A package heavily marked "Atheist" might be considered a be a bit suspicious, especially in the US where the issue of religion seems to be a bit more polarized anyway.
So explain to me: what exactly is the difference between the USA, and Afghanistan under the Taleban?
This stuff is lighter than helium (presumably at standard pressure and temperature) and yet not buoyant in air. That presumably means it's air-permeable in much the same way that a cellulose sponge is water permeable? In that case, in what sense is it lighter than helium? If you enclosed a volume of this stuff in a gas-tight membrane it would presumably be buoyant in air, but that - it seems to me - would surely be because vacuum is lighter than air?
OK, call me cynical. How much energy will forging the steel, making the glass, and making the cement for the concrete burn? How much energy will transporting all these new materials to site, and transporting away the demolition rubble, burn? For how many additional years could you have run the old store for the environmental cost of building the new one?
Car analogy, since we like car analogies round here. Your new Prius may be wonderfully energy efficient, but creating it burned so much energy that keeping your twenty-five year old V8 on the road for three years longer is better for the environment.
Making a Prius consumes 113 million BTUs, according to sustainability engineer Pablo Päster. A single gallon of gas contains about 113,000 Btus, so Toyota's green wonder guzzles the equivalent of 1,000 gallons before it clocks its first mile.
As you're going to be wiped out anyway, it really doesn't matter whose missiles hit the ground first. Launching nuclear missiles is and will always be an act of national suicide.
The original radio series is by far the best and funniest version. As people so often say, the pictures are better on the radio. If you haven't heard it, buy yourself a present.
For all of you laughing at the Fox News reporter's statement that "Germany gets more sun than the US does" I'd like you to support the equally mockable argument that "Germany gets less sun than the US" - all the graphic used supports is that when you measure two differnet countries at two different decades using two wildly different methods to arrive at your numbers, you get different numbers. Put simply, why should either country have more or less sun?
Sigh. Every time you think you've made enough adjustment for the insularity and ignorance of Americans, they prove you wrong.
Questions
How many deserts are there in Europe?
Where does the rain in Spain principally fall?
Comment discursively on the climatic effects of the North Atlantic Drift.
Candidates should not attempt to write on both sides of the paper at the same time.
Mobos are megacheap for what they do because of the numbers of each model that are built; a custom mobo with classic BIOS to specifically support Linux or other open OSes would cost hundreds of bucks per unit produced in limited quantities. At that point a cost-benefit analysis says "pay the damn Microsoft tax already!"
While in practice the pragmatics of the situation are that you are right, in principal I believe that we should be talking to the anti-trust authorities - both sides of the Atlantic - because this is very clear abuse of monopoly. Unless, of course, Microsoft irrevocably commits to authorise any version of any competing operating system for free, in which case the whole point of secure boot has just vanished.
Java and C# are not different languages. They are the same language - much more similar than, for example Medley Common Lisp and Franz Allegro Common Lisp, and those are two implementations which both conform to the same published specification. Java and C# have very slightly different syntax, and slightly different core libraries. But if you can read (or write) one you can read (or write) the other. The compilers work in very much the same way, and even the object code and virtual machines are similar.
Which isn't surprising. Microsoft based C# on its own implementation of Java, changing it (only) just enough to get around legal problems with Sun. It's a very sincere flattery. C# is slightly newer, so it has slightly less legacy cruft. Apart from that, you are comparing apples with apples here. If you want a more interesting comparison, compare Java/C# with Ruby, Python, Lua, JavaScript/EcmaScript or Clojure.
I don't think Unity has many fans when it comes to desktops and laptops. But tablets and netbooks? Yeah, I can see that. I don't like Canonical forcing a tablet OS on the desktop (and I like it even less when Microsoft does it). But moving a touch-based tablet OS onto a phone sort of makes sense. Perhaps we'll see the day when Ubuntu is nothing more than a tablet and phone OS and we'll all laugh when we think about the days we used it on the desktop.
To be fair, they aren't forcing Unity on you. They're offering it as an option. I don't like it so currently I'm running Gnome 2 as my window manager, but I also have KDE4, Gnome 3, LXDE, OpenSTEP, wm2 and twm installed so I can choose whichever I feel like on the day.
I would like to see a new law on the books: "wrongfully or negligently issuing a patent", to be applied as follows:
In the case where a patent is declared invalid, I would like to see the issuing patent office and/or examiner held responsible for damages done....
And to reimburse the patent applicant for: 1) the fees charged for granting the patent 2) legal fees incurred by the patent holder in attempting to defend the patent before it is struck down
And to reimburse any party who is financially damaged by the patent office having wrongfully issued a patent, such as 3) to any company which licensed the patent: any license fees paid out to use the patent 4) to any company which was sued for infringing on the patent: court costs and damages
Patents are applied for in good faith. If the recipient can be irreparably damaged due to negligence or other actions which wrong the recipient, shouldn't there be legal recourse?
Do you think the USPTO might hold "inventiveness" and the "obviousness" tests, and the search for prior art to a much higher standard? Do you think they might have the motivation to remedy any weaknesses in the system and keep on doing so?
Accountability anyone?
That is an exceedingly good suggestion. Consequently, no government will ever adopt it.
Judging from the combat in the video they have abandoned Newtonian physics, and in doing so probably thrown the baby out with the bathwater. If I wanted "fighter jets in space" I can play X3.
The original didn't have Newtonian physics, it was fighter jets in space. The later game Frontier did have Newtonian physics, and was mostly unplayable because Newtonian physics just don't work in a way that people are used to, and consequently didn't sell nearly as well as the original. I think Braben has made the right decision in abandoning them.
For those of us who aren't familiar with the original Elite (and can't check it out on Kickstarter because we're lazy or at work) what kind of game is it exactly?
Is it a turn based game like Tradewars 2002? Or is it a real time flight sim like Wing Commander or X-Wing with economics and upgradeable ships?
If it's the former i'll definitely jump in at the last minute. I loved TW2002 in high school. If it's the later... well i liked X-Wing, but i'm not convinced about the marriage of that type of game to an economic sim. (I've tried out the X series and some similar games on Steam, but the controls kind of sucked and i never got into them at all.)
You fly a space ship in mostly-real-time (you can do 'hyperspace jumps' which cover distance more or less instantly) through a very large galaxy. There are many (~2000 on the original 6502 version) civilised planets, with different levels of technical sophistication and different levels of government control. Some are safe and wealthy, some very dangerous, and a haven to pirates and other criminals. In your travels you encounter many different types of space ships, each of which have different appearance and properties, from fast manoeuvrable fighting ships to big lumbering freighters.
You start with a minimally equipped ship and a small account of credits. You proceed through the game initially by trading between planets to build up your credits, but sooner or later you're going to be attacked by pirates and will have to learn to fight. As you get richer you can equip your ship with extra weapons, engine enhancements, a docking computer (of which more later). You can choose to become a bounty hunter, hunting down pirates for reward; to become an asteroid miner, mining asteroids for minerals; to become a pirate yourself; or continue to trade and explore. You can also take on special missions. In trading, you can manipulate markets. You can sell your initial, general purpose ship and buy a ship more suitable to your needs.
Docking with space stations is almost a mini-game in itself. They rotate - obviously, to generate simulated gravity. To dock successfully you must approach on the axis, slowly, and exactly match the roll. One of the ship enhancements you could buy was a docking computer, but the docking computer wasn't completely reliable (don't know whether this was deliberate or a bug) so it paid to learn to dock manually. Also, of course, if you got badly mauled by pirates your docking computer might be one of the things destroyed.
For sheer playability Elite was, in my opinion, the best video game of all time.
The brilliant thing about Braben's original ELITE was that he managed to squeeze a huge, open, varied, explorable 3D universe into 32/48/64 Kb of RAM on early 8-bit computers. He also had to publish the game himself - the big game publishers of the time wanted ELITE to have "waves of enemies, short levels, collectable powerups, 3 player lives", because that was the formula popular side-scrolling space games like R-TYPE used. Braben refused to do that - it flew in the face of the 3D space sim he was building - and thus ELITE became the first space game to feature realtime 3D wireframe graphics and break the "R-TYPE" space-game formula.
Remember that on the BBC at any rate that 32K included the screen memory. There were some beautifully subtle tricks played with the BBC video system to get the game to run. The original BBC 6502 version of Elite must be about the tightest and most elegant piece of code out there anywhere, and it is in thankful memory of the months of enjoyment I got out of that game that I contributed to the Kickstarter. If the new version is no better than the original, it will still be an exceptionally good game.
Many of the the superstitious, ill-educated tribesmen that U.S. ground troops regularly encounter already think the Americans are witches.
Given that the US is about the most superstitious, ill-educated nation on the face of the Earth, that's a bit ripe. But then, of course, you famously don't do irony.
And if it goes onto Kickstarter I probably will. Why? I had ARM desktops back in the 1990s, they're really nice chips for a range of reasons. If you program close to the metal they're really nice chips with a very clean instruction set; they're very low power and run cool, so battery life is good and noise level should be low. An ARM laptop - particularly if it could dual boot RISC OS and Linux - would be a very nice machine. Also, I believe in the value of open source hardware; it keeps us - the users - in control, which becomes more important as the walled gardens grow.
Yes, it isn't pure open source. But purists are missing the point. You can't actually buy an OpenSPARC chip, and as I don't own my own chip fab I can't make one. You can't (currently) get a GPU with an NDA-free data-sheet, and while the ultra-purists will say, well, you can do without a GPU, actually having a GPU is pretty nice. Also, if we demonstrate that there is a market for a more open GPU, someone may come along and offer one.
IN summary: yes, this specification represents a machine that is a compromise. All engineering is about compromise. But in my view this looks like a good compromise. I'd buy it.
Oh, and, the idea of a little analog power meter appeals to me.
Living in China, I found that people here really don't seem to know about irony. They just don't use it and therefore don't notice it. At least that's what I got from the various misunderstandings I've expererienced. I found that being true for Koreans and Malaysians as well, so it might be applicable to whole East Asia.
I hate to tell you this, but all over Europe it is well known that Americans don't understand irony.
Pentagrams or other religious symbols tend to work against demonic hell beasts. I advice against using Alice Cooper videos as a reference, go for Ghostbusters or Buffy if you are desperate.
<hng mode="desperate">I'd go for Buffy any time!</hng>
The long term average over time of power from my wind turbine - which is all the electricity I have - is 70 watts, or about 1.6Kw/h per day. That means on an average day I have about five hours use of my 'big' computer, provided I use no other electricity at all. To have the 'big' computer and the satellite link to the Internet running simultaneously, I have about four hours per average day. Given that I also need electricity for lighting (particularly these dark winter days) and to recharge other gizmos, the realistic amount of time I have drops still further.
Obviously, most people aren't in this situation. Most people can afford to pull ten times as much electricity as I have from the grid and not worry about it. But if you live off grid, investment in extra efficiency is a damn sight cheaper than investment in extra generating capacity.
That's part of the EULA and the "anonymous statistics" I believe. When you use Google Maps it uploads your position periodically, from which it can deduce your average velocity. It correlates that with other reports from other users in geographically similar areas and creates congestion maps.
I don't think stand-alone GPS (like Garmin) upload any data, so they probably purchase it from Google. That's most likely why it's a subscription or ad-based service on those devices.
I know a bit about Tom Tom side of this. In the UK, at least as of five years ago, Tom Tom were buying from the mobile phone carriers data on what handsets are connected to which cell towers in real time. They were then mapping the time it took for handsets to pass from one tower to another along the line of a road, and from that inferring speed of traffic/congestion on that road.
As I say, I know that they were doing this in the UK five years ago, and that it was then a new service under very active development. I do not know whether they are still doing this, or whether they ever were doing this in other territories, but I would expect so.
NPR blogs has been doing this lately too with 20 point sans-serif. It's annoying as hell.
I seriously do believe that they are compensating for people who can't be arsed to adjust minimum font size (or dpi) on their own, or to even tell Windows to "use big fonts."
That site specifies font sizes in pixels. That's going to look oh-so-readable on 'retina' displays...
CSS was very carefully designed to adapt to the specified needs of the USER. The user knows what size font (s)he finds comfortable to use, and can be presumed to have configured the browser to render normal sized font at that size. Specifying font sizes in absolute sizes - point sizes, millimetres, whatever - breaks that, but at least eight point font should be one tenth of an inch tall on any correctly configured display. Pixel sizes - pixel sizes - are display dependent. No wonder it looks fucking huge on your screen, the designer was probably using a late-model MacBook Pro and it was tiny on his screen...
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A package heavily marked "Atheist" might be considered a be a bit suspicious, especially in the US where the issue of religion seems to be a bit more polarized anyway.
So explain to me: what exactly is the difference between the USA, and Afghanistan under the Taleban?
This stuff is lighter than helium (presumably at standard pressure and temperature) and yet not buoyant in air. That presumably means it's air-permeable in much the same way that a cellulose sponge is water permeable? In that case, in what sense is it lighter than helium? If you enclosed a volume of this stuff in a gas-tight membrane it would presumably be buoyant in air, but that - it seems to me - would surely be because vacuum is lighter than air?
OK, call me cynical. How much energy will forging the steel, making the glass, and making the cement for the concrete burn? How much energy will transporting all these new materials to site, and transporting away the demolition rubble, burn? For how many additional years could you have run the old store for the environmental cost of building the new one?
Car analogy, since we like car analogies round here. Your new Prius may be wonderfully energy efficient, but creating it burned so much energy that keeping your twenty-five year old V8 on the road for three years longer is better for the environment.
As you're going to be wiped out anyway, it really doesn't matter whose missiles hit the ground first. Launching nuclear missiles is and will always be an act of national suicide.
The original radio series is by far the best and funniest version. As people so often say, the pictures are better on the radio. If you haven't heard it, buy yourself a present.
Then create a /. account with your REAL NAME and post here.
Don't be silly. No-one would ever do that!
For all of you laughing at the Fox News reporter's statement that "Germany gets more sun than the US does" I'd like you to support the equally mockable argument that "Germany gets less sun than the US" - all the graphic used supports is that when you measure two differnet countries at two different decades using two wildly different methods to arrive at your numbers, you get different numbers. Put simply, why should either country have more or less sun?
Sigh. Every time you think you've made enough adjustment for the insularity and ignorance of Americans, they prove you wrong.
Questions
How many deserts are there in Europe?
Where does the rain in Spain principally fall?
Comment discursively on the climatic effects of the North Atlantic Drift.
Candidates should not attempt to write on both sides of the paper at the same time.
Mobos are megacheap for what they do because of the numbers of each model that are built; a custom mobo with classic BIOS to specifically support Linux or other open OSes would cost hundreds of bucks per unit produced in limited quantities. At that point a cost-benefit analysis says "pay the damn Microsoft tax already!"
While in practice the pragmatics of the situation are that you are right, in principal I believe that we should be talking to the anti-trust authorities - both sides of the Atlantic - because this is very clear abuse of monopoly. Unless, of course, Microsoft irrevocably commits to authorise any version of any competing operating system for free, in which case the whole point of secure boot has just vanished.
Java and C# are not different languages. They are the same language - much more similar than, for example Medley Common Lisp and Franz Allegro Common Lisp, and those are two implementations which both conform to the same published specification. Java and C# have very slightly different syntax, and slightly different core libraries. But if you can read (or write) one you can read (or write) the other. The compilers work in very much the same way, and even the object code and virtual machines are similar.
Which isn't surprising. Microsoft based C# on its own implementation of Java, changing it (only) just enough to get around legal problems with Sun. It's a very sincere flattery. C# is slightly newer, so it has slightly less legacy cruft. Apart from that, you are comparing apples with apples here. If you want a more interesting comparison, compare Java/C# with Ruby, Python, Lua, JavaScript/EcmaScript or Clojure.
I don't think Unity has many fans when it comes to desktops and laptops. But tablets and netbooks? Yeah, I can see that. I don't like Canonical forcing a tablet OS on the desktop (and I like it even less when Microsoft does it). But moving a touch-based tablet OS onto a phone sort of makes sense. Perhaps we'll see the day when Ubuntu is nothing more than a tablet and phone OS and we'll all laugh when we think about the days we used it on the desktop.
To be fair, they aren't forcing Unity on you. They're offering it as an option. I don't like it so currently I'm running Gnome 2 as my window manager, but I also have KDE4, Gnome 3, LXDE, OpenSTEP, wm2 and twm installed so I can choose whichever I feel like on the day.
I would like to see a new law on the books: "wrongfully or negligently issuing a patent", to be applied as follows:
In the case where a patent is declared invalid, I would like to see the issuing patent office and/or examiner held responsible for damages done....
And to reimburse the patent applicant for:
1) the fees charged for granting the patent
2) legal fees incurred by the patent holder in attempting to defend the patent before it is struck down
And to reimburse any party who is financially damaged by the patent office having wrongfully issued a patent, such as
3) to any company which licensed the patent: any license fees paid out to use the patent
4) to any company which was sued for infringing on the patent: court costs and damages
Patents are applied for in good faith. If the recipient can be irreparably damaged due to negligence or other actions which wrong the recipient, shouldn't there be legal recourse?
Do you think the USPTO might hold "inventiveness" and the "obviousness" tests, and the search for prior art to a much higher standard? Do you think they might have the motivation to remedy any weaknesses in the system and keep on doing so?
Accountability anyone?
That is an exceedingly good suggestion. Consequently, no government will ever adopt it.
Judging from the combat in the video they have abandoned Newtonian physics, and in doing so probably thrown the baby out with the bathwater. If I wanted "fighter jets in space" I can play X3.
The original didn't have Newtonian physics, it was fighter jets in space. The later game Frontier did have Newtonian physics, and was mostly unplayable because Newtonian physics just don't work in a way that people are used to, and consequently didn't sell nearly as well as the original. I think Braben has made the right decision in abandoning them.
For those of us who aren't familiar with the original Elite (and can't check it out on Kickstarter because we're lazy or at work) what kind of game is it exactly?
Is it a turn based game like Tradewars 2002? Or is it a real time flight sim like Wing Commander or X-Wing with economics and upgradeable ships?
If it's the former i'll definitely jump in at the last minute. I loved TW2002 in high school. If it's the later... well i liked X-Wing, but i'm not convinced about the marriage of that type of game to an economic sim. (I've tried out the X series and some similar games on Steam, but the controls kind of sucked and i never got into them at all.)
You fly a space ship in mostly-real-time (you can do 'hyperspace jumps' which cover distance more or less instantly) through a very large galaxy. There are many (~2000 on the original 6502 version) civilised planets, with different levels of technical sophistication and different levels of government control. Some are safe and wealthy, some very dangerous, and a haven to pirates and other criminals. In your travels you encounter many different types of space ships, each of which have different appearance and properties, from fast manoeuvrable fighting ships to big lumbering freighters.
You start with a minimally equipped ship and a small account of credits. You proceed through the game initially by trading between planets to build up your credits, but sooner or later you're going to be attacked by pirates and will have to learn to fight. As you get richer you can equip your ship with extra weapons, engine enhancements, a docking computer (of which more later). You can choose to become a bounty hunter, hunting down pirates for reward; to become an asteroid miner, mining asteroids for minerals; to become a pirate yourself; or continue to trade and explore. You can also take on special missions. In trading, you can manipulate markets. You can sell your initial, general purpose ship and buy a ship more suitable to your needs.
Docking with space stations is almost a mini-game in itself. They rotate - obviously, to generate simulated gravity. To dock successfully you must approach on the axis, slowly, and exactly match the roll. One of the ship enhancements you could buy was a docking computer, but the docking computer wasn't completely reliable (don't know whether this was deliberate or a bug) so it paid to learn to dock manually. Also, of course, if you got badly mauled by pirates your docking computer might be one of the things destroyed.
For sheer playability Elite was, in my opinion, the best video game of all time.
The brilliant thing about Braben's original ELITE was that he managed to squeeze a huge, open, varied, explorable 3D universe into 32/48/64 Kb of RAM on early 8-bit computers. He also had to publish the game himself - the big game publishers of the time wanted ELITE to have "waves of enemies, short levels, collectable powerups, 3 player lives", because that was the formula popular side-scrolling space games like R-TYPE used. Braben refused to do that - it flew in the face of the 3D space sim he was building - and thus ELITE became the first space game to feature realtime 3D wireframe graphics and break the "R-TYPE" space-game formula.
Remember that on the BBC at any rate that 32K included the screen memory. There were some beautifully subtle tricks played with the BBC video system to get the game to run. The original BBC 6502 version of Elite must be about the tightest and most elegant piece of code out there anywhere, and it is in thankful memory of the months of enjoyment I got out of that game that I contributed to the Kickstarter. If the new version is no better than the original, it will still be an exceptionally good game.
Many of the the superstitious, ill-educated tribesmen that U.S. ground troops regularly encounter already think the Americans are witches.
Given that the US is about the most superstitious, ill-educated nation on the face of the Earth, that's a bit ripe. But then, of course, you famously don't do irony.
Legally, you become an adult at 18 in the UK but the age of consent is 16.
The UK is not England. The age of majority is not 18 in Scotland and never has been. Do keep up at the back.
Okay, define pornography then.
'Pornography' means 'anything the government does not wish you to see'. Surely you knew that?
The US runs from 65N to 125N
Errr... on some hypersphere Earth, possibly. On the real earth, you can't get north of 90N.
And if it goes onto Kickstarter I probably will. Why? I had ARM desktops back in the 1990s, they're really nice chips for a range of reasons. If you program close to the metal they're really nice chips with a very clean instruction set; they're very low power and run cool, so battery life is good and noise level should be low. An ARM laptop - particularly if it could dual boot RISC OS and Linux - would be a very nice machine. Also, I believe in the value of open source hardware; it keeps us - the users - in control, which becomes more important as the walled gardens grow.
Yes, it isn't pure open source. But purists are missing the point. You can't actually buy an OpenSPARC chip, and as I don't own my own chip fab I can't make one. You can't (currently) get a GPU with an NDA-free data-sheet, and while the ultra-purists will say, well, you can do without a GPU, actually having a GPU is pretty nice. Also, if we demonstrate that there is a market for a more open GPU, someone may come along and offer one.
IN summary: yes, this specification represents a machine that is a compromise. All engineering is about compromise. But in my view this looks like a good compromise. I'd buy it.
Oh, and, the idea of a little analog power meter appeals to me.
Living in China, I found that people here really don't seem to know about irony. They just don't use it and therefore don't notice it. At least that's what I got from the various misunderstandings I've expererienced. I found that being true for Koreans and Malaysians as well, so it might be applicable to whole East Asia.
I hate to tell you this, but all over Europe it is well known that Americans don't understand irony.
No, it isn't anything like silvery or coppery....
Pentagrams or other religious symbols tend to work against demonic hell beasts. I advice against using Alice Cooper videos as a reference, go for Ghostbusters or Buffy if you are desperate.
<hng mode="desperate">I'd go for Buffy any time!</hng>
The long term average over time of power from my wind turbine - which is all the electricity I have - is 70 watts, or about 1.6Kw/h per day. That means on an average day I have about five hours use of my 'big' computer, provided I use no other electricity at all. To have the 'big' computer and the satellite link to the Internet running simultaneously, I have about four hours per average day. Given that I also need electricity for lighting (particularly these dark winter days) and to recharge other gizmos, the realistic amount of time I have drops still further.
Obviously, most people aren't in this situation. Most people can afford to pull ten times as much electricity as I have from the grid and not worry about it. But if you live off grid, investment in extra efficiency is a damn sight cheaper than investment in extra generating capacity.
That's part of the EULA and the "anonymous statistics" I believe. When you use Google Maps it uploads your position periodically, from which it can deduce your average velocity. It correlates that with other reports from other users in geographically similar areas and creates congestion maps.
I don't think stand-alone GPS (like Garmin) upload any data, so they probably purchase it from Google. That's most likely why it's a subscription or ad-based service on those devices.
I know a bit about Tom Tom side of this. In the UK, at least as of five years ago, Tom Tom were buying from the mobile phone carriers data on what handsets are connected to which cell towers in real time. They were then mapping the time it took for handsets to pass from one tower to another along the line of a road, and from that inferring speed of traffic/congestion on that road.
As I say, I know that they were doing this in the UK five years ago, and that it was then a new service under very active development. I do not know whether they are still doing this, or whether they ever were doing this in other territories, but I would expect so.
NPR blogs has been doing this lately too with 20 point sans-serif. It's annoying as hell.
I seriously do believe that they are compensating for people who can't be arsed to adjust minimum font size (or dpi) on their own, or to even tell Windows to "use big fonts."
Look at this. Just look at it.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/
I'm 47. I'm not blind.
Oh, God.
That site specifies font sizes in pixels. That's going to look oh-so-readable on 'retina' displays...
CSS was very carefully designed to adapt to the specified needs of the USER. The user knows what size font (s)he finds comfortable to use, and can be presumed to have configured the browser to render normal sized font at that size. Specifying font sizes in absolute sizes - point sizes, millimetres, whatever - breaks that, but at least eight point font should be one tenth of an inch tall on any correctly configured display. Pixel sizes - pixel sizes - are display dependent. No wonder it looks fucking huge on your screen, the designer was probably using a late-model MacBook Pro and it was tiny on his screen...
This is NOT rocket science, guys.
and the BNP is similar to the SNP, both are mostly racists/nationalist parties.
Speaking as an active member of the Scottish National Party, born in England of English parents, please could you explain to me (and perhaps also to the current Minister for External Affairs and International Development) in exactly what way the SNP is a racist party?