your region rather than a universal solution.
This. You don't need the same solution everywhere, and guess what, the conditions aren't the same everywhere too. Seattle's energy situation is different to Albuquerque's, and both are quite different to that of Philly, so would you expect the same thing to be best in each?