The problem is not the editor but the window frame and controls,
This is what drives me insane. I'm fine with most default colors on OSes, but I insist on having the window with focus clearly highlighted with a unique border color. That way I can predict basic little things like what might happen if I press a particular key.
I know that MS thinks that the fuzzy shadow effect in Aero achieves that goal, but the fuzzy shadows are what give me headaches (and the fat default borders waste screen space), so I turn them off. That means that I have to set a custom color and border size scheme, since MS thinks that an unhighlighted border should be #7e7e7e and a highlighted should be #7f7f7f.
However, Office just plain ignores these settings, and it uses its own window border color scheme no matter what. Instead, it allows me to pick from a predefined gray-tinged or blue-tinged version of the same bland crap that doesn't look like anything else on my desktop. Reminds me of some crappy mp3 player skin from the 1990s.
After thousands of man-years of development, is this the best they can do?
I guess it looks like in Windows 8 they're trying to address the problem... by only showing one program at a time. Undoubtedly thousands more man-years went into that brilliant solution.
If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.
And just what do you think the doctor will recommend?
Almost certainly they will just tell the patient to adjust the color scheme on their computer so that they don't get headaches. That should fix the problem, assuming the software developer wasn't some kind of self-centered asshole who made it impossible.
That's what the one closest to me looks like *right now*.
You're probably talking about closed landfills. They don't close until after they've been in use for decades. Yes, there are city parks nearby here built on old closed landfills. Irrelevant.
Libertarian here who isn't collecting Medicare or any other entitlements
But almost certainly will when old enough, just as Ayn Rand did.
And based on actuarial statistics, will collect far more than was ever taxed.
I agree that's a problem, but that can be fixed by substantially raising the eligibility age to match current lifespans. Eliminating or privatizing Medicare is NOT the way to fix the problem.
and actually sees the actions of the EPA against individual citizens as far more harmful that its cost.
I see the actions of would-be polluters against individual citizens' lungs as far more costly than anything the EPA has ever done. After all, that was the point of this whole article about China.
I'm sorry. No matter what you may believe (and as a libertarian, your beliefs are probably highly resistant to actual reality, so I don't expect this to have any affect on you), you just simply don't have a right to ruin the environment for everyone else.
The GP was not right. Being off by orders of magnitude is not something to brush off.
The problem may be largely political, but that doesn't mean it's not real. Each potential landfill site is surrounded by about a hundred of square miles of NIMBY, and rightfully so. Landfills stink, and looking at a mountain of garbage topped by swarming seagulls is downright creepy. Nobody wants to live anywhere near that, and they don't want their property values ruined. That's why they find it hard to open any new landfills.
Quoting theoretical volume numbers without real-world context is silly.
Many view it as too damn costly for the benefit seen,
Mostly tea party types. Considering that 8.6 billion is less than the cost of a single week of all Medicare benefits that those mostly tea party types collect, I'd say the EPA is a bargain.
Why don't we cut out tea party types' Medicare benefits in excess of what they paid in? Now that would really save money.
considering that it overlaps heavily with State functions.
So we could have yet another race to the bottom in standards as various states try to "create jobs" by luring short-sighted business owners from other states with promises of lax regulations.
If it's the US, each person creates about 3.5 pounds of trash per day. Let's make the generous assumption that it compresses to 1kg/l, and feed it into GNU units:
You have: 3e8 * 3.5lb * 365 * l/kg You want: mile^3
* 0.04170626
So the total annual US volume is 0.04 cubic miles, and your cubic mile hole (which would be impossible to actually dig, BTW, and pointless too because where would you put the dirt?) would fill up in only 24 years, not 1400 years.
It's a scientific instrument, not a power station.
That's what I was pointing out, for the benefit of those among us who might think that 22MJ somehow indicates any kind of significant progress towards an economically viable fusion power station.
I don't see the point of printing photos these days. All our old prints sit gathering dust in boxes in a closet. The only time anyone uses them is when I get them out as I gradually scan them all into a computer, hopefully before they all fade.
Now we look at our old photos more than we ever used to, blown up to a nice size on our TV in the living room. Added bonus: offsite backup copies in case of fire/tornado/whatever.
Booking as the wrong kind of deal WOULD potentially be an underhanded way of recognizing revenue improperly - claiming "We got $120,000 today" when in fact what you really got was an agreement to receive $10,000 a month for 12 months.
Well, state lotteries always seem to be able to get away with this scheme.
No, computers and calculators are designed for decimal entry. Entering fractional of inches into a calculator is several times harder than entering decimals. It often requires using the memory or parentheses functions on the calculator if several numbers are involved. Then you have to convert the decimal output back to fractions, which is yet another otherwise unnecessary step.
That's one reason I always buy dual-scale rulers and tape measures, and I always use the metric side unless I'm dealing with pieces that came pre-sized in inches. Metric is both easier to do in your head, *and* easier to use with computing tools.
You do have to give credit to the (probably illiterate) medieval craftsmen who created the various customary units for often having the intuitive notion that 12 would be a better base for our number system than ten.
However, since unfortunately ten is the base of our number system, dividing units into 12 does more harm than good. You only get the convenience of occasionally splitting things into 3 parts at the expense of having to do complex fraction calculations on most everything else.
There's another side of the coin, since that means that software protected under GPL would loose its protection,
OMG! Evil corps like Apple would be able to grab all the GPLd pre-1956 UNIVAC apps and take them closed source!
Developers would need to pay an annual fee just for the privilege of developing iUNIVAC apps in Objective Fortran. Apple would be skimming huge percentages off of all the apps in the Punchcard Store. Then Apple would probably give everyone compatibility headaches by unilaterally switching CPU architecture from UNIVAC to IBM 650. And for yet more planned obsolescence, they'll seal the mainframe cabinets in welded Lexan, so end users can't replace bad vacuum tubes.
How many of you have been in a crowded house party in the dead of winter, with snow on the ground? Everybody piled their coats in a bedroom, the windows are open, and it's still hot. No money at all. If there are bodies in the room, and they're moving, it's hot.
That heating method is very expensive due to the fuel costs.
As soon as you run out of beer, you'll lose almost all of your heating elements. It will probably end up costing you a couple of hundred bucks per night to heat the house.
Maybe not. But maybe this verdict is actually a valid one?
Use some common sense. That's $1.7B for two claims that make disk reads a little faster. That would mean that manufacturing entire hard drives, which contain thousands of "patentable" ideas, would be worth trillions of dollars, an amount comparable to the entire US gross domestic product.
Even if the law technically allows such a ridiculous outcome, that doesn't make the situation "valid".
My data set is my window. It's been hotter than hell.
The US has set 7 new record highs over the last ten years for every new record low.
In my region, we've smashed almost two dozen record highs just this year, sometimes by 10 degrees. I can't remember the last time we had a record low of any kind.
I'm sure you can cherry pick all sorts of graphs about the frequencies of particular types of storm events. Big deal.
Well CO2 is plant food. If you increase CO2 atmospheric composition you will get algal blooms and increased plant growth which will counter the CO2 increase.
Wow! It's unbelievable that science has totally overlooked that! You just might get a Nobel prize for that discovery! Decades of careful measurements of CO2 measurements have been rendered powerless by your hand waving!
Water vapor has even more of a global warming effect yet it gets ignored for rather obvious reasons. Our global water vapor output is insignificant compared to ocean water evaporation plus water vapor gets precipitated out of the atmosphere as rainfall.
It's not overlooked. It's not a driving factor in climate because water vapor's half life in the atmosphere is about 48 hours. Excess water vapor rains out within a day or two. The amount of evaporation is driven by global temperature, which is influenced by long lived atmospheric gasses.
The amount of water vapor is an effect, not a cause.
AGW believers just cannot accept the irrelevance of human activities in the planet compared to natural effects.
Given that everything you've said is wrong, it's not surprising that you hold this unsubstantiated viewpoint.
You completely misunderstand the mechanism of AGW.
It has nothing to do with how much energy we consume. It has to do with the ever-accumulating by products of some of that energy production. These by products alter the earth's thermal balance by orders of magnitude more than the amount of energy we directly harness. This is possible because, as you mention, the earth receives staggering amounts of energy from the sun.
In particular, mankind harnesses about 1.5e13 watts of power overall. The earth receives about 1.8e17 watts of power from the sun. So we produce less than one part in 11000 of the energy received, which by itself would only raise temperatures about 0.03C assuming linear relationship. The rest of the ~4C predicted to occur is due to the man-made alterations to the greenhouse effect.
Indeed, another great advantage of nuclear power is that whenever there's a catastrophic meltdown, we get hundreds of square kilometers of new wooded nature preserve.
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Ok, but you don't get to claim moral superiority because you don't collect entitlements (yet).
The problem is not the editor but the window frame and controls,
This is what drives me insane. I'm fine with most default colors on OSes, but I insist on having the window with focus clearly highlighted with a unique border color. That way I can predict basic little things like what might happen if I press a particular key.
I know that MS thinks that the fuzzy shadow effect in Aero achieves that goal, but the fuzzy shadows are what give me headaches (and the fat default borders waste screen space), so I turn them off. That means that I have to set a custom color and border size scheme, since MS thinks that an unhighlighted border should be #7e7e7e and a highlighted should be #7f7f7f.
However, Office just plain ignores these settings, and it uses its own window border color scheme no matter what. Instead, it allows me to pick from a predefined gray-tinged or blue-tinged version of the same bland crap that doesn't look like anything else on my desktop. Reminds me of some crappy mp3 player skin from the 1990s.
After thousands of man-years of development, is this the best they can do?
I guess it looks like in Windows 8 they're trying to address the problem... by only showing one program at a time. Undoubtedly thousands more man-years went into that brilliant solution.
If you are getting headaches from using a computer, you have more serious issues than the color of a webpage. You should really get that checked out.
And just what do you think the doctor will recommend?
Almost certainly they will just tell the patient to adjust the color scheme on their computer so that they don't get headaches. That should fix the problem, assuming the software developer wasn't some kind of self-centered asshole who made it impossible.
That's what the one closest to me looks like *right now*.
You're probably talking about closed landfills. They don't close until after they've been in use for decades. Yes, there are city parks nearby here built on old closed landfills. Irrelevant.
Libertarian here who isn't collecting Medicare or any other entitlements
But almost certainly will when old enough, just as Ayn Rand did.
And based on actuarial statistics, will collect far more than was ever taxed.
I agree that's a problem, but that can be fixed by substantially raising the eligibility age to match current lifespans. Eliminating or privatizing Medicare is NOT the way to fix the problem.
and actually sees the actions of the EPA against individual citizens as far more harmful that its cost.
I see the actions of would-be polluters against individual citizens' lungs as far more costly than anything the EPA has ever done. After all, that was the point of this whole article about China.
I'm sorry. No matter what you may believe (and as a libertarian, your beliefs are probably highly resistant to actual reality, so I don't expect this to have any affect on you), you just simply don't have a right to ruin the environment for everyone else.
The GP was not right. Being off by orders of magnitude is not something to brush off.
The problem may be largely political, but that doesn't mean it's not real. Each potential landfill site is surrounded by about a hundred of square miles of NIMBY, and rightfully so. Landfills stink, and looking at a mountain of garbage topped by swarming seagulls is downright creepy. Nobody wants to live anywhere near that, and they don't want their property values ruined. That's why they find it hard to open any new landfills.
Quoting theoretical volume numbers without real-world context is silly.
Many view it as too damn costly for the benefit seen,
Mostly tea party types. Considering that 8.6 billion is less than the cost of a single week of all Medicare benefits that those mostly tea party types collect, I'd say the EPA is a bargain.
Why don't we cut out tea party types' Medicare benefits in excess of what they paid in? Now that would really save money.
considering that it overlaps heavily with State functions.
So we could have yet another race to the bottom in standards as various states try to "create jobs" by luring short-sighted business owners from other states with promises of lax regulations.
Who is "we"?
If it's the US, each person creates about 3.5 pounds of trash per day. Let's make the generous assumption that it compresses to 1kg/l, and feed it into GNU units:
So the total annual US volume is 0.04 cubic miles, and your cubic mile hole (which would be impossible to actually dig, BTW, and pointless too because where would you put the dirt?) would fill up in only 24 years, not 1400 years.
It's a scientific instrument, not a power station.
That's what I was pointing out, for the benefit of those among us who might think that 22MJ somehow indicates any kind of significant progress towards an economically viable fusion power station.
(22MJ thermal in 1.5 seconds from the JET run in 1997, for example)
22MJ/15 years gives an average power output of only 46 milliwatts.
Not a very impressive power station.
I don't see the point of printing photos these days. All our old prints sit gathering dust in boxes in a closet. The only time anyone uses them is when I get them out as I gradually scan them all into a computer, hopefully before they all fade.
Now we look at our old photos more than we ever used to, blown up to a nice size on our TV in the living room. Added bonus: offsite backup copies in case of fire/tornado/whatever.
Booking as the wrong kind of deal WOULD potentially be an underhanded way of recognizing revenue improperly - claiming "We got $120,000 today" when in fact what you really got was an agreement to receive $10,000 a month for 12 months.
Well, state lotteries always seem to be able to get away with this scheme.
No, computers and calculators are designed for decimal entry. Entering fractional of inches into a calculator is several times harder than entering decimals. It often requires using the memory or parentheses functions on the calculator if several numbers are involved. Then you have to convert the decimal output back to fractions, which is yet another otherwise unnecessary step.
That's one reason I always buy dual-scale rulers and tape measures, and I always use the metric side unless I'm dealing with pieces that came pre-sized in inches. Metric is both easier to do in your head, *and* easier to use with computing tools.
You do have to give credit to the (probably illiterate) medieval craftsmen who created the various customary units for often having the intuitive notion that 12 would be a better base for our number system than ten.
However, since unfortunately ten is the base of our number system, dividing units into 12 does more harm than good. You only get the convenience of occasionally splitting things into 3 parts at the expense of having to do complex fraction calculations on most everything else.
There's another side of the coin, since that means that software protected under GPL would loose its protection,
OMG! Evil corps like Apple would be able to grab all the GPLd pre-1956 UNIVAC apps and take them closed source!
Developers would need to pay an annual fee just for the privilege of developing iUNIVAC apps in Objective Fortran. Apple would be skimming huge percentages off of all the apps in the Punchcard Store. Then Apple would probably give everyone compatibility headaches by unilaterally switching CPU architecture from UNIVAC to IBM 650. And for yet more planned obsolescence, they'll seal the mainframe cabinets in welded Lexan, so end users can't replace bad vacuum tubes.
How many of you have been in a crowded house party in the dead of winter, with snow on the ground? Everybody piled their coats in a bedroom, the windows are open, and it's still hot. No money at all. If there are bodies in the room, and they're moving, it's hot.
That heating method is very expensive due to the fuel costs.
As soon as you run out of beer, you'll lose almost all of your heating elements. It will probably end up costing you a couple of hundred bucks per night to heat the house.
Claims of 'exceeding the entire economic output of the United States' are just idiotic.
Idiotic, but true.
Just like the current US patent system.
So their award should have been the fair market price + $49.75.
Neither of your options in any way justifies billion dollar awards for a couple of claims.
In fact, they just highlight why the awards should have been orders of magnitude smaller.
Maybe not. But maybe this verdict is actually a valid one?
Use some common sense. That's $1.7B for two claims that make disk reads a little faster. That would mean that manufacturing entire hard drives, which contain thousands of "patentable" ideas, would be worth trillions of dollars, an amount comparable to the entire US gross domestic product.
Even if the law technically allows such a ridiculous outcome, that doesn't make the situation "valid".
My data set is my window. It's been hotter than hell.
The US has set 7 new record highs over the last ten years for every new record low.
In my region, we've smashed almost two dozen record highs just this year, sometimes by 10 degrees. I can't remember the last time we had a record low of any kind.
I'm sure you can cherry pick all sorts of graphs about the frequencies of particular types of storm events. Big deal.
Well CO2 is plant food. If you increase CO2 atmospheric composition you will get algal blooms and increased plant growth which will counter the CO2 increase.
Wow! It's unbelievable that science has totally overlooked that! You just might get a Nobel prize for that discovery! Decades of careful measurements of CO2 measurements have been rendered powerless by your hand waving!
Water vapor has even more of a global warming effect yet it gets ignored for rather obvious reasons. Our global water vapor output is insignificant compared to ocean water evaporation plus water vapor gets precipitated out of the atmosphere as rainfall.
It's not overlooked. It's not a driving factor in climate because water vapor's half life in the atmosphere is about 48 hours. Excess water vapor rains out within a day or two. The amount of evaporation is driven by global temperature, which is influenced by long lived atmospheric gasses.
The amount of water vapor is an effect, not a cause.
AGW believers just cannot accept the irrelevance of human activities in the planet compared to natural effects.
Given that everything you've said is wrong, it's not surprising that you hold this unsubstantiated viewpoint.
You completely misunderstand the mechanism of AGW.
It has nothing to do with how much energy we consume. It has to do with the ever-accumulating by products of some of that energy production. These by products alter the earth's thermal balance by orders of magnitude more than the amount of energy we directly harness. This is possible because, as you mention, the earth receives staggering amounts of energy from the sun.
In particular, mankind harnesses about 1.5e13 watts of power overall. The earth receives about 1.8e17 watts of power from the sun. So we produce less than one part in 11000 of the energy received, which by itself would only raise temperatures about 0.03C assuming linear relationship. The rest of the ~4C predicted to occur is due to the man-made alterations to the greenhouse effect.
And every time normal people wake up to pretty much normal weather, that will lower confidence in AGW.
Normal weather???
What rock have you been living under the past couple of years?
Indeed, another great advantage of nuclear power is that whenever there's a catastrophic meltdown, we get hundreds of square kilometers of new wooded nature preserve.